Beltane tonight, best of luck making the sun come back.

(Edit: Yeah, about that...)

Onyx Path Convention 2024

Onyx Path Virtual Gaming Convention dates announced, June 14th-16th, including panels and live play acknowledging that Curseborne exists.

Last Dance season three

Next time our Vampire: The Masquerade game gets overly literal in time for Mardi Gras.

It would probably have happened before the Nationals banner, but still.

(New York doesn’t do Mardi Gras on any parade-type level but vampires like to party and it was that or Valentine’s. Which could also get a session.)

Terry Pratchett Day

Vale.

Josie And The Pussycats (2016-7)

Exceedingly early Nationals inspiration

Josie And The Pussycats (2016-7) by Marguerite Bennett, Cameron DeOrdio and Audrey Mok

From issue 2:

“Dang it! We need a distraction.”

“A tiny veneer of irony over the crushing despair that is being conscious in this world?”

“Um.”

A L I E N Day

A L I E N Day 45 due to American dating structure. This year Romulus is due, and Marvel pushing on with a new comics continuity which deals with the prequel-y stuff but has its moments, and Free League doing a few big releases for the R P G.

Werewolf: The Apocalypse - The Book Of Hungry Names

The Book Of Hungry Names opens.

At 1.6 million words it would be hard to print as a physical gamebook, being as long as three of War And Peace.

Who Killed Nessie?

Who Killed Nessie? by Paul Cornell and Rachael Smith is so close to funding that it might... just... happen!

Star Trek Adventures second edition quickstart

Star Trek Adventures second edition quickstart now online.

Multiple NPCs

Just played a session where the multiple NPCs in a council meeting were scripted, and handed out to the players to read for a few minutes. I’ve seen some cases where NPCs are handed out with briefings to play for longer sequences. My usual default is to summarise up to the point PCs can interrupt.

Earth Day

Be a hero. Save the world.

Last Dance 2.16 dialogue

Preston and Vincent exchange money over which of their theories about the Circulatory System’s plans was right, in a standoff with the local System leader.

“... Do I have to explain my villainous plan?”

“If you wouldn’t mind.”

“We’re not exactly Batman.”

That awkward moment when you’re not sure how much posturing to do.

(I did then have her explain, so she could weasel out of repercussions )

Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department

You walk into the Succubus Club and...

All my mornings are Mondays stuck in an endless February

Fortnight

Wordplay, gloom, making the Dead Poets Society reference even more explicit with video cameos...

Abigail

Abigail is great gory fun, though it takes longer than expected to get to the USP revealed by all the marketing - I like to think I’d have gotten it a bit before the reveal if I’d gone in cold. Much more clearly from the makers of Ready Or Not than Scream 5 and 6.

Dialogue for a possible Buffy idea

“Are you a wish-granting demon? Because you have to say so.”

“That’s cops. And it’s not true about cops either.”

“Oh.”

The Enterprise flies home

The original Star Trek three-foot film model of the USS Enterprise has returned to the Roddenberry family archive.

Nationals 2025: MMU

I may know what the provisional Nationals 2025 theme is: Cyberpunk.

I may have already pitched a Buffy adventure for it: evil media corporation to fight against.

Yes, it is Josie And The Pussycats.

2024 Olympics

100 days to the start of the summer Olympics in Paris.

And I have already seen Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester and what may be Porky Pig explaining realy race handoffs.

Wreck series 2

Wreck series 2, the unexpected return of the comedy-horror about a slasher a cruise ship, doesn’t feature a slasher on a cruise ship as it runs with the reveals at the end of series 1 and shifts to a different and less self-contained location.

It works as a way to continue what felt like a big one-shot, and has fun with the premise, but the setting is more regular-issue.

Nationals 2024 banner

The category banners were very nice indeed. Gallery hopefully to follow!

Alexis - Welfare Cult Leader

The banners were designed by the incredible MelWare, our very own plague doctor, with support from Astra (Cultist) and the Pope himself James Cult Pope I <3

James Cult Pope I 

Notepad art was also MelWare

Dice was Xiggy, Astra (Cultist), myself and a Q-workshop employee