For nearly a century the necromancers of the Ebon Tower have plotted the fall of Arlandia. For nearly a century they have schemed their evil schemes and planned their evil plans. For nearly a century, they have been ruled over by a succession of Archmages, each aided by the power of a mystical crown. The crown grants power, and bonds instantly with its wearer. Whenever an Archmage dies, whoever first bonds with the Archmage's crown becomes the new Archmage.

Now the Archmage is dead, and a new one must be chosen. Who shall be the next wearer of the Archmage's Crown?

A Pratchettesque comedy-fantasy by Donna Giltrap, first run at KapCon XI. People who have played "The Golden Pegasus" and "Graduation day" may find some setting elements familiar.

Just updated the SDC web site to list all the 2011 entrants with links so you can download the following entries :

The Cold Shoreby Malcolm Harbrow - a subantarctic survival horrorusing NEMESIS.

KapCon now has a new domain name of it's very own : kapcon.org.nz.

Don't worry, all the old URLs ( kapcon.rpg.net.nz, kapcon.rpg.org.nz ) still work, and will continue to do so as long as I maintain those domains, so people don;t need to hare off and edit any links they may have on web sites, and all our old search stats will remain relevant.

It just means that there is now a slightly shorter URL to type and print on external forms. :)

KapCon is no longer hosted on an ancient (10+ years old) IBM Net Vista sitting in my lounge. This hoary old beast is now permanently quiet, as is my lounge. You should find that performance of the site is significantly improved, along wth it's reliability.

This site, and the others that used to be hosted there, are now hosted on a Debian VPS provided by the very professional New Zealand-based Net24. I've always been impressed at the service provided by their sister company 1st Domains, who provide registration and mail forwarding for all the sites I manage, including this one, and so far Net24 have been just as impressive.

The process of transition was extremely smooth, and took less than day. ( I love apt-get! ) However, if you discover anything not working for you please let me know.

Now to look at upgrading to Drupal 7 and looking at some of those site enhancements some people have suggested.

What better way to spend a weekend than sailing on the Skye?

An idyllic chance to enjoy the sun, sea, and learn a little sailing with a professional crew to do the hard work and provide sumptuous food.

Itinerary

leave Wellington's Chaffers Street Marina at 8am Saturday 21 December
lend a hand sailing down to the Marlborough Sounds
swim in the waters of a pristine bay
sleep lulled by the gentle waves
cruise the beautiful coastline
fish in the fertile waters
eat your catch - cooked to perfection
sail the Strait back to Wellington
returning by 10pm Sunday 22 December

Cost $200

Call 021 THE SKYE

We look forward to seeing you.

Having lived and taught English in Japan for nearly a year, the lives of six unlikely foreigners suddenly become embroiled with the Yakuza, rival recruiters, a caretaker, and the supernatural.

The timetable for HarnCon is up here.

Welcome to the Project Olive Branch Troubleshooting Task Force. You may be aware that Quality Assurance have recently detected several critical defects in the first batch of Vindicators, due to be delivered to Alpha Complex Armed Forces in only a few days. Executive has determined that while these defects are most likely the fault of commie traitors and rival firms, a full review of the project is needed to examine these challenges and determine a preferred strategy for overcoming them.

Please report to conference room B14 for briefing.

Paranoia meets Dilbert meets Lockheed Martin.

A character-driven game of almost childish one-upmanship played amongst the Dying Earth's most puissant arch-magicians (who happen to be stuck, in a book). Somebody must win - be sure it is you!

A Famous Five piss take in the style of the TV comedy, Five Go Mad in Dorset, by The Comic Strip team.
It is the summer holidays. You are all on tour with the Barmy Army, and having a spiffing time following the English cricket team around. What strange mystery or exciting adventure could possibly be uncovered. No doubt, some kind cricket fan's mum will provide you with loads of cream cakes, tons of ham sandwiches, bags of lettuce and a mountain of tomatoes - wizard!! So bring along your silly British accents, bicycles, camping equipment, cricket bats and simply lashings of ginger beer - well hoorah!!