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==Uses==
The flying start is used to get the game going simultaneously, and to get a smooth transition from off to on.
==Examples==
* [[Norwegian Winterlarp]] usually had a typical element of a flying start. Participants would go to bed [[out of character]] with the instructions that the larp will start when they wake up. Being [[360 degrees]] larps these concepts avoided [[off-game]] time by including in the game playing in underwear, at toilets, in sleeping quarters and so forth. Often the organisers would stage a scene early morning when everybody were asleep that would wake people up and kickstart the story. This would allow the [[characters]] a reason to feel alarmed, and also allowing the players [[diegetic]] excuses for their character to be confused or insecure about how to react in the first hours of the larp.
The evening before the start of the larp would decorate their living quarters, get into costumes, make food and be only partly playing their characters, partly discussing routines like when to wake up, dishwashing, fetching water, maintaining the fire, foodmaking and other practical matters, sometimes also do last minute practice of names of related characters
==Origin==
In litterature and film the term relates to the concept in medias res.
