Shadows in time
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A story about immortality, family, love and difficult choices. Shadows in Time is a story about travelers - ten humans who are able to travel through time and place and shape the world at will, only to see everything they’ve done disappear again and again. When the cycle changes, everything achieved vanishes like it never existed and remains only in the memories of the travelers. The only thing constant for them are the other travelers, and after centuries they are all bound together by bonds of passion, hatred, love, respect, bitterness, trust and betrayal. To everyone else travelers are just shadows in time. |
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Shadows in Time is a ten-player larp about eternal life, family, love and past mistakes. The larp was played for the first time in July 2021 in Helsinki. Since then the larp has been regularly rerun and there will be more runs in the future. Information about the upcoming runs can be found here.
"A dark, intimate and quiet yet fast paced game that combines the grand existential questions of immortality with the fundamental struggles and hurt feelings of being human."
"It's truly excellent, really well designed and written. As you play it you get the sense that the larp really feels like a work of art with lots of deep and complicated character interaction. I will caution you that it is relentlessly depressing and heavy most of the time, though small moments of light and hope can be found if you look hard enough for them. Your experience will depend greatly on the other people playing with you and you are somewhat at the mercy of fate when it comes to who will be cast to play alongside you. If you are lucky though, this game has the potential to be truly extraordinary and transformative for you."
"An intense, tight, and powerful emotional experience"
"A game filled with emotions and drama from one end to the other. Sign up with someone you know and do your homework well."
"It's truly excellent, really well designed and written. As you play it you get the sense that the larp really feels like a work of art with lots of deep and complicated character interaction. I will caution you that it is relentlessly depressing and heavy most of the time, though small moments of light and hope can be found if you look hard enough for them. Your experience will depend greatly on the other people playing with you and you are somewhat at the mercy of fate when it comes to who will be cast to play alongside you. If you are lucky though, this game has the potential to be truly extraordinary and transformative for you."
"An intense, tight, and powerful emotional experience"
"A game filled with emotions and drama from one end to the other. Sign up with someone you know and do your homework well."
I've created a playlist for the larp, in which you can find themes related to characters or the larp in general. You can find it here:
YouTube playlist
YouTube playlist
Theme song of the larp created by Iiris Kaasinen:
Shadows in Time
Is there a beginning? Is there an end?
Does it really matter where I began?
So many memories, lost in time
Clouding the skies, dreamlike lies
Come, take my hand and follow me
through memories, into darkness
To shadows in time, to shadows in time
So many souls, lost in the past
Love wins it all or it won’t last
Maybe this time I’m done
Lives well spent, no matter I’m gone
No, don’t take my hand, don’t follow me
I’m a memory in the darkness,
A shadow in time, shadow in time
Or should I stay one more time
Live through it all, say I’m fine
In the darkness, our souls find peace
I can go, join death with ease
Come, take my hand and stay with me
in our memories, in our darkness
As shadows in time, shadows in time
Shadows in Time
Is there a beginning? Is there an end?
Does it really matter where I began?
So many memories, lost in time
Clouding the skies, dreamlike lies
Come, take my hand and follow me
through memories, into darkness
To shadows in time, to shadows in time
So many souls, lost in the past
Love wins it all or it won’t last
Maybe this time I’m done
Lives well spent, no matter I’m gone
No, don’t take my hand, don’t follow me
I’m a memory in the darkness,
A shadow in time, shadow in time
Or should I stay one more time
Live through it all, say I’m fine
In the darkness, our souls find peace
I can go, join death with ease
Come, take my hand and stay with me
in our memories, in our darkness
As shadows in time, shadows in time
