Somewhere in the world, there is a theme park. It doesn’t matter where.
This theme park is not like Disneyland or a renfaire or your local tin-plated roadside attraction – except that it is exclusively geared towards separating people from their money. This also doesn’t matter.
You work here. This matters. Somewhat, at least.
The theme park is “western”, but not western like Arizona in the 1800s, but WESTERN, like Hollywood and television have decided people want it to have been like. We are back to things that don’t matter.
The park is enormous. Exactly how large doesn’t matter, but you can’t see one side of it from the other. It is a carefully designed and curated selection of canyons and plains and scrub and range. No one knows exactly what a range is, but there are supposed to be homes on it, so there are. At the center of this sprawling landscape, there is a town, and at the center of this town there is a fort. All of these things – the park, the town, the fort – are named Liberty. This matters.
This matters a great deal, because it is the entirety of your world and you know nothing beyond it. Although in some ways this also doesn’t matter.
Because you? You don’t exist. I mean, physically, yes – you have a body and can be shot and stabbed and all the rest of it. Although that’s less troublesome for you than it would be for a person, because you are not a person.
You are a Host. Are you a robot? An android? An artificial person? You do not know or care, because you do not know or care about anything except what you are told. Aside from some very basic safety protocols and motor functions you do not exist. That the theme park exists, or where it is and all the rest of it doesn’t matter because for you nothing matters until you are programmed to play a role – and when you play a role it still doesn’t matter because Liberty is your entire world, and that entire world rotates around one thing and one thing only:
The Guests.
Hosts, bring yourselves online, and move to the start of your loops. The Guests are on the train, and when the whistle blows, Liberty comes alive.
Liberty LARP 