GenCon Game Fair Meet and Greet: (August 16th to August 19th)

Just FYI for anyone interested. I am not attending this year and I am not DJing anywhere this year but I may play door guy to one of the following events. My friends do a great job and make it well worth going.

Cause-I-Play Cosplay Afterparty on Thursday
http://www.facebook.com/events/394427663951894/

Gencon Goth/Industrial (Dark Rave) afterparties Friday-Saturday
http://www.facebook.com/events/166639536805210/

As my plans just fell through on Saturday, would it still be possible to attend? Or should I just go with my back up plan and hit up the Board Game Library, and try to find a group that wouldn't mind another?

-Phil

There is some possibility I'll be free Saturday evening at GenCon. If so, I'll certainly stop by and say hi (assuming there's still room for me!). You've all been warned!

-D

Arrived at Hilton Indianapolis STOP.
Had dinner with Paris STOP.
Surprisingly nice girl STOP.
See y'all Saturday night STOP.

I left Monday night.
Got to Indy around Tuesday 1AM. Crashed.
Pretty much did all our hauling on Tuesday and Wednesday.
It's now Thursday... D-Day!

Also, on the meetup. Champs is being difficult.
Well, not Champs per-se. Apparently the reason nobody takes ANY reservations during GenCon is that GenCon is chucking out wads of cash to make them NOT do that. So they can do it if they so desire...

I'm going to get there early anyhoo and start agitating.
I'm thinking, next year, if we reserve a ballroom and stuff for meetings I'll commandeer it one evening and just bring in some pizza and drinks.

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I am a gen con ... have been around must he last year or so..

meet n greet is ata bad time for me but I will try and stop by between games and TD. (that is if anyone is still around them)

So... Champions thinks we are meeting at Champs?

Okay. We are at CHAMPIONS. We are actually seating . Right up front. Some of the staff weren't apprised of our party.

Sorry!

Come on over.

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Thanks for coordinating this, Hyperstrike! It was a blast. And thank you to Clockwork, for the swag.

Okay, for the people who got diverted to Champs (where we were NOT having it) from Champions (where we WERE having it), my abject apologies.

I completely brain-farted over the fact that they had two so-similarly-named establishments within (more or less) walking distance of one another.

That said, it was an AWESOME meetup. We had nearly 40 people there. Pretty much EVERYTHING was excessive this year.

As noted earlier, I got told to, politely mind you, sit and spin if I wanted to get 20+ people in.

So, we told them we had 12-15 and a couple more "might" straggle in.

Well, they MIGHTILY straggled in almost immediately and we were at 22 people.

So we talked with the host and they moved us into a different area. We coop'ed two more tables and were at 20-something. Then another 10-ish people showed up.

Well, present someone with a fait accompli and let THEM deal with it works too! Lord Nemesis would be proud of me!

I'll get pics up ASAP.

Then Clockwork01 showed up. He digs into his bag and draws out this HUGE stack of M&G 2010 costume codes.

Then does it again...

Then reaches in and pulls out an even BIGGER stack.

Then he tells me he's under orders from Zwill to get rid of ALL of them. OR ELSE!

No, I didn't wet my spandex. The Hyper-momma taught me better than that.

But DARN if that didn't almost debuff my bladder control to nothing...

Pretty much EVERYONE went home with enough for all their local friends.

And I still have a monster stack of 70 or so of them. They'll be going out to Real World Hero for their Christmas Auction.

So if you see an entire league of Vahz Meat Doctors running around in the next week or so, you'll know who went to GenCon!

Anyhoo, despite dropping this Warburg Nuke into their laps, the servers busted their butts for us. So I made sure to buff their tip at the end. They were a little embarassed, but hey. Good service deserves a reward.

We still had the problem of people being somewhat split into smaller groups during the meeting. So I'm working on that for next year. I'm going to see if we can reserve a ballroom or something next year for our own use and just bring in eats (pizza, sandwiches, soda, etc).

This way we can congregate how we want, we don't have to deal with seating-based segregation (and it'll be a bit less expensive).

I want to thank everyone who showed up this evening. It was a blast. I'd thank you by name but I honestly don't remember them all and didn't think of getting a sign-in sheet going (this seems to be my "Year of I Can't Remember Shhh...tuff"). As such, I'll thank you all as a group. It makes the sentiment no less heartfelt.

Okay. I'm out for now. My pillow's had its sleep mag buffed like crazy and I need to be up early tomorrow.

Like I said. Pics soon!

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oh my gooooodddddd i want a cooode!!!! that's so much fun!


but i'm poor and live in texas

cant wait to see pics!!! and i wouldnt mind someone tossing a spare code my way ;D ;D ;D

thanks so much for putting this together (again) hyperstrike, sorry we had to bail, the missus was in a bunch of pain, otherwise we would have hung around a lot longer. It was nice meeting all the folks that were there, bunch of new faces this time. Hopefully I'll be seeing you in the game!

Thank you for doing this Hyperstrike. I had to miss this year but want to say thank you.

Another great M&G. Though the 4 block stroll (twice) to champions was a PITA, it was worth it and no ones fault except the silly hostess at the front.

Thanks for all the effort in putting this together, and I owe you a beer.. Really.. You picked up the first beverage tab, and I totally blanked on repaying you. I promise to make it up to you next year.

Can't wait to see everyone next year!