Category: Gen Con 2017
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The Things They Didn’t Carry
Chatting to the security lady last night while we waited for Lou from engineering, and the topic of lost property came up. Apparently the thing that had them run ragged for Gen Con was the stuff people forgot in their rooms, which housekeeping then found, and which had to be collected by security. Sometimes it…
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Leaving Indy Early Hours Of De Morning
It’s 0511h, that’s the best I’ve got. As a side note, the announcements here at the combined Greyhound/Amtrak station are hilariously incomprehensible. I picked out the last few sentences, but as for the rest, I quite honestly understood more of the announcements on the Dubai Metro, and those were in Arabic. There were some late…
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$wagrid
Starting with the VIG Free Stuff, to give a sense of the scale of the thing; OK, I say ‘free’. In reality, I paid a lot more for my badge, so that I can guarantee a close-by hotel. The swag above & below is a part of that, so in one sense it’s free, because…
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Monday: The Moon Goddess Takes The Sun From Us
Steven & Moni checked out on Monday morning, with half of the vendor hall, it seems. I’m not 100% on this, but I think that’s a section of a Crystal Caste booth poking out from behind the suitcase. Did brunch with a friend from Chicago, for whom this was her very firse Gen Con, so…
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Sunday; Closing Time
Badge-bling update. Something I’ve been doing this con is to have permanent & temporary badge ribbons. The Sponsor, Ally, and Contessa one stay, because they’re importent. Other ones, I’ll stick on, then take off again when I don’t care anymore, so I had a Gen Con Unofficial Facebook Group ribbon for a bit, and then…
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Satyrday. Wasn’t playing any games with satyrs in them, I just wanted to use that punne
Firstly, a badge-bling update; I had a game out on the field at LucasOil Stadium, which was a surprisingly comfy place to game. The space just eats up the surrounding noise, so it was only when a crowd nearby started yelling that you really noticed what a huge space you were in. This one was…
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Friday: Cats, Nazis, & Bigfoots. Bigfeet?
Also an awful concert selfie from the TMBG concert on Thursday night. In that the selfie is awful, not the concert. The concert was awesome. And I now have the They Might Be Giants cover of “Bills”, by (I think) Destiny’s Child, stuck in my head. Alongs with some lines from ‘Dead’; I will never…
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When I Grow Up, I Want To Be A Flying Monkey
… and in today’s QAGS game, it happened Started out as a regular flying monkey, then took someone’s jetpack. Let’s unpack that a little, shall we? The game had us as a bunch of prisoners in Cadayland Super-Max. I was the Head Flying Monkey from the Wizard of Oz There was Wylie Coyote A Three-Foot…
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Wear Your Badge At All Times
Picked up my badge & assorted paraphernalia on Wednesday, around midday. The colour stripe behind the badge is my ALLY badge ribbon from last year. In this situation, I suspect, it looks more like CLOSETED. The folks who do those ribbons (Tabletop Gamers) had a last-minute fundraising campaign, after their sponsor had to drop out,…