Kaleidoscopic Consequences, November 23–27, 2017, Naish Holiday Village, Christchurch, Dorset
Ben Allen
GM for: Burning Orchid
:-)
John "have dice" Amos
GM for: Fort on the Borderlands
Have Dice/ The Nice Man/ The old coot in the corner - that's me.
Consequences, Conception and Indiecon are what rocks my boat and I've always
got
time to talk to friends.
Retired now, it doesn't seem possible where have the last 38 years gone.
If you want tabletop I can usually find something to run, this year I will be
trying to tempt any with Skyrealms of Jorune, 5th Edition DnD or an offering
of 7th Empire set in an alternative Roman Empire in a much differed AD285.
We hope people sign up for and enjoy our offering if you like it there will
be
more.
Come on Ancient Rome AD285 with Steampunk and friends what more do you want?
Graham Arnold
GM for: Play Date
Nickey Barnard
GM for: Volcano's Edge, Mean Street
Played my first freeform 16 years ago and have been writing them ever since the Peaky writing weekend first began, which was... a while ago now. I like a nice solid traditional freeform but my fellow writers keep making me experiment against my will - they're tricksy like that :) I am neither fish nor fowl nor good red herring, but I do know that Vikings go with everything!
Steve Bassett
David "Wyrd" Bretton
GM for: Game which needs a new title set in a Galaxy Far Far Away
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Naish to
bumble about?
Longtime TTRPG GM, newbie Freeform GM.
Fuzzy brained shaggy beast.
Subtlety, what's that then?
Dave "Dave" Cartwright
GM for: Noble Cause
In a parallel universe Cary Elwes and Andre 'The Giant' had a romantic tryst on the set of The Princess Bride. The resulting offspring was raised in the spirit of Inego Montoya and brought to this plane of reality by the Trickster God Loki.
This Peroxide Starbucks Viking Pirate is known to most as 'Dave' and enjoys Zombie films, Sci Fi and Fantasy books, Pina Colada's and getting caught in the rain.
Dream Cloutman-Green
Dr Dream
The Doctor is in the house. Open recruitment for companions currently being
undertaken, cougar bait need not apply.
Jonathan "Jon" Cloutman-Green
Arbiter Of All Things
Emory Cunnington
GM for: The Apocalypse Agenda
Natalie "Natalie" Curd
GM for: It's Everybody's War
I started coming to Consequences in 2012 and since then I have developed a
love for playing, writing and running games. I always look forward to
consequences for a fantastic weekend of socialising & gaming.
Nick "Nick" Curd
Tribe Chieftain
Dear God, what have I done!
Ann de Vries
GM for: The Apocalypse Agenda
Max "Maximus" de Vries
GM for: The Apocalypse Agenda
Max is a producer in the video games industry by profession. He happened to be
a teenage gamer in Cheshire when Treasure Trap opened, and so got involved in
LARP. He got dragged along to Consequences C and fell in love with UK
Freeform. He likes all the forms of LARP he has tried. He particularly likes
ongoing theatre LARP campaigns. The delight of UK Freeform is the situations
that can be created. Max might be a Steampunk.
Jeff "The Vortex of Chaos" Diewald
I'm back from across the Pond (from that other Chelmsford), and I brought one of my LARPs with me this
time. I've been writing and
running LARPs since long before I ever heard of an Intercon (1986), then I ran the first modern New
England Intercon (the Thirteenth) and have helped with every one since then, and I wrote and ran a lot
more LARPs at Intercon (and elsewhere), and boy are my arms tired, or something like that. I'm really
looking forward to watching a bunch of you folks take my characters and run with them, as I am looking
for a new set of characters I can play with. I am also really looking forward to helping Brian run his game,
which I loved when I played it.
And if you really want to get to know me, tell me where I can get some good port, or share some of yours with me! Then we can talk LARP the proper way!
Jenny Dunn
GM for: The Gehenna Memo
Roderick Easton
GM for: Coffee with AlIce
Roderick is now working his way through a backlog of one-off LARPs that he has
written and run at the Conpulsion gaming convention in Scotland, and
converting / updating them to Free-form standards and expectations.
Rei England
GM for: Closing Doors
Rei was born in a vast industrial wasteland where the sky glowed burnt orange at night and the odd explosion rocked the nearby houses. Rei is descended on one side from a mysterious orphaned farm boy, which may explain the suspiciously hobbit-like traits, and on the other side from a fierce war veteran matriarch. Rei's early diet consisted almost entirely of books, and later years involved being inducted into a mysterious local group listed in the phone directory only as a satanic cult, where Rei learned to wage war and perform magic while hordes of people insisted on giving Rei expensive pieces of cardboard. Rei finally escaped, and ran away to spend the next few years in an ivory tower to study the workings of imaginary universes, thankfully well populated with books and fellow cult members. Rei now spends weekdays disguised as a mild-mannered insurance risk mathematician, and evenings and weekends learning how to fly, poledancing, climbing silks, studying whichever subject seems fascinating this month, making music, sailing, riding, diving, and occasionally hitting people with things, although sometimes Rei gets confused and turns up at work in silly costumes. Rei uses a time machine to fit in freeform writing into this busy schedule, which is the only explanation for the 5 theatre style LARPs, several combat LARPs, a couple of tabletops, and a number of play-by-e-mail games that Rei has nevertheless managed to churn out. Rei's concentration span is often ooh shiny.
Mathew Freeman
GM for: Carry On Khemet, Fort on the Borderlands, Pirates of Skull Cove, BTL - The Director's Cut
Having attended Consequences for quite a few years now as a player, Matt has
gone completely mad and is Assistant/Co-GMing multiple games. At some point he
intends to actually play in something, but if all else fails can be found in
the boardgames area encouraging yet more gaming.
Roger Gammans
GM for: Love Letter
Apparently I should have a bio.
I've written some games at peaky, and sometimes even run them at consequences.
Clare Gardner
GM for: BTL - The Director's Cut
James Goodman
GM for: Pirates of Skull Cove, Fort on the Borderlands
First time at Consequences having finally succumbed to the sales pitch that
the silver-tongued Matt Freeman has been plying me with for a while.
First played in a LRP in 2002, was hooked, and then actually got round to
writing one a few years later, with the current tally at ten, including co-
authorships.
Otherwise, you'll find me board-gaming in any spare moments. (Well, or drinking, and to be entirely fair, probably both simultaneously.)
Jason Gorringe
GM for: Noble Cause
Joanne Gould
GM for: A Bard for Raksha
Elina "Elina" Gouliou
One Woman Welcome Party
Elina likes games and beer!
Hanbury Hampden-Turner
GM for: Nakitomi Plaza, Noble Cause
Hanbury was born, at an early age, in California. He was stolen from a medical research laboratory to live in an earthquake zone, where he promptly developed an interest in entymology, rocketry, and positive thinking. He then moved to Europe, where he was carefully trained in riding, fencing, glass blowing, firearms, aerial navigation, the double bass, survival, and unarmed combat and began infiltrating the british aristocracy. Cunningly disguised as a TV celebrity, he has brought down six companies into bankruptcy or takeover, and continues his mission by posing as a writer of freeforms. He is believed to be partly responsible for at least six freeforms, and a number of rubbersword LARPs and tabletop games.
Graham Harper
GM for: From Bassethwaite With Love
Graham started writing and GMing games for Epic Experience after many years (decades?) of playing them, often as the infamous Herbert Rotwang.
Mel Harper
GM for: From Bassethwaite With Love
Part of the Epic Experience. I would say "the one most usually found swearing at technology" but I think Graham's taken over that job this year...
Liz Hayward
GM for: The Final Cut
Graduated from helping Dave Collis and Ben with small parts of Amber to helping DT a bit more with the Final Cut. Looking forward to seeing it's third run...
Alex "The Inquisitor" Helm
GM for: After the Shadow, Black Legacy
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!
Also some nice tea and chocolate cake please. :)
Ray Hodson
GM for: A Bard for Raksha
Mo Holkar
Webslinger Ordinaire
GM for: Delta Sector Helter Skelter, Marinara
Mo spent twenty years writing freeforms as part of the Epic Experience collective.
Lately he's been writing stuff with other people, including some experimental-style bits and bobs at this Consequences, influenced by Nordic larp and by tabletop storygames. Watch out!
Mo is also responsible for maintaining and upgrading the Consequences website and database system.
Kevin Jacklin
GM for: It's Everybody's War
Kevin has been playing in, writing, producing and promoting freeform games for more than 20 years. A successful trilogy of co-written games, beginning with Home of the Bold in 1992 were the mainstay of the Convulsion convention, and introduced many stalwarts of the UK Freeforms group to the genre. Kevin produced the first UK weekend-long game of Cafe Casablanca under the Convivium banner in 1995. Kevin also enjoys boardgames, and it is through his association with designer Reiner Knizia that he has devised Hollywood Lives, which aims to meld together the constructive anarchy of freeforms with the world of high-pressure movie production and finance in an entertaining way.
Christian "CJ" Jensen Romer
GM for: An August Moon...
CJ ("Christian Jensen Romer" was a fantastic pierce of baptismal bluff by his parents to make him sound more interesting than he really is)is a ghosthunter, psychical researcher and research parapsychologist in the 'Real World'.
In the world of games & conventions he is a fairly average kind of chap, who enjoys talking too much, playing boardgames and has written a number of RPG books for several systems, but most recently his contributions have mainly for Ars Magica 5th Edition. Or so he would have you believe...
CJ was a teenage Goth, and went on to a university career where he aspired to becoming "The Byronic Man", and succeeded only in becoming "mad & bad" but is rarely "dangerous to know". A debauch'd seducer of ladies,his wicked heart and sinister demeanour hide only macabre ancestry and terrible secrets. Gothic Consequences is the kind of place where innocent maidens and stout-hearted youths must use all their wiles to avoid his baleful influence.
Carol Johnson
GM for: Carry On Khemet
Carol Johnson has been tiptoeing through the tu-LARPs for nigh upon 25 years
now. Theater-style is her métier, but the lure of experimental is now upon her
(she has not answered it quite yet, but expects to soon). 1897 was her first
weekend-long writing project, after that came Roswell Asylum, and re-writes
for Cafe Casablanca and King's Musketeers, among others. A former member of
Cruel Hoax, she has run many weekend and short LARPs, and played in many more.
To pay the bills and because she can, she edits. The glamour is never ending.
Martin Jones
GM for: Burning Orchid, BTL - The Director's Cut, The Apocalypse Agenda
A not-so-closet gamer ever since your early youth, you discovered 'freeforms' about a decade ago. You have since been involved in writing Best of the Wurst, Veterans Day, Lists of Avalon, The Deliverance, Small World and Burning Orchid.
Having successfully infiltrated a satellite construction facility your plans for subverting the orbital mind control device and using it to 'liberate' the world are one step closer.
For some reason currently unclear to you, you have recently taken to referring to yourself in the 2nd person.
Quotes: "Angst! - We Need More Angst!"
Megan Jones
GM for: Mean Street
Heidi Kaye
GM for: It's Everybody's War, Women on the Verge
Generally found on the sofa with a laptop into the wee hours, you are addicted to
freeforms and board gaming. Having started on a whim as a last-minute player in
Home of the Bold at Convulsion in 1992, your obsession has grown and grown.
Beginning by playing freeforms at cons and the occasional game of Settlers of
Catan at home, you swiftly moved on to writing, running and playing freeforms at
every opportunity and owning a large collection of board games, playing them both
in real life and online. As Comfy Chair of Peaky Games, you conduct an annual
Spanish Inquisition as to who’s working on which freeforms to prepare them for
publication, in your mania to spread your passion for freeforming to the whole
world.
Your abilities are: existing on little sleep, writing your cats into your games and carrying a big stick.
Your Heart Ability (usable by your True Love) is multi-tasking.
Your goals are: find the six-fingered man who killed your father, the one-armed man who killed your brother's wife and the woman in white who escaped from the asylum. And maybe find some romance on the way....
Abi Kirby
GM for: Say the Magic Word
Karim Kronfli
GM for: Dulce et decorum est
Gamer, Actor. Voice About Town.
Karim has been playing and running live action games since 1987.
Been there, seen it, and bought too many t-shirts for his own good.
Victoria "Victoria" Lawford
GM for: Coffee with AlIce
My aim in life is to open a cat cafe, to be that CAT!!!! The main cat in the cafe.
To sit, and pur and be patted, and knock things over.
I am a simple routine... cat... cat... cat
Cat cafe full of cat memes!!!!
fiona "gwaunquest" lloyd
GM for: Say the Magic Word
I think I am the oldest attendee - I certainly feel like it
Having writed a game by accident and then had to alter it into another game I thought I should probably write a proper one.
I have written for the stage a lot and dabbled in story writing and done lots of GM writing for TT and some for LARPs. I have only one objective with games and that is to have as much fun as possible - with a bit of angst thrown in for balance.
I live on the Time/space rift so life is always a case of jumping from ledge to flagpole whilst dodging the flying mutants and solving a 3D puzzle whilst stopping for the occasional Tequila.
Sue "Queenortart" L
Frockage Facilitator and Procurer and stuff
GM for: Critical Path, Play Date, It's Everybody's War, Volcano's Edge
Frocktastic - that's all you need to know right now
Allison "Alli" Mawhinney
GM for: Second Watch
I've been freeforming for a hmmmm ... few years now and recently dipped my toe into writing through the Peaky weekend! Happy to chat to anyone in and out of game!
Richard "Ric Mawhinney" Mawhinney
GM for: Second Watch
Been playing tabletop for too many years to mention and have been married to an avid freeformer for a couple of years less.
She has finally convinced me to get involved! Thanks Alli...
Elyssia McCormick
GM for: Love Letter, Volcano's Edge
Tony Mitton
GM for: Adrift on the Starry Sky, Last Boat Leaving
Julia "Jules" Nienaber
Jules is sweet and innocent and ignorant in the ways of GM'ing LARPs. Let's see
how long that lasts!
Tym "Tym" Norris
The God Of Reprographics
Tym is a long time gamer and a mad scientist (Engineer actually). He's been known to build tazers and there's a rumour that he has a Tesla Coil in his dining room.
Thomas Nowell
GM for: An August Moon..., An August Moon...
Mike Nudd
GM for: Pirates of Skull Cove, Fort on the Borderlands
Alan Paull
Boardgame Wrangler
Charlie Paull
Boardgame Wrangler
GM for: BTL - The Director's Cut, BTL - The Director's Cut
Alan & I bring and run the boardgames library at Consequences. We're happy to teach, play or lend boardgames at any time. We have a wide range from absolute beginner to genuine geek and all stops in between.
I also write, run and play freeforms.
Rich "Gladiator" Perry
GM for: Love Letter
If you want to know about gladiators then I'm your man.
Nathan Richards
GM for: Best of the Wurst
Alison Rider Hill
Accommodation Tsaritsa
GM for: Dulce et decorum est
Alison lost count years ago of the number of games she has played; has co-
organised some cons; co-written a few games (including Burning Orchard which
is running this year), and is responsible for Sinews of Peace and its
predecessor, Dulce et Decorum Est which is also running this year.
She may also have written to you about your accommodation here at Consequences.
Alison doesn't often bite so please say hello if you encounter her particularly if you haven't met her in the flesh before.
Graham Ruston
GM for: The Gehenna Memo, The Gehenna Memo, The Gehenna Memo
Claire Ryder
GM for: Noble Cause
"A gorgeous misanthropic lunatic obsessed
with heavy weapons and tea"- As per
Heather Law
Richard Salmon
Chief Lieutenant: Team Villain
Richard has been playing freeforms for rather too many years now.
In 2004 he was part of the writing & GM team for Siege of Troy and has been
hindering Consequences since its inception by providing the platform upon
which Mo works the magic of the web site.
In a break with what had become a tradition of just helping other people
with their games, this year he is running Diamond Geezers himself (OK,
it's
still someone else's game, but at least I'm being Lead GM this time).
And to keep tradition intact, he's helping with A Grandiose Disaster
as well.
Richard Salmon
GM for: Best of the Wurst
Richard has been playing freeforms for rather too many years now.
In 2004 he was part of the writing & GM team for Siege of Troy and 2018 will see Shogun make it's debut.
He has been hindering Consequences since its inception by providing the
platform upon which Mo works the magic of the web site.
In a break with what had become a tradition of just helping other people
with their games, this year he is running Best of The Wurst himself
(OK, it's still someone else's game, but at least I'm being Lead GM this
time).
Andrew "AJ" Smith
GM for: Critical Path, Last Boat Leaving
AJ appears under a contract from Rent-A-GM™.
Mike "Mike(y)" Snowden
Herr Cocktailmeister
I'm the one with beard, glasses and an armful of props, and hopefully a pint. OK, that's half of the con. Replace "prop" with "PA", and I'm more easily identifiable.
I'm an experienced writer and player; My previous games as co-author include "Come Hel or Hiawatha", "Small Town Folks", "Veterans Day" and "Carry on at Camp David", "The Dying of the Light", and "Dr. Nefarious and the Paradise Project". "The Saga of the Lost" is my last offspring from the Peaky writing weekend.
Christi S
GM for: Strangers, The Life of Mermaids
Christi is Not Dead Yet, and is hoping she's on a roll in that respect. She has been to every single Consequences, and is uncertain whether to be proud or ashamed of that fact.
Mark Threlfall
GM for: Noble Cause
Born in Liverpool Mark emigrated to
Yorkshire at a young age. Since then he
has fought to be accepted by the wonderful
but strange Yorkshire folk around him.
Life was good until a shocking event left him questioning everything. Over a few years he discovered his three closest friends (Amy, Lyn and Rae) were really family, and conventions with his tribe were awesome.
David "DT" Townsend
GM for: The Final Cut, The Final Cut
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Mistress of the Arts
More art from across the pond. This year with gothic flair.
Have a great con!
Hugh Wake
GM for: An August Moon...
Graham Walmsley
GM for: Marinara
Graham started designing freeforms back in 2005. His first game was a
Paranoia-Cthulhu crossover, followed shortly by a An American Werewolf In
London - All Creatures Great And Small crossover, followed by a Meatloaf LARP.
He cowrote 4, which ran at Consequences 2014, and Mars Attracts.
He has also designed various tabletop games, including A Taste For Murder and Cthulhu Dark. And he's written for other roleplaying games, including Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space, The Laundry and Trail of Cthulhu.
Jenni Wildman
GM for: Game which needs a new title set in a Galaxy Far Far Away, Black Legacy, After the Shadow
Jenni/Oi You/Kitteh
Biddable, filthy-minded, concise.
Brian Williams
GM for: Critical Path
Another year, another Consequences...
This time I'm back again with a new game, "Omega Expedition". I still can't afford the services of AJ as my co-referee (he's playing instead) and my partner-in-crime for the last couple of years, Jeff Diewald, is also playing...
Do you think they are trying to tell me something?
Richard Wood
GM for: Black Legacy, After the Shadow, Game which needs a new title set in a Galaxy Far Far Away
Janet Young
Finance Consigliere
I like writing and playing freeforms and when I grow up I'd like to work with animals and help bring about world peace - please.