Pelageya
Pelageya was a two-part project: Pelageya: Laika, played in February, and Pelageya: Clarissie, in April.
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| Duration | 30 hours |
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| Date | February 25–27, 2005 |
| Location | Loimaa, Finland |
| Participants | 35 |
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| Date | April 8–10, 2005 |
| Location | Loimaa, Finland |
| Participants | 31 |
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Themes
Community, decision making, science, sacrifice
Setting
An unexplored planet in a science-fiction future
Story summary
Laika
An undersea research crawler on a long-term semi-secret mission has a disastrous accident, resulting in desperate repairs and ultimately hard decisions on who gets to live and die.
Clarissie
Several years later, another undersea vessels comes across the wreck of Laika, and the accident repeats.
Techniques
Video log room
Impact
Pelageya was the most ambitious science fiction LARP in Finland at the time, and it brought to forefront techniques such as workshopping, directed debriefings and psychological care after a serious time. It also launched the LARP Prop Storage project