Audrey’s Oubliette

Well Fall is just around the corner and with it comes two conventions I plan on going to. They are Southern Front (Raleigh, NC) Sept 26th-28th and Fall In (Gettysburg, PA) November 7th-9th. I will be running two different scenarios of Forsaken at the conventions. Here are the games and times for both conventions.

Southern Front (Raleigh, NC) Sept 26th-28th

Friday 7pm Apocalypse… now?
In a previous mission, your elite team of operatives was able to successfully acquire a sample of a virus that turned the majority of the population of Providence City into a flesh-eating undead horde. Top secret internal documents from the Lazarus Corporation’s warehouse were also recovered during the mission revealing the bizarre and depraved experiments that lead to the virus’ outbreak. This information has helped pinpoint the origin of what is now being called the Resurrection or R-virus. Epidemiologists have determined the “hot zone” location as a private mansion owned by the reclusive Cyrus St. Lazare, founder of the Lazarus Corporation. Once more, the various talents of your special operatives are required. Your mission is to infiltrate the St. Lazare mansion and recover any important documentation and/or, if possible, a cure for the Resurrection virus. Once this objective has been achieved, the St. Lazare mansion must be destroyed along with any remaining evidence that cannot be secured and removed by your team.

Saturday 8pm Haunting of Raithe Manor
A group of young ghost hunters have been hired by a mysterious benefactor to investigate Raithe Manor. Usually, all their investigations into the paranormal reveal that the events were staged. But this time seems different. Locals say the abandoned manor is truly haunted. The story goes, that since old man Raithe died under mysterious circumstances, anyone foolish enough to enter the manor has never been seen or heard from again. Perhaps the four ghost hunters and their dog can prove otherwise.

Fall In (Gettysburg, PA) November 7th-9th

Friday 7pm Apocalypse… now?
See description above.
F-140 table IK2 in the main ball room.

Saturday 3pm Haunting of Raithe Manor
See description above.
S-141 table IK2 in the main ball room.

Well the Spring Fever convention in Raleigh this past weekend went very well. I am looking forward to making it a regularly attended convention. I feel Forsaken was nicely received by a number of players. All seemed to have a good time when playing and were talking about it to others afterwards, which is a good sign. Of course the most common question was, “When are the rules coming out?” and my response, “When I get my butt in gear and get the rest of the rules fleshed out, edited, layout done, etc”. Really, I am working on it. Going to these cons certainly gives me new vigor towards getting things finished. I will be posting some pictures I took of the games once I get them off my camera.

Well I though I would post the three conventions I am going to this spring/summer running demo games of Forsaken. I realize one is just around the corner (as in this weekend) but the other two are a bit further out. If you happen to be at one of these conventions come by and say hi or better yet, join in a game.

Here is a list of the conventions, the games I will be running, and their descriptions… Read the rest of this entry »

This is a game report using the Forsaken rules. It is a scenario involving humans, werewolves and vampires. I ran this scenario recently at Cold Wars and plan on including it in the Forsaken rules.

The story below give an overview of the main events that occured in the game. It doesn’t cover each move or every time someone was wounded. But you should get an idea of what went down.

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I haven’t had time to post my pictures of Forsaken from Cold Wars in the past week, but finally here they are. The pictures show 2 of the 3 games I ran. The first game is the scenario Virus Outbreak. Unfortunately on Saturday I was focused on running the Forsaken, Amulet of Amathra scenario with 7 players that I didn’t get many pictures of that game. But I do have some good photos from a local game the week before. I will be posting a battle report from that game soon.

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There was some debate about having separate ammo cards for players to have so it is easier to give ammo to other characters in Forsaken. In the end I decided to try and combine the ammo idea with the weapon as well. This way players will have a separate card for their weapon and ammo track. If they want to give their weapon to a different character or if they find new ammo or a new weapon it is easier to just hand them the weapon card. Plus with separate weapon cards I am able to fit more information on the card as opposed to trying to cram it on the character card. I am going to give the weapon cards a try at Cold Wars and see what players think. Below are my first three mock up cards I did. I am rather happy with them. Though I may tweak the background more.

Ok, 10″isn’t exactly a big stick. But it sure makes a nice size for a ruler in a skirmish game. I have been wanting to come up with some type of ruler to use for demo games of Forsaken. In the number of games I have played I found that 10″and 6″rulers work very nicely for movement and combat in dense terrain. These sizes work for 90% of the measurements in the game, if not all of them. For the longer ranges there is a tape measure. Read the rest of this entry »

Finally, we are looking for playtesters for the survival horror game Forsaken. If you are reading this blog more than likely you have come across me writing about the progress and play test games. This is another step forward towards getting the rules finalized. Rather exciting for me. But anyhow, if you want to see the site that has been put up with general information or you are interested in signing up to be a playtester check it out: www.13threalm.com/forsaken.

The PEL has finally been posted for Cold Wars. Kind of reminds me of signing up for college classes. You are unsure of your schedule until it has been finalized in print. Anyhow here is the time and info for each game of Forsaken I am running. So if you happen to find yourself at the Lancaster Hotel in Lancaster, PA on March 7th and 8th you can drop by and play in a game.

F-276 Forsaken: Virus Outbreak
SciFi; 2 PM; Length: 3 hrs; Location: Distlefink; Table: D-33;
Hosted by: Audrey Ewing; Scale: 28mm; Rules: Forsaken; No. of Players: 6.

All communications ceased from Providence city 24 hours ago. The police force and local guard have quarantined the city. Some sort of virus outbreak is causing the populace to go crazy and attack other people with cannibalistic hunger. But reports are conflicting and uncertain. Your unit is one of the scout teams sent into the city to assess the situation, rescue any survivors and report back. But something went wrong.. Your unit was attacked and your vehicle destroyed by something that wasn’t remotely human. Your last resort is to make it to the extraction point and wait for the helicopter. Rules Taught.

S-277 Forsaken: Werewolves And Vampires And Humans. Oh My!
Fantasy; 12 PM; Length: 3 hrs; Location: Distlefink; Table: D-33;
Hosted by: Audrey Ewing; Scale: 28mm; Rules: Forsaken; No. of Players: 6.

The Black Court of vampires have called an open hunt on the werewolves of Silver Fang for trespassing in their territory. The Silver Fangs are trying to stop a prophecy from coming true. But the Order of Undying Light have learned of all of this and seek to protect any innocent people from harm as well as stop both the vampires and werewolves. Come join in and watch the fur, fangs and flesh fly. Rules Taught.

So I started working on Shellendrak manor and have a nice begining. The 1st floor of the manor has been glued onto gator foam. This floor has been the largest I have assembled yet. It was assembled out of 7 separate pieces. Using the low tack painters tape has helped out a ton on these multi-piece buildings. Instead of having to glue down 7 separate pieces individually I assemble all of them at one time using the painters tape and then spray mounted it to the gator foam all in one go. I also have finished the photoshop work on the 1st level walls for the outside and most of the inside. I am looking forward to see the first floor built.

Unfortunately the Shellendrak manor has now been put on hold. Cold Wars is coming up and I need to finish some other scenery, plus paint some figures for the two scenarios I will be running. Neither of which use the manor. Maybe the next convention. So for now it will be put aside for more important stuff. But it will be built.