Bombs, Blood & Babes

Bombs, Blood & Babes (2010)

B-movie set in a Banana Republic

In a fictional Banana Republic, political corruption, military coups, and liquidations are the norm. The story begins in the middle of the jungle, at the utterly dreary camp of the militant rebels who call themselves the LARP (Liberators of All Righteous People). From there, it leads to a government conference, a kitchen packed with knives, guns, hand grenades, gas masks, suicide pills, bazookas and rockets, a lift playing cheesy elevator music, a high-end penthouse of a posh party official (with a fridge only stocked with celery and mineral water), and then to a ‘party-members-only’ dark swingers nightclub, a secret lab of horrors where the government tests mind-control drugs on captured rebels, and finally to a nuclear weapon facility. At the end, the line between hero and villain blurs when the rebels have the chance of using an atomic bomb and make it look like the government did it, by doing so gaining NATO's help to destroy the evil regime once and for all.
• Players: 12 (6 runs of 2 players, 1 storyteller & 1 NPC)• Duration: 12 hours• Food, drinks, lights, music, soundscapes, and photos were added to create an interactive theatrical tabletop session.
Bombs, Blood and Babes predated the later Obscurus events, but it already blurred the lines between a regular tabletop game and interactive theatre. The scenery was depicted by photos on a big screen, with a soundtrack and multiple audio effects in the room. Participants had to give a real Powerpoint presentation at the conference, and during the nightclub scene, the room turned out to be packed with big speakers and disco lights. The food and drinks were also themed to the scenes, with cold-served canned beans at the LARP camp, bright blue cocktails and canapés at the nightclub, and, of course, celery with mineral water at the fancy penthouse.

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