How modern are we?

[John!]

I can just tell you guys now, this game takes place in the woods like the for real woods. With like wild animals, things like flashlights can warn wild animals that your coming and lets them beat feet so you don't surprise them.

Not only do flashlights work, they're highly encouraged for your safety!

[Eden Jones]

[quote="John!"]I can just tell you guys now, this game takes place in the woods like the for real woods. With like wild animals, things like flashlights can warn wild animals that your coming and lets them beat feet so you don't surprise them.

Not only do flashlights work, they're highly encouraged for your safety! [/quote]

If I get killed by a bear, John, I am so haunting you

[Coco]

To answer Kevin's specific questions!

[quote="Tesla"]Flashlights? Tromping around in the woods is such a pain with just a glowstick. Plus it's so atmosphereic to catch a glimpse of the monster in a flashlight beam[/quote]

As John mentioned, flashlights are a good idea and are encouraged due to the presence of OOG wildlife. As Brendan mentioned, no one likes getting a flashlight to the face so keep that in mind, filter your lights, and don't aim them above waist level if possible.

[quote="Tesla"]MP-3 Players? Some of them can receive FM radio, but most are just so you can have your theme music playing as you sneak through the woods (And what monster doesn't love sneaking up to someone oblivious wearing earbuds)[/quote]

Monsters sneaking up on oblivious people? That'd never happen! But music players of all varieties (walkman thru iPhone 5) are allowed if you're willing to risk LARPing with them. Be advised if you're planning on using a smart phone as a music player that the music playing functions work properly (most of the time), but the cell phone/wireless internet/communications parts of the device would NOT function properly IG under the Weirdness of Whisper Hill clause already mentioned. [b]Please remember to turn your ringers off if you plan on carrying a phone.[/b] Put it on silent if possible. We'd like to avoid calls or texts coming in during tense RP moments. Trying to pick up FM frequencies (unless otherwise noted) results in that sort of static you get when you're three notches away from a station and can barely hear something, but that's as close as you get.

[quote="Tesla"]Tablet or Laptop? (Not for walking around in the woods. You'd have to be crazy to risk it getting dropped/smacked. But more for note taking, typing up a journal story and Angry Birds back at the cabins)[/quote]

Tablets and laptops function properly (most of the time) in Whisper Hill as far as games and data entry are concerned. Picking up the internet either via wi-fi or 3G/4G doesn't seem to work--the device doesn't get a signal. Please use common sense with these items and remember that NO location will be COMPLETELY safe! Use at your own risk.

[quote="Tesla"]Hiker's GPS system? Mostly to keep people from getting lost in the woods.[/quote]

As a GPS system wirelessly triangulates from satellites, this device would not function in game. You can have one OOG if you're really worried about getting lost in the woods, but there should be no reason for people to wander off into the woods without plot and players are discouraged from doing so for safety! Don't worry, the camp is clearly delineated and plenty large for shenanigans!

[quote="Tesla"]Binoculars? Spot the Bluebird, spot the Mi-Go, run like crazy[/quote]

No wireless components: Analog binoculars work fine, digital ones work most of the time.

[quote="Tesla"]I would also suggest the banning of two items.
Cameras should be ok, but No Flash photography at night. It would be dangerous for NPCs to get blinded
Two, no bluetooth connected items. Should be covered under the same Interference preventing the communications. So no bluetooth video cameras planted along the trail or the back of the cabin

And of course, this is all with the understanding that you don't bring anything you don't want to see lost/broken. Because that happens at LARPS and you only have yourself to blame if it does[/quote]

Correct, correct, correct. Remember! Please get permission to photograph people before you do.

[Doom]

A question came up at the event: Can we take pictures of in-game documents as back ups in case said documents are stolen? I used my hacker terminal to take pics of the reactor plans in case someone stole them before we solved the math puzzle. Later, as predicted, the plans disappeared (they turned up eventually). None of us were sure if my copies were actually valid / allowed, so we didn't use them. Can someone from staff weigh in on this?

Thanks in advance!
Dan Doom

[Jacob]

Off the cuff and before jury deliberations are out: "Probably not" is the answer, as we make people jump through hoops to use cameras in general and this wouldn't be any different for any reason I can see. We tend to have people "develop" the photos between games by submitting them to our illustrious illustrators and such...

[Greige]

I'm going to add to this and ask if the no-cell phones also applies to those using them as a "terminal"? Might be a silly question, but I'm asking anyway.

[Jacob]

If you're using it as a terminal you can use it as a terminal--you just can't use it as a phone.

[Rhyan]

[quote="Jacob"]
[quote]On the one hand, any signal broadcast over the electromagnetic spectrum seems to degrade and break down very rapidly. Radio signals from outside, cellular phones, wi-fi--anything of that nature is rendered more or less useless.[/quote][/quote]

What about a Class 3 Bluetooth earpiece (Range ~1meter). It has too short of a range to do anything sneaky and the way the above is written it looks like it may still be viable. The only thing a device like that would be good for is listening to music, but that's my schtick so I pose the question

[Jacob]

If you want to effectively listen to music OOG, that's fine. For fluff purposes, your character would probably have some serious issues getting that to work.

[Rhyan]

noted, thank you.