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Hello all,
I was the last minute addtion to the Bill's Gary Con game. I signed up here in the hopes that someone can tell me how it concluded. Yes, I arrived late and left early. Not my plan, but thats how it goes sometimes.
Back in the day (mid to late 80's) I both ran and played V&V. We had a small group of four or five players at any given time. There were lots of memorable adventures, heros and villians. Somewhere in my archives they may still exist.
In more recent history, at Gary Con 2 (last year) I ran a very abreviated V&V game Sunday morning for the guys with whom I had traveled to the con (we had agreed earlier that each of us would bring something to run for the times we might otherwise not be able find our way into another game). Anyways, I was suprised at how many people came by and wanted in on the game. I thought V&V was pretty much dead and buried. But the interest people showed made me think that perhaps I'd try running a V&V event at Gary Con 3.
When time came to start seriously consider it, I checked the Gary Con site and found that none other than Bill Willingham would be running a campaign for the entire weekend. And not only that, but Jeff Dee and Jack Herman were going to be there too. I quickly decided I wasn't about to compete for attention with them. Plus, I wanted in on that game!
Unfortunately (for me) as I read further I found that it would be an invitiation only event, and everything else I read in the Gary Con forums indicated that there was a mad scramble on to get an invite. So I resigned myself to the notion that I wouldn't get to play, and instead looked forward to hovering over the game between whatever other (lesser) events for which I could sign up. Keep in mind, at this point I had no idea that 2.1 had come out last year, that 3.0 is in the works, or that either the MHG website or this one even existed.
Next, its Friday morning at Gary Con 3. I wander into the gaming floor a little early and manage to catch Bill while he is setting up. I introduced myself and we chatted briefly. He had a lot of work ahead of him, so I tried not to distract him for too long. I wandered off to see who else was setting up and to see who I could spot from last year that I could remember.
I did eventually make it back around to the V&V table, at which point the game was underway, and they were in the midst of the first pitched battle, a classic hero vs. hero fight with the bad guys hiding in plain sight agitating. It was somewhere along here I guess that I was just nosy enough without being obnoxious to get invited to join. It seems one of the invitees (I've since learned it was Justice) had to cancel at the last minute, leaving the Untouchables with an open slot. Naturally, I agreed to join, but I waited until the conclusion of the current battle.
I won't go into details about the rest of the campaign, because several others are doing such an excellent job in posts on other threads. Plus, there is the fact that I ended up having to bail early to catch my flight back to Orlando. I think next year I'll plan on flying out Monday instead.
Anyways, the campaign was every shade of awesome imaginable. Getting to play in Bill's campaign with Jeff and Jack (and the rest of you too), was quite inspiring. I'm still thinking I'd like to run a V&V event at Gary Con 4, but Bill has placed the bar awfully high. I suppose though, if a few others would also run V&V events, I could blend one in quite easily. Bill did say he would like a chance to play next year, and I for one feel the need to make sure that happens.
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