======Stealing and Searching======
“Stealing” refers only to the IG stealing of IG items. Players must be incredibly careful when attempting to steal anything IG.

You are never allowed to destroy anything to steal something (no cutting of purse strings, no breaking windows to get into a home, no harming real property). On the other hand, you’re allowed to steal IG items if, for example, you can manage to open someone’s pouch and take the game items within without that person noticing.

There are special rules for each type of IG item and all players are required to know them. If you are caught stealing something incorrectly or stealing OOG items deliberately, consequences can include being expelled from the game and potentially reported to real-world law enforcement.

**Game Money, Magic Items and Jewelry**: You are always allowed to take whatever game money you can find IG. When taking jewelry or an item, always check to make sure there is a Magic Item or Evaluate number attached to it. If there is a number, then the item is now yours. If there is no number, then the item is personal property and not a game item. If you are unsure, you may find a marshal with a game item list who can check to make sure that it really is a game item.

If you have a Magic Item physrep stolen, you must immediately head to a [[Marshal]] and turn over the Magic Item tag. Since this is a Logistical requirement, you can do this OOG. Not turning in a Magic Item tag from something that has been stolen or lost is considered cheating.

**Weapons**: You must take the physrep of the Weapon you are stealing. Once you have stolen a Weapon and safely gotten away IG, you should then head immediately to an OOG Marshal or Plot member. You cannot actually keep that particular Weapon physrep since it is the personal property of the player from whom you stole it, but the marshal in charge will give you the tag from that Weapon which you can then attach to your own Weapon physrep.

If your Weapon is stolen, you should head to an OOG Marshal or Plot member to get your physrep back. You can do this OOG since this is only a Logistical function. Once you have your Weapon physrep back, you will then have to find a Weapon tag IG in order to use that Weapon again.

Some monsters will have Weapons that are stealable. However, for logistical reasons, these monsters will simply hand you a tag instead of the actual Weapon since they need the physrep for later. Most monster Weapons are not stealable as they are made of poor-quality materials IG.

If you steal a magic Weapon, you will keep the physrep but must have it Identified before you can use it. Remember, until you have the Magic Item tag via IG identification, the item cannot be used even if you do have the physrep.

**Spell Books and Recipe Books**: In order to steal a spell book or an Alchemical recipe book, you should take the tag that is attached to the book. The actual book is the private property of the player. Some players will mark their spell books with a note saying “this spell book is stealable.” In that case, you must take the actual book itself and not just the card, and you may not take the card out of that book and place it into a different book.

**Alchemy and Trap Globes**: If you steal globes from someone (or if those globes are destroyed), the owner of the globes must randomly give up the appropriate amount of tags for the globes. A Marshal may be called to oversee this.

**Other IG items**: REFUGE LARP often provides props such as maps, notes, books, and other informational items. If you find these in a module or on Cast, they’re yours. If you steal them from another player, you should either contact the person you stole it from OOG and make sure that they were stealable, or alternatively, see a Marshal to make sure.

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