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"Okay people, this is definitely not Kansas, heads up, weapons hot, and stay frosty!" |
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The term "LRP" meaning "Live Role Playing", sometimes called "LARP" ("A" for "Action") refers to the type of games which are like taking on a role in a computer game or movie, but where you really have to do the things your character wants to, but without the benifit of a script, or the hinderance of an audiance, apart from your fellow players. You playy a "character", with a different name and background history to your own, necessary if you need to survive death!
Great effort is taken to ensure the suspension of disbelief by maximising realism. The authenticity of the venue, the weapons, uniforms, insignia and general atmosphere, draws you in deep to the illusion that you really are working for the United Nations Star Gate Command, in their most secret and vital project to save the world.
To add to the realism, these guns are perfect plastic and metal replicas of genuine firearms, with replaceable magazines, varrying in capacity from around 40-100 rounds, depending upon model, which means you have to master the art of fire control and weapons handling. The guns can be fitted with optical sights, including night vision devices, torches, bipods and other accessories. We even have so-called "fragmentation" grenades and command fired "Claymore" mines to make things interesting, plus smoke grenades for signaling and concealment. These grenades and mines are standard commercially available paintball accessories supplied for use with BB's, which meet our stringent safety requirements, see our Rules and Regulations pages, via the links below.

The bunker staff can provide genorous meals and other refreshments available to buy in the base's Mess Hall. There are excellent toilets and hot showers available within the bunker complex. There are bunk beds in the dorm's, or as the base is quite large, being originally designed to house 600 personnel, there is, consequently plenty of space for you to bring your own camp bed/matress, and find yourself some privacey. The base is of course warm, dry and well lit.
And what do the public visiting the bunker make of it all? Well they love it, having very heavily armed military type characters "actually" doing things makes the setting really come alive for them. For our part, having the public around makes the base seem far more active than it would otherwise be. We simply write the public in to the background of our scenarios as other base personnel going about their own business. Surprisingly it works rather well, most of the time we don't even notice that the public are there.
We have three actual fighting areas outside of the bunker, which itself is a "safe zone". The closest is a woodland area on the same land as the bunker itself that is used by a commercial paintball company during the day, which is used for some night fighting and a few daylight missions. Nearby is a grassland zone that we alone use, complete with trenches and foxholes. Over the nearby road, on another section of land owned by the bunker is our own dedicated fighting area. This is a mixture of woodland and grassland. In addition we are constantly looking for alternative playing sites to add variety to the campaign.
Full Weekend Rate £45.00. This covers all accommodation, and site fees for the whole weekend from Friday to Sunday.
Half Weekend Rate £25.00. This covers one nights accommodation, and site fees for either the period from Friday to 17:00 on the Saturday, or from 17:00 on the Saturday to 18:00 on the Sunday.
For those unable to stay overnight, there are three "Walk-On" rates to cover site fees:
Saturday Full Day Walk-On (10:00-00:00): £25.00.
Saturday or Sunday Daytime Only Walk-On (10:00-17:00): £20.00.
Saturday Evening Only Walk-On (17:00-00:00): £10.00.
Some special events are subject to a surcharge to cover their increased costs, such as the Regimental Dinner, which is an extra £17.00. Details will be given on the Diary pages for any surcharges.
If you need the loan of a protective mask for the event, there is no additional charge. We do not hold stocks of loan costumes, weapons etc., but members will lend or hire out their own spare kit to new players if requested in advance.
Pyrotechnics, ammunition and other supplies (badges, metal ribbons etc.) are normally available on site at very low prices for our members.
You will need to either bring your own cold food/rations (sorry no cooking within the Bunker), or sufficient funds to purchase it as and when you want to buy it from the Mess Hall. Below is a guide to meal costs. The Mess Hall is open for business between 10:00-17:00.
Full English Breakfast: £5.00.
Main Meal, e.g. Steak & Kidney Pudding, Peas and Chips: £4.00
Cooked Snacks, e.g. Burgers & Chips: £3.00
Tea, hot chocolate and coffee are free outside of the bunkers normal opening hours (10:00-17:00), otherwise they are 60p.
Cold cans are a £1.00.
Beer and wine (for time-out use ONLY) start from £2.00.*
* NB: Most people bring their own.
If you are a current player not yet on these lists, then simply click the first or second of the links below to apply.
| Telephone: 01438-368177 | Send Dean An Email |
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Dean Wayland
aka Brigadier General Alastair R. Courtney
Support Company, RGHQ-51
UNSGC
United Nations Marine Corps
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CONTACT Admin Email List |
click here to mail "Parkway" to request your addition to the CONTACT members only email list, used for official traffic by the School for such things as event details etc. | N/A |
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CONTACT Chat Yahoo Group Email List |
click here to go to the Yahoo Groups site to request your addition to the members only "CONTACT Chat" email list, used for all out of character chat. | N/A |
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UNSGC Email List Service |
click here to go to the Yahoo Groups site to request your addition to the members only UNSGC " email list, used for all in-character messages. | N/A |
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CONTACT On Facebook |
click here to go to the CONTACT "Facebook" site run by Simon Doidge, one of our players, to see some of the more light hearted material! As this is another private group, you'll need to first be a member of Facebook, then apply to the moderator Simon Doidge, to join the CONTACT group. |
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Directions To
The Bunker |
click here for maps and directions to the Bunker. | 9th October 2007 |
| Visit The Bunker | click here to go to the Bunker's own web site. | See Site |
| The Diary | click here to go to the School's current Diary pages, where there is also a link to the "Quick Ref Diary". |
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4th 2009 |
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Rules and
Regulations Pages |
click here to go to the Rules And Regulations pages which include the game rules for CONTACT. |
September
4th 2009 |
| CONTACT Links Page | click here to go to the CONTACT links page | July 6th 2009 |
| Who's Who In CONTACT | click here to go to the "Out-Of-Character" page that lists all the player and character names considered as currently "on active duty" or in the "reserve". | November 16th 2009 |
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For NEW players, click here to go to the "United Nations" page, the beginning of the in-character section of this site, read and enjoy the ride... | April 2nd 2006 |
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For established players, this is a shortcut to the home page of the UNSGC's UK base Archive at RGHQ-51. | November 16th 2009 |
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