lydamorehouse | (Reply)

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*hugs*

I was thinking along these lines. The particular scenario isn't a thing that would have occurred to anyone to put as a line. The reason it's a problem is genocide, but it's not a plot about genocide. The GM didn't intend it as such, everyone interpreted it as such, and I don't see any way that a Lines and Veils system could have prevented that particular landmine.

Consent and safety tools are even more engrained in LARP because the consequences for triggering someone in that environment are typically more dire because of how immersive it is. And also because, to put it bluntly, LARP is a rape-fest at a structural level, most LARPers don't want to play in a feeding ground for predators, and they just pile rules and consent on top of the game in the hopes that this will somehow prevent this. In my experience, though, nearly every larger LARP I've been involved with has become a rape-fest anyway. It turns out that you can make all the rules you want, but rules are not magic and you cannot foresee ways in which either a well-intentioned person will trigger someone or a nefariously intentioned person will get around the rules.

I don't have a solution, just...this is not the only time I've seen consent rules retroactively applied and I've never seen it help.