Brightfield

Genre: Horror

Format: one shot

Location: Villaggio delle Stelle, Lusernetta (TO)

Brightfield

26/09/2014 - 28/09/2014

Genre: Horror

Format: one shot

Location: Villaggio delle Stelle, Lusernetta (TO)

Abstract

Born of a team of young organizers spun off the Terre Spezzate community, Brightfield was a project to bring the horror genre to the growing “loosely nordic” scene in Northern Italy. It drew inspiration from H. P. Lovecraft’s work (with some very obvious quotes) and portrayed an investigation in a secluded village that - very unsurprisingly - turned out to be full of mysteries.

Both investigators and villagers were impersonated by players, with little use of NPCs. The design was very railroaded, sacrificing players’ agency on the story in exchange for some very spectacular main scenes with strong FX, such as a woman delivering a monstrous baby, the opening of a tomb to find the occupant alive, and a wall of fire erupting around people performing a dark ritual.
Characters were pre-written and fate play was used to steer them towards a dramatic ending, in an upsurge of folly and mayhem.