Slow Walk

The predators have taken over. They’ve converted your factory to produce mouse traps. 

As gentle woodland creatures, you don’t love the idea of manufacturing tools of murder and oppression, but you have hungry babies to feed. It’d be great to chuck it all and join the open resistance, but you can’t. What you can do: make sure that you manufacture as few mouse traps as possible, as slowly and ineptly as possible, and that you cause as many headaches for the predators as you can. Every little bit helps. 

There’s a fine line between obvious sabotage and a series of stupid but forgivable mistakes. You need to stay on the good side of that line, but only just. 

It’s time to slow walk everything.

In this short larp, one or more of you will play the predators running Mossley Wood's mousetrap factory and the prey animals who labor there over one working week. The predator(s) want to meet their manufacturing quota while the prey animals want to grind production to a halt. 

Come hone your skills of tossing sand into the gears of oppression and injustice.

Fact Box

Designed by Jason Morningstar and Lizzie Stark.

Time: An hour with a small group, two hours with a larger group.

Participants: 2-10. One plays the predator in charge; the rest play the cute forest animals who work at the factory. Four or more participants are recommended! With 7+ players, consider giving the boss a (literal) toady to help with the administrative overhead.

Content: Oppression and resistance to oppression, injustice and betrayal. 

Inspiration: Simple Sabotage Field Manual. United States Office of Strategic Services, 1944.