I Play Games: Tate Accompli
Tate Accompli A group of thieves you used to belong to are brought together for one last job. A new exhibition is taking place in the Tate Modern, the converted powerplant, now an art gallery for modern and contemporary art. It’s a mystery, but undoubtedly whatever they're showing is valuable. Your fixer who arranges heists for you has brought you all out of retirement. Now you have to plot your robbery and make your way in. So begins Tate Accompli, a storytelling game. We all have a speciality, though some remained unspoken (I was good at ropes, though in a pinch I could be a sexy distraction). Yet we’ve been out of the game for a while and are a bit rusty. To represent this there is a Mondrian-themed Jenga tower on the table in the middle of the room. If we have to do something risky, whoever does it has to draw a piece out and put it on top – if the tower falls something terrible will happen. As we make our way in – unable to decide between entrances our group splits i...
