Q&A with Jeff Berry

[chirine ba kal]

The Maritime Event was yesterday right? How did it go?

-Havard

It was actually the whole weekend, as it turned out. We had guests in from out of town, so most of Friday was spent showing them around The Workbench and the local game stores, with a six-hour RPG Friday night in which the players wound up in Deadly Peril and which ended with a tense cliff-hanger.

Saturday, we did packing and load-out from eight am to ten am, and loaded in to the FFG Event Center at ten-thirty. The two big game tables, about five foot by twelve foot each, were set up by noon and looked like this:




More photos are up on my Photobucket page:

http://s277.photobucket.com/albums/kk72/Chirine_ba_Kal/

We had eight players for the first game and six for the second, and lots of people who stopped by to have a look and talk about Dave and Harchar. Things ended about ten pm, and we loaded out by eleven pm.

I had a business breakfast meeting on Sunday, after which we did the load-in back into the game room, and then had another RPG session from two pm to six pm to resolve the Dire Peril from Friday's game. Dinner after that, and then back into the game room to tell gaming stories.

Clean-up this morning from six am to now (11:30 am), and that was that.

Everyone seemed to be having a great time, or that's what they told me; I'm way too close to the thing to be objective. The players, the people who dropped by, and the Event Center staff were all very impressed by the tables and the games, so I think we can call this one a success. We handed out a lot of flyers and took a lot of pictures, and I'll get those sorted out as soon as I can.

The planning for the next event is already started, and I'm both startled and delighted with the way that people here and outside the Twin Cities want to make this a bigger and better event; Dave had both a lot of friends and a lot of influence on our shared hobby and I'm touched at the happiness that we managed to generate this weekend. It was a lot of work, and I'm exhausted; next year, though, more people want to help out on the organization side of the event and I'll be able to concentrate on the game side of things.

Watch this space; there's a lot going to happen!

yours, Chirine

(If Our Moderators would like to make these photos smaller so they fit better, please feel free; I'm not very good at Internet stuff, and this was the best I could do with my limited skills! Thanks! - Chirine)