~~ S l u r p F o l k s ! ~~
Welcome to the March Tentacles News Post, featuring all the latest Tentacles news and views. Feel free to forward this newsletter to friends, allies and sworn enemies. If you do not want to receive this newsletter or have a new email address please send notification to: fabian_at_tentacles-convention.de
T e n t a c l e s A r i s e !
More games, more drinks, more fun! The Immortal Heroband is forming, games are being prepared on practice quests and events are being summoned! Only 20 more gamers and Tentacles is booked out! So hurry up veterans and newbies!
~ Tentacles Monstrous ~
28th - 31st May 2004
HeroQuest, Call of Cthulhu and
Eternal Champion Game Fest
Castle Stahleck, Germany
The price for residential membership is 90 Euro and includes bed, breakfast and dinner.
Residential membership is available at this price until 31st March 2004. After this date we will charge a late fee of 10 Euro.
Non-residential membership is 25 Euro for the whole event.
Sign-up here:
http://www.tentacles-convention.de/regis.htm
Travel hints:
http://www.tentacles-convention.de/source.htm
Here the news...
~ T h e I m m o r t a l H e r o b a n d ~
S t a f f o r d, Greg
The Godfather of Glorantha is sorry to n o t be able to
attend this year. But he sent the ancestors with gifts and
blessings that will help us to summon and strenghten the
Glorantha Tribe Wyter!
H u g h e s, John
We are proud to have the feet of this Gloranthan Veteran
(from Down Under) touch continental Europe soil the first
time for Tentacles! John will heroform Greg Stafford for
us this year! John is t h e heortling law speaker of
the tribe, co-author of 'Thunder Rebels', Wyter of Glorantha
Con VIII., Editor of 'Moonrites', 3D artist and poet from the
Far Place. He will kick-start our Glorantha/HeroQuest programme!
P e t e r s e n, Sandy
Tentacles is deeply in love with this Great Old One and he
loves us back! The bald mastermind behind Call of Cthulhu
will be back and again hurl more games and fun at us then we
will be able to digest! Last year Sandy could not recharge
his gameboy for his flight back home so he decided to write
a Call of Cthulhu FreeForm for us instead. We will proudly
host his 'Evil High Priest'! Watch out - this time he will
bring his family!
W h i t a k e r, Lawrence
Loz almost a legend, true Eternal Champion, a Straw Dog and
good friend will be back! Hozzah! Loz will spearhead the
Eternal Champion events and games at Tentacles! Loz wrote a
fresh Hawkmoon scenario for us called 'Skay'ana's Tears'! We
will of course ply him with enough drinks again to get him to
read some of his latest works as well.
B r a y, Simon
Simon is alive and kicking despite having a real job and being
father, husband, author, artist and editor of far too many great
Glorantha material and one of the nicest guys on the face of the
earth and under the sun! Simon will host his new Glorantha
FreeForm 'Harem Nights' which will put Fonrit back on the map!
D u n h a m, David
David was Producer, Designer, and Programmer for 'King of
Dragon Pass'. He edited the 'Enclosure' fanzine, and created the
popular 'PenDragon Pass' rules variant. He maintains an extensive
Glorantha web site. John will run a 2nd age Jurestal HeroQuest
game for us!
B r o o k e, N i c k
Infamous scourge of RuneQuest, Gloranthan and HeroQuest
mailing lists, Megacorp author, convention guest, wit,
raconteur and singer. Nick will be hosting his Singalong
and a fresh game. Nick is co-founder of the Lokarnos.com
website.
S c h u e t t e, Steffen
Tentacles is delighted to host Steffen Schuette this year.
Steffen is one of the great legendary German RPG authors.
He wrote the stunning CoC-Supplement 'Froschkönig-Fragmente'
back in the Golden Laurin Age and the still unpublished
Stormbringer campaign 'Arioch's Kinder' that started most of
our staff playing Stormbringer. Steffen continues to write
CoC-Material for Pegasus Press as well as fantasy novels.
He will of course host a panel and run a game for us!
S c h i e m i c h e n, Wolfgang
T h e famed and feared German CoC gamemaster, teacher, actor and
phantomist clown will be around again and unleash horror at random
victims and the usual subjects!
~ M o n s t r o u s F r e e F o r m s ~
E v i l H i g h P r i e s t
a Call of Cthulhu FreeFrom by Sandy Petersen
Madness fills the void. Monolithic non-Euclidean doors open and a vast green corpulence oozes forth. Amorphous colossi of horror descend from the skies. Insane cultists intone ancient rituals of despair and destruction as humankind's brief reign draws close to its end. The stars are right! The Old Ones return in power and all their hideous glory!
Can heroic investigators stop this awful catastrophe! DON'T BE SILLY! This time we get to be the BAD guys!
Yes, it's the final Grand Conventicle to decide the fate of Earth. Which of the various horrendous Forces from Beyond will be able to take control of the world for its own nefarious lusts? And who will be the all-powerful minions of that conquering force? Will it include the degenerate Tcho-Tchos? The dreaded Silver Twilight Lodge? Or the loathsome cult of the Deep Ones?
You decide as we meet in an all-villain game of gibbering madness written by the Great Old Bald One Sandy Petersen himself. Play as Wilbur Whateley, the Shoggoth, or even Great Cthulhu itself!
H a r e m N i g h t s
a Glorantha FreeForm by Simon Bray
In the bazaar the storytellers and fakirs are chanting that the old world is dying and that Garangordos the Great Founder is returning to carve out a new one. The songs of the wise women who preach of new ways, new constellations and new moons drown their voices. In their towers and temples the sorcerers and priests prepare their potions, spells and prayers, new magic is being born into the world and they all seek to control it.
In the harem the courtesans whisper of the worries of their masters, as they anoint the brow of the bride to be. Her husband to be sits faraway waiting for his conquest to come, this wedding will change Fonrit and make him powerful and in Fonrit power is everything.
In the courtyards a blue skinned eunuch watches the rooftops, ever vigilant, ever mindful of his masters welfare. The great masarin lords sit upon their jewelled thrones counting their slaves and treasure, plotting against the changes to come.
Above the streets of the cities sit the great royal palaces, each countries ruler plots the downfall of the next, whilst trying to retain the stability of their own country and defend against the outside world. But the outsiders are coming, in the shadows lurks the thief, the assassin, the rebel and the pirate all-waiting for their moments to create havoc and destroy Fonrit.
To the east the dark jungles of Laskal beat to a different drum, the White Bear Warrior who came from the North has carved his empire, and now has departed leaving only his rapacious followers who look at Fonrit’s treasure with envy in their eyes. In the elf forests to the west the replanting has begun, the Umathelans and the Elves are on the march, expanding east into decadent Mondoro. To the north the seas churn, the monstrous malasp mermen rule the waters, their taxes grow stronger, their retributions worse. To the south the Nargan desert burns more deadly, and spews forth chaos, the people of Jolar, ancient enemies of Fonrit begin to move north, but in some cities they do not stand guard, but instead open their arms as if to welcome old friends.
This is Fonrit, a land of slaves and masters, where powerful tyrants dominate a huge underclass of impoverished slaves. It is a land of sowuks, bazaars, palaces and harems. It is a land of decadence that is about to crumble and be reborn; can you shape the new world to your own desires?
T h e W o n d e r o f C l a n k i n g C i t y a Glorantha FreeForm by Ingo Tschinke and Helge Reuter
Two Mostali workcrews have dug a tunnel into the Clanking City to search for the eternal grease. Both Mostali foremen want to be the first to sink their hands into the eternal grease but they have to co-operate in order to achieve their goal.
Will they be able to upgrade their Mostali workers to cope with the obstacles in the Clanking City?
More games will be added soon!
~ M o n s t r o u s G a m e s ~
S k a y ' a n a ' s T e a r s
a Hawkmoon Scenario by Lawrence Whitaker
Kyrus is free from Granbretan's tyranny, and the adventurers, as part of the liberating force, are hailed as Heroes by the Kyriot people. It is natural, then, for the villagers of Bogazi to turn to the adventurers for help in a matter that troubles them deeply. Three years ago, their village was almost devastated by the Plague; now, their people are dying once more and, to the villagers' horror, the Plague-dead return to life. But the villagers have, by miraculous fortune, captured a demon that is surely the root of Bogazi's troubles. They have no experience of such things, and look to the adventurers help them to take the Right Course of Action and free Bogazi from its torment.
But is the demon all that it seems to be? Could the vile sorcery-science of the Dark Empire be at work? Or is it something far stranger, far older and far, far more dangerous?
U p o n t h e W a l l s o f W h i t e w a l l a HeroQuest Episode by John Hughes
A band of fearless Orlanthi heroes defend the walls of Whitewall during a foul lunar night assault.
B a d B o o n R i s i n g, B e a k N o E v i l a two session, two team HeroQuest Episode by John Hughes and Friends
A sort of beer-and-pretzels affair, though distinctly lacking in pretzels. Play fweedom-loving Heortling ducks! Play Imperious Lunar baboons! Match one band against the other (shudder) in a ruthless battle where only the Narrators walk tall!
For ten players and two narrators, with live action bits, tabletop bits, and all the gwubs you can eat.
T h e O p e n S e a
a HeroQuest Episode by David Dunham
The Middle Sea Empire lays claim to the oceans, but much work remains to be done. After the Battle of Tanian's Victory, Fire has conquered Water. Second Age God-Learner shenanigans with David Dunham.
More games will be added soon!
~ M o n s t r o u s E v e n t s ~
Heortling Poetry Slam, Beer cards, 'The Siege of Whitewall' Seminar, Random Infoshrine Madness, Illumination of the Castle, SFX, Auction, Trollball, John reads Greg, 'Heroes In Hall' Heroband Seminar Singalong, Loz reads, Tentacles Group Photograph 4, Card- and Boardgames, Independet Glorantha Panel, Horror Lottery, MiB in Action...
Fabian
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~ Tentacles Monstrous ~
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