Chaosium Con Australia Update: Event Registration is now open, and check out our VIP Games!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 18th May 2024
Chaosium Con Australia event registration is open – everyone with a badge has been sent an email with a link to the official program with over 120 events. All paid ticket holders and volunteers can start building their personal timetable for the convention.
Please note that apart from VIP games, all events are included free as part of the convention ticket. But to book your sessions you MUST first of all buy a convention ticket: get your badge here!
There's still time to get a Badge before the VIP Game sessions go live!
VIP Games at Chaosium Con Australia
VIP Games for Chaosium Con Australia will open on Monday May 20th at 8pm (Saturday sessions) and Tuesday May 21st at 8pm (Sunday sessions). These are special gaming sessions run by our International and Local Guests of Honour, and have an additional charge.
Here are the VIP Game Sessions on offer. These games all take place in our dedicated VIP Gaming Room. All games come with pregenerated character provided.
Saturday June 8 VIP Games
VIP GAME: Call of Cthulhu - The Hammersmith Haunting, with Kat Clay VIP Games - Event #98Saturday June 8 2024 4 Tickets - $20 each London 1890: ghost fever grips the suburb of Hammersmith. Locals swear to have seen a ghostly medieval woman stalk the streets. Investigators find themselves trapped in Hammersmith, confronted by ghost hunters and an all-pervading fog. But is the ghost all that she appears? Presented by Guest of Honour Kat Clay |
VIP GAME: Call of Cthulhu -1970s - Innsmouth ‘74, with Mike Mason VIP Games - Event #5 5 Tickets - $50 each It’s 1974 and two FBI undercover agents have gone missing in a small northeastern shoreside town called Innsmouth. Time to send in the cavalry. Investigators provided. Presented by International Guest of Honour Mike Mason |
VIP GAME: Cthulhu Invictus - A Heart Full of Song, with Richard Watts VIP Games - Event #119Saturday June 8 2024 4 Tickets - $20 each Cthulhu Invictus (Call of Cthulhu in Ancient Rome) one-shot. Presented by Guest of Honour Richard Watts |
VIP GAME: Pendragon - The Adventure of the Bone White Raven, with Mark Morrison VIP Games - Event #84 5 Tickets - $20 each A white raven leads the player-knights to a scene of great tragedy. Can they unravel the mystery and right a wrong before it is doomed to repeat? An original Pendragon scenario by veteran gamemaster Mark Morrison. Presented by Guest of Honour Mark Morrison |
VIP GAME: RQG - Six Seasons in Sartar: The Turning, with Andrew Logan Montgomery VIP Games - Event #88 4 Tickets - $50 each Winner of the 2022 Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom. Presented by International Guest of Honour Andrew Logan Montgomery |
VIP GAME: CoC - William Bailey’s Haunted Mansion, with David Waldron VIP Games - Event #96 4 Tickets - $20 each It is 1890 and Ballarat mining magnate William Bailey cannot sleep, cannot eat and spends his restless nights patrolling his opulent Fenshaw mansion with a loaded revolver in search of spectres, or are they agents of his rival, squatter Thomas Learmonth, or is it something even more sinister... Presented by Guest of Honour David Waldron |
VIP GAME: Pendragon - The Adventure of the Bone White Raven, with Mark Morrison VIP Games - Event #85 Saturday June 8 2024 5 Tickets - $20 each A white raven leads the player-knights to a scene of great tragedy. Can they unravel the mystery and right a wrong before it is doomed to repeat? An original Pendragon scenario by veteran gamemaster Mark Morrison. Presented by Guest of Honour Mark Morrison |
VIP GAME: Call of Cthulhu - A Midsummer Night’s Darkness, with Jane Routley VIP Games - Event #124Saturday June 8 2024 6 Tickets - $20 each Take a doughty group of suffragettes travelling through rural Shropshire in a caravan. Add two beginner sorcerers in search of arcane power. Stir in a vengeful poacher. Bake it all together on a warm midsummer evening for a night of terror. Presented by Guest of Honour Jane Routley |
VIP GAME: Call of Cthulhu - Bits & Pieces, with James Coquillat VIP Games - Event #117 4 Tickets - $20 each Something sinister's going down in Miskatonic University's hospital morgue. Investigators needed for an action packed adventure that gets scarier (and sillier) by the moment. Presented by Stream of Chaos cast member, Chaosium’s James Coquillat |
VIP GAME: Call of Cthulhu -1920s - Aurora Blue, with Mike Mason VIP Games - Event #4 Saturday June 8 2024 4 Tickets - $50 each A band of US Treasury agents raid an illegal whiskey distillery hidden in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains. The sun is setting... and that’s when the really “bad things” come out to play. Investigators provided. Presented by International Guest of Honour Mike Mason |
VIP GAME: Pulp Cthulhu - Wolf Among the Pack, with David Naylor VIP Games - Event #118 4 Tickets - $20 each You're invited to a funeral at the glorious Durney estate and gardens. Enjoy the view, meet the exotic beasts, uncover the eldritch truth behind a series of violent accidents. Just remember, don't feed the animals. Presented by Stream of Chaos cast member, Chaosium’s David Naylor |
Sunday June 9 VIP Games
VIP GAME: Call of Cthulhu - The Hammersmith Haunting, with Kat Clay VIP Games - Event #99 4 Tickets - $20 each London 1890: ghost fever grips the suburb of Hammersmith. Locals swear to have seen a ghostly medieval woman stalk the streets. Investigators find themselves trapped in Hammersmith, confronted by ghost hunters and an all-pervading fog. But is the ghost all that she appears? Presented by Guest of Honour Kat Clay |
VIP GAME: Debutantes & Dagon - Regency Cthulhu, with Bridgett Jeffries VIP Games - Event #9 4 Tickets - $50 each The badass ladies in Debutantes and Dagon defy the stereotype of Regency-era women. These ladies are aware of the mythos horrors that constantly threaten the genteel estates of Regency England, and they have both the desire and the skill to do something about it. Presented by International Guest of Honour Bridgett Jeffries |
VIP GAME: Elric! - The Curse of Chardos, with Richard Watts VIP Games - Event #120 Sunday June 9 2024 4 Tickets - $20 each Originally published with the Elric! gamemaster's screen in 1994, this is a rare opportunity to explore Michael Moorcock's vividly imagined Young Kingdoms with one of the key contributors to Chaosium's former Elric! and Stormbringer game lines. Prepare for derring-do, and an ancient curse... Presented by Guest of Honour Richard Watts |
VIP GAME: Call of Cthulhu (Modern) - Prowler at the Threshold, with Jane Routley VIP Games - Event #125 Saturday June 8 2024 5 Tickets - $20 each Your first share house! Its gonna be one long party. But who or what keeps tapping on the windows at night? Presented by Guest of Honour Jane Routley |
VIP GAME: Call of Cthulhu - Dream House, with Bridgett Jeffries VIP Games - Event #116 4 Tickets - $50 each On a snowy winter's evening, an elderly friend needs help finding something he's lost. He’s preparing a cozy dinner as a way of saying thanks. Isn't it nice to see familiar faces again? Can you help him find what he’s lost? Are you sure that you want to? This is not your classic Haunted House tale… Presented by International Guest of Honour Bridgett Jeffries |
VIP GAME: CoC - The Last Dance of Lola Montez, with David Waldron VIP Games - Event #97 6 Tickets - $20 each Hidden since the goldrush of the 1850s, a dark figure lies in wait, quietly feeding on the artistic beauty created anguish and despair. Five souls, united by grief, must face both their own inner demons and a formidable foe, hungry for human blood. Presented by Guest of Honour David Waldron |
VIP GAME: RQG - Six Seasons in Sartar: The Turning, with Andrew Logan Montgomery VIP Games - Event #89 4 Tickets - $50 each A sneak preview of an upcoming Chaosium publication. On a perilous journey across the Wastes, in the Krjalki Bog the player characters encounter a twisted Chaos horror. Presented by International Guest of Honour Andrew Logan Montgomery |
Please note that apart from VIP games, all events are included free as part of the convention ticket.
But to book your sessions you MUST first of all buy a convention ticket: get your badge here!
- Dates: June 8th-9th 2024 (King's Birthday Weekend)
- Location: Moonee Valley Racing Club, Melbourne VIC Australia.
- Convention Hotel:The Sebel Moonee Ponds (a short walk from the venue)
-- all prices in Australian Dollars and include GST --