Games for Furnace 2011

[ElaineM]

The latest version of the Furnace timetable can be found at http://db.tt/lmZaN58.

We still have enough free slots for another 20 games, so keep sending those game submissions!

[Wolverine]

Here are my games for Furnace, which Elaine has already received details of.


A Ghost of a Silhouette
A HeroQuest scenario for Empires Rising written and narrated by Nathan Baron

It is the day of the Doge's annual ball and all notable citizens of Armon will be in attendance. Whispers in the court speak of a delegation from the Grydorlan Empire arriving in the city, with the intention of offering the Doge the hand of friendship. Doge Vittorio has invited the delegates to the ball, with the intention of presenting a Mask of Crystal to the Empire's emissary as a token of friendship. Is the Doge really going to accept the hand of friendship from the Empire? And what’s more, who is the strange Olfenstein Prince who has the Duke's ear, and the Prince's mysterious companion who simple refers to herself as The Marquesa? Receive your invitation, and be prepared for the Duke's Masquerade Ball!

Originally ran at Furnace, this scenario has been re-written for Empires Rising and is a great introduction to the setting and HeroQuest.

Time Slot: Saturday Morning
Number of Players: Four to Six


The King in Crimson
A HeroQuest scenario for Empires Rising written and narrated by Nathan Baron

The King’s annual birthday tourney attracts scores of competitors and this year is no exception. Knights will Joust for the prize of being named King’s Champion and Grand Melee is always a spectacle with commoners and knights competing side by side. Common folk and high lords alike will be in attendance and this year the King has made it clear he plans to make a “momentous announcement” that will change the shape of the Commonwealth forever. But before he can, tragedy strikes.

In this scenario, you take on the role of lords, ladies and knights, taking part in or spectating at the tourney. Set in Atalansia one of the major powers in Empires Rising, The King in Crimson is a great introduction to the setting and HeroQuest.

Time Slot: Saturday Afternoon.
Number of Players: Four to Six

[Dom]

Just to follow Newt's announcement in the announcements section, I can confirm that I will be running three Wordplay based games at Furnace (all SF) and there are a number of others which are planned (First Age has one for example).

[Neil Gow]

In 2008 we reddened the fields of Spain with French blood.
In 2009 we sailed to New York on the Irish Rover.
In 2010 we explored the high plains of South Africa at the height of Queen Victoria's reign.
Now, in 2011 we go beyond the stars in the name of the Emperor of Mankind!

GAME ONE
1. Neil Gow
2. 'Empire' (Duty & Honour variant rules)
3. Operation:Resurrection

4. Deep beneath the frozen ice plains of the dead planet Scythos lies the prison tomb of Lord High Anarch Tyrannus Necra - The Black Son. Guarded for centuries by a cadre of the most holy Adeptus Astartes, none but the purest can touch the desecrated ground lest they be consumed by the latent taint of Chaos. Imperial Astropaths lost contact with Scythos ten days ago and since then the shadow of Chaos has consumed the planet. The Archenemy of Mankind is seeking to rescue the dead bones of his greatest son.

You are the First Platoon of the infamous Spartan Seventh - the best Seek & Destroy regiment in the Imperial Guard. Your mission is to land on Scythos, re-establish contact with the prison tomb and ensure that the corpse of the Lord High Anarch is kept out of the hands of the advancing Chaos horde.

This game is a conversion of Duty & Honour for the Warhammer 40k universe. No knowledge of the system or the background is needed to play the game.

Tags: Empire, WH40k, Imperial Guard, Chaos, Guns, Fethin' Violence!, Not recommended for kids.

5. Four
6. Slot Two

GAME TWO
1. Neil Gow
2. 'Empire' (Duty & Honour variant rules)
3. Black Son Rising

4. Forces loyal to Lord High Anarch Tyrannus Necra have risen from their genetic coma and a bloodbath has erupted across an entire sector. The forces of Chaos are pouring from their hidden harbours in the Warp and the forces of the Emperor are being forced to cede planet after planet to the Archenemy.

You are the First Platoon of the infamous Spartan Seventh - the best Seek & Destroy regiment in the Imperial Guard. Your reputation following the affair on Scythos has made you the only choice for one last mission in this system - a rescue beacon is active on the chaos-infested hive world of Nestor IX, the source of the encrypted signal remains known only to those of the highest command rank. Your mission is to infiltrate this new Chaos stronghold and retrieve whoever - or whatever - has activated the beacon. Time is of the essence as the Chaos Fleet approaches...

This game is a conversion of Duty & Honour for the Warhammer 40k universe. No knowledge of the system or the background is needed to play the game.

Tags: Empire, WH40k, Imperial Guard, Chaos, Guns, Fethin' Violence!, Not recommended for kids.

5. Four
6. Slot Three

[SexyLemur]

Good call Neil!

Pencil me in for the session three slot and I bet Gaz would be up for it too!

[Kaiserjez]

Neil, please tell me you will run this at a con I can get too!

[Neil Gow]

Now lets not get over-excited lads! I've not even playtested the rules changes yet, never mind wrote the actual adventures! Jez, I'm adamant I will get to one of the southern cons this season, so I'll run something like it for you, promise.

Neil

[Evilgaz]

Now lets not get over-excited lads! I've not even playtested the rules changes yet

So you're going to use the rules then? Should be interesting

Pencil me in for the session three slot and I bet Gaz would be up for it too!

Yarp.

[ElaineM]

Latest update, boys and girls, and we're almost at full timetable.

http://db.tt/BH2PwWe

We have one free table on Saturday evening, and four on Sunday afternoon. If you can offer a game in either of those slots, let me know. If you're running a game, but haven't given me details yet, please could you get them to me ASAP?

Once the timetable is full (or almost full!), I'll open GM pre-bookings. That's one pre-booking for each game you run, just to tempt people!

[Pete]

Hee hee, one of the Warhammer games is called To Polish A Turd. Great title

Once the timetable is full (or almost full!), I'll open GM pre-bookings. That's one pre-booking for each game you run, just to tempt people!

My offered game is just placeholder - I needed to put something down, so I duly banged something down. I'll have a bit of a think about what I'm likely to want to run 4 months from now - man, I have no idea what I'll be keen on - and get back to you before the week is up.

Cheers
Pete

[dr_mitch]

I've plans to change a couple of mine- my current planned list is...

Drowned Lands (Wordplay): Fool in the Rain
Kerberos Club (Wild Talents): Werewolves of London.
Age of Arthur (FATE): Title TBA.

Needless to say, Elaine, I'll be in touch with the full details soon! But the actual list is fairly definite.

[Evilgaz]

I'm heading off with a Savage Worlds Tight Purse Harvey and the Tortugan Temptress, all the usual Saturday morning piratical FFF action a man can handle. Wimmin will probably handle it just fine too.

Then in the afternoon, Tight Purse Harvey takes on Beat to Quarters. Yeah baby, that's right, your favourite down-on-their-luck, in the gutter, reaching for the stars crew are back for a matinee performance where you, yes You decide their personal missions and goals using the Empire system. Man, that sounds so good I want to play it myself.

Sunday morning is going to see some spicy butt-kicking action as we use Feng Shui to duel eunuch sorcerers with futuristic cyborgs and arcanowave-mutated abominations. If that doesn't sound like a Morning After the Night Before game, I don't know what does.

They will be my first convention games after Life Begins, so I'd expect them to be pretty funking awesome if I were you.

[Kaiserjez]

Then in the afternoon, Tight Purse Harvey takes on Beat to Quarters. Yeah baby, that's right, your favourite down-on-their-luck, in the gutter, reaching for the stars crew are back for a matinee performance where you, yes You decide their personal missions and goals using the Empire system. Man, that sounds so good I want to play it myself.

I think I just heard Pete squeeling with delight - will he finally get to usurp Harvey???

[First Age]

In an attempt to get something in before games are offered to GMs for pre-booking..!

A State of Mind

A|State
Wordplay
6 players for Session 2

Another day in the effluent laced slurries of Mire End. As lostfinders, sparkers and vigilkeepers you are but one step above the cancerous Hoeler gang that are the burgh's pervasive protectors. Yet tonight is going to be like no other.

It's been a safe and blissfully forgettable evening in the High and Dry gin hall, perched in the broken tenements of Brockville Strand. As you step out onto the sodden plastic flaps of the roadway, in the night shadows cast by the Clocktower, you are confronted by one of the ghostly Shifted, the inhuman beings that tend and nurture our nightmares. It would like a dance...

You will never forget The City. But The City will forget you.

[dr_mitch]

And here are mine!

Game One
System. Wild Talents: The Kerberos Club
Title: Werewolves of London

London, 1853. Strange forces- faerie, magic, and the more bizarre inventions of science, are everywhere, and barely secret. The infamous Kerberos Club is both a shelter for those touched by the Strangeness, and is at the same time dedicated to protecting Queen and Country from the threats offered by the Strange.

Naturally, then, Club members decide to investigate a series of "werewolf" attacks on the streets of London, some in broad daylight and in front of witnesses. What could the explanation be? The only werewolves known to the Club are those in Her Majesty's 13th Lupine Rangers, and they would not do such a thing...would they?

Maximum Number of Players: 5
Slot 1
Tags: Victorian Superheroes, Werewolves

Game Two
System. Wordplay: Drowned Lands
Title: Thunder Only Happens When It's Raining

The summer of 2011 was blisteringly hot and humid, both in Britain and the rest of the world.
Perhaps nothing too unusual.
Then it started to rain.
Still nothing unusual.
It started to rain everywhere in the world, even in deserts.
And it didn't stop.
EVER.

It's now 2111, and humanity has been reduced to small struggling communities. The heroes are based in the town of Victoria on the south coast of England- a town currently experiencing problems. Trade has been cut off. A blockade on Southampton Water by the War's Ash navy prevents access by that route. Land-based trade is being turned away at Barton, with warnings of a plague. And as they always do, rumours and stories of far stranger things abound. Victoria depends on trade for certain necessities, most notably fuel for its electrical generators. Can the heroes find a solution?

Maximum Number of Players: 6
Slot 3
Tags: Post-apocalypse, Lots of rain

Game Three
System. FATE: Age of Arthur
Title: Streets of Londinium

Roman rule has ended in Britain, and the country is divided into quarreling petty kingdoms which are in conflict with each-other as much as they are with the Saxon invaders. The once magnificent provincial capital of Londinium has been abandoned and is surrounded by Saxon lands, though the Saxons themselves, it is said, fear to inhabit the city.

The heroes are highly placed and trusted retainers of King Einion of Ebrauc, whose only son is critically ill, and, it is believed, cursed. The heroes have recently heard tell that Londinium is the hiding place of the Cauldron of Dirrnach, one of the Thirteen Treasures of Britain, and famed for it's healing powers. Can the heroes retrieve it to help the king's son?

Maximum Number of Players: 5
Slot 4
Tags: Dark Ages Britain, Magic, Post-Roman London