Congrats everyone for making it halfway through the term!
❗ Announcements ❗
🗳️ Mascot elections are now open!
Finally! The bit everyone's really been waiting for, Tabletop mascot elections are now open!
To nominate a mascot to take over from Strawberry Jam please click here!
You can nominate anything you want (aside from a real person)! The nominated mascots will battle it out during the AGM on the 21st of February!
Come along & pick the new Tabletop supreme leader!
🚨 The AGM is back!
📆 Date: 21st February (Week 7)
🕖 Time: 6-9pm
🗺️ Location: B2.02, Science Concourse
🙇 Returning Officer: Kelsey! (outgoing vice president)
It's time for the society's most important event of the year, its Annual General Meeting (AGM). Without an AGM and elected exec members the society cannot exist, and therefore neither can the events we run!
What is an AGM, I hear you cry? It's the meeting where we discuss how the year has gone, make any necessary changes to the Society constitution and also gives you the opportunity to see Ben stress about SU regulations.
So, to help the society function, we need as many members as possible to turn up, submit motions, run for exec roles, and vote.
--- 📆 Important Dates 📆 ---
⚠️ Weds 7th Feb: ~~deadline to buy standard membership (and verify it on our website!) for those wishing to vote/stand in election/put forward motions~~This deadline has now passed
⚠️ Tues 13th Feb, 12pm: deadline by which constitution-changing motions must be put forward
📢 Weds 14th Feb full AGM announcement (including constitution-changing motions) made -
🗨️ Weds Feb 21st, 7-9pm: AGM takes place!
🗳️ Sat 24 Feb, 12pm: voting opens
🔒 Tues 28 Feb, 12pm: voting closes
📢 Tues 27 Feb, 3pm: provisional results announced
🎊 Tues 5 Mar, 3pm: provisional period over, results now 100% valid! Yay!
🚨 PLEASE VERIFY MEMBERSHIP: AGM DEADLINE APPROACHING 🚨
In order to run for a role, or to vote on either elections or motions, you need to ensure that you have verified your membership before the AGM! To verify your membership on our website before you can vote, following these steps:
1️⃣ Login to your account
2️⃣ Go to your profile
3️⃣ Click "Verify Membership" and follow the steps there
If you've already voted on the website before, there's no need to do it again, but anyone who wants to vote for the first time, it's really important that you do this!
Please make sure you verify your membership and turn up to stand/vote at the AGM, it's really important that we have as many people as possible, so the next exec can continue making the society a great place for everyone!
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO NOMINATE YOURSELF AND PROPOSE MOTIONS!
🔪 Want to join a murder mystery?
Do you want to try and solve a murder? Interested in a one-shot LARP experience? Do you like bad puns?
Well you're in luck! We'll be hosting our annual Murder Mystery LARP on Saturday the 24th of February in B2.02!
A murder mystery is a non-combat LARP focused roughly around attempting to solve a murder. Of course, some of you will be playing the murderers, and trying to get away with your crimes. While costume is not required, it is encouraged and attendees will be free to borrow any of the costume we have in the larp costume for the event!
Click here to join this years murder mystery set in a Victorian scientfiic institution!
🎲 Calling all GMs!
As the time for Big RPG approaches, so too does the search for GMs to help run it! This year we’re running Last Orders at the Yawning Portal, a collaborative Dungeons and Dragons game. If you’d like to run a table, or just to ask any further questions, please message EPG rep Ethan (vortex_creed_113) on Discord.
The game will be run on Sunday 3rd March, from 2-6pm(ish)!
💜Thinking of joining the exec?
In week 7 we're gonna be hosting our AGM!
For any newbies who haven't experienced this delightful event it's our annual meeting to vote in new exec for the next year! Sorry to say some of us graduate this year (big sad) so to let everyone know what exec roles you can run for every week they'll be some descriptions of exec roles!
Anyone who's got a membership to the society can run in the AGM!
This week introducing..... CCGs rep:
Hi, I'm Mina, the current CCGs Rep! My job is to coordinate the three Card Games played in Tabletop! Those are Netrunner, Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic the Gathering. In addition, we sometimes coordinate tournaments or collabs with your favourite societies when requested!
Co-op Officer:
Hi! I’m Alysha and I’ve been your Communication & Operations officer for the past year (as you can probs tell if you're reading the newsletter)! This job involves writing the weekly newsletters, supporting the rest of the exec and making announcements & social media posts! In my opinion it’s one of the more creative roles on the exec because you get your own little section in the newsletter to cause chaos (hope everyone’s liked seeing Jam this year)! It’s quite a flexible job since you don’t have to run any events so a lot easier to fit around the uni schedule and you get to hear cool stories about everyones games!
Welfare officer:
Hi! It’s Alysha again! Welfare is one of the more flexible exec roles that’s easy to manage on top of another exec position! The general idea for this role is you’re avaliable and on hand to support members of the society and exec who may need it! Whether this be with bigger issues or small disagreements. As part of the role you go through some training to prepare you for this role and ensure that you can handle any issues safely! This training will go on your HEAR statement so is quite useful!
❔ What's happening this week? ❔
- Monday 5-10pm: In Person Wargames - CS1.01 - IMPORTANT NOTE: CS1.01 is in a KEYCARD ACCESS ONLY area, of which only DCS student and Tabletop exec will have access to. IF YOU ARRIVE AFTER 5PM PLEASE PING/MESSAGE THE WARGS CHAT WE CAN COME LET YOU IN!
- Tuesday 6-10pm: In Person Draft - B2.02 - Murder at Karlov Manor - £11.50 - you must sign up here to take part
- Wednesday 2-10pm: In Person Board Games - B2.02 and B2.04/5
- Thursday 5-10pm: In Person CCGs - B2.02
- 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? 💭
Last week in LARP:
Once more, the party ventured into the accursed depths of the Endless Forest. This time, they bargained with witches, avoided beasts of the mists, and gambled on a high-stakes game of pistol shooting before making their way into the depths of the mist to consult with the tree of life, a spirit with a familiar face...
Last week in fnaf: quirky at night !
Theres no sane way to highlight this oneshot so instead here's a series of quotes said throughout the session!
- Are you gonna get flashbanged by Matpat?
- You've got the mentality of a baby
- OMG map pat (upon being presented a map)
- Dababy that's your turn
- You're at disadvantage because you're greasy
- I'm greased and unconcious
- I'm gonna body check Bonnie
- Would you class my throat as a doorway
Congrats to Baby, Grizzle, Mattias Pattias, Annie Maltronic and Guy Purple for surving!
RIP Danny M Tronic and Marry Ennette who sadly didn't escape this hell!
Extra Bonus End Bit
Adventures Strawberry Jam:
Jam might be graduating this year but he's ready to judge all the new nominees to take his position after easter!
Have a great reading week!
Alysha (she/they, Communications and Operations officer & Welfare officer!) @alyshaaa on Discord!
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