We’re the Oxford LARP Society (OLS). We run Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) events in and around Oxford, UK. Read more about us here.
We run parlour LARP and linear LARP adventures in homebrew systems. Find out about our events.
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Labyrinth
Eight hundred years after it sank into the earth, the titular Labyrinth has resurfaced. A few short months after its rediscovery by the knightly order of the isle it lies beneath, expeditions from all the powers of the known world have arrived to explore its depths. The Labyrinth has been many things to many people: perhaps the holiest of holy sites to many of the world’s faithful, a home to those who settled its halls before its initial disappearance, and, to just about everyone, a place of opportunity.
Meanwhile, tensions are rising in the known world around. The Northern and Southern Empires each draw closer to the other’s throats, with new skirmishes and border disputes almost every month. The knights, and the church under whose auspices they operate, have used the Labyrinth as the opportunity to mediate, organising quarterly summits to which the expeditions’ leaders are invited. Even so, the Labyrinth hides its greatest treasure within its depths: a crown, whose wielder will have the potential to shape the world’s future.
Labyrinth is set in a world of high, but grounded, fantasy. It is inspired substantially by the classic ‘dungeon crawl’, hoping to use the Labyrinth as a focal point while serving as a sort of sandbox for players to explore the setting and its themes. It is a game that seeks to fit player characters into this world, and emphasise how that place affects how they relate to others and to ongoing events. While the game might often display tragic events or tend towards a less heroic portrayal of life, it is our intent to tell a story that is, overall, hopeful: people suffer and die in inequity and the world turns on, but the labour of our hands might yet give way to a brighter tomorrow.
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