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Initiate
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| Topic says it all really. I was hoping if those with some experience could share some tips on how this is possible and any pitfalls to avoid. Thanks in advance.
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Prodigal
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As an occasional event first aider - please make sure the first aid team know.
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Also, please make sure the ref team know. It's common sense to make sure that monsters/crew and other players know that you'll be a non-combatant, and why.
Some events aren't suitable for non-combatants and will not allow pregnant women to play, which is fair enough really. Staying out of fights is just another one of those things, like staying off of rollercoasters and avoiding soft cheese...
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We had a member of our club want to play whilst pregnant, its a combat heavy system and we found most of our members wernt happy to go into combat with her 'just in case'. In the end she attended and scociaised most of the time and only played NPC parts which would be stickly non combat.
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It also depends on how pregnant you are. One player at a system I reffed wanted to turn up to an event a short time before her due date. Since it was at a site in the middle of nowhere, our first aid staff told her she couldn't play, as they had no desire to deliver a baby should it choose that weekend to arrive!
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| When I have been pregnant (twice) I haven't live roleplayed, just in case. I think it is a personal choice* but my thinking on it was, even if I wasn't a combatant, shit happens and I wanted to keep that to a minimum (as much as you can) I fully appreciate you're pregnant not ill, but I chose to step out for my own peace of mind as well as I didn't want to spoil** other people's fun by making them (potentially) nervous/worried/apprehensive to swing swords rough and tumble around a pregnant person. I fuly appreciate in the real world you take it as it comes but from my own point of view I thought I'd just not bother, to be honest I wasn't that bothered about larping when feeling like something out of aliens, so it was no great sacrifice to not go *given it is permitted within the system **potentially, nobody said anything negative, this is purely my own thoughts on the matter I really want to stress this.
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Heroic Knight
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| I can't see any reason why you cant go play matey, as you say its NOT an illness. Some good advice above!!! and if you think you can handle pissed twits rp in your face whilst sobre lol your better than me and im a bloke....which CAN be an illness At the end of the day Risk is anywhere you go and as long as you have a few buddies around to make sure your ok..go for it. Just don't take it personally if event organiser try to put you off going to their events, its usally cause their worried for you!! Congrats by the way!!
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Sikorski (6/29/2008)
but I chose to step out for my own peace of mind as well as I didn't want to spoil** other people's fun by making them (potentially) nervous/worried/apprehensive to swing swords rough and tumble around a pregnant person.
I think it's a fairly valid point. In theory, if you chose to attend an event and what would otherwise be a minor accident leads to a miscarriage that's a liability you're competent to decide for yourself. However, it seems unlikely that other players would be willing to relinquish responsibility for the normal risks entailed in larping around someone if they were pregnant (the fallout if someone did go wrong is fairly scary even if you don't know the people involved). Outside of events where the are no weapons/people running about, I'd be inclined to treat (visibly) pregnant women and babies/toddlers the same way I treat any other 'unsafe physrep' (rickety gas fires/ares with broken glass) - give them a 20 foot clearance wherever possible.
As for pregnancy not being an illness, technically it's a parasite (foreign tissue) and a bloody aggressive one at that (can't think of a great many parasites which put as much strain on the human body as a baby - it's somewhere between parasitic infection and a tumour). I did a presentation covering parent-child genetic conflict a while back and the behaviour of the mammalian placenta is very reminscent of Aliens (literally burrows into the womb lining until it hits its the areas which control bloodflow and neutralises maternal control, then it starts pumping enormous amounts of hormones into the mother's blood supply, like a biochemical cuckoo). Terrifying. Surrogacy is definitely the way forwards.
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| I larped and re enacted whilst pregnant with all 3 of my "parasitic infections" and they were all fine, it is down to personal choice and the system you are running, i agree that it is a good idea to inform first aid/crew just in case anything does happen. but as a general rule try to stick to just the mid trimester, no risk of miscarriage and no risk of early labour feel free to drop a pm if you would like further info And Marios, no offence but most owmen would prefer you didnt refer to their darlings as "somewhere between parasitic infection and a tumour" Thanks xx
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