Category: Program

• Games Master: Captain Grey Wulfe
• Gaming System: Cthulhu by Gaslight
• Players: 2-6 
• Duration: 3 hours
• Sign Up at the main Registration Desk in the Atrium Lobby

A summon from the Voodoo Queen brings the greatest Steampunk heroes into a deadly conflict with a powerful Chthonic entity!
Heroes of a Victorian Steampunk world are called to New Orleans to confront a dark evil who created a bloody and brutal massacre. They will need all their power and strength to vanquish this dread otherworld entity.

Characters provided, rules taught, roleplaying emphasized.

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Captain Grey Wulfe (AKA Gary Lange) is a game and scenario designer who has been running events for over 20 years. Gary has run events at GenCon, Gamicon, GameHole Con, Chicago Steampunk Exposition and other cons in person and online. He is the founder of Iowa Steampunk and has led many events and extolled the virtues of Steampunk at many cons around the Midwest. With Call of Cthulhu adding both the new Gaslight and Pulp rules, it is now possible to have steampunk adventures with their award-winning rules. Gary encourages roleplaying and keeping the rules to a minimum interference. So, join him in telling a grand story of Steampunk Adventure!

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Cthulhu by Gaslight is the Victorian incarnation of the classic Call of Cthulhu RPG. Gaslight provides variations to capture Victorian history and societal norms, but is essentially the same rule system as the original 1920’s Cthulhu RPG. If you are not already familiar with these rules but would like to get better acquainted, click on the cover below to access the free starter kit for the latest edition of Call of Cthulhu.

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Presented by Kat Pleviak, Erin Krause, & Maggie Krause

• Workshop Fee: $15 for materials
• Workshop Length: 90 minutes

Can’t find the words to describe the true terror of Cthulhu? Make him a shadow puppet & then you won’t have to. Learn all the professional tricks of the trade for shadow puppet construction focusing specifically on cutting skills from the talented staff of Sea Beast Puppet Company.. Students will be provided all the materials necessary to complete the project and get to leave with their puppet.

In this class students will learn how to make a professional quality shadow puppet with an emphasis on techniques in precision hand cutting. Using the art of Cthulhu to learn advanced hand cutting will be so fun you won’t even notice you’re going mad.

Materials- covered by $15 fee: Black Rail board, 2 bamboo skewers, brads (paper fasteners), glue stick or spray glue or stapler, xacto knife/blades, cutting mat, masking tape or scotch tape or clear packing tape, transparency sheets, red sharpie, hole puncher, scissors.

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Kat Pleviak is the Artistic Director and founder of Sea Beast Puppet Company in Glen Ellyn, IL. She has an BFA in Directing from the University of Illinois (2002) and an MFA in Youth Theatre and Puppetry from the University of Hawaii Manoa (2009).
Under Kat’s direction Sea Beast has initiated a number of exciting puppetry projects including a series of original projects and productions including the Puppet Meltdown Puppet Slam, “The Shadow Puppet Conspiracy”, “The History of Light” and “Méfiez-Vous de la Vache-Garou”, which won best in show at the Chicago Fringe 2013. She has taught countless workshops all over the country and currently serves the Membership Officer for the Puppeteers of America. Kat was a featured artist in Puppetry International’s issue of “40 under 40.

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Erin Krause is the best Box Office Manager a group could want and is also a committed puppet enthusiast. She also worked for years as a High School teacher and is one Sea Beast’s go to and favorite workshop presenters. When not at Sea Beast she works as a legal secretary and rocks some of the best original cosplay around.

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Maggie Krause may be young but is a long time Sea Beast alumni. She has been helping Sea Beast present at conferences for years and when they are not teaching puppetry on land, they teach swim lessons in the water. They are also enjoy creative writing and is absolutely crushing driving!

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Presented by Lord Bobbins (AKA  Eric Larson)

For 14 years we have traveled the globe for adventure. This coming year we travel into myth and legend as TeslaCon brings you “The Tear of Odin,” a paranormal archeological adventure set in Oslo Norway of 1895.

Come find out more about what will happen, our guests and what will be in this years immersion story.

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Eric Jon Larson (aka Lord Bobbins) has the longest running convention in North America, and has created the immersive experience for many Steampunk fans from around the world. He has worked for Disney, Lucasfilm and Warner Bros. and continues to use his skills to create immersive experiences for the Steampunk World.

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Presented by Lady Fontayne Pen-ship – $5 Session Materials Fee 

This is a fun project using circle-punches to spell a word (to be revealed at the start of class) You will make a beautiful card. No prior knowledge of C.G. is required or desired. This class is rated: LP (Low Pressure).

Maximum students: 10

$5 material fee will be collected at the session by the presenters.

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Lady Fontayne Pen-ship, Steamstress, has attended Steampunk events in Argentina, Canada, England, Italy, Arizona, Hawaii, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin and has conducted workshops at Teslacon for several years and Chicago Steampunk Expo in 2019. When she’s not steampunking, you may find her running 5 k races on airport runways or skywalking (vertical world circuit climbing tall buildings) around the world.

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Presented by Kay Gray & Crysta K Coburn 

Have you ever wanted to start a podcast? Think it’s too hard? Too expensive? Think again! You, too, and get out there and get your voice heard! Join podcasters and authors Crysta K Coburn and Kay Gray as they give their tips and tricks to having a successful podcast!

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Kay Gray has been podcasting for five years, and is a short story pro. A So Cal ex-pat who calls the snowy depths of Michigan home, when she’s not writing fantastical stories, one can find her neck deep in research for her podcast, Haunted Mitten, which she co-hosts with her partner in paranormal, Crysta K Coburn. Otherwise, you can be sure that she is surrounded by needy pets while she reads yet another fantasy book.

To get the latest podcasts, head to hauntedmitten.com. To delve into the mind of Kay herself (reader beware), check out her social media @KGrayWrites. And find her last story, The Sharp Mechanical Sheep, in Fairy Tales Punk’d, at a local bookstore near you.

 

Crysta K. Coburn has been writing award-winning stories for most of her life. Her first short story was published at the age of sixteen after winning runner-up in a local writing contest. She earned her bachelor’s degree in creative writing from Western Michigan University in 2005. She is a journalist, fiction writer, poet, playwright, editor, podcast co-host, and occasional lyricist. She served as editor for “The Queen of Clocks and Other Steampunk Tales,” “Cogs, Crowns, and Carriages,” and “Gears, Ghouls, and Gauges” (the latter two with Phoebe Darqueling). She co-hosts the popular podcast Haunted Mitten as well as Cinema Guano. Find her online at crystakcoburn.com as well as Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @CrystaKCoburn.

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• Games Master: Rhonda Rehmke
• Gaming System: Dungeons & Dragons 5e
• Players: 3 – 7 
• Gaming Time: 3 hours
• Sign Up at the main Registration Desk in the Atrium Lobby

Strange things are happening in the forest where the swamp begins and the rumor filled village is getting anxious for heroes to find the cause. When your adventuring party enters town, you begin seeing the villagers reacting strangely it putting you on edge and peaking your curiosity.

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Rhonda Rehmke has been playing roleplaying games for more years than she is willing to admit. It began with a group of friends inviting her to play D&D like so many others. Her enjoyment of the game that allowed her to freely express her imagination grew as she began to pass it along to others in her family. Family gaming night became a love of hers and when life got in the way she was sad to see it take a back burner. One day while talking with her sister they decided they would start a campaign with just three other family members and that campaign lasted over two years. Gaming was in her blood again and she’s been playing weekly ever since.

Along with playing she also GM’s from time to time and loves to create her own worlds and stories. She enjoys playing rogues and druids in a fantasy setting but she has played in other settings as well (steampunk, post apocalyptic, and modern world). She currently is teaching her grandkids D&D5e and would love to share with you.

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Presented by the Steampunk Lady Scientists (Danaus & Sidonne) & Bobbin Beth – $10 Session Materials Fee 

Would you like a stylish way to commemorate your heroic acts in fighting the Curse of Cthulhu? You can create a fancy cockade to do just that. You’ll be provided with your choice of ribbon and materials to proudly display evidence of your cephalopodic adventure!

$10 material fee will be collected at the session by the presenters.

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Danaus and Sidonne delight in the advancement of knowledge as steampunk lady scientists. When they’re not busy adventuring in pursuit of scientific inquiry, they enjoy sharing their love of making with others in workshops and panels. They are also the creators of the Western Territorial Variant of Parasol Dueling. While they may get a little Rowdy and Howdy at times, they are always ready to act as Deputies to assist in settling matters of honor with their message of dueling for all.

Bobbin Beth is the support behind the scenes when it comes to the Rowdy and Howdy adventures of Danaus & Sidonne. While they’re running about entertaining the crowd she keeps the airship on course and floating true.

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Presented by Dash Qualls-Gibeau

Come discover the concrete examples of Lovecraft’s works as a legitimate basis for a modern working magickal system.

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Part automaton, all intellectual dilettante, Dash Qualls-Gibeau spends inordinate amounts of time venturing to the past to get answers for questions as old as time . . . a bit of a polymath regarding the darker side of life . . . or death. 

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Presented by M. Leigh Hood

They’re really real and really lost. You won’t find any shoggoths lurking in these buried ruins, subterranean cities, and sunken kingdoms, but that doesn’t make them any less worth exploring. Go globe-trotting through some of the latest and greatest archeological discoveries and hear tales of serendipitous accidents as we dig into history-once-forgotten.

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M. Leigh Hood is a rare beast of the Cincinnati wilds, most often found walking her monstrous hound, Shuck, or working hard to exacerbate her carpal tunnel syndrome at the computer. Her work appears in Fairy Tales Punk’d Volume II, Cincinnati Magazine, and the in-development MonThology project.

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