Lost Poetry Squad

Lost Poetry Squad
Designer:	Invisible Playground
Year:	unknown
Players:	6-30. In teams of 3-5.
Stuff required:	Mirrors, headlights, florescent self-adhesive band, walkie-talkies.
Crew required:	One non playing character per team.
Preparation:	4 hours.
Time required:	ca. 20 minutes.
Place required:	Small park with a lot of benches preferably in the dark.
Activities:	collecting, memorizing, do some magic .
This is an unfinished game. It is still in the design stage, and is not playable.
This game is made available under an Attribution-Noncommercial Creative Commons licence. (What does this mean?)

Preparation

"Build poetry detection device": The poetry detection device is a combination of mirrors and lights that are mounted on the shoes of the players. Some players will wear mirrors, others will wear lights. Get round mirrors of ca. 20mm diameter, velcro and duct tape, headlights.

• Apply duct tape around the outline of the mirror (mostly for security reasons to prevent injuries by the sharp edge).
• Apply velcro band on the mirrors backs that they can be mounted on shoes. Two mountings per mirror will do.
• Apply velcro band on the headlights that they can be mounted on shoes.

"Build poetry lines": Take the poems provided in this description or choose a lovely poem of a similar length. Use florescent self-adhesive band to write single lines on it. For this you need to cut the florescent band in pieces according to the length of the poem lines, and write the poem lines on them in REVERSE WRITING (as it will be read out with a mirror).

Stick the poem lines on the self-adhesive band on the bottom side of benches. In dark the florescent band and the writing will become visible if players charge it using the headlights mounted on their shoes. After that players equipped with a mirror can place their feet under the bench in order to read the glowing line of poetry.

Each team gets a poetry expert assigned to. Each poetry expert needs a clipboard with the complete poems on it.

Before starting, build teams of about 3-5 players. Within the team, hand out 2 mirrors and a headlight (you might want to assist in mounting them on the players shoes). Hand out 2 walkie-talkies in each team and to the the poetry expert assigned to the team. Make sure that the walkie-talkies within a team are set to the same channel and that the poetry expert is using the same channel too.

Rules

Rulecard for Rulecard for Lost Poetry Squad (hand this out to players!)

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