Summer writing weekend

We got together again in London this weekend to plan out more of the individual chunks the players might encounter at the event and what props and setup they need.

Now we've got a fair few players booked in we also started adding hooks into sections for individuals to give them a moment to shine.

It seems a long time until the event but it will soon be upon us and it's likely this is our last face-to-face meeting beforehand. From now on in writing will probably be 100% online.

Spring writing weekend

We got together in London again this weekend to work on the high level structure of the game.

With each episode we've done a slightly different setup to keep things interesting.

The Goodman Protocol was a straightforward planetside investigation: setting up the premise of the series and introducing the factions.

Extraction involved a hostage rescue and was a fast-paced, action focused, short event.

In The Drake Objective we ran a 'bottle episode' with the characters trapped and looking for an escape from a difficult situation with limited resources.

Now for The Weyland Factor we're aiming to have a strong sense of time and distance with events happening 'offscreen' that the characters are having an impact on and reacting to but can't intervene in directly.

This means we're going to have to create a large chunk of content that won't be seen and also be able to react quickly during play. We like a challenge though.

Booking open

We are pleased to announce that booking is now open on the UKLTA store.

Writing weekend time again

Three of us got together this weekend to work on the game structure. We had the basics down in the last meeting but this time we were fleshing things out and fixing up the whys and wherefores of various story elements.

It's not until you sit down and talk through things that you can really start to cross off the various "but why? why not?" problems that might derail the broad flow of the event.

We'll be testing our starting premise and options presented to the players like this several times over the coming months. Video calls are a staple of organising things but sometimes being sat in the same place at the same time helps stuff flow.