Welcome to another edition of The Fantasy Field Trip Newsletter. I hope you all had a wicked Halloween and are geared up for Novacon. This newsletter will feature a questionnaire giving all you folks a second chance to earn some fre ebie points. Now on to the meat of the letter.

The day dawned bright and clear as the Brainship SN904 landed on the planet Kethris. The disembarking mercenaries were quickly led to the central council chambers were the Lady ke'Morgan greeted them and gave them the Fledging Night stalker samples for their tricorders. The mercs quickly dispersed as they were made aware that it was only 2 hours until sunset, and the Fledglings became more intelligent and dangerous as the sun set.

The first kill of the day was credited to Hieraco of the Space Orcs. The first few hours went fast and furious as the mercs fought group after group of mindless Fledglings. Around dusk, however, something horrifying happened. The La dy ke'Morgan was attacked and left to die by a Master Nightstalker. She was quickly discovered by her true husband Veren di'Shena, who had fled off-planet two years before. A pair of matched daggers and a sword provided a psionic link between the two, all owing Veren to keep track of her health. He rushed to the clearing outside council chambers to find a huge magical circle surrounding her. As her last coherent action before lapsing into bloodlust Vrista had surrounded herself with a circle of protection in the hopes of preventing any unnecessary deaths. Witnessed by the Sleeper Vampires, Vance Simmons (Jeremy Dennison), Ripper (Steve Fox), and the Master Vampire Lady Sethra (Karalee Morrison), Veren (Wayne Chisholm) ended his loves life and began a comba t, that was to last many hours, in an attempt to kill the usurper Dorian di'Morgan (Nathan Graves) better known as Dorian Lewis and the True Lord Odonis, Master Nightstalker.

With the Space Orcs at his side, he tried without success to kill Dorian. Distracted at one fatal instant by the second severing of his psionic link when Lady Sethra dropped her daggers, Veren was injured by "YOU", a construct belon ging to the sleeper Dee, and he fell. As he fell, the other two teams of mercs began to attack determined to wipe out Vampires, Nightstalkers, and any one else who got in the way. Determined to save his master, Vance Simmons enlisted the aid of Lady Sethr a and spirited Vance away to heal and perhaps to return and fight another day. As the wrath of Death Sentence and Corporal Scales fell upon him so too did Dorian flee to go into isolation and plan once more. Escorted to the Council Chambers the survivors of the three merc teams were paid for those they had killed and were escorted to a ship that would take them off planet. Having discovered that this planet was occupied by three different species, Nightstalkers, Humans, and Vampires, all of the mercs swor e to never return, no matter how rich the reward.

The Burning question being did the following survive the wrath of their teammates as they were discovered to be Nightstalkers:

Blade Rider, Undead Nightstalker of the Space Orcs

Dee, Undead Nightstalker of the Tech Team

Farseer, Undead Nightstalker of the Death Sentence Merc Group

An offer was extended to the Space Orcs to remain on the planet as planetary guards, will they accept?

Deprived of his creator, Ripper decided to remain on the planet to aid Veren in his fight to destroy Dorian, standing with Vance Simmons, Veren's loyal servant, and Lady Sethra, Veren's new mate. And as the sun rose on another day o n Ketris the remaining Nightstalkers slept as Dorian plotted, someday he would destroy his rival, this he swore.

Larry Arsenault 6

Carla Bailey 7

Harold Bearisto 6

Rhys Bevan-John 6

Colin Binnington 6

Chantal Boudreau 6

Evan Brown 7

Wayne Chisholm 7

Shannon Churchill 6+3

Catherine Coates 6

Bryce Dennison 6

Jeremy Dennison 8

Brenda Ferguson 6

Steve Fox 8+3

Carol Ann Gallant 8

Nathan Graves 8

Dan Henderson 6

Cheryl Hoeg 6

Colin Hoeg 6+3

Pauline Jones 6

Ryan Jones 6

Kelly Lahey 6

Alan Lees 7

Dave Miller 6

Blair Morris 6

Dave Morrison 6

Karalee Morrison 7

Cindy Murdock 7

Sheldon O'Brien 6

Jackie Pettipas 6

Russell Rait 6

Elliot Renee 6

John Reynolds 6

Gil Richard 7

Dale Roberts 7

Kevin Sauder 6+3

Jason Sill 6

Chris Stockley 6+3

Paul Verreault 6

Dave Warren 6

Steve Zahn 6+3

+3 Points were awarded for those who volunteered to drive people and stuff to the game and back.

During the last Board Meeting the board voted on several items which may interest you. The following new policies are:

1. There will be a set experience point reward for GM's running a game. GM's will be awarded 8 points for a 1 Day game and 12 points for a 3 Day game. These points will be recalculated retroactively for this year. This means an incr ease in points for most of you who ran a game this year.

2. GM's must present a full plan for awarding experience points when they present their budget to the Board. This plan must include bonuses and penalties to cover as many potentials as possible. Also, the Board Rep must be consulted before any experience points are awarded.

3. The Board will no longer be accepting volunteers for Board Rep instead anyone who wishes to become a Board Rep will be placed on a list and the Board will select from this list. The duties of a Board Rep will be explained in the questionnaire, but be forewarned being a Board Rep is not for wussies.

4. Players will not be allowed to spend points they do not have. If you are a new player a GM will be within his/her rights to grant you enough points to build your character. If you have played before you must borrow points from an other player if you do not have enough point to build your character.

5. Field Trip seems to be low in members that are Safety + Security qualified (recent CPR and First Aid). Currently there are only 4 members who are fully certified and, well, one of those lives in B.C. In order to increase the amou nt of qualified members and relieve some of the burden from those 4 who are qualified the Board will pay for First Aid courses for the first four members to apply. Accepted applicants will S.S. at least one game per year. Applications will only be accepted with your questionnaire.

6. Also discussed at the Board Meeting was the subject of the Rules it was decided that the rules will not be published in Alpha format till the new year and we will have a Rules + Referee's meeting to discuss what needs to be fixed and how. Anyone on the committee list from the last newsletter will be notified as to when and where the meeting(s) will take place. Anyone who is not currently on the Rules committee can phone me (Russell Rait 469-1336) and I will add them to the list a nd have them contacted for the meeting. If anyone wants a copy of the Beta rules in the meantime contact Paul (464-0644) and he will supply you with a copy.

As usual Fieldtrip will be running demos at the con, the first demo will be run by Dale Roberts and will be for Fieldtrip members only. The second demo will be run by Carol Ann Gallant and will be for all comers. Also at the con Col in Hoeg will be doing Character Generation for the December 3rd game "Path of the Master". A notice will be posted in the Fieldtrip suite as to when and where all these fun filled activities will take place.

This list includes those people who paid for one day memberships and inactive members still on the books. The following memberships are expired before NOVACON and anyone wishing to play in the demos should have current memberships.

Bailey, Carla Johnson, Sean Murray, Terry

Bairsto, Harold Jones, Pauline Pass, Dave

Bevan-John, Rhys Kaardal, Donovan Pfeiffer, Susan

Brown, Jason Kehoe, Shawn Purdy, Len

Churchill, Shannon Lovin, John Renee, Eliott

Dennison, Jeremy McGee, Brian Showers, Shane

Dixon, Peter McKiggan, Heather Sinclair, Jill

Ernst, Tracy MacDonald, Jason Skelhorne, Jody

Ferguson, Brenda MacInnis, Joe Smith, Richard

Graves, Nathan Mills, Sarah Storing, John

Grady, Johnathon Morris, Blair Tenchuk, Joanne

Hale, Jeff Morrison, Peggy Ward, George

Blake, Mark Gordon, Pat Redding, Ross

Brown, Dan Layton, Alan Weir, Steve

Chamberlain, Sylvie Mason, Sandra Zahn, Steve

Fazio, Tony

In case any of you were not aware Fieldtrip was on Lunch TV during "Space Week" We participated in a skit with Mark Schultz in which we tried to take over the station only tofind it was too primitive for our designs. The Board would like to thank the following for their time and efforts. All participants earned 2 points for their efforts and another 1 point for the drivers. With any luck we will have a tape available to be shown in the Fieldtrip suite at Novacon.

Chantal Boudreau 2 Russell Rait 2

Mike Jeanrie 3 Kevin Sauder 3

Sheldon O'Brien 2

Arsenault, Larry 42

Bailey, Carla 7

Banyard, Brent 15

Beaver, Jason -5

Bearisto, Harold 6

Benoit, Barbara 13

Bevan-John, Rhys 7

Binington, Colin 69

Blake, John 8

Blake, Mark 3

Boudreau, Chantal 56

Bradley, Brad 16

Brennan, Bob 67

Brennan, Tom 44

Brown, Dan 4

Brown, Evan 52

Brown, Jason 25

Brown, Linda 4

Campbell, Lorna 26

Chamberlain, Sylvie 19

Chisholm, Dave 17

Chisholm, Wayne 65

Churchill, Shannon 20

Coates, Catherine 16

Dennison, Bryce 16

Dennison, Jeremy -3

Ernst, Tracy 10

Fazio, Tony 7

Fergurson, Brenda 24

Fillipone, Brad 24

Fox, Steve 49

Gallant, Carol Ann 48

Gates, Judy 28

Gilles, Chris 5

Gilles, Micheal 11

Gordon, Pat 13

Grady, Johnathon 17

Graves, Nathan 32

Hale, Jeff 6

Hatchett, Greg 10

Henderson, Dan 27

Hoeg, Cheryl 60

Hoeg, Colin 56

Jeanrie, Mike 26

Jones, Pauline 31

Jones, Ryan 6

Kurtz, Dave 3

Lahey, Kelley 10

Layton, Allon 5

Lees, Alan 25

Logan, Chad 14

Lovin, John 25

McGee, Brian 57

Mackiggan, Dan 12

MacLaughlin, Maura 4

Madden, Graham 12

Mason, Sandra 110

Mathews, Jim 3

Miller, David 6

Mills, Sarah 13

Morris, Blair 1

Morrison, Dave 67

Morrison, Karalee 68

Murdock, Cindy 26

Murphy, Bill 10

O'Brien, Sheldon 48

Pass, Dave 11

Pass, Ian 9

Pettipas, Jackie 48

Pfieffer, Sue 10

Pilcher, Marilyn 10

Piper, James 6

Piper, Mary Ruth 13

Purdy, Len 18

Rait, Russell 135

Redden, Merrick 16

Redding, Ross 9

Renee, Eliott 6

Reynolds, John 36

Richard, Gil 36

Roald, Colin 34

Roberts, Dale 77

Sauder, Kevin 61

Showers, Shane 5

Sill, Jason -4

Sinclair, Jill 13

Smith, Dave 3

Smith, Richard 4

Stockley, Chris 55

Stone, Doug 2

Tenchuk, Joanna 10

Verreault, Paul 63

Ward, George 6

Warren, Dave 6

Zahn, Steve 81

THIS LIST INCLUDES ALL POINTS UP TO Nov 1st, 1994.

Well folks here it is another Fieldtrip questionairre, a chance for you to earn some of those valuable experience points. You can earn 1 - 3 points depending on the content of your answers/suggestions, this may not seem like a lot o f points bet remember every little bit helps, how do you think I got to a Fieldtrip high of 135 Points. Please take the time to fill this in and then hand it in at the Fieldtrip suite at the con or mail it to FFTS at

107 Slayter St. Dartmouth, N.S. B3A 2B3. Please feel free to add more paper if neccesary.

Name: _____________________________________ Age: ______

Address: __________________________________ Phone : _________________

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1. Do you have any medical training such as First Aid or CPR and if so how current is your training.

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2. I am compiling a list of medical conditions for Safety + Security. Please describe any medical conditions you deem pertinent (Allergies, Contacts, Medic Alerts, etc.).

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3. Would you like to be placed on a list for available Board Reps, these duties include:

Attending all character generation meetings, viewing all material pertinent to game performance at least one week before game, acting as devil's advocate for the GM in order to maintain a balanced and fair game, make sure y ou are up to date on all rules including any changes made for the game you are a Rep for, attending all Board meetings with GM and report to Board on progress of game. The Board will assign a Board Rep when a game proposal is passed so you will not have m uch in the way of notice before hand. If these responsibilities do not seem to much of a burden to you then we want you as a Board Rep! Do you think you can handle the job?

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4. Please rate the Boards performance on a scale of 1 - 10 in the following areas.

New Policies ______ Newsletter ______

Rules ______ Safety + Security ______

Props ______ Terrain ______

Overall ______

5. Please check off any of the following committees you are interested in joining we will be trying to schedule meetings for most of them during the winter months.

Safety + Security ______ Props ______

Rules + Referres ______ Terrain ______

Documentation ______

6. Do you have any comments, suggestions or gripes about Fieldtrip or how things were run this year.

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