I want you to read this listing from an immersive theater newsletter I subscribe to one sentence at a time. Try not to read ahead. Take it slow. Digest it. One line at a time. See if you can find the part where I did a spit take.
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It has been one calendar year since the "show" I am referencing here and I still sometimes remember it and think "What the fuck?"
Being handcuffed to the toilet wasn't even the weirdest thing in that moment, it was the pants-less minister sitting in the bloody bathtub (he was handcuffed to the accessibility railing) who wanted to talk to me about if I thought we could ever truly be forgiven for our sins.
@srol i got operatives in Newark if you get fucked over, man. just say the word. your money is no good with me, it's my pleasure to dispatch my goon squad...? hmm. minions? noo, hm. henchmen? ooh no. henchworkers! yes. my henchworkers.
@rey I was legitimately scared during this "show" when a balaclava-clad man was leading me blindfolded from one motel room to another that we might accidentally trigger an alert with the Port Authority anti-human trafficking task force.
Months later I got to spoke to the director of the show and he said as weird as it was, they were nowhere near the weirdest thing happening at that motel.
@srol Oh. Gracious.
Do you have to pull on a physical slot machine to determine which one bothers to talk to you?
@srol I was not ready.
@srol This announcement is like slowly edging up on the uneasy border between "immersive theater" and "fandom LARP"... and then bolting straight to the other side.
@Owlor I actually did initially suspect this could be a dreaded "brand activation" which is something that has been creeping into the immersive space recently, mostly thanks to Netflix. So I was actually relieved to learn it looks more like some SoCal cosplayers who ran some events at local cons and decided to get more ambitious. Which I think is prety cool, I just really think YMMV running a Hoyoverse event for civilians.
I mean, what's the difference between this and the immersive theater shows I like to go to? Well, another company doesn't own the copyright to everything. And probably no one will handcuff me to the toilet in a bathroom of a motel outside the Newark, NJ, airport. But beyond that it's essentially the same thing.