Paintball, February

Chance to shoot Tech Soc: Check

Inevitable Quoting from Action Movies: Check (Get to the Chopper!)

Victory Assured: Check

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THE CHRISTMAS PARTY!

Its that time of year again!

Every year the SFFS holds a successful Christmas gathering for its members, and this year is no exception. Hop on down to Elixir bar in Euston (details below) for a fun night!

This event is a costume party with a costume competition. While we aren’t going to turn you away if you’re out of costume, its great fun and we always have solid prizes!

The event is at a bar, so bring ID, even though they aren’t likely to ever check it (just a legal thing for them)

The event is at a bar and it has a minimum spend, so without sounding like I’m trying to make you spend money, you can’t bring your own booze with you! Drinks are not unreasonably priced, and from 6-8 there is a Happy Hour on all drinks, which they have extended specially for us!

We control the music, so if you would post your requests at this forum thread, we will incorporate them into the nights music, the cheesier and nerdier the better!http ://www . uclsf . org . uk/forum/events-and-shenanigans/christmas-party-music-and-discussion/#p706

It is absolutely fine to bring your friends, whether they are in or out of costume!

For specifics regarding time and place:

Sunday 11th December – We have it at this time as it isn’t right at the end of term, and so the Affiliate students who enjoy our society in the first time can attend.

Elixir Bar in Euston – google map it – Its up Eversholt street, in between Mornington Crescent and Euston Station
No cover for entry and no tickets, just make sure you spend a bit at the bar.

6pm-11pm is the time for the event. So it starts relatively early and it ends relatively early, but we find that a) it means we don’t have to buy tickets or pay cover on entry as thats how booking these places works, and b) its a Sunday. Happy hour from 6pm-8pm, I’m told.

You don’t have to be a member of UCL SFFS to attend.

Any other questions? Email alexflather@gmail.com

Hope to see you all there!!

Alex Flather (President 2011-2012)

Hello to you all!

I hope you’ve all had a chance to come to some of our wonderful, and often mind-breaking, events and enjoyed yourselves. I’ve certainly met quite a few of you at the pub crawl, film nights and boardgames events and you all seem like friendly folk!

So, just a quick reminder to people to join up to the society as tomorrow is the last day of Join Fortnight. You can look us up (“Sci-Fi and Fantasy Society”) on the UCLU online shop (http://uclu.org/shop/index.php) or go to the CSC reception desk (Bloomsbury building, 2nd floor). Membership is just £4 for the whole year.

Committee members and people from previous years who want to join also have to sign up again (I know there’s still a few of you about who haven’t joined yet!) We basically need to know who is a member, so that you can take part in our events without annoying insurance or legality issues cropping up and all.

In short: you know you want to join us (we are an amazing society afterall!); you know who you are (well, I hope…); and even better, I know who you are (so you shall join us!)

Anyways, hope to see more people again tomorrow at film night, 6pm at Tottenham (188) SB3; we’re showing Shaun of the Dead as a Halloween special and ULU after as usual! (There will be cookies!)

- Yan-Kay (Treasurer, 2011-2012)

[Edit: Sorry, a moment of illiteracy there, the film is at Tottenham (188) SB3, not Garwood LT, as I'd previously written, but we will be at the Quad at 5:45pm and I will pick up anyone who has gone to Garwood LT as well.]

Hey all, quick shout out, first to our Wednesday regulars, we are in Foster Court 113 as it says on the email. It turns out it is next week we are in a different room.

Also the Chocsoc is hosting their own games night in Anatomy b15 @7pm today (Tuesday). No idea what they are playing but if you need that boardgame fix feel free to head along.

Hi all,

We’re now with a new host and I’ve just enabled the site. There are a few bugs hanging around but you should be able to use the forums. I don’t think live chat is working yet.

Edit: Live chat working now!

Enjoy!

The Minecraft Treasure Hunt

Server IP: 69.25.207.235

(ask to be whitelisted)

Basically, this is a clue-following, world-spanning adventure! Find clues hidden in obscure places across the map, which will point you to the next one. Once you have collected all the clues, you will know where to go to battle your way to the finale!

Prizes

First Place: £15 cash/Warhammer 40K/Fantasy box set of £15 of your choice
Second Place: Full set of Diamond gear/64 blocks of your choice in game

RULES – Very simple, and please bear in mind as the admins, we can see logs + what you have in your inventories. We WILL know if you have cheated! Most of the fun & Challenge is doing it “properly”, so please do!

Start with Iron Armour, Iron Sword+Pickaxe+Shovel, 64 Dirt, 3 bits of food, 15 torches. Ideally do NOT pick up anything else on the way, but you have leeway here as some of the challenges are rather tough!! If you die, we would like you to say you did, and get those resources to continue. We can check the logs to see who has died, but honestly that is such a hassle, and we’d rather trust you guys
You are not allowed to place any blocks while in the Nether sections.
Do not destroy ANY signs or attempt to misdirect fellow players
Survival mode only, no teleportation – Once you’ve started this thing, you have to finish it!
PVP is enabled…
You CAN ask for further clues, but we will note down if you have.

HOW IT WORKS

The beginning is by spawn, in the ruined church, outside the Tutorial crypt. The clues are found by finding signs with 4 letter codes on them (e.g. AO55, BT87)
Once you find a code, and if JC and/or me are NOT ONLINE, Text either JC or myself (JC: 07907674778, Me: 07590607918 – don’t abuse these please ), or Email me (alexflather@gmail.com). If “captain_derple” is online, this is JC’s brother – he might be able to get hold of us if you’re struggling
We will then send on the appropriate clue to point you to the next sign, along with a line of text.
At the end of the hunt, you have to have all the lines of text to get the prize. This is to stop sequence breaking, and we know some people have stumbled across a clue or two as we’re setting this up. It won’t do you any good without the clue before it!
First one to submit the final code with all the lines of text is the winner!

Competition starts now guys.

Please post here if you are engaging in this. Remember to have the appropriate equipment, and try not to cheat, please. We’ve spent a while on this!

The adventure should take approx 5-6 hours of gameplay.

Hello All!

Rather fewer people at the Dr. Who night this week than last week – despite that, fun was had by all. If you want to come on the trip to the Dr. Who Experience and want a discounted (£12) ticket, email me at alexflather [at] gmail.com by the end of today.

Please remember to go and pay your membership fee – either online or in person at the CSC. Online you may have to actually search for the society on the UCLU online shop. £4 for the year! If you are not a member and regularly attend events, we risk being disaffiliated!

The Film Night today is “Evolution”, a Sci-Fi action-comedy about an asteroid containing an alien ecosystem landing on earth and quikcly evolving to threaten humanity! 5:45 in the Quad/South Wing Garwood LT at 6pm, with a ULU trip after for £1.50 drinks!

Keep your eyes on the forums (which I apologise seem to be going down regularly, we’re working on it) for news on the Minecraft treasure hunt & a potential Warhammer giveaway!!

- Alex (President 2011-2012)

Hello everyone. Hope you are enjoying the many events we have to offer. For all you DMs out there, both prospective and current we are running a DM training session tomorrow, Tuesday the 18th. Alex will be providing tips on setting up games, common pitfalls to avoid, pitfalls to put in front of your players and so on. I will also be attending to talk a little about storytelling.

If you would like to attend meet us outside ULU at 7pm Tuesday. This is a great chance to figure out if you would enjoy running a game or just brush up on your evil- I mean, good DM skills.

Hello all!

Absolutely fantastic turnout to the Film Night and following pub trip. It trickled down to the die hards, and some people ended back at my Presidential Palace (yes OK its a flat but I can call it what I like), it was a solid end to a really good Fresher’s Fortnight!

Now we have to talk money…

To participate in all further Sci Fi Society activities you have to join the society formally, which can be done any time after the 17th of October (Monday). If you are not joined up by Friday the 28th (2 weeks from then), you cannot legally take part in any events (you are simply not insured!). Look us up on the UCLU online shop (http://uclu.org/shop/index.php) or go to the CSC reception desk (Bloomsbury building, 2nd floor). Membership is a few pounds (I do believe £4 off of the top of my head) for the entire year.

Existing members (yes that includes you committee!) have to do this as well. If we do not have 30 paid members by the end of the Fortnight, we get instantly disbanded as a society!

Now that that financial gubbins is out of the way…

1) RPGs – keep an eye on the forums. I am currently in the process of block booking an ungodly number of rooms for RPGs. Email James and get him to tell me what rooms you want when. When the bookings return, I will forward the information on. Please be patient, I can’t hurry the monolithic UCLU bureaucracy and frankly they bloody hate me already for booking about half of UCL

2) Film Nights & Doctor Who Nights – Same time, same place! Film Night is South Wing Garwood LT @ 6pm on Friday (or the Quad at 5.45 if you’re still unsure of how to get there). I do not know what film we are going to watch! If you have any suggestions (Scifi/Fantasy related please!) just email me/bring the DVD along. If I take a fancy to a suggestion I’ll advertise that as what we’re watching, as I’m President and I can, hooray! Dr. Who nights are Drayton B04 @ 6pm on Thursday, and again the Quad at 5.45 if you’re unsure. Bring your DVDs along!

3) Minecraft – Join our Minecraft server. Minecraft is bloody awesome. Details on the cash prize treasure hunt forthcoming!

4) Airsofting – Unfortunately the place we wanted to book can’t handle the amount of people we’re going to bring, and it’d have to be like 6-7 people a side. By the time we have the committee members and stuff, thats like 2 people. So we’re rethinking this, it might have to be in the new year at a different venue. Apologies to all, but sometimes fate works against us!

5) Dr. Who Experience – I just want to gather opinions for this. Please email alexflather@gmail.com with the subject title “Dr. Who Experience” if you’d be interested in going to the Kensington Olympia Dr. Who exhibition, with some discounted tickets for the first-signups. Tickets are £12 base, we might be able to knock that down to £7.

6) Pub Crawl – On Monday 24th (aka Monday week) we are having another pub crawl! Details on this will be forthcoming

7) Board Games are going to be on Wednesday, HOPEFULLY. The room booking has yet to come through, so I’ll update when it does.

And lastly…

WARHAMMER. Those of you who were at the Film Night last night may have met John, my Kungfu instructor and a bit of a nerdy chap himself. He has enough Warhammer, new in boxes, to drown a small child should the pile fall over. So I need some able bodied troops to help me retrieve this as he doesn’t want it. Dates and details forthcoming, it’ll be some time next week and he lives in Wembley. This is just a heads up to let you all know that the society is soon to have its cup overflowing with all things Warhammer + 40K related.

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- Alex (President 2011-2012)

1) Fantastic turnout at Dr. Who night! Same time next week (6pm @ Drayton B04!) We watched Blink, Utopia and The Sound of Drums - Next week itsThe Last of the Time Lords and some other episodes! A massive thank-you to whoever it was who brought their veritable bible of DVDs (apologies I don’t know your name, but I have seen you at several events!) (cue amusement at the girls being scared of Blink yet super keen to see Jack Harkness episodes. Allllll of them.)

2) Friday 14th October - Film Night! Scott Pilgrim vs. the World! One man, 7 evil ex’s, 1 girl, 1 mission. Not to be missed! Followed by a pub trip to the ULU for £1.50 drinks! - South Garwood LT at 6pm or the Quad at 5:45

3) Minecraft! Check the forum for Minecraft information. We’re building a treasure hunt which will have cash prizes! (also as a bit of Minecraft nerdyness – don’t build Nether portals near spawn. Go away from the causeway. Far, FAR away. There is a Nether traffic jam. Ignore this if you have no idea what I mean.)

4) Room bookings! I have booked a swathe (13 rooms for 5 different events!) of rooms tonight, and they are processing. There is a Monday, Tuesday and Saturday RPG but I do not know who they are for at the time of writing. PLEASE EMAIL JAMES THE GAME MASTER (james.coughtrey.10 [at ] ucl.ac.uk) IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO RUN AN RPG. I NEED TO KNOW THE NAME AND TYPE OF RPG IF I WANT TO PUBLICISE IT, FOR MY OWN RECORDS. If I don’t know who DMs which RPG, I might miss a booking. And I also need to actually send out who has got what room on what day!

5) Alex Cohen is wanting to run a Rogue Trader game! See the Forum for more information! Rogue Trader is set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe – anyone who was at the Sci-Fi taster may have played Dark Heresy, which is essentially 100% the same thing.

Thats all folks! More news next week!

- Alex (President 2011-2012)