The Belly of The Beast

A horrible space monster is pregnant and her young struggle to be born and devour/mate with one another in a blasphemous nightmare of hideous fake biology.

Long Description

You have been floating in the black of space for many years, though you have never seen its emptiness yourself. You have never been alone. You have had your sisters–monstrous, terrible, glorious, and so very like and unlike you–with you for your entire life. And you have had Mother Iyg, Her face a mystery but Her flesh so warm and kind.

Her body has been your world.

From Her womb you have listened to Her gentle hum that has kept each of you calm and conscious, suppressing the destructive impulse you all feel in some unique way. You have known that one day Her song would stop as Her body finally began to shut down. You knew that on that day, all of you would feel the full brunt of your true nature come roiling forth and devour one another and Her. Some would escape out into the strange dark nothing beyond Mother to bring life and terror to some stranger world with some small life on it. Some would die in the chaos. One would succeed Iyg as a new Mother, to grow new daughters inside of her and surrender to their destruction when the time came. And one would die in the throes of ecstasy to make that new Mother strong and powerful.

Long have you known this day would come. You have seen your sisters growing larger, stronger, and more wild. You have felt it in yourself too.

Mother is dying. Soon, her song will stop and you will eat your way out of her. But what will you do with your other kin? What will they do with you?

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The Belly of The Beast is a 2 hour larp for 8 players exploring themes of monstrosity, alien psychology, divinity, and biological determinism. Players should be warned that the game contains various unsettling elements including cannibalism, sex as violence, violence as sex, incest, and loss of self for extremely inhuman beings for whom all of this is expected, normal, or desirable.

The game will utilize the Cut and Break and OK Check In systems for player comfort and safety.

Violent conflict between characters will be represented through an abstracted mechanical system, as will the eating through the flesh surrounding the characters. A final conflict will be represented similarly and include a component of "mating" in which the (single) winner of the final conflict consumes the (single) loser and their genetic material for the next generation, which will include a brief "out of character" interaction between the players to determine what this will mean for the next generation.