nishatalitha: image: lots of ladybirds crawling up fencepost.  white rope is wrapped twice around top of fencepost (Say What?)
I am stubbornly resisting the urge to read the eARC of Cyroburn, Lois McMaster Bujold's latest Vorkosigan book. This is mostly because I dislike ARCs in general, and particularly eARCs. I was fine with waiting until November until the eARC was released recently and my flist (and the Bujold ML) just exploded. Also, I've had enough of reading not-completely finished books, as I've been doing some editing for friends recently.

...I still haven't read the five sample chapters available at Baen. Bujold has also noted that in preparation for Cyroburn's release, The Warrior's Apprentice has been moved to the Baen Free Library. For those of you who have not yet been sucked into the world(s) of Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, I can highly recommend it. In the meantime, I'm going to try to wait until November for the hardback. I have the suspicion that this means I'm going to back-collect all the Vorkosigan books in hardback, to accompany my paperbacks.

Work went well today. It took me the entire week, but I managed to complete three tasks that I wanted to get done: settlement yesterday (which was easy, part purchase so all I needed to do was organise the the money to be paid over); settlement today (which would have been easy, except the money didn't come in overnight, which meant I got to sort that out, my supervisor being in Auckland the last three days for a conference - this was actually fun); and filing the printing for one file since 19 July (the stack of paper was about 10cm high).

Tomorrow, of course, is Confusion. People appear to be looking forward to it, which is great. By dint of some chasing around assorted GMs, I mostly have blurbs, player numbers, and a rough timetable.

Confusion 8

Aug. 4th, 2010 09:30 pm
nishatalitha: image: lots of ladybirds crawling up fencepost.  white rope is wrapped twice around top of fencepost (Biggles - Sopwith Camel)
As requested, under the cut tag is a list of games (some with blurbs) that people have offered to run, laid out in the planned timetable. It is subject to the GMs and enough players turning up.

Games Being Run at Confusion )
nishatalitha: image: lots of ladybirds crawling up fencepost.  white rope is wrapped twice around top of fencepost (Cats refuse to be organised)
See the shiny flyer I made:


A casual one-day roleplaying and board-gaming convention. Come along, give it a go.

WHERE: Turnbull House
WHEN: Saturday 7 August
TIME: 9.00am - late
COST: WARGS Members: $5
GMs/Other Clubs by negotiation: $10
Roleplayer/boardgamer (whole day, non of the above): $15
Per session: $5

There will be one room in which will have boardgaming, hanging out, and for those of you who want to, handcrafts. I will be there all day. Come say hi.
nishatalitha: image: lots of ladybirds crawling up fencepost.  white rope is wrapped twice around top of fencepost (Calvin & Hobbes - WHAT?!)
Crossposted anywhere I can think of:

Hi everyone,

I have taken over running Confusion from artemis.

This year it is the first Saturday of August so the 8th. It is held at Turnbull House, on Bowen Street, just opposite the Beehive, and near all sorts of conveniently open bakeries and mini-supermarkets/Star Marts...

For those who havn't attended before it is a fantastic day of gaming involving 3 rounds of roleplaying and a whole lot of boardgaming.

It is a fun and relaxed gaming convention with tea and coffee provided.

Schedule:

9.00 - 9.30am: Registrations
9:30 - 12:30pm: Round 1

12.30 - 1.30pm: Lunch break

1:30 - 4:30pm: Round 2

4.30 - 5.30pm: Dinner Break

5:30 - 9:30pmish: Round 3

Cost:

WARGS Members: $5
GMs/Other Clubs by negotiation $10
Roleplayer/boardgamer (whole day, non of the above): $15

So please come along and join the rest of us having a great day of gaming.

I am now looking for wonderful people to volunteer to GM (I already have one), so if you are interested, please either email me at the specially set up email address: confusion.in.wellington@gmail.com, or comment here.

Boardgamers: if there are any of you out there who would like to bring a collection (or partial collection) of boardgames along for people to play, please contact me as above.

Thank you!

Confusion 8

Apr. 6th, 2010 07:32 pm
nishatalitha: image: lots of ladybirds crawling up fencepost.  white rope is wrapped twice around top of fencepost (Kapcon)
Confusion 8 will be on 7 August 2010.

If you would like to GM or run a small larp or anything on the day (or indeed, have any other questions, comments or answers), please either leave a comment here or drop me an email at confusion.in.wellington@gmail.com.

Unless there is a vast outcry for things to be done otherwise, I will be keep times and pricing much the same.
nishatalitha: image: lots of ladybirds crawling up fencepost.  white rope is wrapped twice around top of fencepost (Kapcon)
I have volunteered to take over the organisation of Confusion this year. Confusion is traditionally the first Saturday in August, but as there are several cons on in August/September (Confusion/Au Contraire/Chimera/Aussiecon 4), I think more than two weeks between Confusion and Chimera and Au Contraire (which are on the same weekend) would be a good idea.

Chimera and Au Contraire are both on the weekend of 27/29 July. Worldcon is 2-6 September.

There is a poll on NZRag for those who want to fill it out there.

For those of you who are not members, but are interested in going to a day of roleplaying/board games in Wellington, there is a poll here:

[Poll #1539586]

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