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Participants would be were divided into familygroups family groups of 10-20 people. Normally the size of the group would match a selected house which would be the base location for this groups play. Participantsfactions Participant factions would meet regularily up to 6 months prior to the game, to decide on common clothing, plan for food, special customs or other appropriate excercises. In one game the group playing samipeople memorized some 100 words of Sami and used grammar intended to be totally incomprehensible for to the rest of the participants.

The evening before the start of the larp , participants would decorate their living quarters, get into costumes, make food and be only partly playing their characters. They might do last minute practice of names of related characters. Individually people would be testing the way of talking [[in-character]], and often practice common songs related to the [[diegesis]] or the the overall [[genrè]] of the larp. More importantly , participants would discuss discussed routines like such as when to wake up, dishwashing, fetching water, maintaining the fire, foodmaking and establish cooking and established time and reponsibility for common meals and other practical matters. An organiser organizer would oversee this and balance it with the [[Scheduling]] and the [[Storyarc]] of the larp.