I had 43 events on my wish-list, got 5000th-ish in the queue, and got 5 of those events. One of which was a duplicate, and had to be thrown back, and which might have blocked out some others..
It turned out OK; Subsequent looking at games and time slots filled in the gaps, until I’ve ended up with a list that’ll work for me.
This is what my wishlist looked like at the start, the result of adding anything that looked interesting & prioritising … haphazardly.
Like I said, I got 5 items of the 43, and had to throw one back because I’d got 2 sessions.
Trawling around for other things filled the gaps a bit, and after a while it looked like this.
It could also be argued that what it looks like is “You Have A Problem”, and … You may be right.
I did stop short of trying to write something that’d mine the database for events, parse my wishlist for event numbers & priorities, and automate the production of the layouts you see above, and I think that’s an encouraging sign.
The end result was this;
There are two “Swords & Sorcery Fantasy with anthropomorphic Cats in the times after Humanity has faded away” games in there, because that’s apparently a thing now.
For the record, I also tried for a game of Pugmire, but that sold out very quickly – Monarchies of Mau is the companion game.
And in case anyone’s interested;
Candyland Has Fallen
Sweetness and light couldn’t save them. Rainbows and cute cat videos were powerless. Now the ultimate evil-mancer rules in Candyland. Unless…. Well, when the good can’t help, it’s time to turn to the naughty and wicked. Suicide Squad meets Yellow Submarine meets Babes in Toyland in this desperate gamble to save Candyland from Utter Destruction.
The Palace of Ss’inar Hiss
Will you let this monstrous snake seal your furry fate on this adventure!? Blending fantasy & feline in a time post humans, choose a cat & weapon; fight for honour, glory, & your ball of yarn!
This one’s a demo of a game currently in development – Cat-aclysm
The artwork is interesting, and, well, it’s free, so if it sucks, I’ve lost nothing but time.
The Infinity Shift
Welcome to the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program! They call it HAARP. You all call it the rear-end of a two year stint at Air Force base Gakona, Alaska. Nothing ever happens at HAARP, or, at least nothing used to happen; until they turned on the machine for the first time. Now, everything ever happens there, all at once. Can you and your buddies survive one, eternal shift at the center of all spacetime?
I’m getting a Half-Life vibe here, though that might just be me.
Lord Krasmus Von Cheshire’s Priceless Bezoar
Tonight an emissary invites you to join his master, The Sphinx, at court & to take part in the search for ancient & valuable relic connected to the family of your Mistress.
Cats have inherited the world, unifying their six fractious monarchies untold centuries after the Ages of Man are over. These cats have been uplifted to use tools and language, and they seek to rediscover the ruins of the Old Ones. Some have learned to use the leftover technology of humanity, but they believe it to be magic given to them by their lost worshipers. Others seek to create a cohesive nation, using Precepts of Mau agreed to after years of political conflict. The world is dangerous and mysterious, but the instincts of a good cat will always be true.
Selfies & Justice
A game Powered by the Apocalypse where you play teenagers coming to terms with the powers they have & determining who they are. If you’re a fan of comic book stories, this is a game to try.
Generations of heroes before you have helped defend Halcyon City, but now it’s your turn. You and your friends have powers and drive, but can you balance the responsibility of being a super hero with all the other trouble of being a teenager and coming of age, especially when everyone–the good guys, the bad guys, your parents–are telling you who to be? Maybe not, but you can still get a cool selfie when you take down the bad guys. Masks: A New Generation is a game Powered by the Apocalypse where you play teenagers coming to terms with the powers they have and determining who they are. If you’re a fan of comic book stories, this is a game to try.
The Big Sleepless
There is a man falling from a cyclopean skyscraper in a nightmare city. They’ll hire you to find out why. And when you do, will you retrace those steps up that windowless tower & fall like he did?
This one’s a Cthulhu City setting for Trail of Cthulhu – I’d not heard of it before, but the description is as evocative as hell.
And maybe a bit Dark City?
There is – by certain unreliable and maddening accounts, and now by your own dreadful experience – a city on the eastern seaboard of the United States, in northern Massachusetts. You do not recall seeing it on maps when you were growing up, and no-one of your acquaintance ever admitted coming from that place until you found yourself living within its eerie confines. It is a city of windowless cyclopean skyscrapers, of crumbling baroque buildings and ruins that must, impossibly, predate human habitation in this part of the world. At times, you can see remnants of familiar small towns that have grow together into this monstrous conurbation – Dunwich in the west, beyond Sentinel Hill; quaint Kingsport, by the sea; industrial Innsmouth, the engine of trade and commerce; and the city’s heart, Old Arkham.
You know that this city is monstrous.
You know that the city government are in the thrall of – or in league – with alien horrors.
You know better than to go out at night, when the clouds roll in from the sea and shapes move in the sky. You know there are occasional, unpredictable streets that come and go according to some unearthly schedule, that strange black ships dock at Innsmouth to trade with the squat, ugly denizens of that neighbourhood. You know, too, that not all of your neighbours are sane – or human.
But you’re trapped. There’s no way to escape the city.
Because the city is the world.
Xenovore
Gatecrashing can be fabulously rewarding & unspeakably dangerous. The ruins you discovered looked like the find of your careers. But you’ll need more than luck to get out alive.
Transhumanist Science Fiction. In this case, the Fate System version thereof, which I’d not known about.