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101 Arrow of the Gods

Friday 6 PM in 149 for 6 hours
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GM: Michael Siverling
Type: RPG
System: Traveller
Edition: Classic
Players: 6
Provided: All characters provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

A massive, city sized ship appeared from nowhere. No one who has ventured to it has returned. Now it's your turn.

102 Caliban

Friday 6 PM in 154 for 8 hours
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GM: Matt Morrison
Type: RPG
System: Dungeons & Dragons 5.0
Players: 8
Provided: Players provide their own characters
Power Level: 8th+
Variations: d6 'party' initiative
Rules Knowledge: Useful
Game Content: Mainstream

As the three moons cast ominous conflicting shadows across the land, the strange figure all in red raised skeletal hands heavenward in silent supplication.
The cliffs shook and rent themselves heaving and twisting in time to the cacophony in the skies above. Writhing as if alive, the black stone began to glow an eerie penumbrial violet and to slowly flow like thick black blood.
Minutes or eternities passed, as time and space twisted to accommodate this new birthing, this new spawn of blackest magik.
And thus was born a tower.
For eons evil gathered and receded from the grim black hell-tooth of what was now recognizably a haven of sorts, for all that was foul and evil. Yet with each cycle of the ages some of the evil lingered, building upon itself to become, eventually, a presence, a reality, of its own; a second birth. And with it, came a name: Caliban.
And Caliban ever was, a lasting thing that outlived even the dynasties of the immortal Elves.
No longer joyous as in their early days of their youth, the Elves, grimly determined to destroy their nemesis once and forever. Withdrawing to their heartlands central stronghold, they ignored the nightmare that gleefully engulfed their once bright lands, for they were forging the mightiest rune the world had ever seen.
Every single living inhabitant of the Elven kingdom Khaer-Mideon formed the essence, the driving force of the mighty rune. The Elves were laying their very existence on the line, in supreme effort to destroy Caliban.
As the climactic moment arrived and the rune of doom was envoked, Caliban, not unaware of its enemies plans, cast a counter rune. A rune powered by the eons of souls it had possessed and eaten.
The forces unleashed by those opposing runes were so awesome that the very planet lurched, stumbling in its orbit about the sun and the rotation of the world slowed, permanently, by one hour. Time and space reeled and buckled, the astral plane was aflame, and every single Elf ceased to exist.
Caliban was bathed in agony, awash in the power of the self-annihilating runes, and in fear for the first time in its long existence. Caliban retreated into time in a desperate attempt to save itself, but only partially succeeded.
Now, adrift in time and ghosting through distance, Caliban is like the Flying Dutchman of dungeons. Seldom seen, even less visited, Caliban now wanders aimlessly, awaiting only the gods know what.
Caliban is here. Dare you enter?

Written by David Hargrave as the first of published dungeons based on Hargrave's Arduin Trilogy and deliberately constructed as a very dangerous and high level adventure. This version is adapted to run with the 5th edition rules of the World's Most Popular Role Playing Game.
Website: /direbane.blogspot.com/

103 Horror Movie Mayhem

Friday 6 PM in 159 for 6 hours
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GM: David Jones
Type: RPG
System: Tales from the Loop
Edition: 1st
Players: 6
Provided: All characters provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

?It's the 80's and Satanic Panic is in full effect. Anything new or strange is considered a corrupting influence: D&D, Heavy Metal music, horror movies, etc. Moral outrage is everywhere but it's really the adults who are acting strange. Can the kids figure out what's going on and why every adult in town suddenly is acting like extras from a 1950's PSA?
Website: /www.modiphius.net/collections/tales-from-the-loop

104 Maps Can Lead You Anywhere

Friday 6 PM in 163 for 8 hours
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GM: Chris Bruno
Type: RPG
System: Dungeons & Dragons 3.0/3.5
Players: 8
Provided: Characters may be provided by GM
Power Level: 13th
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

Your party found a map leading to ancient treasures that leading to a portal that brought you to a strange apocalyptic world. Will you find your way back home, try to save this new world, or perhaps conquer it and rule!?
This will be a fun exploration based game that is simple and fun for all.

105 The Curse, part 1

Friday 6 PM in 166 for 8 hours
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GM: Don Prada
Type: RPG
System: Call of Cthulhu
Edition: 5th
Players: 5
Provided: All characters provided by GM
Power Level: just about average
Variations: hit locations; moderate character alternation
Rules Knowledge: Useful
Game Content: Mature Themes

Dawn brings the on-edge city unfortunate news of two dead police with buckshot-enlargened chest cavities in the warehouse district. The Mayor, Chief, and city Want somebody... maybe anybody...

Most players will have 1 primary character and 1 alternate character for minor alternate scenes.

(serious gamers, sleuths, roleplayers and or patient tacticians welcome). Old-school: likely using figures, a battlemat and pens.

106 Jungle Village - The Crimson Sparrow

Friday 6 PM in 338 for 6 hours
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GM: Joe O'Neil
Type: RPG
System: 13th Age
Players: 8
Provided: All characters provided by GM
Power Level: 4th
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

Jungle Village is a troubled place, there is conflict between the clans. This year's Most Glorious Village contest is certain to be filled with intrigue and physics defying martial arts.

However, this year's contest is even more complicated by the involvement of... the Crimson Sparrow! Clearly, the mystery can only be solved by gratuitous kung fu.

13th Age is D&D with indie-game roleplaying elements that make each character unique and tied to the world in important ways. 10+ years of Dundracon experience. Beginners welcome. Humor required.

107 Beyond the Wall

Friday 6 PM in 381 for 6 hours
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GM: Gil Trevizo
Type: RPG
System: One Roll Engine
Players: 6
Provided: All characters provided by GM
Variations: Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mature Themes

It is 252 A.C. (After the Conquest). Brynden Rivers - the bastard son of the dead King Aegon V Targaryen, once the Hand of King and Master of Whisperers to his nephews the dead Kings Aerys I and Maekar I, infamous as 'Lord Bloodraven' for his violent suppression of the Blackfyre Rebellions, now exiled to the North as Lord Commander of the Night?s Watch - has disappeared while ranging far into the Lands of Always Winter. A group of men of the Night?s Watch are sent to find him, while the wildling women of Clan Bloodsister search for him as well. Together, this ragtag band of convicts, outcasts, and old comrades will brave dangers from man, beast, and Others to find their former commander in the dark, icy wastes of that which lies Beyond the Wall.

This game is set in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire, 46 years before the events of Game of Thrones. The system is One Roll Engine, the base system used in the games Godlike and Wild Talents. Beginners are welcome. This game will be gritty, violent, and full of adult themes, just like the TV show and book series.

140 Get thee to the Escape Pods!

Friday 6 PM on Salon 1 Table 10 for 4 hours
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GM: Mike Eckert
Type: Board
System: CLANK!
Edition: In Space!
Players: 4
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

The evil Lord Eradikus has all but conquered the galaxy and is now on a victory lap across the sector in his flagship, Eradikus Prime. He may rule with an iron grip, but his most prized artifacts are about to slip through his cyborg claws. You and your fellow thieves have challenged each other to sneak aboard his ship, hack your way into its command module, and steal from him.

142 Dark Tower

Friday 6 PM on Salon 1 Table 2 for 4 hours
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GM: Ken Moscardini
Type: Board
System: Dark Tower
Players: 4
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

An epic fantasy quest to recover an ancient magic scepter from a tyrant king in his Dark Tower, brought to life in electronic form. To vanquish the usurper, players search the four realms of the circular game board for three keys to unlock the tower's gate.
Website: /video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hsimp=yhs-att_001&hspart=att&p=dark+tower+game#id=3&vid=31

144 Dinosaur Island with Totally Liquid Expansion!

Friday 6 PM on Salon 1 Table 17 for 3 hours
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GM: Reuben Lopez
Type: Board
System: Dinosaur Island
Players: 4
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: Totally Liquid Expansion
Rules Knowledge: Useful
Game Content: Mainstream

In Dinosaur Island, players will have to collect DNA, research the DNA sequences of extinct dinosaur species, and then combine the ancient DNA in the correct sequence to bring these prehistoric creatures back to life. Dino cooking! All players will compete to build the most thrilling park each season, and then work to attract (and keep alive!) the most visitors each season that the park opens.
Website: /boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/221194/dinosaur-island

145 Massive Darkness!

Friday 6 PM on Salon 1 Table 21 for 4 hours
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GM: Steven Sauer
Type: Board
System: Massive Darkness
Edition: Kickstarter
Players: 4
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: Minor
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

Can you defeat the forces of darkness, take their loot, and live to tell the tale? Massive Darkness, a dungeon crawl game from Cool Mini Or Not, returns. Most of the kickstarter extras will be used. Some minor variations for play balance may be used if the players agree.

146 Journey to the Crown of Command

Friday 6 PM on Salon 1 Table 23, 24 for 4 hours
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GM: Jeff Carlen
Type: Board
System: Talisman
Edition: 4th
Players: 6
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: Grim Reaper Expansion
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

The land was once ruled by a powerful wizard. The wizard is now dead, but legend has it that if anyone can make their way through the perils of various regions and gain the wizards' Crown, they will become ruler of the land. It is this legend that has drawn here the various adventurers, each of whom seeks the Crown of Command.
As one of the adventurers, you will meet powerful enemies, discover friends and magical objects, and meet strange beings on your journey. Finally, when you have gained sufficient skills and survived the Grim-Reaper, you can cross over to the inner and most dangerous region to secure the Crown. But, no matter how powerful you have become, your travails will have been in vain until you at first find a TALISMAN.
Website: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talisman_(board_game)

147 A Feast for Odin with Norwegians Expansion

Friday 6 PM on Salon 1 Table 30 for 4 hours
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GM: Steven Barrow
Type: Board
System: A Feast for Odin
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Useful
Game Content: Mainstream

Feast for Odin is a worker placement game wherin you use your vikings to plunder, trade, find new islands and lots more. The expansion adds more islands, more pieces a diffent action board, more animals, and a new starting building.

161 Dawn Patrol

Friday 6 PM on Salon FG Table 9 for 4 hours
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GM: George Gardea
Type: Historical Miniatures
System: Wings of War
Players: 6
Provided: All miniatures provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

Take off from your Aerodrome and fly with your comrades in this World War I fighter combat game. Several missions will be played: Dogfight, Balloon Busting and Bomber Escort. Maybe you will become an ace today.

171 Escape Room: Engineering to the Holosuite

Friday 6 PM in 570 for 2 hours
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GM Troupe: Team Woodbury
Type: LARP
System: Cooperative Problem Solving
Players: 8
LARP Experience: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Family
Genre: Star Trek DS9
Costume Suggestions: Any DS9-era Trek

You finally took Quark up on his 2-for-1 holosuite deal. It seemed like such a great way to blow off a little steam with some friends. Unfortunately, you seem to have triggered an old Cardassian boobytrap, sealing the room and shutting down most of the systems. Engineering is locked out, transporters aren't functioning, and there's an ominous countdown proceeding toward zero. You need to somehow make sense of the station's systems and puzzle your way out of this before something bad happens.

Notes:
1. This is a game event that requires you to use your keen mind and powers of deduction to succeed. While knowledge of Trek may be entertaining, it is not necessary.
2. Gather items, find codes, and solve puzzles to restore system functions and escape.
3. Strategy and cooperation with your team members is essential? more heads are definitely better than one.
4. Failure to escape the holosuite is nothing to be embarrassed about. After all, you are matching wits with the Cardassians, widely known for their devious plots and ingenious traps.
5. Do not worry if you are still in the holosuite when time expires. Odo has told Quark he's not allowed to charge you extra.
6. Dressing like your Trek character may help to sharpen your mind. Wear comfortable clothes but refrain from wearing heels or anything else that might slow you down.
7. If you want training before the actual game, google 'Escape Game'. There are many Escape games on the internet you can try. (You know, those low-tech holo-simulations)
8. Please do not spoil the fun for other participants at Con by telling them the answers to the puzzles.
9. You escape attempt will be timed. Can you get the fastest time at Con?

149 Splendor

Friday 7 PM on Salon 1 Table 27 for 3 hours
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GM: Magda Heilborn
Type: Board
System: Splendor
Players: 4
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Variations: With two expansions available
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

Players begin the game by collecting gem tokens. If you manage to produce just the right jewels, a noble patron, perhaps even King Henry VIII or Queen Isabella of Spain, will take you under their wing.

150 Survive: Escape from Atlantis

Friday 7 PM on Salon 1 Table 28 for 3 hours
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GM: Karen Emerick
Type: Board
System: Survive: Escape from Atlantis
Players: 6
Provided: All materials provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Family

Escape from a sinking island. If you are lucky you find a boat. If not, the sharks, monsters, and whales might get you. Move your people off the sinking island and onto solid shore avoiding disaster.

172 Star Wars: After

Friday 7 PM in Salon AB for 8 hours
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GM Troupe: Blue Lotus Productions
Type: LARP
System: Homebrew
Players: 30
LARP Experience: Useful
Game Content: Mainstream
Genre: Space Opera/Sci-Fi

Five years after the Rebellion was successful and with the death of the Emperor and Darth Vader, Grand Admiral Thrawn took charge of the Empire and when to war against the New Republic (For more read about 'Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy'). Thrawn was finally defeated and killed, and ten years later an imposter tried to take his place and failed (for more read about 'The Hand of Thrawn' duology). With the Imperial Remnant in tatters and on the edge of defeat, the Remnant sues for peace and proposes a diplomatic summit to hammer out a treaty with the New republic. It is agreed upon and is set to take place on Yavin IV where Luke Skywalker and his wife Mara Jade Skywalker can keep an eye on the proceedings. Yavin IV is also where Luke Skywalkers new jedi temple is located, and where his students will remain training and observing the forming of the treaty. Delegates from both sides will certainly be looking to gain advantage in the coming negotiation, both sides must be wary of possible sabotage.

109 Destination - D'Ilyria

Friday 8 PM in 143 for 4 hours
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GM: Jason Krestoff
Type: RPG
System: Starfinder
Players: 5
Provided: All characters provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

The Bellerophon is late in reporting in and protocol demands an investigation. The Bellerophon was to survey an uninhabited world with no known hostile life. This mission should be easy.

110 Miskatonic U--Miskatonic Me! Ra--Ra--Rawr

Friday 8 PM in 145 for 6 hours
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GM: Jeff Hatch
Type: RPG
System: Pulp Adventure
Edition: 2nd
Players: 6
Provided: All characters provided by GM
Power Level: Cliffhanger
Variations: Cthulhu Pulp
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

A group of survivors fight to reach Miskatonic University to seek out a cure for the Zombie Apocalypse. What will they find within the ancient halls of Accademia?

This is a continuing play-test for a possible product in the future. The general plot is normal Cthulhu scenarios which take place in the Zombie Apocalypse.

112 Vacation Time!

Friday 8 PM in Tri Valley 2 for 4 hours
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GM: Doc Cross
Type: RPG
System: TOON
Edition: Deluxe
Players: 10
Provided: All characters provided by GM
Variations: why not!
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

Welcome to Island Adventures, your tropical wonderland and dream vacation destination! Come have fun in the sun! We have plenty for you to do!

Including: kayaking, canoeing, bungee jumping, swimming, mountain biking, hiking, dune buggies, snorkeling, hang gliding, skiing, laying on the beach drinking, eating too much, meeting others and finding romance, dancing, karaoke, blowing things up, yoga, violence, painting classes, beating the crap out of each other, hot air ballooning and the odd attack by zombies.
Website: /dociverse.wordpress.com/

113 We Begin at the End

Friday 8 PM in 160 for 4 hours
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GM: Matt Steele
Type: RPG
System: Invisble Sun
Edition: 1st
Players: 5
Provided: All characters provided by GM
Power Level: 1st
Rules Knowledge: Useful
Game Content: Mainstream

An introductory scenario for Invisible Sun, geared toward people curious about the setting and system.

The clock resets. The moth crawls back into its cocoon. But the renewal promised by the Gold Sun is not always welcome. Sometimes things should just end. Can you stop the rebirth of the immortal Illustrated Messiah who just wants to remain dead?

Invisible Sun is a game of surreal fantasy. Players play vislae, magical adepts from the four (no five) different magical orders. The adventure in Satyrine, the City of Notions beneath the Indigo sun.

This was the official GenCon introductory adventure for Invisible Sun.

See you at Zero's.
Website: //www.montecookgames.com/store/product/invisible-sun-preorder/

114 Material Gnoll pt. 1

Friday 8 PM in 161 for 6 hours
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GM: Chriss Lagge
Type: RPG
System: Pathfinder
Players: 6
Provided: All characters provided by GM
Power Level: 3rd
Variations: All char monster races (Gnolls, Orcs, Goblins, etc.)
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

Come play a 'monster race'.

The gnoll King and Queen are auditioning brave adventurers to protect their beloved daughter, Princess Bloodytusk, a Material Gnoll. To earn a position on the princesses personal guard detail, you must catch her eye by acquiring the most prestigious treasure.

115 Randolph the Lich King

Friday 8 PM in 164 for 4 hours
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GM: Ed Turner
Type: RPG
System: FATE
Edition: morts
Players: 6
Provided: Characters may be provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Useful
Game Content: Mainstream

So, the zombie apocalypse happened. It sucked, that's for sure. But it was decades ago; civilization survived and rebuilt and things are back to normal. It's just that 'normal' now includes zombies and ghosts and horrible necromantic abominations and whatnot.

Oh and the Morticians. That's you: a loser with the most dead-end job there is. You keep the undead from getting into the city. It pays peanuts and you'll probably die, but at least they're always hiring!

There's been reports of a whole swarm of zombies moving with dire purpose toward the city, which suggests that somewhere behind it there's a necromancer with malevolent intent, and it's up to you to stop them.

They've got access to the arcane energies of life and death itself, along with a literal army of flesh-eating ghouls. You've got, like, a baseball bat and some gumption. Good luck!

116 This Gratuitous Dismemberment Brought to You by Kleen 'n Fresh?

Friday 8 PM in 165 for 4 hours
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GM: Randall Koutnik
Type: RPG
System: Paranoia
Edition: Modified Kickstarter
Players: 6
Provided: All characters provided by GM
Power Level: Red Clearance
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

Greetings Troubleshooter!

In an effort to make up for budget shortfalls after a lunch delivery gone horrendously wrong, Troubleshooter Central has agreed to take on a few product placement deals. Don't worry - given that all iBalls will be on you, the head honchos have make sure your mission will be a walk in the park. Shoot a few Commies, show off the latest features of the Kleen 'n Fresh? Hygiene-o-Matic? and go home heroes. Shouldn't be too hard, right?

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117 My Little Sister Wants You To Suffer

Friday 8 PM in 168 for 5 hours
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GM: Steven Drouin
Type: RPG
System: Call of Cthulhu
Players: 5
Provided: All characters provided by GM
Rules Knowledge: Useful
Game Content: Mainstream

Found on a doomed spaceship, a disparate group of investigators tries to remember How They got here And why... Gradually memories begin to trickle back. Now what to do?

I do not run pulp-y Cthulhu games. You are sacks of hair, meat, and bone, thrust into increasingly incomprehensible situations, with relatively little hope of surviving whole. As such, emphasis is placed on uncovering the mystery at hand, while interacting with your fellow investigators. If cooperating with and at times against 4 other lost souls in such a desperate situation sounds like a great way to spend your weekend, then signup! Merit badges are awarded to those that survive, die, or go insane

162 Hold the Line!

Friday 8 PM on Salon FG Table 1,2 for 6 hours
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GM: Jeff Yin
Type: Mixed-Genre Miniatures
System: Battlefleet Gothic
Edition: Bluebook + most of 2010
Players: 6
Provided: All miniatures provided by GM
Variations: No 360? blast markers, alternate attack craft
Rules Knowledge: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mainstream

The Imperial Navy must hold the line or risk losing the entire sector!

173 Ghost Court

Friday 8 PM in 508 for 4 hours
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GM Troupe: Morton
Type: LARP
System: x
Players: 15
LARP Experience: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Mature Themes
Costume Suggestions: None

Ghost Court is a live action roleplaying game for 6 or more players about ghosts and humans who sue one another in small claims court. Players will rotate roles as plaintiffs, defendants, judge, bailiffs, and court clerks.
Bully Pulpit Games
Website: bullypulpitgames.com/games/ghost-court/

174 Escape Room: Engineering to the Holosuite

Friday 9 PM in 570 for 2 hours
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GM Troupe: Team Woodbury
Type: LARP
System: Cooperative Problem Solving
Players: 8
LARP Experience: Beginners Welcome
Game Content: Family
Genre: Star Trek DS9
Costume Suggestions: Any DS9-era Trek

You finally took Quark up on his 2-for-1 holosuite deal. It seemed like such a great way to blow off a little steam with some friends. Unfortunately, you seem to have triggered an old Cardassian boobytrap, sealing the room and shutting down most of the systems. Engineering is locked out, transporters aren't functioning, and there's an ominous countdown proceeding toward zero. You need to somehow make sense of the station's systems and puzzle your way out of this before something bad happens.

Notes:
1. This is a game event that requires you to use your keen mind and powers of deduction to succeed. While knowledge of Trek may be entertaining, it is not necessary.
2. Gather items, find codes, and solve puzzles to restore system functions and escape.
3. Strategy and cooperation with your team members is essential– more heads are definitely better than one.
4. Failure to escape the holosuite is nothing to be embarrassed about. After all, you are matching wits with the Cardassians, widely known for their devious plots and ingenious traps.
5. Do not worry if you are still in the holosuite when time expires. Odo has told Quark he's not allowed to charge you extra.
6. Dressing like your Trek character may help to sharpen your mind. Wear comfortable clothes but refrain from wearing heels or anything else that might slow you down.
7. If you want training before the actual game, google 'Escape Game'. There are many Escape games on the internet you can try. (You know, those low-tech holo-simulations)
8. Please do not spoil the fun for other participants at Con by telling them the answers to the puzzles.
9. You escape attempt will be timed. Can you get the fastest time at Con?