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CallaFirestormBW -> RE: Trust and the Suspension of Disbelief (11/13/2008 11:43:05 AM)
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One of the groups I was involved with for a while put together a special-interest-group (SIG) for kidnapping play. They had waivers and such, and a long page explaining how, basically, some night a truck full of "strange" men would come and steal the interested s/b/s/s out of hir home/bed, bind hir, and take hir to an unspecified location, and treat hir accordingly. We actually had some folks sign up, and it was actually pretty popular for a while -- popular enough that they actually ran 2 raids.
During the 2nd raid, folks got a little loud and one of the neighbors apparently called the cops with a description of the vehicle and a partial license plate. It took 3 days, a lawyer, and a sworn statement from all the participants, who swore it was part of a movie script that one of them was writing that they'd decided to 'rehearse' to get it down right... Fortunately, the cops stopped the scene before the more active part -- if they'd walked in on the 'fake' rape scene, they might very well all have ended up in jail.
With it only being the 2nd raid, the risk was determined by the group to be -way- too high... if something went wrong on even 30% of the raids (and right now, they were running a 50% screw-up rate... and after years of doing different stuff, we've had -little- things go wrong on well over half our scenes, and big things go wrong at least 1 in 10 with a -low to moderate- risk threshold... this had an extreme risk threshold and was already doing a crap job on the statistical end), it was virtually guaranteed that someone (probably more than one someone) was really liable to end up in jail over it, and that seemed beyond the pale for group-acceptable risk (individuals can accept whatever risks they want, but something affliated with a group must necessarily be more cautious, or risk the entire group in the process).
Our household decided that we'd stick to our private, very fake in-house, roleplayed attempts. After that, we were glad we did, despite the fact that it is pretty darned fascinating to contemplate. To be fair, though, if you're in the right mindset, even the faked, roleplayed stuff can get really heavy, provided that you can get your mind into the right space to accept what is happening at face value... oh, and we -did- have better success if there wasn't a lot of prep/warning involved right before the activity started.
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