I’m often, and by that I mean rarely but a man can dream, asked what takes place at Ferret Cons. “What does playing silly games with silly people” mean? Will it be expensive? Will I be surrounded by weird people who may look orange and have a thing for golf?"
Well, to allay any fears, or perhaps reinforce them, I present to you a selection of fabulous acounts of brave/foolish souls to attended July 2024 Ferret Con by Mr Kev, Dex McHenry and myself.
14:31
“Chaps, we’ve been told there’s knowledge of new Nordic Weasel rules left here by ancient Ivan, The Wise Author. We need to find them and get them before the scallywag robots under Welsh Tom and Mark’s ragtag group of misfits!”
14:34
“Right Boris (The techie space elf), get your wallet up to the data point and put your card details in!” yelled Chris (Space elf leader)
14:45
“Ha ha” grinned Chris, “I shall kill their techie!
Fires shots – does badly, 1 hit.
Techie fires back – does very well, 6 hits.
“Aw Futher Mucker! I need to get the new rules so I can pick them apart for professional curiosity.”
AN INTERJECTION FROM WELSH TOM!
“Data captured! Next Nordic Weasel game is based on Hippos and Filing systems.”
14:57
“Yaaaaar stabby stabby stabby” cried Hambut West -Joke Reanimator (and lead stabby stabby elf) charging into melee for violence and causing Mark’s unit to take kills and run away.
15:01
pew pew pew gun fire is exchanged between Twisted Moon (Shooty space elf) and his band of boom boomers verse Welsh Tom’s mechanical monsters!
15:05
“Chase them and stabby stabby kill kill!” yells Cid the Slayer (fellow stabby space elf) leading his spear elves into violence! A whole unit of Mark’s Misfits were here tee hee.
15:10
“VIOLENCE!!!!” yells Chris as he realises he’s been doing this wrong and changes into mediocre melee with the Mark’s techie as he takes his and the techie flees.
He is later killed by said techie, it’s rather embarrassing.
15:14 Boris ignores the cunning plan of the rest of his force and tries to log into https://www.wargamevault.com/browse/pub/5701/Nordic-Weasel-Games
… but fails, repeatedly.
15:15 Meanwhile Hambut West -Joke Reanimator and his spear elves… get absolutely slaughtered by Aslan the Space Lion aka Mark in Fancy Furry Costume.
15:23
Pew pew pew “Die Futhermuckers die!” is almost drowned out as Cid the Slayer and Twisted Moon blow chunks out of Welsh Tom and his robots.
15:26
Boris accepts that he’s rubbish at trying to buy things from Wargamevault.com and is instead really good at finishing off mobs of metal skeletons.
15:28
But not all the times it seems as he gets snake eyes trying to shoot at Welsh Tom the robot leader… in plain sight at shortish range… before it got stood on by a giant garden ornament.
15:34
Boris though, you’re still rubbish as you fail to shoot Mecha Tom’s last figure through the giant garden ornament’s legs.
Tom as you can see, can not comprehend it!
15:35
Cid the Slayer and Twisted Moon then get killed to a space elf to enemy gun fire by Misfit Mark.
15:37
The only survivor is Boris, yet what sort of winner is he?
In the background you see fuzzy Misfit Mark, smug at his Space Elf murdering.