Ninth in this series of one-day conventions, which this year of course
happened on-line.
I've been to several "virtual conventions" but none of them has
seemed to have any connective tissue to it, nothing beyond the actual
games. This one was better; yog-sothoth.com is very much the creation
of Paul Maclean, and he did a live audio show on the Friday night and
another on the Saturday afternoon (with interaction via, alas,
Discord).
Available upload bandwidth at his place is quite limited, but he
managed some live-ish video.
Ready for the first game - with award-winning game accessory the
Eternal Journal.
The first game I played in was Dean Engelhardt's Smoke Green. In
Arkham during the mayoral election campaign, the cigarette maker who's
been endorsing the rival candidate turns up murdered, in a way the
police don't want to talk about. Just what does make that
distinctive green smoke anyway? (A rare exception to the guiding
principle of "burn it down first, ask questions later") Ink for this
session was Diamine Emerald.
On Saturday evening was The Dreaming Ward run by Lee Carnell.
Various people with sleep disorders come together to try a new
therapy. This got off to a rough start thanks to problems getting the
hang of the Foundry VTT, but was a highly atmospheric game even if the
key events felt slightly more on rails than one might ideally have
liked. (Diamine Oxblood.)
Finally as far as my games were concerned, Lee ran Dead Boarder on
Sunday afternoon; it's a short demo scenario and the backstory doesn't
entirely fit together, but with a bit of spanner-work I think it could
be reassembled in a more consistent shape. (Still not sure if a
certain handout was meant to have English script mixed in with the
Greek.) Diamine Onyx Black.
No Boathouse on Friday night, no Pickles on Saturday (well, never
again, as it's now closed down), no mysterious trips on Sunday. But
still plenty of interaction with a great bunch of people.
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