Wellington Anniversary Weekend January 20th - 21st 2024

Shadowrun Missions: Back in Business (04-00)

Facilitator: 
Grant Robinson

Welcome Home

It’s a simple job: find a missing girl. Of course, nothing is ever simple in the shadows, and a whole lot of people seem to be interested in this job for one reason or another.

System: 
Shadowrun

A Stiff One

Facilitator: 
Stephanie Pegg

You've just had the worst week of your life. This thing happened, and it was awful, and no matter what you tried to do about it, it was still unspeakably horrible. Well, almost unspeakably. That's what Friday night drinks are for - to sit down with your mates, have a stiff one, and vent about all the stuff that's been happening in your life. Just wait 'til they hear what happened to you.

System: 
Semi-Larp

The Wishing Well

Facilitator: 
Andy Millar

In a secluded spot that is easily overlooked near to the highway between Salamonis and Chalice, lies an ancient well in which nobles and princes from long ago once came to cast their gold and make their wishes. With the passing of time, its location was lost and the wishing well fell into legend.

Many years later, a young boy exploring the woods near his home stumbled across the crumbling structure and saw something gold glinting in the bottom of the dried up well floor. News of the well's discovery quickly spread and adventures from across Allansia descended down into its blackness seeking their fortune. None have ever been heard from since.

Now another group stands at the entrance of the well ready to discover the fate of these adventurers and the secrets of the wishing well.

The Advanced Fighting Fantasy roleplaying game is back with a second edition. So grab two D6, a sharpened pencil and a potion of stamina (fresh coffee) to join the fun on Sunday morning. The perfect hangover cure.

System: 
Advanced Fighting Fantasy Second Edition

Jumping the Sharky

Facilitator: 
Mike Foster

The Boss is laid up in hospital, his right hand man on the run and his best men scattered far and wide. Someone's putting the pressure on and there's no time or chance for a gathering to plan their counterattack. But the distance separating them may yet prove their greatest strength, as each man is able to carry out his part of the plan unnoticed while the enemy thinks they're too scattered and distant to be a threat. Of course, communication is key so that every member of the team knows exactly what he has to do, but in this technological age long distance isn't the problem it used to be.

NB: There will some elements of "shared narrative" indie gaming carry-on as all character interaction will take place in the form of telephone conversations (feel free to supply your own props) and action will occur "off-camera" with the participants narrating the outcome afterwards.

System: 
homebrew indie stylez

Love of Money

Facilitator: 
Dale

In the world of The Esoterrorists, a cabal of high-placed sorcerers weakens the membrane between this world and the dreaded Outer Dark by launching operations employing media saturation to subvert the populace’s collective sense of reality. The heroes, the dedicated men and women of the Ordo Veritatis, confront and defeat these plans. These are their stories… [CHA-CHUNK]

Six months ago, Ordo Veritatis agent John Sheldon went off the organisations radar following an emotional breakdown in the wake of loosing his wife in a car crash. He held is sister, fellow Ordo Veritatis agent Caroline Sheldon responsible for her death as she was drunk at the wheel that night. Psychiatric Metrics feared John went out to perform a solo mission to expose the heart of an Esoterrorist funding network he had uncovered in Amsterdam. The proposal for that mission had been shelved months ago due to its low probability of success.

When his body turns up in Amsterdam, evidently the sacrifice in an Esoterrorist ritual, the eye of suspicion turns on the rest of his team he left behind. Are they guilty by mere association, or are they innocent of his fate? They are given a chance to find out what happened to their friend and colleague, and in the process clear them from any suspicion in the eyes of the Ordo Veritatis.

The Love of Money was written by Matthew Sanderson

System: 
Esoterrorists (GUMSHOE)

Means, Motive, Opportunity

Facilitator: 
Nicholas Green

It is the year 1921 and Britain has emerged victorious from The Great War - thanks in part to the efforts of Short Brothers Plc who supplied the planes used in the reconnaissance missions. The owner and chairman, Eustace Short, has invited you to an evening at his home in the countryside, with the understanding that he wishes to make an announcement. Several thoughts rush to mind:

* The company has been suffering lately under his leadership - is he announcing his retirement?
* One of his airships crashed on the City of Hull earlier this year killing 45 people - is he planning to pay reparations or perhaps a memorial?
* Rumour has it that he has been consulting a new lawyer about his will - is he anouncing the changes?

The evening is, however, thrown into disarray when he is found murdered! And to compound matters, you are named as one of the six suspects!

We are looking for six people to play the following characters:
* Scarlett Short - a wealthy young socialite who recently married the victim
* Oswald Short - brother to the victim, part time engineering genius, full time alcoholic and gambler
* Gordon Bell - war buddy to the victim and powerful solicitor
* Cynthia Bell - childhood friend to the victim and married to Gordon Bell
* John Parker - young, ambitious and second in charge of the company
* Herman Smit - the local General Practitioner and personal physician to the victim

Means, Motive, Opportunity is an online and multiplayer game. It involves using a web site and engaging with other players via voice conference. We will bring the computers, you will bring your voice and your imagination.

The game will be run in an offsite location a short walk from Wellington High School

System: 
Online

Mystic Empyrean - The Steam Vaults of Nitar

Facilitator: 
Daniel Steadman

You are an Eidolon, set apart from the other sentients by your drive and clarity of self awareness. You wear your soul on the outside, granting you immortality and wonderous but strange abilities at the cost of being true to yourself.
You have travelled to Nitar following rumours that a shard of the Cornerstone of the world is hidden there. If true it may contain a chance to change the world and bring it at least one step closer to being saved from the encroachine Aether.

Mystic Empyrean is a brand new game that relies on several story telling systems that I have not seen before. If you enjoy open games that encourage narrative and free-form resolution within the constraints of the games mechanics this game may be for you. If you would like to focus on skill lists and hit points it probably isn't.

This particular scenario is in a world of steampunk, using the games preview adventure, mainly because of the pretty art that came with it.

System: 
Mystic Empyrean

Shades of Grey

Facilitator: 
Marcus Bone

Everyone expected another attack after 9-11; be it from Islamic extremists, Arab dissenters or even Russian hard liners. But no one could conceive that the strike would come from those calling themselves true American patriots.

And yet it was. In the space of barely a second, half of Oklahoma was wiped off the face of the earth; devastated by the largest nuclear device to be detonated in the history of man.

The year is 2023, and America is no longer a country of freedom and democracy.

System: 
Home Brew

Kapcon Summer-Slam

Facilitator: 
Dale

BOB: “After the absolute mayhem and carnage of the Day of Games World Championship Bout I find it hard to believe that the organisers of the Kapcon Federation would condone another free-for-all wrestling championship..."

J.T.: “It defies belief Bob, didn't mysterious D.O.G. General Manager Slammin’ Sophie Melchior swear that any rival organisation would suffer the wrath of her League of Infamy?"

BOB: "She sure did, I just hope those Kapcon folks know what they're letting themselves in for. The innagueral Kapcon Summer-Slam mega event is certain to attract a fresh batch of mean, smack-talking wrestlers with crazy gimmicks and moves like you’ve never seen before, all eager to beat down the opposition and form syndicates capable of pulling off an amazing victory…”

J.T.: "I mean this is going to be the pay-per-view event of the century, I just hope that the venue has some ironclad insurance because I think more than just ego's are going to be smashed inside the ring of glory"

BOB: "It's an electrifying prospect J.T., I can't wait!"

Piledrivers and Powerbombs – Chokeslam of Darkness Edition is a wrestling game where you generate wrestlers, their gimmicks, signature moves and their arch-nemesis and then enter the competition to become the innaugeral Kapcon Summer Slam World Champion.

System: 
Piledrivers and Powerbombs

CASE LAMBENT WITCH

Facilitator: 
IdiotSavant

This briefing is classified BLUE HADES. If you do not have BLUE HADES clearance, please leave the room now.

"At 0944 this morning, communication with the Witch Bravo oil platform was lost. It was initially believed to be a combination of heavy weather and technical difficulties but when they continued to remain out of touch, Witch Charlie sent a chopper out. It couldn’t land because of high winds but the pilot noted two things.

"Firstly, there were crew moving about on deck. Actually, he said ‘stumbling’. Secondly, the gas flare from the rig was green.

"At 1602, a rescue boat from the coast guard made contact with the platform. The last transmission we got from them was, ‘Oh fuck, they’ve got glowing eyes’.

"Witch Bravo is right on the edge of an area designated in the Benthic Treaty as forbidden to humanity. Without wishing to prejudice your findings, it is entirely possible that some moron has drilled into Cthulhu’s arse-crack. If that's the case, then your job is to plug it.

"But first, a word from Health & Safety..."

A Laundry Files adventure from Black Bag Jobs. A full briefing is available here.

System: 
The Laundry (BRP)
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