Hey Survivors! We have a few updates going forwards for DR:CO logistics. Read below for new info about Waivers, Weapon Safety Checks, Star Line Passes, and an additional opportunity built into our Dishes Network incentive.

New Waivers

As we have just renewed our liability insurance, all attendees will need to sign a new waiver at or after the July event, even if they just filled one out at the June event. Players under 18 will need to have their guardian/relative signing those waivers as well. Don’t worry about printing anything out: we will have plenty of waivers available at Public Works before you get your character sheets.

Weapon Safety Checks

Hey everyone, here's an announcement from Aidan, our Safety Guide, for weapons checks starting at our July event:

All weapons must be checked by a weapons safety guide. It doesn't matter if you have been playing with them for years already, if it doesn't have a tag written in the past few months, it needs to be checked. This includes traveling players and senior players/guides.
All weapons (carded or not) must be tagged and labeled with the month and year they were checked. After a year, they need to be rechecked for damages.
There will be a set weapons check location and starting time. For the July 2023 event, it will be in the Saloon (dining hall) from 7-8pm.
If you are arriving late or otherwise can't make the weapon check time, you can either find a weapons guide (you can be directed to one by the post office) to check your weapon once you arrive or you can use NPC camp weapons until yours have been checked.

Dishes Network Update

In addition to the Dishes Tokens, LCs and SCs may now use Chits at the exact same exchange rate. Chits are painted, flattened bottle caps with their player number on the front, a reference to how they received the Chit, and a code on the back.

Players may have received Chits in the past, and could receive Chits in the future, for:

Participating in a Virtual Event (during the pandemic) and purchasing a Goodie Bag
Participating in a Voting Incentive
Purchasing a Star Line Pass or Reserved Cabin (some of these have not been created or distributed, but will be)
Other incentives as decided by the owners

Like Dishes Tokens, Chits can be traded between characters, but since they were given to the player they can be exchanged between a player’s own characters. Also like Dishes Tokens, they may be sold or traded, but cannot be stolen without consent.

Unlike the Dishes Tokens, Chits will be returned to their players at the end of a season or the beginning of the next season to be reused. DR:CO has kept a record of all Chits that have been created and distributed, as well as those that are still to be distributed.

Chits may have other exchange opportunities in the future as well, as was done in the past (e.g. certain Chits were redeemed for skirmisher units in the Pure Blood War in 2021).

Star Line Pass (Donated Tickets) Update

We have been so fortunate to receive so many donated tickets from generous players, which has allowed many of our players to attend when they wouldn’t otherwise be able to. As thanks for the continuing support of this program (and continuing this program), we will be rewarding CAPs at $1 -> 1 CAP rate for every purchase of a Star Line Pass or a Reserved Cabin…which honestly, we should have done from the inception of the program, so we’ll be applying it retroactively all the way to May 2020 when we started.

In addition, each donated ticket earns the benefactor a special numbered Chit. This was the intent of the program from the beginning as well, but executive dysfunction has caused a lag on these, and so far only 25% of the chits have been handed out to their recipients. We will be rectifying this shortly! The Chits may be used as described in the previous update.

We look forward to seeing you at the next event! Get all the checkin details here.