(to the waiting list)
Dates
Run 3: June 14th-17th 2025
Run 5: June 19th-22nd 2025
Location
Paul-Roland-Straße 7, 06712 Zeitz, Germany
Participants
65-80 participants (excl. Crew)
Must be above the age of 18.
Language
The game will be played in English.
Community Ticket
400€
This is a ticket for those of you with additional resources
to help fund the experience for other participants who are on
a budget.
For every 2 Community Tickets our participants purchase, we are able to offer 1 more Reduced Ticket to someone who otherwise can't afford to go!
Standard Ticket
350€
This is the regular price for
1 ticket to A Midsummer Disco.
Reduced Ticket
250€
For each 2 Community tickets, we can offer a Reduced Ticket to offer to players who otherwise couldn't afford to play the game.
The goal here is to make the larp more inclusive and available
to more people. It will not be possible to apply for both a reduced AND a regular ticket. Reduced tickets are strictly for people who can't effort a Regular one.
Hover over each Ticket to
learn more about them!
Social Ticket
50€
A super-reduced aimed at people who rarely or even never get to larp due to living in poverty. We will only consider applications of people who have never been able to attend a Poltergeist LARP before.
We will offer one ticket per run and more if the budget allows. These tickets are paid for by us, not the Community Tickets.
THE WIZARD HAS FAVORS TO ASK
What do we ask you to do?
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That you will read or listen to our Design Document before the larp starts.
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That you try and engage with us and your fellow players on the participant discord (an online platform) beforehand
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We don't expect you to keep up with the spam or to be active every day – but please do check in, reach out to fellow players even just for a quick exchange
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We cannot make this larp with people who we hear nothing from until the day of arrival
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We as organisers are spending our every day life on this, we expect our participants to invest a little bit of time as well
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You are an adult and we cannot force you but please, give something back. Don't ghost us until the day the larp happens.
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That you take initiative for your own fun.
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If you think you lack a certain relation, make it
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If you want a certain kind of plot, add it
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Take care of your own well-being and be active in seeking help and creating play for yourself and others
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We are doing this together, not us doing it all for you.
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That you bring your own headphones. They must have a standard cable to attach to an old school walkman / tape player
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Without headphones, you won't be able to use a big chunk of our mechanics
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We will provide walkmen and other sound devices but if you have one lying around at home, you can bring it and make it your personal one!
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That you bring your own cup or whatever you want to drink out of.
We are in the fortunate situation that Zeitz is very easy to access by public transport. The location itself is a 10 minute walk from the Zeitz main station. If you have a lot of luggage, you could take a cab for up to 10€ (that's our estimate anyway)
but it is really very walkable.
Supermarkets are closeby as well, just
bear in mind that they are all closed
on sundays.
Getting to the location
We recommend that you find your way to Leipzig, the nearest big city (40 minutes by s-train to Zeitz) and maybe spend the night before the larp there.
If you're flying, you can try to get to the Leipzig airport but it's crap, so Berlin would be much better. Going from Berlin to Leipzig by train
is 1.5 hours, 2 hours to Zeitz.
So there is a range of options for you to
plan your travel, even without a car.
We will only have limited parking outside
of the location.
If you are looking for accommodation in Leipzig for the night before or after the larp, we recommend Sleepy Lion Hostel - because Lotta works there and it's a lovely, cheap place with options both for dorms and private rooms and apartments with an own kitchen, all in very affordable price ranges.
You can book directly via their website!
Accessibility
The location is an old factory building with partially unrenovated areas.
It is therefore sadly not at all suited for participants relying on wheelchairs. The playing area is split over two floors with no elevator.
We are providing audio versions of both the Design document and characters (the latter on request).
We provide important and long emails as audio versions if we have the capacity. If requested, we'll do it for sure, so talk to us if this is relevant to you.
THE WIZARD INFORMS YOU OF THE LOCAION SITUATION
Accommodation
Most of you will share a room with 1-2 other people.
We try to make roommate requests possible but cannot
guarantee it.
You cannot be alone in a room and you need to be okay sharing a room with up to 4 other people, space- and noisewise.
We cannot fix people snoring in your room, it is simply outside of our control.
Most rooms share a bathroom with other rooms.
All sleeping rooms are in a separate building from the playing area, sharing an inner courtyard. Therefore we hope that most party noises will be kept away from you.
The mattresses are decent but as it is with mattresses, everyone has their own opinion on them and we cannot tell you if they'd be comfortable for you or not.
It's a conference location used to catering guests but it's not a 5 star hotel, so there will probably be people who do not like the beds. ;)
All bedrooms will be offgame.
Food & Drinks
All food will be vegan.
If you have special dietary needs, you can let us know at a later point after sign up and we will find out together with you whether we can cater to them or whether you have to supplement your own food.
You will not receive money back if you cannot eat the provided food.
Access to a kitchen is available to those who medically need it.
Anyone may bring their own snacks, drinks and food and it doesn't have to be vegan for yourself (but if you are not medically obliged to, you will not receive fridge space. That is reserved for people who need it. :) )
You will receive 8 full meals provided by a team of volunteer cooks: One on the evening of Day 1, three on Day 2 & 3 and breakfast on Day 4 before departure.
Breakfast will be offgame on all days, the other meals will likely be ingame but this might change as we develop the larp schedule further.
There will always be access to water, tea and coffee.
It'll be possible to buy non-alcoholic cocktails and sodas from an ingame bar inside the playing area!
This will likely happen with a list that you pay off at the end of the larp. Please bring cash to be able to do so.
THE WIZARD DOES NOT NEED SUSTENANCE
Event Schedule
You will receive a more detailed event schedule closer to the game.
Please be at the location by 12 noon on Day 1 and prepare to leave it on Day 4 by 12 noon as well.
We will spend one day workshopping and getting to know each other and 2 days playing. In the evening of Day 2, there'll be a variety show ingame.
The last night will be used for an offgame afterparty and optional debriefing.
The game starts on Day 2 around 11am and again on Day 3 around 10am.
There are no more orga driven plots after midnight.
We highly encourage people to go to bed though - it is not "badass" to survive a larp on 3 hours of sleep only. Mostly, it's unkind to your own body. ;) <3
Alcohol & Weed
You will not be permitted to drink alcohol or consume weed during play time or the workshops.
If you have had alcohol or weed, you are not allowed to be in the game and will be asked to stay in your room.
You may drink alcohol and consume the greens responsibly during the offgame evenings as per the German law but we retain the right to tell you to go to your room and not return until you're sober if we notice that you have had too much and cannot behave responsibly anymore.
Please don't make us do this, be mindful of your own limits :)
The venue does not sell alcohol, you have to bring it yourself. We will have some beer available to purchase from us for a low price but nothing beyond that, sadly.
So if you want something other than beer, bring it and share it!
THE WIZARD SUPPLIES WITH FITTING BAVERAGES
Smoking
You will be allowed to smoke ingame.
As the playing area includes rooms that have no windows, we will likely dedicate a smoking room on one of the ends of the game – smoking in all other parts of the building will be strictly forbidden!
But we need you to be okay with people smoking in a part of the ingame area that is well ventilated and a bit remote from the rest of the play.
Some of the inner courtyard will also be ingame for smoking and sitting in the sun. It'll be shared with the offgame yard though.