Our June Premiere Event, Dogs of War, is a unique event with special NPC requirements to simulate large battles and a need to accommodate different levels of immersion. As such, we’re creating a unique ticket structure. Please review this announcement thoroughly to select the ticket right for you.
Pre-Sales
Prior to the event, we will open up applications for two ticket types: Trained Survivors and Accommodations. An announcement will go out on Friday, April 7, along with a form, so that players can apply for these tickets.
Trained Survivor tickets are primarily reserved for former military members and other individuals with applicable training to a larp warfare scenario. We’re selecting 12 applicants to be part of a special NPC team to support combat-intensive scenes. If selected, you will do a total of 12 hours of NPC work at predetermined times. You also will receive a comped ticket with full Build at no cost, as well as all Perks, including Early Bird, Hard-Core, and Survival Bag (see below).
Accommodations are for people who need a reasonable accommodation to participate. This is primarily for people with medical conditions or disabilities other than those that require med sleep (med sleep does not need to apply for accommodations). You will go through a special process to make sure we get you the ticket appropriate to your needs, with whatever perks would normally apply to those tickets. Note: Accommodations will not be used to reserve NPC Opt-Out Tickets.
Early-Bird Sales
On Tuesday, May 2nd, Early Bird tickets will go on sale for four days, through Friday, May 5. This will be your only opportunity to buy Opt-Out, Hard-Core, and Early Bird tickets. Multiple types of these tickets will be available, so please select the one that works best for you:
Opt-Out. We will have 16 Opt-Out tickets available for $100. These tickets will receive the Early Bird and Survival Bag perks and are eligible for Do Work Get Paid (see below). Opt-Out Tickets can choose whether they want the Full Immersion or General Admission experience without coordination.
Hard-Core. We will have 25 Hard-Core tickets available for $45. These tickets will receive the Early Bird, Hard-Core, Survival Bag, and Do Work Get Paid perks (see below). You have to sign up for 8 hours of NPC during our Prime-Time Hours (see below) and opt into full immersion by sleeping in tents near the A-Frame Friday night.
Full Immersion. We will have 80 Full Immersion tickets available for $65. These tickets will receive the Early Bird and Survival Bag perks and are eligible for Do Work Get Paid (see below). You have to sign up for 4 hours of NPC during our Prime-Time Hours and opt into sleeping in tents near the A-Frame Friday night.
General Admission. We will have an unlimited number of General Admission tickets available for $65. These tickets will receive the Early Bird perk and are eligible for Do Work Get Paid (see below). These tickets have no restrictions on which NPC shifts they choose, or where they sleep. Note: if you do not sleep in tents by the A-Frame, you must sleep Out-Of-Character Friday night.
General Admission Sales
After the Early Bird closes, we will re-open General Admission tickets on Thursday, May 19th. No perks will be available. At our discretion, we may include Full Immersion tickets with the Survival Bag perk.
NPC Shifts
We will have two types of NPC shifts available for this event. Prime-Time shifts are when we have combat-intensive modules: expect to fight during these NPC shifts. Standard shifts will have a normal mix of combat and role-play modules. If you select Hard-Core or Full-Immersion, all your NPC shifts must be Prime-Time shifts (if you’re a Trained Survivor, you can expect all your time to be during the Prime-Time shifts).
Guides
Guides may select either a Hard-Core, Full Immersion, or General Admission ticket. Their discount will apply normally and they will perform a guide shift as appropriate. Guides who select the Hard-Core option can expect to perform as an NPC for the remaining four hours of their shift.
Perks
With additional NPC work and more complicated options, we’ve come up with several kinds of perks to reward you:
Early Bird - All Early Bird participants will receive the normal benefits (priority when we expand NPC shifts, a bunk slip your friends can use to save a bed, and a special Early Bird Item and ZOM). In addition, all Early Bird participants will receive a free National Print, released at this event.
Hard Core - Hard-Core tickets will receive a Festering Crystal and 100 CAPs (in addition to the Early Bird, Survival Bag, and Do Work Get Paid perks).
Survival Bag - Any individual who buys a Full Immersion Ticket will receive a local item card: a Requiem Go-Bag.
Do Work Get Paid - Players receive the following voucher: Turn in for 1 free Tier 1 Family Item from any NPC Family OR voucher counts as 20 Wagers towards the cost of a Family Item you are eligible to purchase. Expires at the end of the event. Three groups get the Do Work Get Paid perk:
Hard-Core ticket holders.
Players who have purchased a ticket for the DRNY May Event prior to purchasing their Dogs of War ticket.
Players who will be traveling more than 300 miles to the event.
Summary
That’s a lot of information, so here’s a table of tickets, when they’re sold, the cost, and the perks associated with them.
* See perk
** Available at staff’s discretion