Winter is here or something idk I know nothing about Game of Thrones.
❗ Announcements ❗
❄️ Holiday Timetable
We're running a reduced timetable of official events online over the holidays - just Wargames and Boardgames most Monday evenings - though as always feel free to organise stuff unofficially on our Discord.
Merch reminder
Just a quick reminder, the deadline for merch orders is the 1st of January, so get your orders in before then. If you don't know where to find us, look in the last newsletter or our merch page.
❔ What's happening this week? ❔
- Monday 5-10pm: Holiday Wargames/Boardgames
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? 💭
This happened a little later than last week, but someone got 18 points from getting Complete Destruction to trigger twice in King of Tokyo, in what scientists (me) are calling "absolutely wild".
J performs overkill in Spirit Island, dealing 14 damage to a land through cleansing floods to drown the invaders.
CS Boardgames, which Finnbar's written up because I wasn't there for most of it:
We did the first few hours of board games in the Computer Science Department this week! Which meant we got such luxuries as "a bigger room", "more heating", "some chocolate the Society bought" and "Finnbar watches a lecturer try his best to make a Codenames clue on the final turn from being very behind" (Shaman 4, it was pretty legit). There were both the usual Tabletop people and some new ones playing Wavelength, Codenames, Human Punishment (I don't think it's as bad as it sounds... okay I at least hope it isn't), Mao and whatever the large group standing at a whiteboard were playing. All in all, it was a pretty normal board games session to be honest, which is definitely a good thing. Thanks to Lea from Computer Science for approaching the society and helping with the logistics of moving games. (And also for paying us, we'll be able to put that money to good use buying more games!)
Extra Bonus End Bit
It can't be more than a few metres to the throne, but with every step forward time distorts and tears and is crushed under the weight of itself. The curvature of reality itself begins to split, and the secrets of the universe reveals themselves to you. Strange and impossible dice circle, their faces recurring in on themselves. Games that can never be played, rules that will never be written, wars that should not be comprehended, old magics that blur the lines between fiction and reality. If you had the time or presence of mind to question, you might be confused as to why so much of this seems to be tabletop-related, but the voices spur you onward before you can think.
After what could have been a year, or a week, or forever, or a few seconds, you are upon the throne, and a searing light embraces you. A soft hum builds to an electric crescendo, as the full, unchained, power of the presidency surges from Anakin to you. Through it, you hear whispers, hisses, conspiring, as the hungering gods for which the Co-op is an oracle begin to claim the power that has forever been denied them, being stolen back and rebound into a new officer with every election. They laugh, and siphon power, and begin enacting plans an eternity in the making, until without warning they are silenced.
Anakin stands staring back at you, newsletter in their hands and betrayal in their eyes. Through your newly awakened presidental senses, you realise they've taken the mantle of Communications and Operations upon themselves through some secret ex-presidential loophole. In doing so, they've dragged back those whispering gods from the power of the presidency, and bound them again. With the last fragments of their power, the new Co-op officer vanishes into the shadows. They may well be a thorn in your side later. For now though, you have control over the society to (mis)use.
Thank you to everyone who participated in this little story I decided to write basically on a whim! I might continue this or start a new one in the New Year, we'll see how it goes, though I'll leave 2021 with this one last question:
What do you do with the presidency?
Wash your hands, stay safe, and come play some games with us 💛
Hannah Collins (she/they/fae, Communications and Operations, See you in 2022!)
@aceempress#9631 on Discord
hannah.a.collins@warwick.ac.uk
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