Two May events announced: VLARP and Celtic highland games

For the last couple of years, VLARP has been the biggest fantasy larp in the Southeastern Europe, with over a hundred participants. Apart from being the biggest larp in Serbia, it also draws in players from Bulgaria and Croatia.

Traditionally held on the weekend around May 1st in Vladimirovac, and for the past couple of years organized by Green Banner, this year it will be held on May 2nd - May 7th. VLARP features a simple ruleset, which will be updated soon, and more information will be coming up - keep an eye out on its Facebook event.

The second event which has been announced in May - this one on the last weekend, May 25-26, is the Celtic Highland games. You can see the event on Facebook here. I'm posting the official announcement below:

We invite you all to the Celtic highland games, larp organized by the Lateralus group.

The Celtic company of heroes that has appeared on several Croatian larps invites you to a banquet where he will turn meat on the spit and hold a kind of Olympic Games in the Scottish style. Our highland games will consist of several ancient disciplines like stone put, rope pulling, caber toss, pushing al trunk uphil, archery, punching and other wonderful techniques of the ancient world.
We invite bards, skalds, minstrels and other performers to appear and with their singing, playing, acting and dancing increase the splendor of this event. After nightfall you will be able to compete in your skills beside the fire in the fireplace, while the spectators will choose their favorites with loud approval, or disapproval.

This is a Nordic type larp (with minimal rules).

Combat will not be supported - you're all invited to resolve your differences in the games.

You are invited to use the characters that you play on all Croatian medieval fantasy larps, but you can bring in new ones.
Experience is not necessary.

The larp will be held in the house and its surroundings. The house has plenty of room for sleeping bags, but rather for blankets (palliasse :)) because we supports sleeping ingame. In the event of a large turnout on the grounds by the house tents may be erected.

The larp will last from Saturday at noon until Sunday morning.

The price of the larp is 50 kuna till 12.05., after that its 75 kuna.
The price includes the food, and in case of a large response the drinks will be provided as well (quantities depend on the collected money) - of which you will be further informed :)
We reserve the right to change prices or menu in case of unforeseen problems.
Sleep and heating (which we hope it will not be necessary, but you never know :)) is free.

Several specifics of the house: there is no electricity, the water is from a well and part of the collected finances will be spent on drinking water. The toilet is debatable (there is a toilet, but no water in the tank, but there is the water from the well :))

With all registered players (and those who are thinking about signing up) we will have a chat so that you can know what to expect, and to let us know how you'd like to play.

Send your applications to Dunja Martić and Andrej Štefan by mail:
dunjamatic1@gmail.com
andrej.stefan@gmail.com

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