FLIRT: Fairy-Land Incident Report Tribunal
Fairy tale law: the magic is real, the justice is fake, the decisions are final.
Once upon a time, there were two separate Courts: the Seelie and the Unseelie. Each of these Courts had its own court in which citizens could seek justice or injustice, respectively. Due to budget constraints1, these redundant courts have been reorganized into the combined Fairy Land Incident Response Tribunal (FLIRT).
FLIRT is the last and final (and only) hope for compensation, arbitration, or justice2 in literally any kind of dispute from marital quarrels to palace coups3. Today’s docket includes a report of a hex, several incidents of home invasion, multiple code violations4, reports of impending apocalypse, and labor disputes.
All rise for the honorable (and dishonorable) Justices and Injustices of the Court(s).
FLIRT is a horde larp set in a judicial system for fairy tale characters. Cast players will play the judicial panel and court-appointed therapists (sworn to uphold fairy ethical standards, not human ones). Horde players will play a rotating cast of litigants, complainants, witnesses, and innocent2 bystanders somehow roped into this. The panel will make binding decisions that will affect whether the litigants live happily ever after.
1. Fairy gold is a notoriously unstable market.
2 (?)
3 Marital quarrels and palace coups are really the same thing, but on different scales.
4 Straw houses? Really?
Content Warnings:
Cartoon-style violence, light horror, police, unfair judicial systems, fantasy gaslighting, altered perceptions of reality, unethical therapeutic practices, mind control. There is no sexual violence content in this game.
Remember that part of the last page where I said "Nearly all of my games have a feeling at the center of them that’s making itself heard by means of writing and mechanics"? The "nearly" is because of FLIRT. This game is just dumb silly fun. Susan came up with the premise, gave it an acronym that made us both laugh, and asked if I wanted to write it with them and Nat. The result was ridiculous fairy-tale chaos that's fun for everyone even if the game doesn't work as intended (it does, though). Big Bad Wolf Housing Inspector!