Ha! You and I are both blearily updating far too late into the evening! :)
I intend on trying to get Spiel to do something next spring even if T'con isn't a go: it won't get all of you my friends to Blacksburg, but it may get enough to make it worth the trip (and it's certainly fun to play with the students). But a Spiel room is far easier to arrange and deal with than a full con. We just invade and play ad hoc. Programming largely consists of someone asking someone else, "what next?" The con as we know it no longer has the facilities (even the past two have been awkward in some ways with the split between the daytime space and the Microtel), and yes the staff are almost officially a generation past college-aged and have been doing it since then, so it may be time to let it regenerate. Still, it was a great weekend.
Hopefully I'll see you soon!
EDIT: Oh yeah, and the gaming actually lasted until 12:30. If you care, Starbuck and I were sleeper Cylons and while it was close, we did finish off you pitiful humans. :)
I appreciate knowing the ending! With three maybe-Cylon cards under my character sheet, ending up as a certified human surprised me! The table did think that you two were the most dangerous candidates - guess you proved it.
A Spiel day next year sounds like a good idea. Could I make it there? Don't know, as it doesn't sounds like I could offer much in the way of my programming. I'd sure like to show up to see everyone though!
Thanks for your company today. It was well worth sticking around.
I have pretty much no poker face and made a misstatement early that tipped people off, but I was often very useful to the humans' side. This, combined with Starbuck revealing as a cylon on an Executive Order, confused people and left the "let's find the other cylon" hunt a bit off-guard (I played into a lot of things that only a human would, including against the other cylon openly when it might have been okay to reveal), long enough for me to jump us almost out of fuel and then use my once-per-game power to reverse a choice of the President and thus finish it. I didn't actually realize QUITE how onto me you all were, but in the end whatever I did was just enough to keep the cylon inquisition off of me just long enough.
It's really sad too: I put the humans in such a GOOD position to win when I was asleep that I really thought I'd lose as as cylon. But though I had pity in my cruel metal heart, I still had to try and doom you all. :)
Hurm. That kinda led me to a question last night, as I tried to settle my mind into sleep.
I didn't notice any poor play amongst the human players in Sunday's game. If there were missed opportunities, they aren't obvious to me, and random chance didn't seem especially cruel to us either. I'm also not clear enough on the rules to know how we'd have stopped you if we'd exposed you - we can't throw you out an airlock as near as I can tell.
So, is the game really designed for the humans to always fail unless the Cylons play poorly or get soft-hearted? Or am I being needlessly pessimistic?
clar1ssa and I were trying to figure out ways to get folks to Blacksburg every spring regardless of whether or not there is a T-Con...something that could just get us together for a few panels of just hanging out and chatting for 2-3 hours. We should try to come up with something between now and then. :)
John Franklin has been talking about "Plan B" for a couple of years. I can probably dig up contact info for him if you want it and don't have it already.
Ironically I don't think I do have contact info for him, although he apparently sees a couple of my best friends in NoVA on a semi-regular basis. (And I saw him myself one of my last visits up there.)
The Spielers and I have talked about something, but Spiel planning is "get a room, bring games, play." So not really the same scale at all (though we would show up to someone else's event I'm sure).
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I intend on trying to get Spiel to do something next spring even if T'con isn't a go: it won't get all of you my friends to Blacksburg, but it may get enough to make it worth the trip (and it's certainly fun to play with the students). But a Spiel room is far easier to arrange and deal with than a full con. We just invade and play ad hoc. Programming largely consists of someone asking someone else, "what next?" The con as we know it no longer has the facilities (even the past two have been awkward in some ways with the split between the daytime space and the Microtel), and yes the staff are almost officially a generation past college-aged and have been doing it since then, so it may be time to let it regenerate. Still, it was a great weekend.
Hopefully I'll see you soon!
EDIT: Oh yeah, and the gaming actually lasted until 12:30. If you care, Starbuck and I were sleeper Cylons and while it was close, we did finish off you pitiful humans. :)
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A Spiel day next year sounds like a good idea. Could I make it there? Don't know, as it doesn't sounds like I could offer much in the way of my programming. I'd sure like to show up to see everyone though!
Thanks for your company today. It was well worth sticking around.
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It's really sad too: I put the humans in such a GOOD position to win when I was asleep that I really thought I'd lose as as cylon. But though I had pity in my cruel metal heart, I still had to try and doom you all. :)
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I didn't notice any poor play amongst the human players in Sunday's game. If there were missed opportunities, they aren't obvious to me, and random chance didn't seem especially cruel to us either. I'm also not clear enough on the rules to know how we'd have stopped you if we'd exposed you - we can't throw you out an airlock as near as I can tell.
So, is the game really designed for the humans to always fail unless the Cylons play poorly or get soft-hearted? Or am I being needlessly pessimistic?
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