About

About

"Only in Death does Duty End" - 'Searching Souls' is an unofficial fan-made LARP set in the Warhammer 40k universe.


Premise

Several Imperial Guard units are recovering and retraining on the Agri World ‘Trebatha’ in the Tertius sub-sector.

The local Planetary Defence Force are few and poorly trained and wary of the ‘professional’ Imperial Guard.

An Inquisitor comes to visit from the ‘Ordo Hereticus’.

Everyone understandably is on edge.

 

Play style


In common with most UKLTA events this will be an 'open world' LARP where the players are presented with a situation once in the in-character area and left to roleplay through it organically. We do not run rigidly structured 'linears', the players may freely move about and the game and crew will adapt to them.

This LARP is primarily PvE (Player vs Environment) as opposed to PvP (Player vs Player), not to say there won’t be some inter-group strife to resolve but the game is written to be primarily collaborative in nature. How this plays out is down to the players. We will have a dedicated crew to provide opposition and sundry non-player characters.

There will be a mix of problem solving and tactical ranged combat using the UKLTA's safe and well proven outdoor Laser-Tag technology to resolve ranged combat. While there will be some LARP-safe weapons in the game, it is essentially non-contact. There are very few traditional LARP 'calls' as the Laser-Tag tech handles counting hits and so on.

Timings

The final schedule for "Only in Death Does Duty End - Searching Souls" is...

Friday evening

  • 15:00 Crew arrival (onward)
  • 17:00 Player Arrival (onward)
  • 19:00 Dinner (if pre-booked)
  • 19:30 Crew briefing
  • 20:00 Player briefing and time in
  • 23:30 Time out

Saturday morning

  • 08:30 Breakfast (if pre-booked)
  • 09:30 Crew briefing
  • 10:00 Time in
  • 14:00 Break for lunch
  • 14:30 Lunch (if pre-booked)

Saturday afternoon

  • 15:00 Crew briefing
  • 15:30 Resume play
  • 18:30 Break for dinner
  • 19:00 Dinner (if pre-booked)

Saturday evening

  • 19:30 Crew briefing
  • 20:00 Resume Play
  • 23:30 Time out

Sunday morning

  • 08:30 Breakfast (if pre-booked)
  • 09:30 Crew briefing
  • 10:00 Time in
  • 14:00 Time out

...following feedback from Dropzone this is more detailed, with times for crew briefings, when we have asked The Grange to cater during the breaks and so on.

Note: all times are subject to change as needed to make the game flow.

This will be pinned up in various places on a (poster) and we will endeavour to announce times including any changes on Discord and in the UKLTA FB group, but we will be doing that manually so don't rely on it.

Our events are split in to sections as above and we go completely out of character during breaks for meals etc. then expect people to pick up where they left off in the next session. We'll fit this around events in the game and GM/crew readiness so these times aren't set in stone.


If you go offsite for food or to run other errands between sections please be back in time for the next as we won't halt the game for you.

Players


Player characters will mostly be Imperial Guard, from Tanith, Cadian, Krieg, or Catachan regiments, but can also include Tech Priest, Psyker, Navigator, Commissar, Rogue Trader, Adeptus Arbites, Ecclesiatical Priest, Adepta Sororitas, and of course the Inquisitor. Player places will be strictly limited. Other player characters, may be considered contact the main Games Organiser.

There will be no player Space Marine characters!

If you are new to UKLTA we will loan you a weapon and sensor to play with. For players there will be a £10 returnable cash deposit per item for this.

Crew


We would love people to join our crew.

If you have any further questions not answered on this site please contact us.



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