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Ten slots (afternoon + evening, Wed 27 - Sun 31 Jan 2027, Searles, Hunstanton), eight games booked and two Sunday reserves. Each game has a README, synopsis, design intent, plot truth, act skeleton and open-questions list. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Contingency 2027 — Schedule & GM Load
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**Wed 27 – Sun 31 January 2027 · Searles Leisure Resort, Hunstanton**
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## Running times
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> **Slot times below are placeholders.** Contingency 2026 ran three slots a day
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> (morning / afternoon / evening). Confirm the 2027 published times against
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> Warhorn before printing anything, then update this table.
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| Session | Assumed time | Play budget |
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| Afternoon | 14:00 – 18:00 | 3h30 play + 10 min break |
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| Evening | 19:30 – 23:30 | 3h30 play + 10 min break |
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House rule: **3h30 of play in a 4-hour slot**, planned to ~3h15 of actual
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content. Session clock counts play time only and pauses for the break.
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## The grid
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| # | Day | Session | Game | System | PCs |
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| 1 | Wed 27 | Afternoon | BLACK SUMMER — Last Flight Out | Walking Dead Universe (modified) | 5 |
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| 2 | Wed 27 | Evening | AFTERIMAGE | Blade Runner RPG | 4 |
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| 3 | Thu 28 | Afternoon | DEAD AIR I — Ash & Amber | Call of Cthulhu 7e | 5 |
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| 4 | Thu 28 | Evening | THE FAVOUR | The Dee Sanction | 5 |
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| 5 | Fri 29 | Afternoon | DEAD AIR II — The Quiet City | Call of Cthulhu 7e | 5 |
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| 6 | Fri 29 | Evening | ANOTHER BLOODY TREASURE MAP | VANITY | 5 |
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| 7 | Sat 30 | Afternoon | DEAD AIR III — Full Volume | Call of Cthulhu 7e | 5 |
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| 8 | Sat 30 | Evening | THE CURIOUS CASE OF MR PARKER'S DIARY | Vaesen | 4 |
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| 9 | Sun 31 | Afternoon | *Reserve* | — | — |
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| 10 | Sun 31 | Evening | *Reserve* | — | — |
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## Why the slate sits this way
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- **DEAD AIR runs Thu / Fri / Sat afternoons** — same session, three consecutive
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days. A player who wants the whole arc books one time of day and never clashes
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with themselves. Each part is written to stand alone for drop-ins.
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- **Wednesday opens on the two most physical games.** Black Summer and
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AFTERIMAGE are the least prep-hungry on the day (AFTERIMAGE is already
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finished) and the best "arrival day" energy — a hard survival run and a
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noir case.
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- **Evenings alternate tone** against the afternoon's Cthulhu: Dee Sanction
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(Thu), comic fantasy (Fri), folk horror (Sat). Never two bleak games in a row
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on the same day.
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- **VANITY sits Friday evening** — the loosest, funniest game on the night the
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bar is busiest and the table is most likely to be tired and social.
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- **Sunday is deliberately empty.** People leave, energy drops, and two reserve
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slots absorb overspill demand or a re-run without new prep. If Sunday evening
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never fills, that is a feature.
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## GM load check
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| Day | Games | Prep-heavy? | Notes |
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| Wed | 2 | One (Black Summer) | AFTERIMAGE is a port — read-through only |
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| Thu | 2 | Both | Heaviest day. DEAD AIR I must be fully finished well in advance |
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| Fri | 2 | One (DEAD AIR II) | VANITY reuses the existing convention rules digest |
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| Sat | 2 | Both | DEAD AIR III is the arc payoff — needs the most playtesting |
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| Sun | 0 booked | — | Reserve |
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**Consequence:** eight new-or-ported games is a real workload. The three CoC
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games share a setting bible, NPC lineage and art direction, which is what makes
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the count achievable — treat DEAD AIR as one production with three outputs, not
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three productions.
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## Prep deadlines (working back from 27 Jan 2027)
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| By | What |
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| End Sep 2026 | All eight scenario drafts at v1. Trilogy bible locked. |
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| End Oct 2026 | Pregens complete for all eight. First desk playtests on DEAD AIR I–III. |
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| End Nov 2026 | Playtest fixes applied (v2). Handouts and art briefs written. |
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| End Dec 2026 | Art generated, handouts laid out, GM console modules built. |
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| 10 Jan 2027 | Print pack produced: sheets, handouts, GM screens. |
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| 20 Jan 2027 | Read-throughs done. Everything marked convention-ready. |
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## Open logistics questions
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1. Confirmed slot times from Warhorn — the table above is assumed, not verified.
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2. Table size cap at Searles (does 5-player seating work in the game rooms?).
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3. Whether the DEAD AIR trilogy can be flagged on Warhorn as a linked series with
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booking priority for players taking all three.
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4. Power/table space for the GM console tablet in the evening rooms.
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