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 in establishing your limits, both physical and emotional. Don’t be afraid to modify your limits during the game if you feel they have changed. 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, or experience of a player or organizer.
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 makes mistakes, and everybody is capable of harming another participant. Whether harm was intended or not, each person must accept the responsibility of their own behavior. If you are informed about this kind of situation you are expected to reflect on 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 alcoholic drinks during the afterparty.
10. Inform Not Only Larp team about any health problem or allergies we should take into consideration.

For every player:

“Off-game (+ what you need)”:

In any kind of context:

• Examples: “off-game, I want to change the subject of this conversation.”, «off-game, I want to calibrate with you».

In a confrontation:

• off-game: rise intensity: This is a suggestion.
• off-game: lower intensity, tap out: This is an order.
• off-game: stop. This is an order.

Also organizers can say this:

• Off-game, make way for this van.
• Off-game, EMERGENCY, there is a fire

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.

The baseline is grabbing arms and wrestling. Escalate scenes with safe words SLOWLY. It is also ok to say “Off-game: please don’t touch me”.

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

Scenes about sexual violence and nudity will be played in special zones of the location. You can play this kind of violence there.

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.

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. Please ask the player if they want to stop the scene.

“No, I am not”.

Please bring the player to the safe space. If the player doesn’t answer, stop the scene.

NotOnlyLarp has a First Aid Team to deal with any health problems that might occur during the event. Please inform us about any health problems or allergies we should take into consideration and the way to deal with them should they arise. We also want to know any player willing to volunteer in helping our First Aid Team.

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

Unfortunately we don’t have a psychologist in the team, but safety team members can speak with players in confidence.

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

Koldo Ribote
Sergio Vacas
Espe Montero

NotOnlyLarp’s 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;
• 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 with 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 towards yourself or someone else by someone in the community at large, please email us at notonlylarp@gmail.com. Please include as many details as you consider necessary. These messages will remain strictly confidential, known only to 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 becomes known, please a member of the Safety Team as soon as necessary. You can reach them personally or through any other member of NotOnlyLarp’s team. We will also provide contact information for on-staff Safety members at the start of the event in case of emergency.

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

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 NotOnlyLarp events.

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