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❗ Announcements ❗
📣 AGM
The AGM is on the 2nd of March 2022, 7-9pm, in B2.02.
Important things to note/do before the AGM:
- Read through the AGM forum post and, if you have any questions, the AGM FAQ.
- Acquire membership - you need to be a member two weeks before to vote/run for exec.
- Sign up to the Facebook event.
- Link your membership to your website account (and make a website account if you haven't already) - you must do this in order to vote because we're voting online. If you haven't done this, there's a tutorial in the image to the right: go to your website profile, hit the edit button, and then the "verify membership" button. Input your Uni ID number, then bam, you get an email (via your Uni account). Confirm that, and you're all set!
How to run for exec:
- Work out if there are any roles that interest you. You can find a summary of all those roles, or just keep an eye on the newsletter over the next few weeks for a description of each role.
- If you feel comfortable, talk with the existing exec member in that role to ask any questions you have and to get a more complete summary of the day-to-day.
- Write a manifesto to tell people a bit about who you are and why you want the role, and post it on the AGM forum thread.
Execsplanations - All Exec, and President
First up on the list of exec to execplain, all of them! More specifically, the execpectations we have for any member of our exec.
All exec, elected or appointed and regardless of specific role, are required to:
- Pull their weight
- Perform their allocated duties
- Communicate with the other exec via the Exec Discord server
- Attend exec meetings
- Attend any relevant training that the SU provides at the beginning of the year
- Represent their part of the society at various events (e.g. societies fairs, tabletop weekends)
- Propose new things for the society to do
- Have fun!
Happiness is mandatory
Next, up, The President:
- Represents the society and oversees all of its activities
- Thus should be involved in every part of the society in some way
- Assists in running events where needed
- Ensures every exec is fulfilling their duty
- Makes executive decisions on matters that are time-sensitive, that don’t require exec discussion, or that are a point of conflict amongst the exec
- Is the principle contact point between the Society and the SU/University
- Principle respondent to SU communication
- Responsible for any collaborations with the SU/University, such as Postgraduate Board Games
- Represents the society at relevant SU meetings.
- Is the principle contact point between the Society and other Societies
- Is responsible for any collaborations that may be made (though may delegate this to other exec where appropriate)
- Is responsible for inter-society events, such as Laser Quest vs Compsoc
Anakin's Testimony:
“Starting off this round is the presidential role, but I’d like to take the time to say that if you think you have what it takes, running for any exec role is both worthwhile and rewarding. Not to mention, fresh ideas and fresh faces are important. I’m not the only one stepping down! Anyways, as the President you represent the society as a whole. That means having an intimate knowledge of how it works, and what’s happening at any given moment. It means spotting the issues and resolving them. It means stepping up to face challenges when another exec can’t. It’s a lot of responsibility, but if you think you think you’d like to run feel free to attend meetings or speak to myself to find out more about how we as society function and what it takes to be a figurehead.”
🎲 New Games from Zatu!
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A full list of our acquisitions:
- Codenames Duet
- Disney Villainous
- Coup Reformation
- Azul Summer Pavilion
- 7 Wonders: Duel
- Cosmic Encounter
- Terraforming Mars: Prelude
- Wingspan Oceania
- Munchkin Deluxe
Board Games Weekend
Board Games Weekend is only two weeks away! From 10am Sat - 10pm Sunday, in B2.04/5, your chance to play longer games or just jump between lots of smaller games you wouldn't have tried otherwise. As always, we ask that if you do want to play a longer or larger game, you organise it via a website event to be sure you'll get players. (Plus, if you do, I can advertise it in the newsletter!)
A reminder to be gentle with gaming components
Following a complaint by a member at CCGs, we'd like to remind everyone to be considerate of other people's belongings during our events - please ask permission to touch something if it belongs to another member (especially given covid), avoid bending cards, and be gentle with our boardgames.
❔ What's happening this week? ❔
- Monday 5-10pm: In Person Wargames, B2.01 and B2.02
- Tuesday 6-10pm: In Person Draft - B2.02 - KLD - £12 - you must sign up here to take part
- Wednesday 2-10pm: In Person Board Games - B2.02 from 2 to 5, B2.04/5 from 5 to 10pm, B2.01 from 4pm to 10pm.
- Thursday 5-10pm: In Person CCGs - 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? 💭
Intro to RPGs happened, and a lot of wild stories with it! I've asked the GMs for their highlights, and they did not disappoint:
Ben, running A Night at the Opera Night's Black Agents:
Highlights include:
the whole "surprise-this-is-a-vampire-game bait-and-switch" (my exact words of "the man stands up, peels the skin from his face, revealing fangs, alabaster white skin and claws and lets out an unholy shriek" caused a lot of profanity, mostly aimed at me.)
The game ending with someone throwing a coat filled with explosives at a monster for the SECOND TIME IN A ROW (and it wasn't even the same player both times)
We had an English player pretending to be an Irish spy pretending to be a Russian, the accents got WILD
reciting psalms, trying to bless an RPG to kill a vampire
Lewis, running A Heist By Candlelight:
In Blades, everything went smoothly until it didn't. A flawless infiltration and swift removal of most of the guards was followed by the Hound killing a guard, prompting the house to be swarmed by the Spirit Wardens, while our spider was detected and realised they had no real answer to "And why shouldn't I kill you?" while being held prisoner by a 400 year old ghost. But, the gang pulled through, and managed to steal their prize, at the low low cost of a single marriage being ruined in the process!
Uke, running Hunt for the Thessylhydra:
I have a couple of highlights from my game- first off, the paladin found a giant frog in a puddle of water, and tried to talk to it. When he realised it couldn’t understand common, it began to croak at him. He then animal handled so hard that he understood the frog croaking back to him something about Taxes. Our bard decided to use prestigitidation to draw “””crude symbols””” on the walls of a magic labyrinth. Later in the game, the Paladin got pushed through a mysterious portal by both the Bard and the Cleric simultaneously. Also, there was the whole “overthrowing the friendly lord who just paid you because he didn’t answer a question how you wanted him to” thing.
Tim, running Defiance in Phlan:
I had two enthusiastic new players who managed to use a guard costume and the Friends cantrip to good effect, fought off zombies in a pitch black dungeon, and succeeded in deceiving an evil mage into believing that they wanted to join his cult. That sidestepped a nasty miniboss, gave them a lot of info on his plans, and let them subtly grab some evidence against him.
Lukas, running Extraordinary Challenge:
The session ended with me controlling a unicorn summoned by a wild magic sorcerer and epically defeating the last enemy. I had to ask myself “How do I want to do this”
We also had the return of Compsoc vs Tabletop Laser Quest, and some words from our president Anakin, glorious even in defeat:
Thank you to everyone who came, whether you represented Computer Science or Tabletop! After we won the first round, Computer Science society made an epic comeback by winning the next two rounds making Computer Science the overall victors. Computer Science has now broken the tie from years ago. They are now up 3-2, so join us next time to bring it back.
Extra Bonus End Bit
Time to roll some dice to work out what our aliens are actually trying to do in each session: Trying to raid the ruins of lost civilisations to steal treasures. Oops apparently I'm just getting a phone call from Wizards of the Coast that apparently this is "copyright infringement" and "too sensible" so let's go reroll that before the legal teams arrive. We're trying to survive in order to collect (human?) souls, and/or trying to collect humans souls in order to survive, I'll work out which way round at Some Point :tm:
Wash your hands, stay safe, and come play some games with us 💛
Hannah Collins (she/they/fae, Communications and Operations, sleepy)
@aceempress#9631 on Discord
hannah.a.collins@warwick.ac.uk
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