For anyone who's interested, our plot document for that LARP is available to read online as an rtf file downloadable from the White City website (http://www.flrp.anang.com/whitecity/larpsums07.html#260507). In addition to the NPC names, each encounter was named after a Magritte painting and we came up with our own written descriptions of surrealist paintings. It's one of the few White City LARPs i think could've worked equally well as a tabletop.
The running had an unexpectedly emotively powerful ending when flannelcat's PC, for whom we primarily wrote it (the powerful dream sorceror was his estranged mother), sacrificed his memories of his mother to an entity in one of the dreamscapes/paintings and ended up disavowing all association with her.
3. One does hope the study came up with a suitable double-blind mechanism to eliminate the possibility that one sample was simply better at pattern-recognition.
4. The Codex Seraphinianus is indeed brilliant, but i take issue with your assertion that it contains no information whatsoever. Perhaps no easily communicable information in one of the modes to which we are accustomed, but with the right analysis it still contains a wealth of information about the author's talents, methods, influences and thought processes; the images are sufficiently derivative of 'real'-world flora, fauna and the like that a certain amount could be reverse-intuited about our world by a hypothetical alien observer who came into possession of the codex; and furthermore, like any medium with no explicitly familiar pattern or message it provides a mirror in which the reader can gain information about their own thought processes.
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Date: 2010-05-20 01:38 pm (UTC)The running had an unexpectedly emotively powerful ending when
3. One does hope the study came up with a suitable double-blind mechanism to eliminate the possibility that one sample was simply better at pattern-recognition.
4. The Codex Seraphinianus is indeed brilliant, but i take issue with your assertion that it contains no information whatsoever. Perhaps no easily communicable information in one of the modes to which we are accustomed, but with the right analysis it still contains a wealth of information about the author's talents, methods, influences and thought processes; the images are sufficiently derivative of 'real'-world flora, fauna and the like that a certain amount could be reverse-intuited about our world by a hypothetical alien observer who came into possession of the codex; and furthermore, like any medium with no explicitly familiar pattern or message it provides a mirror in which the reader can gain information about their own thought processes.
That is a fantastic Carter quote!