Greetings All,

I'm delighted to announce that, with effect from tomorrow, 15th November, Continuum 2010 is open for registrations.

The event is to be held at John Foster Hall, University of Leicester, from Friday 2nd July 2010, until Monday 5th July 2010.
http://www.continuum....


The registration pricing is as follows:

Early Bird Registration (15th November 2009 - 15th February 2010: £20
Standard Reg (February 16th onwards): £25
En-Suite Room per night: £45
En-Suite for 3 Nights: £120
Twin Room per night: £90
Twin Room for 3 Nights: £240

There are two ways to register:

Via Paypal. Our email address for Paypal payments is payment@continuum.uk.net. Please include the following:

Your name
Address
Number of nights accommodation required, and the nights you'll be staying
Any special rooming requirements (ie, I want be next door to X, Y or Z)

Don't forget that, in addition to the room cost you need to include your registration fee. Thus, a single night would cost £20+£45 = £65. Registration is a fixed fee for the whole weekend - so you don't need to pay a registration fee for each night you need.

Twin rooms are very limited in numbers, but en-suite rooms - and all single rooms are en-suite - are plentiful and comfortable.

If you wish to register by snail mail, a registration form will be made available shortly and we will accept cheque payments. The address to send a paper registration to is:

Continuum
53 Stepping Lane
Derby DE1 1GL

We look forward to welcoming you to Continuum 2010 - The Year the Con Made Contact!


Darran

John Foster Hall Manor Road, Oadby, Leicester, LE2 2LG, is part of the University of Leicester's halls of residence.
Completed in October 2006, this is a brand new building with modern conference facilities.


The amphitheatre in front of the main Conference Building

The good thing is that we will have a greater number of en suite bedrooms to offer our membership along with more conference space to use for gaming rooms.

The conference organisers at the University of Leicester have sent us these publicity photos of the venue and they do look fantastic!



The Conference Building entrance foyer. Note the plasma screen.


The Swithland & Tilton conference room. Note the sliding partition that makes it two rooms.


The Oakham & Rothley conference room. Note the sliding partition that makes it two rooms.


The Main Dining Hall.


The Bar!

See some more photos here:
http://www.flickr.com...

Accommodation at John Foster Hall.

I thought I would go through and mention about the accommodation we have at John Foster Hall for Continuum 2008.
The Conference Facilities Building is centred amongst the new and very modern development that consists of several pavilion style accommodation blocks.
Each pavilion block is four-stories high and each floor contains two flats.
Each flat has four or five single occupancy en suite bedrooms and a shared kitchen and lounge.
This means that a group of five friends can share a flat together as they share the communal space together but also five strangers can occupy a flat as each bedroom has its own key.

The kitchen is fully functional with fridge/freezer, microwave, electric oven, electric kettle, iron, ironing boards, vacuum cleaner, mop and bucket, and there may be a selection of cutlery and crockery. There is also a large kitchen table with five chairs as well as plenty of worktop space for food preparation. A full list of contents will be posted nearer the time of the convention.
Some of the kitchens may not be fully stocked with all the items due to natural shrinkage with contact with the students.

Just off the kitchen is the lounge area. The lounge has a large window lets in plenty of daylight. There are five comfy lounge chairs and a small coffee table making this a nice place to relax in. There are ten chairs in total in the kitchen/lounge making it very useful for running games in, you can either be in the lounge or around the table in the kitchen. There is plenty of space to move about, even for those of us who are ‘standard gamer size’!
With each flat having this extra space ideal for gaming this opens up the possibility that more games can be ran during the convention. Just book the time and space with your flatmates first. Advertise your game with pavilion name and flat number and your gamers can arrive at your pavilion and ring your doorbell to be let in. Or just run the game for all your flatmates, whether you know them or not, simple!

You will be issued a set of keys when you register at the main reception desk in the Conference Facilities Building. The main key will open the door to your flat as well as your own bedroom door. The little key will open the post box in the pavilion entrance foyer and the key fob itself will open the main door to the pavilion electronically. The flats are numbered 1 to 8 while the bedrooms in each flat are lettered A to E.

All accommodation will be single occupancy bedrooms with en suite bathroom. You will be issued a set of towels and some basic toiletries but you will need to bring with you your own wash kits, bathrobes and other personal hygiene items. The bathroom will have toilet roll and the single bed will have fresh bed sheets, two pillows with fresh pillowcases and a duvet with bedspread.
There is a desk in your bedroom with built-in drawers, shelves by the window, a desk lamp, mini-kettle with a small selection of tea/coffee condiments, two power sockets, a phone, and an Internet connection. We do not currently have a list of the charges for using the phone or connecting to the Internet as yet.
Next to the desk is a medium-sized wardrobe with space to hang clothes as well as plenty of shelves to store folded clothes or other items.
The en suite bathroom, consisting of toilet, washbasin and shower cubicle, is located as you enter the bedroom. It has its own lockable door and is light and airy.

The good thing about this accommodation is that it is brand new. Very little wear & tear would have happened over the two years that it has been opened and even students will treat things better when they are new!



The front of the Pavilion [accommodation blocks]. Each has a wide path to the doorway and has plenty of lush growth between each of the pavilions. There is also plenty of car parking nearby.



The front door of one the pavilions. The main door is nice and wide for easy access.


Door bells to each of the flats in the pavilion. The key fob on your room keys will open the pavilion door electronically.


The post boxes for the flats. The small key on your room keys will open your flat’s post box.


The entrance foyer of the pavilion. Note the lift for easy access to the higher floors avoiding all those stairs.


The inside of the lift. Plenty of space to get your luggage in and up to your room.


The inside of one of the bedrooms. A single bed with a bedside table unit and light. A set of towels with basic toiletries will be waiting you on arrival.


The desk in one of the bedrooms. There is a desk lamp, a phone, mini-kettle with tea/coffee condiments, an Internet connection, and two power sockets.


The mini-kettle and tea/coffee condiments on the desk. Just bring extra if you drink many a cuppa.


The inside of the wardrobe in the bedroom. Plenty of space for all your clothes [and all those frocks for the freeforms!]


The en suite bathroom with shower. The shower cubicle is large with a modern shower unit.


The kitchen and lounge area in one of the flats. Perfect area to socialise with your fellow flat mates as you cook, clean, iron your clothes or have a drink. This is also big enough to host a game in either at the kitchen table or in the lounge area or both! Just reach over to the fridge to get a cold drink or put the kettle on to make a brew.


The kitchen area of the flats as seen from the lounge area. A nice large kitchen table, with five chairs, to eat your meals from or play some excellent games!


The lounge area as seen from the kitchen. Five comfy chairs with a coffee table in the centre. Ideal for a nice and relaxed game?


The fridge/freezer, microwave and electric oven. Plenty of worktop space to prepare your meals and lots of cupboard space for storage.


Everything including the kitchen sink!

I went (albeit just for a day and night) last time (2008) and everything was brilliant about this con.

1) John Foster hall is amazing - I really wish I'd had something like it when I was at college. Rooms are basic, but comfortable and big. The conference venue itself is great - big rooms and a very good canteen. The bar was nice as well, and there is plenty of car parking.

2) The gaming was fab - as with any convention it is important to get a grip on the sign up system at an early stage. I guess - as last time - that the live events (can't remember the official term used for them) will be advertised and take bookings long before the event. This will give you loads of time to get your costume sorted out (I didn't go in costume to the one I went to last time, and I felt out of place because of it! Go on go in costume next time!!). Loads of other goodies including a guy who ran a brilliant game with the simplest system in the world - tossing coins to decide what would happen.....

3) Gamers from all over the place - all corners of Britain, USA, Germany and others. It was great to chat to people .

I am already looking forward to this one....

I too went last year, just as a day visitor, being as I often drive right by the venue on the way to games. Agree with everything Jim had to say. Had a great time last time, may well do the same next year.

Len

As Jim said, the live events called freeform games are definitely worth having a look at and getting involved.
Similar to LARPs but with focus on character, internal politics and intrigue they are a lot of fun but can be quite an intense role-playing experience.
Players usually ‘ham it up’ like amateur thespians and are often in full costume though that is optional. Most games have between 30 to 50 players and run for 4 to 6 hours.

Possible games [subject to change] for Continuum 2010 are:
Renaissance Italy Freeform
Lucrezia Borgia and Leonardo da Vinci, Machiavelli and Martin Luther rubbing shoulders in a four-act wonder, set in Venice, Rome, Florence and Milan. Lots of great costumes expected in this game.

Call of Cthulhu Freeform
Go insane for real!
This freeform will be really creepy and scary.

Glorantha Freeform
This game will have you exploring the deep Gloranthan myths as well as snippets of Britain’s popular culture!
A good fantasy game.

Firefly Serenity Freeform
Take on the ‘verse, avoid the Alliance and keep on flyin’.

Of course there will be plenty of table top games to choose from as well.


Darran

Any idea when and how the registrations for individual Freeforms will work this time Darren? I'd love to be in both the Cthulhu and the Firefly one.......

Any idea when and how the registrations for individual Freeforms will work this time Darren? I'd love to be in both the Cthulhu and the Firefly one.......

We hope to have a automated website to take bookings for the freeform games though it may be just a simple email system.


Darran

The Continuum 2010 registration form is now available from here:

Continuum 2010 Registration Form


It is a form fill-able PDF so you will be able to type in your details and save it.
The one on the Continuum 2010 website in the 'Register' section is out of date and due to server problems we can't change it. :cry:


Email it back to me completed at
darransims@googlemail.com
or you can print it off and post it to me via snail mail. The postal address is at the bottom of the form.

There are a couple of key questions that need answering that would assist in placing you in accommodation and making the event much better for you. They include a call for games and events, as well as where you want your room located and who do you wish to be roomed near you.
Any Freeform games should be sent to Simon Bray directly via the Contacts list on the Continuum website.

Some rooms will be located near the bar that gets quite noisy during the night - fine if the residents in the rooms spend their time in the bar. :wink:
Other rooms are not quite as close to the John Foster Facilities Centre though still on site but should be quieter [depending on neighbours of course!] :lol:

A call for games for Continuum 2010 from Mike Mason

Hello everyone

If you are wanting to run games (rpg, card, board or some crazy new gaming invention) please email me with what you're planing - bingopajamas@googlemail.com - once I have everything sorted I'll start posting games up to the main continuum website.
Please feel free to advertise your games here too - but please email me them as well (I will not be checking this site for 'new' games - it's a big internet and I only have so much time to check it ; ) - so without going on and on, if you email me then you'll know I have your game info. Otherwise don't assume that I'll have it.

For every game you pre-rgeister with me and then run at the convention, you'll get a beer token (for a free drink - soft or alcoholic) at the event. The beer token is an original piece of art - Cthulhu drinking a pint of beer - drawn by the brilliant Bob Shaw. It's a collectors item in its own right.




So - to register you game you need to do two things:

1. sign up to attend Continuum (see website for details http://www.continuum....)

2. Fill in a game registration form and send it to me at bingopajamas@gmail.com

Game sign up form available from the website. If you have any problems finding it or filling it in, then you can just email me with the following:

GM/Facilitator
Title of game
System
Number of players required
When you want to run it (Fri, Sat, Sun - morning, afternoon, evening)
Max Number of Players
Length of Game
Some blurb on what the scenario/game is about (up to 500 words)
Anything else you need to tell me


Thanks for your support and look forward to hearing about some ace games!

Cheers

Mike M
Continuum Game Czarina