1/22/2008 - Location for "Zeus' Gambit" announced! The 9th episode of Ji Dian Station is fast approaching--this Saturday as a matter of fact--the location has been set and we're moving forward. Also, it is important to note that we have moved to the 4th Saturdays starting this month. Also, we have a poll going on in the Ji Dian Station LiveJournal community.

12/10/2007 - Location for "Echoes" Announced. See above for the link to the location. :p

12/4/2007 - Episode 8 of Ji Dian Station Announced, "Echoes", and Lights Out, a Ji Dian Station episode at Norwescon 31 - Since the broadcast of what some are calling the "Pax Wave" on the Cortex, some have called upon parliament to investigate the charges laid out in the broadcast. Others have shouted down the Prime Minister Emer, calling for his resignation in the scandal. Regardless of these outside events, life continues on while the echoes of the past can be heard in the settling dust. Come join us for episode 8 of Ji Dian Station.

Ji Dian Station is coming to Norwescon 31 with "Lights Out". 

As the gas giant Heinlein continues in its elliptical orbit through the black, the years continue to move forward. In honor of the spring season from Earth That Was, the Companion Guild hosts a reenactment of Yuen Siu, the lantern festival, aboard Ji Dian Station, the skyplex that orbits the planet. Come meet the local color of the station. Rub shoulders with members of Parliament. Spend time with the beautiful ladies and handsome gentleman of the Companion Guild. Enjoy the delights of the festival and join in the contests and merriment. It is a festival of creativity, romance, and murder!

There is a killer on the loose. He has struck once and may strike again. That's right- besides solving riddle competitions, entering lantern-making contests, and advancing your character's own agenda, there is a murder mystery to solve! Come join us for "Lights Out", a special event  for Ji Dian Station. This session will happen Friday, March 21st, at Norwescon 31 from 6:00 pm to midnight. While the episode is a part of the LARP's continuity, this special event will be open to a limited number of interested convention members. Convention members will be playing pre-generated characters with different goals and priorities for the evening and the plots of this session will be centered on this event. There is no need to have played previously.

For more information on the game and to sign up, visit the information page or you can send an e-mail to norwescon@jidianstation.org.

12/3/2007 - Venueless in Seattle. We are still looking for a venue for the December game, "Echoes". If you know of a location that could work, drop the Game Marshals a line. If we use your location, your character gets an extra 2xp for the night.

11/6/2007 - Location for the November game has been announced! The Ace Space Race will be held at the Sammaish Forest Mannors Clubhouse in Redmond. The space has plenty of parking and two primary rooms, plenty of tables and chairs, a full kitchen, bar, and pool table. We look forward to seeing you there!

11/3/2007 - We are looking for more venue options and offer a new way to get some experience points! What does this mean for you? It means that you could get some experience points out of it. Here is how it works:

If you suggest a venue and we use it, you get 2 extra experience points for the game. It's pretty simple in the grand scheme of things.

What could be used as a venue? We could use your house, the clubhouse in your apartment complex, commercial meeting spaces, coffee shops, etc. If there is a cost involved, we may have to ask the player base for assistance, so please keep that in mind when you make your suggestions.

Ideally, any space we use should have enough area for us to spread out into the various areas of the station.

10/28/2007 - Ace Space Race and Norwescon Poll Coming to a Close. Reminder that the poll to let your voice be heard about Norwescon will be closing on Friday, October 26th, so we can all of that information into Programming, Special Events, and Gaming.

As Heinlein, and Ji Dian Station, near both Salisbury and Boros, a rare conjunctional celestial event will occur that happens only every sixty three years; the atmospheric drag and gravitational pull of the three planets and their associated moons creates a gravitational phenomenon between the planets and a "maze" of gravitational flux is created. Factions on Ares and Newhall have organized a race, the Ace Space Race, which will have spacers from all over the Black navigating the invisible gravitational torrents and eddies, hoping to emerge first and win the 50,000 credit purse.

Many will be arriving in this sector of the system to participate. The station has just announced that it will be playing host to race officials and all those who want watch the race. It is hoped that the station will be a safe, neutral place where the loyal Alliance Boros and Ares citizens can commingle with the former Browncoats of Newhall with little trouble. It's not too late to join the race, just contact Jack Wu at Ji Dian Station Comm signal 334-6.

10/15/2007 - Next games announced: The Bone Orchard. The month following the riots, things on the station have settled back down to some semblance of normal. People seem to have shaken off what ever it was that had gripped them during the chaos. The wounded haven been cared for and the dead have been buried. As so often times it happens, people do very ugly things in times under duress and those who were caught, have been tried and punished in accordance of the law.

Repairs to the station proceed apace and people are keeping a low profile. Will things ever be the way they were? What does tomorrow have in store? Who's been buried in the orchard? As a note, please stop by the jidianstation LiveJournal community and vote in the Norwescon poll. Yes, we're doing the March game, "Knock Galley West", at Norwescon as a special game event.

9/29/2007 - Changes to the RSS feed and the pending schedule change. Previously, the RSS feed was unreliable about getting updates out because of some bad design choices. Yesterday, the RSS feed generated (http://www.jidianstation.org/libraryrss.asp) was stipped down to the metal and rebuilt. Not only is the RSS file persisted, it now gets built in memory as XML object so it is easier to manipulate. It now sends out whole documents (but LJ only supports of the 300kb size feeds), the markup is preserved to make reading easier, and rule updates are fed to the feed as well.

LiveJournal users can pick up the feed at http://syndicated.livejournal.com/jidian_updates/.

As we talked about at the last game with the players, starting in January 2008, the game will be moving to the 4th Saturday of the month, except where to avoid collisions with conventions like Norwescon and Baycon.

9/25/2007 - LiveJournal game community and rule changes. First, we've created a LiveJournal community for the game. Currently, there is a discussion, though one sided at the moment, about the dice system and changes to it.

9/11/2007 - Game 5 Announced: Storm Clouds for September 15th. Also, we've been asked if we can move to the 4th Saturday of the month and we are interested in you think about it. Please let us know!

8/15/2007 - New Document in Histories and Other Tall Tales. Ji Dian Station: An Overview is now available under Histories and Other Tall Tales in the Station Archives. Learn about how the station is structured and where everything is!

8/12/2007 - "Hidden" is on 8/18/2007. The 4th episode of Ji Dian Station, "Hidden", is a week away. A new agent of the Alliance is making his presence known on the station, a large, mysterious package has arrived for delivery, and salvage jobs are towed in and docked.
 
Come join us next Saturday and find the meaning of "Hidden."