Audrey’s Oubliette

This is a brief overview of the demo game I ran of my survival horror rules at Southern Front last weekend. It does not cover all the details and action, but you should get the idea of what went down.

All communications ceased from Providence city 24 hours ago. The city’s police force and local guard have quarantined the city. Some sort of virus outbreak is causing the local populace to go crazy and attack other people with cannibalistic hunger. But reports are conflicting and uncertain.

Your unit was attacked and your vehicle destroyed by something that wasn’t remotely human. Your last resort is to make it to the emergency extraction point and wait for the helicopter. Read the rest of this entry »

Here are some photos of what the Special-ops team was up against. Actually it was 25 zombies, 4 ravager zombies, 2 lashers, The Flayed One and Nemesis Hunter.

I want to take some pictures of all the zeds and ravagers. Plus I like how the Nemesis Hunter turned out and want to get some all around shots of him.

Not everything came at the special-ops team all at once. The Flayed One and Nemesis Hunter were actually in a different game each.

The zombies are primarily Cold War, with some Zombiesmith and Copplestone miniatures mized in. The ravager zombies are from West Wind. The lasher is from 13th Realm (not yet released). The Flayed One is a converted figure from Wizards of the Coast Dreamblade. The Nemesis Hunter is from Hasslefree.

Next up should be photos of the games themselves.

Here are photos of the team that was used in the two demo games I ran recently at Southern Front. Samson and Dexter (1 and 6) are Hasslefree miniatures and the other four are Foundry miniatures.

Things have been quiet over the past few weeks and here is why… To give myself a swift kick in the butt on my rules and further along to be ready for demo games I signed up to run some games at Southern Front in Raleigh, NC. I had about 6 weeks or so to come up with 2 scenarios, finish a number of terrain pieces, get the rules in solid shape, as well as paint 42 figures. For me that was a pretty big task. I would say I am a rather slow painter, plus genreal life and work have been rather busy of the past few months.

Well the kick in the butt worked. I did put on two different scenarios. Both games went well and I had fun running them. But there sure were a few times when I wasn’t sure if I would get it all finished for the con. I was still putting things together, adding finishing touches, etc on up until 10 minutes before we left for Raleigh. But I wouldn’t have been able to get all this done without the help of Cecelia, who helped cut out paper terrain and was my personal inspirational coach and Jerry who helped out by painting 25 zombies for me. Thanks to you both.

Now that the convention is over I am glad I did it. I am hapy with what I got finished and the quality of the games that I put on. Plus the games provided some nice feedback for the rules. It helped show how quickly players were able to pickup on the rules after a brief introduction and any problems areas there may be with the rules.

I am already making plans to run more demo games at local game stores as well as a number of conventions in the number of months. At least things should be easier for these upcoming conventions as I will have more time plus not quite as much work will be needed in a short time.

I will be showing photos of the figures and games that I ran at Southern Front over the next few entries. I hope you like what you see.

So it is time for me to go on about some music I have been listening to recently. Last week I got the new album by The Birthday Massacre,Walking With Strangers. I am quite pleased with it and have been listening to it quite often. I have their other two albums (Nothing and Nowhere and Violet) and with this one they do not disappoint. Walking With Strangers continues with the soft flowing vocals of Chibi and their darkish electronic, guitars and 80’s influenced sound but with better production quality than the first two. I love how the songs go from something that could be straight from the 80’s to heavy guitar riffs like in the song Red Stars. Chibi’s vocals flow quite nicely whether it is a softer song or something heavy. It is worth a listen.

MP3 samples
Red Stars
Science

Well I found some time to dust off the first conversion for my old website that never saw the light of the web. It is from back in 2004. My Slaanesh warlord titan. Enjoy.

When I get some time I am planning on converting over the epic projects I have on my old site. Plus I am going to dust off some unpublished photos of epic stuff as well. Hopefully within the month. Just things are rather busy right now for me.

I finally got around to writing my “how to” for making paper buildings with foamcore. Enjoy.

So I finally decided to give in and create a blog about my various miniature projects and what not. My intent is for this to replace my old website, Audrey’s Oubliette. We shall see.