11-17-2010, 10:03 AM
Aldarron Wrote:Hi Jeff
What are aethervoxes and is there a website for the Non profit?
Oops; sorry, I should have explained...
The Aethervox Gamers date back to 2003, when one of the original founders of the old Thursday Night Group that gamed at Prof. Barker's in the late 1970s and the 1980s was diagnosed with severe cancer. I was asked by several of his friends, who had all been part of that group, to run some Tekumel adventures for him to take him mind off the chemotherapy sessions he was undergoing.
After he passed away in 2003, he bequeathed his extensive collecion of Tekumel materials to the group, with the stipulation that we keep running Tekumel adventures. The members of the group started digging into their attics, closets, basements, garages, dungeons, ruined temples, underworlds and the other usual household storage places for their own collections; this has all been combined into one enormous collection that occupies some 450 square feet; you can see a lot of it in the pictures on my blog, but that's just the tip of the collection iceberg. We've been running both RPGs and miniatures games since 2003, and we have two RPG groups that meet on alternate Saturdays.
We made the decision to become a formal organization in order to protect the future of the collection; the group owns the collection in common, and we regard it as a trust that we hold for anyone interested in Tekumel. We had a visitor in a while back, who advised us in the strongest possible terms to get insurance for the collection, proper storage materials, and in general get ourselves organized as a proper archival resource as well as a gaming group; the formal incorporation is the result of this.
(I mean, really; how many game groups do you know of that own ten full-sized mannequins for storage and display of their costume collection? Honestly, I have no idea how this all happened; we even have a collection of Tekumel-style artifacts and furniture for doing LARPs if anyone is so inclined.)
There is no formal website, yet, but we're working on it. The best way to see what we might be up to at the moment is to check my blog:
http://chirinesworkbench.blogspot.com/
I try to keep up with things as best I can!
yours, Chirine