The Twin Arches (Autumn Conclave 2012) - December 1st, WHW

[Kaled]

BTW, I'm still looking for a kind person to print off some character sheets for me.

Please.

There's six character sheets, which I'd ideally like printed at A5 and single sided...

[MarcoSkoll]

@Gav: Huzzah!

@Kaled: E-mail me them - although I'd like to save on printing, I'll run copies off tomorrow evening if no-one else has offered in the meantime.

[Kaled]

Thanks Marco.  I'll send them now... Or I would if I could find your e-mail address - please can you PM it to me?

[MarcoSkoll]

I keep one available on my forum profile (should even be linked below my avatar).

[Kaled]

Maybe I'm being rubbish, but I can see a way to send you an e-mail via the forum but not your address

[greenstuff_gav]

id offer but has no printer myself 

press t email button and it should display the email address under the name?
or view profile?

[Kaled]

It seems that if I select 'Allow users to email me' in the account settings and click the envelope icon under my name then I can see my own e-mail address, but if I click the envelope icon under someone else's name I can't see their address...

Thanks Marco for volunteering to print these - much appreciated. 

[MarcoSkoll]

It seems I have got a PM update from Little Brother - the date of an important party moving means he will not be attending either.

There's so much co-ordinated coincidence here that I can't wonder exactly how I managed to so cheese off Tzeentch.

[Cortez]

Unfortunately Marco I'm not going to be able to attend either. Sorry.

[MarcoSkoll]

Oddly enough, I didn't have you on the list, so that doesn't actually affect the numbers I'm expecting.

[Bloodpact]

It occurred this morning that although the weather is fine, anybody driving should check the whw website or facebook pageas one end of Lennon lane is closed of to traffic so you have to come in from the northern end.

As is traditional I am finishing painting another different wsrband tonight...

[MarcoSkoll]

... that's the SOUTH end you need to come in via: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=520189871333831&set=a.218213154864839.65352.212614545424700&type=1

I'm still painting a few things. I'm kinda glad I have the airbrush (even if it is a very cheap one) for two of them, it's made it a fraction of the effort.

[Bloodpact]

Ah yes. Stupid upside down map...

[MarcoSkoll]

Today's story:

Marco has too little sleep. Exhausted, he looks at the external temperature sensor reading minus four point something Celsius, then looks out of the window to see the ground is frozen.
He again regrets the choice of date for this event.

The End.

[MarcoSkoll]

Right - brief update.

I made it home alive (and without missing the train and arriving home three hours late), so hooray for that.

We eventually had only six players and myself, so we ended up hanging any actual order or schedule and instead played games as people wanted to match up. This turned out to be the opening two rounds of the Ordos Hereticus and Xenos plot-lines (giving my new 28mm Navigator* and 54mm Wraithguard* a chance to see use), and then running a (mostly rewritten on the fly) two table finale.

That finale had the characters finding themselves in the middle of a whole load of warp hallucinations/illusions surrounding daemonically corrupted xenos artefacts being referred to as "The Gates".

After characters actually did start conversing with each other, discussion was entered over whether the theory from the Scylla table that the gates could be destroyed was the sensible option.
We didn't reach any easy consensus... which I decided was fitting enough. It's a matter I wanted to be a little bigger than just a micro-event, so a bit of a verbal brawl in the Conclave(s) is a nice way to let some of our absent players get a bit more informed and still have some impact.

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* Yes, I got the Ethereal conversion finished.

** Converted from a plastic Wraithlord I don't need for WH40K any more. And apparently very interesting to passing pedestrians.

This was shortly after a demonstration of my rules for a Wraithcannon (which I'm very happy with for an early draft. Not having a damage stat works well for its unnatural mechanism, and is nicely reminiscent of their present 40K rules.)
Although I had actually expected its first shot would be a miss - I didn't think a 22 yard shot with a Range A, -20% Acc weapon would hit (and would thus scatter, wreck some scenery and terrify the characters), but it put paid to that by rolling 04 to hit and Anders thus ended up copping a hit.