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Welcome to James Kemp's Wiki
This is a collaborative web platform that allows people to edit1) the web pages to provide additional content for some of the stories I have written and the roleplaying games that I am involved in, whether as a player or GM.
There are several namespaces operating slightly different wiki subjects. These are, in no particular order:
- Skyss - Story Background - a fantasy novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo 2016.
- Perfects - background for the near future story and some police roleplaying that I ran in that universe
- Theocracy of Daprav - A D&D campaign that I ran with Glasgow University Games Society around 2002-3.
- Jim Wallman's Universe - a roleplaying by e-mail campaign that I play in, this is an unofficial wiki and none of it is canon unless Jim says it is.
- Interstellar Freelance Unlimited - subset of the Universe pages covering the activities of a mercenary company that we are currently roleplaying every Full Moon.
- Earth Imperium pages. These cover the activities of the Government of the Solar republic (aka Earth Empire) in Jim's Humanity Will Prevail campaign, including the Earth Imperium News Items.
- Free Worlds Alliance - covering the activities of another emerging polity in the Humanity Will Prevail campaign. Mostly contributed by Eric Moroney.
- Universe Background - page collecting the various bits of background info that have come up in various e-mail discussions for the campaigns set in Jim Wallman's Universe.
- Master map of the Universe (6Mb PDF, as at 3212).
- Delta Green - some roleplaying campaigns about horror and conspiracy. The main one was set in Berlin in 1953.
- Free games rules - a collection of free rules for wargames and other sorts of face to face games that I have designed or run.
- Wargames rules - I'm not just a player of games, I also do rules for them from time to time as well as one-off games. A primary outlet for this is through Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group.
- Other free rules - at the moment just those for the 1689 (Orange or Lemon? and Bonnie Dundee, respectively about the debates in the Scots Parliament and then the military campaign of Viscount Dundee during 1689) and The Other Side of the COIN (about what makes people become insurgents). All games that I have have produced for Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group.
- Background for a near future universe where I have written some fiction and also run some roleplaying games in.
Comments and complaints to me at webmaster@full-moon.info please.
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Odyssey Mission
3201 - ESS Odyssey returned from the centre of the Galaxy. Evidence of another sentient civilisation in the Galaxy was confirmed.
Operation Boldly Go
Operation Boldly Go was a pan-human operation to explore the centre of the universe and in particular to find the source of the transmissions detected on the Odyssey mission.
A multi-polity joint mission to investigate possible alien transmissions originating some 2HY (around 2,500 lightyears) away was despatched on new years day 3203.
As the ships approached the operational area they monitored the transmissions as they dropped out of hyperspace for navigational purposes, and sent back interim reports indicating that all was well with them so far.
The original transmissions clearly were of a broadcast nature and as we know the first transmission recorded in human space were at least 2,500 years old, possibly much older at the time they were positively verified.
As the Boldly Go mission has closed the range the composition of the transmissions gradually changed and their intensity reduced. They became harder to detect and mostly in the microwave frequency range, indicating the use of tight beams for communications. Wide-band broadcast transmissions pretty much died out about 1,500 light years out.
On arrival in the vicinity of their destination, the Boldly Go team identified an alien civilisation. See the Progress Reports for more details.
The team returned intact to Human space and arrived back at SOL on 3208.265.
Operation Second Sight
Operation Second Sight is a follow-up mission to the Boldy Go civilisation, launched by the Republic of New Venus and including some invited MAFC scientists. The MAFC is also supplying SV support to this mission.
The RNV sent two SSXI Interstellar Survey Vessels. The first arrived 3206.201 and exchanged some personnel with the Boldly Go mission. It was due to begin the return journey on 3211.181. By that time the second SSXI should be on station to replace it, this being due to have arrived around 3211.150.
Data from the mission is being passed to the Venerian Institute for Alien Studies (VIAS) in the first instance.
During this time, human visitors (in AMI) have been observed.
Operation Third Kind
Operation Third Kind is a Venerian follow-up mission.
Interstellar Forerunner Foundation
An inter-polity academic group dedicated to sharing research on Forerunners.
Forerunners
One of the long running plot threads in Jim's universe is that there was a mysterious alien forerunner species that inhabited a lot of the systems that humans have spread out to (well all of them as far as we can tell). To investigate this humanity has combined efforts to create the Interstellar Forerunner Foundation.
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Other Games
These are the games that don't seem to belong to another sensible grouping.
Kim's Game
Props: A variety of small items, a tray, a tea towel to cover up the tray, some paper and pencils.
Time: About 5-10 minutes depending on how long you give the Beavers to remember the items.
Instructions: to quote Baden Powell himself “The Scoutmaster should collect on a tray a number of articles - knives, spoons, pencil, pen, stones, book and so on - not more than about fifteen for the first few games, and cover the whole over with a cloth. He then makes the others sit round, where they can see the tray, and uncovers it for one minute. Then each of them must make a list on a piece of paper of all the articles he can remember… The one who remembers most wins the game.”
Comments: This is the famous game from Rudyard Kipling's story '//Kim//'.
A variant is instead of getting the observers to write things down is to remove an item and get the beavers to spot what is missing.
Sweeties
Props: Some small plates (one per group) and some packets of different sweets (dolly mixtures, skittles, jelly beans or similar)
Time: About five minutes.
Instructions: Beavers need to be split into groups of about 4-6. Each group gets a paper plate with about five or six small sweeties on it. They all need to be distinguishable, so things like smarties, skittles, dolly mixtures etc are good. One beaver sits with his back to the group and the others quietly choose a sweetie on the plate. When they've done this the other beaver turns round and eats the sweeties one by one. If they tough the choosen sweetie then the other Beavers yell “STOP!” and that is the last sweetie they get to eat. The plate is then replenished and the next Beaver takes their turn as the 'eater'.
Comments: A perfect game to play just before sending the beavers home…
Fill A Minute
Props: None required, although a kitchen timer could be useful for the more outgoing members…
Time: about a minute per performer (although it can be used as a random filler with volunteers)
Instructions: Everyone has something that they can do to entertain the group, for about a minute. It could be telling jokes, singing a song, performing a magic trick, some acrobatic showing off or even a skit with a friend (if they've been expecting this). It could even be 'tell us about…'
Comments: This can either be an organised session where everyone has to take a turn, starting with volunteers and working on to the shyer members of the colony, or it could be used as a random filler between activities or on a walk. If Beavers don't know what to do you might want to prompt them with something you know they know about, most small boys will talk excitedly about something…
Scouting Games
Since Alexander has started with the local Beaver colony (5th Reigate, based in Merstham) I have been helping as an assistant leader (going under the nom de guerre 'Hawkeye'). These are the write-ups of some of the games that I have either played with the Beavers, or which I remember from my teenage years when I was an adult instructor with the 1st Glen Lusset's cubs and scouts.
Relay Races
One of the primary sorts of games are relay races with the beavers/cubs/scouts split into even sized groups.
Circle Games
As the title suggests, games where the beavers/cubs/scouts sit in a circle.
Other Games
Some other games, not involving racing within teams.
- Kim's Game - an old classic from Kipling, needs about a dozen random objects and a cloth to cover them up
- sweeties - needs dolly mixtures or similar sweets
