Atropos
Creating immersive experiences
Previous Projects
Fragment of a Novel is a story about friendship, belonging, and the search for art, passion and inspiration. It follows a class of liberal arts students that spend a holiday together in 1986. It is a slow larp played continuously over several days, with time for resting, decadent parties, and exploration. There will be no big planned events, and no interference from the outside world. What we create together is what will happen.
Lotka-Volterra: Acheron is a small larp set in the Lotka-Volterra universe, and is about the operators in a tiny underground bunker far away, that are responsible for guiding a tactical team above ground in an alien infested dystopian world. It is played in the 270-degrees blackbox tradition, where some things are abstracted, while other parts of the scenography are fully realistic and functioning.
It was organised in 2024 by Atropos & Sebastian Utbult.
Android Beginnings is a story of greed, of lust, of compromised morals and quick decisions. About humanity and our dreams, and how easy we
lose sight of the bigger picture.
It is a story about a city where the rain has yet to fall, in a world closely resembling ours. It was
run in 2022.
Austen Experience – A Winter’s Ball is a larp inspired by the works of jane Austen and the series Westworld. It is set in a theme park in the future, where guests go to live as Austen heroines. It was run in 2021.
1912 is a working class drama and an upper class family drama woven together over a beautiful Swedish Christmas celebration with everything that comes with it. It is played in a naturalistic down to earth tempo with a low level of dramatic confrontations but many underlying conflicts. It was run in 2019.
Libertines is a larp about power, abuse of privilege and the trappings of high society. At a countryside manor in England, 1795, a wealthy group of nobles have invited some unsuspected guests for a grand feast. Some are hoping to earn a hand in marriage, other are grateful for the opportunity to sit at a Lord’s table while others still plan to earn a minor fortune. However, as the days grow darker, so does the activities and their naive hopes are shattered. Games turn cruel, the conversations twisted and the whims of the gentry and their terrible desires threaten ruin and the loss of everything the guests hold dear.
Collateral Emotions is a small, psychological drama about a hostage situation that goes wrong. As hostages and attackers are forced to live side by side, handling daily needs and start talking to each other, the boundaries are muddled and what was once black and white becomes a sliding scale of gray. It was run at two different occasions in 2019.
Beyond the Neural Horizon is a larp about a high-risk hacking operation, a journey into the virtual reality environment of a secret, high security Company server. It explores the nature of humanity, of artificial intelligence and where they meet. The larp was organized with Silva Kuusniemi in 2019.
Where Androids Die is a Nordic larp about desperate survival, slavery and terrible consequences. It is a larp about Androids and their importance to society. Also, it is about the feeling of eating noodles at a dirty little shack in the shadow of the City, rain smattering against the corrugated roof above. It was run in 2018.
Lotka-Volterra is an international sci-fi larp set in a bleak near future where mankind is all but extinct, preyed upon by a technologically superior alien threat, but nevertheless surviving against all odds in the semi-military outpost of Thermopylae
Made in cooperation with ART and Berättelsefrämjandet in 2018.
Reborn is a larp about living life with different norms and different expectations than the ones we know as participants. It tells the story about an isolated commune of individuals in a close future who have splintered off from society in order to rebuild a new one from the ground up. Through collective action and positive reinforcement everyone is born anew as a better, more caring and more harmonious individual. It was run in 2018.
Echo Chamber is a larp about an isolated, cultic existence inside a constructed reality and synthetic environment. It is a larp about psychological pressure, tests and obedience, about closeness and the struggle to impress. It was organized with Anna-Lisa Muckas Rodhe and Stefan Lunneborg in 2017.
When Androids Pray is a Nordic larp about desperate survival, slavery and spiritualism. It is a larp about Androids and their place in a lawless society. Also, it is about the feeling of eating noodles at a dirty little shack in the shadow of the City, rain smattering against the corrugated roof above.
Made in cooperation with ART.
It was run in 2017.
Do Androids Dream? was a larp about eating noodles in the rain. It was organized before the founding of Atropos, by members of the team-to-be, in 2017.
