Safety in Daemon
The philosophy of Narrators Inc. (the larp organiser Katrine Wind is part of) is that self-care comes first. We expect you to take responsibility for your own experience and well-being. That means stating your needs, boundaries and using the safety mechanics if you need it as well as asking for help if necessary. You can count on everybody else – players and team – being expected to do the same in this larp.
Safety is of utmost importance to the organisational team both because we want everybody to feel good but a feeling of safety is also necessary because of what we want to enable you to do: Be brave in your interactions with your co-players and get the most out of the Daemon to share a powerful experience.
To create a feeling of safety, we will build The House of Bravery together. The foundation of the house is built on communication, transparency, expectation management and explicit code-of-conduct on this website.
To further enable bravery and build the house, we provide both a floor of what you can always do and a ceiling of the upper limits of certain interactions. You can make sure that your co-players stay within this house meaning that you don’t have to calibrate with anyone beforehand to do things “below the floor” and don’t have to fear they will do anything “above the ceiling”.
The House of Bravery
The floor
Please note that the larp will feature physical interactions and a good baseline of what you should be okay with could be a stranger touching your arm, shouting at you, holding your hand or kissing you on the cheek. If you are not comfortable with this in general, Daemon is probably not a larp for you.
Players can choose that their characters act in violent or sensual ways, experience dramatic breakdowns or suffer mortifying humiliation. Daemon is a larp containing both light and dark themes, and it can include triggering subjects such as violence, oppression, abandonment, gaslighting, controlling behaviour, PTSD and war crimes. You will NEVER be forced into this kind of play, if you don’t want to. You can always leave a situation and you are always in control of your own body! However, you can be sure that everyone who signed up knew that these themes could appear in Daemon and that they might be played out while they are present.
So be brave and play on them if it fits your larp. You will not be stopped off-game from playing these scenes no matter who is present as long as you stay within “The House”, and you don’t have to ask any bystander’s permission to do so.
The ceiling
Physical play
No offgame sex is allowed at any time during the event and nudity is not allowed while in play. Torso and bikini areas need to be covered for all genders.
If you get to a point where you want your characters to actually have sex, you will have to go into a private space and fade to black. i.e. go off-game and talk about what happens between your characters in the scene. For sensual play beyond the baseline (a stranger touching your arms or shoulders) you need to calibrate with your co-player. This includes for example discussing how comfortable you are with embraces. Regardless of calibration the limit is not touching anyone’s genital areas.
Sexual violence is not a theme in Daemon.
Fights and physical altercations should always be escalated to slowly and if needed with short calibration. Since we have different playing cultures as players, there will be workshops of how to use the word “off-game” for one-line calibration in the middle of a scene, escalating slowly, leaving situations and calibrating with respect to everyone’s wishes for degree of off-game agreements when we do things that get nearer to the ceiling.
Players who wish for their characters to engage in showy stunt fights can agree to do so but carefully choreographed stunt fighting is not required to have a good experience at Daemon. There will be a practice element in the workshops for those who wish to engage in this kind of play.
No offgame discrimination!
Sexism, racism, body shaming, non-consensual sexual behaviour and bullying based on offgame traits are strictly forbidden at this larp.
Assume the best of others
We always encourage you to assume the best about others. This will be an international larp, and we probably all have different larp cultures. Be observant and empathetic of cultural differences. If someone states a boundary, don’t be scared or feel bad. They are helping you and themself by taking care and then you can both move on.
Offgame Room and Player Support
There is an offgame room available in Korpikoti where you can take offgame breaks at any time during the event. Furthermore, there will be a designated player support person who is separate from the design and practical organizing of the event and the game.