Dragged into Turbolasers Episode 112: Interviews at the Vastarian Inq28 event, Houston, Texas!

Chatting after the Vastarian Inq28 event in Houston!

In the evening after the final day of the Vastarian Inq28 event in Houston Texas, we interviewed many of the participants!

Vastarian: Houston 2024 Day 2

Death Was The Colour.

Here at Between the Bolter and Me, we have spent the entirety of 2024 working on Vastarian - Dreams of the Pious, our Warhammer 40,000 setting. During that time, we have been encouraging others to get involved with it as a collaborative worldbuilding effort. The setting revolves around the cathedral world of Vastarian, which is home to hundreds of disparate Imperial religious sects, each venerating the God-Emperor of Mankind in their own unique way. The opening of the Cicatrix Maledictum, a great tear in the fabric of the Milky Way Galaxy, has resulted in a psychic awakening across the populace of Vastarian. Each religious sect on the planet now believes that they alone were blessed with a psychic emissary touched by the Emperor himself. The tenuous peace on Vastarian has now devolved to bloodshed and persecution. During this psychic turmoil, the purifying radiance of the Emperor, the Astronomican, plummeted as if it were a tallow candle guttering in a tumultuous wind. In desperation, many of the Spyrehead conclaves on the planet pooled their resources and delved deeply into crumbling treatises on the nature of astropathic beacons and put into motion a fantastical gambit: fortifying the principle lighthouse in Ravachol as a psychic conduit to amplify the waning Astronomican.

In an effort to continue developing the setting, with the help of Bill Ford we hosted our first Inq28 narrative event at Asgard Games from November 15-17. You can read about the first day of the event here. The second day was the core of the entire event, where participants played three games that would lead up to a final game the following day (Day 3). There would be no way for us to capture every game played during the event, but we want to share pictures and write some evocative captions to help convey what happened in the games we were involved in. We hope you enjoy them!

Vastarian 2024: Rules and Scenarios

Wizard Fight!

Now that the first official Vastarian event has concluded we wanted to provide the rule system and scenarios we used, for anyone that is interested. We encourage everyone to make use of the material and get together with friends to play and create new stories on Vastarian! Feel free to modify the rules as you see fit, we certainly did when playing games!

Vastarian 2024: Participant Cults, Terrain, and other contributions.

The lighthouse at Ravachol, Vastarian.

We recently got back from holding our first Inq28 narrative event alongside Bill Ford, based in our Vastarian - Dreams of the Pious setting. It wouldn’t have been possible without all of the amazing participants and people who created models and terrain for the event. We wanted to use this post to showcase all of the amazing Cults that were present at the event, along with any other donated model, terrain, or game board!