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<nowiki>|</nowiki>first_run={{July 14-15, 2018|}} in Bengtsår, Finland<nowiki>|</nowiki>name=Jotta vahva ei sortaisi heikkoa<nowiki>|</nowiki>image=<nowiki>|</nowiki>tagline=<nowiki>|</nowiki>participants= around 40<nowiki>|</nowiki>duration= 24 hours<nowiki>|</nowiki>website={{https://kaksoisvirranmaa.wordpress.com}}<nowiki>|</nowiki>designers={{Aino Haavisto, Ada-Maaria Hyvärinen}}<nowiki>|techniques={{}</nowiki><nowiki>}</nowiki><nowiki>}}</nowiki>

'''Jotta vahva ei sortaisi heikkoa ('''Eng. ''So That the Strong Should Not Harm the Weak'') was a larp about the Hammurabi Code and the judicial system in ancient Mesopotamia. During the larp, judges from the city of Uruk came to the fictitious town of Kaprum, since they located by the river Euphrates. They had been invited there to solve a dispute over an inheritance. There were The larp was set in the temple of Nabu, the god of literacy, scribes, and wisdom. At the temple, various court hearings were held, where the locals could accuse each other of crimes or bring up various disputes for the judges to solve. The title of the larp is a part of the preamble for the Hammurabi Code.  

The designers described the genre of the larp lasted for about 24 hoursas historical drama. The focus was on personal relationships, the fates of individual human beings, and disputes between people. It was a slow-paced larp that was structured around the court hearings and focused on atmosphere, community and culture. There were various period pastimes available. One could e.g. play the ancient Mesopotamian boardgame Game of Ur or take part in a debate contest hosted by the high priest. In the evening, people would tell stories by the fireplace. In addition to the inheritance case, there were other cases brought to the judges. A mason was accused because he had built a house that fell down causing the death of the son of the owner, and a couple was accused of adultery. The players of the judges were instructed to start the first hearing around two hours into the larp, and hold the last one in the morning of the second day. During Verdicts would not be issued before the first daymorning so that players could have meaningful play even if their characters would be sentenced to death. After the final court hearing, there was a scripted scene where the adulterous couple was executed by drowning. The larp was set in Babylon a couple of years after the death of King Hammurabi, during the rule of his son King Samsu-Iluna (1750–1712 BCE). It strived for historical accuracy, but since many details of that historical period are not known, the judges designers had had to fill in some gaps. The society, including its norms and gender roles, was portrayed as it historically was, but players were free allowed to schedule hearings pretty much as they likedplay a gender different from their own. Moreover, and in between they would try the designers had taken a close look at history to find witnesses the kind of positions where women could have been relatively emancipated. There was, for example, a female scribe, some powerful priestesses, and a female fortuneteller with some political power, and evidence to prove the manager of the temple was a woman. At points where historical facts are not available or there is no scholarly consensus on the issue, the designers had often made choices that somebody was guilty allowed greater leverage for women and gender or innocentsexual minorities. In practiceFor example, there were two hearings some priests with non-binary gender identities who could take either a male or female role depending on the first daysituation. They lasted  The judges interpreted actual laws from one the Hammurabi code, but instead of the whole code (which is very lengthy), the designers had given them a shortened version that contained all the laws that were relevant to the larp, together with some additional ones so they could not guess in advance what kind of cases would be brought up to two hoursthem. The judges had the laws on clay tablets that had cuneiform text on them with a paper that had the law text written in Finnish attached to the backside. In the ancient Mesopotamian culture, writing verdicts and contracts on clay tablets was important, and many people were issued illiterate, so scribes had a big role in the final hearing next morning larp. The temple had an archive of clay tablets of various contracts that had been written in Kaprum, and carried the judges could study them (or sent their scribes to study them) if they needed to find out immediately after itwhat had happened in the town in the past while trying to settle the cases.

Aino Haavisto - production, history research.Ada-Maaria Hyvärinen - story, history research.M. Joukamaa & T. Hanhimäki - help in e.g. character writing.