Call out for hands on Sunday 15th July to move gear

Hello

As the gear shed has been successfully put up at its new location we need hands, cars and a tow bar to move the gear from Mike’s place to Hannah’s Mums place.

If you or someone you know has a car that can tow a trailer with a full load we would be exteremely grateful of your help.

We also need people to help move the gear and if we get enough cars that can take some extra gear we may be able to do it super fast.

Currently time I am looking at is around 9:30am this Sunday.

A note from the treasurer: Remuneration for petrol is being offered to those that help tow the trail and shift gear.

You might have better luck recruiting for this if you asked at training and scheduled it for after 12 noon.

There is another event at noon, it might have to be an afternoon job.

Hmmm, current forecast seems to be that Sunday afternoon is going to be quite wet. I don’t mind working in the rain, but I’m not sure how bad that’s going to be for the gear.

EDIT: Forecast has improved a little since the original post, but it still sounds like it could be wet.

The gear move is happening at 3pm on this Sunday, 15 th July. This needs to be done this weekend, rain or shine. At 3pm we will meet at Mikes place and start the move shortly after.

We NEED people to come to this as it isn’t a small job with only two people.

Sorry Muppet, I can’t make 3 pm on Sunday :frowning:

Do you mostly need hands to load and unload? Or do you need trailers and towbars?

mostly hands but any trailers and tow bars will be used.

[quote=“Muppet”]At 3pm we will meet at Mikes place and start the move shortly after.[/quote]Address?

26 Malvern Road, Morningside.

Nearest train station is Morningside.

For buses catch, a New North Road bus, avoiding the St Lukes ones ('cos you have get off at the Morningside shops and walk 5 mins further).

Would there be any chance of someone taking a quick look at the makeup if you find it while moving stuff? It’s just been mentioned some paints were running low at Teonn. I’m bringing in an order of stuff for Chimera, so now would be the time.

Thank you so much to all the people who helped today. For a while there it looked like it would be just myself and Muppet, but thankfully our flat mates Nathan and Fraser came to our rescue as well as Norman and Chantelle who joined us after they heard our story at the birthday lunch today. The only person in Auckland who showed up from Muppet’s call for help was James. And Thank you to Ben who loaned us his car to tow the traylor.

I am sorry if this post sounds a little bitter but I find that it is always the same people who turn up and help at these things. This has to change. NZLARPS was formed out of an incident that happened when Ryan Paddy was forced to clean Motu Moana late into the night by himself after a game and was so worn out he said people needed to help him with the logistics of the game or he would stop running Mordavia (which was the major Lara campaign running at the time). Since then larpers got really good at helping out and taking responsibility for themselves. I feel that has been lost somehow along the way and the culture has changed where many people assume larps just happen.

NZLARPS is a community run by volunteers but if it is always the same people who volunteer eventually they will burn out and there will be no more larps. So I guess this is a general plea, please next time there is an opportunity to help out and you haven’t really helped out before, please put your hand up.

Also thank you to Mike for looking after the gear and helping on your end.

Tbh, you’d get a better reponse if you posted an event listing on facebook. There’s a significant number of people that don’t really browse these forums and if someone who’s admin for NZLarps creates an event you can immediatly inform all 250 people in the group. A post, either here or FB, wouldn’t reach nearly as many.
Also asking more than 4 days in advance would likely result in more exposure. As an example my work hours are pretty hard to shift around at short notice and 4 days is just not enough sorry. If I wasn’t working I would’ve been there.

This is not an isolated incident that I am commenting on. It is a general observation as someone who has been involved with a lot of running of larps and gear days and committee meetings (whether as as a member or not). There are many people who help out whenever they can, whether at a game, or gear day or whatever, but there are many more who either help begrudgingly (like complaining at their kitchen duty during a weekend game) or who never help at all. All I am asking is that these people realise that games dont just happen, and no one gets paid to run a larp. We all need to pitch in to keep the community going.

Many thanks to Muppet, Nikki and everyone else (including at least one Wellingtonista !) who assisted with the yesterday’s gear move. It’s quite a relief to finally have the gear moved into the shed. I still find it hard to believe that you guys crammed TWO trailer-loads of stuff into the shed. Good work ! :slight_smile:

Scotty raised some good points, and one thought I have had about increasing attendance at these kind of gear rationalisation events is to contact GMs who use the gear. They have a player/NPC base that enjoy using the gear, so a friendly email from a GM could spur people into donating a few hours to ensure our gear is well-kept.