Grand Tribunal - User contributions [en-gb]

Programme

2018-08-01T16:16:59Z

JonathanE:

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==Friday==
<nfm>[[File:Hugh.jpg|thumb|right|Hugh dressed for a freeform]]</nfm>

All welcome, even if you are not ticket holders to join us for the Social Friday night: come see what Grand Tribunal all about! Unlike previous years we have not organised a formal sit down meal this year - prioritising playing games and informal chatting instead, but food will be available at the Brewhouse :)

These events are entirely optional, and timings are just a guide to the earliest time they might happen. Feel free to turn up fashionably late. Follow hashtag [http://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23gt17uk #gt17uk on Twitter] to check the exact time that we leave the pub to head to the hotel bar.

16:00 '''CHANGE TO YEARS PREVIOUS TO 2017'''. This year the Meet, Greet and Eat is at [http://www.brewhouseandkitchen.com/venue/cheltenham/ Brewhouse & Kitchen]''', Henrietta Street,GL50 4FA (opposite the Holiday Inn Express, behind the Premier Inn).

20:30 Card games, boardgames and socializing in the bar of the '''Holiday Inn Express, 33 Dunalley Street, GL50 4AP''' [http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=GL504AP map]

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==Saturday==
<nfm>[[File:Mistridge 6.jpg|thumb|left|2014 Freeform]]</nfm>

'''10:00-22:00 - Gas Green Community Centre''', see [[venue|venue page]] for details. Please bring a packed lunch. Fish & chip supper can be delivered, optional. The nearby supermarket & corner shop both sell sandwiches.

=== '''10:00 Game Slot A''' ===

10:00 Introduction, setup, prep time (30 mins)

10.30 This years freeform [[Coombe Hill]] by [[Andrew Oakley]]. It is in a sense a sequel to [[Mop Fair]] which ran in 2014 and is ''Ars Magica'' based. A freeform is a game played walking about the venue, in costume (ask if you want to borrow something, and don't feel you have to dress up if impossible for travel reasons!) It's a sort of non-combat larp, and I think most people enjoy it even if this is REALLY NOT your thing. It is assumed everyone will play, but if you aren't, just drop [[CJ]] a line to let me know

=== 12:30 Lunch ===

Lunch (please bring a packed lunch or visit local shops. In deference to our hosts no alcohol please in the venue. (30 mins). The Freeform wrap-up discussion and debrief will occur over lunch. Last orders for evening fish & chip supper will be taken here, so make sure you have spoken to Andrew if you would like to be in the order. Andrew goes and collects the food to save time for playing having phoned in orders from a limited menu to an excellent local chippy.



=== 13:00 '''Game slot B''' (3 hours) ===

* [[Architecture in the Sand]]. Ars Magica 5th edition adventure by [[Mark Steedman]]
A Magus or two and thier companions are heading out from their Levantine Covenant to investigate the ruins of an ancient city. Architecture and magical stuff is what they seek but they may also find other things. 4-6 players

OR

* [[Fireball XL5 - INVASION OF THE GRANITOIDS!]] by [[Simon Burley]]. System: The Code of the Spacelanes
It is the year 2064. World Space Patrol ship Fireball XL5 has received an urgent message from Space City. Patrol ship XL14 - responsible for patrolling sector 24 - has been lost with all hands. Before being destroyed, the crew were able to send one last Neutroni radio message. The planet Plytus has been obliterated by a fleet of Granitoid Warships. Granitoids are a race of virtually invincible robots. Their only weakness, the rare mineral, plyton, was only found on the planet Plytus. With that gone there is nothing to stop them wreaking havoc across the Milky Way. And now they’re on their way to Earth. Your mission is to do anything you can to slow delay their invasion fleet to allow the World Space Patrol to call in the other Fireball craft from their assigned sectors to defend Earth!

OR

* [[The Shadow Over Innsworth]] adventure by [[CJ]].
Innsworth is a small English town just a few more from the tidal waters of the Severn Estuary. Yet those more can prove quiet a barrier when you are a party of Deep Ones sent by dream commands of Great Cthulhu to bring one of your own, the young man Daniel Marsh, home to the city under the sea. Dan is just experiencing the change, and he may need explanations as to what is going on, and convincing to join you. Play a group of five Deep Ones (to say nothing of the shoggoth!) tasked with discretely rescuing the lad. What could possibly go wrong?

=== 16:00 Game slot C (3 hours)===

* [["The Chosen"]] Unknown Armies 3rd Ed. 3-6 players. Set, July 2017, UK. Once they were cosplayers, acquaintances more than friends. About 18 months ago they were doing a cheesy Buffy the Vampire cosplay as an ironic joke at a cosplay event. Something happened. Now they are obsessed by cos playing Buffy, and only Buffy. "Giles" believes (from doing a divination ritual) that if they can get to an International Buffy the Vampire slayer convention, happening in June 2018 on Honolulu they can find answers to what happened. But anyway it would be great to be there, Joss Whedon is a special guest and he has an exciting announcement for all fans of the show.

OR

* [[The Strange Case of Georgina Blenkinsop]] by [[CJ]] 1827; the Season is at its height and the six Blenkinsop daughters have left their remote Norfolk rectory to take the waters in fashionable Cheltenham Spa. With Papa in India, and mama indisposed it has all become Utterly Horrid. Sister Georgina has to begun to act very oddly, and the Blenkinsop girls must use all their gentle good breeding and find a way to avert a terrible scandal. Designed to be played straight faced, this is a (very) black comedy of manners inspired by Jane Austen and the Brontes.

=== 19:00 Raffle & Supper ===

This is the point at which the charity raffle occurs: sadly we haven't got as much from Atlas Games this year because of higher international postage rates, so if delegates can bring something - food, delicacies, second hand rpg stuff, interesting pebbles etc that is very welcome - to add to the raffle that is great, but by no means compulsory. CJ is putting in a still shrink wrapped copy of the Grand Tribunal boardgame and there will be some unique goodies.

Every attendee receives one ticket, and more can be purchased for £1 each.

Andrew will fetch the fish and chips people have ordered, and those who prefer can walk to one of many nearby fast food outlets or prepare food in the kitchen: we have a full size TESCO superstore 5 minutes walk away.

=== 20:00 '''Game slot D''' (till late) ===

* [[Babylon Recall - A Blakes Seven adventure]] by [[Simon Burley]] An "adventure that never was", based on the classic British TV Space Opera. The freedom fighting crew of the powerful, enigmatic, alien spaceship "Liberator" soon won't be the only ones with access to the unbelievable technology of an ancient race .Now - it seems - all the stories may have been true. "Something" has been unearthed on Mars. A secret so powerful it threatens to tear The Federation apart with infighting, with the victor gaining the ability to grind the galaxy under their heel. (Probably the spiked, white, leather heel of Supreme Commander Servelan.) What's needed is a brave, mad (suicidal) dash into Earth system - with its defence systems and fleets of Federation pursuit ships - to seize or destroy the enigmatic discovery from under the noses of the various Federation factions before it can foment a conflict that would envelop and kill millions of innocents. Seven against the Federation. What else is new?

OR

* [[The Romance of Durenmar]]: The year is 1228 and the Order of Hermes have gathered for the Grand Tribunal meeting that occurs at Durenma in the Black Forest every 33 years. A group of teenage apprentices have been brough along by their masters and mistresses; unable to attend the sittings of the Council who are deciding weighty matters, they have the opportunity to explore this ancient covenant and the surrounding forests. Will they stumble upon a mystery? Will their new magic prove strong enough? And can they get over their past meetings and prejudices,and work together if needed? An ''Ars Magica'' adventure by [[CJ]] for 5 apprentices and one magical cat.

OR

* [[Lamp Posts in Bloom]] by [[Scott Dorward]] Unknown Armies (5 players) A warm summer evening in middle England. Four old friends gather for a barbecue and drinks. Secrets will be uncovered. Betrayals will be laid bare. Innocent people will die. And the lamp posts will come into bloom.

<nfm>[[File:Battle.jpg|thumb|right|2014 Battle of Fornham game]]</nfm>

==Sunday==

'''9:00-16:00 - Gas Green Community Centre''', see [[venue|venue page]] for details. Sunday may involve re-runs of games that were booked solid on their first run on Saturday too. Please bring a packed lunch. The nearby supermarket & corner shop both sell sandwiches.

=== 9:00 '''Game slot E''' (4 hours) ===

[[We Had Faces]] by [[Scott Dorward]] -- Unknown Armies (4 players) It was supposed to be a simple deal: in, out and sell the goods. Sure, it wasn’t exactly legal or risk-free, but it wasn’t supposed to get you killed. The world is now a much more confusing and frightening place. Your memories of the last few days are a mess. There is something really urgent you need to do, but no one seems to know exactly what it is. You’re not sure if you can trust your friends: some of them may be planning to kill you. Hell, for all you know, one of them already has. And your problems are only just beginning.

OR

[[The Case of the Haunted Quarry]], Ars Magica adventure by [[Anna]].
Sequel to the Hazel Grove & Nimue's Sleepers, though it is not necessary to have played either game. The covenfolk of The Hazel Grove are asked to investigate sightings and sounds at the quarry which are delaying work, to the chagrin of the abbey and amusement of Sir Phillip

=== 13:00 '''Game slot F''' (3 hours)===

* [[Starfall]]: lost SciFi explorers on a "fantasy world" by [[Christopher Barratt]]. A game for 5 players.

* [[The Peculiar History of Scratching Fanny of Cock Lane]], being a Magickal Entertainment explaining the origins of the well known haunting that hath enriched the sellers of broadsheets throughout London town. In our humble performance, for 5 personages learned in the Occult arts, you will see revealed the deep mysteries that underlie that notorious haunt back inthe Elizabethan era, and play them out by the ruleset known as '''Magnomia'''. A most excellent diversion for ladies and gentlemen...

=== 16:00 Close ===

Close and wrap-up. People who need lifts are helped to station, and rest of us wander off for beer, an Indian meal and socialising for delegates who are able to stay till Monday, which we do every year. Highly recommended to sat Sunday night for the meal if you can; I'll post last train times to Bristol, London and Birmingham on the Venue page.

People

2017-06-27T21:10:50Z

JonathanE:

==Organisers==

* [[User:CJ.23|CJ]] - Ars Magica supplement author and role-playing games convention stalwart
* [[User:Andrew Oakley|Andrew Oakley]] - Does the boring stuff like stationery and running this website

==Story Guides==

If you're running a game, please add your name to this section, and also link to your scenario's entry under the [[Games]] page. Please also [[tickets|buy a ticket]] - you'll undoubtedly play other people's games too, and bear in mind the price is just to cover our costs.


* TBC

==Ticket Holders==

If you've already bought a ticket, please add your name here. Ideally, link it to your user page or website. Haven't bought your ticket yet? [[tickets|Buy now!]]

'''GUESTS OF HONOUR'''

'''AUTOCRAT'''
* [[CJ]]

'''PRESIDING QUAESITOR'''

'''MAGI''' - Those delegates who have paid for 2017!

* [[Phil Jenkins]]
* [[Anders Hakon Gaut]]
* [[Leif Olav Josang]]
* [[Andrew Jones]]
* [[Jean Francois Leveque]]
* [[Mark Steedman]]
* [[Mark Threlfall]]
* [[Jonathan Elcock]]
==Others==

People on the mailing list, people who intend to come but haven't yet [[tickets|bought a ticket]], other contacts within the Ars Magica community. Add your name here.

Modest Misses in the Meadow

2014-07-28T21:54:11Z

JonathanE: /* Sign up */

{| class="wikitable"
! width="13em" align=left|Game

|Modest Misses in the Meadow
|-
! align=left|Storyguide

|[[Anders Håkon Gaut]]
|-
! align=left|Length

|3 hours
|-

! align=left|Players
|4-6
|-
! align=left|Suitability

|Any
|-
! align=left|Prerequisities


|None
|-
! align=left|Pre-rolled characters available?

|Yes
|}

== Sign up ==

{| style="border-collapse: collapse;"
|style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 4px;"|'''First playthrough'''

1.Vacant
<br/>2. Vacant
<br/>3. Vacant
<br/>4. Vacant
<br/>5. Sign Up on Day
<br/>6. Sign Up on Day

|style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 4px;"|'''Waitlist'''

1. Vacant
<br/>2. Vacant
<br/>3. Vacant
<br/>4. Vacant
<br/>5. Vacant
<br/>6. Vacant

|}

A second playthrough will only be considered if the first is full, and there is enough time.

== Notes ==

It's midsummer eve and in the flowery meadows around the covenant a selection of the young(ish) girls are sent out on an important mission. There is VIS to be harvested, except that the girls don't really know the significance of this.

On midsummer eve there is dancing and bonfires and flirting and not least, the picking of the Midsummer Bouquet. Done correctly it will grant you True Dreams of you future husband.

An easy assignment. It's not like those old magi will notice if you keep a few flowers to yourselves. And what could possibly go wrong playing in the meadows on midsummer eve?

Modest Misses in the Meadow

2014-07-28T21:51:58Z

JonathanE: /* Sign up */

{| class="wikitable"
! width="13em" align=left|Game

|Modest Misses in the Meadow
|-
! align=left|Storyguide

|[[Anders Håkon Gaut]]
|-
! align=left|Length

|3 hours
|-

! align=left|Players
|4-6
|-
! align=left|Suitability

|Any
|-
! align=left|Prerequisities


|None
|-
! align=left|Pre-rolled characters available?

|Yes
|}

== Sign up ==

{| style="border-collapse: collapse;"
|style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 4px;"|'''First playthrough'''

1.Jonathan Elcock
<br/>2. Vacant
<br/>3. Vacant
<br/>4. Vacant
<br/>5. Sign Up on Day
<br/>6. Sign Up on Day

|style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 4px;"|'''Waitlist'''

1. Vacant
<br/>2. Vacant
<br/>3. Vacant
<br/>4. Vacant
<br/>5. Vacant
<br/>6. Vacant

|}

A second playthrough will only be considered if the first is full, and there is enough time.

== Notes ==

It's midsummer eve and in the flowery meadows around the covenant a selection of the young(ish) girls are sent out on an important mission. There is VIS to be harvested, except that the girls don't really know the significance of this.

On midsummer eve there is dancing and bonfires and flirting and not least, the picking of the Midsummer Bouquet. Done correctly it will grant you True Dreams of you future husband.

An easy assignment. It's not like those old magi will notice if you keep a few flowers to yourselves. And what could possibly go wrong playing in the meadows on midsummer eve?

People

2013-02-06T20:51:36Z

JonathanE: /* Ticket Holders */

==Organisers==

* [[User:CJ.23|CJ]] - Ars Magica supplement author and role-playing games convention stalwart
* [[User:Andrew Oakley|Andrew Oakley]] - Does the boring stuff like stationery and running this website

==Story Guides==

If you're running a game, please add your name to this section, and also link to your scenario's entry under the [[Games]] page. Please also [[tickets|buy a ticket]] - you'll undoubtedly play other people's games too, and bear in mind the price is just to cover our costs.

* [[CJ]]
* Mark Steedman
* Andrew Sceats

==Ticket Holders==

If you've already bought a ticket, please add your name here. Ideally, link it to your user page or website. Haven't bought your ticket yet? [[tickets|Buy now!]]

* Andrew Sceats
* Kirstie Sceats
* Nick Meredith
* Sheila Thomas
* Leif Olav Josang
* Anders Hakon Gaut
* Mark Threlfall
* Neil Taylor
* Thomas Nowell
* Lisa Langood
* Mark Steedman
* Phil Jenkins
* Barrie James
* Jonathan Elcock

==Others==

People on the mailing list, people who intend to come but haven't yet [[tickets|bought a ticket]], other contacts within the Ars Magica community. Add your name here.