Wellington Anniversary Weekend January 19th - 20th 2013

KapCon 22 - Fragrant Harbour

KapCon 22 in 2013 is on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th of January. Monday 21st is a statutory holiday for Wellington workers and can be used for recovery.

What is KapCon?

KapCon is a not-for-profit role-playing game convention run annually in Wellington, New Zealand, every January. Over a hundred people get together for a weekend of role-playing, in a diverse range of styles and systems. Over the weekend, more than 30 individual games are run, with volunteer GMs (or storytellers, narrators or facilitators) running games between one and six times over the course of the convention.

Flyover Country

Facilitator: 
IdiotSavant

On a dead plateau, under unfamiliar stars, an alien god sleeps. If they wake, the Sleeper in the Pyramid will set in motion a chain of events which will bring about CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN, the end of the world.

Now, a small band of intruders has breached the plateau, presumably with the intention of waking the Sleeper. And its the Laundry's job to stop them.

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"The Laundry Files" is the rpg of Charles Stross's "Laundry" books, in which mathematics is magic and a secret UK spy agency - "The Laundry" - battles the forces of the Cthulhu Mythos. This scenario is from GOD GAME BLACK and contains spoilers for The Apocalypse Codex. A full mission briefing is available here

System: 
Laundry Files / BRP

Subject to Change

Facilitator: 
Michael Foster

It is 1891 and a terrible crime has been committed. Someone has murdered the Martian Ambassador at the home of Lord Darlington. But all is not lost, for the great detective Sherlock Holmes is at hand to solve the case. But wait, isn’t Sherlock Holmes a character from fiction? That is the least of your worries though, for the dead have risen and are banging on the windows, hungering for human flesh...

System: 
homebrew

Baron Hope

Facilitator: 
Jon Ball

Set in the Warhammer 40,000 Universe, the players take on the roles of Inquisitorial acolytes. On the mining planet Sepheris Secondus, a terrorist group known as the Broken Chains has begun to cause more trouble than the local law enforcement can handle. The attacks of these mutant malcontents have begun to take a very sinister turn, with strange and disturbing technology being utilised. What is really going on on Sepheris Secondus, and can the Inquisition stop the heretical plans that seek to throw the entire sector into chaos?

System: 
Dark Heresy

Tatterdemalion

Facilitator: 
David Schwartz

Since the event known as The Sinking, a general uneasiness descended upon the Great City, but that's no reason not to party!
The PCs attend a covert masquerade thrown by a troupe of thrill seeking young nobles. Matsoni Gimbros, the clique's ringleader, declares the party's theme to be The Sinking.
To complement his theme, Matsoni chose the perfect venue: an abandoned bathhouse on the edge of the sinkhole. Rumors that a ghost haunts the bathhouse only add to its allure.
Privileged, promiscuous young people in a haunted condemned building: what could possibly go wrong?

System: 
Pathfinder

Space Station Icarus

Facilitator: 
Liam Jones

Its the year 2093 and humanity has began to explore the universe. After successful exploration of Mars, attention has now focused inwards towards Mercury Venus and the Sun. As part of a scientific exploration team you have spent many weeks and months in a close orbiting around the sun on Space Station Icarus, a deep space exploration platform specially designed to protect its inhabitants from the intense heat and dangerous radiation from the Sun.

Your mission is drawing to a close and has been relatively uneventful and you are allowing thoughts of your return home to Earth to enter your mind. Only a few more days to go, what could possibly go wrong?

SYSTEM: EPOCH is a game of character-driven survival horror. The goal is to deliver a tense and scary experience in a single game session. EPOCH players are active participants in the creation of the game atmosphere and have complete control over the creation and ultimate fate of their characters.

System: 
EPOCH

A map of Food and Resources around Kapcon

Here's some places around Kapcon for food, and other needs. If you know of any other places, or shortcuts to get places on foot, then feel free to leave them in the comments, or on NZ Rag in the thread on food locations.

View Kapcon Locations Map in a larger map

Pre-Kapcon drinks at JJ Murphy's

As usual we are having pre-Kapcon drinks on Friday 18th Jan, at JJ Murphy's bar on Cuba St.

From about 7PM till late.

JJ Murphies
119 Cuba Street
Wellington

We'll be upstairs on the balcony. Come and meet the people you might be fighting with or against!

This is no child that dances

Facilitator: 
Karen Wilson

Copper Creek, a small town distinguished only by its private liberal arts college, turkey processing plant and unusually high teen pregnancy rate. Recently, a spate of unexplained fires has the local fire department and
law enforcement agencies stumped. You and your associates suspect supernatural forces may be at work. Last night a caravan in the local trailer park was burnt to the ground, incinerating the elderly resident. Can you solve the mystery and stop the fires before someone else is killed?

R16: Adult themes and possible trigger-warning (probably about as bad as watching the News on a bad night)

System: 
Monster of the Week

Shadows of Esteren - Loch Varn

Facilitator: 
Frank

You're confused. You remember being sent to help the nearby community of Loch Varn. But who are these others with you? Come to think of it, who are you?

A crossbow bolt splinters against the rock by your head, and you taste blood from the chips of stone or steel hitting your face. You try to crouch down, to hide from the incoming fire, and realize you're already pressed against the earth, back against part of a wall, amongst a field of ruins, made of twisted metallic beams and rubble. A few torches lying on the floor provide some light, but not enough to see the enemy.

Your eyes meet those of others, also crouched fearfully in the rubble. They're not shooting at you, so perhaps you're with them? How long has this battle been going on? It's plain the others are as confused as you. Is that a body? Is it a person or... something else?

The only thing that's certain is you can't stay here for much longer, whoever fired that last bolt had line of sight on you. Perhaps that doorway, it looks like the one you all must have entered by...

System: 
Shadows of Esteren
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