Be Excellent To Each Other

WHEN
October 7th-8th-9th-10th (Friday lunchtime to Monday morning)

WHERE
Stenson Hill Farm, Derbyshire

WHO (please let me know if incorrect; any mistakes are purely my incompetence and not malicious)
Confirmed (24)
Curiosity - paid 95
Grim... - paid 95
Craster - paid 95
Mr Dave - paid 100
Myp and a plus one - paid 190
MaliA - paid 100
MrsA - paid 100
Russ - paid 95
Mimi - paid 95
Kovacs - paid 95
Kern - paid 95
Joans - paid 95
Jazzy - paid 95
JBR - paid 95.03
Malc - paid 90
DocG - paid 95
MrChris - paid 95
Jacket - paid 95
Mat and Carly - paid 187 (yo)
Rach and a plus one - paid 190
Bobby - paid 95

Part timers
Mrs Curio
The Vision (maybe)

Total payment needed for 2 cottages: 2400.00
No shortfall! We did it!

Possibles/TBC
Nervous Pete
Dave's plus one
Boden (plus child)
Various other waifs and strays (don't take it personally)

List of those to whom Curiosity owes a great debt
Gaz
Jem
Bamba

Also Cavey paid 30 quid but isn't coming.

Total cost per person = 95 quid or thereabouts. If you want to make it a round hundred you're more than welcome. Any money over and above the total goes to a fund that provides communal food and stuff like loo roll, soap, etc.

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October 14th is the Friday.

Surprise twist: I can't come this year.

What.

Surprise twist #2: Of course I'm coming. I'd already booked the time off.

ffs

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In

In!

In

If I can swap the weekend with my son.

Only me.

I'm probably going to regret this but: INtimidated

In!
I might be better at 'Mafia' this year.

*snort*

Like every year, I shall express a very vague intention to come along for a day but then ultimately let you all down at the very last minute

You're only letting yourself down.

Because we all think you're a cunt.

Sounds like we're going to have to be in and then give you a lift, forcing you to stay for the whole weekend.

(Not an 'in' - I need to speak to Mimi)

Is there any chance of playing a game of D+D? I never have and would like to.

I know it was mentioned last year but I'm not sure what happened with it.

Nothing, in the end.

Only if you're a definite.

Do D&D campaigns not take like weeks to run? Can you even do condensed versions? I honestly know nothing at all about it like.

Neither do I which is why I'm keen to have a go.

Campaigns do, by definition, as they are a series of adventures. But you can, of course, also just run a one-off session. It's an infinitely flexible format, so you can run it any way you imagine. One thing you probably can't do much of in a one-off is advance your character's skills. Hmm, unless you ran it as a series of vignettes spaced over a longer period of game-time... that's an interesting idea.

We can't make the Friday (flying back from Vegas) but should be there for the Saturday. Jet lag will dictate whether we stay over on the Saturday I guess!

If that's okay with all concerned, I'd like to express my INterest

If this was poker, I would push all our chips over the line because we're all in.

Craster said he'd do it and then didn't and I didn't get to be a man with a tree

Assuming I'm not involved in a lengthy trial, in.

You have to sleep with Myp.

Trial, not ordeal.

It's not lengthy either. Or girthy, actually.

Insider knowledge!

I should have gone with that response.

Also, why aren't you in yet?
Title.

But that mafia game was my favourite part about last year

I'm in, jetlag or not.

Insider? I barely know 'er!

Making a Murderer 2

I have a load of d&d stuff in the loft..

Same here. I'm sure you could do an abbreviated single module in a cottage weekend.

RE: D&D stuff - not coming out in favor of piracy , but various torrent sites have some of the small one shot D&D modules which give a particular area and encounters which i'm sure you could get through in a few hours (or early copies of Dragon magazine which often had small encounter modules as freebies)

There are also all the Tolkien MERP (Middle Earth Role Playing) modules and quite a few of them have small bite sized areas with pre-set encounters and even pre-defined characters ready to go if you want to avoid some of the complexity of setting up your own.

People who either said IN or I have just assumed like a douche (16):
Curio
Grim...
Cras
Doc G
Myp
GJ
Joans
Mr Dave
Mali
Bamba
Kern
Russ
Mimi
Gaz
Jem
Cavey

Indecisive mofo:
TheVision

How set-in-stone are the location and dates here? I only ask because, being an organised sort of motherfucker, it would be nice to book my flights/work holidays/cat sitter as soon as I can so I can just forget about it all. Obviously with it being months away if there's even the slightest chance of things changing I won't bother, but it would be nice to tick all these things off my list as 'done'.

Pretty set. Once I call the chap up and confirm then it will be in stone. STONE I TELL YOU!

Just the one cottage this time round, it looks like, unless there is a surge of interest.

I will double check with Zeppo whether he will be joININg us.

Fair enough, I'll get my bookings on then just for sake of doing it while I remember.

Oh, last question: what kind of time do people start arriving at the place on the Friday? I've got a flight that gets me into East Midlands at 1230 and another one arriving at 1620 y'see.

I'll be there from lunchtime as I live 30 mins down the road. Do you want me to pick you up from the airport?

That would certainly be convenient if it's no bother. I'll go for the earlier flight then.