Author: Patricia

Halloween Party

On 22. September 2024

KuL & CDC invite you to a spooktacular Halloween Party on SA, 26.10.2024, starting at 4PM.
There will be music, games, a pub quiz, and a buffet with food and drinks – all Halloween-themed of course!

Eine Einladung Zur Halloweenparty von KuL & CDC

Costumes

Costumes are very welcome, but not a must. To give you a little incentive: The best costume wins a prize!
We will have a small make-up corner and some accessories on site for anyone who wants a spontaneous make-over!
🧟🧌🧛🧙‍♂️💀👻👹🤡🎃

Food & Drinks

We would love a contribution to the buffet, especially if it fits the Halloween theme! Doesn’t matter whether it’s savoury or sweet – as long as it’s finger food (no cutlery on site available)!

If you would like to bring something, please let us know when you register.

Registration

All members and fellow players of KuL & CDC are invited, including their loved ones. In order for us to estimate how many people are coming, we would like to ask you to register (see form below).
Of course you can also check in spontaneously!

If you have any questions, suggestions or ideas, please get in touch with Patricia.

Games & Pubquiz

There will also be some games and a pub quiz – with a prize for the winning team!
If you have games that fit the theme and want to bring them along, please get in touch with Patricia!
Can be a card game, group activity, trivia game, etc.…

Horror-RPG

If you want to get in the right mood for our little Halloween-Extravaganza, you can do so on Friday, 25.10.24 with a horror RPG at the CDC:

Game Master: Al
System: Liminal Horror: Investigators (e3)
Scenario: The Chair
Spieler: max 6
Language: English
Time: FR, 18:00-23:00
Registration: Direct Message via discord to your GM Al (Rogue-AL on discord)

Tales from the Void: The Chair
“Rumor has it that there is a decrepit house deep in the woods to which no roads lead. They say that there is an antique but possessed chair, luring curious souls into the house and seducing them to sit upon it. However, once you step through the doors, you will be trapped forever. You are investigators who seek to find out the truth behind the rumor. Can you uncover the secrets hidden within and escape the house? Or will you become part of its furniture and be trapped there for eternity?”

Liminal Horror: Investigators (3e) is a modern horror TTRPG that uses a rules-light system and is based on the same one found in Into the Odd,Cairn, or Maze Rats, but modified for a horror setting. In this one-shot, players will take on the role of curious investigators who come upon the rumored house in the woods.

The Chair is a scenario from the Tales from the Void anthology, written and designed by Zach Hazard Vaupen. Some slight changes to the scenario can be expected which draw their inspiration from movies such as Hausu (1977), Cube (1997), Thirteen Ghosts (2001), Saw II (2005), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), and Crimson Peak (2015).

About the “Liminal” in Liminal Horror. To avoid some confusion, the title does not refer to the concept of liminal spaces or the famed “Backrooms” per se. It is connected to the idea of liminal (transitional) states such as characters/investigators going through changes as they face horrors.

Not suitable for minors.
The One-Shot will be held in English and is intended for beginner and experienced RPG players.

System of the Month Savage Worlds

By Patricia

On 21. June 2023

In Events EN

TAGS: System of the Month EN

One system, a thousand worlds – Savage Worlds is a simple, universal RPG-system that can be applied to any setting imaginable.

This entry-level adventure is set in modern times and takes the characters on a spooky journey through rural Wisconsin, USA. Get ready for a thrilling horror story where the characters have to fight for their lives!

What do I need to know?

We’ll be playing with pre-generated characters and the simplified Savage Worlds Test Drive rules, so we can dive right into the adventure without much preparation. You don’t need to know the rules in advance, we will go over them together before the game starts.

All you need to play are dice (D4-D12, you can also borrow them from us) and something to write with.

If you want to familiarize yourself with the system in advance, you can download the PDF here:

SWTestDrive_Regeln Herunterladen

Here is an overview of the characters. We will assign them together:

SWTestDrive_Characters Herunterladen

The game is free for all participants.

When do we play?

The adventure is planned as a one shot, so it should be finished in one sitting. However, it is always possible that it will take a little longer than expected and we will have to split it over two game days. We will discuss the second date then if needed.

Thursday, 20 June 23 from 6pm

Join the game

If you would like to participate or have any questions, please contact me at info@kul-verein.ch, subject “Savage Worlds”.

I am looking forward to seeing you,
Patricia

The archway stands!

By Patricia

On 19. March 2023

In Equipment / Decoration

The catacomb part in “Catacombs & Lindworms” is (almost) finished! In the last few days a huge decorative element for the KuL room has been created from styrofoam, plaster, paint and a lot of patience, with the goal in mind to provide more fantasy ambience.

On Saturday, Tim, Mario and Patricia finally attached the archway to the wall. It is not quite finished yet, as there are still a few small corrections and finishing touches to be made, but we wanted to show you how it looks in the room!

The archway is meant as a frame for a kind of interactive art gallery:

Here, all your beautifully crafted characters, monsters, maps, etc. can be presented in style, instead of living a shadowy existence in a dark closet!

Patricia shows you in a short step-by-step how the fake stone archway has been created:

Materials for fake stone archway

11 insulation boards made of styrofoam (FPS 15, 100cm x 50cm x 2cm)
felt-tip pen
cutter / carpet knife
2kg plaster
white glue
toothpick
acrylic paints (black, white, terracotta, green)
brush
water
tarpaulin or newspapers
adhesive tape
string
dried moss

Day 1: Basic structure

First, lay out the polystyrene sheets on the floor and cut them to the size of the wall.

Styroporplatten in Bogenform zugeschnitten

Draw the arc and cut it out with a cutter.

Now sketch out the basic shape of the arch and the decorative elements. (My design has changed several times during the project).

Dekorsteine für Torbogen ausschneiden und platzieren

Cut out the individual decorative stones from the remaining styrofoam sheets and place them. The upper part of the arch was a real challenge, so I adjusted the design again and cut the stones straight instead of curved.

Small imperfections can be corrected later with the plaster.

Steinmauerstrukturen in Styropor schnitzen

Now paint on the approximate shape of the stone wall with a felt-tip pen and roughly trace it with the cutter. The porous nature of the styrofoam automatically creates an irregular, natural pattern.

To give the styrofoam surface even more stone texture, I scratched and scored it with the cutter, worked on it with my fists and walked around on it – This creates a surprisingly realistic relief!

Day 2: Plaster

In a next step, I glued all the decorative stones with white glue and then painted the whole thing with plaster.

Now it looks like real stone!

In retrospect, I would approach the whole thing a little differently: I would plaster and paint the individual decorative stones first and then prime the surface with black paint before gluing them on.

Learn from my mistakes!

Day 3: Color

Now color comes into play!

With the colors white, black and terracotta in different mixing ratios, the individual stones are painted. This might look a bit nervous at first, but it will come together nicely with the next step – This process ensures natural color nuances in the end!

Now apply a dark wash to the sheet. This is a very fluid, transparent color that flows into all the cracks and gaps and gives the whole thing more depth. In addition, the variegated colors are evenly tinted and a uniform, harmonious color scheme with many natural nuances is created – just like a real stone wall!

Finally, all elevations and ridges are emphasized with a light brush, which brings even more detail and texture to the overall effect.

Day 4: Finish

And here is the final result!

The arch was attached to the wall with tape and adhesive strips. Since the arch spans from the floor to the ceiling, it carries its own weight (Styrofoam is amazingly stable!).
The tape strips are just to keep the whole thing from tipping forward.

When mounting it to the wall, a few small things broke and had to be adjusted (Unfortunately, the arch was a little too high to begin with).

To finish the archway, the next step will be to add moss and some artificial staining to make the whole thing a bit more realistic…

I hope you like the fake stone archway! The construction was a lot of fun, even though it took much longer than expected….