A warehouse could be another possibility. But you’d need a big one. With stuff in it. But it needs to be safe stuff. And accessible. And oh dear, now it’s too expensive.

The 2.8 hours variant... possible. We discussed that too. But the insurers don’t consider it a perfect solution, which I think is code for “we’ll insure it, but get ready for a premium whose cost resembles an international phone number”. And as you say, the admin would be immense.

Ultimately, 2.8 hours later blamed the insurance costs for their demise. What we’re doing is even more open so it’s hard for me to see how it’s going to be possible. And as long as we’re on the edge of viability anyway, it doesn’t fill me with confidence.

A few possibilities remain, which we’ll investigate.

The only other way I've seen it done was a hybrid approach. Multiple smaller controlled areas with walked transitions between. The old "2.8hrs Later" street game did this with its Zombie infested kill zones.

Possibly easier for insurance (no gameplay happens outside of the prescribed areas) but a much more complex setup for the game itself. Kinda following the Crystal Maze model that we tried the last time in York.

Either way, perhaps not something that can be organised for Jan 2019... >v.v< Maybe another time...

We could give each team their own guide/GM but it’s unclear how much training they would need and we would, in any event, then additionally require employee insurance. Plus, such a solution is unscalable.

We could perhaps do it in a traffic free environment. But we haven’t found one that is tolerable.

We could try a different insurer but I suspect they’re all similar. Besides, this takes time and can only really be done during work hours.

We could remove the goblins, but I don’t think that fully satisfies the insurer and would reduce the game significantly.

Even all other factors notwithstanding the absolute minimum premium would be about £10 per person (for a zero risk event). Therefore we’d have to charge and that brings overheads into play, not to mention high expectations from participants.

Then you start wondering “why bother” when its on the verge of viability anyway.

What are, if any, the possibilities to choose from?

Oh well, thanks for the answer at least.

We can't work out how to get it insured.`

Any movement for this?

Day job is willing to give time off but my window for booking it is rapidly closing! >O.O<

With apologies for the delay, we've now set up a page for our proposed Midnight Hunt in January based on the feedback we received:

https://www.facebook.com/events/283516225811953/

Please let us know (on that page) if you can attend. If we have sufficient interest, we'll go ahead with the event.

For me to attend, the date would need to be after Sept 1st. Reason being my day jobs holiday allowance for this year has already been used up with existing convention work. It cycles over to next year on Sept 1st.

Thanks and apologies for being awkward!

My convention work already takes most of the bookable time.