Plz plz plz lemme know if that's sorted cause I want to see both :)

True enough - it sounds like a fascinating topic. :)

We don't have the kit for getting decent recordings, but we'll happily link to any recordings people want to put online.

Will you be selling any special goodies only available at GenCon? Allan.

OK, so from my understanding the Posthuman related talk thingies have all happened. Anyone who was able to be there have anything interesting to report? I understand that any recordings that were possibly made of anything might take a while to be uploaded.

And what were they? Can we have the pitch (fork. ahah) for them, please?

After hearing about EP from a friend, I finally got to play "Hecaloth" and had a ball. Kudos to a great game and all at the table.

nezumi.hebereke wrote:

I also came away with a ton of gaming stories. I will happily share if prompted :P (Hint: Don't prompt me! It's a LOT of stories.)

Oh Nezumi, have your years here taught you nothing about my curiosity? Now you have to tell, it's in the rules *shuffles some paper*. No, you may not see the rules.

I was in the early Sunday game for Pink Ponies, and no, I'm not actually a girl (though I almost always play one in EP). Everything was going great until the entire team went murder-crazy at the end and started shooting each other. D:

This is the quick summary I posted to my gaming group. Unfortunately, it's tough to share the best stories without the audience actually knowing the adventure plot. The adventure titles are available on the GenCon schedule, so I'll organize by that. ****SPOILERS*** Let's see, the quick overview ... Continuity was great. One GM ran it twice, got two suicides, two murders, one survivor (out of 12 PCs total). The other GM who ran it twice had a 0 survivor rate across both, but one game had only 2 PCs, so that one isn't a huge accomplishment. There's three GMs (myself included) who track our PC death rates for Continuity, since it is crazy deadly, and it's still between 95% and 99%. It is, however, huge fun, and when characters survive, it's a real victory for the entire team. (Continuity is available in .pdf, so read it if you want.) Xenovore ... Everyone loved it. In one story, an infected PC escaped at the end, and the group actually wanted to buy out another table the next day to get the GM to provide part 2 of the story. Ego Check was a mixed bag. We had one D&D-style group who decided to have a shoot out with the police. Another group sold one of their party members off to ego traders to get access to criminal ships, which is pretty brilliant, and only mildly disturbing. I haven't heard from the other GMs. I've not gotten any feedback on Hecaloth. Dust to Dust is just a straight-up murderfest. One GM totally changed it and ran it as a crazy reality TV show. Another GM described how the PCs started launching themselves like projectiles. One PC has reservations about killing people, so he just cut off limbs with thermite and left floating torsos. I think theirs was also the mission where the DocBot critically failed, so they decided it's a PunchBot and sent it into combat. (Dust to Dust is a short adventure that was posted to the Eye.) Squid Pro Quo went just as well as expected. We didn't like those players much anyway. I ran Pink Ponies (exclusively, four times). The mission as written was surprisingly pony-free, but the PCs were happy to provide. I had a few real characters. One guy playing the Flexbot Traceur thought the motivation: -Fascism meant that it was a negative character trait that he liked fascism. So he said his goal was to sleeve the entire population of Mars in flexbots, then join them all into one giant flexbot. Then I had the Martian Ranger who had to ask what to roll to intimidate the six-year-old girl. A few really funny situations; In one game, part of the group was taken to a small corporate satellite office to be talked down to by a suit. Meanwhile, the neo-pig followed along to keep an eye on things. If you read the stats for the neo-pig, she's basically a drug dealer/user. She finds an ambulance behind the office, so breaks in and starts stealing all of the drugs. Upstairs, the (unarmed) suit tells the PCs to go away or there will be trouble. The Martian Ranger decides the best response is to fill the office with the drug twitch. The PCs then cut a hole in the window and escape with the suit, into the neo-pig's now looted ambulance and flee the police. I had one PC come in to warn the rest of the party not to touch Bob the witness. When he enters, he immediately says "hi Bob," and shakes his hand. -_- We had a moment where the party found out a little kid (through a weird twist which involves seeing into the future) they know will be horrifically murdered, so a few members took him to a McDonald's Play place to protect him. The rest of the group continues their investigation and realizes there's this infection that's contaminated kids. They call up their buddies and tell them "hey, that kid you're protecting? We need you to horrifically murder him". Oh pedocide, always a laugh. The 'What's Up with PS+' session was interesting, but nothing earth-shattering. I think most of the news has been posted here already, with the possible exception of Jack now being imbued with Posthuman Developer Powers. The RPGs and Education session apparently was very good (it featured Brian Cross). The Writing Sci-Fi Settings one was strong, better than those on the writing track IMO. Unfortunately, I got there late and had to leave early (to run a game), so Jack hit me with the asking axe. All of these were recorded, and we're expecting to see them posted to the youtube soon. You should also check out the 'writing alternate histories' talk, which included one of our GMs and husband of the soon-to-be newest EP author, Andy Click. I'll post links when I got 'em. So overall, a blast. End spoilers (obviously).

nezumi.hebereke wrote:

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you were the Lunar Ego Hunter?

That was me all right. :) I really enjoyed that game! Me and my buddy (the Oversight Auditor) realized that we'd forgot to ask what was actually going on (spoilers I guess); as in, was the actual thing a TITAN basilisk hack or variant of the Exsurgent virus, etc., or just some crazy scientist's own DIY brainhacking program. But either way we had a blast, even when the entire party seemed to collectively remember that we were playing a con game and immediately went into "EVERY PC FOR HIS/HER/ITS-SELF" mode right as we were confronting the lady in charge. XD But yeah, good times! Between the Flexbot turning himself into a pony morph, everyone freaking out at the fanboy case morph's landfill apartment, and me suddenly teaming up with the child-killing assassin duo (one of which we'd already killed and the other of which had been shot), it's hard to pin down just one moment that I found particularly hilarious. In my defense, though, I can only go with my old standby excuse: It really did seem like a good idea at the time!

nezumi.hebereke wrote:

It seems like we'll also have some representation at Templecon this year (plus I regularly run games at very local conventions). Unfortunately, getting to conventions overseas is a little tougher.

Nice to hear. TempleCon is cool and very local convention to me.

You're right on Continuity. We'll see about Pink Ponies. I have no idea what we're slated to run at TempleCon, but Pink Ponies is on my mind right now (having run 16 hours of it). Really, when I go to bed all I hear is Pinkie Pie singing 'Pony Pony Pony Pony'.