For reading after the Escape Room at PAX
What Just Happened?
First of all: congrats, you just went LARPing!
No, really. You had a character, goals, at least one piece of costuming, you interacted with our zany factory world, and you probably role played. That’s all the cupcake ingredients. You went LARPing!
Most importantly, you entered the world of Sporebound, and you worked with your fellow Sporebound to pursue secret sabotage and reconnaissance against VerdaTech, a company that’s been consumed by the Blue Blight. Welcome to the resistance.
Setting
Sporebound is a FungusPunk LARP set in the American 80s. But in our 80s, instead of the world slowly getting worse due solely to rampant greed and runaway Capitalism, there’s an extra reason: The Blue Blight. The world has been secretly influenced by The Mycos, extra-dimensional beings whose footprint is only seen in the mold around our world, but through incredible power have influenced our world since lichen first digested the soil we now walk on. One of them, Chartarum, seen as Toxic Black Mold, but known to the Sporebound as The Blue Blight due to its tell-tale glow in their eyes, has taken over the most powerful and selfish in the world, and geared their selfishness towards making the world unlivable for us, but perfect for The Blight.
Unlike the Blighted, controlled by the Blue Blight, the Sporebound are allies of their Mycos, which acts as their symbiote. It can make them quite powerful, able to perform heroic acts against The Blight. But the Sporebound must still lay low, working together to resist The Blue Blight and its powerful minions.
Sporebound is a world of leftist infighting, resistance networks, sabotage, and hope. If you’d like to learn more, read about it on Sporebound.com.
What Now?
If you live in or near South Jersey, Sporebound will be running as a Quarterly LARP starting in 2026. Join our Discord to meet our players and plan your first visit. We have a LARP Meetup at Frankford Hall on 4th Tuesdays, next meetup January 27th, a great time to meet players and plan your characters. We also have an incredible Vampire the Masquerade Anarch Chronicle, with the next game on Saturday January 31st, and regularly on 2nd Saturdays starting in March.
If you live elsewhere, Winding Path Initiative is our inclusive national social club devoted to helping people put together high quality larps and make new friends at our larp games. Join Us on Discord, and maybe we can figure out getting a game going near you. We’re happy to work with people interested in a Sporebound game, a Vampire game, or an exciting idea you’ve come up with. If you’re interested in moving the larp ball forward with us, get in touch.
