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-<fc #e37700>**Player Ticket:**</fc> £70  (Includes Gun Hire and Partial Catering)
+<fc #e37700>**Player Ticket:**</fc> £75  (Includes Gun Hire and Partial Catering, £55 if you have your own gun and headband, £60 with your own gun)
 <fc #e37700>**Crew Ticket:**</fc>  Free (and Full Catering)
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-<fc #e37700>**To book onto an event contact the ref team either through the Facebook group or via <refs@thezonelarp.co.uk>\\
+<fc #e37700>**To book onto an event contact the ref team either through the Facebook group or via <refs@thezonelarp.co.uk>**</fc>
-We do not use a booking form and there is currently no limit on player places for any event.\\
-Crewing is free and catered, please contact the ref team if you wish to crew. Crewing is predominantly about the gun combat, but there are roleplay opportunities as well.\\
-We may also be seeking an additional writer/referee at some point in 2024.**</fc>
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-<fs xx-large><fc #e37700>**Event 11 Rumours**</fc></fs>
+<fs xx-large><fc #e37700>**Event 18 Rumours**</fc></fs>
-Another 8 weeks has gone by, and almost everyone has spent them waiting for the other shoe to drop. There have been no more artillery bombardments, but if the military are willing to use weapons like that who knows what they will move on to next. Security around the inner perimeter has tightened considerably, anyone venturing that far towards the centre has reported that troop numbers have roughly doubled over the last reported levels. The assumption seems to be that the perceived threat level has risen drastically but no-one has any real idea why.\\
+Several factions and organised freelancer groups have carried out some quite public executions of what they are claiming were Government infiltrators. It isn't clear how they were identified, but it does seem to be a strange coincidence that several happened within a couple of weeks of each other.\\
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-Freelancers with contacts among the factions have reported that some of them have been far harder to contact, or have outright disappeared. Rumour has it that several senior members of each of the factions have died or disappeared and that the rest are battening down the hatches against the perceived enemy. Some have suggested that this is the much-anticipated military response and that rather then open gunfights the military have chosen to quietly remove senior leaders from any organised group. Vague reports of chaos among some larger bandit gangs suggest it isn't just the factions being targeted. Anyone frequenting a bar during this period will notice a subtle increase in security precautions and a lot more obvious guns lying around right where a barkeep could easily reach them.\\
+The Truthers in particular have been displaying a very uncharacteristic level of brutality, with two members being taken out of a base camp and nailed to nearby trees before being shot dead 24 hours later. A couple of Awakened watching over the Truther camp reported that both victims had wounds on their left forearms consistent with something being cut out of them.\\
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-Wild tales about objects appearing out of thin air have been getting more and more frequent. Most commonly, oil drums have been appearing between 70 and 120cm above the ground before dropping to the floor. There have been one or two unfortunate accidents where the appearance prompted gunfire and some freelancers caught stray rounds.\\
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-Rumours are flying around about a potential new disease. A couple of people from the Truthers faction have been spreading the word that a degenerative condition that attacks the internal organs is spread by skin contact. The Truthers have been at great pains to point out that a cure is imminent, and several people have offered to put resources towards such an endeavour. A few others have connected the new disease to the thefts of livers and there have been renewed calls to track down the organ thief and put an end to them. The name Jason has been bandied about more than once.
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+A former corporate security officer turned freelancer has been telling tales of a band of freelancers that assaulted his employers and forced him to flee (hence his abrupt career change). He doesn't bear any particular ill will, business is business, but he is telling a curious tale about a red sky hitting them all mid-fight. The freelancers outside the buildings all collapsed, as would be expected, but when the red sky ended they all got up again. The tale has gotten a little outlandish in the re-telling, but the core fact remains. Someone has the means to survive the red sky. Tech like that is worth a fortune...\\
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+Yet another in a long line of religious cults has flared up, but in this case it doesn't appear to be locals suddenly finding religion, rather a group of fanatics has made their way into the Zone and set themselves up here. Very few people have encountered them directly but those who have met them say they seem to be a pleasant enough bunch, and nowhere near as evangelical as others have been.\\
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+<fs xx-large><fc #e37700>**Event 18 Rumours**</fc></fs>
+Elias is finally dead. The Bars have reported that their collective bounty has been claimed and the proof of death was considered highly reliable. He was reportedly found in the last of the grey masks and has been identified using the only known photograph of him. Concerns have been raised amongst some more long-standing Zone residents that Elias's list of complaints is still outstanding and it's only a matter of time before someone else steps up.\\
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+Scavengers have reported several dead combatants around a destroyed container. They were a strange mix of soldiers, freelancers and a couple of known faction members, but they all had some kind of device implanted at the base of their skull. The scavengers have sold the devices on, but have been quite free with the story of what they found.\\
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+The trio of German influencers appears to be no more. A very substantial bounty was raised on them, and two of the three bounties were collected very, very quickly. The hunt is on for the third influencer but a great many freelancers have said they will not make any attempt on this bounty. Quiet enquiries are being made as to who raised the bounty on three unarmed entirely harmless civilians.\\
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+An as yet unidentified individual has been distributing bacon sandwiches at various freelancer hangouts and outside the Bar. It isn't clear why, what they hoped to gain by this or where they got the bacon. The last question is proving to be the main sticking point, with the saga of the lamb salesmen suddenly looming large in people's minds and those who consumed the sandwiches are suddenly rather concerned at their own lack of foresight.
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