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The Doclopedia #2,186

New From Wilton & Cox: Hypodermic Pen

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It looks like and high quality fountain pen, but with a mere tap of your finger, a needle appears and injects any drug or poison you choose. You can find a list of the most popular injectables on page 70 of this catalog. Several styles of pen are available.

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The Doclopedia #2,187

New From Wilton & Cox: Cigar Bomb
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Sometimes a fellow needs a good cigar and sometimes he needs an explosive that will take a heavy oak door off the frame. These cigars will do the latter 20 seconds after being lit. Useful any time one needs an explosion.

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CritterCon 13, Con Day Two: In which larps are played, we get muddy, Old Time Radio happens, and gaming pubs are crawled.

My sweet wife of 24 years woke me up at the insane hour of 7:00 am so we can be ready for a LARP at 9:00 am. Like a 66 year old zombie, I showered, got dressed and shambled off with Grace for breakfast at Waffles From Outer Space. Many of our traveling companions were there, because this was to be a Husbands VS Wives LARP. Obviously, it was thought up by some unmarried young person.

Thankfully, after 13 years of coming to this con, the servers at the breakfast places know me and bring me strong tea with my meals, usually 36 ounces, but sometimes 40 ounces. This morning was a 40 and the tea was very strong. At any rate, by the time we were done eating, I was well and truly buzzing.

The LARP in question was a heist scenario. There were several locations we needed to go to to get stuff and talk to people. We had $10,000.00 to buy/bribe with. Our husband group was Peter, Brian, Spike, Mark and myself. We decided to formulate our plan, then split up into two groups to maximize our equipment and info gathering. Formulating our plan took 20 minutes (the larp runs 3 hours) and then we were off.

Only to find that the people with stuff we needed had sold out of certain crucial items, so we'd have to wait 15 minutes to buy what we needed at a 25% markup! The same thing happened with a security guard we tried to bribe for a pass code. We offered him a C note and he said “the women gave me a hundred and a half”.

After buying what we could get, we wasted another 10 minutes revamping our plans. Now we had a mere 45 minutes to actually bust into a casino and get to the vault and steal the diamonds and get away.

Busting into the casino: Easier than we thought thanks to some great die rolls.

Getting to the vault: Not so easy thanks to Brian and I both rolling a 1 at a crucial juncture. In fact, I had to run for it and lead the guards on a merry chase out on the streets until I rolled a 19 and was able to knock out a guard and put on his uniform to get back inside.

Cracking the vault took longer than we thought. I got back just as they opened it. We grabbed the diamonds, at which point the game runner told Spike, our diamond expert, to make a Perception check. He rolled well and we found out the diamonds were fake! With 90 seconds left, we closed up the vault and walked out a back door, losing the game to our wives, who took a big risk and managed to swap out the only set of fake diamonds for the real ones BEFORE THEY GOT PUT IN THE VAULT!

Well played, ladies, well played indeed.

After the LARP, we all met up with the rest of the human members of our group to go for our annual Warm Mud Spa Day. As always, it was relaxing, muddy and done in 2 hours, which was good because we were starving.

Fortunately, the mud spa is right near Ed's Big Weenie, so we all ate hot dogs. I had two beef and venison chili cheese dogs. They were filling and delicious. Everyone loves Ed's Big Weenie.

From 3 to 5 I ran a Toon game for eight kids between the ages of 7 and 12. I used my tried and true “The House That Jerks Built” adventure and they had a blast. Of course, they never even came close to actually building the house, but they did create a miniature mountain from several tons of cement and bricks.

At 6:00 pm, I went to the radio station to do an hour of psychedelic music, then at 8 a bunch of us did the first two hours of what has grown into “Old Time Radio From Dusk To Dawn”. We did a 30 minute “Lights Out” episode, “The Author and The Thing”, then did the traditional five 15 minute episodes of  “Your's Truly, Johnny Dollar”, with each episode separated from the next by commercials for various area businesses or Dealer's Room vendors. All of the commercials were done in a 1930's style.

We ate assorted foods during the radio episodes, so everyone was fueled up to go do the annual “Gaming Pub Crawl”. During this event, you go from pub to pub playing games and drinking whatever you personally enjoy. I was personally enjoying pints of stout or porter, so by the time we got to our 6th pub, “The Naughty Dog”, I was pretty well oiled. After pint #8? and a game of Aquarius, I decided to call it a night.

Tomorrow is Saturday and I have a full schedule. More bloggage after that.