Real life injuries
– Shout/say “Skarp skada!” or “Real injury!” when stuff is seriously hitting the fan for REAL. Someone’s actually hurt! There’s a legit fire! This is what we yell when there’s a genuine off-game emergency so folks know it’s no longer playtime in that scene. Help the person who is injured.
– If you catch wind of somebody hollering the above words, echo it and point where it’s coming from.
– Safety first, play later!
– Be responsible for your own feelings and larp-experience. Are you having a bad time? Ask coplayers, organisers or trygghetsvärd/safety personnel for help!
GENERAL RULES
– Respect peoples needs. Let people cook, eat, sleep and poop in peace. Choose another time to pick a fight with them or bring them All The News or sell them their next favourite thing. Keep actual roleplay within the larp area.
– Don’t steal anyone’s guns or weapons.
– Don’t make threats based on manpower or weapons that aren’t present at the larp. No one needs your hyperbole. Your imaginary nuke, juggernaut or trained attack mutant that you left at home can’t help you here!
– Low intensity play between 01:00 and 10:00 in the morning. Be quiet, go to bed, sleep. You need to be a hero the next day too, you know!
– If you want people to steal your stuff to create play, you have to let them know. Mark it very visibly with a big, fat X.
– You can’t enter someone else’s tent without their permission, which also means you can’t store ingame items used to propel story in there.
– Don’t exclude characters/players from play. Find a way to invite them in, even if your character hates their guts and don’t want anything to do with them.
– You can go off-game as long as you do it discretely, i.e. whisper to your coplayer to plan cool scenes or check in on your co-players. Don’t be a douche and yell “Hey guys! I’m breaking immersion now.”
– If you need to break play because of conditions stated in the Code of conduct, you don’t need to be discrete. For example, if there is a dangerous situation occurring, say “off-game” loud and clear and address the problem. We trust you to tune this according to the situation.
CHARACTER RULES
– Your character can’t die without your consent! Other people aren’t the boss of you – you are.
– You don’t need a designated loot bag/pocket. But if you want one, place your hand on the pocket/bag to indicate where your stealables are if you’re knocked out or robbed ingame. Note that looting stuff is not in focus at this larp.
– Play to lose. Play to entertain. Play to engage. Play to lift. Play to tell a story. This is the best way to play this larp.
– Don’t keep secrets or plot items to yourself. Involve people in your plots and stories. Spread the word. Dance card larping, where you only play with your friends and no one else is not cute.
– Follow the social norms of the larp and don’t think it’s unique or cool if you decide your character is secretly a hero who would never be mean to mutants!
– Most bang for the bucks! If you are doing an epic scene, make sure to include other players, either as participants or spectators.
META TECHNIQUES
Traffic lights
Some scenes can get intense. To help you manage your comfort levels in those scenes, we have some keywords:
RED – means that the situation feels bad for you and that the scene must be abandoned, no questions asked.
YELLOW– means that the scene/situation is ok, but that the intensity must be lowered a little.
GREEN – means all is well and that you welcome more of this type of play, or if you want to escalate a scene/situation.
OFF – use this to give an offgame message and make it clear that you are speaking out of character.
Look down
This is a technique for passing by or leaving a scene without disrupting the game. You hold the palm of the hand against the forehead as a screen and bend the neck. This way you can walk past or leave a scene and visually show other players that you don’t want to be engaged.
No questions are asked about why you are using the look down and there will be no play on the fact that someone has left the scene or passed by.
Violence and sex
Outpost Elysium is not a larp where ingame sex is a big theme, so the baseline technique we’re aiming for is fade to black, where you would step out of character, agree and talk about what kind of shenanigangs your characters did and then go back into play, refreshed if not with a bit of a messy hairdo.
While we would rather that you didn’t have actual, real sex during the larp, we can’t really stop you if you consentually decide otherwise. But we have a rule to not have sex in public. Nobody should be able to walk in on you, hear you, or otherwise make a good guess at what you’re doing. Keep it private, this isn’t the place to show your freaky moves to everyone.
In the case of simulated violence and combat, read more about it here under larp rules.
These rules are unconditional. When you sign up, you accept all of them.