We wanted to give a quick OOP update for the IP boards following the most recent return to XA-0024 and Xadune.

What is the Island like?

Current In-Play Setting: The island remains surrounded (and sealed beneath) by a barrier-like field. Nothing can portal off the island, and no portals anywhere on Island are functional at this time. Travel and communication beyond the barrier are cut off. However, Wards 2, 4, 5, 6, and 3 are now open and accessible. Ward 4 returned first (roughly two weeks before Ward 5). Ward 2 “unlocked” two days before Ward 5 “appeared”. Seven days after Ward 5’s reappearance, Ward 6 opened. Two days later, Ward 3 followed (so, that would be like… right now). Ward 1 remains sealed and out of contact.

Between Event Roleplay is Back!

In-Play Roleplay Access: We are reopening the Broken Rabbit for roleplay on Discord, and as always, encourage it’s IP use. Only players who attended the last event (the ones who were reintroduced to Xadune) have posting privileges right now. Anyone else wishing to return to in-play roleplay must contact Staff first for clearance and backstory. There is no exception to this. Until then, your characters should be considered unreachable, presumed to be elsewhere or affected by unseen events (all of which is 100% to do with what the players just went though).

This ensures that everyone’s re-entry fits the ongoing story. There’s no “just showing up” with a new backstory or jumping into RP. Every returning or new character must go through the same story integration process the rest of the active cast has been following. New players (as in ones yet made or played yet) cannot post in-play yet.

The players from the last event will be automatically granted access. Anyone not present at that event must talk to Staff before posting again. We’ll handle returning players case-by-case, depending on their participation this season. Players who haven’t attended any events this year will also need direct coordination before they can rejoin in-play content. If a player does not check in with Staff, it should be assumed their character’s status is unknown: whether missing, trapped, or otherwise uncontactable. There will be narrative explanations available for these later. It’s again safe to presume it had to do with what the playerbase just went through. We’ll have more small updates and clarifications as we continue housekeeping and expand the story of what’s next. Thank you for helping us maintain continuity as we move into the next arc.

You’re a Heroic Soul, Harry

In the world as it stands, you can’t just arrive on the Island as that’s part of the story itself. When someone is portaled to the Island by the Island (literally how everyone gets here), that means they have a “Heroic Soul”. It’s not assumed, it’s a fact now. Future character stories should align with this: characters aren’t “traveling to” the island; they are drawn there when the island itself calls them. Backgrounds should reflect that this is handled through staff and plot, not player backstory. One can want to go to the Island, but that does not mean you should have the means to go or are on the way or just went there yourself. Not unless you don’t want a heroic soul…

Rules Reminders from Staff and the Park Rangers

I would also like to take the time to thank all of you for being awesome. You have all made this season amazing, and I can’t wait to see where it goes next. I have also been asked to pass along this information (both from the Parks, but also Staff)

Shared Facilities: The facilities are shared by all of Xadune, and we clean them up ourselves! If you make a mess, please clean it up. If you miss while using the toilet, please clean it up. If you spill a bag of chips, please clean it up. Accidents happen, but let’s be adults and clean up after ourselves!

Please be mindful of your OOP activities in shared spaces. Don’t engage in activities in shared spaces that are outside of common courtesy. Should you need to engage in an activity which requires privacy outside of what can be expected in your cabin or the bath house, please use your vehicle. If you notice someone is in the middle of a roleplay, please don’t interrupt them with an out of play question!

Beds: Don’t move the beds in the cabins! (This is a recent big one the Parks have been hounding us on). If your cabin isn’t set up, for example at Danny Mo, in the single – bunk – single fashion (per side), feel free to fix that. At the end of the event, the bunks must be left in this configuration regardless of how you found it. Please report if bunks are wrong upon arrival.

Smoking: Smoking and vaping are allowed outside, but please be mindful of others. Smoke/vape downwind of others and away from buildings.

Phones: Taking out your phone for a quick picture is encouraged. Sitting in the Tavern on your phone is not. Help us keep an immersive environment by using your phone in your cabin.

Orange Headbands: Don’t touch orange headbanded folks with anything, including a boffer. If you are orange headbanded, it is your responsibility to get out of the way of combat and remain as such until the combat is over.

Tavern Tabs

You will not be allowed to order food if you have a negative tavern tab. We have been lenient in the last year, but we are no longer able to be so. If your tavern tab is more than $10 in the negative (roughly the price of dinner), you will not be allowed to register online for the event. Changes to cards will not be made on site. Check your character card on your Xadune.com profile and Submit a Question if there is an error. You can add money to your Tavern Tab below:

We hope everyone is excited as we are.

Registration is now open, and a few might notice: where is our volunteer and sleeping choices? Well this event will be special in how we will be handling volunteer shifts, and it will mater on in-play things. But rest assured, no make-up races will be monstering Friday. In fact we will be going fairly volunteer-lite on Friday night sans our full-time volunteers.

So what about where I sleep? Well, I have been told that you should back super lite and only have what your PC will have on them as well as a normal lite assortment of your OOP bedtime things. Bedding should be, and I will quote, “easy enough for the player to be able to move on short notice”. With that said, where you may end up sleeping will most likely be determined again, via IP actions.

But this works, because those who was with us last event know what’s going on (at least to some extent), and those that have missed last event just has to know that you should pack lite and only what your PC has on them and with bedding that can be moved easily. Imagine it as if we are getting practice being a Fur-foot Adventurer and a Nelot/Vireen.

This information now bring us to the next awesome point of “what is on your character”. Much like last event, your PC will have on them only what they bring. That means at the beginning of the event you will have everything on you that you are “brining” to the event. Like last event, we will get an inventory from you before game-on of all these things. We will post up the list on the Discord so you can print it out and pre-fill it out if you like, and we will have them available at check-in if you prefer.

So, what are you allowed to bring? Anything you have. For those here last event, for reasons I cannot explain yet, your character has access to all your items that your character has, regardless if they were on you at the end of last event, that you have proof of. The short: if you say, left your spellbook in your cabin and then for that reason did not have it last event; your PC can “have it” next event. However, like before, all items you start with will be the ones you have and you will have on you all items you start with when we call game-on. So once you lock in what you bring, that is how it is for the event. Do with that with that information as you wish.

New players and those that were not at last event: bring what you normally would bring, but only what is on your character. Nothing more.

Changes to Born Hero

All tagged damage that can give a bulk number is now known as “Unmitigated” damage, which will be described as “Full Effect” type damage. Meaning if it says you take 50 body, you take 50 body. For example, Severing Blow to the torso would cause 30 points of Body damage. Where Born Hero (described below) says 25% Body, you take 25% of your body at Full Effect.

Born Hero scaling will adjust to the following:

Save against Rank of BH

Savage: 75%/50%/25%
Death: Savage/75%/50%
Slay: Death/Savage/75%
Maim/Assassinate: Slay/Death/Savage
Fatal: Maim/Slay/Death

With the percentages being of the PC’s max body. Bulk damage that would reduce a PC to below 0 from this is corrected to place the PC to 0 body. 75%/50%/25% (crit body) are now located on all character cards. Some examples include:

PC has 100 max body and Rank 2 BH and get hit with a Slay; they then take the Slay as a Savage Blow and go to 0 Body. If they get hit with a Death they instead take 75 points of direct unmitigated Body damage. If this would take them to less then 0 Body (-1 Bleeding Out) they would instead go to 0 Body.

PC has 45 max Body and Rank 3 BH and gets hit with a Slay; they then take the Slay as 34 points of direct unmitigated Body damage. If this would take them to less then 0 Body (-1 Bleeding Out) they would instead go to 0 Body. They would take a Savage Blow as 12 points of direct unmitigated Body damage. If this would take them to less then 0 Body (-1 Bleeding Out) they would instead go to 0 Body, so even though four Savage Blows in a row would do 46 point of Body damage, they would still go to 0 Body.

We will also be adding Tiered Scaling to R3 Born Hero via Skill costs. This Doubles effectively the skill cost to use Born Hero at an exponential rate. What does that mean? Born Hero cost 5 skill points to use, with unlimited uses per encounter. If a PC has R3 Born Hero and wishes to reduce effects more, it comes with a shifted skill point cost. So, for example, if a R3 Born Hero gets hit with a Fatal Blow, and has 5 skill points, they can instead take it as a Death. But what if they wanted to take it as a 75% body? That would then cost 5sp + 10sp + 20sp equaling 35sp total. So, that’s 5sp to take it as a Death, 10 more skill points to shift the Death to a Savage Blow, and then 20 more skill points to take the Savage Blow as 75% body. Each shift cost double the previous cost and all shifts are then added together.

It should be noted that no effect can be reduced to less them 25% of your body. So, in that previous example, again, if you were a R3 Born Hero and wanted to take a Fatal Blow as 25% body, the most reduction you could do, it would be 5sp + 10sp + 20sp + 40sp + 80sp = 155 skill points. Only Rank 3 Born Heroes have access to this perk.

Changes to Wake the Dead

Next up, the skill “Wake the Dead” is changing. The bulk of the skill will remain the same, sans point 3:

3) Next the doctor spends 10 skill and is required 50 seconds to prep the body (role-play) and a healing tonic introduced via injection that will can heal at least half the patient’s max body, to a maximum of 25; meaning anyone over 50 body only requires a tonic that can heal for 25.

Death Counts

With that being said, a new category will be on all your character cards starting this event called “Death Counts”. Starting this event you should make a tally and keep a record of how many times you goes down to “Death’s Door”, “Dead Status”, or the like. This includes times where you need to resurrect

Hello Ward 5 Adventurers, and welcome to AFS 145! It’s been 145 years since the stars fell and returned; 17 since XA0024 was discovered, 16 since the Adventurers first arrived on it; almost 9 since the Vichese invaded, 7 since the Demon War.

Inflation Comes for us All

Unfortunately, due to rising costs, we are forced to increase the price of a full-event ticket. Here is our new pricing:

Full Time Monster with XP: $15
New Player – First Event as PC: $35 $45
Full Event: $50 $60
Pre-Registering by purchasing a New Player or Full Event ticket more than 6 days in advance: $5 $10 Discount and Convenience Fees are waived.

So, if you typically pre-register, your event ticket will increase by a net of $5.

As always, Xadune Event Tickets come with 3XP added to your character, parking for 1 vehicle, a bed to sleep in, and a weekend of fun!

The Early Bird Gets the (Giant Twilight) Worm

In addition to a larger discount for Pre-Registering, getting your ticket early will allow you to select your cabin and your volunteer shift. Going forward, you will no longer be allowed to sign up for a cabin or volunteer shift if you have not purchased an Annual Pass or event ticket for the upcoming event.

Tavern Tab Changes

Going forward, we will not accept money onto a tavern tab if the tab is greater than +$50. Yes, that means you, Troy. If you are on a joint tab with your spouse, this is increased to +$100.

If you already have a ton of cash on your tab, don’t worry, you’ll still have that money on your tab. Just… don’t add more money onto it for a minute.

If you would like to gift another person money onto their tavern tab, this can be done at Check-In!

Additionally, don’t forget: working any full Tavern Shift adds $4.50 onto your Tab. That’s right, you can pay for your lunch by washing dishes.

2025 Promotions

You can always find our promotions on our Promotions Page, but here is a quick list.

First $10 gets 5XP:

For all New Players, when you donate $10, you will get 5XP added to your Starting XP. Donations after this promotion are at a rate of $10 = 1XP.

Three Event XP Bump

Start playing as a Full Time Monster: after 3 events, get 10XP added to your Starting XP.

Start playing as a Player Character: after 3 events, get 9XP added to your character.

Happy Black Friday! 2024 is coming to a close, but we are thrilled for 2025. As promised, here is the 2025 LARP Event Calendar:

January 31 – February 2 at Camp MacIntosh in Indian Springs State Park.

March 14 – 16 at Camp MacIntosh in Indian Springs State Park.

April 25 – 27 at Camp Daniel Morgan in Hard Labor Creek State Park.

Free Demo at MomoCon 2025.

May 30 – June 1 at Camp Daniel Morgan in Hard Labor Creek State Park.

July 11 – 13 at Camp Rutledge in Hard Labor Creek State Park.

August 15 – 17 at Camp Daniel Morgan in Hard Labor Creek State Park.

October 3 – 5 at Camp Daniel Morgan in Hard Labor Creek State Park.

November 7 – 9 at Camp Rutledge in Hard Labor Creek State Park.

December 19 – 21 at Camp MacIntosh in Indian Springs State Park.

All LARP Events are guaranteed to occur.

2025 Annual Pass

The Annual Pass provides the following benefits:

The 2025 Xadune Annual Pass grants:

• Guaranteed Admission to all (9) 2025 Xadune Live Action Role Play Events.
• Parking for one vehicle.
• 10XP immediately added to a character of your choice.
• Increased Donation XP cap to 4 from 3.
• Increased RP XP cap to 4 from 3.
• Access to the Annual Pass Holder Discord Channel.
• In-Play Subscription to the Xadune Herald Tribune.
• 30 units, (3) +10 Body Tonics, (1) +5 Bandages each event attended.
• One Time Use Trainer (In-Play units paid for) for any Skill of Rarity: Common.

Annual Passes are $475 Cash or Check, $495 Online. Only 16 available. You may reserve an Annual Pass by contacting Xadune Staff, but you must pay by Cash, Check, or Online on or before the December 2024 event. If you would like purchase an Annual Pass for a primary and a secondary character, please contact Xadune Staff. 

With the state of the world, it seems like a really good time to go out into the woods, hang out with our community, and hit each other with foam swords. Come escape to A. H. Stephens State Park with us and immerse yourself a world of magic and stea.=m.

A. H. Stephens State Park

If you’ve not been to Camp Stephens, it is important to remember that it is about an hour further away from Atlanta than Hard Labor Creek. You can find the map pin here!

Volunteer Sign Ups

Everyone who is playing a character must complete one volunteer shift. Please sign up below.

Hey Ward 5!

We are two days out from the August Event at Camp Rutledge, and we are so excited to get together in the woods with you!

It has been a little while since we were at Camp Rutledge, so if you are new or need a refresher, you can find a Google Maps pin here. Rutledge cabins are small and more rustic than Daniel Morgan, so be prepared to spend some time setting up your cabin.

Don’t Call it Hotlanta

We are looking at temperatures in the 90’s this weekend, so please be prepared. Start hydrating NOW, and if you are able, bring a water bottle which you can refill in the tavern throughout the event. A water bottle is even better than a Later Tater. If you have a potato-shaped water bottle, see Emily for your prize.

We will be having Water Mods, and if you would like to partake, please bring a swim suit or costuming you don’t mend getting wet. You will be warned ahead of time that a mod is a water mod.

Volunteer Shifts

If you are playing a character, please sign up for your volunteer shift!

Happy Independence Day Weekend, everyone! We can’t wait to celebrate with you in the best way we know how – wacky bats and a wedding!

Water Mods!

It is going to be VERY hot, and as such, we will be having water mods! As always, you will be warned prior to the water mod that it will involve water, and you will be given the opportunity to change. So bring your swim suits or water-friendly costuming, and get ready to cool down with sprinklers and water-based attacks.

Keeping Cool

We strongly recommend everyone bring a fan for their cabins in order to stay cool. Unfortunately, due to the limitations of the electrical system of the site, we cannot allow portable air conditioning units, as it will pop the circuit breaker and cut power to site.

Please start hydrating now! We will of course have ice water available at all times, and please be sure to take advantage of it.

Volunteer Shifts

Please sign up for a Volunteer Shift. Everyone is required to complete (1) 3-hour shift.

Less than a week out from the May 2024 Event at Camp Daniel Morgan, and we are so excited to welcome the Ward 5 Adventurers back to the Broken Rabbit Inn.

New Merch

As announced on social media, we have launched a new line of Xadune Merchandise on TeePublic.

Grab one of our flagship designs on a shirt, hoodie, mug, sticker, or one of several other products. If you bring us your Xadune TeePublic merchandise, we will tag it with an official Xadune tag and you will receive 1XP added to a character of choice! These designs WILL be rotated out, so make sure you grab them while you can!

You can still find our original design shirt on-site in both Ward 1 and Ward 5 designs. These come with 2XP.

Divine Updates

On the fourth, we updated and detailed the requirements for the Divine Path – the path to Priesthood. Read about it here!

Keeping Up with your Cards

As a reminder, you are required to keep track of your Skill usage and Body Points on the back of your character card. Even if you spent no Skill and lost no Body Points, make a note of it on the back of your card. Failure to do so will be considered cheating and repercussions will follow accordingly.

Similarly, you must have your Volunteer Shift signed for by a game runner. If your card is not signed, you will not get a reskill at your next attended event.

Lastly, please treat your character card as if someone will have to handle it after you turn it in. Spoilers: we do. While it is understood that cards get beaten up over the course of a weekend, please take some precautions to keep it neat. Do not turn in your character card wet, as it will mold before we get to it. Please do not squash a bug with your character card, and especially do not turn the card in with said bug still on the card. We kindly ask you treat your card as you would have others treat theirs if you were handling it post-game.

Volunteer Shifts

Please sign up for one shift.

Hello, Ward 5 Adventures!

We have a quick update to the Divine Path. Anyone who is considering becoming a Priest, or otherwise is already a Priest, should read this document closely, as several requirements are being added.

Submit a QuestionIf you have any questions, please feel free to Submit a Question.