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The Recurrence Clinic
This is a LARP adaptation. For the experimental film of the same name, see The Recurrence Clinic (film).
The Recurrence Clinic is a participatory LARP in which players, divided between two geographically separate clinic sites, undertake synchronized 18-hour roleplay as medical teams attempting to arrest and reverse the temporal cycling that Katita describes. [1]
The mechanics mirror Chapter Five's setting: remote facility, scarce medical instruments, diagnostic equipment that yields contradictory readings, a shared radio channel. Teams at each site must coordinate procedures on consenting patient-participants while managing scarcity; every intervention deepens the cycle or breaks it—the outcome is deliberately obscured until the closing ritual.
The ruleset incorporates the sound of the earth rubbing against space as a meta-mechanic: players hear a low drone (faintly dissonant) that subtly shifts frequency as they move between clinic "chambers." At climax, both sites perform a synchronized "resonance procedure"—chant, gesture, breath—which organizers refuse to confirm as successful or failed. [citation needed]
Location-specific variations emerged: a Hungarian adaptation incorporated Les-inspired bee-automaton puppetry in patient-roles; a Polish remake incorporated testimony from a decommissioned asylum archive, blurring fiction and document. The unresolved glitch becomes each group's interpretive burden.
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- ↑ Festival programme note, 2021.