Cambridge University Rle-Playing Society Newsletter the Fifth 1992 / 93 Ye Tragicall Comedie Of Advanced CyberCthulhu & Gurpshammer 2000 Act II, Scene II 1st Player: This irksome plot of which I now must speak Hath latterly congealed a rancid knot - Brave Alexander ay would stay his blade From such dire twists as now do make us weep. 3rd Player: No plot hath I discerned these sessions past; No orcish blood hath soiled mine girdled steel. What manner strange of game do we now play, Where mindless violence hath no princely part? 1st Player: Of this campaign I gibber not - instead Froo labyrinthine Amber hales my tale What happened last I must reveal anon... 4th Player: Methinks you hath already told us twice. 2nd Player: Good players all, do now behold thys sheet On which mine back-up character is made: A winsome lass, by name Jazmyna called, Just 12d6 her RKA withal. 4th Player: More to the point, wherefore art the GM? (Enter a Messenger) Messenger: My master bids you read this scro|l I bear. (Exit Messenger as quickly as possible) 1st Player: By word of foot and GM's hand inscribed, A Player Handout! But what news is this? Well bugger that! He greets us not, but goes Instead unto the Pub Meet in Catz Bar! (The Players amuse themselves with the Nuclear Escalation supplement for Kersplatt! until the early hours of the morning) Weekly Meetings These are the venues for the remaining meetings of this term:- Tuesday 16th February - Upper Hall, Emma Tuesday 23rd February - Party Room, Downing Tuesday 2nd March - none - see Pub Meetings Tuesday 9th March - TBA - see next Newsletter One-Offs There will be another sessin of one-offs on the last Meeting of term, Tuesday 9th March. GMs - let us know what system you want to run and how many players you want, on or before the Pub Meeting on the 2nd of March. Players - come along to the Pub Meeting and sign up. Annual Dinner To be held on Saturday 6th March in the Beves Room at King's College, at 7:30pm. Dress code is Fancy Dress, but you can turn up in Black Tie or equivalent if you really have to. Note that No Real Weapons Wi|l Be Allowed. Menu Avocado with Citrus Salad Loin of Venison with Hot Cumberland Sauce (Vegetarian Option - Cashew Nut Roast) Creoe Brule with Fruit (You can run but you can't hide...) Plus Wine, Mead, Mints and Coffee, More Fruit and Lots More Mead Tickets will be 24 and will be available from Anthony Grocock at any Society meeting. Please state if you would prefer wine or mead, or if you require the vegetarian option. Deadline for purchasing tickets is Tuesday 23rf February. Pub Meetings Three more get-togethers to note down in your Social Diary, all in Catz bar, all at 7:30pm:- Monday 15th February Tuesday 2nd March (no Weekly Meeting) Wednesday 10th March Rag Dungeon Just a reminder that we've scheduled this for Friday 19th - Saturday 20th February,0from 6pm to 6pm. So far, two games have been arranged:- AD&D (1st Ed.) - to be run by Vince Gowler and Doug Reay; 6 Players needed; venue T.B.A. Marvel Super Heroes - to be run by Duncan Forsyth; 5 - 6 players needed; venue N2, Trinity Hall. If you want to GM something, talk to a Committee member NOW. Signing up for Players wi|l be at the meeting on Tuesday 16th February. Spo~sorship forms will be available then - see Iain Walker if you want any sooner. A Trip to Oxford, incorporating The Varsity Match Your Society Needs You!!! or at least 6 of you. This is the last call for volunteers before we send round the press-gang, so come and see us NOW. Note that we need a GM as well as players. Our colleagues in OURPS have planned an entire weekend of entertainments for us, and the invitatin extends to all members of the Society, not jwst the Varsity Match team. Try and think of it as a mini-RPG convention. Or something. The Plan is to go down to Oxford on the evening of Friday 26th February, spend Saturday playing various silly games (including some LRP)< and then to play the Varsity Match on the Sunday afternoon, coming back to Cambridge that evening. Transport costs will be spread evenly between everyone who comes along, but will also be subsidised by the Society. If enough of you want to come along, we'll try and hire a mini-bus, otherwise we wi|l try and get enough cars together to take everybody, although as a last resort, some of us may have to use public transport. So0if anyone out there is interested, and has a car, we want to hear from you - you could save us all a lot of money. And if any of you are interested, but can't make the entire weekend, there will be a car going down to Oxford on the Su~day morning, for the Varsity Match itself. Labyrinthe Just a reminder that our next LRP expedition is on Sunday 7th March. David Wryght would like to know definite numbers for the trip by Tuesday 23rd February, so get in touch with him by then. Notice The Society notes with deep regret the death of Neil Walker, a third year undergraduate at Peterhouse College. He had been a member of the Society since his first year, and had been a regular attender at the Weekly Meetings. His presence will be sorely missed, as will his "all reasonable precautions" style of play in thse campaigns in which he had been a long-standing and valued player. David Wright This Year's Cmmittee are President: Chris Carr (Zebedee) 13 Warkworth St. (Downing), Vice-President: Stephen Balchin (Ermintrude) A16, New Court, St.John's Secretary: Iain Walker (Cutout Cardboard Shrub With No Soul) 10 Hale St. (Emmanuel) Assistant Secretary: Chris Watts (Dougal) Z20, Christ's, Junior Treasurer: Anthony Grocock (Brian) Rm.2, 9 Chesterton Lane (Clare), External Officer: David Wright (Dylan) Y11, Kings (Box 776)