Scheduled Games
Patrol!
Every Saturday Night, 8-11:00pm, 36-115
Travel to strange new classrooms. Meet interesting, unusual people, and kill them! Patrol is a high-action game of live combat with rubber-dart guns. Shoot your friends, then watch out as they try to take their revenge.
The Murder of Jefferson Douglass
Weekend of September 19 (One night)
GMs: Jonathan Chapman, Alex Gurany, and Edward Z. Yang
An elusive venture capitalist has invited you to his private island for a hunting expedition. But this no normal hunting expedition: he has promised you that the creatures that you will find on this island will be ones that you have never seen before in your life. Unforgettable, legendary creatures.
But not one day into your stay at this island was the host found brutally murdered; killed by a knife in his study. Now, mystery swirls about hismansion: who killed Mr. Douglass, in the study, with the dagger? Who will be the one to inherit his vast (mis)fortune? And on this island of legendary creatures, not everything is as it seems... the hunters turn into the hunted.
THE MURDER OF JEFFERSON DOUGLASS
an even more dangerous game
Shinja Academy
Weekend of October 3 (SIK game)
GMs: Nelson Elhage, Hubert Hwang, Cassie Huang, Stephanie Paige, and Eli
Stickgold
ATTN: All Employees
Shinja Heavy Industries would like to remind you that the Accounts, Sales,
Engineering, and Security Departments have scheduled mandatory combat
training tomorrow at 1200 hours. Mandatory combat trainingwill cover
basic operation of Shinja standard equipment, simple offensive and
defensive tactics, and proper use of essential magic; equipment will be
provided for those participants unable to bringtheir own. As always,
Shinja will provide fully-subsidized resurrection services should any
workplace accidents occur (subject to the restrictions in Section 13.7 of
your Employee Handbook). Please notify your supervisor at least 12 hours
in advance if you will be unable to attend this seminar; failure to attend
without prior notice will be considered grounds for immediate termination.
Shadow Over Babylon
Weekend of October 10 (One night)
GMs: John D'Agosta, Eddy Karat, and Susan Weiner
On February 17th, a terrorist attack occurred in the ruins of Mosul. The attack was accompanied by the release of a toxic gas that killed approximately 50 people. The sole survivor appears to have suffered severe mental trauma from an unknown neurotoxin.
Al Araf, an insurgent group, claimed responsibility and has called for a meeting with government and international officials. They threaten that, unless their conditions are met, more deadly attacks will follow.
Shadow Over Babylon is a game of political intrigue and Lovecraftian horror set in Iraq in the near future. The game takes place at a diplomatic meeting between Iraqi officials, insurgent groups and representatives from the UN, the US and military contractors.
Final Fantasy: Revenant Storm
Weekend of Oct 17 (SIK game)
GMs: Ken Clary, Cassie Huang, Will Lowenthal,
Christian Ternus, Jim Waldrop
After the revelation of the true nature of the Zodiac, Cardinal Vivi of Titan evades multiple assassination attempts from the Black Hand of the Church. He swears vengeance upon his former masters in the church, and renames himself Cardinal X, forsaking the name of the Saint whose name he had taken. With the majority of the paladins and clergy formerly under his authority, he breaks from those attempting to kill him and forms the Church of the Retribution.
Cardinal X and his followers call themselves Revenants - the revenants of Gaia, who was killed by the actions of the Zodiac Demons. The Revenants, 15 strong, board the fastest airship in Titan and set course for the seat of the Church, the necrohol-city of Lich... bringing a Revenant Storm to enact vengeance upon the Zodiac.
An Afternoon of Interludes
Weekend of November 7 (One night)
GMs: Jesse Ashcraft-Johnson, Nelson Elhage, Hubert Hwang, Dane
Kane, Ekaterina Kuznetsova, and Joy Perkinson
A series of short games, including "Sciencetown: Capture the Flask," "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny," and "The Republican National Convention."
Final Fantasy: Heaven's Rift
Weekend of November 14 (One night)
GMs: Danny Bates, Ken Clary, and Peter Litwack
A high-action one-night fantasy/sci-fi game based somewhat on the Final Fantasy series of video games.
The Ides of March (Fall edition)
November 15 (One afternoon, seminar)
A gamewriting panel for aspiring and experienced GMs. Panelists and topics TBD. Running this fall, since it didn't run last spring.
The Princess is in Another Castle
Saturday, December 5, in place of Patrol
GMs: Kendra Beckler and Jason Gonsalves
Mushroom Kingdom Daily News announced today that Princess Toadstool was kidnapped seven times last night! The crack squad of Mario and Luigi is on the case! So why did so many Marios and Luigis show up?
Rescue the princess? Steal a different princess? Take over the world? Your call.
Fall Assassins' Guild Meeting
Sunday, December 6, 2pm
The meeting. There will be food. There will be wanking. There will be disk guns. You will give us money.
Sciencetown
Weekend of December 12 (One night)
GMs: Nelson Elhage, Hubert Hwang, and Joy Perkinson
Once upon a time, mad scientists terrorized the globe. Their outlandish plans to conquer the world (often involving irradiated gold, moon satellites, or laser sharks) wreaked havoc on the planet. Eventually, top scientists in the US government created Sciencetown, a place for mad scientists to "retire" and continue their mad science without bothering the rest of the world. And all was well...
...until one week ago, when the entire population of the world was suddenly converted into mindless drones. Only the ScienceDome shield covering Sciencetown protected the residents from the same fate. With the outside world in disarray, now is definitely the perfect time. The perfect time... TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!
Arcadia Rising
January 22-31 (Ten day)
GMs: Kathleen Clark-Adams, Charles Hope, Dennis V. Perepelitsa, Joy
Perkinson, Christian Ternus, and Ian Ynda-Hummel
``The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial
globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where
man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.''
-- 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
The Atlantic Research Command / Aquatic Defense Initiative (ARCADIA) was a sprawling mobile underwater base the size of a smallcity. Locals call it the Ark and at the start of the 22nd century, it was the jewel of the sea - the most ambitious engineering project ever undertaken by the nations of man. In 2142, an infectious, swiftlyreplicating neuroviral strain of rabies spread like a firestorm. The governments of the planet were taken by surprise and soon all of civilization was overrun by ever-increasing andever-rampant hordes of the hungry diseased.
The Ark was no exception to the chaos.
Experimental military protocols activated, strong AI ran wild, the station entered a state of quarantine and dove to the bottom of the Atlantic while everything on the surface died in the apocalyptic onslaught.
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``And the Lord said unto Noah, 'Come thou and all thy house into the
ark, for thee have I seen righteous before Me in this generation.'''
-- Genesis 7:1
Decades later, mechanical men called automata live side by side with humans and the bio-engineered. Cults and religions emerge, with an opinion on the meaning of the Crisis and the future of man. A thriving underground culture of shadowy figures and cybernetic drugs develops, and a new generation grows up that has never seen the sun. After more than thirty years, external detectors sense that the surface is once again habitable. Automated response systems are beginning to release their previous grip and it looks like the quarantine may finally be coming to an end. The Ark's engines drive it ever closer to the surface. The station braces for a lost Earth. The chirping, mechanical voice of ALICE echoes down the halls,
CAUTION: ...
-.--..---... ARCADIA RISING ...---..--.-
Upcoming Games
These are games that are planning on running in the near future, to the best of our knowledge, but aren't scheduled yet. If you think your game should be here but isn't (or vice versa), send mail to the High Council.
Black Ships
Three day
GMs: Paul Baranay, Andrew Clough, and Jessica Hamrick
It is mid-19th century Japan, and the Americans have just arrived on Japanese shores. The Shogun has called together all the noble houses of Japan to figure out what to do with the foreigners. Should the shogunate open trade - or use their military might to drive the foreigners out? How can the Japanese incorporate the Americans' strange new technologies without destroying the harmony of their own society?
Hogwarts Year 7 : The Year Without Potter
Ten day
GMs: Paul Baranay, Jake Beal, Lee
Fuchs, Andrew Menard, Emily Rosser, Ariel Segall, and Paul Weaver
The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a darker place this year than ever before. The Dark Lord is on the rise outside the walls, and it is an open secret that his influence has penetrated the Ministry of Magic. Snape has replaced Dumbledore as the headmaster of the school, despite persistent rumors of murder, and the Dark Arts are openly taught. Some students are reveling in the changes, while others are pursuing quiet-- and not-so-quiet-- rebellion. Many familiar faces are missing from the classrooms, and new students replace them. Almost every day, word arrives of families killed and friends vanished. And yet, school goes on. There are NEWTs to be studied for, and house points to be won; Quidditch matches to be played and, of course, dates to be found for the Yule Ball. Your time at school is coming to an end, one way or another; you'd better get everything you can out of it.