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Christopher Weeks wrote: 
>  
> Hi all, 
>  
> I am in the process of organizing a weekend of playing with LEGO pirate ships 
> in June.  I need to gauge interest and begin to collect commitments.  I don't 
> have all the details (like a firm date) worked out yet, but here is what I do 
> have.  The details contained herein are all subject to change, but I don't 
> think they will change much. 
>  
> Steve Jackson and Frank Filz will most likely be running games on Friday, 
> Saturday, and Sunday.  There will be a great deal pirate festing going on.  The 
> schedule of games is looking like: Friday evening, a battle game will be run by 
> Steve to get everyone familiar with mechanics and to have a good time. 
> Saturday, Frank will run a scenario campaign from morning through completion 
> that evening.  Sunday, Steve will run a scenario campaign that might start 
> Saturday night depending on how things go.  The games are flexible in that 
> people can come and go to some extent. 
>  
> It appears that we will have to charge a playing fee to pay for fun prizes and 
> the acquisition of Steve Jackson from Austin, Texas.  I am looking to raise 
> enough to pull this off and not charge so much that anyone who wants to play 
> would have to not because of cost.  Keeping that in mind, some payment schema 
> that we have discussed include: $1 per hour of play, $5 per four hour block of 
> play, some per day of play fee, etc.  Please let me know how you feel about 
> this. 
>  
> The weekend that I'm leaning toward is 8-10 June.  This is completely flexible. 
>  Please send me a note if you want to participate with June weekends that are 
> good and bad.  I hope to settle on a date, confirm with all the organizational 
> parties, and begin taking reservations.  If you are local, that's great, and if 
> not, I can help you put together travel and sleeping accommodations.  For those 
> of you interested but broke, people have been known to spend the entire night 
> at these parties, so if you wash well ahead of time, you might be able to 
> squeak by without a real room.  I might also be able to get people who want 
> room mates together to cut costs. 
>  
> The location of the event is slated to take place in an empty store in a strip 
> mall near my favorite local game shop in the greater Princeton, New Jersey 
> area.  The game shop will be hosting a game party in the same shop, but we (and 
> Steve Jackson's presence) will be the central event.  The game party includes 
> lots of games, a door raffle, a never-ending supply of free pizza, and for the 
> first time, a major LEGO event. 
>  
> Frank will be supplying much of the fleet and all of the crew.  Each player is 
> invited to bring a minifig captain for their ship. 
>  
> If there are any further questions, please drop me a note and I'll try to 
> answer them.  If there is anything in my current plans that you think would 
> prevent you from attending, please let me know and maybe we can work something 
> out. 
>  
> Christopher Weeks 
 
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Frank Filz 
 
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