Live-action role-playing and the affordances of social media

Live-action role-playing (larp) is characterized by participants’ physical and mental immersion in a storyworld, played out specific location during fixed period of time. Most the realized live event itself, where collective story acted space real However, contemporary larping also usually entails significant interaction communication between players, players organisers, before after through digital media. In this article, we explore social media afterlife one most Nordic larp events recent years, Fortune Felicity (2017). Using an affordance framework, discuss what happens to “liveness” when it extended into Through affordances persistence, visibility, editability associability, analyse material from Facebook group connected Felicity, used organisers prepare for and, afterwards, continue gameplay de-brief. media, continuum time space, which characteristic changed asynchronous physically separate player action. Thus, argue, enable collaborative storytelling ways that change narrative, interactive immersive dynamics larp.