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DogCon 3: Day 3, Part 1 (and part of Day 2)
Busy busy busy! Quick recaps of con things past below.
Yesterday…
3:00 -4:00: Seminar (panel): “Old Gaming Farts Tell All”
Went very well. I was surprised how many young folks showed up to listen to a bunch of us greybeards talk about the old days.
4:00 – 6:00: Cruising Dealer’s Room & Other Con Areas
Bought games…watched games being played…marvelled at the cool terrain and stuff in the minis games
6:00 – 7:00: Pizza Dinner
Ate at “JimBob’s Texas Style Pizza”, which is a whole lot like Chicago style, but (if you want) served on a cornbread-like dough with heavy emphasis on beef (or, in one case, goat) in many forms. Yummy!
7:30 – 10:30: I’ll GM my segment of the “Open To Close Dungeon”
Big fun! My segment saw 9 players (maximum is 12) fighting their way through a cavern filled with undead spiders and a grove of poisonous fungi. When I left them, they were trying to decide if they should fight or run away from the Lich on the 8th level.
11:00 – 2:00: The Secret Event. I have no clue what the hell it’ll be.
The theme was “Doctors Only” and we all got appraised and then assigned costumes. I was Fu Manchu & Spike was Doctor Demento. Doc Mystery, who is a real life doctor, got to don a ripped shirt and be Doc Savage. There were at least 45 different doctors, with multiples of some (especially the Whovian, Sherlockian & Trek kind). A splendid time was had by all.
Today…
8:00 am – 12:00 pm: GMing “All This And World War, Too”
This was a time travel game in which the characters were trying to either stop or change or insure WWI. I used Basic Roleplaying rules. It went very well, with the final outcome being that the war did take place, but was over in less than half the time and the Computer Age started WAY early.
12:00 – 12:30: Eat & run
Burgers…onion rings…chocolate malt
12:30 – 2:00: The all pet (& human) LARP “Castle Of The Undead”
The Girls & Abby were on the winning team! (Flash was in an All Cat LARP that Grace described as “half sleeping cats, half crazy cats on speed”) Winker was a cleric, Lucy was a thief and Abby was a fighter. It was, by human standards, kinda slow paced, but by dog & goat (and parrot, pig, cat and miniature horse) standards, it was pretty thrill a minute.
2:15 – 3:15: Rehearsal for the radio play “Mobsters VS Monsters”
This went pretty smoothly, as you might expect from actors who have had the script for over a month.
3:30 – 4:00: Actual broadcast of the above.
An amazingly hitch free broadcast, during which most of us played multiple parts. The sound effects guys where incredible and the band was quite talented, too.
4:30 – 6:00: Seminar (panel): “Ok, Go Ahead And Tell Us About Your Character”
This was less horrific than you might expect, mostly thanks to a 5 minute limitation on each audience member. We panelists got only 3 minutes to critique each character as presented. We tried to be positive, even when said positivity involved lying our asses off.
6:00 – 7:00: Dinner
Sushi!
7:00 – 8:00: Shower & Catch Breath
Mission accomplished!
Am now starting Traveller game. Rumor has it that ’round midnight, single malt scotch will drop by.
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