Author: geas

Greetings Grand Adventurers,

We need some able and willing volunteers to help with luring in unsuspecting victims new members during Fresher’s Week.

The Activities Fair will take place at 60 Pleasance on Wednesday the 13th and Thursday the 14th of September 2017 from 11am-4pm each day. There will be access from 9am to set up our table but we don’t need that much time, so I intend to be there at aprox 10:30. Our stall will be in the Tented Area behind the Salisbury Block. We should (unsurprisingly) be in the Gaming and Roleplaying area.

You don’t need to be there the entire time on both days, so just mail me if and when you’d be willing to help so I can coordinate something.

For the Glory of GEAS,

Tudor Ferariu

Secretary 2015-17

Greetings Grand Adventurers,

We hope you all enjoyed your summer break and are ready for a new year of roleplaying! It’s already September and the new academic year is almost upon us, so my incessant mails will soon resume as we once again tackle our sub-optimal room bookings. But first, some information about our start of year activities.

As has been previously mentioned we will have out Fresher’s Week Introductory One-Shots on Saturday the 16th of September from 18:30-23:00 in the Highland Room, Pleasance, I’m sure everyone on the mailing list knows exactly what to expect from this event. We still need some GMs for this event, so we are on the safe side. As long as you show up it’s great, but we would appreciate you telling us that you intend to GM if you haven’t already.

There will also be a Pub Social on Friday the 22nd of September from 18:30 onward at The Southsider Pub, where we can meet again and talk after a long summer break. Take care not to scare the freshers until we can properly convert them to our ways.

Right, now Re-Pitches, despite what I said above about our rooms, the Sunday room bookings are looking quite good for this semester, it’s just Wednesday that is, as always, basically impossible to find rooms for.

• Sunday Afternoon games will start on the 24th of September and run from 12:30-17:00 in the Teviot Study.
• Sunday Evening games will similarly start on the 24th of September, and run from 18:30-23:00 in the Teviot Study.
• Wednesday Evening games will start on the 20th of September, and run from 18:30-23:00, God knows where I’m still looking for a room, but let’s say the Teviot Lounge for now…

The times and places will stay the same for Sunday Evening and Afternoon games, unless otherwise specified in a future Newsletter. As for Wednesday, I’m in the process of talking something out and will have o get back to you when I have some actual answers.

Finally, the dates for next year’s National Student Roleplaying and Wargaming Competition, henceforth referred to as Student Nationals, are here! (April 6-8th, 2018) If you are interested in roleplaying with the best of the best, this is the event for you. More information to follow, but if you are interested in coming along please send our Events Coordinator Jason an email with the subject ‘Student Nationals’ at jasonebblewhite@gmail.com.

Also we’ve moved our site to a new provider and are hoping to use that for more announcements in the future, but this mail is already way too long so I’ll mention that again in the future.

For the Glory of GEAS,
Tudor Ferariu
Secretary 2015-17

Committee election season!!!!!

This year sees the departure of our longstanding president Angus McEwing.

Our new committee consists of:

President: Judith Spaargaren
Treasurer: Erich Essmann
Secretary: Tudor Ferariu
Socials: Jason Ebblewhite
Librarian: Matthew Barrowcliffe
Webmaster: Alan Jackson
Wellness officer: Faye Sutherland
Events: Jason Ebblewhite
Conpulsionator: Faye Sutherland

Sunday afternoons 12:30 pm, Teviot Study.
Sunday Evenings 6:30, Teviot dining room.

Wednesdays are … complicated.
October 5th, we are homelesly wandering the Teviot.
From October 12th, we have space at the Kilderkin Pub. Though we can always try to use public space in the Teviot.

Games start 28th September and Sunday October 2nd.

Game re-starts (the best time to join, re-join or change or start games) on the 6th and 9th of November.

As usual, Conpulsion & Events coordinators will be deferred until the next academic year.

Propulsion raises almost £300 for the Edinburgh Sick Kids Foundation.

Committee elections:
President! Angus McEwing continues his reign as eternal president.
Secretary! Tudor Ferariu re-elected. 
Treasurer! Erich Essmann persists in failing to embezzle our funds. 
Social! Joe ‘don’t vote for me’ Foster, Jason Ebblewhite & Gregor ‘a vote for me is a vote for Trump’ Hutton all nominated for the popular post of ‘piss up in a pub’ organiser. Jason won the knock down, drag out brawl that followed. 
Wellness! Faye ‘happiness is mandatory’ Sutherland continues to look after us all.  
Web! Alan Jackson continues the reign of minimalist maintenance.  
Librarian! Sam McDouall renewed in post. 

Short term games:
The vote on the contentious ‘6 week games’ occurred. The motion tabled is for the voluntary version, where games will be re-pitched every 6-8 weeks, with continuing players having priority. This would be extended to all slots. This motion passed after extended discussion. 

For the second semester here are our room bookings:

Firstly wednesdays:
[vtftable]
 From;;;To;;;Room;nn;
Jan 20th;;;Jan 27th;;;Teviot Dining Room;nn;
February 3rd;;;March 2nd;;;No Room – meet in teviot and find space;nn;
March 9th;;;April 13th;;;Teviot Dining Room;nn;
April 20th;;;April 27th;;;No Room;nn;
May 4th;;;May 18th;;;Teviot Dining Room;nn;
[/vtftable]

Sundays
[vtftable]
From;;;To;;;Afternoon;;;Evening;nn;
Jan 17th;;;Jan 31st;;;Teviot Study;;;Teviot Study;nn;
Feb 7th;;;;;;Teviot Dining Room;;;Teviot Dining Room;nn;
Feb 14th;;;;;;Teviot Study;;;Teviot Study;nn;
Feb 21st;;; Feb 28th;;; Potterrow Dome;;; Pleasance Pentland;nn;
March 6th;;; March 27th;;;Teviot Study;;;Teviot Study;nn;
April 3rd;;;;;;No Room;;;No Room;nn;
April 10th;;;;;;Potterrow Dome;;;No Room;nn;
April 17th;;;May 15th;;;Teviot Study;;;Teviot Study;nn;
[/vtftable]
Sunday evening short game pitching will be on Jan 17th and March 6th.

Apologies that they are a bit chaotic, with half of the pleasance out of commission its very tight.

The following is a summary of the events we are running throughout freshers week 2015.

Introductory One-Shot Events
On Monday the 14th at 1800 in Teviot, Study.

One-Shot start of year games
On Sunday the 20th at 1230 and then again at 1800 both in Teviot, Study.

Pub Social for new and old members
On Friday 18th from 1900 at No 1 Grange Bar.

We are also running a stall at the Societies Fair on Wednesday and Thursday between 1000 and 1600 and would welcome any of our members to come along, even for a little bit, to support GEAS.

1. Room bookings this year have been problematic. This has been due to EUSA’s variability in handling/Mia handling bookings.
• Letter to go to EUSA to complain
• Examples include Propulsion, Strictly come Larping & and Wednesdays @ pleasance. 
2. Money Report
• We have some
• Small come, smaller expenses.
• Conpulsion accounts to come after Conpulsion
3. Election of Officers
• President: Angus McEwing continues his reign as eternal President.
• Treasurer: Erich Essmann departing, replaced by Sam Myers.
• Secretary: Ruth Gray departing, replaced by Tudor Ferariu
• Webmaster: Alan Jackson continues his tenure of apathetic mismanagement. 
• Social secretary: Marlene standing down, will operate until end of term. 
• Events Coordinator: Sam Myers remains in post until an EGM in April/May. 
• Librarian: Sam Macdowell confirmed in post. 
• Conpulsion Liason: Euan Reid confirmed in post. Will present a candidate Conpulsion Committee by the end of May. 
4. Other Business
• Suggestions of a formal change to voting/election procedures to include a no confidence option of some sort. To be formally tabled at the EGM in April/may.

Greetings Grand Adventurers,

As those of you that rolled at least 2 successes on your perception+alertness rolls will have noticed we have not been given rooms for a lot of the evening sessions in March.

We have attempted to address this as best as possible as follows.

8th March: Dining Room, Teviot from 1930-2300 (This is a later start than normal, we apologise for this)
22nd March: Ochil, Pleasance from 1830-2200. There is also NO booking of the Middle Reading Room this week.
29th March: Ochil Pleasnace from 1830-2200

These last two will not have capacity for all our games. If you could speak to myself sometime before these sessions so I can establish who will be gaming in Ochil and who is happy/capable of gaming at an extra-society location.

Sunday afternoons will continue to be in the Teviot Study, and Wednesday Evenings in the Pleasance (lomond & others)

Also be aware that we have an AGM on the 8th March, this will be in the Study immediately after the afternoon session finishes at 1715.