Category: Gen Con 2015
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Little Chunks Of Memory #1
There are things which didn’t make it into the various daily posts, mostly because I forgot, so I’m putting them here. On Gen Con Sunday, in the lobby of the Westin, we were set up in a spot under the escalators. Other folks were scattered all over the place, often playing with, or at least…
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Monday – Post-Con Breakfast, Expelling The Plague-Ridden From The Land, Overstuffed Suitcases, And See You Next Year
All Dead Inside There was some form of scheme for meeting SM&F on Monday morning, with the intention of having breakfast together before Steve & Moni had to drive back to the frozen North, a.k.a. Chicago, but it has left no traces on the text message history on my phone, so it’s just possible that…
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Day Four – Decisions In The JW, Swag & Breakfast In The Hyatt, Ambling In The Halls, Food & Socialness In The Ram, Surprises In The Dealer Booths, Ravens In The Westin, Dinner In The Classy Seafood Restaurant
Dealing With The Swag I had two years worth of VIG Swag to deal with, far more than could be fitted into my suitcase, so a ruthless culling process had to happen. My first year at Gen Con I brought almost all of the swag home, which required an extra bag, and was a mistake.…
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Day Three – Scouting Locations For The Beige Chupacabra, Trailing Cthulhu, and Paging Doctor Dinosaur
Hickman’s Killer Breakfast This is an event where Tracy Hickman kills the entire audience in a two-hour improv exercise, where the only thing that’ll keep you alive is being entertaining or a technical problem. Or both in our case. By chance, Frank & I had come up with a riff on people scouting for locations…
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Day Two – Strange Devices, Strange Planets, and Strange Chocolate
The initial plan was to do a post every day. Clearly, this did not survive second contact with the enemy Gen Con, but I did keep notes, so here’s me turning them into something more readable. Friday Late on Thursday night, the idea of getting breakfast was suggested by Frank, when I passed by…
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Day One – Long Lines, Big Crowds, A Visit Form The Swag Fairy, Cremefillians, No Inspectres, The Late Late Late Show, and Bee Coffee
Long Lines In previous years I joined the line for VIG Early Access to the Dealer/Exhibit Hall early, to try to get a decent place. This year, based on some faulty assumptions, I decided that I could just join the end of the line a bit before the 9am start, and not have to stand…
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Day Zero – So, I’ve hit the “headings with commentary” stage sooner than I expected to.
“Hey, Cool Shirt”, and Pallet trucks on carpet kind of suck Before I made it into the central bit of Gen Con at the ICC (which I think of everything East of the Crossroads Concourse), one of the proprietors of Off World Designs spotted my LonCon3 shirt, so we did the whole Good Luck For The…
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Day Three – Under The Remorseless Assault Of The Day-Star
I started today with some plans to go and do tourist things, but a walk to find the CVS demonstrated just what I was in for. I did do a lap of the State Capitol building, to see whether I could spot a sign for tours of the building (according to the website they do…