Dates: Sat 9 – Sun 10 October 2010
Venue: Garrison Hotel, 635 Penistone Road, Sheffield, S6 2GB
Website: furnace.org.uk
Welcome to the Fantastic 19th Century! Under the sky crowded with airships, steam-powered cars race the streets. The marriage of magic and science gave birth to mechanical golems, cabalistic thinking machines and fearsome iron dragons. Yet most of the world is still unexplored – who knows what treasures and mysteries …
The Inuvik Fusion Centre was the pride and joy of the previous administration. A centre to unleash untold energies at fractions of the cost to both the wallet and the planet. But that was then, and this is now. One billion dollars is a lot of money for nothing on …
Archibald Price was mourned by few. A curmudgeonly recluse, he lived alone in his increasingly dilapidated, but once splendid house. Rumours persisted about the millions he hoarded, but evidence to back this up was sparse. After his housekeeper discovered him dead at the bottom of the stairs, the only question …
Diamond smugglers in Kimberley? Gun-runners from Mozambique? Restless natives seeking to ‘wash their spears’ once again? Never let it be said that life in the Jacob’s Heights outpost is ever dull. Of course, when a journalist – of the female persuasion no less – arrives at the post it is …
Someone has been sabotaging resupply missions to the International Space Station. The company has been contracted to discover who is behind these attacks and stop them before things escalate into a global crisis. As members of The Company – an elite band of Private Military Service Providers – you have …
A missing girl. A winding track. A village by the river. Swords and secrets. Albion is a game of ‘Celtic fantasy roleplaying in a once and future Britain’, currently in playtest.
It started just before the start of last Autumn. Trappers and woodsmen returning from hunting trips into Ravenswood brought back stories of comrades who had been lost to a creature of ancient evil which stalked any caught in the forest after nightfall. No one has seen the beast and lived …
Alarms. A shift in the gravity plates. Rushed Tannoy announcements. Screams. Children Crying. Explosions. Tortured groans of metal. The agony as air is ripped out of your lungs in a gale caused by the torn hull. Child’s toy flies past. Crowding. Pushing. More panic. Struggling to keep moving. So cold. …
The village of Yangdi is overcome with great sorrow while the corrupt state does nothing to care for its subjects. Only the 108 Righteous Bandits care enough about the people to help. As lazy officials feast on the spoils of the peoples’ labour, a brave band of outlaws cross the …
You prefer to call yourselves freelance specialists. Others prefer to call you corporate mercenaries, but what’s in a name? Besides, the pay is good, and as the man once said: It’s a dirty job but someone’s got to do it. On face value it looked like a juicy contract: infiltrate …
Sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will eat your eyeballs.
The weasels have invaded the mouse territories, and Dorigift, Sprucetuck and Gilpledge have already fallen to them! Now, a desperate team of mice from the fearless Mouse Guard have been sent out on a desperate mission to delay the weasels long enough for the mice to muster an army and …