Oxford Garou/Mage

[annwfyn]

Ahem.

*looks embarassed*

It appears that I may have missed a small detail while planning the next Oxford game. This small detail is that the fourth Sunday of March is actually Easter Sunday, and apparently some people may not wish to spend their Easter Sunday pretending to be werewolves.

We then have the additional problem of the weekend beforehand being utterly unfeasible for both the DC and DST for real life reasons and the weekend afterwards being the Garou National, after which there is no more Garou chronicle.

At the moment I think I have five options:

• Run the game on the Sunday anyway.
  
  Yeah, you heard me. Screw your families and all the good things associated with them. Sod spending some quality time lounging around eating chocolate. Come and play garou or mage.



• Run the game on the Saturday before easter.
  
  Hey - it's close enough! This is likely to be a bit more expensive and I'm not sure how easy it would be to get a venue for the Saturday in Oxford, but I think I can find something.



• Run the game some time during the week - maybe a Thursday or Tuesday before or afterwards.
  
  This would depend rather heavily on jez's work schedule and I'm not sure how feasible this is either, or whether many people would be able to make Oxford in the middle of the week.



• Not have the Oxford game at all this month.
  
  To be honest, if it weren't the end of the world I'd be more tempted. I think I'd quite like Oxford to end properly, if we can find a way to make that happen.



• Run Oxford the next weekend, straight after the Garou National.
  
  In some ways this actually vaguely appeals. Caroline spoke about wanting the Oxford game to continue without the garou mostly because she wanted the Garou chronicle to be remembered. In some ways I think it might be interesting to work as closely as possible with the National ST team and work out if we can run an 'epilogue' game, where the after effects of the National are felt and possibly some of the garou PCs would get to interact with the mages one last time and say their goodbyes/end the crossover. Again - not sure if the ending of the Garou chronicle is likely to let that work.

Either way - these are the options we've got. Please comment/mail me/phone me or something and let me know your opinions. I've really got to make a decision by tomorrow in order to get something out on the lists in time.

So. What do people think?

Comments

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

All of those options are fine by me (although the Saturday is marginally less preferred).

Also, forget not that with Easter comes Bank Holiday Monday...

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm...that might be an option. I'd need to check that with pierot. I don't know if his employers give their employees bank holidays off, and I don't know if it would be feasible to shift another commitment for that Monday around.

[chrisvenus]

AS a quick check presumably if oxford ran after the garou national it would have to be a mage only game? I guess despite what was said by Dave and Jason it might be possible for people to get onetime approval to play characters in a different venue for a goodbye game but otherwise I believe we would not be licenced to run a garou part after the national. Unless you persuaded STs to count it as part of the national... It is running just down the road after all (last I heard).

My personal vote is for not overly bothered where it goes.

And the mitre on a saturday night is 100 pounds I believe. And a lot more likely to be booked than it is on sundays.

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering if it might not be a reasonable thing to blow some of the Oxford funds on, tho. God knows there is enough money sitting.

[chrisvenus]

Yeah, definitely cost shouldn't be something to worry about. That was partly why I was filling in some numbers for you.

And as a thought of what to do with leftover money I believe renewals are coming up again. Subsidise renewals for oxford players?

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

That's an option, depending on how much we've got. I also vaguely liked the idea of subsidising an 'end of chronicle' dinner for all the Oxford players when mage finally goes down.

[chrisvenus]

*grin* I keep forgetting about mage. I'm being as bad as the americans with the ego-centric-ness of the end of the world. :)

Maybe I'll have to hang around then to make sure I get my part of that dinner. :) I have no ideas for character concepts though. Partly because I have no idea of what is going on in the venue at the moment.

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Hey! Didn't you vote for the Oxford Mage game to continue?

*grins*

I'm kinda like you, really. I don't know much about mage and I'm not quite sure what to do. I might end up just trying to learn the rules and AST'ing/NPC'ing or pottering and seeing if anything interesting shows up.

[chrisvenus]

Ummmm... I think I put my hand up in a half-hearted fashion, yeah. Mainly because I didn't really care whether it went on but I knew others did.

I might ask if I'm wanted to NPC. I know oxford well enough that I could play somebody on the council. I doubt I'll get another PC though because its just too much to try to work a character in at this stage to get involved.

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

I ought to be doing more with Mage, but... well, National Plot has kind of uprooted my PC (no ID card...) and she's mostly being confused and scared and existing in a world she doesn't know, understand or like...

[kathminchin.livejournal.com]

I like the fifth option, if only because a final "goodbye" game sounds groovy.

Like Chris says - perhaps you can persuade Caroline to include it as part of the National

[chrisvenus]

I suspect its not just caroline to make this national into a partly cross-venue game. Though I suspect Dave and JAse can be persuaded that this is a good way to have a nice final game and get around the bureaucracy of things. Would probably be worth checking with the NC too for this one just to make sure it isn't going to get CamUK in trouble...

[omentide.livejournal.com]

I have no idea about the Garou plot...

However, I do know that the ANST knocked herself out getting the extension to 1st week in April so the National could be run and I am really, really distressed and upset that my team has let her down. I'm not saying it's anyone's fault (I don't think it is) but we have let her down over this. There WILL be a National but the ANST should not have to be worrying about venue issues!

Oh, the Oxford thing is an ST-Chain decision.

[chrisvenus]

I have very little idea what's gone on from the point of view of the garou national. I heard the announcement that we were awaiting confirmation of the site but that's about it. Has there been any more information given out? Just thinking that if it was a case of venues and that kind of thing then more people looking for somewhere new would be better.

And I only thought that the oxford thing might be an NC thing because of any potential conflict with the licence agreement if a mage/garou crossover game (the garou bit being the most important) is run after the deadline for all apocalypse games to have finished. Not really my problem though, just want to make sure things won't cause problems.

[omentide.livejournal.com]

We await confirmation. We should, in my opinion, have had a site confirmed several months ago. I feel very bad and guilty about this.

No, we are not allowed to run games after the chronicles have finished. My ST brain can think of a number of ways around this, but those would need to be cleared up the ST Chain. My ST brain does not exercise itself on behalf of the Cam. That was a decision I made for the sake of my own sanity.

I will remove my bad head space from this LJ now.

Sorry.

[castorlion.livejournal.com]

I have a Kath and a Mark and a Sarah staying at mine over Easter weekend, so if it runs either Saturday or Sunday we are likely to turn up...

[taimatsu]

I cannot make a game during the week. I would rather it didn't run on Easter Saturday or Sunday as I think my dad expects me at home for the weekend. I'd rather the Sunday than the Saturday, though. Following weekend is the best option for me.