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'''Pan''' was written by Linda Udby & Bjarke Pedersen. They presented it twice in Denmark in January 2013 and in Norway in November 2014. [[Nathan Hook]] and Kielo Maria Blomqvist presented an updated version played in English to an international audience in Finland in April 2014. They organised another international run in the UK in November 2014.

Discussion of further possible With seven runs in other across four countries and more planned, Pan is ongoing. It is also intended to one of the first of a trilogy (but not a direct continuation) of larps. The second event is expected to have a 1930s setting and capacity for more playersmost repeated Nordic Larps.

Pan is a psychological horror scenario dealing with the themes of identity and nature. Players play couples attending a relationship therapy for the weekend, and are encouraged to book with a friend (not a real partner) to play a couple. The therapist-couple use a mixture of classical techniques and esoteric methods. In terms of genre the larp could be considered gothic horror based on classic literature, and psychological horror, with a modern setting. It does not fit into many conventional notions of horror, due to the lack of 'monsters.'

The main inspiration is the 1890s short story 'The Great God Pan' by Arthur Machenand the film Antichrist (Von Trier, 2009). This The short story is available as a free download here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/389 Pan is played on a confidentiality agreement. While the design is public, what actually happened in play is private.  ==Creation and presentations== Pan was written by Linda Udby & Bjarke Pedersen. They presented it twice in Denmark in January 2013 and in Norway in November 2014. It has also been run in The Netherlands, UK and Finland.  It is intended to the first of a trilogy (but not a direct continuation) of larps. The second event in the series is titled [[Baphomet]] with a 'vintage' 1930s occult setting and capacity for 31 players. It has had two runs in Denmark in October 2015 and in 2018 and 4 runs planned in 2019.  ==Techniques==

Pan can be a heavily physical event in which players Players are encouraged to test and push their limits, psychological and otherwise. The event allows the option for physical interactions.

==Info== Players: Usually 8 or 10, the latest run expanded to 12 players. 2 organisersplaying characters.

Player fee: -800 Danish KR for the original runsin Denmark, Jan 2013. -30 euro for the international run in Finland. £150 for the UK run, played in a castle. NOK 2250 or NOK 1250 for the Norwegian run.

Logistics: The larp is -£150 for the November 14 UK run as fully catered, and normally runs played in a holiday home location with modern facilitiescastle.

-NOK 2250 or NOK 1250 for the Norwegian run in November 14.  -120 euro for the Jan 15 Netherlands run. -140 euro for the March 15 Finland run. Logistics: The larp is run as fully catered, and normally runs in a holiday home location with modern facilities.  == Links ==

A Facebook group titled 'PanPAN & BAPHOMET larps' also exists. It - it is not tied to a particular run: https://www.facebook.com/groups/172274392912858/

The design of Pan was presented by [[Nathan Hook]] at the French convention GNiales in November 2014. This reflected the fact that many French players had attended the Finnish run earlier that year. An article about the design of Pan is forthcoming in the Knudepunkt 2015 book for 2015: http://www.rollespilsakademiet.dk/webshop/nordiclarpyearbook2014.pdf  [[Category:Larps]]