Graham Kane

@athventurecon.bsky.social
Car packed for the annual pilgrimage to Loughrea for #athcon4

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Safety is my middle name!

Trust the process, you’ll get the players!
Looking forwarded to seeing you there….

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Ah the calm before the storm.

I know a lot of folks will be travelling down to #AthCon4 from early tomorrow.

No matter what part of the world you're coming from, make it down safely folks.

We look forward to seeing y'all!!

#AthCon4

We are still looking for big mini donations in the regular sized mini bucket at the check in desk.

Clear?

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WARNING WARNING

WE ARE ABOUT TO TALK LARPS

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL

GM Gus throws out The Dragons Hymbook using the Draw Steel system.

In the aftermath of a battle the Princess has gone missing along with the legendary Dragons Humbook!
Can you rescue the Princess, recover the tomb and save the world??

Draw Steel at the very end of #AthCon4 to find out!!

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GM Declan, he of D8 Dungeon fame, invites us all to his Session 4 game (that's Sunday 10am) In Memoriam using the We Have Lost game system.

The Empress is dead. Her closest friends and confidants have gathered to remember her. Tales are told of the past but the Empire must look to the future.

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Not all ghosts are friendly. And very few of them dance.

In GM Emmett's CAIN system game we get a ghost that does neither.

In CAIN you play part of an elite team tasked with hunting down supernatural beings that have gone bad.
This one is the spirit of a gambler, dragging others down with him!

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Victor Frankenstein's wife to be is worried about his recent behaviour. On top of that there are rumours of a strange creature haunting the city, a city that is struggling to contain a cholera plague.

Yeah things are just going swimmingly!

Frankenstein is GM Graham's Deathbringer game for session6

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Sunday 6pm is sadly the last session of #AthCon4 but GM Neil rounds of his own marathon of gaming, panels and workshops with Shadowy Scoundrels, a Fey Earth games!

Various premises have been broken into and their owners have grown tired waiting for the law to find the culprits!
So they hired you!

I'm not sure what is in the box in GM Paul's Daggerheart game, The Whitefire Arcanist, but when someone does look please make sure you tell me!

This will be a fun game suitable for all and a great way to round off the last session of #AthCon4

Be sure to grab a seat... what's in the box!?

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Some games describe themselves and GM Tomas's game is a prefect example!

First off the system used is the brilliantly titled F.I.ST. (Freelance Infantry Strike Team).
And secondly the game is called Operation BUZZKILL.

My feeling is that this is very much what it says on the tin!
;-)

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Captured by slavers and taken in chains to the colosseum where you are forced to fight beside your fellow captives for the amusement of the baying public!

Welcome to The Arena, GM Mary Elizabeth's 3rd level D&D 5e game set to take place in the baking sand at first light Sunday at #AthCon4

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Kittens!!!

Well Magical Kittens to be more precise.

GM Mike takes a break from pirating on the high seas to run a game the party take on the role of Kittens trying to manage those ridiculous hoomans and their ridiculous hooman problems!

Now the hoomans seem to have gone missing!
Typical hoomans.

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So the Bone Gang, a gang of rats, have ventured deep into the sewers and it looks like that they may have fallen foul of a legendary sewer beast!

Every cloud and all that means that this is an opportunity for some brave miceses to get themselves some treasure.

Snakes and miceses get on right??

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Oh No!!

Something is off in the town of Ashbridge. There is an energy sapping aura hanging around, conversations stalls mid sentence, memories seem to be fading even as faces start to blur around the edges.

Suspicion seems to be focused on Greywarden Books and those that frequent it!

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We're on the home stretch this week and down to the last few handfuls of games to preview for #AthCon4

GM Aaron first ever game at the Con is a Cy_Borg offering!
Karaoke Night finds the players deep in this cyberpunk world surrounded by Nanomsncers, Corp Killers, Cyber Slashers & Gang Goons!

The money on offer is more then decent. Like so much more that one might suspect this is something more than a pack of wolves at play!

But seriously, with the promises of such riches along with all the wool you can carry how could you possibly turn it down!?

Now normally I'd read this as a possible good news story, you know "ship sinks but passengers find refuge on lighthouse island before being rescued" kinda thing.

But two things give me pause.
1 - it's Call of Cthulhu
2 - GM Caitlin, The Dreaded DM

It's an over 18s game.
So actually three things!

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Let's be honest with ourselves, deep down we all want to be pirates!

And in the mid session on the Sunday of #AthCon4 you have a chance to fulfill your dream!

GM Dave sails into town with A Rum-Ble In The Jungle! A 4th level D&D 5e game suitable only for pirates with 18 years or more of sailing!

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There is a potential cloud in sunny world of the Tyrell Corporation!

CEO Janice Brannock has been cutting corners (a corrupt leader of a mega-corp! I know, I'm as shocked as you) and older Janice has been smuggling in Nexus-6 replicants and using them as cheap labour.
This could impact share prices

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So when a very wealthy and quite elderly collector contacts you with an offer of three days work for a decent payout it sounds like easy money.
Three days work; three simple tasks and a healthy paycheck, sounds too good to be true.

And as this is Call of Cthulhu it probably is..

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Urgh dead people.

Never get anything done in this world, sitting around in the land of the living thinking they'll never run out of time, with not a hurry in the world.

Then boom! As soon as they die everything becomes urgent and they nag and nag and nag.

And that's exactly what's happened here.

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Plan for World Peace
Step 1 - get the humans and dwarfs together to agee terms.
Step 2 - have a big fry up to celebrate.

Step 1 we're good!

Step 2.....ehhh....

Turns out both sets of diplomats have gone missing.

So the fry is at risk of remaining uneaten and the peace treaty unsigned!

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The game at hand is a foot!!

A McGuffin, a work of art beyond value, has gone missing from Manner Manor. With only days before it was due to ship to the Agatean Empire this leaves both the buyer and seller with egg on their face and anger in their hearts!

The police just need to figure it out.

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The ship is taking on water, the mast has snapped and the keel has cracked! On top of that thunder rolls as lightning forks across the sky!

Abondon ship!! GMs and 3rd level D&D 5e characters first!!

Welcome to The Lost Shore, GM Aidan's game offering to kick off day two of #AthCon4

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The score has been sourced.
The joint has been cased
The crew has been assembled.

Now you just have to go out and do the job.

But the job is recovering a rare artifact that some looney cultist have become quite attached to.

Urrgh always with the crazy cultists.

Trading is hardly an option?

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GM Mike rocks up at #AthCon4 with his Beatle pun-heavy Battle Born game;
Yesterday (A Day in the Life).

Kids, The Beatles are a band from many moons ago. Not bad. Had a few hits.

I couldn't possible compete with GM Mike's puns, honestly be needs Help. Plus I'd only end up bugging him.

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GM Neil's Saturday evening offering involves a Leprechaun. Now these little guys aren't always the easiest folk to deal with, tending more to the belligerent and cantankerous side of things than the happy go lucky here's my pot of gold side that we often see portrayed!