My Fria Ligan Games for AireCon 2026
AireCon ELEVEN, Harrogate International Centre, King's Rd, Harrogate HG1 5LA
Thursday 12th - Sunday 15th March 2026.
I have submitted the following games for AireCon 2026 in March next year. I’ll be there for the three days but I’ll running games all day Friday and Saturday. In fact each day will be themed; Friday will be a 19th Century day with games set in that century such as Vaesen RPG and the new Huckleberry RPG, Saturday will be Alien RPG horror in the future of the 22nd Century with Spaceships with Ashtrays, though we will delve towards the 25th Century for Star Trek Legacy.
I am really excited about running the new Huckleberry RPG Friday morning “Fools Silver”, a Wyrd West game of Cowboys and bounty hunters dealing with weird cosmic forces that warp and corrupt nature and reality. The PCs are called Mavericks, and they carry these weird Wyrd traits and abilities as they get the job, work the job, and then get paid.
The Huckleberry system uses a card drawing method of determining actions and outcomes for the enemy NPCs during conflicts, whilst the Mavericks have stepped dice for their different Attributes and Skills.
So we’ll Raise the Ante, take a chance, play a few Aces from our hand, Sweeten the Pot, and hope we don’t bust!
For the rest of Friday I am running two Vampire themed Vaesen RPG mysteries, the first “Bereft in Deadly Bloom”, is a hunt for a Vampire in the Artic Circle, right on the Swedish-Finnish border in a frozen winter landscape with Imperial Russian soldiers thrown into the mix for good measure. I have previously ran this mystery at Derby’s Vampire Games Day earlier this year as part of the celebration of Derby’s connection with the Dracula story.
The second Vaesen RPG mystery I am running Friday evening is ”Alone in a Darkened Room”, a real locked room mystery in of itself. Brute force with holy water, stakes, and crosses will not solve this mystery, this diabolical puzzle, as subtle means and shear cunning will be required instead.
Saturday takes a different tack with three Alien RPG scenarios in a row.
The first is “Empty Vessels Make No Noise”, a scenario using the crew of the Lewis & Clark from the film Event Horizon (1997) as player characters in a rescue mission in a different sector of space with a beacon that is a hazard to navigation. Of course they discover the titular Empty Vessel that might not be so empty. I’ve ran this scenario many times online and at different UK conventions over the last five years.
The second scenario “Star Trek Legacy: Conspiracy”, transports to the Starfleet of the 25th Century aboard the Starship USS Enterprise-G as we go on a galaxy hopping journey to the far reaches of space. Of course we have to return of one of the most underused aliens from TNG season 1. It brings on the paranoia and makes the mystery more tense. Of course there’s a big dilemma to solve, if the ship and crew survive!
The final scenario is my game sequel to the film Alien Romulus, called Alien Remus. It follows straight on after the events of that film with a new crew accompanied by passengers (and an item of cargo, an android) that they were transporting to Jackson Star Colony. Now they have to go on a rescue mission to the Remus Module as it evacuates from the wreckage of the space station getting smashed up in the ice rings of the planet.
Friday
Slot 1: Huckleberry RPG - “Fools Silver”
Slot 2: Vaesen RPG - “Bereft in Deadly Bloom”
Slot 3: Vaesen RPG - “Alone in a Darkened Room”
Saturday
Slot 1: Alien RPG - “Empty Vessels Make No Noise”
Slot 2: Alien RPG - “Star Trek Legacy: Conspiracy”
Slot 3: Alien RPG - “Alien Remus”
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Huckleberry RPG - "Fools Silver”
“Huckleberry - Fools Silver”
Huckleberry RPG
Friday Morning Slot
For up to six players. New players welcome!
Silver is the lifeblood of the Wild Wyrd West and silver is what was stolen at the train robbery by the Gruff Brothers Gang, silver destined to pay the cavalry at Fort Jefferson. Captain Patterson is threatening to chase the bandits down with his whole platoon but it’s a big bounty for the Mavericks.
The bandits’ trail leads deep into the Wild Wyrd, so deep that even fools fear to tread.
Will the Mavericks recover the silver and succeed in bringing justice to the bandits, dead or alive?
Tags: Player-led, Investigation Horror (Alt-History), Horror, Supernatural, Magic, Dead, Wild Wyrd West, Cowboys, No Pre-gens, Rules-lite, #NotDnD, Newbie Friendly, Flashing Lights.
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Vaesen RPG - "Bereft in Deadly Bloom”
“Vaesen - Bereft in Deadly Bloom”
Vaesen RPG
Friday Afternoon Slot
For up to seven players. New players welcome!
As members of a secret society you have been tasked to investigate the current lack of communication with the astronomer Hugo Gyldén who is at his celestial observatory deep in the arctic circle.
Time is of the essence as the last communication from Gyldén, accompanied by Purple Saxifrage flowers, mentioned a Lord Ruthven. Information in the files deep in your occult library speculates Ruthven is a 100 year old vampyre!
Tags: Player-led, Investigation Horror (Alt-History), Horror, Supernatural, Magic, Dead, No Pre-gens, Rules-lite, NotDnD, Newbie Friendly, #NotDnD, Fria Ligan, Flashing Lights.
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Vaesen RPG - "Alone in a Darkened Room”
“Vaesen - Alone in a Darkened Room”
Vaesen RPG
Friday Evening Slot
For up to seven players. New players welcome!
As members of a secret society you have been tasked to investigate the disappearance of a prominent industrialist and shipping magnate in the city of Malmö.
The young man disappeared from the same room that has a series of disappearances associated with it. The same room the Investigators are looking into now.
So why is there no trace of anyone staying overnight in that room?
Tags: Player-led, Investigation Horror (Alt-History), Horror, Supernatural, Magic, Dead, Vampires, No Pre-gens, Rules-lite, NotD&D, Newbie Friendly, #NotDnD, Fria Ligan, Flashing Lights, Musical Accompaniment.
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Alien RPG - "Empty Vessels Make No Noise”
“Alien - Empty Vessels Make No Noise”
Alien RPG
Saturday Morning Slot
For up to seven players. Newbies welcome!
“Damaged vessel UPPS Gromkiy, please respond, this is USAC Lewis & Clark, a rescue ship acknowledging your distress beacon, please respond. The breach in your hull is bleeding oxygen. Your radio silence isn’t helping you as your reactor looks it will blow in twelve hours. Do you want to be rescued?”
Tags: 18+, Alien, Hidden Agendas, Horror, Player-Led, Pre-Gens, Sci-Fi, Spaceships with Ashtrays, Fria Ligan, #NotDnD, Flashing Lights.
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Alien RPG - "Star Trek Legacy: Conspiracy”
“Alien - Star Trek Legacy: Conspiracy”
Alien RPG
Saturday Afternoon Slot
For up to eight players. Newbies welcome!
Captain’s Log Stardate 79766.17
We were on route to Pacifica when we were interrupted by a Code 47 (Captain’s Eyes Only) call from Starfleet Admiralty. I’ve been ordered to take the Enterprise to the Perintha system, site of the Iconian Research Taskforce. There are no further details to the orders but my intuition is that they are wanting to send the Enterprise through the ancient Iconian Catapult Device in orbit of Perinthia Prime to be thrown instantaneously beyond the known Galaxy to the distant outreaches of deep space.
Nothing new for me then!
Captain Seven of Nine.
Tags: 18+, Star Trek, Picard Season 3, Hidden Agendas, Horror, Player-Led, Pre-Gens, Sci-Fi, PvP, Harsh Language, Spaceships with Carpets, #NotDnD, Fria Ligan, Flashing Lights.
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Alien RPG - “Alien Remus”
“Alien Remus”
Alien RPG
Saturday Evening Slot
For up to eight players. Newbies welcome!
Sequel to Alien Romulus
Jackson Star - a typical “shake & bake” colony, just seems more miserable, isolated and our supply runs are long and monotonous.
We get a bleep, a high-priority message to rescue a module, a lifebuoy, launched from a space station crashing through the rings of the planet!
I hope the bonus situation still holds as this Remus Module is totally fragged before we even get there!
Tags: 18+, Alien, PvP, Hidden Agendas, Horror, Player-Led, Pre-Gens, Sci-Fi, Spaceships with Ashtrays, #NotDnD, Fria Ligan, Flashing Lights.
