Here is the player introduction that was read to all teams at the beginning of the event.

This is quite possibly the most popular event KORG has ever run. Certainly the KORG folks enjoyed it as much as any other event, because it let them play as well as GM. Queensday was a live action role playing event, in which teams of characters were on a scavenger hunt. The winning team won the Queen's favor, and got to go on to round two of the tournament. (In retrospect this should have been a one round event - the second round was more traditional role playing and wasn't nearly as good). Gen Con provided KORG with four or five gaming areas, each of which was designated as one of the places in the city - thus there was a Pub, a Magic Shop, a General Store, and a Temple. The GMs (KORG put together 6 or 7 of them for every session) played the roles of various NPCs, who ranged from shop keepers to adventurers to city guardsmen. There was even a prostitute named Rose (and yes, one of the scavenger hunt items was a rose). KORG was blessed with a great set of players in this event that ran wild with the whole concept. The role playing was tremendous as each team sought to interact with one another, with the NPCs, and occasionally with poor innocent folks that just happened to wander through the area.

The characters for this event were fairly plain. Each team had four members - two fighters, a mage, and a thief. There was not much fighting in the first round, however, so role playing ability was the most important thing. Each team was given some money - KORG made for the tournament gold pieces made from some kind of bread dough-like substance, baked to harden and spray painted gold. We also painted symbols on all the coins. This was to enable us to make a special coin (with a different symbol) to be a scavenger hunt item. All in all KORG put in thirty or forty man hours in creating the money used by the players to buy things - it was worth it, though, as the players really liked this particular prop. All in all Queensday had a lot of props - the KORG folks wore costumes (hand made by Sarah Marcel and Stacey Allen) and most of the scavenger hunt items (ranging from butterflies to books) were created by us.

• K'rakar: Owner of the House of K'rakar, a magic item and supply shop. An elf, his young daughter S'bar (whose playtest name was "S'gar" until we realized what that sounded like) could lead player characters to a black kitten (one of the hunt items). Seeing players pretending to peer under a cart at a mother cat with S'bar (usually played by Stacey or Sarah) urging them not to scare the kittens was worth the price of admission to Gen Con that year.
• Hooper: The owner of the general store, and also the master of the Thieves' Guild. The best thing was that only the thieves in each party knew this. To talk about thieving matters they had to give Hooper the sign of the guild (which was touching one's nose with your forefinger). Watching the general store, in which various players would be discreetly giving the guild sign to Hooper as non-thieves stood around totally unaware, was always a reliable source of entertainment.
• Father Kelvin: The head priest at the Temple. For some reason many people thought that Kurt (who usually played the Father) looked like the wanted poster of Emirikol the Chaotic (the picture was blurred a bit on purpose, but was most definitely not Kurt). One group actually accused the respected priest of being a wanted murderer! The Temple offering plate held one of the rare coins that was on the list of items to find. Of course, Father Kelvin assured players that "money only goes into the offering plate, it is not supposed to come out".
• Margo Buttertummy: The irrepresable halfling (played by Sarah) had great fun selling party members the contents of her pockets, which were quite numerous.
• Victoria and Clarence: A beautiful half-elf and a mean looking half-orc came into the Hair of the Dog Tavern. Many of the players took an interest in the pair, especially since marrying the half-elf could lead to retrieving items from the list. Unfortunately for those players Clarence and Victoria are brother and sister (half-siblings - they have the same mother) and the half-orc thief/mage took a dim view of those who tried to sweep his sister off her feet.
• The Captain: Another Tavern resident, this grizzled old pirate (I mean, sailor!) would trade items from the list for rope. One of the characters in each party (the thief) had a 20 foot silk rope, but in the words of The Captain "If it not burn, it don't be rope!"

The Play: As with Eclipse Eternal, the teams participating in Queensday were forced to put on a play. In this case, the teams that advanced to the final round performed a play for the King. The play itself involved your typical set of mid-level adventurers attempting to save the world. Without a doubt the best performance was by the group that chose to perform the play as an opera - you haven't lived until you've seen four gamers belting out lines like "We must kill the evil warlord with a holy sword of sharpness" like Luciano Pavarotti. The play was written by Sir Richard Daggereye, who was also in attendence.

Trivia Note: Many of the NPCs in Queensday were based on characters the KORG folks have played in the past, or on famous NPCs from other KORG campaigns. This made role playing them much easier, and helped make them seem more fully fleshed out to the players. One NPC that was not based on a KORG idea was Emirikol the Chaotic, from AD&D first edition Dungeon Master's Guide fame. This rogue spellslinger was played by 6'6" Jason Duby, and Emirkol lived up to his name by getting into a fight during every session of Queensday.

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