Category: logistics

Post-Event Reminders and Next Event Registration

Thank you to all who came out to our most recent event! We hope you had as much fun as we did. Please don’t forget to:

  1. Submit a PEL
  2. Submit your BGA by June 30 2025

Zealot Event 11 will be held at Camp Denison August 22-24 2025. Currently, this will be a normal event. If we find that the August weather is exceptionally hot, we reserve the right to switch to Friday as RP only and start combat on Saturday.

Please register here. You must register by August 1 2025 so that we can plan for housing. Housing is more limited at Denison, so we need to know earlier, particularly if you are staying offsite or tenting.

Big Updates!

Big moves in-game equal big updates! Please read below for information pertinent to all players!

Two new Minor Gods are on the playing field!

T’heron, The Unlikely Prince
Zar’zima, the Liminal Queen

You can read more about Zar’zima here and T’heron here. They are also available on the Gods of Circadia page. As a note, you may choose to play a follower of T’heron. You may only pursue Zar’zima in-game, but her write-up and rules are public knowledge.

Speaking of which!

The Rulebook is updated with a changelog!

Zar’zima and T’heron people, go check out your new potential skills.

And don’t forget the free roleplay event!

As a thank you to all players for enduring limited running water, a collapsing kitchen, and 6 inches of surprise snow, we will be running a free roleplay night. This will be held on Saturday, May 31, 2025, from 6pm-midnight in the American Grille at the Sturbridge Host Hotel and Conference Center. This will be a non-combat event but fully staffed. To make up for things that did not run during snowpacalypse, this event will occur, in-game, at Deathwalk during the Court of Keys. While the Court of Keys is technically a Kasamei summer holiday, we will observe it in-game in late May.

While this event is free, we still need you to sign up so that we know you’re coming and can prepare plot for you. Please register here.

First-time players are welcome and encouraged to check out this free roleplay day!

2025 Zealot Dates

We now have our 2025 dates. In addition to these dates, we will have some sort of Winter 1 Day event at the Sturbridge Host Hotel and Conference Center in Sturbridge, MA. This will likely occur in February 2025, but the date isn’t finalized.

The dates:

April 11-13 at Camp Middlesex

June 13-15 at Camp Middlesex

Sep 26-28 at Camp Middlesex

Event 7 Registration

Thank you to everyone who came out to our July 27 one-day. We certainly enjoyed ourselves, and we hope you did too! Some reminders on post-event materials, as well as registration for Event 7!

The PEL form and BGA form are on this page.

PELs (post-event letters) aren’t required for CP, but they do help us get a sense of what you want to keep doing. You may submit a BGA if you attended the July 27 event–BGAs are due August 10.

Registration is open for Event 7! Please try to register ASAP. The start of the school year gets very busy for staff, and we’d like to have as much of August as possible to tailor plot to players.

Finally, if you missed it on our other social media, come check out our new game, Consequence!

July 27 2024 One Day Event

You asked, and the Gods listened! We will be holding a full combat one day on July 27, 2024 at the Sturbridge Host Hotel and Conference Center. If you have attended our Nightmarkets, Thaumatrope, or Elsewhere, this is the same place.

The event cost is $60. This allows us to cover the space while hopefully also defraying costs if anyone wants to get a hotel room. (Sturbridge Host is not the only option for hotel rooms. There are multiple hotels within easy walking distance of the Sturbridge Host.)

Please see below for the in-game reasoning for the event and the registration form.

Master Sympathy’s Invitation

Register here.

Between Game Actions (BGAs)

To help facilitate player agency at Zealot, we are instituting Between Game Actions (BGAs) for Zealot Larp. They are exceptionally straightforward and detailed in the form below.

1. Every player who has played at least one event of Zealot may fill out a BGA to activate at their next event. After your first BGA, you may submit one BGA for every event you attend after.

2. BGAs must be submitted within two weeks of an event’s end. For the April 13 event, you must submit your BGA by April 27.

3. The BGA link has been added to the logistics page.

Event 3: The High Toast

On the High Toast of the Day of the Family

Much has been made of the upcoming celebrations for the “Day of the Family.” As has been rumored, Nepheris decided to resume formal observances, though his motives are unknown. Indeed, it has been quite some time since anyone in Circadia has seen a formal celebration of the Day of the Family overseen by anyone other than ranking clergy–to have a God invested in such a celebration seems like the stuff of old legend.

More information has been released about the proceedings, and it confirms that Nepheris and/or his Brother have decided to return to not only “the Family Dinner” but the opening tradition of the “High Toast.”

The High Toast traditionally opens Day of the Family celebrations. Dynastic hymns are played and, afterwards, four toasts are offered. The first toast is made in honor of the Gods, the second toast in honor of the Devout, and the final toast in honor of the Dynasty. Generally, these toasts are given by local Devout, one for each toast. The final High Toast is only given in the presence of a God and is generally delivered by a High Clergy member.

Classically, the High Toast is considered to be a great honor, and its delivery generally marks the speaker as the highest ranking Mortal in Circadia. Of course, traditions have shifted, and it is somewhat less formal now.

The first three toasts are often short but delivered with expert oratorship–they are frequently times during which Devout exercise their own political agency, though this is only done with extreme tact and skill. The High Toast is often longer and sometimes read aloud from a written proclamation–the High Toast is almost always some sort of political maneuver.

This year, it seems the High Toast is being offered “field style.” “Field style” refers to celebrations given during times of war, upheaval, or anticipated hardship. It refers to Devout troops celebrating while deployed in the field, though more generally indicates a “dressed down” affair. While Devout are still expected to attend the toast with proper pomp, they are not required or expected to leave their field assignments, and celebrations happen in the spare accommodations deployment allows.

The Current Invitation to the High Toast (4.13)

Please don’t forget to register for our April 13 2024 one-day event. Register and read more here.