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Hello All!
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Program Announcements
Wow! The School year is almost over. We’re gearing up for the Summer
Programs now. If you are interested in the Summer Program, be sure to
sign up early - the spaces go very quickly!
Players needed for GM Test!
Dominic DiGiovanni (one of our Game Masters in Training) is running a
test game and we need a few more players.
Date: Saturday, June 12
Time: Noon - 5 pm
Location: Dr Comics
Cost: Free
Please email Becky ASAP if you are interested in one of the 2 remaining
spaces.
Last Days of School Year Programs
The last days of school year programs are fast approaching.
CHECK YOUR DATE BELOW!
Saturday 2 ends May 22
Mondays end May 24
Tuesdays end June 1
Wednesdays end June 2
Thursdays end June 3
Fridays end June 4
Saturday 1 ends June 5
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Liberty’s Column
Dear Parents,
Have you already signed on for summer at Abantey? If so, I am sure your
family will not be disappointed with the quality of programming that Becky
consistently provides. As the school year closes, please note above the
dates for the last days of the after school program that are rapidly approaching.
If you get a chance, let the teens who work with your children know how
much you appreciate them. I am delighted that my daughter has the opportunity
to have such good role models. It is a pleasure to find dedicated teens
who want to be involved with children younger than they are, and these
young people do it on an ongoing basis throughout the school year and
summer. Becky has initiated a valuable system of coaching and training
that serves children and families on many levels.
Cheers!
Liberty
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Summer Program Schedule
http://www.roleplay-workshop.com/schedule.html
Printable Registration Form (on the web)
http://www.roleplay-workshop.com/graphics/webform2004SRPW.pdf
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Please be sure to call me to make sure space is available
BEFORE sending in your form and deposit check. Your space is guaranteed
for a summer week ONLY after I have received your form and deposit.
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Week Long Day Camps
9 am - 5 pm
Extended care available 8 am to 6 pm, @ $10 per hour
Cost: $225 per week, $25 nonrefundable deposit
We anticipate having 3 tables per week (18 students). However, we have
not finalized our staffing yet, and as a result we are ‘wait listing’
after 12 students. The staffing issues will be resolved within the next
week or two.
Week: Spaces Available (more spaces available soon!)
June 21: is full
June 28: has 5 spaces
July 5: has 8 spaces
July 12: has 14 spaces
July 19: has 11 spaces
July 26: has 8 spaces
August 2: is full
August 9: has 3 space
August 16: has 5 spaces
August 23: has 5 spaces
August 30: has 5 spaces
Week Long Camping Trips
Students must be at least 13 years of age and have 2 or more years of
experience with the program.
Cost: $350 per week, $50 nonrefundable deposit
July 12: has 1 space
August 2: is full
August 23: is full
Online Calendars
You can now access our scheduling calendars directly on the web. If you
use iCal, you can subscribe to our calendars! To learn more about iCal
or to download a copy, go to http://www.apple.com/ical
Roleplay Workshop Calendar (RPWS)
This calendar is a real-time calendar of the scheduled sessions of Abantey
- after school, school holiday and summer programs. As we update our calendar,
the changes appear automatically on this web site! Check this regularly
for updates to the schedule and to confirm when school holiday sessions
have been scheduled.
You can view the after school and summer calendar at:
http://ical.mac.com/rebeccathomas/RPWS
You can subscribe to the after school and summer calendar at:
webcal://ical.mac.com/rebeccathomas/RPWS.ics
School Holiday Calendar
This calendar is a real-time calendar of the school holidays of several
schools and school districts. As we update our calendar, the changes appear
automatically on this web site! If your school has holidays that are not
listed on this calendar, you can email me with the dates to add to our
calendar.
Once a school holiday has a confirmed enrollment, it will appear on the
RPWS calendar. Until then, the holidays listed are only potential sessions.
A session is confirmed when we have an enrollment of 4 or more and have
adequate staff.
You can view the school holiday calendar at:
http://ical.mac.com/rebeccathomas/School32Holiday
You can subscribe to the after school and summer calendar at:
webcal://ical.mac.com/rebeccathomas/School32Holiday.ics
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Session Summaries
Mondays
We have space to enroll up to 8 students on Mondays.
Greg
All of the clues have been solved on Greg’s Monday group! After
saving Plaj-E-Tech Industries, it became clear that the reason they were
were working for the nefarious goals of their employer. The party of adventurers
were entangled in a plot to rob all of the candy from Fort Candybrain.
Realizing this, and not wishing to be pawns in an evil plot, they turned
in their employer to the Marked Plajet authorities, and are congratulated
as heroes!
Tuesdays
Greg
Home School Group
Deep in the desert, Greg’s Tuesday group is trying to save their
friend Chichi. With barely enough water to survive, they make through
the trials in the desert, finding the correct ingredient. All that’s
left is the ingredient hidden in the land of Plajet. Sounds easy, right?
But in a land filled with jokes and tricks, it may take more effort than
they think!
Becky
Home School Group
Our new characters are finished and we’ve begun a great new adventure!
Our group are members of small family, trained by their parents. One day,
while eating at a nice restaurant in town, they were accosted by 2 people,
looking for the character’s parents. They were forced to take the
2 ruffians back to their home and let them in. Their parents were not
home, in fact, it appeared that they had fled, taking some personal items
and leaving a note. The party managed to overpower the ruffians, killing
one outright and severely wounding the other, who later died. With two
dead people in their home and no idea about what was going on, the party
quickly packed some essential things and fled, heading toward their aunt’s
house and older sister as directed by the note from their parents. When
they arrived, however, their aunt’s home was burned to the ground!
What is going on here!
Becky
After School Group
We have space for 7 more players.
Greg subbed for my table for most of the month. However, we did get in
one good day on our mission. When we left our intrepid adventures they
were in a sad state - one member of our party with a cracked open head
(attempting to swing down 100 feet on a rope without knowing how is not
very safe. . . ), one poisoned nearly to death and one with both arms
ripped off after the battle with the manticore - and 2 weeks travel from
the nearest help! With this grim situation, the remaining party members
worked to save their friends. They discovered a cache of magic items and
potions that might be promising, but they don’t know what most of
the things do! What will they try?
Greg subbed for Becky’s Tuesday Afternoon group
a couple of days, and ran a mini-adventure lasting those days.
The circus twins, George and Renault, hired the adventurers to protect
their circus until opening day. While protecting it, they discovered that
George and Renault’s main-attraction was a baby Draajen! Draajen
are dragon-creatures like, however, they are designed to be able to glide
by the laws of physics. They are also highly intelligent creatures when
full grown. This is not right, holding a majestic creature like this!
The party decided to free the baby Draajen, as well as all the other animals.
They had to be careful though, for if they were careless the Draajen might
misunderstand their goals and eat them! They were careful enough, and
managed to free the young Draajen before anyone was hurt.
Wednesdays
We have no current enrollment for Wednesday. If you would like to start
a Wednesday group (4 students minimum), please let me know. We can enroll
up to 12 students on Wednesdays.
Thursdays
Our Thursday group is mostly girls (7 out of 9), ages 10 to 12. We can
enroll up to 3 more students.
Alicia
A few weeks ago the Thursday group decided to split into two tables because
we had so many great players! Half of the group is now at a table run
by Becky and the other half is with Hudson and I. The group at my table
made the decision to take on a mission of traveling into the land of Baluud
and contacting a young woman (Govi Thorn) so that she can find her father
after years of separation. After weathering a storm the party made it
to the land of Baluud where they were confronted by a hunter who told
them that in order to go any further into Baluud they would have to help
solve a mystery. Someone has been burning areas of Baluud forest (a very
serious crime). Now the party is hot on the arsonists' trail and using
all their skill, power and intelligence to solve this mystery so that
they can continue on their journey.
Becky
Greg subbed for my table for most of the month. A few weeks ago the Thursday
group decided to split into two tables because we had so many great players!
Half of the group is now at a table run by me and the other half is with
Hudson and Alicia. My group was given the task of searching for their
missing parent. They have information that she was taken onto a ship heading
to the pirate town to the south. The ship is known to make stops at several
of the small towns along the way, so the party has prepared for a long
journey down the road in hopes of discovering their mom.
Greg subbed for Becky’s Thursday Afternoon group
a couple of days, and ran a mini-adventure lasting those days.
A strange marked Plajet confronted the party of adventurers, desperately
in need of their help saving The Plajet Fun Train! It’s a train
where all the cars are filled with strange traps, puzzles and creatures.
However, enemies had hijacked the train. The party was brought aboard
at the back of the train, and had to find their way to the engine car.
It was difficult on many occasions, but using their logic skills, they
made it to the front and saved the day!
Fridays
We have three more spaces available.
At the end of February, we switched the groups around to offer the Friday
players opportunities to play with different GMs and different players.
Becky
(ahh -- what a tangled web I weave for this group of teens!)
After receiving help from Tsel’s underground contacts, the party
was able to question 2 of the surviving attackers. The information they
gathered was not encouraging. All of them are wanted for heinous acts
of violence against the homeless children of the city, with a shoot on
sight warning! This is a complete set up - none of them has ever done
anything like that! Additionally, they discover that Tsel had inadvertently
witnessed the testing of a horrible new weapon (her hallucinations were
indeed memories!). Worse yet, that weapon is on its way to be released
onto the unsuspecting town of Ma’ayo and the Marked Baluud living
there; by the Green Cabal, a group of Rogue people who hate Marked People.
The most horrible twist here is that the Green Cabal is secretly backed
by Os’Sakeet in an attempt to sway the other Creators to his side
in his war against the Rogue People. This whole thing is a plot by a covert
group of Rogues to get Os’Baluud and Os’Sakeet mad at each
other! To make matters worse, the party can’t go to anyone for help
because of the setup!
Greg
The jungles of Os’Feesha hide many secrets. The trail of the lost
Feeshan artifact has taken the adventure party to a hidden pirate island.
Are these pirates the thieves whole stole it? If not, how are they connected
with this?
Marcus and Scott
After a turbulent few weeks with many absences, our group decided to let
another party find the athlete's family, while they started an adventure
with new characters who are all siblings. During their first week away
from their parents, they were approached by a street punk, a shady woman
named Rahab, who asked them to exact revenge on a man for an illicit deal
gone awry. Without much trouble the group found the man was going away
from the city and they are currently catching up to him as fast as possible.
Saturday (1st & 3rd)
We currently have two tables. Becky has one space at her table, and Greg
has 2 spaces available at his table.
Becky
We began our new mission in April. Our party has been employed by the
Pasha Jurat, an organization dedicated to the protection of the innocent
and bringing the guilty to justice. The Pasha Jurat has been investigating
reports of a secret mining operation on the island of Katman set up 15
years ago. The backers of this operation are unknown. What they are mining
for is unknown. The families of the people who have gone there to work
the mine have received regular letters with money, but no information
about the activities. Additionally, the miners and their children have
had increasing levels of unexplained mortality. And as a final piece of
information, the supply ship to the town failed to return from its last
trip! The party set out, secretly, on a private ship to the island. They
snuck up to a good vantage point for the port town and settled in to observe.
Almost immediately they discovered that something horrible was going on.
More than 1/2 of the towns people were missing. The remainder were barricaded
into a few buildings and harvesting their fields all with many posted
guards. Of the mining town itself, there appeared to be no survivors.
Suddenly, the town guards were alerted to something coming down from the
mountains at a rapid pace. As the towns people raced to cover, the adventurers
struggled to decide what to do.
Greg
The Saturday group has freed themselves from the grasp of Bily Bonqa yet
again! Sneaking off his Zeppelin, they managed to sabotage it before escaping.
As they make their final push to capture Bily Bonqa, one major obstacle
remains in their way: his private guard force. Brute force won’t
succeed here; they will have to be subtler!
Saturday (2nd & 4th)
The 2nd & 4th Saturday of each month has one regular group (full)
and 1 to 2 tables of training for our assistant program. Assistants (ages
13 and up) play in advanced games that stress the more difficult aspects
of the Abantey game. They are polishing their skills in preparation for
assisting with the summer program.
Dominic & Michael (regular group)
The party looked all over for John St. John, but found no trace of him.
They headed to the secret basement of the mansion to join and protect
the mass rogue-ing. After the first Plajet was de-marked, John St. John
revealed himself to the crowd. He informed them that a Marked Plajet strike
team was on its way to the mansion, and that everyone would have one hour
to prepare. The 3 hosts, the guards of the house, and the party helped
the formerly Marked Plajets escape through several tunnels that led into
a nearby forest. There they traveled for several days till they reached
an abandoned Marked Plajet fun place palace in the mountains. They discovered
many strange rooms, such as a room full of mirrors, and a giant slide
that led further into the compound. After searching the first area extensively,
the party found a strange steam contraption, and with the flip of the
switch, the whole building activated. The area was filled with circus
music and there were bright lights everywhere! Unfortunately, a scout
spotted the Marked Plajet strike team close on their heels, and only a
days walk away from them. Hopefully they can find something that may save
them deeper in the compound.
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Rebecca L. Thomas
Director
(510) 654-3582
The Roleplay Workshop
http://www.roleplay-workshop.com
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