Hatcon III

Well, I survived Hatcon III, the lastest of the mini-cons by the Dreamlyrics and ex-RPGAMES crew. This one was held at the residence of Pete Hat in Brighton, hence the name.

The Virgin Voyager got me all the way from Manchester to Brighton within 20 minutes of the scheduled arrival time, pretty good by Virgin Train's non-Euclidian time.

Gaming started on Saturday morning with Abaddon's game with no character sheets, no setting information, opening with "You're in a bank, holding a gun, with a ski mask on your face. You have no memory". It later progressed to Cthulhoid tentacled things, and the demon-worshipping bank manager.

I wasn't going to mention becoming a victim of "GM's Girlfriend Syndrome", except that I find I already have. I think his words were "If I had done that to her, she would have killed me".

The weekend also featured a GURPS Kalyr game GMed by yours truly, a game of Adventure! setting our two-fisted pulp heroes against fake vampires and thuggee cultists, an epic DnD game in which I didn't play (it was at the same time as my GURPS game), a murder mystery, and more Cheapass Games games than I can remember!

Posted by TimHall at October 23, 2002 06:15 PM | TrackBack

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