[Excalibur] FW: ConBust at Smith, 4/2 - 4/4!

[John C. Watson]

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> From: "Katie" <kservos at smith.edu>
> Reply-To: amherstgaming at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 01:01:34 -0000
> To: amherstgaming at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [amherstgaming] ConBust at Smith, 4/2 - 4/4!
> 
> SSFFS (Smith Science Fiction and Fantasy Society) is running our
> second annual convention, ConBust II, on the weekend of April 2 -
> April 4 in Seelye Hall at Smith.  Our special guests this year
> include writers Patricia C. Wrede and Lynn Flewelling, game designer
> Rebecca Borgstrom, and manga translators Mari Morimoto and Lillian
> Olsen.  We're having a short story contest, a bake sale, an art show,
> dealers, a techno/gothic dance with DJ Kilean, workshops on drawing,
> miniatures painting, the Elven language, chainmail construction, and
> boffing, anime and other film showings, and, of course, gaming.
> 
> Here's our preliminary gaming schedule (still subject to change):
> 
> Friday, 4 to 6: Chez Geek (Katie Servos) -- card, Seelye 304
> 2 - 12 players
> Beer, sleep, nookie, anime, the Mutant Olympics, and crappy jobs. . .
> welcome to Chez Geek! The goal of this game is to slack off more than
> the other players do.  Funny illustrations by John Kovalic (of Dork
> Tower comics).  With both expansion sets (Slack Attack and Block
> Party).
> 
> Friday, 7 to midnight: BESM LARP (Cassie Stearns) -- LARP, Seelye
> 301, 302, 306, 308, 309, 312, 313
> The RPG based on anime -- in live-action style! In this LARP, anime
> stereotypes collide.  What happens when the Magical Girl meets the
> Mecha? Uh-oh. . .
> 
> Friday, 7 to midnight: Valence (Colin Fredericks) -- tabletop, Seelye
> 310
> A science-fiction RPG, designed by GM Colin Fredericks.
> 
> Saturday, 1 to 6 PM: Exalted (Michael Moceri) -- tabletop, Seelye 310
> White Wolf's fantasy RPG.
> 
> Saturday, 1 to 6 PM: D&D (Katie Servos) -- tabletop, Seelye 304
> 4 - 8 players, pregen
> A 3rd-ed update of the otherworldly 2nd-ed Planescape campaign
> setting.  Angels and demons rub elbows in a dark, smoggy floating
> city where all worlds meet; philosophers, representatives of the
> gods, and fanatics play politics in a world where belief can change
> the geography; and the floating, mysterious Lady of Pain silently
> watches over it all.  Not yer mama's D&D.
> 
> Saturday, 7 to midnight: Console (Colin Fredericks) -- tabletop,
> Seelye 304
> Light Warriors Lite? Come play in a world based on classic 1980's
> console RPGs and their conventions.
> 
> Saturday, 7 - midnight: Feng Shui (Jim Crocker) -- tabletop, Seelye
> 310
> 6 players, rules taught, no experience necessary
> A fast-paced Hong Kong action movie-based RPG.
> 
> Sunday, 1 - 3: Boggle (Katie Servos) -- board, Seelye 304
> 2+ players
> How many words can you find in a grid of random letters? The longer,
> more obscure, and more unlikely, the better.
> 
> Our website, which includes instructions for preregistration, is:
> http://www.smith.edu/ssffs/conbust/
> 
> If you'd like to specifically reserve a space in any of the games
> listed above, please e-mail me: kservos at smith.edu
> 
> More details on the games are forthcoming.
> 
> -- Katie

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Ciao,
     John

John C. Watson
World Otakunization Project, Amherst Division

Please note the change of my E-mail address.