Immerton

Immerton is a 4-day immersive larp for woman-identified participants produced by Learn Larp Studios. Written by Maury Brown, Sarah Lynne Bowman, Quinn D, Kat Jones, and Orli Nativ, the larp was produced in Joshua Tree, California in September 2017. Twenty-three women took part in Immerton’s inaugural run.

The experience is designed to explore what it means to be a woman in a variety of contexts and intersectionalities and to focus on woman’s ways of knowing, doing, being, and relating to others. Participation in the event was restricted to those players who identified as a woman. An inclusive definition of woman was used, and organizers and participants welcomed and celebrated all expressions of womanhood.

A four-hour introduction and adaptation of Immerton called "The Initiation" was run at Intercon 2018 and Gen Con 2018. In the convention version, players could be of any gender, but all characters were women.

The larp used multi-media art, dance, movement, meditation, cooking, ritual, and other communal activities as part of roleplay. Participants chose a primary devotion to a specific goddess, and had a vocation that helped them to bond. Characters could be from any time or location in the multiverse, transported to Immerton to share, grieve, heal, and learn from each other.