Dates: Sat 19 – Sun 20 October 2013
Venue: Garrison Hotel, 635 Penistone Road, Sheffield, S6 2GB
Website: furnace.org.uk
Baron Sukumvit hosts the Trial of the Champion. If you can survive the devious traps and horrific monsters of the Deathtrap Dungeon and escape alive then he will shower you with gold and jewels. If not then your corpse will remain as a salutary reminder for the next group of …
Its 1879 and history has diverted from July 4th, 1863. The South has won its independence, California has shattered into a labyrinth of flooded sea-canyons, and a mysterious super-fuel called “ghost rock” has spawned as much war and strife as it has “steampunk” devices. Your posse has received word from …
Revolution has come to the Caribbean island of Corto Maltese, again. The forces of the hated despot known as El Jefe — a former revolutionary himself — are on the run. This time things will be different. This time the people will know freedom. Amidst the chaos, four men are …
The Slowboat Icarus Ascending was launched from Earth, slowly boosting away from the conflict and chaos of post-Singularity Earth on a pillar of pulsed nuclear explosions across 21 lonely light-years and a century of subjective time for its passengers. Unlike many of its sister ships, the long journey passed without …
On a remote planet far from civilisation, the worst criminal scum from a dozen star systems have been dumped, charged with build- ing new lives under the watchful eye of Authority. Within a brutal hierarchy of savagery and servility, convicts and guards alike must make hard choices. Every colonist has …
The fortress of Bastion is at the farthest edge of the Empire and sits as the first line of defence against the ravaging hordes of the wastelands beyond. As such it is a focus of attention from all of the movers and shakers of the Empire and beyond although they …
Its 1098, 14 years after the False War of the Fourth Frontier War but all sides are still maneuvering for the next battle. Play spies, agents, and administrators at the highest levels of the Mora Duchy of the Third Imperium as the heiress to Mora prepares to wed a veteran …
Returning from a successful diplomatic assignment on the Silk Isles, the heroes’ boat is besieged by a terrible storm and wrecked. As the heroes come round they soon realise they have been washed up on the shores of the Shadowlands. What perils will befall them as they try to make …
A flash mob took place in Edinburgh a couple of days ago. There is nothing overly remarkable about this, except for the fact that none of the participants have any memory of agreeing to participate. Everything points to supernatural influence, but to what purpose? What first seems like a curious …
The rundown Fairground has stood deserted on the outskirts of town for nearly 5 decades. The place has a grim and distressing past. The year is 2013. Snow lies deep. In the earlier hours of the morning two parents search through the dark and snowy fairground for their missing children. …
Groombridge 1618 is a small colony world, settled with the blessings and support of the Turing Protectorate. The Protectorate has identified it as having important strategic potential, probably to stop the influence of the Genies spreading too far. As a result, plans are underway to upgrade the systems in the …
Britannia is a land of petty kings and warlords, squabbling in the void left after the withdrawal of Rome. The light of civilisation is fading as a Dark Age descends amidst the chaos of the rapacious Angle and Saxon invaders. One tiny oasis, preserving some of the ways of old …