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For all its shortcomings, the room was coveted by the Student Affairs In view of the effort CLAWs had put into making the room usable the SRC granted us a temporary room. We also secured a non-binding The temporary room turned out to be fairly amazing. It was right near the plaza, and had high ceilings. It also had a view of the legendary proto-CLAWroom called Gargoyle Rock, and a cupboard large enough to store people in. That was just the ante-chamber. The main room was many times larger. CLAWs is still in this temporary room almost eight years later, having Some time after Dragonfire 1993 we had to move. That day there was a stream of people dressed in black running down the [old] Students Union and pooling in the new room. I have particular and Various art works were left in the old CLAWroom. I suspect that this was a last attempt to mark our territory. I can remember a drawing on the wall of small footprints leading to a squashed rodent, to:
For all its shortcomings, the room was coveted by the Student Affairs department, as it was right in the middle of their territory. Luckily this was the one year in which we had a CLAW member, Steffi Anastasiadis, on the Students Representative Council. We thus had warning and a sympathetic person on the body that (nominally) controlled the allocation of space in the Student's Union building. In view of the effort CLAWs had put into making the room usable the SRC granted us a temporary room. We also secured a non-binding recommendation from that SRC to future SRC that we should always have a room in the Student's Union. The temporary room turned out to be fairly amazing. It was right near the plaza, and had high ceilings. It also had a view of the legendary proto-CLAWroom called Gargoyle Rock, and a cupboard large enough to store people in. That was just the ante-chamber. The main room was many times larger. CLAWs is still in this temporary room almost eight years later, having successfully fended off several attempts to take the room away. Some time after [[Dragonfire]] 1993 we had to move. That day there was a stream of people dressed in black running down the [old] Students Union and pooling in the new room. I have particular and painful memories of helping to carry the library cabinets down to the new room. Various art works were left in the old CLAWroom. I suspect that this was a last attempt to mark our territory. I can remember a drawing on the wall of small footprints leading to a squashed rodent, executed skillfully in tomato sauce. Changed lines 38-41 from:
The problem with SRC chairs is that while they were standard plywood-and-steel school-type chairs, their steel tube parts were bright red. This made them highly visible and easy for the UCT cleaning staff to find and remove on their occasional visits. We had just got a new batch in, and while sitting on them late one afternoon Giles Kipps (then We had two shades of green and some red, so the obvious happened - we camouflaged the chairs. Just in case we to:
The problem with SRC chairs is that while they were standard plywood-and-steel school-type chairs, their steel tube parts were bright red. This made them highly visible and easy for the UCT cleaning staff to find and remove on their occasional visits. We had just got a new batch in, and while sitting on them late one afternoon Giles Kipps (then CLAWthing) and I were pondering this visibility when we noticed some leftover cans of spray-paint. We had two shades of green and some red, so the obvious happened - we camouflaged the chairs. Just in case we labelled them 'CLAWS' in bright red so that no confusion would arise. Unfortunately no confusion did arise: the cleaning staff confiscated them again, with the result that occasionally while sitting an exam one will see chairs marked 'CLAWS' or painted in camouflage! Changed lines 46-47 from:
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One of the CLAWroom's perennial problems was a lack of furniture. Students are notorious for not having two brass farthings to rub together, and in the case of CLAWmembers not even that because they spend it all on RPGs and CTCGs... Changed lines 52-53 from:
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With assistance from Patrick Schreiber's baby blue station wagon and press-ganged CLAWmembers we hauled our new stuff to the CLAWroom, where it was used, abused (remember Toby & Alan's science experiment that burned a hole in the table?) and sat upon for years. Changed lines 62-67 from:
My first memory of the Claws room Well, I think I managed to catch The LARP in question was Cedarfalls, to this day I remember Zara's glee as she to:
My first memory of the Claws room occurred in the winter of '96. It was a dark and stormy day. I had encountered [[PlosiGuant|Nenad]] and Alastair ( I knew them from playing V:tES outside Wizards on Saturday mornings) while kicking my feet outside [[Springfields]] on Friday night - I'd been bounced, as usual. Despite the fact that I need to finish reading ''Lord of the Flies'' for my exam on the Monday morning they managed to convince me to come to the Vampire Day that had been organised for Saturday where they were going to watch video's in the Richard Luyt and then they needed extras for a LARP/Party they were holding afterwards. Well, I think I managed to catch Interview with a Vampire (for the god-know-what-th time), skipped out on Nosferatu and had arrived too late for Lost Boys. I then retired to this rather small pokey room off to the side where everyone was gathering. It was rather a drab place sporting a table, a few broken chairs and a number of fantasy art posters stuck to the (rather high) roof. Most of the chairs were occupied and being a rather lost 16 year-old, when the only people I knew disappeared to work on their LARP, I proceeded to climb up onto the cupboard stashed next to the door of the antechamber and sit there, trying to read ''Lord of the Flies'' and being consistently distracted by the bizarre conversations going on around me. The LARP in question was Cedarfalls, to this day I remember Zara's glee as she receive her character, Crystal Starr, with a squeak of 'Nenad! You know me so well!'. I also remember being accosted by one of the oddest people I have ever met - and never met again - wearing a green Robin Hood style outfit. Unfortunately, I had to leave before I learned how the LARP turned out (curfew), but I got plenty more chances with plenty other runnings, two of which I've played in and one of which I've run in Durbs! Oh, yes, and the first LARP I every played in was Cedarfalls, in which I got the ''delightful'' task of playing, guess who! Yes! Crystal Starr. The [[ZCC]]. <sigh> Changed lines 79-80 from:
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The CLAWroom was on Green Level of the Students Union. It was a rehabilitated lift machinery room - something of a Frankenstein room. It had metal plates that covered the holes that it had needed to operate before its revivification. to:
The CLAWroom was on Green Level of the [old] Students Union. It was a rehabilitated lift machinery room - something of a Frankenstein room. It had metal plates that covered the holes that it had needed to operate before its revivification. Changed lines 24-25 from:
Some time after Dragonfire 1993 we had to move. That day there was a stream of people dressed in black running down the Students Union and pooling in the new room. I have particular and painfull memories of helping to carry the library cabinets down to the new room. to:
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!! Furniture day '97 by AdriaanWessels One of the CLAWRoom's perenial problems was a lack of furniture. Students are notorious for not having two brass farthings to rub together, and in the case of CLAWmembers not even that because they spend it all on RPGs and CTCGs... As luck would have it this was rather dramatically solved in late 1997 by UCT maintenance department having a spring cleaning session. An advert in the Monday paper was brought to my attention by Gavin Chait, a fellow engineer much involved in SHAWCO. Investigation during lunch turned into an acquisition spree that grew to include tables, chairs, a desk and two IBM XT computers. Why two? Spare parts of course! The operable IBM XT became the [[CLAWputer]]. With assistance from Patrck Schreiber's baby blue station wagon and pressganged CLAWmembers we hauled our new stuff to the CLAWroom, where it was used, abused (remember Toby & Alan's science experiment that burned a hole in the table?) and sat upon for years. --- Future topics from AdriaanWessels may include: Mutants with Posters '93, Captain Dorego's (will the memories ever fade?) |