{"id":67,"date":"2013-08-17T00:07:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T12:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2013-08-25T07:56:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T19:56:11","slug":"gen-con-day-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Gen Con Day Two – Dirty Walkin, Zombie Dropping, Coffee Shopping Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woke up to my alarm, which was deeply confusing to me for some reason. In retrospect, maybe “The Weekenders” by The Hold Steady wasn’t the best choice for wake-up music.
\nGood song though.
\nShe said “The theme of this party’s the Industrial Age”,
\nAnd you came in dressed like a train wreck.<\/em><\/p>\n

My first game was Funkadelic Frankenstein, and was hilarious; I got to play “Fishbone” Jenkins, a Deep One Aquarium Researcher, part-time P.I., and committed Dagonist, as we investigated a religious group looking to ‘purify’ monsters.<\/p>\n

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\nReally looking forward to the Lemuria Rising game tomorrow, which uses the same system.<\/p>\n

Post-game, I picked up part 2 of the VIG swag bag, which had a much higher proportion of “stuff that isn’t my sort of thing” than part one.
\nFortunately, and I only noticed this after<\/strong> dropping off the stuff at my hotel, they have a donation bin for unwanted stuff to go to Military gamers.
\n(it turns out that there’s a playable preview of D&D Next in there, if anyone’s keen?)<\/em><\/p>\n

Today’s Game On Demand was Zombie Cinema, which we set at<\/strong> Gen Con. One person actually lived; I could have too, if I hadn’t gone back for that pesky kid.
\nIt’s a fantastic game, as I’d thought it was, and I’m glad I’ve already bought a copy; Got it during VIG early entry.<\/p>\n

My final game was a Better Angels<\/em> game, and it was a rolling tonne of fun; We adopted a signal of forefingers used as horns to indicate when we were talking as each other’s demons, stole an oil tanker for no readily explainable reason, blocked a channel with it once we gave up on that plan and … OK, I’m going to buy said game tomorrow.
\n‘Nuff Said.
\nAlso, I gave out a couple of Big Red Couch bookmarks at the end of the game, to people who at least SEEMED interested<\/em><\/p>\n

I hung out with Moni, Frank, and sporadic Steve for a while as we tried & failed to get our act together on the dinner-having front, but then the elephant of sleeping laid it’s trunk upon me, and I started flagging, so I ambled off to sleep.
\nThen smelled the foods from the bar at the JW, got instantly ravenous, & washed up here, typing an update with distressingly greasy fingers in the bar & eating a pretzel burger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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