SimuCon 2017
SimuCon is a yearly gathering in St. Louis near Simutronics headquarters usually taking place near the end of the summer.
2017 Schedule
The roundtable conflicting with the Escape Room will be rescheduled.
| Day | Time | Activity | Game |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday | After 3 PM | Meet, Greet, Socialize. Rooms: Alpine I & Alpine II | All |
| 8 PM | Welcome dinner at Drunken Fish | All | |
| Thursday | All Day | Check-in and Socialize | All |
| 8 AM | Snack/Coffee Table Setup | All | |
| 1 PM | Live Alterations | GS4 | |
| 3 PM | Games: Munchkins Tournament | All | |
| 7:30 PM | Masquerade (RSVP: Palvella) | All | |
| 10 PM | Radio Free SimuCon (link subject to change) | All | |
| Friday | All Day | Check-in and Socialize | All |
| 8 AM | Snack/Coffee Table Setup | All | |
| 1 PM | Games: Settlers of Catan Tournament | All | |
| 3 PM | Escape Room | RSVP Only | |
| 5 PM | Worlds/Subscriptions Roundtable | GS4 | |
| 7:15 PM | City Museum (player-organized, meet in lobby) | All | |
| 10 PM | Radio Free SimuCon (link subject to change) | All | |
| Saturday | 8 AM | Snack/Coffee Table Setup | All |
| 1 PM | State of Elanthia | GS4 | |
| 2 PM | State of Elanthia | DR | |
| 3 PM | Games: Freeroll Poker Tournament | All | |
| 5 PM | Development Roundtable | GS4 | |
| 7 PM | Dinner | All | |
| 8 PM | Live Auctions | All | |
| 9 PM | Alchemy/Drink Contest | All | |
| 10 PM | Radio Free SimuCon (link subject to change) | All | |
| Sunday | 11 AM | Bristol Brunch Buffet | RSVP Only |
| 3 PM | Room closes - Con is offically over! | The End. |
City Museum Friday 7:15 pm
- Posted by Naamit, this is a player-organized outing.
There will be a troupe of people going to the City Museum on Friday night as well. 7:15pm meeting time at the lobby to coordinate rides, carpool, catch ubers, etc.
At last count (on the Facebook MAH Gemstoners group) there were 9 people interested in going and 3 cars among them. If more than 5 extra people are interested, we'll need to order tickets online -- else try to filter in casually so as not to rouse suspicion ;).
I'll meet you all AT THE MUSEUM at 8pm (gotta pick up a friend from the airport).
Buy tickets in advance: https://www.citymuseum.org/visit/hours-and-admission/ last week they sold out before Fri night.
Notes
The rooms open at around 3PM on Wednesday, Aug 2. We are in ALPINE I & ALPINE II this year! NOT DAVOS!
If you like to help, I will be doing our first Costco/shopping run, and then we will set up the tables in the room. If you need ANYTHING for this night, you gotta let me know before I leave for shopping.
Snack/Coffee Tables I will be setting up a small "breakfast" table on Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings this year. This will be a selection of pastries, bagels (w/ cream cheese), fruit, coffee, teas, orange juice, whole milk, 2% milk and soy milk, as well as creamer & assorted sweeteners - sugar, Splenda, Equal and honey. If you want any other special kinds of sweetener, milk, juice, etc...I can buy for the whole class if it's a reasonable request, or you can bring your own. Hopefully this will be set up every morning by 8am, but YMMV.
Masquerade Please see Palvella's post on this and RSVP to her ASAP if you want to participate. There will be a selection of party trays for snacking during the event, but no formal dinner.
Roundtables I have set up two Roundtables for GS4 on Friday afternoon. IF you guys end up doing an outing on Friday, I can re-arrange these to a different time, but you need to let me know ASAP, please! DR's roundtables are TBA/TBD.
Games Munchkins will be run by Mestys again this year, while Catan will be run by Zythica. Both games will have prizes for winning the tournament. We will also be doing a Freeroll Texas Hold'em Poker Tournament run by Kveta on Saturday afternoon. Freeroll means there will be no buy-in - you will get chips and there will be a timer increasing the blinds every so often until we have 3 players left. Again, there will be PRIZES for winning!
Saturday Dinner We are pretty much confirmed (knocks on wood) for a catered BBQ dinner on Saturday night. The meat options will include chicken, pork, and beef. There will also be your standard BBQ sides - baked beans, potato salad, cole slaw, cream corn, seasoned vegetables, as well as tossed salad and bread. We may additionally have party trays with fruit, raw vegetables, cheese, shrimp, etc.
IF YOU HAVE SPECIAL DIETARY NEEDS I'm willing to accommodate this (as long as you actually purchased a Con perk). For example, if you are a vegetarian, I'm trying to arrange some vegetarian meals so you aren't just picking at the side dishes, but I need to know this info at least when you check-in to Con. The sooner the better, so please e-mail me at GS4-Zythica@play.net.
Live Auctions All games will have their Live Auctions at the same time, but we're going to be splitting it up between games by herding everyone off into separate areas. GS4 Platinum will not be competing with GS4 Prime and will have a different auction list. NO COLLUSION!!!!!
Alchemy/Drink Contest This will be in place of the costume contest this year, but you can still wear a costume. Please see this post for more info: http://forums.play.net/forums/SimuCon/SimuCon%20'17/General%20Discussions/view/150
Bristol Brunch We are NOT doing Lemp Mansion this year after all. Instead, we are going to be having a brunch at Bristol Seafood Grill, which is located close to the hotel. (Even though this is a seafood place, it will be your standard brunch buffet). The hotel will be able to shuttle about 14 people, the rest will need to carpool (which I figure will work out as some may need to leave early). The shuttle will be leaving the hotel at 10:40am; our brunch reservation is at 11am, and the shuttle will be departing Bristol at 1pm to return to the hotel.
The cost for the meal is $30/person, but WILL NOT INCLUDE ALCOHOL. You will need to open a separate tab to order alcohol, which we may do for mimosas anyway. I will need you to let me know if you want to come by Saturday morning. Please e-mail me GS4-Zythica@play.net if you are definitely coming, and there will be a sign-up sheet located at Con. It is very important that we get a headcount beforehand.
Here is menu of Bristol's brunch buffet in case you'd like to check it beforehand: http://bit.ly/2uDp30J
Con Closing The rooms will technically be closed at 3pm on Sunday, but we usually start cleaning up beforehand. If you're a person who drove your own car to Con, you may want to wait until we do cleanup, as this is the point where we start giving away any leftover alcohol, snacks, etc. You can really score big if you stay to help us clean up!!
Auction Details - Prime Instance
| Item | Details | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Custom Bolt messaging | A player can pick any bolt spell in the game and have custom messaging set for it | 1m |
| Custom Bolt messaging | A player can pick any bolt spell in the game and have custom messaging set for it | 1m |
| Custom Bolt messaging | A player can pick any bolt spell in the game and have custom messaging set for it | 1m |
| Custom Fire Spirit (111) firework | Custom messaging | 1m |
| Custom Manna (203) | Custom messaging | 20m |
| Custom Major Sanctuary (220) | Custom messaging | 1m |
| Custom Well of Life (308), Raise Dead (318), Divine Word (1640), or Miracle (350) | Custom messaging | 1m |
| Custom Floating Disk (511) or Tremors (909) | Custom messaging | Pass |
| Custom Tangleweed (610) or Call Swarm (615) | Custom messaging | Pass |
| Custom Grasp of the Grave (709) | Custom messaging | 1m |
| Custom Call Familiar (920) talisman | Custom messaging | 20m |
| Sonic Weapon, Shield, Armor, or Singing Weapon alteration | Custom messaging | Pass |
| Custom Blink (1215) | Custom messaging | Pass |
| Custom Illusion Prop | Creates a magical aura about the player when LOOKed at | 7.5m |
| 3-setting gold ring | Unlimited use gold ring with 3 settings | 12m |
| Weight reducing backpack | 33% reduction in weight for items held within the backpack | 5m |
| Weight reducing cloak | 33% reduction in weight for items held within the cloak | 11m |
| Spell Rune Tattoo | select approved Mental or Arcane spell, 3x/day | 10m |
| Spell Rune Tattoo | select approved Spirit spell, 3x/day | 40m |
| Spell Rune Tattoo | select approved Elemental spell, 3x/day | 10m |
| 1x DB jewelry | A +5 DS jewelry | 15m |
| +3 OB jewelry | A +3 AS jewelry | 25m |
| CreatureBane | Provides +10 AS CreatureBane for bane of choice except undead, with common or uncommon flares, or +10 weighting | 17m |
| CreatureBane | Provides +10 AS CreatureBane for bane of choice except undead, with common or uncommon flares, or +10 weighting | 25m |
| Enchantment (+5) | Max 8x, no special > 10, no katanas, claidhmores, or naginatas | 6m |
| 3-Socket Fusion Armor or Shield | User picks the base, 4x plain vultite (or equivalent wood/cloth/fiber) | Pass |
| 3-Socket Fusion Weapon | User picks the base, 4x plain vultite (or equivalent wood/cloth/fiber). No katanas, claidhmores, or naginata | 10m |
| Choose Your Own Adventure | Custom spell prep, custom signature verb, custom logon/logoff | 3m |
| 30 minutes alter time | Get as much done (GALD) as you can in 30 minutes of alter time | 2m |
| Acuity or Mana runestaff flare boost | +1 to mana or +1x to acuity flares, up to normal max | 6m |
| Skeleton key | Unlocks any box every 6 hours | 6m |
| Double Dispel Wand | Elemental Dispel/Spiritual Dispel (417/119) double-wand - 25 charges per day | 30m |
| Epic Deepening and Epic Lightening Certificates | Deepen: by 100 lbs up to 200 for back/shoulder, 100 slung on shoulder, and 60 for belt, and Lighten: by 100 lbs down to min | 5m |
| De-Fusion Service | Remove fusion script from an item, but leaves enhancives on it. | 37m |
| Ethereal Weapon Tattoo | User picks the base. No katanas, claidhmores, or naginatas. 5x with plasma flares | 20m |
| T3 Chaos Jewelry | Shifting description jewelry, T3 allows going invisible at the cost of spirit | Pass |
| Recharging Crystal | Can be fueled with gems to add 2 charges to magical items | 40m |
| Rune Knowledge | Any demonic rune, no teaching | Pass |
| 25k Weightless Coin Bag | Holds 25,000 silver weightlessly | 5m |
| Banshee Armament | 5x runestaff, shield, or armor, banshee flares: +25 TD/bolt DS for 10 seconds, 1 in 6 chance to trigger when warding | Pass |
| Forest Armor | 6x, T4 Forest armor | 5m |
| Dispel Runestaff | 6x runestaff that can flare dispel | Pass |
| 3x/Day Barkskin | Absorbs the next attack, and may last longer on weak attacks | 4m |
| Gold Ring Tattoo | Tattoo that works like a gold ring | 10m |
| Disarm Returner | Returns the weapon to the owner when disarmed | Pass |
| Greater Plinite | 10x per day open portal to Elemental Confluence and can trigger a redrill of the rooms | 20m |
| ClimateWear with feature hiding | Weighs 5 lbs and holds 150 lbs. | 1m |
| Supercharger Jewelry | 1x supercharger, Koar holy symbol | 5m |
| Trap Tarot Card | 3x per day, while holding a trapped container, you can Rub the card and it will disarm the trap and absorb the energy. The card will hold a maximum of 10 charges. You can WAVE the card at a container to vaporize it, leaving the items inside on the ground (similar to Call Lightning (125)). It can also be WAVEd at another player or creature to cause a standard maneuver roll, resulting in an electrical critical if they fail to avoid the maneuver. | 65m |
| Weather Charm | Unlocked weather charm - fluff verbs and 2x per day can create localized weather storm in the room. Unlocked version adds bloodrain and ambient messages | 62m |
| Muirgheal Manor | Prime Private property in Zul Logoth with 5 rooms and “as is” | 10m |
| The Dark Tower | Prime Private property in Icemule with 5 room and “as is” | 35m |
See Also
- Official SimuCon page
- Officials folder (GS board)
- SimuCon 2017 Officials folder (Simu board)