Void is the way players in Madrigal reset themselves. Instead of being able to reset a pool on a five minute count, they get X number of resets per event (where X equals the number of void they've bought - think of it something like a pool). You spend a point of Void to reset skills on a five-minute count.

It generally doesn't come up when you NPC, because your characters aren't going to live long enough to spend five minutes resetting themselves (or aren't going to get into fights because they're RP characterse), and we don't stat NPCs the same way anyway.

1) There certainly shouldn't be any references to Void in the Isles rules. If there are, that is an error that should be corrected.

2) Re: Splinting, I actually talked with David Chapin (Aralis 2 director) about it. His opinion is that there isn't any harm in adding an extra 'Splinted' trait if it makes things clearer, and I think it would actually be nice -- and reasonable -- for people with Diagnose to be able to tell whether a maimed limb is currently successfully splinted or not.

I suggest there be a rules edit made that conforms to Crovel's suggestion -- make the call 'Imbue Splinted by Medicine', which applies to the specific limb (just like Maim does -- when you diagnose Maim, you usually either diagnose a specific limb or the person tells you which limb(s)), and goes away if the limb is struck again, if the person goes unstable, or if the Maim on that limb goes away. Change Diagnose to be able to diagnose Splinted.

Hey, if it works out really well, maybe Aralis2 will adopt it back from us.

3) Re: First Aid, no, you definitely can't have one hand on someone, be fighting with the other hand, and claim to have successfully used first aid on them.

However -- do the rules actually say you can't be moving the person? It certainly seems lame to let someone be supposedly both carrying and first aiding someone; it seems possibly less lame to have one person carrying while another person performs first aid. I don't recall offhand if there was a rule that made this explicit, and it would be good to have it clarified, given that there's always a *lot* of carrying bleeding people around.

No, there is no requirement currently for any kind of splinting rep.

Aralis2 has people tie on a strip of white cloth to represent a bandage on a splinted limb. That helps people remember, and also makes it obvious that someone has a splint on. I think it's a good idea, but it did require the A2 staff to have people make hundreds of white strips of cloth (I think they gave xp for them) that they could make available to everyone, rather than forcing each player to go out and buy some.

I don't think using any kind of stick would ever be ok, because of safety reasons -- after all, if something's 'splinted', you can fight and move around with it.

The bandage also does not give any info, or gives incorrect info, if a splinted limb becomes unsplinted because it was hit or the person became unstable. There have certainly been times when an unconscious person is lying there with a bandage on their arm in A2 and I think, hm, wonder if they need that re-splinted...?

Easy!

The moment anyone begins first aid on someone bleeding out. That person's bleed out stops.

Now, if while the person is bleeding out and the one preforming first aid on said person is interrupted. E.G. Gets attacked and has to defend themselves before 60 seconds is up. The one bleed out resumes their bleed out count.

So if for example Rowan goes down. He is bleeding out and I get to him when he has 30 seconds left. I immediately begin first aid. His count is on hold.

A big bad monster comes and attacks me, (assuming that no one is there to protect me) I have to defend myself or die. I have not finished the first aid count, Rowan's counting resumes at 30 seconds.

Does this make sense?

Poor Thooid.

This is exactly what happened to him....


Dwayne

Yeah we should all tie bands around our fingers on that one, this is the only LARP I've played where after becoming dead you could of your own volition become not so dead. It's hard to remember.
-Vinnie

I thought it happened just at the transition between bleeding out and dead.

-Vinnie

Vinnie, dear, shall I write this on your hand with Sharpie?

*whips out a blue sharpie and grabs Matt's hand...*

Good idea, Anakin!


Dwayne