ItzaconÉire

fozzle

Just to let you know that the Itzacon website is now up at
www.itzaconeire.com
Let the Western madness begin!

Sarky

I feel it appropriate to mention that the site was intended to be up and running months ago, before we realised we'd have better luck getting someone else to do it, so the current content is a little sparse on some points. There'll be plenty of updates over the next few days.

Nevyn

good to see the insanity spreading , meet a few of the girls at gealcon , the charm offesive was wonderful great to see so many girl gamers at the con.

fozzle

You did? Well there were only three of us, so, um, who are you? I'm Mary, the one with the bag shaped like a D6.

Sarky

Thaed wrote:

good to see the insanity spreading , meet a few of the girls at gealcon , the charm offesive was wonderful great to see so many girl gamers at the con.

You should have kept them. My poor eardrums...

Specky

I'm Mary, the one with the bag shaped like a D6

I'm the one with the head shaped like a D35...don't forget to remind Anita to send me all the club stats as promised!! The Diddlysquat showbus will definitely be hitting the rocky road to Galway...it will also be hitting the rocky road to Maynooth but how precisely that will be achieved has not yet been worked out in detail...

Anyway, yay for the Galway gang!

Sarky

Go to Galway through Maynooth, leave half the crew there?

Specky

'twill be a little like "The Italian Job"...only sort of backwards and without the minis....and not in Italy....and without Michael Caine or Noel Coward...or Benny Hill, but otherwise exactly like "The Italian Job".

We'll kick open the back doors of the bus as we approach the turnoff on the N4, draw short straws for who's going and who's saying. I'll say something like "move very slowly to the back of the bus", then when no-one's looking we'll give a smart push to the Maynooth sub-team.

They'll leap forth onto the tarmac, tumbling neatly to dodge oncoming traffic whilst still clutching firmly to bundles of BMIGS forms, top-secret copies of Spectres pre-release and lovely Diddlysquat T-Shirts. Expertly applying the very height of their ninja skills to avoid landing on a pocket full of D4s (ooo they're sharp) our "insertion team" will sneak up the motorway embankment and infiltrate the Maynoothonians, hiding out in "The Roost" and Supermacs, scavenging for scraps of half eaten chip (no ketchup thanks) surviving on little more than their wits and discarded vinegar sachets.

In a carefully calculated raid on the Maynooth traffic control system they will cause a gridlock from which no potential gamer will be able to escape (in other words, one of them will press the button on the pedestrian crossing outside Bank of Ireland).

More daring than "Mission:impossible", more death defying than "Alien v Predator", more tear jerking than anything with Meryl Streep in it. Miss Maynooth? Not a chance!

What a team...

Sarky

Huhuhuhuhuh, you said "insertion"...

Nevyn

I will be going to maynooth , that way i can return home and bemuse the next gamer generation with tales of wonder ( i wonder went ), awe ( at me not loosing all my san points and giggles ( for i am expecting a lot form the uni that voted a rock prez of the SU ).

I may even offer to co ordinate ( ie yell at ) the diddly squat ninjas for the price of a black didlyaquat t shirt

and as for the which one was i well i wa the loud one, or the one in the purple hat

Specky

Huhuhuhuhuh, you said "insertion"...

I have also been known to use the word "erection" in a variety of contexts whilst maintaining a completely straight face.

Thaed is hereby appointed "away-team-mammy" for the Maynooth gig....don't know about the "black T Shirt" thing though....(people may confuse us with smelly gamer types...)..

Anyway, folk will be thrilled to hear that official Diddlysquat T Shirts will very soon go on sale via the Diddlysquat website.

Not only will you be able to adorn yourselves with the witty (and eye-catching) quote-bearing singlets so manfully displayed at Gaelcon just a short time ago, we will also be offering you the very special chance to apply a whole variety of custom slogans across your.....chests....(or shoulder blades) whilst still showing off our beloved the Diddly-splat-logo!!

Available in all the most appropriate "gamer-sizes"...er-hum...these are going to rapidly join such classics as "The Fake Tuxedo", "The 'My mum went to Torelomenus and all I got was this lousy T Shirt'" and (who could forget) "The Chez Guavara" in the odourous-armpit hall of fame.

Keep your eyes peeled (not literally though....that's too icky) on the site for lots of hot gear (no, not the sort of stuff you see of Crimewatch....not unless someone breaks into our offices and steals our stuff anyway...).

Sarky

Specky wrote:

Available in all the most appropriate "gamer-sizes"...er-hum...

Principal Skinner: Extra small or extra large, we've got 'em both, and- Oh. I've just been informed we've run out of extra large.

Y.B.Sober

Didn't make it to Gael, but were any of you at Confess in Sligo?

fozzle

*cough* um, yeah. You know those crazies with the hats? THat was us *bows* Mine had a windmill

Y.B.Sober

fozzle wrote:

*cough* um, yeah. You know those crazies with the hats? THat was us *bows* Mine had a windmill

crazies? saw lots of them ...and a few hats also but its all a bit of a blur. You take part in the Halo comp?

fozzle

Halo? *ponders* no, I don't think any of our lot were in that. But I was in the 40k and Discwirld LARPS, and the Silent Hill and VIP RPGs. Oh, I know, were you at the pub quiz? Cos I may have had something to do with the Macarana....

Y.B.Sober

hmmm ... I was a member of the team that came last! by a large margin!

Sarky

Go you!

Bryan D. played in the Halo thing, I think. We can claim his soul.

Y.B.Sober

twas a fun weekend, but i missed all the rpg due to other commitments. got in a few boardgames and the pub quiz. kicked ass in Halo, which made up for missing most of the cool stuff.

fozzle

Itzacon Eire are now accepting your super dooper submissions for RPGs, LARPs, or whatever other stuff you crazy folk would like.

Email itzacon@yahoo.co.uk , and we'll see you in March!

fozzle

nesf

Haven't written a LARP in years... So tempting...

See you galway ppl at Warpcon I assume??

Oh and Siobhain says hi! :P

Sarky

Assumptions are dangerous, Nesf. Although, in this case, correct...

nesf

*dangles beer in front of the galway people's faces*

It's not so much of an assumption as a given...

Nevyn

nesf wrote:

Haven't written a LARP in years... So tempting...

gah that would be intresting put i'm down for maynooth that weekend you will just have to write one that I can play at another con Nesf

Sarky

nesf wrote:

*dangles beer in front of the galway people's faces*

Now that's just mean...

Personally, I'm hoping that since it's that bit earlier than usual, the bar's stocks of Beamish Red will last beyond saturday evening...

hedgetrimmer

Thaed wrote:

good to see the insanity spreading , meet a few of the girls at gealcon , the charm offesive was wonderful great to see so many girl gamers at the con.

Are they the scary squeaky ones I demoed Munchkin with?

nesf

I've decided I'm going, and I'll bring loads fo friends, or random people from the street, whichever are close to hand at the time!

Sarky

Are they the scary squeaky ones I demoed Munchkin with?

If one of them was threatening to violently kill you for not decaliming the Beatles as the greatest, most visionary band of all time past, present and future, then probably...

nesf

Do you guys need any help with anything? Me and a couple of the others are planning our trip up and are curious as to if you guys need some scenarios, or whether you have a charity auction and if we should bring some stuff up for you's?

Sarky

See the submissions page about that (Click on games first, a sublink should appear below it. The website is getting all stroppy again...)

Volunteers are extremely welcome, and there's a reward system for those who offer to GM a game or five.

There is certainly a charity auction, I think it'll be in the Rosin Dubh pub (Silliness with the college bar means it most likely won't be available on the weekend. ) I wouldn't want to pressure any of you, but if you really want to bring something for it, be my guest.

nesf

Sarky wrote:

See the submissions page about that (Click on games first, a sublink should appear below it. The website is getting all stroppy again...)

Volunteers are extremely welcome, and there's a reward system for those who offer to GM a game or five.

There is certainly a charity auction, I think it'll be in the Rosin Dubh pub (Silliness with the college bar means it most likely won't be available on the weekend. ) I wouldn't want to pressure any of you, but if you really want to bring something for it, be my guest.

I'll volunteer, you know I will...

I may submit a game, depending on how I'm writing.

I'll bring something upto the charity auction, be it from myself or Warpcon.

Oh and Warpcon heartily endorses this event

Sarky

A quick and rather interesting update: Itzacon minions have secured the country's first official Werewolf: the forsaken game. It's not out in the shops till the Monday after the con, so come and have a looksee if you like RPGs about big fuzzy furry dogmen!

Specky

Hi Sarkster
My apologies for being completely out of date on the whole "current affairs" thing, I've been buried under a pile of stuff....large heap of Galway BMIGS forms for one thing, thanks very much ...but some of the guys were asking about this whole flesh eating virus thing and I was totally unaware of it.

What's the status? Any effects on the con? Any official statements etc?

We nearly always lose something when we go away to a con but we'd rather it wasn't a limb (or even more) one of the team.

Head count....

Where's Tommy?

Specky

Sarky

There is no flesh eating virus. And if there was, it could not defeat us. They will boil in their tanks, and we would cook their stomachs, if viruses had them.

Hope the BMIGS stuff comes in handy. I had to give the address to Anita three or four times because she kept losing it.

Also, I got to sit in on playtesting the "Mysterious system X" game, and my god, but it's an odd one. It's based entirely on D4's, for a start, and will probably include a 16+ cert... Huzzah!

brass

All stuff has been sent along, enjoy!

Sarky

Huzzah!

fozzle

Huzzah! Only less than 6 hours to go! Yarr, with big shiny bells on!



woah, that was bizzare, just got a Wargammie phonecall from sarky as I wrote this! Wibble!

Sarky

fozzle wrote:

Huzzah! Only less than 6 hours to go! Yarr, with big shiny bells on!

Speak for yourself, I've been running about like a lunchtime stripper fith a dozen pubs to do since 7 this morning! Gah! :eek:

How to lose five stone in ONE easy step!

1. Become a convention games officer.

Sarky

Well, that was an experience I'll never forget.

On behalf of everyone who organised and ran Itzacon, I want to thank everyone who came. You made a great weekend for us, and I hope to see you at the next one.

All in all, it was a huge success. Thank you very much!

fozzle

That was truely *spling!ful! Thank you so so much to and boardsie types who came along and helped make it such a success, we really appreciate it.

nesf

Stupidly enjoyable con.

I shall be back next year with as many random people as I can grab

Thanks alot guys for a very enjoyable con

fozzle

We look forward to seeing you! Next year shall be bigger and weirder, and undoubtedly with more ostriches

Sarky

Pictures!

Yeah, I know, I'm lazy. Better late than, er, even later though.

http://frink.nuigalway.ie/~sarky/pics/itzacon05

In no particular order...

Slydice

Sarky wrote:

Pictures!

Yeah, I know, I'm lazy. Better late than, er, even later though.

http://frink.nuigalway.ie/~sarky/pics/itzacon05

In no particular order...

Ye might want to rename them to have extensions like jpg or png

Sarky

Don't know how I missed that. Thanks.

Enjoy, those of you who couldn't make it.

Eager committee peeps have started working hard on the next one...