CLAWthing's report
Well, another Dragonfire finally winds down, like a demented clockwork threshing machine after a bloodstained four-day rampage, covered in gore and the exhausted bodies of its victims.
But fun, all the same. In attempt to get the age-old Dragonfire Timing Issue (less politely known at the Everyone’s Sodding Late Again Issue) under control, I issued some exciting Draconian Measures (available at our website now: Give a CLAWthing a hand, and he takes the whole arm), which seemed to work fairly well, all things considered. I can proudly say the latest module started half-an-hour late, and most were on-time or five minutes or less behind*.
We ran LARPs, wargaming, modules, cardgaming, module demos, cardgaming demos, wargaming demos, demo demos, demolitions demos, demolition derbies…..it was a hell of a good time. More details on the report back page, but I wouldn’t want to cover anybody else’s portfolio, you know. And there may be a Secret Nazi Cell active in CLAWs (Maybe even Evil Undead Time-Traveling Nazis for Jesus?), but that’s only of interest to conspiracy theorists and the Secret Nazis. Who don’t exist, of course.
Despite slightly lower attendance than usual (cheapskate out-of-towners**!), Dragonfire was a blast. Possibly even a thermonuclear one, given that the Manhattan Project Afterparty was one of our LARPs.
Weak joke, I know. The clash of cymbals draws near.
But Dragonfire is not measured in the witticisms of its organisers (thankfully), but rather in masses of exhausted, happy, insomniac roleplayers/LARPers/wargamers/cardgamers who stagger out of our doors (or into them, depending on how long they’ve been without sleep) at the convention end.
Go home and sleep, children***, and set your alarm clocks for Dragonfire next year.
- Mike Dewar (Exhausted CLAWthing El Supremo)
* For those of you checking your watches and about to prove me wrong “by X minutes on team Y playing module Z”, let me advise you to reread the sentence. I can indeed proudly say that, and there’s nothing you can do about it. I have in no way commented on my accuracy or honesty. (Though we were pretty damn timely. So there.)
** If you come next year, we’ll forgive you. We swear.
*** This isn’t me being patronising. Dragonfire: *Innocence*, remember. Childishness was part of the theme****.
**** Okay, maybe a little patronising. Gotta get my kicks somehow.
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