Nobody likes the Seven Sarcastic Winds. Every year, as spring turns to summer, they blow around the Bison People’s lands, mocking everybody from the smallest child to the greatest warrior to the wisest grandmother. But everybody puts up with them, because the main thing they do is ridicule the rains. “Call that rain,” they say to the spring showers, “even a calf could piss harder than that,” and the rains slink away in embarrassment, and summer can begin.

Queen Victoria is on the throne. Brittannia rules the waves. There are always crumpets for tea.

You are part of an elite (well, exclusive) (well, eccentric) group dedicated to protecting society from the things that they would prefer not to know about. Not as difficult as one might imagine, given the famous British reserve.

You get a call from HQ to come and sort out a slight fracas. It seems one of your colleagues has come down with a spot of rabies...

Several people arrive at a remote country house to spend the weekend with an old friend. The only problem is, she's not there. Where is she? What's going on? How will you open the liquor cabinet? What is the cause of those mysterious lights in the forest? And most importantly, who's eaten all the strawberries?

The Solar Princess, the galaxy's most advanced and most luxurious spaceship (at least according to the advertising brochures), sails serenely between the stars. Some travel on her only briefly, visiting new worlds or sightseeing the wonders of the galaxy as she plies her never-ending course through space, while others have made her their permanent home. And of course there are the crew, only the best and brightest are chosen, obviously.

The world has changed since the end of season 7. The Slayers have gotten all organisey and missiony but there are a few newly awoken slayers that aren't part of the plan. They still live with their folks, struggle with math and try to get by at school. One such slayer is trying to avoid flunking school and do their bit to keep the world safe, now if only they hadn't been grounded for smoking...

Yes I'm running it again, with some twists....

Musketeers, Skyships, Swashbuckers, and Pirates. All of these meet in the port city of Agua Azul on the free cloud island Crail.

When a mysterious artifact is brought in to the port , The Falcons of Agua Azul must track down the conspiracy looking to destroy the city. Could it be a super weapon left over from a people long forgotten ? an assasin's cache in a plot to kill the commandant and plunge the city into disorder?

Either way a motley crew of miscreants / musketeers or municpal employees must solve this riddle.

September 6th, 2248: For the past three years Earth has been fighting a losing war against a massively superior alien race known as the Minbari. Now the Minbari fleet has come to Earth. A call has gone out for everyone able to fly a ship to report to a muster station. From there, you have been moved out to near a military airfield and told to wait pending an announcement that should come in an hour or two.

This was a great year for the SDC with five entrants submitting 7 scenarios. The games covered a range of genre from futuristic horror to two fisted mystery to camp humour. The quality of the games was universally high and choosing a winning scenario was no easy task.

Well, KapCon 18 is over, and we have to wait an entire year till another. Thanks to everyone who came along and made it such a lot of fun, especially our overseas visitors and the LARP team, but not forgetting all our amazing facilitators!

In the meantime, you can look at pictures of the LARP (some more are available here, but you'll need a Facebook log-in to see them), or follow the thread on NZ-RAG where people link to posts about their experiences of the convention. If you've written one, or just want to make some comments, go to the thread and link yours in, we all want to hear what people thought!

Now we have to figure out what (if anything) next year's KapCon will be subtitled!

PALMERSTON NORTH: A lab accident at Massey University claimed the life of a researcher yesterday. The accident is understood to have occured in a biological research lab on the university campus. No names have been released.
Police are remaining close-mouthed about the incident, and have cordoned off the area pending a full investigation.