Big Cheese: Geek Edition

By Jeremy Broom and Alexi Kenney

Join us for a night of nerdy reality TV at its most intense. If you like interpersonal drama, escapism that hits a little close to home, and clear winners and losers, then this is the game for you.

Fifteen outcasts return to the screen to try to get rich, get famous, get justice or die trying.

After the tragic death of the nation's favourite contestant, some said this quirky reality TV show was dead. Not so, Big Cheese is back for a one-off special that will change the face of television forever. All your favourite geeks will be back and the stakes have never been higher, with one million dollars on the line. Who will be the Big Cheese?

Single session live action role playing game for fifteen people involving interpersonal drama, competition, cooperation and fun.

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'Hotel California' or Five Adventurers walk into a Bar

by Jon Lowe

The Humble Tavern, the centre of most small communities, the place of gossip and friendship. The place to relax and unwind after a long day at work. The place to meet others, to drink, to play, to find comfort, or to rest. Some use the tavern as a place to conduct business, others to meet contacts, and indeed, some just use it as a waypoint on the way to their destination.

So many stories can be found in your local. So many people, and everyone has their own. Perhaps you too would like to add to the tales of the world, or maybe just listen to others more worldly as they share their stories. Or, you might just want a drink, it may have just been one of those days.

So, stay a while, and listen. Even if you are just passing through. Remember, the journey is not just the destination.

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In Remembrance of the King - A Taverns and Temples freeform

by Mark Bruckard and David James

Four weeks ago King John De Swan joyfully announced the Queen’s pregnancy to his people, naming the unborn child his heir, only to be openly assassinated by his brother Duke William De Swan. In the melee that followed the evil Duke revealed himself to be a necromancer of considerable power, but was forced to flee the city through the actions of the city’s heroes.

Messengers were dispatched to summon the rulers and nobles of the many lands and races of the known world to the great city of Waythorpe in order to attend the funeral and wake of the King and to show him the respect he had earned in life.

It is the night before the funeral is to take place, and all who could make the journey have arrived. It is a solemn event, but all who have attended realise that the opportunity it represents to make deals, secure allies and carry out long awaited vengeance is too good to turn down.

“In Remembrance of the King” is a single session freeform based in the Taverns and Temples universe created by Mark Bruckard and David James. Taverns and Temples is an ongoing monthly freeform in Canberra, and players of that freeform are welcome to either play their original characters in this freeform or take one of the many others on offer. (Please let us know when you book which you intend to do.)

New players to the game will be able to choose from characters that make up the major personalities in the world - Queens, Kings, Ambassadors, Leaders of Guilds, Heads of Temples and the odd Tavern Keeper. Probably very odd.

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Slayercon

by Mike Walker and Dan Connor

"I can feel them, Buffy. All over. Slayers are awakening everywhere."
Willow, from "Chosen", Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season Seven, Episode 22

Vampire Slayers wage their eternal war against the forces of darkness, in cities across the globe…

Teams of heroes and assistants gather behind each Slayer in support; Watchers, champions, witches, even reformed demons…

Working together, each team has prevented many Apocalypses, (uh Apocalypti, um… never mind…)

Vigil is the organisation coordinating their efforts. And once a year, Vigil invites different teams to take part in their annual convention hosted in a relocating castle.

Slayercon.

An opportunity to reunite with each other, learn from each other, and to forge new bonds.

And, this year, a new apocalyptic threat looms…

A freeform for 30 players, or six teams of five players each
Teams of 5 are from: Athens, Canberra, London, San Francisco, Tokyo and Vigil
Character Selection available one week before the con
Any questions, please contact kingtheseus@hotmail.com
A Character list can be seen at: THIS LINK
Based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series
Using a lite version of BtVS RPG

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Tranquillity Springs

by Ryan d'Argeavel

400 km from Alice Springs in the middle of the Simpson desert, under a tin shed that leans to the left, warm, red, muddy water bubbles up from the ground. Tranquillity springs. The town of that name, once a watering stop for uncaring or adventurous cattlemen, now serves a different itinerate population. The mine, 25km to the north, was designed to run 24/7 and has done for three years. But the mine has gone quiet. At the town's other watering hole, The John and Henry, where miners and farmers, engineers and scientists, locals and ringers rubbed shoulders, Mayor Bailey has called a meeting to outline the future of Tranquillity Springs.

20 km south of the springs, under a thin yellow tent with no floor, lies a body. Warm, red, muddy water snakes out of the tent into the late afternoon sun, as Sergeant Reid and Constable Harris complete their investigation.

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Unions and Intersections

by Random

McLEOD.-
Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of the late Jamie Alex McLeod will be offered at the Joyce Chapel, Fawkner Memorial Park, Sydney Rd, Fawkner on THURSDAY (Sept 27, 2007) at 2:30pm.

In lieu of flowers, donations to Beyondblue would be appreciated. Envelopes available at time of service

For character info please Click Here

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