Fright Night Wellington

Welcome to Fright Night

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Welcome to Fright Night, a one-night horror roleplaying convention in Wellington, New Zealand. You can read more about the 'con here.

Online Registrations Now Closed

Register for Fright Night

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Fright Night IV is now open for registration!

Limited Numbers
Because we want Fright Night to be a special experience we have encouraged the talented GM's running games to enhance the atmosphere of their games, and provided them as much space and ambience as possible to achieve this.

In addition each GM will only be running their game once, so they will be playing in the alternate round. This means that we will be necessarily limited for space. So only 17 places are available for players at this time. These will be allocated on a first-in, first-served basis.

The cost for Fight Night is $15 for players and $10 for GM's.

Online Registrations Now Closed

Schedule of Games

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This Fright Night offers LARP, semi-LARP and tabletop offerings set everywhere from the right here and now through to the old west, historic Otago gold fields, distant planets and beyond.

Fright Night consists of two, 3 hour rounds of roleplaying, with a short refreshment break between rounds.

Below is a list of the games on offer. Each game has been scored from 1-5 by the facilitator in the horror categories of Suspense, Strange, Scare and Splatter and also been assigned a film classification so you have an idea what you're in for.

Follow the links to each of the game pages below to read more about the games on offer.

ROUND ONE

Splinter of Corruption
Where is Commissar Nihilius? What happened to his command? What lurks below?

Did you hear the one..?
Explore the terrifying secrets of the old house on the hill.

The Cold Shore
Do you have what it takes to survive the night?

Finding Ghosts
Instant fame or instant terror? Either way it’s all on film.

ROUND TWO

Rivers of Gold
Be careful what you dig up.

All Saints' Eve
Delve into the intrigue and mystery of Westernbridge at the town’s famous Halloween party.

The Eye's Have It...
Take the hard decisions to save London’s fragile peace.

The Hand That Feeds
Strap on a six-shooter and unleash the beast.

Fright Night IV Preview

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There are some great games lined up for Fright Night IV. Below are some of the tantalising previews from this year's offerings;

Take the hard decisions to save London’s fragile peace in The Eye’s Have it…
4 Players, Hot War (using GUMSHOE), R16

Be careful what you dig up in Rivers of Gold
5 Players, Trail of Cthulhu (GUMSHOE), R16

Strap on a six-shooter and unleash the beast in The Hand That Feeds
5 Players, Savage Worlds, R18

Fight or Flight: They're coming for you, what's your decision?
4 Players, R18

Explore the terrifying secrets of the old house on the hill in Did you hear the one...?
5 Players, Semi-LARP, R16

Delve into the intrigue and mystery of Westernbridge at the town’s famous Halloween Party in All Saints’ Eve
8 Players, LARP, R18

Do you have what it takes to survive the night? Find out on The Cold Shore.
5 Players, Nemesis, GA

Instant fame or instant terror? Either way it’s all on film in Finding Ghosts
4 Players, Systemless,R16

Finding Ghosts

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Title: Finding Ghosts
Facilitator: Grant
System: Systemless
Players: 5
Blurb: A group of university students, fresh into their film-studies, have come up with the perfect assignment. In the style of the Blair Witch Project, these students plan to track down the legendary "Ghost of the forest", a frightening spirit of the past, and capture it on film, earning them instant fame, fortune, and hopefully at least a B+ on their assignment.

Will they discover anything supernatural? or will the demons from their own past come to haunt them?
Come along and find out......

Classification: R16
Scare: 3
Suspense:4
Splatter: 2
Strange: 3

The Cold Shore

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Title: The Cold Shore
Facilitator: Malcolm
System: Nemesis
Players: 5
Blurb: December, 1870 - the clipper Sea Witch, a week out of Melbourne and bound for England, is caught in a storm in the Southern Ocean. In the dead of night, it is driven by the tempest onto sheer cliffs. A handful of survivors drag themselves onto the beach. But while they may have survived the wreck, can they survive what lurks on the cold shore?

Classification: GA
Scare: 3
Suspense: 3
Splatter: 4
Strange: 2

All Saints' Eve

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Title: All Saints’ Eve
Facilitator: Scott
System: LARP
Players: 8
Blurb: The town of Westenbridge is a self-contained far-suburb of Boston. It has been around for hundreds of years and has been politically controlled by the same set of families for nearly that long. Many of its citizens work in Boston but nearly all services and social life are local. The town is very conservative and snobby, and few move into it, but almost as few leave. The population is one fifth extremely rich, large families, one fifth poor people who serve them, and three fifths an upper middle class that basks in the light of the opulence of the rich.

Lately, Westenbridge is not a safe or happy place. The schools are flooded with expensive drugs; the police smile and take a cut. Domestic violence and child abuse are far more prevalent here than nationwide. Violent crimes of passion are common, crimes of need relatively unknown. People do not trust their neighbours; neighbours often mean harm to them or their families. One locks one’s doors always and does not go walking at night except in groups. Many get caught for their crimes. All give their own personal, and unconnected, reasons for committing their crimes. They say there is simply something in the air.

One of the many unsolved crimes in Westenbridge is the kidnapping and presumed murder of Tanya Carter, the youngest child of the important Carter family, six months ago. She disappeared from her bedroom overnight and there was no further sign of her. Three weeks later, after the police had given up hope of finding her alive, they held a funeral, which all of the important people attended. The police investigation continues, but has found no major leads.

A highlight of the year in Westenbridge is the Westen family Halloween party. The Westens are the most important family in town by far, giving the town three quarters of its mayors, not just its name. This year, the eldest son of the mayor died several weeks before the celebration, and it was considered inappropriate for the Westens to host the event. It fell to the Cunninghams, perhaps the second most important family in town, to have the party.

The Cunningham house is the largest in town—the Westens have too much taste—and has dozens of rooms across four floors. The Cunninghams are known for leaving their doors wide open to all the town’s aristocrats and their children. People with the most tangential relationships to the Cunninghams’ come and go and congregate in the house often without the Cunninghams’ specific knowledge. Rarely do people dare steal from them.

Written by Shifting Forest Storyworks

Classification: R18
Scare: 3.5
Suspense: 5
Splatter: 5
Strange: 3.5

Did you hear the one...?

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Title: Did you hear the one...?
Facilitator: Sophie
System: Unspecified (Semi LARP)
Players: 5
Blurb: Everyone has heard the stories about that creepy old brick house on the way up the hill. The rumors that it's haunted, and that spending the night there will drive you mad. Some say a man when mad and killed his whole family with an ax. Others that the family just disappeared one night, their dinner still on the plates. Then there's the one about how it wasn't the father that went mad, it was of his jealous sons.

Whatever really happened, it's a tried and true Halloween tradition to spend the night in the house. Just you, four friends and a pack of tarot cards. What could go wrong?

Classification: R16
Scare: 4
Suspense: 4
Splatter: 1
Strange: 3

The Hand That Feeds

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Title: The Hand That Feeds
Facilitator: Alasdair Sinclair
System: Savage Worlds
Players: 5
Blurb: It's 1887, you've ridden off the dead lands below into Refuge Colorado. You've come to town for one reason: to kill a demon. You have been told what to do, you have been trained on how to do it, you have the resolve. You even have a secret weapon, that hates the demon more than even you do, that lives only to revenge the demon's rape of Gaia: the so-called "Garou", a Werewolf.

The town of Refuge is about to be liberated from its demonic yoke, it is to be washed clean. Washed in your life's blood if need be. But the price may be higher, a price you may be paying for eternity.

Classification: R18
Scare: 1
Suspense: 4
Splatter: 4
Strange: 2

Rivers of Gold

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Title: Rivers of Gold
Facilitator: Mike Sands
System: Trail of Cthulhu (GUMSHOE)
Players: 5
Blurb: During the Otago gold rush, a disparate group of diggers head into the mountains looking for unclaimed gold fields. They find something... else...

Classification: R16
Scare: 2
Suspense: 4
Splatter: 2
Strange: 5+

The Eyes Have it...

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Title: The Eyes Have it…
Facilitator: Marcus
System: Hot War (using GUMSHOE)
Players: 4
Blurb: Barely a year has passed since the end of the war and the people London still struggle to find their place in a world. Yet, despite all the odds, an uneasy normality has settled across what remains of this once-great metropolis; how little does it citizens know of the horrors that still lurk beyond the city's borders... and deep within its heart!

For the officers of the Special Situations Group (SSG), however, these threats are all too real, and as one of these hand picked men and women it is your responsibility to ensure nothing ever again threatens the city's fragile peace - No matter what the cost!

The Eyes Have it... is a Hot War game using Pelegrine Press' GUMSHOE system - mechanics that reinforce a focus on investigation. In this adventure, the players will be forced into making hard decisions about who has the right to maintain order -the people or the state.

Classification: R16
Scare: 2
Suspense: 4
Splatter: 1
Strange: 4

Splinter of Corruption

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Title: Splinter of Corruption
Facilitator: Doug
System: Dark Heresy (Warhammer 40,000 roleplaying)
Players: 5
Blurb: In the darkness old enemies need to be put to rest, while new enemies conspire in the open.

The world of Sepheris Secundus heart is rotting. The people of this world stand on a precipice of destruction. The Imperial tithe needs to be met or the wrath of the Emperor will fall on them.

Attacks on Industry and the disappearance of a trusted contact have drawn this hell hole of a planet back into the sights of the Inquisition.

Where is Commissar Nihilius?

What happened to his command?

What lurks below?

Classification: R16
Scare: 3
Suspense: 2
Splatter: 4
Strange: 3

What is Fright Night?

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Welcome to Fright Night, a one-night horror roleplaying convention in Wellington, New Zealand.

As the chill of winter finally loosened its grasp, they shambled from the gloom. Summoned by a faint but irresistible call that had interrupted their long slumber. One by one they came; sightless, disheveled and grasping for the bright life that they dimly remembered. Slack jaws worked until finally they spoke their dark desire with one terrible voice "Gaaaames.."

When - Saturday, October 16, 16:30 - 23:55
Where - Turnbull House, opposite the Beehive
What - Two sessions of horror gaming
Cost - $15 players, $10 GMs

A Few Notes:

Games will start on time, players are expected to be punctual.

Light refreshments will be served during intermission.

Turnbull House is located on Bowen Street (right opposite the Beehive and just a short walk from the lambton Quay shops).

The venue is to be vacated by11:45pm on Saturday Night

Fright Night is a non-smoking event

Fright Night Archives - Fright Night 3

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Fright Night 3 rounds out the Wellington Convention scene, marking Halloween. It's a convention where we aim to raise the bar on Horror Gaming in Wellington, and present a whole evening of tingled spines and unsettling feelings. It's a small convention, with limited entries, and players who are hungry for the dark world of Vampires, Zombies, Serial Killers and things that can't be described in written words: they are unnameable.

When Saturday, October 31, 16:30 - 23:55
Where Turnbull House, opposite the Beehive
What Two sessions of horror gaming

ROUND ONE

Title: Communing In Darkness
GM: Donna Giltrap
Round: 1
Players: 7

Time was that everybody who was anybody went to seances. Time was that there was a living to made out of being a medium. Some of them were fakes, sure - But some of them were for real, and could put you in touch with the dead. For many rich people, mediums were a necessity. Who else would provide a link with family long gone? In the occult-obsessed 1920s it hit fever pitch, and both the good and the bad mediums thrived in an atmosphere of appreciation.

Seven people gather around a table. They join hands. The call goes out "Is there anybody there?" Tonight, someone is definitely there. And they want to talk.

LARP M

Title: Whose Woods These Are
GM: Ivan Towlson
Round: 1
Players: 4

Life used to be so delightful in the Jumbley Wood. The squirrels chattered, the badgers pontificated and the big friendly trees made up stories about princesses while in their nice warm roots the happy talking animals drifted off to sleep. Even the occasional bit of trouble was soon resolved with a stern talking-to. Then came the Tyrant. He vowed to slaughter the talking animals and cut down the big friendly trees; and if anyone went and gave him a stern talking-to, he didn’t come up with easily foiled death traps, he just had them killed, and strung the body up on barbed wire as a warning to others. Now there are only a few of the talking animals left, hiding in the silent, wintry remnants of the wood, pallid, weak and starving, fearful of the carrion crows above, and of their own friends betraying them to save their own fur.

M Traditional

Title: Cicada
GM: Dan Steadman
Round: 1
Players: 4
Super Heroic Survival Horror

You have lived in Totton all your life, it is a small town beside England's New Forest that has now sprung back since the tragedy of '75. Until today your greatest concerns in life were coping with the dual demands of keeping your social life together whilst preparing for your A levels.

Today seems different however, for some reason your sense of unease has been rising in urgency. As if....

M Traditional

Title: Altered States
GM: Michael Foster
Round: 1
Players: 4

Miracle Recovery Confounds Doctors

Doctors at St. Bartholomew's Hospital have admitted to being completely baffled
by the remarkable recovery of seven year old Eve Jackson from a virulent form of
bone cancer. Only days ago her family were preparing for the end. which they had
been told was inevitable, given the rate at which the cancer was progressing
through her body.

"We took Eve home so she could be with us at the end as a proper family," said Shelley, Eve's mother. "Last night she couldn't even move or talk, but this morning we woke up to find her playing out in the yard with Scruffles (the family dog) just like she used to."

Tests carried out at the hospital indicate that not only has the cancer completely vanished, but her body appears to have fully recovered, including gaining back more than 10kg in weight seemingly overnight.

The grisly murder of "Miracle Child" Eve Jackson, three months after her recovery from cancer, appears to be a hopeless case for the police team assigned to investigate. No DNA evidence has been left behind and there is no obvious motive. Under intense media pressure to get a result the team also have their own problems to deal with, personally and professionally.

R Systemless

ROUND TWO

Title: Bad Moon Rising
GM: Mike Sands
Round: 2
Players: 4
Action/horror.

A group of hunters are on the trail of a vampire they have each faced before. Pride, honour and revenge demand satisfaction - but he's had a few weeks to build up his power in this town.

And he beat you last time.

Any Indie

Title: The Truth Inside
GM: Steve Hickey
Round: 2
Players: 2
'Silent Hill', as co-directed by David Cronenberg and David Lynch

It's been days since you last slept. Days. And there's a reason for that, a reason that maybe you can't admit to yourself.

You've been awake so long that you're starting to see things out of the corner of your eyes. You've been awake so long that now those things can see you too.

2 players. 1 Nightmare. 'The Truth Inside' will be driven by the real-life problems and issues of both players; you must be willing to disclose the truth about yourself if you want to play.

M Traditional+

Title: The Widow's Ball
GM: Marcus Bone
Round: 2
Players: 4

It is December 1883, and the Greenwich Village Widow's Ball is about to commence once again. As some of the town's most eligible bachelors you, of course, have a standing invite - even if spending the night with a horde of over dressed, oddly smelling, elderly ladies isn't really your thing.

But rumours abound that everything is not right at Montgomery Hall; that some of the staff have gone missing, or might have even turned up dead. Yet that can't stop Mrs Margaret Windthorpling and her Greenwich Village Women's Society Ball... nothing ever does...

M Indie

Title: Still To Come
GM: Sophie Melchor
Round: 2
Players: 4
Sci fi survival horror

PrisonCorp 13-316-66. A prison planet home to the sector's toughest, meanest and cruelest. Recently the lights went out. Can you survive to find out why?

R18 Traditional

Title: Ten Thousand Sorrows And One
GM: James Plunket
Round: 2
Players: 5
Horror-flavoured epic exotic fantasy.

Five Masks, chosen by the Master to watch over the Place of Ten Thousand Sorrows - the shadow of an ancient tragedy that sits at the heart of the Land of the Dead like a depthless void.

But the master has vanished, and those shades who seek to usurp his primacy have unleashed a horror they cannot comprehend. Oblivion pours forth from the void, and you are all that stands in its way.

R18 Traditional

Title: Disco Inferno
GM: Grant Robinson
Round: 2
Players: 5

Construction Site Log, Yesterday:
The old asylum is looking a lot more like a nightclub than it did a month ago,
we have finished the structure and are working on the furnishings and Utilities.
Good chance of finishing before deadlinenext month. It's going to look good and
creepy, I hope the club-goers appreciate all this work.

Gerry in the basement is apparently having problems with the gas main, Alex still hasn't confirmed that the movers have cleared out the junk in the attic, he's probably on a long lunch.

Gus and the painters are up the fifth floor, will start on the sixth tomorrow.

Giant novelty pitchforks have still not arrived. Unreliable suppliers could still kill my early completion bonus.

The owner is apparently bringing his niece tomorrow for a site visit.

Construction Site Log, Today:
No-one has seen Alex, I swear I'll stop his wages if he's not back for this
afternoon.

Barry has broken his arm, third injury this week. The ambulance has a reserved spot out front.

Painters seem to have missed some rooms on the fourth floor.

Remember to gas-axe open the records vault unless Mr Santiago has a spare key with him.

Sent back 200 cans of fluorescent paint, obviously the supplier thinks I can't tell the difference between glow in the dark red and glow in the dark orange. I'm getting too old for this crap, I'm glad I'm retiring after this project.

M Traditional

Fright Night Archives - Fright Night 2

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Fright Night 2 is a convention where we aim to raise the bar on Horror Gaming in Wellington, and present a whole evening of tingled spines and unsettling feelings. It is a small convention, with limited entries, and players who are hungry for the dark world of Vampires, Zombies, Serial Killers and things that can't be described in written words: they are unnameable.

There will be two rounds, each with 5 games. Pre-registered players only.
When: Saturday, October 25 2008, 16:30 - 23:55
Where: Turnbull House, opposite the Beehive
What: Two sessions of horror gaming

GAMES

Title: The House on Appletree Lane
GM: Mike Foster
Players 5

For Rent, one whole floor of large three-storey house, four bedrooms, living
area with small balcony (great views!), kitchen and bathroom. Would suit
students, professionals, couples or even family groups. No pets

Yeah, you saw the ad, it seemed like a pretty sweet deal, maybe too good, with the rent so cheap and all, but then there were apparently tenants on the other floors. They couldn't be that bad though, surely.

Of course, maybe if you ever met, or even just saw, some of the others who are supposed to
live here it might explain the smell that always seems to permeate the downstairs kitchen. Or the strange music that plays at random times and never seems to be coming from the same place twice. Or the dog you're sure you can hear barking occasionally, even though there's no pets allowed. And sometimes you're sure you can hear scratching, even words, if you listen real hard (maybe too hard?) coming from within the walls themselves. There must be someone else here, because you hear them on the stairs sometimes and the basement door can't just be opening and shutting by itself.

Style Mystery
Suspense 4/5
Scare 3/5
Splatter 2/5
Strange 3/5

Title: Cthulhu Rising - Ground Zero
GM: Marcus Bone
Players 5

The destruction of Test Facility 3188 has not gone unnoticed. Military Sciences Division (MiliSci) have been keeping their orbital electronic eyes on the site for some time. Motokatsu-Kyono have reluctantly had to accept their offer of help in neutralising the extradimensional threat pouring from the second Matter Transmitter, located at a secret research facility on the dark side of the moon.

The players are members of Striketeam Charlie - a MiliSci commando team enroute to their insertion LZ. Their orders are to recover any technology from the MKC project labs before destroying the site with a tac-nuke. The question is - what exactly happened to striketeam Alpha and striketeam Bravo..?

Style Doom meets Call of Cthulhu
Suspense 2/5
Scare 3/5
Splatter 5/5
Strange 2/5

Title: Geiger Counter - Title TBA
GM: Mike Sands
Players 6

In space. Screams. Someone may survive.

This is a science fiction horror (e.g. Alien series, Pitch Black). High
player input.

Style Cinematic survival horror
Suspense 2/5
Scare
4/5
Splatter 4/5
Strange 3/5

Title: ED-101
GM: Malcolm
Harbrow
Round 1
Players 5

War is hell. Especially in space, where any incident can be deadly and help is always too late. For you though, the war will soon be over thanks to ED-101, a derelict escort found behind enemy lines on the long-range sensors. When the Captain called for volunteers to fly the ship back to friendly space, you jumped at the chance to avoid the deadly silent-running deep patrol.

As the prize crew of a captured enemy ship, you'll need to decrypt the logs and access codes, get the ship spaceworthy, avoid routine enemy patrols and sit tight until you're back in friendly space.

Piece of cake.

Style Claustrophobic Thriller
Advisory R16
Suspense 4/5
Scare 3/5
Splatter 2/5
Strange 3/5

Title: Judgement Night
GM: Grant Robinson
Round 2
Players 4

You awaken with three strangers, trapped in an old house. As you work against time
to escape you find out that the secrets of the others reveal information that
might help you get out, or which might mean that you will never again see the
light of day...

Style Trapped
Advisory R18
Suspense 2/5
Scare 3/5
Splatter 5/5
Strange 2/5

Title: Hot War
GM:
Malcolm Craig
Round: 2
Players: 5

London. Winter. 1963.

It is a year since the Cold War went hot.

And this was not just a nuclear war.

Far more sinister, darker weapons were deployed from the shadows. Survival and re-building are all that matter now. But human nature and tragic circumstances mean that everyone has their own ambitions.

...a Government desperate to hold on to what remains of the country.
...military forces who wish to expand their power and influence.
...frightened and brutalised refugees who simply want a place to call home.

Into this maelstrom steps the Special Situations Group, a motley band of men and women
tasked with the jobs too dirty or dangerous for anyone else.

This is Hot War: A game of friends, enemies, secrets and consequences in the aftermath.

Style Post apocalyptic
Advisory M
Suspense 4/5
Scare 3/5
Splatter 1/5
Strange 5/5

Title: Lambs of a Nameless God
GM: Luke Walker
Round: 2
Players: 4

The world ended five years ago today. Some say it came from the sky. Others that it came from below, twisting through the streets of our city like a darkness. Everyone simply woke up to find that their world have left them. The older ones couldn't survive in this new world without past. So we, the younger ones, thrived.

We live life now bright and free in the wasteland, in defiance of everything that tries to take it from us – apathy, hunger, violence, loneliness. We cling to each other tightly as only together we can be ourselves; our whole world.

Then again, months without sleep will do strange things to you.

Style Post-apocalyptic
Advisory R16
Suspense 3/5
Scare 2/5
Splatter 3/5
Strange 4/5

Title: Little Deaths
GM: Ivan
Towlson
Round: 2
Players: 3

They lured you with the promise of a better life in the West: well paid work, enough to send money home to your family, maybe even a permanent visa after a few years. But when they tied your friend's hands and threw her overboard to get the Italian patrol boat off your trail, you knew you'd made the worst mistake of your life. Because when they saw you, they didn't see a human being. They saw a piece of meat.

But by then it was too late. You were already in their hands. And now you’re trapped in a relentless nightmare of forced prostitution, random violence and sickening fear, enforced by brutal threats to you and your family. Every day is a living hell, with nothing to look forward to but months and years of the same.

Then, one day, you discover what could just be a way out. So what would you give to escape this life of misery? How far would you go for revenge on the people who inflicted it on you? And what will you become along the way?

Style Harrowed Character Exploration
Advisory R18
Suspense 2/5
Scare 3/5
Splatter 3/5
Strange 3/5

Title: Death on the Streets
GM: Alasdair Sinclair
Round: 2
Players: 4

Prohibition was the best thing that ever happened to you. You used to be the lowest scum on the streets, now you’re welcome at every fancy place in town. Millionaires know your name, and your phone number. Gin, whisky, champagne are the lubricants of high class life: your life. You were a big man about the towns, and had the respect of all your friends.

Now when you drive through the streets it’s with a shotgun on your lap, and when the mists descend you don’t go out at all if you’re smart. It ain’t the law. You’ve got him beat. It’s something else. Something that ain’t no respecter of authority, and ain’t too worried by bullets and armoured glass neither.

Some say it’s the devil come for his share. You say: fuck him.

Style Hunted and Desperate
Advisory R16
Suspense 3/5
Scare 3/5
Splatter 4/5
Strange 2/5

Fright Night Archives - Fright Night 1

2010-04-26T21:24:00.000-07:00

Fright Night, a single night horror roleplaying convention, took place for the first time on October 27th, 2007 at Turnbull House in Wellington.

The Games included:

ROUND ONE

Game Title: The Infected
Facilitator: "Zombie Master" Mike Sands
System: The Infected by Eric Provost
Round: 1
Players: 4
Game Blurb: This system is designed for one-shot games of horror games in the style of zombie movies, and anything else where anyone could turn into (or be) the monsters (e.g. werewolves, vampires, body snatchers).

I'll be running it in fairly basic Romero/Shaun of the Dead style, unless popular vote on the night is for something different to zombies. This is an unpublished game, running from the playtest ashcan, so some areas may be unpolished and I'll gather your feedback for the author afterwards

System Knowledge: None Needed
Energy Volume: Loud and Crazy
Style: Lots of player input. Many details will be made up on the fly. A few of you will end up as monsters and trying to eat the others (or maybe just the people they care about.
R18
Suspense: 5
Scare: 2
Splatter: 5
Strange: 2

Game Title: Cabin Fever
Facilitator: Zak "Body Count" Clark
System: Call of Cthulhu
Round: 1
Players: 5
Game Blurb: In the sleepy little lakeside town of Karamia, Five old university friends gather at the lakeside cabin and celebrate their lives to date. The weekend will be like any other weekend they have spent up here at the Cabin, Fishing, Hunting, Frizbee, Rugby, Talking and most importantly, Drinking!

That is... until it stirs...

Newsreel Script TV1, 6PM, July 1977: ... local man Tane Mikohick said in a statment today that the scene was "like no other I have ever see eh Boss, there were just parts everywhere eh, and the fish... I've never seen them like that eh Boss". It was a scene of carnage, chaos and tragedy this weekend at the small town of Karamia and one thing stands out as a ray of hope for this small lakeside town, and thats the heroric acts of Tane Mikohick... More on this breaking story later in the show... ** Static...**

System Knowledge: None Needed
Energy Volume: High
Style: GRINDHOUSE meets Smoking Aces
R16
Suspense: 3
Scare: 3
Splatter: 5
Strange: 3

(Note: This game was replaced by 'Simply Red' a scenario from the Call of Cthulhu supplement Blood Brothers on the night run by Dale, due to GM illness).

Game Title: Cold Front
Facilitator: Michael "Rage Infected Monkey" Foster
System: Freeform
Round: 1
Players: 5
Game Blurb: MacReady Base, a UN-run research outpost in the frozen depths of Antarctica. "Home" to 14 personnel, where they must live in close proximity to each other for months at a time. After an accident leaves one of their number dead, tensions are running high, not helped by the arrival of an unexpected visitor.

And there's a big storm closing in.

System Knowledge: None Needed
Energy Volume: Quiet, building to a crescendo
Style: Suspense rather than gorefest
R16
Suspense: 5
Scare: 4
Splatter: 3
Strange: 3.5

Game Title: Breakdown
Facilitator: "From the Morgue"
System: OGL Horror
Round: 1
Players: 6
Game Blurb: You are just ordinary. There is nothing remarkable about you, nothing unusual in your life, no reason to be afraid. Then the briefcase arrives, with a message that changes everything: Things are breaking down. It's time to go to work.

System Knowledge: None Needed
M
Suspense: 4
Scare: 3
Splatter: 1
Strange: 4

ROUND TWO

Game Title: They Hunt
Facilitator: "I-vanna-suck-your-blood" Towlson
System: Light, Custom
Round: 2
Players: 5
Game Blurb: When a high school student on a camping trip falls victim to a nocturnal hunter in a vicious and merciless attack, his fellow students are alarmed and upset. What kind of predator would attack a human being, a fit young man in his prime -- and seemingly for pleasure? And will it attack again?

Wrong questions.

Because there are hunters more vicious and merciless still. And they're the ones you *really* have to worry about.

System Knowledge: None Needed
Style: Psychological Horror
M
Suspense: 4
Scare: 1
Splatter: 1
Strange: 4

Game Title: Horror Victorianorum
Facilitator: "The Monster Mash"
System: All Flesh Must Be Eaten
Round: 2
Players: 4
Game Blurb: For the past month the Victorian city of London has been plagued by a series of gruesome murders. The victims are bankers, industrialists, scholars and the lower echelons of the nobility: the pillars of the community. All of the victims are members of the exclusive Gentleman's Club Witherton's, and all connected by their conspicuous philanthropy towards the poor and displaced of London and Ireland's slums. Only 6 members of the club remain, and all have gone into hiding, praying to God that their life be spared.

As the police close in on the killers, you ask yourself whether your associates did the right thing: what did they find out before disappearing? You ask how far you will go if they are caught. Would you burn in hell in order to stop hell on earth? Is it already too late?

System Knowledge: None Needed
Energy Volume: Low Volume
Style: Mystery
R18
Supense: 4
Scare: 3
Splatter: 3
Strange: 2

Game Title: Truckstop
Facilitator: Marcus "Bone-Fiend"
System: Dark Conspiracy 3rd Edition
Round: 2
Players: 5
Game Blurb: Area 51, Groomlake or the Deadlands. Call it what you want, for the soldiers of the 8th Recon and Border unit it's just plain old Air Force Test Centre, Detachment 3. Here the day is just like any other Air Force Base, the same old food, the same old bunk beds, and the same old dull border security patrols.

Still, the buzz has it that something big is on it' way, perhaps another oneof those hybrid jetsor advanced Space Defence Initiative probes. Whatever it is, it's probably just as likely to be as boring as it was last week...

Or will it?

System Knowledge: None Needed
Energy Volume: Low
Style: Conspiracy Horror
M
Supense: 3
Scare: 3
Splatter: 3
Strange: 2

Game Title: Sufficient Unto The Day
Facilitator: "El Diablo" Dale Elvy
System: Call of Cthulhu/Delta Green
Round: 2
Players: 6
Game Blurb: Join the hunt for a former CIA agent responsible for what even your covert agency has labelled 'an 'extreme and unecessary display of force.' Plumb the depths of urban decay of modern Portsmouth and try and discover what could drive a man to such insanity.

"Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take no thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is evil thereof." - Mathew 6:34

Written by Wood Ingham, originally published in Worlds of Cthulhu #3

System Knowledge: None Needed
Energy Volume: Intense
Style: Investigative Horror
R16
Supense: 3.5
Scare: 3
Splatter: 3
Strange: 3.5