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If you want to go specifically to me not thanking nearly enough people but also somehow not swearing like a crazy homeless person, start at 6.30 and play till about 11.10.

That's Conpulsion done for another year.

For those who want to experience 3/8 of the Conpulsion Pub Quiz by me in the safety of their own homes, go here.

For those who don't, I still appreciate the traffic.

And thanks to Simon for presenting and Cat for aiding and scoring and making it run.

Six of Thirty adventure hooks named after this year's Conpulsion games

More to come.

Right then. Five points (out of fifty or sixty or so) at the Conpulsion pub quiz will be determined by Indiana Jones And The Title Round in which contestants have to work out the original character name in a movie title which has been replaced by Indiana Jones.

So, easy example, Indiana Jones And The Philosopher's Stone. If you can't get that one, I believe you have to be thrown out of Edinburgh.

Of course these will all be answers where replacing the titular character with Indiana Jones would make a cool movie. But then this is the case with most movies.

It could also be applied to books, as it is in that example - Chris oft joked/threatened running Indiana Jones And The Mountains Of Madness - but let's keep it simple.

And yes, this is also how I write Buffy convention adventures.

(What would Indy hunting for the Philosopher's Stone be like? Obviously there are rivals looking for it as well, a mysterious figure who may be immortal, and probably a clue in a castle in Scotland which is now a boarding school.

And that's not the weirdest put-Indy-in-a-movie idea I ever had. That would be Indiana Jones And The Last Of England. Indy travels to London during the Blitz to help the removal of key works from the British Museum, and discovers a mysterious map on the back of a Durer painting of the Virgin Mary. Teaming up with a brilliant art historian (Tilda Swinton) he travels first to Switzerland, a hotbed of intrigue, and then to partially occupied Norway in search of a prophecy that might mean the Allies cannot win the War!)

So that was Conpulsion. Good game as GM, good game as player, okay...ish game as GM, stormed the pub quiz, offered to do it next year to maintain my amateur status, raised 80-odd with the toy gryphon, tired now.

Hello Joe!

Buffy Versus... Buffy?

Thanks to all who suggested possible Versues-es for Buffy to Versus.

My other Conpulsion game that I do not (and indeed cannot!) actually have ready is IRN GM assuming it goes ahead. Odds are it'll be Doctor Who for obvious reasons, unless it isn't. Failing that, I may colonise one of the two-hour gaps and do something else.

Well, finally put in my Buffy Conpulsion synopsis. The winner is... Evil Buffy.

In the meantime, do some good. Best wishes NZers.

This cold is as nothing compared to my last cold. Nothing!

Although the effect on my sleep patterns does mean that when I saw Dave Mc In town last night I was unusually forthright about my concerns over GMing only one preplanned adventure at Conpulsion.

Off to try and sleep now. Hopefully I'll be up in time for Marchlands starting at 9pm. Tomorrow.

Now that it's in a not-actively-horrible location, I don't mind spending £2.50 to get in to Claymore and look at trade stalls and be in no danger of playing anything nearly as much as I used to. (Although this year I could have, if the half-hour Dalek skirmish game hadn't been so popular.)

Also got the new Conpulsion flier. My scepticism about the big Saturday night event being a ceilidh with attached LARP has been noted. And how the heck am I gonna make a figure of next year's Gryphon, I do not know...