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DEAD AIR: August Update

The Dead Air Is So Close You Can Smell It A quick update for our patient players awaiting their chance to see what we’ve done, who to, and with how much malice aforethought… 23rd September: this is our deadline for…

Casting (spells) (webs) (our net) our Players

This weekend has been the Great Casting as we try to match your questionnaire submissions to our character matrix. After a mammoth session today we are 95% there, and just have a little bit of tetris to do for the…

All is Still in the Dead Air

We are approaching a landmark point in the process of building our November Dead Air event – casting. This is the intricate process of mapping the characters we are writing to the expressed preferences and requirements that players submitted on…

Dead Air

Carcosa Dreams, in association with the Greater Alps Knitting Circle, presents DEAD AIR a freeform live-action game set in the world of Ars Magica, for 65 players. The Alps. There’s a reason they divide us all. The higher you go,…

Dead Air – Dreaming of the duopoly of camel

Dead Air, our return to the world of Ars Magica, has indeed lived up to its name as we have remained radio silent over the past months as the pandemic has stretched on, and on, and on… Progress on Dead…

Dead Air…

Dead Air was the title we chose for the forthcoming Ars Magica game for a variety of reasons, but it also has a second meaning; the uncomfortable crackly silence between the end of a record and the realisation by the…

A Minor Hiccup

Evening all. We have this evening discovered that a critical link in our communications chain has been AWOL for some time, leading to our contact@ address misbehaving most cruelly. The e-goblins have been subjected to a thorough re-education session behind…

Reasons To Be Cheerful – 1-2-3

Hi all! I’m sitting here looking out of the study window at a grey, dark day with endless rain falling out of a sky made of lead, and it doesn’t feel like there’s much to be cheerful about. Like many,…

Keeping Busy in Lockdown

We are 100 days into lockdown now, and it’s increasingly looking like the 2020 event season will be a complete wipeout. We still have some hopes that the planned October Forsaken and November T67 events will run on schedule, and…

Looks Like We’re All Going On An Alpine Holiday

Thanks to everyone who expressed an interest in (re)visiting the world of Ars Magica – based on the submissions, we have more than enough interest to proceed, so we are moving ahead with the project. With the rules around lockdown…