When and Where

Ventures will be held over 7 sessions during Michaelmas (2024) and Hilary (2025) terms, taking place on alternate Tuesday evenings from 19:00 to 22:00 (7pm to 10pm), UK time. Additionally, there will be an in-person Character Creation session on Tuesday of week 1, which will be run jointly with the Threshold GMs, and a Debrief session at the end of Hilary term.

It will take place in St John's College. We will meet at the main entrance on St Giles' Street (see the bottom of the page). We will wait for people to gather at the front entrance before moving to the room, but message a GM (via Discord is probably best) if you arrive late and can't get in.

This form must be submitted by 11:59pm on Tuesday of 1st week (15th October). This expresses your interest in playing Ventures, and allows you to choose how you would like to respond in the event of a ballot.

Once you know if you have successfully gotten into Ventures, you will need to create a character. You will then need to submit this Character Creation form (or email us – see how here) by 11:59pm on Friday of 1st week (18th October).

In addition to our in-person meetings¹⁾, some downtime aspects of the game will take place online: here on the wiki (where turnsheets are submitted) and via emails (see Downtime, Turnsheets and Emails for more info). We will also have a Discord server which you can join here. Please do contact the GMs if you have any issues accessing the wiki, emails, or Discord server.

Joining the Discord isn't mandatory, but we do highly recommend it! It can improve the game experience by making announcements faster to access and connecting you with a social space where you can share fan art and get excited about stuff! It can also provide a useful place for you to plan backstory links between characters, or plan downtimes, and is another way to get in contact with the GMs if you have any worries. Debrief channels, which supplement eternities, will also exist exclusively on the Discord.

Time. We never seem to have enough of it. It flies past when we're having fun, and slows to a crawl when mid-physics-lecture.
(A chuckle is heard from the audience)
Rather fickle for a standard unit, isn't it? Yet we have always assigned units to it, whatever species or planet we call home. We can measure it by the rising sun, the seasons of the year, or the temperature of the oceans. But what do we do when among the stars? A cycle around Corico doesn't match a cycle about the Thousand Colour Moons, and a Balra on the Oasis colonies experiences twice the number of seasons as one from my home on Corico. So how do we standardise it between so many different places?
Well, that's why you took this lecture series, isn't it? Bear in mind this course will borrow heavily from the special relativity series last term by Dr. Whispers, so keep those notes on hand.
This course will be split into 3 segments…

– Transcript from the introduction to a lecture series by Dr. V. A. Sartornon, one of the founding members of the Cartographers' Guild.