The Enigmas at Red Point (TERP) is a tabletop role-playing game designed to create a group therapy environment and foster togetherness for players to cure contagious phobias through storytelling. By collecting and incorporating players’ imaginations into the game, players are placed into the roles of the residents, guiding them to contemplate the hidden dangers the community could possibly face and collaborate to communicate, investigate and resolve fears that the dangers may cause — through which it builds stronger community bonds.
TERP is a sponsored project of New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), a non-profit arts service organization. NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship will receive grants for the purposes of TERP and offer individual donors the incentive of tax-deductible donations.
Derived from the fictions I wrote after researching about the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in the neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn, TERP revisits the tragedy but is not necessarily limited to this specific catastrophe. It aims to build stronger community bonds through inviting people from a real or virtual community to play this board game.
Just like Red Hook could be an epitome of local vulnerability in New York City, the fictional town Red Point is an epitome of all neighborhoods in the world that were built on landfill or other large artificial structures.
