Basic Rules

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==Hit Points and Basic Combat==
Beings have one or more hit points. Weapons do SINGLE damage by default - that is, being hit by a weapon causes you to lose one hit point. You don’t need to call this when you strike with a weapon, but you may if you wish to make it clear that you intend to cause a point of damage.

Player characters begin with 3 hit points. You can wear armour for +1 hit.

You can only make one call or successful attack per second.

==Noncombat Characters==
Some players may be unable to take part in physical combat or not wish to for personal reasons. In this case, they should make the organisers aware so that they can brief other players to not attack them. Instead of attacking a non-combat character, you should call damage against them once per second once you are in range to make an attack. Do ''not'' mime swinging your weapon. If someone mistakenly thinks you are a noncombat character and tries to do this, politely correct them and continue.

==Wounds and Dying==
If you are reduced to zero hit points, your character is now incapacitated. You can’t fight and can only stagger around. You should make it clear that you’re wounded, incapacitated and (mostly) helpless. If you regain hit points, you cease to be incapacitated.

If you have been injured in combat to the point where you were incapacitated during an encounter, ask a ref for a wound card at your earliest convenience, usually after the encounter has ended.

If you have been incapacitated for at least two minutes, you may recover one hit point on your own. If you do this, notify a ref and they will give you an additional wound card.

===Wound Cards===
From being heavily injured, and through many other sources, your character may receive Wounds. These are represented by a wound card that will be handed to you by a ref. It will specify the roleplaying effects of the wound, along with any mechanical effects that it has.

A character has, by default, a wound limit of three - they can have three Wounds at a time. If they ever have four Wounds at the same time, that character is dead or beyond saving, and must retire by the end of the current event.

At the start of each interactive, your character naturally recovers from one Wound of your choice. Some more severe Wounds may have additional requirements to recover from them.

==Range==
*Touch range is close enough that you could reach out and touch the other character. This does not require you to actually touch them, and you should not touch another player unless you already know they’re comfortable with you doing so.
*Close range is five metres.

==Under Pressure==
Some skills can only be used when not under pressure. If a combat encounter is occurring, you are always under pressure. Some other situations may count - in this case, a ref will inform you.

==Appropriate Roleplaying==
Some skills require appropriate roleplaying. This means that you should act out doing something appropriate to the effect of the skill - for example, if you attend Doctor Gideon Griffiths' Medical Seminars, you can call HEAL with appropriate roleplaying. Examples might include acting out basic first aid that you know, tying bandages around the affected limb, or breaking and re-setting the bone. If you’re doing an effect requiring appropriate roleplaying on a willing target, they are expected to follow your lead as long as doing so isn’t an issue for them.

==Searching==
You can search a fallen foe when not under pressure. To do so, approach to touch range and inform them you’re searching them. They will give you any resources that they have been instructed to drop. You should not touch another player when searching them.

==Calls==
This is a list of the calls that you might hear and what they mean. A call is a word or phrase with a specific OC meaning. If you hear it directed at you, your character takes a specified effect.

Calls might be:
* Used alongside a melee attack, to indicate that the call is associated with that strike.
* Used with a description of a character. E.g. “You in the blue hat! TRIPLE!”
* Used as an area of effect - see the MASS modifier.

Some calls may be preceded by a descriptor for flavour. This is mostly to let you know how to react to it - e.g. LIGHTNING! TRIPLE! might be a blast of electricity, or SPIRIT! TRIPLE!, which attacks your Ghost rather than your body. ''(You still take the damage.)''

===STOP THE GAME===
This is an “emergency stop” call to indicate that there is an OC reason to halt gameplay and sort something out. This can be used for any hazard, not just injury. Lost glasses, a player panicking OC, or someone looking like they’re about to fall backwards over a log are all valid reasons to use the call.
===ZERO===
This effect deals no damage. This can be used if sparring in-character for deliberately non-damaging strikes.
===SINGLE===
This effect deals one point of damage. This is the default for melee weapons, and can be omitted unless it’s needed for clarity.
===DOUBLE===
This effect deals two points of damage.
===TRIPLE===
This effect deals three points of damage.
===SHATTER===
If this hits a shield, it is broken. If it hits a limb, it is ruined and cannot be used until healed. If it hits the torso, take it as DOUBLE.

If delivered by a strike, it hits whatever the strike hit. If it's delivered by ranged call, it hits a shield first, otherwise a limb of your choice, otherwise the torso.

Ruined limbs are unusable and in pain. You must roleplay accordingly. You specifically cannot use a weapon with an arm that has been ruined. If one leg is ruined, you cannot run or walk, only limp. If both legs are ruined, you can’t use them to move, only stand in place.

===IMPALE===
If this hits the torso, lose all of your hits. If it hits a limb, that limb is ruined as if hit by SHATTER.

If delivered by a strike, it hits whatever the strike hits. If delivered by ranged call it hits the torso.

===HEAL===
This effect restores four hit points, or restores a ruined limb of the target’s choice.
===REPEL===
This effect knocks you away. You must move away from the source for 5 seconds. If you block a weapon blow with this effect on your weapon or shield, you must still move away from the source but you are not damaged.
===WEAKNESS===
You cannot attack with weapons for 5 seconds.

Blocking and parrying are fine, as are attacks not delivered by a weapon, such as the SPIRIT TRIPLE call from Tim and Thomas Jones' Nebulism Routines.

===SUPPRESS ===
You cannot make calls for 30 seconds. You can still attack normally for SINGLE. Your Consequences, Wounds, Rite Effects and Relatives are suppressed and have no effect until the end of the encounter.

===Would You Kindly===
This call, which can be inserted into normal conversation, indicates mind control. Your character does their best to obey the command, by default for 30 seconds or until you take damage. When the effect ends, you’re aware that something unusual happened.
===MASS===
This call affects every target within close range. If the user indicates a cone with their arms, it instead affects everyone in that cone within close range.

===RESIST===
This is called to indicate that your call was taken, but had a lessened effect due to an ability. RESISTed calls will always deal at least a SINGLE to the target.

===CURSE===
See a ref at the earliest convenient time, usually after the encounter has ended, and tell them you took this call.

==Equipment==
Everyone can use a single one-handed weapon up to 42".

Everyone can also use a weapon up to 24" (typically a dagger) or a buckler up to 15" diameter in the off-hand.

Weapons 42"-84" can be used by those attending Patrick Jones' Gardening Club. They must be held in two hands while being wielded as a weapon.

A shield can be used in the off-hand by those attending Patrick Jones' Gardening Club. A shield must be held in the hand to function.

Anyone can wear armour for one additional hit point. Armour is anything that makes you look armoured. Anyone raiding The Great-Grand-Scott's Personal Knitwear can instead wear a jumper or cardigan for two additional hit points.

Anyone can carry up to three Poisons at a time.

Events

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The Village

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The Village of Penwick (pronounced Pen-ick) Gorge is a small, peninsular place, surrounded mostly by cliffs above its deep, eponymous gorge. The eldest remember a few brave merchants visiting, but these days none bother, as the only route out is marshy at best and underwater at worst, as the gorge’s flow often overruns the small spit of land connecting it to the wider world. Very few from the village have left over the years, and even fewer have returned or come from outside; those who do tend to arrive bedraggled, muddy, and usually bereft of any large possessions (as no vehicle can safely traverse the marshes).

The village itself is large, bordering on the size of a small town – arguably past that threshold, but the locals have called it a village for generations and harbour no plans to change. It consists of low, rolling hillocks around a rounded central valley; there are sparse vines on the southern hillsides, grown by a long lineage of purely hobbyist vintners. A Penwick vintage is one of the few things visitors have ever heard of, as it tends to be synonymous with very fine – if sparsely supplied – wine.

The other major feature of the village comes from its relationship to the gorge. An old stone bridge runs across it, but vanishes into the mists that rise almost constantly from the river below; the other side is never visible, though on a clear day it does seem that the bridge may be much longer than it seems. Still, no mountains ever peek above mist, so the folks of Penwick are reasonably sure that their modest hills are among the highest around.

Nobody in living memory – or at least, almost nobody – who has crossed the bridge all the way has ever found what lies on the other side. Most whose [[The Oddities|Ghosts]] don't bounce back get turned around in the mists and simply return, though whether this is genuine disorientation or last-minute nerves is a matter of some debate. Still, there is very little reason to cross; nothing ever comes from the other side, so the general opinion is that whatever lies there must be derelict or abandoned.

Besides its sparse orchards, gardens and vineyards, Penwick Gorge is largely sustained by fishing; local legend holds that any rod dipped below the level of the mists will return either with a fish, or with the end bitten clean off. And for generations, that has held true – though lately, fewer have been biting, a fact which concerns the most senior of the village greatly. There are rumours that the coming winter may well tax the village’s stockpiles, and some eyes are turning to the lower rungs of each family tree to make their names crossing the bridge in search of food.

Don’t worry, though. They’ll make sure you’re wrapped up warmly before you have to go.

===Law and Order===
Penwick is a generally law abiding place with a low crime rate (outside Scott Manor anyway). If a villager has a complaint against another, their first port of call is the head of the family of the perpetrator - Granny Ash Griffiths, Grandfather Clarence Jones or the Great-Grand-Scott - who are all reachable by letter. The accused will be judged by their head and restitution made as and if they see fit.

Should a villager be unsatisfied with the judgement of a family head, they can ask for a tribunal of the heads of all three families, but this is a rare occurrence.

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Many actions you might take in-character might require you to contact a ref about it. If you want us to record your character and their backstory, please let the refs know too.
* If you're at an event, simply tell one of the refs in person.
* Online, Discord is the preferred method of communication; the society discord is found [https://discord.gg/AXT28RJqrR HERE].
* You can email the refs at larp-refs@srcf.net.

How to contact the Refs

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Many actions you might take in-character might require you to contact a ref about it. If you want us to record your character and their backstory, please let the refs know too.
* If you're at an event, simply tell one of the refs in person.
* Online, Discord is the preferred method of communication; the society discord is found [https://discord.gg/AXT28RJqrR HERE].
* You can email the refs at larp-refs@srcf.net.

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Poison

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#redirect [[Poisons]]

Character Advancement

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Characters don't advance by gaining extra activities (there's no more time in the week!), but they can improve in other ways.

===Activity Improvement===
Investing resources found over the Bridge in to the activity of your choice can improve what it teaches. This will be a slow and gradual process though.

===Poisoins===
It's known that more exotic ingredients fed to a [[Poison]] will cause it to have more powerful effects. Those that attend Evan Jones' workshop can particularly benefit from this.

===Rites===
[[Rites]] are mixed bags, allowing you to "sharpen" your ghost. What is known is that Rites always involve giving something up to gain something, but can allow you to become more specialised.

===Haruspicy===
The backing of a good ancestor can give you extra abilities. If you can reshape your family tree via [[Haruspicy]] to fit them in.