I'm Home
A two-person warmup for character heightening — building intensity while keeping the core. Take turns opening a "door" and saying "I'm home" in character, each time a little bigger — until the character hits its limit.
Players
2
Full description
Setup and Launch
Agree on an imagined door — where it is, which way it opens. One of you starts, the other follows.
Play
- A opens the door and says "I'm home" in some character — for example, exhausted after a shift.
- B repeats the same character, opens the same door, says "I'm home" — but a little bigger. Louder, shoulders drooping more, heavier step.
- A heightens again.
- Climb in steps until the character hits its limit — where it's physically uncomfortable to keep going.
- Switch character, start over.
Key rules
The base stays the same across the whole series — tired, in love, in a rage. Only volume and scale change.
Don't change the character mid-run — the series falls apart.
Heightening goes in steps: each beat slightly bigger than the last, not jumping straight to the max.
Push to the limit — the interesting stuff starts where it's already uncomfortable.
Context
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