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 <fs large><fc #e37700>**Ticket Price:**</fc></fs>
-<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 12 Rumours**</fc></fs>
+<fs xx-large><fc #e37700>**Event 18 Rumours**</fc></fs>
-Several factions have reported attacks by groups of masked fighters. The masks are a mid-grey and completely conceal the features. It isn't clear if the attacks had any goal other than murder and mayhem. Nothing was stolen and no significant property damage was recorded. Initial reports that casualties were high have been proven wrong, largely because the attacks were on faction bases so they had resources aplenty to heal people taken down in the fighting, but a significant number of injuries were caused. All efforts to identify the attackers or establish an ideology have failed. Bounties have been posted for information, with the Bars matching any bounty posted by a faction one for one.\\
+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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-It took some time for news to filter south but Elias appears to have scored a major win, with a bar in the far north of the Zone utterly destroyed by an explosive device. It's unclear if there were any survivors among the bar staff but there 5 dead, alongside 19 dead freelancers. There are no known survivors of the attack, which was reported by a High Roller going to the bar to trade.\\
+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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-Whilst nothing has yet been posted in any bars, there are vague rumours someone is willing to pay a high price for the head of Jason The Liver Thief. It is unclear who this is or what they look like, but descriptions suggest a grim-looking ex-soldier with multiple scars and a haunted stare.\\
+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 12 After Action Report**</fc></fs>
+<fs xx-large><fc #e37700>**Event 18 Rumours**</fc></fs>
-The weekend just past appears to have been marked by an unprecedented escalation in violence.\\
+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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-Around 50-60 bandits were found clustered around what appears to have been some kind of meeting spot. They all had significant combat injuries and had then been shot in the head execution style. Some trackers are reporting that maybe 3 or 4 people managed to crawl out of the area and treat their injuries. It is unclear what the massacre was about but the common theory is that someone tried to track down Elias or the Cleaners and things got out of hand.\\
+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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-A similar slaughter of military personnel happened at some ruined farm buildings near the military cordon. Again, reports are very unclear as to what happened here, only that there were around 30 military bodies all shot execution style. Trackers in the area did not stay long though, an armoured unit rolled into the area quite soon after and the locals made themselves scarce. No-one had enough time to establish what was going on there, but all evidence indicates an intense gunfight. The rattled state of the troops in the armoured unit suggest someone got away with something they weren't supposed to.\\
+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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-A third massacre happened at what seemed to be the surface access point to an underground corporate facility. From a distance there seemed to be the same execution style deaths, residue from smoke weapons and significant damage to the buildings. Anyone who tried to get close to look further (and any looters...) found themselves waking up some distance away, thoroughly confused. When they went back the bodies were gone, along with any visible damage to the buildings. No-one dared to get close after that.\\
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-Three agents of Elias were captured at various bars as newly-installed security measures exposed them before they could carry out their plots. All three were interrogated by people present at the time, but no-one is sharing any information. The various bounties open on Elias have increased considerably. All three agents are now believed to be dead. \\
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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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