Tabletop speedruns are a "long" and "historic" tradition that detractors claim were "invented just now for this newsletter." The any% category requires partaking in something related to each faction, and is thus far faster on Tabletop Weekend where you don't have to rely on difficult to execute timeskips to get between events, and there's much less dependence on good Bus RNG. The 100% category requires completing every event the society offers according to the game's own tracking, so Tabletop Weekends allow runners to catch up on mistakes and provide alternate routes to skip the most difficult room booking spawns.
❗ Announcements ❗
❔ Quiz
This term's Quiz is Friday the 3rd (that's this coming Friday) from 6-9pm. There's a £1.50 entrance fee and some absolutely wild prizes. Teams are 4 each, you can either organise them beforehand or just show up on the day and we'll find you one.
🎲 Tabletop Weekend
It's Tabletop Weekend this weekend! From 10am Saturday to 10pm Sunday (including overnight), we'll be in B2.02 and B2.04/5 doing anything and everything tabletop! This is also reminder if you have anything large and slightly fiddly to organise that you want to run, make a website event for it. It'll make the lives of everyone involved so much easier.
🔨 Board Game Auction
During the first day of Tabletop Weekend (which is this Saturday) there will be a baby auction! (That is, a very small auction not an auction of babies.) This will be happening at 16:30 in B2.02. We'll be auctioning off a few games, and selling some old books from back when we were Sci-fi and Fantasy for a nominal 50p donation.
📅 Exec meeting
We have an exec meeting on Thursday 2nd December, 4-5pm, in B2.03. Come along if you want I can't stop you - we'll be discussing Tabletop Weekend, Merch, Term 2 room bookings, Christmas Holiday events, and LARP attendance.
❔ What's happening this week? ❔
LARP is being a b s o r b e d.
- Monday 5-10pm: In Person Wargames, B2.01
- Tuesday 6-10pm: In Person Draft - B2.01 - Innistrad double feature (2 packs Midnight Hunt 2 packs Crimson Vow) - £10 - you must sign up here to take part
- Wednesday 2-10pm: In Person Board Games - B2.01
- Thursday 5-10pm: In Person CCGs - B2.01
- Friday 6-9pm: The Quiz! - OC0.02
- Saturday 10am - Sunday 10pm: Tabletop Weekend! - B2.02 and B2.04/5
- Sunday 12-5pm: LARP - B2.02
Remember, you can always find an up-to-date timetable of what's going on on our website's Schedule page, and you can see special events (including RPGs) and sign up to them via our Events page.
💭 What happened last week? 💭
An update on the standings of the Blood Bowl League! The scores are evidently wrong because all the teams are equal in the only field that matters - team names.
Scarabs - tiny horrible self-replicating robot bugs which are basically evil flying roombas, "heroically" sacrificed themselves to blow up Mortarion, a millenia old all powerful demon primarch and general all around durable individual.
Brave Sir Knight discovered the weakness of heavy armour on the sports field - when you trip on the touchdown line, your bones break off into smaller bones that declare independence, and everyone in the crowd laughs at you, you can't easily turn around to yell back at them.
Extra Bonus End Bit
You hand over Anakin's dice set, replacing the missing d4 with the X-Wing d8s, pointing out that since there are twice as many of them and they have twice as many sides they're four times as powerful. Anakin laughs, and takes the dice, rolling a vibe check with them as is customary. 5, 7, 5, a 12, and an 8. A roll that would be perfectly fine, if not exceptional, were it not for the two blanks on the X-Wing dice you'd just handed them, clearly intimidated by being forced into an established power structure without proper introductions or time to adapt.
Anakin glares at the two imposter dice with a smoldering rage, and they seem to be lifted into the air by sheer anger, before falling to the ground again. The attack dice lands on a blank face again, and is still, but the evade dice lands on an evade and vanishes into the shadows. Anakin gives an order to their assorted minions to find that dice before it can aid the wargamers, and turns to you.
"Well, most of the dice are here, so I suppose that's better than the last 4 co-op officers I sent. For your... limited... success and survival, I will permit some semblance of the newsletter to exist for another week. However, we only have the room to mention one faction's achievements in the newsletter because the ASCII art of me takes up the rest of the space. I shall leave the choice up to you"
Which faction will you choose?
Signoff
Wash your hands, stay safe, and come play some games with us 💛
Hannah Collins (she/they/fae, Communications and Operations, mesmerised by snow)
@aceempress#9631 on Discord
hannah.a.collins@warwick.ac.uk
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