After sign up and casting, you will receive your spot and at the same time a character based on your given preferences. While there are some options for tweaking some aspects, this is limited as they create pre-written connections as well.
All characters in this larp are gendered and have a predetermined sexuality (based on the characters perception), your sheet will also include backstory, a personal dilemma, a description of the characters function in the larp as well as pre-written relationships.
Every character will be in a core group, as well as be part of one or multiple social circles. Some will be part of the stage group and perform several numbers in game. Some work behind the scenes. Others are guests in the Silhouette. Some are already working on fighting against the new reign, others are part of the what seems to become the new establishment, while most are just complying in order to survive. But all have stakes in the Silhouette, one way or another.
Examples of core groups
The nazi footmen
Let the politicians talk and the scientists debate. You all know that the streets are where the battle rages and the war is fought. And you will be there to raise the flag of National-Socialism and crush anyone in your way beneath your steel-clad boots.
The culture workers
The politician uses the truth to tell a lie, and the artist uses a lie to tell the truth. But whose truth and what is more important, the truth or to be able to tell at all? You are bound together as artists on a stage that has changed significantly, and the question haunting you now is who the fat lady is and will her last song be an aria – or a dirge?
The golden girls/boys
You have all been fixtures or interiors in the Berlin nightlife for as long as you can remember. From its faltering steps after the great war to the heights of the roaring 20ths and now its collapse under nazi rule. You may be an odd fellowship but at the end of the night you can all raise your glasses and say “We were there…”
The starving friends
Starving for friendship, starving for acceptance, starving for love, starving for one’s art or just starving? This little circle of friends has found common ground in their longing for something to call home. Someone said it’s better to be alone in a group then one one’s own and you all find solace in each other’s company.
