Oldvillage is a post apocalyptic LARP event with a focus on fun, adventure and creativity. This event is semi open, which means that we only accept a limited number of chosen guests to participate. Whoever from Wataha invites a guest, or more, is responsible for his/her/their actions. In the past, that worked pretty good.
OV is mainly for those interested into LARP. Airsoft players/sportsmen should not expect long intense battles with many bullets, because we will limit ammunition drastically. It is not an airsoft sports event. First and foremost is LARP and fun.
Also OV is not intended for power players. Those are players, that try to win the game. You cannot win OV. Experiencing the quests and enjoying the atmosphere of a crazy, post apocalyptic society is a focus. There is no direct enemy faction coming that you can overthrow. So in the end, it is not important to be the richest guy, or how many kills you have done, but your personal experiences along the way.
Last but not least OV is not for gritty LARP purists. The LARP is not ultra hardcore, not survival, and always with some fun in mind. We have no rules how bitter or funny a situation can be. Nonetheless, it is expected to stay in your role as long as it goes on. Off character chatting is only OK, if you do not disturb the experience of others.
2. Entrance and payment
OV will be on the Blackfield Airsoft field in Altwarp/Germany, close to Ückermünde, from 18th may till 21th may. You can come to the field starting from monday, 14.00. Larp starts at 18th, 00.01. The entrance fee is 40 Euro for all days. The money is needed to pay for the useage of the field, as well as the toilets.
To be able to come onto the field after parking the car, you need to have the following ready for accreditation: - Airsoft goggles - signal vest - time mesurement device (Clock, smartphone, something like that)
Attention: There can be things happening ingame as soon as you are out of the car. You might need to participate in them. So be warned ;)
The settlement of Oldvillage is an off ASG zone. ASG's there have to be unloaded and secured, and never pointed at anyone.
3. General rules for safety
Like everywhere else, the first directive of OV is: Whatever the Orgs say is true and correct. Do not discuss with them. It might end in your departure.
A) Security outside of the settlement
Everything outside the settlement is an ASG area. Here you have to wear goggles all the time. Not wearing them or taking them off can lead to departure from the event. Therefore, the use of ASGs in this area is allowed. This rule might be stated multiple times, because we want to ensure safety.
B) ASG rules
The following energy levels of ASGs are allowed: - Sniper rifles: 2.3 Joule - Assault Rifles: 1.8 Joule - Pistols: 1.0 Joule - Full automated guns: 0.5 Joule (actual german law: you are not allowed to own or use an ASG with full auto above 0.5 Joule)
In the wastes (everything behind the settlements borders), ASGs are allowed to be fired. Inside the settlement they might only be carried unloaded and locked. Pointing an ASG to anyone inside the settlement is strictly forbidden.
For range of engagements, the following rules apply:
- No "bäng" rule from 0.5 to 1.0 Joule. - From 1.1 Joule upwards, you have to say "bäng" when your opponent is 5m or less away from you. This kills your target (or wounds another character). More than 2 opponents can't be "bäng"ed, so for close encounters, it is more sufficient to use melee weapons, pistols or 0.5 Joule guns or nerfs. After the "bäng", you have to empty a round from your gun. - From 1.5 Joule upwards the bäng rule applies at 10 meters or less. - From 2 Joule upwards the bäng rule applies at 15 meters or less. Use your sniper rifles in situations, where you are safe to stick to that rule. - Inside buildings, nothing over 1.0 Joule is allowed to be fired. Firing into a building is allowed with anything though, but as soon as you enter, you have to use a secondary weapon with less energy. - The head, as with every weapon, is not a hit zone. This is to minimize head hits. Should the situation occur that the head is hit, the hitted player decides if he counts the hit, or ignores it. Do not specifically aim for the head.
There can be situations, where people could shoot under the range that is allowed, or hit you in the head, without the intention to do so. So bear in mind, that fighting is a dangerous thing to do. If it wasn't specifically intended, there will be no consequences if you misfire or mishit someone.
C) Alcohol
Drinking alcoholic beverages is allowed. But the Orgs will be able to take you out of the game, if you overdo it. Those who don't know their limit, will be taken to bed. There are no discussions allowed about this topic. If an Org says you are too drunk, you are. Discussions about that may lead to exclusion of the event.
D) Melee combat
Safety of you and your opponent is important here too. It is not about hitting someone into the ground with a melee weapon or bare handed, but to be well choregraphed while fighting. If you are not sure how to approach someone, stay safe, and ask the opponent what is ok.
E) Basta
Should there be an occurence of someone getting hurt, or being absolutely uncomfortable with a situation or another players actions, "basta" is the word to use. The game will immediately stop and the situation has to be cleared. All LARP is stopped until it is concluded. Ignoring a basta is a reason for getting thrown out of the festival. Use this word only when the situation is off game, and not to exploit the system.
F) Nerf guns
Nerfs should not be overpowered.
4. General LARP rules
A) Off game chatting The LARP is made semi-realistic. Chatting about off game topics are only allowed, if nobody is disturbed by it. Humor and fun is important to us, so cultural references, laughing in dire situations, and making silly stuff is allowed though.
B) Don't exploit the systems
Easy as that. The game is constructed around the idea of "trusting the player to act fair and according to the rules". If you find a problem with the gaming mechanics, go to an Org and maybe you will enhance the experience for everyone :)
C) Negative situations
Got hit? Got addicted to cocain? Got poisoned? That is no reason to not play out the situation. You will soon realize, that using these occurences can lead to more fun, than to ignore them and brake the rules because you don't feel like it. The Orgs tried their best to make these situations as much fun as possible, and other players will add to that fun. If you encounter a situation you really don't want to play out (like being hurt and no doctor is around to help you), you have to go off game for a certain amount of time and re enter the game later. Don't exploit this system either.
D) Going off game
Whenever you want to take a break from the game, put on your reflective vest and you are considered off game from then on. You are not allowed to interact with other players then who are ingame. Sharing informations while being off game is not allowed as well.
E) Housing/living
Your place where you live is considered in game, if you do not make it visible to be off game. The place where you sleep is considered off game. So if you have a tent, for example, that has an extra sleeping quarter, the sleeping quarter is off game, but the rest of the tent is in game. You are never allowed to take game items like caps or powders with you into your personal off game place. So hide them somewhere else, or dig a secret storage.
F) Critical hits
A player that has been hit at a bodypart, is considered "critically wounded". Play out where you have been hit. All critical wounded hits lead to the unability to run, even a hit to the arm. You can limp. Imagine your character in great pain. Use this opportunity for good roleplay. If you got hit in the chest, you are down and not allowed to move exept for slow crouching. You are also not allowed to fight back anymore. You can call for support or a medic, with your voice or your walkie talkie. A critical hit is critical as long as you haven't been treated by a medic or doctor. A medic can stabilize the wounded person. He is then considered "patched". Patched people can move slowly, stand up, and stuff, but still not run, and are not able to precizely fight again. So shoot from your hips, or take longer for a melee strike. Only a doctor can fully heal the patient. There is no character death, only when you want to die. Only NPCs can be killed.
G) Pickpocketing
You are only allowed to steal stuff that is an ingame item. Most of them are obvious or marked. If you have a great idea why stealing someones own property, go to the player and ask if you could steal it (off game question).
Ingame Items are: - The passport - Powder, ressources and what is made out of them - Ammunition - Quest items - with special tape marked items - bandages - syringes - blood bags - metal boxes containing medicine and drugs - plastic plants and mushrooms
H) Clothing
It is obligatory to wear fitting clothes for the setting. It doesn't have to look all fancy and win contests, so rugged pants and shirts are fine (ok, you are poor then). The more the better of course. Sometimes there can be exeptions to this rule, for example if you play a vault dweller just embarked from his underground home. But try to communicate this first with the Orgs.
5. Equipment
For general equipment you should have:
- drinks - food - hygene stuff - sleeping equip (tent, matrace, sleeping bag, all though you can sleep on a dirty bunk bed or in the wastes in a bunker if you really want to) - items from past years - grid mask (not obligatory, but reccomended for extra safety in the wastes) - cutlery and plates and bowels - a portable drinking device - LARP weapons, ASGs, Nerfs (not obligatory) - water for cleaning/showering - toilet paper - stuff for crafting - warm clothes in case it gets cold
These are all just reccomendations. Our motto is: If everyone thinks about ones self, everyone is taken care of. This is why we don't support the players with this stuff.
6. Behaving
Wataha is easy peasy, but also quite offensive to each other (in game) from time to time. This does not mean that we are respectless towards each others. When off game, a respectful behaviour is obligatory, as well as a special treatment for special circumstances (pregnancy was such a case for example). Open racism or sexism will not be tolerated. Should you plan to play an offensive character, please communicate this clearly to the other players. And of course: Those who don't want to be touched, will not be touched. No matter when, or where, or how. Not applying to this rule can lead to exclusion.
7. Ingame rules
A) Skills
Those who want to learn a skill, have to go to the Orgs or a player with that skill or the librarian and tell them. You will then get an intitiation quest. If you complete it, you will earn your first level of that skill. Per level you will have to do 5 actions more than on the previous level to level up. For level 2, you need to do specific stuff with your skill five times, then you need to go to the library and get the information you need to get to level 2. It is active, when you get the stamp in your passport. Then you have to do the skill stuff 10 times for level 3, then 15 times... Nobody watches your progress, so play fair. A fast levelup doesn't bring as much fun as to struggle to get where you want to be. Instead, you are just suggesting the Orgs they need to up the difficulty of your skill. In total you have 22 skill points. When you level up, you can put a skill point on the skill you are leveling up (not any skill though. If you do chemists stuff, you can't put the point into the medic skill tree). So you are able to learn every skill on a very basic level, or become master in a few ones. For every skill you will find skill handbooks in the Orgs room. There you can read all important details. Of course, if you don't want to spoil the fun for you to discover what you can do, you shouldn't read all of that in the beginning. But you can do that. You can go to someone with your skill and become his apprentice, if he/she is on at least one specialization of his/her skill. Every action for that skill that you both do, will be counted as a step closer to the next level, no matter who does it. So if you both work on something, both of you get the point, no matter if the action was off your limits because of your low level. Example: You are a medic on level 1 and Jeff is your teacher on level 8 human medicine. He has to do a complex healing procedure on a patient, and you hand him his tools. At the end, both of you get a step closer to the next level. You can only be an apprentice till you have to decide for your first specialization. Then you have to work alone or find an apprentice yourself.
Skills are not nescessary. If you find another way how to get caps, go for it. That pushes the economy.
B) Usage of consumable items
Consumable Items (consumables) can be syringes, inhalators, infusions, pills or similar. The stuff the actual consumable is in is considered empty after usage. You can still sell it or refill it, if you have the skill. So it has value to keep it. Same goes for bandages. You can eat or throw away the pills (they are sweets off game), and syringes need to be emptied. Infusions as well.
C) Weapon damage An ASG/Nerf is considered damaged and unusable when it was hit with an ASG or melee weapon. It has to be repaired by a technician then. Melee weapons are indestructable, until they break off game. Nerfs don't do damage to ASGs.
D) Shields
Shields are damaged, if they really get broken (off game). That doesn't mean that you should try to accomplish that. So in general, they are indestructable, unless they break. They protect against any weapon, but they have to occupy at least one hand.
E) Armor
There are 3 types of armor:
Type 1: protection against melee weapons Type 2: protection against Nerfs Type 3: protection against ASGs
Special armor can be applied with special effects. A power armor for example protects against everything exept explosive damage.
The type of armor will be marked at the armor itself. Weak spots have to be taken into consideration, so if you are hit where you don't have a plate protecting you, you are hit, and not your armor. Your body has 5 hit zones: left arm, right arm, left leg, right leg, torso. Only when the armor is actually hit it counts as protection, so a tire on the left arm doesn't protect any other hit zone, and only where it is actually covering your arm.
Has an armor been hit with a different weapon than it is protective against, it is considered "broken" and does not protect you. If it has been hit with the weapon it protects you from, it counts as broken when the fighting situation is over, but has deflected all the damage your body could have gotten. Multiple hits don't break armor faster. It only breaks when the whole fighting situation is over (and you return to the settlement for example).
Broken armor has no protection anymore and has to be repaired by a armor smith (where they also can be upgraded or altered ;) )
F) Weapons
There are:
- Melee (LARP) weapons - Laser weapons (Nerfs) - Projectile based weapons (ASGs) - Special weapons: Here there can be grenades, plasma rifles, flamethrowers, explosives, EMP weapons, mines etc.
Special weapons have special abilities against armor. Plasma guns for example can penetrate all armor types. Explosives can damage them (for example power armor). Explosives and mines also hit every hit zone on a player.
G) Markings
Most items are marked with either a special tape or a microchip. Armor isn't an ingame item of course, even if they are marked for determining the type. Some might be hidden marked with a microchip you have to look for.
H) Radiation
Radiated areas will be marked with signal/warning tape all around the accessable area. They have 3 different colours:
Level 1 radiated zone: light radiation,
Level 2 radiated zone: moderate radiation,
Level 3 radiated zone: heavy radiation,
Level 1 has a resistance-time-factor of 2 minutes per resistance factor for regular humans. Mutants can stay in them for as long as they want.
Level 2 has a resistance-time-factor of 1 minute per resistance factor for regular humans. Mutants can stay in them for 2 minutes.
Level 3 has a resistance-time-factor of 0 minutes per resistance factor for regular humans and mutants. Cyborgmutants in Powerarmor can stay in them for 2 Minutes.
Super mutants can go into all of them unlimited. Robots as well.
The resistance-time-factor tells the player, how long he is resistent against radiation in one of the zones. A regular human without protection is not resistant at all. A human who took Rad-X has 1 resistence. In a Level 1 zone he his resistent against radiation for 2 minutes (because the resistance-time-factor is 2 minutes in there). One minute for Level 2 zones. For everything he takes with him, he can stack the points/minutes of resistance. If the player for example uses Rad-X and wears a gas mask, he gets 4 Minutes. But players can only use everything once. Taking 2 Rad-X pills do nothing more than 2 minutes there as well. One item of every type can be used for stacking. That means that the maximum resistence is 4 (that would be 8 Minutes in a Level 1 zone). Mutants have a natural radiation resistence of 4. Robots are immune to radiation.
Resistance factors per Item: Radiation measurement device of any kind: +1 Gasmask: +1 Rad-X: +1 ABC clothing (full): +1 Power Armor: +3
Irradiated people will become sick in 4 steps:
1 minute after getting radiation poisoning: some coughing, itching, light headaches 2 minutes after getting radiation poisoning: regular coughing, heavy itching, heavy headaches, vomiting, coldness 3 minutes after getting radiation poisoning: heavy breathing, weakness, occasional blackouts 5 minutes after getting radiation poisoning: unconciousness
RadAway heals radiation poisoning instandly.
Items found in irradiated areas are not considered irradiated, exept a chip says something different.
I) Drug addiction
Drugs can make you addicted. You will get a chip in your welcome bag, that you need to flip every time you use a drug. Then you have 1 hour time before you need your next shot of the same drug or Jet. If you haven't gotten your next shot in time, you will get unconcious. If you are addicted, you need to take a marking to show and remember you are addicted. Doctors can heal addictions. Fixxer can heal addictions.
J) Species
Cyborgs: Cyborgs are humans that have altered their bodies technologically. In priciple every part of your body can be technologically enhanced or altered. It needs to be visually represented though. When you implant cyborg parts into your body, you loose human factor. The amount is depending on where you got the implant. Every human has 10 human factor points. If you loose all, you are not considered a human any longer, as you became more maschine then man. You are from this point on a robot. This is not reversible.
Bodyparts and human factor costs: Head: 3 points per implant Torso: 2 points per implant per arm: 1 point per implant per leg: 1 point per implant
Arm implants for example can enhance strength, so that you can carry 2 persons at once that are wounded (a normal person can only carry one), or you can crack locks with your bare hands.
Cyborgs save skills on USB devices. In that case, a cyborg with a fitting USB head implant can have every skill he has access to via USB, but only one per USB, of which he can only save one skill on. So a cyborg in fact has only one skill active at a time, but can buy or write new skills on other USBs which he can install later and switch between.
They can only be healed by a technician and a doctor in combination, or a cyberdoc (who also implants cyberparts) or a super stimpack.
They cannot get ill from sicknesses, but can become ill from computerviruses, hacking, or EMP weapons, which disable them until healed.
They cannot mutate. But mutants can possibly be cybernetically enhanced.
Robots:
Robots are pure, logic driven, programmed automatons. They mostly consist of technological parts (sometimes something biological like a brain or sth is implemented as well). Robots cannot become sick or wounded like biological lifeforms. They can become damaged though, and need to be repaired by a technician. They can become ill from computerviruses, hacking, or EMP weapons, which disable them until repaired.
Hits on bodyparts need to be acted out, but only explosive weapons or laserguns, plasmaguns and such can critically wound a robot.
Robots are concidered fully armored (against 1 type of weapon).
Robots cannot learn skills and save them on USB devices. They need skills that are on USB devices saved by other people. The 22 skillpoints nonetheless count, allthough robots can install 2 USBs at a time.
Arms and legs can be cut off of a robot. Everything else is individually discussible.
Robots do need a power supply to "eat" from.
Mechanics repair their body, IT-guys their software.
They cannot take drugs, medicine or poison and draw effects from them.
They are fire resistant.
Androids:
Androids are artificially created humanoids. They behave human, eat and sleep like humans, but they are not organic.
Androids have to be visible as androids.
Androids cannot be hurt. They can become damaged though, and need to be repaired by a technician. They can become ill from computerviruses, hacking, or EMP weapons, which disable them until repaired.
They are not armored.
Arms and legs can be cut off of a robot. Everything else is individually discussible.
Adnroids cannot go into radiated zones. They deactivate in them.
They can only be healed by a technician and a doctor in combination, or a cyberdoc.
They cannot take drugs, medicine or poison and draw effects from them.
They are fire resistend.
Androids can learn skills like a human, or like a robot they can also install new skills. They consume the sticks then, so they cant save them on another device. The read USB device will be emptied afterwards. But they can delete old skills without help.
Humanoid Mutants:
Humanoid mutants are mutated humans. They are created, when radioation doesn't kill, but are also not healed (offgame you can choose when to mutate).
They have to be visually distinguishable.
Mutants are Level 4 resistant to radiation.
Mutants cannot take any drug exept Ultrajet. Ultrajet has the same effect as Psycho and Mentats together and is addictive. Humans that take Ultrajet count as poisoned. Mutants do not.
They need to visit a mutant expert if they need to be healed.
Rad-X doesn't work for them. RadAway cures their radiation poisioning, but they count as normally poisoned after that and need a mutant expert to fully recover them.
Humanoid Supermutants:
Humanoid Supermutants are oversized, genetically altered mutants that are pretty rare. Most of them are stupid, with some exeptions.
They have to be visibly distinguishable. You have to look big and muscular.
Mutants cannot take any drug exept Ultrajet. Ultrajet has the same effect as Psycho and Mentats together and is addictive. Humans that take Ultrajet count as poisoned. Mutants do not.
Rad-X and RadAway do not have any effects on them.
Mutants are Level 4 resistant to radiation.
They need to visit a mutant expert if they need to be healed.
They can enter any radiation zone. They are also as strong as if they would have cyberware.
They can only be healed with Super Stimpacks. Drugs and Meds have no effect on them.
They count as fully armored, even naked. Additional armor can give them a second type of resistance against a weapon.
K) Orga
The Orgs are, in fact, every Wataha member. Because not every member has knowledge about everything, there will be a small division for every part that is nescessary.
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