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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. [[Nathan Hook]] is co-organising a futher English language run in the Netherlands in January 2015.
Discussion of further possible runs in other countries is ongoing. It is also intended to 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 players.
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.' Pan is played on a confidentiality agreement. While the design is public, what actually happened in play is private.
The main inspiration is the 1890s short story 'The Great God Pan' by Arthur Machen. This is available as a free download here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/389
Length: approx 36 hours player time. Short pre-game and post-game workshops.
Player fee: -800 Danish KR for the original runsin Denmark, Jan 2013. -30 euro for the international run in Finland. -£150 for the November 14 UK run, played in a castle. -NOK 2250 or NOK 1250 for the Norwegian run in November 14. -120 euro for the Jan 15 Netherlands run.
Logistics: The larp is run as fully catered, and normally runs in a holiday home location with modern facilities. The November 14 run ran in a 19th century folly castle.
== Links ==
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 book for 2015.
[[Category:Larps]]
