Administer 20 ml of cordrazene, quick give me the paddles, Clear!, yes we have a beat. Fieldtrip is still alive and kicking, just in case there were any doubts and we have a brand new Board too!

Elections were held at the General Meeting on April 21st, for those of you who could not make it, this is who was voted into what office:

President - Cindy Murdock

Vice President - Brad Bradley

Treasurer - Chantal Boudreau

Secretary - Russell Rait

Board Members - Colin Binnington

- Dale Roberts

- Martin Sasinek

- Chris Stockley

- Steve Zahn

At the following Board meeting we selected some appropriate suckers to head up the various committees in Fieldtrip. Here is a list of those committees and who is on them. If you wish to join any of these please contact the committee head or anyone on the Board.

Rules + Referees	Safety + Security	Terrain
Dale Roberts	Colin Hoeg	Steve Zahn
Chantal Boudreau	Pauline Jones	Chantal Boudreau
Carol Ann Gallant	Brian McGee	Brad Fillipone
Nathan Graves	Dave Morrison	Carol Ann Gallant
Dan Henderson	Cindy Murdock	Colin Hoeg
John Lovin	Paul Verreault	Alan Lees
Jackie Pettipas		Sarah Mills
Russell Rait	(Headless)	Sheldon O'Brien
Kevin Sauder		Russell Rait
Chris Stockley		Chris Stockley
Paul Verreault

New Policy

This is not exactly a new policy, just an old one put back into play. The "No Pay, No Play" policy is now being enforced. Last year Fieldtrip was hamstrung by its lack of cash, the primary problem being that folks were playing on ga mes without paying their game fees, as well as playing on games without a current membership. Our current estimate is that we have over $400.00 outstanding in overdue game fees or membership fees. So henceforth, if you show up on game without having paid your fees, including overdue ones, you will be sent home. Sounds cruel I know, but this lack of money almost crippled the society last year, fortunately we had some members with deep pockets who we still owe money to.

This is just a notice to remind all of you that utilize our Props Department that the building props is housed in actually belongs to someone. Namely Paul Verreault, who is not pleased with the condition of the building when props a re returned. It seems a lot of people just dump the props in the middle of the floor, hoping that some kindly gremlin will put them away for you. It does not work that way, frankly Paul, Sheldon, and myself are a little tired of picking up after you. If y ou grabbed a weapon or costume off the rack then you obviously know where you swiped it from, please be so kind as to return it to the same spot. Actually so long as it is put away, we would be happy. Numerous Props are getting broken because they get lef t on the floor and someone steps on them in order to get something else. So from here on if you want to borrow a prop sign it out and when your done with it sign it back in and put the prop back where you got it. I don't think that is asking too much. If members don't start following this procedure we may lose that building to house our props!!

Yes, we are once again going to play with all the kids in Scouts Canada, this is a free-style game were you get to make your own characters, and switch characters as often as you like. We expect there will be in excess of TWO HUNDRE D scouts this year, so you will never be bored. For those of you who have not attended our annual Scout fest, this is one of the best games every year, its loads of Fun, its Free, totally Free, and they treat us like royalty, plying us with lunch, supper, and snacks. All you have to do is to make it to our collection point (usually the Dartmouth Shopping Center) and we car pool out to their camp.

This year they want us there early so the game will likely go from 10 am till about 11pm. If you want to attend make sure you name is on the following list of volunteers, if it is not then call me (Russell Rait) and I will include y ou on the list of people to contact about where to show up.

Colin Binnington	Steve Fox	Sheldon O'Brien
Chantal Boudreau	Dan Henderson	Jackie Pettipas
Brad Bradley	Ryan Jones	Russell Rait
Bob Brennan	Evan Kelly	Gil Richard
Sylvie Chamberlain	Nathan Krausc	Dale Roberts
Jeremy Dennison	Mike Leahay	Kevin Sauder
Sarah Dickie	John Lovin	Chris Stockley
Mike Drysdale	Markus McKenna	Richard Durnsford
Dave Morrison	Brad Fillipone	Cindy Murdock

Upcoming Game - June 15th

A Cold wind blows across Arith from a void that exists which was once filled with Magic. People and creatures gather in the shadows, empty now when once they had a purpose, a calling. Now there is nowhere for them to go but the hidd en nooks and crannies in the Attic of life. But out of the silence and the darkness comes a song, a song of sweet potential that gathers them together, summoning a forgotten army:

Four things it takes to make a god

A fact, a pact, and an artifact,

Joined by the sweet sound of a Bard

Rousing those from sleep that will not rise

Four things it takes to break a god

A fact, a pact, and an artifact,

Broken in rage or in ignorance,

While the Bard sings a dirge of divine demise

All this and more but not by mortal hand

Unless they are done within the Gods' land

Seek out the Godsrealm in the dead of night

When Arith has stolen the moon's silver light

Take care that your Avatar's brave and strong

Or they will not hold their new Godhood long

Jealousy's rampant in a true world divine

And the broken god's kin may have vengeful design.

Three groups have heeded the call of the song. The Necromancers, hiding amongst the tombs and crypts of their past power have modeled their avatar, Soulsbane, to their liking and prepare for the lunar eclipse. The past followers of Energia have readied themselves and their avatar, the Lady Syren, also awaiting to avenge their lost goddess. And lastly, the few magical creatures that have chosen not to sleep the long sleep with their kin, are making plans for their avatar, a dragon by the name of Geminus, who they hope will prove to be they answer to their dreams. Night has fallen and the eclipse approaches. The journey to Godsrealm is about to begin!

I would love to tell you exactly what went on last December 2nd at this game, but unfortunately after extensive prodding to both gamemasters neither of them has seen fit to submit an After-Game Report. This vital report gives a syno psis of events that happened on game and an account of who spent what points to make up characters, and who was awarded what points for playing their roles well and accomplishing their goals. Normally, this report is submitted to the Secretary no more tha n a week after the game, for prompt publishing in the next newsletter. Some how the GM's must have thought a little Gremlin was going to do it for them, or if they ignored it long enough it might go away, NOT!! I suggest for all of you who enjoyed the gam e (everybody seemed to have fun) and want to know what happened, or would like the experience points you deserve for participating, to pester the gamemasters at every opportunity until they relent and perform the duty they should have SIX months ago!!

Wolfcon went moderately well, after only a slight delay we had our room set up by late Friday night. Even though there were very few Fieldtrip members at the con (single digits folks!) we still managed to sell over two hundred raffl e tickets. The raffle was an attempt to generate money for Fieldtrip in order to defray the cost of attending the Con. There were numerous prizes for first, second, and third place. These prizes were donated by Chantal Boudreau, Russell Rait, and the frie ndly folks at Mirror Universe. We even managed to keep our room open most of the time, unfortunately no one took up our offer of cheap crash space (another attempt to defray Con costs). Our demo went off without a hitch, thanks to some newbies who monster ed for us, and despite the mass final battle, everyone had lots of fun. Hopefully more than a few of those at the con who signed up for future Fieldtrip events will become full-time members.

Fieldtrip is joining those brave souls and is stepping into the future, i.e. we now have an E-mail address and our very own Web page on which you can find out what events we will be holding next. So if you wish to contact Fieldtrip please feel free to E-mail us.

Tightwad Report

Our new tightwad, Chantal Boudreau has been perusing the books and has issued a preliminary report of those members with expired memberships, if you are on the following list you will need to have a current membership before you pla y on the Journey to Godsrealm.

Carla Bailey

Barbara Benoit

Rhys Bevan-John

Sylvie Chamberlain

Wayne Chisholm

Shannon Churchill

Brenda Ferguson

Judy Gates

Nathan Graves

Dan Henderson

Colin Hoeg

Alan Lees

Brian McGee

Sandra Mason

David Miller

Blair Morris

Dave Morrison

Karalee Morrison

Cindy Murdock

Karen O'Connel

Jackie Pettipas

Mary Ruth Piper

Ross Redding

Elliott Renee

Kevin Sauder

Jason Sill

Doug Stone

Paul Verreault

Dave Warren

Steve Zahn

The following folks have memberships that will expire by June 30th.

Chris Billard
Catherine Coates
Evan Kelly
Chris Boone
John Dunn
Jason Lingard
Evan Brown
Cheryl Hoeg
John Lovin
Lorna Campbell
Todd Kane
Sheldon O'Brien

The following folks owe money for past game fees, if you can pay your game fee before the end of June, you do not have to pay the $5.00 late fee.

Tom Brennan
Brad Fillipone
Dave Morrison
Jason Brown
Jeff Hale
Karalee Morrison
Brenda Ferguson
John Lovin
Cindy Murdock

Please keep in mind that is your responsibility to seek out the treasurer on the game site and pay your game fees, we should not have to send out the Brute Squad to gather money you should have paid in the first place.

Master Points List - May 1996

Arsenault, Larry 42*

Bailey, Carla 7*

Banyard, Brent 17*

Beaver, Jason 0*

Bearisto, Harold 6*

Benoit, Barbara 13*

Bevan-John Rhys 27

Binnington, Colin 80

Blake, John 8*

Blake, Mark 3*

Boone, Chris 9

Boudreau, Chantal 20

Boutilier, Paul 8*

Bradley, Brad 14

Brennan, Bob 81

Brennan, Tom 44*

Brown, Evan 12

Brown, Jason 25*

Bryan, Jim 7*

Cameron, Anne 11

Campbell, Lorna 41

Chamberlain, Sylvie 37

Chisholm, Dave 17*

Chisholm, Wayne 65

Churchill, Shannon 3*

Coates, Catherine 12

Dennison, Bryce 22

Dennison, Jeremy 20

Ernst, Tracy 10*

Fazio, Tony 7*

Ferguson, Brenda 24*

Fillipone, Brad 58

Fox, Steve 11

Gallant, Carol Ann 75

Gates, Judy 33

Gilles, Chris 5*

Gilles, Michael 11*

Gordon, Pat 13*

Grady, Johnathon 12

Graves, Nathan 36*

Hale, Jeff 6*

Henderson, Dan 39

Hoeg, Cheryl 76

Hoeg, Colin 59*

Jeanrie, Mike 22

Johnson, Tim 10

Jones, Pauline 56

Jones, Ryan 19

Kane, Todd 10

Lahey, Kelley 10*

Lees, Alan 25*

Leet, Jearod 7*

Lewis, Derick 5

Lingard, Jason 9

Lovin, John 49

McGee, Brian 85

MacKiggan, Dan 12*

MacKinnon, Rod 8

Madden, Graham 11

Madden, Lorraine 8

Mason, Sandra 120

Miller, David 7

Mills, Sarah 23

Morris, Blair 36

Morrison, Dave 85

Morrison, Karalee 11

Morrison, Robert 9

Murdock, Cindy 35

O'Brien, Sheldon 56

Pettipas, Jackie 13

Piper, James 6*

Piper, Mary Ruth 16

Purdy, Len 18*

Rait, Russell 179

Redding, Ross 11*

Rennie, Elliott 17

Reynolds, John 70

Richard, Gil 49

Roald, Colin 34*

Roberts, Dale 40

Sauder, Kevin 106

Showers, Shane 5*

Sill, Jason 5*

Smith, Dave 3*

Smith, Richard 4*

Stockley, Chris 20

Stockley, Tony 8

Stone, Doug 12*

Verreault, Paul 78

Ward, George 6*

Warren, Dave 8*

Zahn, Steve 109

* Indicates that this points will be lost if they do not renew their membership by the end of June.

The Board

President Cindy Murdock

Vice President Brad Bradley

Treasurer Chantal Boudreau

Secretary Russell Rait

Board Members Colin Binnington

Dale Roberts

Martin Sasinek

Chris Stockley

Steve Zahn