Concrete Cow 24

The problem with volunteering to make the signs to direct people to the entrance is that you then have to arrive before the start in order to put the signs up. Accordingly I arrived 20 minutes early, a new record. Soon everyone else was arriving though, and we got down to some shopping at Leisure Games. I'd been thinking of picking up Dragonbane, and there it was.

Game 1: Monster of the Week

I kicked things off with my own scenario, Who Ate All The Pies? Each time I run this it gets a little more polish, and this one was fantastic, with the three players all playing off each other, and culminating in a scene involving a gas station hot dog and a nerf gun that will take some beating. Between that and some very bloody horror, this is a really fun scenario to run, and I think it's got a few more outings in it.

Game 2: Watford Paranormal

There were a lot of fantastic options for afternoon games, and it was a tough choice, but in the end I used my golden ticket to get into Watford Paranormal, a game based on the TV show Wellington Paranormal, and using a cut down version of Public Access.

We quickly assembled our team of dubiously qualified police officers. My own PC Sweets was joined by PC Darling, CSO Turner, and Dex the PRIC. We set out to investigate a variety of vegetable related crimes, in which Sweets and Turner both managed to vault over a fence in the style of Nicholas Angel from Hot Fuzz, and Darling and Dex arrested a very aggressive onion.

Eventually we saved the world from an alien invasion, using a troupe of dancing carrots and an impromptu concert on TikTok. It all seemed to make sense at the time.

Then it was time for takeaways, and the raffle, in which my ticket was pulled first, meaning I got away with a copy of Heart.

Game 3: Escape from Dino Island

I wanted to run something relatively quick and uncomplicated in the evening, so it was time to bring out the toy dinosaurs and run a game of Escape from Dino Island. The group chose to be a group of criminals on a score, with the Kid character being the son of the Don who they all worked for. And so began another exciting journey across Dino Island, discovering and occasionally killing dinosaurs with radio collars and bar codes along the way, until they completed their mission by getting hold of some triceratops horns for the Don, made it to the radio tower, and sent a message that got picked up by International Rescue who immediately deployed Thunderbird 2. But first they had to escape the team of ninjas sent by a rival crime family, resulting in the team's engineer getting turned into three dinosaurs, the rescue of a paleontologist, and the discovery that the genetically engineered quetzalcoatlus really liked popcorn.

Post-Con

The intention was to do another Sunday get-together, but with many people unavailable, it became a much smaller outing. Nevertheless, we had a lovely visit to the National Film and Sci-Fi Museum followed by lunch at Pho.

Reflections

Just a really nice day's gaming. The only downside is that I didn't get to talk as much as I would have liked with some of the people there, due to some games running a bit long. I came home exhausted but happy.