Continuum 2010 Registration - Now Open

[lawrence.whitaker]

from Friday 2nd July 2010, until Monday 5th July 2010.

What are the exact times? (in case I should be so bold as to come -- that would be useful to know before booking plane tickets)

Registration opens on the Friday at 2pm. Rooms generally have to be vacated by 10am on the Monday.

[Darran]

To all Continuees,

Christmas is upon us this week; frantic shopping trips jostle with wondering where to put all the relatives, or where to hang the stocking. The UK looks like its going to be snow-bound for the first Christmas in yonks, and Eurostar has thrown in the towel. The credit crunch crunches and swine flu oinks.

But are we down-hearted? of course not, because we know that 2010 brings Continuum: The Year We Made CONtact.

It will, of course, out-shadow the Vancouver Winter Olympics and Football World Cup in terms of importance and stature, but, by keeping it low-key we ensure its purity.

So, let me extend Yuletide greetings on behalf of Continuum Central - Colin, Darran, Lawrence, Mike and Simon - and wish you all a prosperous New year. We look forward to next summer and seeing you at John Foster Hall.

(PS - if you're looking for the special last minute something, a sign-up to Continuum could be just the thing... )

Have a great holiday.

Loz


0 Continuum 2010. John Foster Hall, Leicester University. UK.
Friday 2nd - Monday 5th July 2010.
Continuum

[Darran]

The Continuum 2010 registration form is now available from here:

Continuum 2010 Registration Form


It is a form fill-able PDF so you will be able to type in your details and save it.
The one on the Continuum 2010 website in the 'Register' section is out of date and due to server problems we can't change it. :cry:


Email it back to me completed at
darransims@googlemail.com
or you can print it off and post it to me via snail mail. The postal address is at the bottom of the form.

There are a couple of key questions that need answering that would assist in placing you in accommodation and making the event much better for you. They include a call for games and events, as well as where you want your room located and who do you wish to be roomed near you.
Any Freeform games should be sent to Simon Bray directly via the Contacts list on the Continuum website.

Some rooms will be located near the bar that gets quite noisy during the night - fine if the residents in the rooms spend their time in the bar. :wink:
Other rooms are not quite as close to the John Foster Facilities Centre though still on site but should be quieter [depending on neighbours of course!] :lol:

[Trifletraxor]

Pay by paypal, to whom?

SGL.

[Darran]

A call for games for Continuum 2010 from Mike Mason

Hello everyone

If you are wanting to run games (rpg, card, board or some crazy new gaming invention) please email me with what you're planing - bingopajamas@googlemail.com - once I have everything sorted I'll start posting games up to the main continuum website.
Please feel free to advertise your games here too - but please email me them as well (I will not be checking this site for 'new' games - it's a big internet and I only have so much time to check it ; ) - so without going on and on, if you email me then you'll know I have your game info. Otherwise don't assume that I'll have it.

For every game you pre-rgeister with me and then run at the convention, you'll get a beer token (for a free drink - soft or alcoholic) at the event. The beer token is an original piece of art - Cthulhu drinking a pint of beer - drawn by the brilliant Bob Shaw. It's a collectors item in its own right.




So - to register you game you need to do two things:

1. sign up to attend Continuum (see website for details http://www.continuum.uk.net)

2. Fill in a game registration form and send it to me at bingopajamas@gmail.com

Game sign up form available from the website. If you have any problems finding it or filling it in, then you can just email me with the following:

GM/Facilitator
Title of game
System
Number of players required
When you want to run it (Fri, Sat, Sun - morning, afternoon, evening)
Max Number of Players
Length of Game
Some blurb on what the scenario/game is about (up to 500 words)
Anything else you need to tell me


Thanks for your support and look forward to hearing about some ace games!

Cheers

Mike M
Continuum Game Czarina

[Darran]

Pay by paypal, to whom?

"payment@continuum.uk.net"

[HouseEros]

Cool....too bad I live in the US.

[soltakss]

We have planes now, you know, just a quick trip across the pond and you can play to your heart's content.

[Darran]

Continuum 2010: Game Highlights

Updated: 8 March 2010-03-08

Here are some of the games already planned for this year’s convention. If your game isn’t listed here then contact Mike at bingopajamas@gmail.com with your game details!

You’ll be able to sign up for these games and lot of others at the convention – they’ll be game signup sheets in the main hallway (outside the dining room).

If you’ve not already booked your ticket and accommodation for Continuum 2010 then go to http://www.continuum.uk.net and get yourself sorted before it’s too late!

Mongoose Living Campaigns!
Continuum is proud to announce the launch of Mongoose Publishing's 'Living Glorantha' campaign at this year's convention. Continuum 2010 will see the launch of Living Glorantha and the continuation of Living Traveller (debuted at Conception 2010). Allowing you bring specially created characters from scenario to scenario, event to event, Living Campaigns aim to emulate the massive online experiences but conducted with the intimacies of the table top. Both Living Traveller and Living Glorantha are intended to be growing, developing, living events in which characters take part in the epic events of the Third Imperium and Glorantha's Imperial Age. These are games for heroes and heroes in the making - saviours of their worlds, or possibly their destroyers.

Join us at Continuum for the birth of a new and dynamic development of immortal Glorantha!

A whole sack o’ Cthulhu! Heaving and squirming like a squamous thing!
Ex Kult of Keepers Rik Kershaw-Moore, Wim van Hove, Keary Birch and Paul Fricker will be orchestrating horror and madness throughout the convention.

Wim van Hove will be running some classic Kult scenarios, and on Saturday night Wim and Rik will be joining forces to run a special version of Milan Conference for 8 players. This scenario has been proven to give players nightmares – you have been warned!

Rik Kershaw-Moore will also be running come Call of Cthulhu games single-handed, as well as the Ghostbusters RPG (Sandy Petersen’s ‘other’ game!) and the uber cool sci-fi pulp that is Spaceship Zero the RPG.

Keary Birch will be bringing his usual chills and spills with a brand new Call of Cthulhu scenario titled – Camp Sunny 2: The Return! Be afraid, be very afraid….

Paul Fricker… well lets just say that Paul will be running an original new scenario using a very special version of the Call of Cthulhu rules (oh, and someone called Mike may be doing the same…)

The Dice are NOT your friends…
Cruel Dice is a brand new rpg system that’s been designed by the creative powerhouse that is Alan Bligh and John French, the lead writers of Warhammer 40KRPG: Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader and the soon to released Deathwatch. When not writing about corruption, chaos and Space Marines, Alan and John have been tinkering with Cruel Dice. Be amongst the first to try out the system with two very different scenarios.

Dino-Geddon II: More Awesome! More Destruction! More Action!
Can you handle the raw power of Dino-Geddon? Can you? This year convention attendees are invited to bring their own remote controlled (dinosaur operated) car to face off against the conventions own machines of death. Only the strong survive.

Plus we have a load of other great tabletop rpg action, miniature gaming and live action/freeform gaming – details on all these and more to follow soon!

[Darran]

Continuum 2010
John Foster Hall, Leicester University. UK.
Friday 2nd - Monday 5th July 2010.
http://www.continuum.uk.net

Here are a few games that have already lined up for Continuum 2010.
More news will follow.


Fire in the Heights by Alan Bligh
Run by Alan Bligh
System: Cruel Dice
Number of players required: 6
Synopsis:
An adventure of otherworldly horror in the Old West. It is the year 1887 and the peaceful night skies above Verdant City, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, is shattered by fires and strange lights from the heavens. When a falling star sets the hills ablaze, that's only the start of the nightmare to come... This adventure pits six-guns and true grit against terrors from beyond, pre-generated characters provided. No experience of the game system is required, just bring yourself and some dice (3x D6 will do).
When running: TBC
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

UnCOILed Reality by Che Webster
Run by Che Webster
System: Hero System, 6th Edition
Number of players required: 3 (5 max)
Synopsis:
An all female Superhero team finds themselves in a compromising position... Will the deadly agents of COIL succeed in their dastardly plan to open a reality gate in the very heart of London? Only you can save London, save England and save mankind!!!!
When running: Sun PM
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

Geria-Trek: The Next Generation by Darren Driver
Run by Darren Driver
System: BRP
Number of players required: 4 (6 max)
Synopsis:
It's been a year since the mysterious case of the disappearing superheroes was solved and the ageing superhero, the Blur, has decided to form a team of new superheroes to relive his glory days and to lead the next generation into a new era of peace. It started to seem like a pointless task until ancient relics began to disappear by the hands of what seems to be the Blur's old team...
When running: Sunday Morning
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

The Third Summer of Love by Willard Foxton
Run by Willard Foxton
System: Shotgun Diaries
Number of players required: 6
Synopsis:
You couldn't get tickets last year and you were all sad... But this year you are happy because you have got tickets for the Glastonbury Festival! Yay! Go you! Just think… a week of awesomeness awaits you – music, dancing, drinking, eating strange food from strange men in vans, and herbal highs! It'll be ACE! You are simply not going to allow anything, ANYTHING to stop you from having fun and enjoying yourself…
When running: TBC
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

Captain Scarlet: Back in Black by Paul Lawrence
Run by Paul Lawrence
System: Savage Worlds – beginner and experienced players welcome.
Number of players required: 6
Synopsis:
When the World Energy Conference in Chicago is threatened by the Mysterons, Spectrum step in to provide a protective shield around the Windy City. With Captain Scarlet mysteriously attacked and only just `returning' from the dead (once again) and Captain Black making an unwelcome appearance it's just another day for Spectrum! Note that players will be provided with a FREE GIFT!!!! Which you can take home and impress your friends with! Wow!
When running: Sunday Slot 6, 10am
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

The Path by Chris Killey
Run by Chris Killey
System: Call of Cthulhu
Number of players required: 4-6
Synopsis:
The sun is warm and bright, an air of excitement hangs over the crowd. The marshal fires his pistol and you're off! Its 1924 and the most important cycling race of your life, however soon it may become a race for your life! Enjoy the delights of the British countryside, earn honour and a golden trophy for your club, oh and try to not get eaten…
When running: TBC
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

Camp Sunny 2: The Return by Keary Birch
Run by Keary Birch
System: Call of Cthulhu
Number of players required: 6
Synopsis:
In the depths of summertime something stirs... Behind the glittering slot machines and amusements, beyond the golden sands and late night revelry something waits. Join the non-stop party that is `Camp Sunny' and gorge yourself on happiness…
When running: TBC
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

(Can't Get Enough of Those) Delta Green Blues by Paul Lawrence
Run by Paul Lawrence
System: Call of Cthulhu - Investigation/Combat
Number of players required: 7
Synopsis:
The UK was overrun three years ago by the Rage Virus. Gradually a repopulation began with armoured satellite towns set up across the country. One such refuge is the town of Middleriver. Local Torchwood Leader, Sapphire `Napalm' Jones, has been contacted by Delta Green. In short, there's a problem described as `rift-related, information leakage in the Pennines, urgent assistance required.' Torchwood ( along with a U.N.I.T. protective team ), head out to the Pennines to investigate the phenomenon, only to find that a DG operation has spiralled chaotically out of control...
When running: Friday Slot 2, 8pm
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

Milan Conference by Rik Kershaw-Moore
Run by Rik Kershaw-Moore and Wim van Hove
System: Call of Cthulhu
Number of players required: 6
Synopsis:
After years of hard work, painstaking research you are finally to reveal your groundbreaking news! Finally, despite years of rejection by your academic peers, it looks like you have made it. You've been invited to speak at the international conference in Milan. You've worked for this; you've sweated blood and tears on this... Now it's time for you to shine! Go ahead, enjoy yourself!
When running: Saturday night
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

Shatter Point by John French
Run by John French
System: Cruel Dice
Number of players required: 6
Synopsis:
Survival horror in today's world. When you walked out this morning in to the crisp light of dawn, all was well with the world. A few hours later and that lie is shattered. Can you survive andremain unbroken? Pre-generated characters provided. No experience of the game system is
required, just bring yourself and some dice (3x D6 will do).
When running: TBC
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

Combination by Paul Fricker
Run by Paul Fricker
System: Call of Cthulhu (new variant)
Number of players required: 6
Synopsis:
Dare you enter the mind of Paul Fricker? This Continuum, the man who brought you Gatsby and the Great Race and Death Kittens on Ice brings you a new dimension in horror gaming (actual game details coming very soon!). What you do need to know is that Paul will be using a very special version of the Call of Cthulhu rules.
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

Fight Klub (Demo)
Run by Che Webster
System: Fight Klub TCG
Number of players required: 1 (6 max)
Synopsis:
Come and try the Fight Klub TCG from Decipher. Demo decks will be provided including Terminator, Robocop, Ash Williams and Hannibal Lector decks! If you want to play, tell them "BlackFalcon" sent you. Each game lasts approx. 20-30min (1 on 1) – it'll be pretty informal, so just come by and have a game!
When running: Sun Evening (in Dining Room).
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

Another Fine Mess by `Evil' Gaz Bowerbank
Run by Evil Gaz
System: Savage Worlds, Pendragon, Hot War, Legend of the Five Rings – and more!
Number of players required: 6
Synopsis:
Evil Gaz will be bringing his usual blend of hot action pulp and thought-provoking scenarios to Continuum across a range of systems. Gaz has been tinkering with some `Indie Games' this year, so who knows what mayhem he'll unleash upon the gaming tables of Continuum! More details to follow....
When running: Friday, Saturday and Sunday – details soon!
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

Flight of Doom! By Willard Foxton
Run by Willard Foxton
System: Godlike (using GURPS rules)
Number of players required: 6
Synopsis:
We've lost communication with the B17 sir!
What'd you mean? Lost communication? Give me that radio son!
AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!
When running: TBC
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

Way Out West by Mike Mason
Run by Mike Mason
System: Call of Cthulhu (new variant)
Number of player required: 6
Synopsis:
Saddle up, grab your linen and start yer grinning! There's folk in trouble and they'll be a needing your help partner! A posse is a-forming and don't forget yer irons. There's been a murder! And someone's gonna pay! I tells ya!!
When running: TBC
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

FALLOUT: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap by Paul Lawrence
Run by Paul Lawrence
System: Savage Worlds
Number of players required: 6
Synopsis:
"War.. War never changes. Since the dawn of human kind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing path with rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything... The year is 2179. You live in the barricaded settlement `Storms Bastion', safe from the Raiders and Radscorpions on the outside. Last night, a trader passed on information about a scrap yard some two days out in the ruins of the city of Demasca. He has heard that there is plenty to salvage there and anyone with the know-how could probably reconstruct a car. The only `tiny' issue is the group of Raiders encamped there. This is where you come in. You have volunteered to go to the town and return with a working car and as much salvageable material as you can – simple! I bet you wish every task would be so easy...!
When running: Sunday Slot 8, 8pm
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

Blondie: Parallel Lines by Paul Lawrence
Run by Paul Lawrence
System: Call of Cthulhu - beginners and experienced players welcome.
Number of players required: 6
Synopsis:
When a Turing-Lovecraft gate to a parallel universe opens up in an apartment above the local Chelsea Girl shop, Her Majesty's Extra-Secret Service are scrambled to investigate... The year is 1985. You are new members of ESSG (codename `Blondie'), about to embark on your first mission. Your job remit is to investigate any discoveries of the Turing Theorem, and suppress them. Tonight, somebody has unexpectedly discovered a derivation of the theorem and a Gate has opened up in downtown Middleriver... (Note: this scenario contains elements as detailed in Charles Stross' `Laundry' novels, although no prior reading is necessary).
When running: Sunday Slot 7, 2pm
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

3:16 Carnage Among the Stars!
Run by Chris Killey
Number of players required 2-6
Length of Game: 10 mins to 4 hours – it's variable, the version I that I will run will be improvised with notes so it will last as long as the players want to slaughter aliens!
Synopsis:
This high-octane science fiction role-playing game for 2 or more players has your Space Troopers killing bugs all across the cosmos. You'll advance in rank, improve your weapons, slay civilization after civilization and find out who you are through an innovative "Flashback" mechanic. Terra's plan is to kill every living thing in the Universe to protect the home world. See where your tour of duty in the 3:16thExpeditionary Force takes you and your friends. Revel in the kill-happy machismo and enjoy a campaign of Carnage Amongst The Stars!
When running: TBC
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

Street Urchins of Ancient Pavis by Darran Sims
Run by Darran Sims
System: Glorantha: HeroQuest
Number of players required: 6 (newcomers very welcome. Maturity preferred)
Synopsis:
Abandoned by Family, Ancestors and the City itself, the street urchins have a very hard existence in the shattered remains of Ancient Pavis. They live on the discarded scraps from the city dwellers and `other' denizens of the Rubble - a place where life is very, very cheap. The only future they have to look forward to is a quick death somewhere in the unforgiving ruins of this once splendid city. The River Flock has a nice hidey-hole under the Sculpture Garden, a safe haven in this deadly world. Yet many of the street urchins are turning up dead... Now a stranger in red is poking around the upper entrance. Just what is he after and is he responsible for the deaths of the other urchins?
When running: TBC
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

The Depths of Despair by Paul Lawrence
Run by Paul Lawrence
System: Cthulhu Rising
Number of players required: 6
Synopsis:
In an underwater exploration base on Europa, an all-android team working for a scientific exploration company is engaged in a project to exploit the mineral resources of this pristine moon of Jupiter. After an android crew member is found `dead', a disorientation slowly permeates throughout the facility's other inhabitants until it ceases all commercial functions. You are being sent to the facility on Europa to restore working order. Utterly alone in a world that is unravelling…
When running: Friday Slot 1, 2pm
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

DON'T OPEN THE BOOK!! A Scream Down Memory Lane…
Run by Wim van Hove
System: Call of Cthulhu
Number of players required: 6
Synopsis:
Wim will be running games drawn from the back catalogue of the Kult of Keepers all over the Continuum weekend, scenarios include: Year of the Devil, Thicker than Water, A Walk in the Park, Eve of Destruction – and more! This could well be the last chance to play in some of these scenarios.
When running: Nearly every slot
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

The Chaos Engine by Paul Lawrence
Run by Paul Lawrence
System: Realms of Cthulhu - Steampunk
Number of players required: 6
Synopsis:
Sometime in the last century an experiment with time space and computers created a bizarre machine...The Chaos Engine. Although primitive, the machine became incredibly powerful and turned against its creator. A cloud of chaos descended over the land. Humans and animals were turned into ravenous beasts. Whenever the British Empire attempted to engage and destroy the machine, it simply transported itself to another location. Each location becoming more remote than the last. Enter six hard nailed extraordinary mercenaries for hire. Their job is to travel to the current location of the infernal machine, Antarctica, and obliterate it once and for all. (Inspired by the original Bitmap Brothers classic of the early 90s).
When running: Saturday Slot 4, 2pm
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

Crop Circles and Lights Out by Darran Sims
Run by Darran Sims
System: Supernatural: HeroQuest
Number of players required: 5 (newcomers very welcome. Maturity preferred)
Synopsis:
Police reports are coming in from Fulton County, Georgia, of cars driving at night without their headlights on. When helpful members of the public flash their lights in courtesy to warn the drivers, they become victims to the drivers! All that seems to be left are the abandoned cars with their headlights smashed out. No trace of the occupants has been found. Forensic reports confirm that the blood found in the broken headlights is canine, not human. Are these incidents related to the gang tags found in the recent spate of crop circles that are also plaguing the area?
When running: TBC
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

Tales and Superstitions by Darren Driver
Run by: Darren Driver
System: Dragon Age
Number of players required: 4 (6 max)
Synopsis:
There are Witches in the Korcari Wilds... they say. Makes sense, seems any group of Templars that go waltzing in there either don't come back or return with so many holes in them that Demons won't even need the Fade to possess 'em. Just as well, truth be told, as it's probably a more merciful fate than those Apostates would inflict!. So imagine the shock the Chantry had when a young woman, covered in rags, returns claiming she escaped the clutches of these foul creatures and, even worse, that they're taking refuge with those Chasind Barbarians. Well, this time we have the upper hand! This time, we will cleanse the Wilds of that Chasind filth!
When running: Friday Evening
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

28 Decisions Later by Paul Lawrence
Run by Paul Lawrence
System: Call of Cthulhu - Investigation / Diplomacy
Number of players required: 6
Synopsis:
Two years and four months after the outbreak of the Rage Virus that infected the majority of Great Britain, many cities and towns are declared safe and the British survivors have now returned. Many towns and cities are set up as armoured satellite refuges, as a repopulation of the country begins. The town of Middleriver is one such satellite refuge, and has been established now for seven months, under local control. This evening though, the infected have infiltrated the town via the sewage works. Slightly perturbing is the fact that the perimeter alarms were not triggered - but the situation should be controllable with current resources. More disturbingly, a group of anarchists have claimed responsibility for this, and are now inciting a riot in the central part of the city. Your role as the Major Incident Plan Governing Body `Gold Command' is to bring the town under control.
When running: Saturday Slot 5, 8pm
Player sign-up: At Continuum.

Mass Effect - MIA by Darren Driver
Run by Darren Driver
System: BRP
Number of players required: 4 (6 max)
Synopsis:
The Citadel. Since its discovery, scientific expectations has known no bounds, feared no limitation and accepted all possibilities. Every gas giant, every dwarf planet, every hunk of rock that orbits any star in any system holds its very own little mysteries. It was scientific curiosity that brought a leading Citadel Science Team to Eletania within the Hercules System of the Attican Beta. A Science Team that has now gone missing... You're a member of a specialist team formed by the Council to investigate what has happened. Formed from the most respected specialists available; from Citadel: Security and Scientists to foreign Engineers and even Mercenaries. Your instructions are to find out what has happened and, if needed, escort the Science Team back to the Council for debriefing. What could possibly go wrong?
When running: Saturday Evening
Player sign-up: At Continuum.