Our safety system relies on the ability of players to set and respect boundaries, be able to say safe words, and be able to speak with the safety team in case you are not ok. If you have trouble doing that, this larp is not for you.

CODE OF CONDUCT

1. People are more important than the larp. Safety is our priority. Respect all the game security rules.
2. Each person’s body is their own. They alone may set their boundaries and say what makes them comfortable. Please be clear establishing your limits, both physical and emotional. Don’t be afraid to modify your limits if you feel to during the game. Asking about someone's boundaries is expected, pushing them is not acceptable
3. Consent must be freely given, vocalized and considered inviolable. Respect everybody’s boundaries and don’t tease, gossip about, ostracize or retaliate against someone who has set a consent boundary. In fact, we would like you to thank your fellow co-players for setting boundaries, as practicing active consent negotiations allows everyone to feel more comfortable.
4. Off-game harassment, abuse, or assault of any participant – or using the alibi of character to harass, abuse, or assault a player – is not tolerated. This includes any reference to the race, gender identity or presentation, sexuality, body size, conventional beauty, age, and experience.
5. Each participant is responsible for their own actions; for reading, understanding and abiding by the Code of Conduct; and for the consequences of their actions to others.
6. Everybody might harm another member, whether intended to do so or not, and must accept the responsibility of their own behavior. If you are informed about this kind of situation you are expected to reflect this in your own behavior and seek to change it. Don’t deflect, blame, or become defensive if you are informed that you have harmed someone.
7. No one should ostracize or retaliate against any member for setting a consent boundary or for making a report of harassment or abuse.
8. If you witness someone behaving in a manner that is against our Code of Conduct we encourage you to ask them to stop. Please inform the Safety Team of the incident. You may report anonymously if you feel more comfortable doing so and we will respect your privacy.
9. We won´t serve alcohol in game, but we will do so at the afterparty. We ask you to avoid drinking your own alcohol during the game. You will have time to enjoy alcohol drinks during the afterparty.
10. Inform Not Only Larp team about any health problem or allergies we should take into consideration.

 

MECHANICS

 

SAFE WORDS
 

Emergency: “Emergency, stop playing”. Everyone should stop their scene.
 

For every player:
 

- Green (or one tap on the shoulder). When someone uses this, it means the rest of the players can raise their game intensity. It is a suggestion, not an order.

- Yellow (or tapping the shoulder twice). When someone uses this, the other players have to lower their game intensity. This is an order you have to follow.

- Red. The scene stops immediately. This is an order. The person who stops the scene can ask for what she/he needs.

 

For Hosts:

Low battery: This is a safe word for Hosts. The Hosts may appear to be robots, but of course, the players are not. If they're bored, tired, have spent too much time in a scene, or a human is ordering something they don't want to do, they can say those magic words and ask for what they need. For example: “Low battery. I need to take a seat,” or “Low battery. I need to get to Maintenance to go back to the park,” or “Low battery. I won’t serve dinner.”

 

HARD LIMITS

No real sex, no touching of genitals, no touching of people who are naked. Racism or comments about the body of the players are prohibited.

 

SEX

When recreating a public sex scene, one you want other players to witness, it needs to look like sex; this will be covered in the workshop.

 

VIOLENCE & SEXUAL VIOLENCE

There will be a workshop where we will explain how to depict sex and violence.

We will also use different colored ribbons to communicate the experience the player wants to consider experiencing:

• White ribbon: violence.
• Red ribbon: sexual violence.

Violence:

Everyone can be involved in a shooting and might die because of a gunshot.

• no ribbon: no one can touch you.
• White ribbon: scalate scenes with safe words. You agree with grabbing arms and wrestling. You agree to negotiate violence over grabbing arms and wrestling..

Sexual violence:

You need to negotiate off-game before the scene (from now until the scene happens) with a player that wears the ribbon or in the facebook group for negotiations.

This is the negotiation’s scheme for violence over grabbing arms and wresting and sexual violence:

1. "we need to talk, I would like to play a ____ scene with you" fill blanks with  sex/violence/torture/bdsm/pillow fighting".
2. "do you have any limits or triggers?" This way is mandatory to consider limits always
3. "do you want to set the scene beforehand or do you have any desire for the scene?"

Victims and abusers can start negotiations in a facebook group we'll open as soon the casting process is ended.

A negotiation could be "play the scene until the kidnap starts, bring me to a dark alley and that is where we end".

When the scene has started any of the players can should use the safe words to ask for more intensity or to slow down the scene.

Disclaimer: Being treated as an object could have a strong impact on your emotions. If you have personal issues that may worsen from this type of play, a larp is not the place to self-medicate or to try to resolve those issues. In this case, please consider not playing these scenes.

 

Scenes about sexual violence and nudity will be played in special zones of the location.

 

SAFE SPACE

This is an out of game space that works as a safety net for the players. If your play is having any negative impact on you, you can come here and eat, rebalance, relax, or get a hug.

 

 

ARE YOU OK?

Gamemasters or other players can ask if a player is ok with this sign:

You can reply with:

“Yes, I am ok”.

 

“Not sure”. This hand signal, which means the player doesn't quite know how they feel, or that it's neither good or bad. This should be treated as a thumbs down by the person doing the asking. Please ask the player if they want to get to the safe space.

 

“No, I am not”. Please bring the player to the safe space.

MEDICAL TEAM

NotOnlyLarp has a  First Aid Team to deal with any health problem that can happen during the event. Please inform us about any health problem or allergies we should take into consideration and the way to deal with it. We also want to know any player that can volunteer help to our First Aid Team.

We have a first aid kit but this does not include medication, everyone has to bring their own.

SAFETY TEAM

NotOnlyLarp has a Safety Team to deal with any issue that can be considered a violation of the Code of Conduct or threaten attendee safety.

Feel free to raise any complaint to our Safety Team, each complaint received will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

 

SAFETY TEAM MEMBERS

Cripzy Romero

Esperanza Montero

Javy Dorta

Matteo Verzeletti

 

HARASSMENT

Not Only Larp definition of harassment may not necessarily align with legal definitions of harassment. Therefore, attendees should regard the following guidelines as expectations of conduct in addition to legally actionable actions. In other words, the legal expectations of tangible proof are not necessary for the Safety Team to take action upon a complaint.

For our purposes, harassment includes:

•        Verbal comments or displayed images that denigrate individuals based upon gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion, political beliefs, philosophies, geographic origin, or socioeconomic status;
•        Physical or verbal intimidation or any other behavior that reasonable individuals would view as abusive;
•        Stalking;
•        Body policing, including gender policing in all bathrooms;  
•        Non-consensual physical or emotional interactions;
•        Non-consensual sexual acts.
•        Unwelcome sexual attention, whether verbal or physical.

This harassment policy applies to both in-person and online activities. Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. Not Only Larp volunteers and committee members are also subject to the anti-harassment policy.

 

Reporting Harassment

We will provide members of the Safety Team detailed instructions and training procedures in case of a violation of code emergency. Attendees can report harassment at any time:

Before the event: If you are privy to information about harassment toward yourself or someone else by someone in the community at large, please email us at consciencelarp.safety@gmail.com. Please include as many details as you consider necessary. These messages will remain strictly confidential, known only the Safety Team. Reports received about registered attendees before the event are subject to the same consequences as those received during the game.

During the event: If a violation of the Code of Conduct transpires, please inform as soon as you consider necessary to a member of the Safety Team. You can reach them personally or through any other member of Not Only Larp Team or by phone or chat.

After the event: You may choose to wait until after the event to report a violation, in which case, please email consciencelarp.safety@gmail.com.

 

Possible Disciplinary Steps for Violations  

Disciplinary Steps are organized into two levels based upon the severity of the violation.

Level 1: Monitoring the individual in question, pulling the individual aside to discuss the violation, and/or issuing verbal warnings.

Level 2: Removing the individual from the game and, potentially, from future Not Only Larp events.

 

This document is  it's inspired by the safety documents from Living Games Conference, New World Magischola, and Just a Little Lovin'