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Critter Con 14
Con Day 1: A day of gaming, talking to people, considering room parties, and dealing with the romantic results of the Blue Trash Panda.
The Cheesecake & Bourbon party last night was fun, despite the fact that neither of us (or Mom, Grandma, Sam, Auntie Mary, Uncle Spike, Auntie Avis, and several others) either don’t drink real bourbon or don’t drink at all. We all ate cheesecake, though! The whole affair is low key, just chatting with fellow con goers, some of whom you might know from previous cons. We (Cake & Tuck) met up with several NHT from past years, as well as many humans. It’s good to be able to walk around in our bio-bodies without freaking people out, although Cakes is one of only 5 gorillas here and the only one with orange yellow fur, so she does get some looks.
Grandpa did not drink too much bourbon, but he hit the various cheesecakes harder than was probably wise.
Today, we all played or ran games of various sorts, ate assorted foods, and did geeky things. Here is a partial list.
Breakfast: We all ate at Waffles From Outer Space. Bacon flavored syrup, yo!
Grandpa ran his only Toon game of the con, “The House That Jerks Built”, and it was a hit. Sam and Auntie Mary played in it. After that, Grandpa was off for DJ duty until 2:00 at the convention radio station. Later, he played Gasland with Uncle Spike, Uncle Bryan and 10 other people.
Grandma mostly played board games, but in a VERY surprising move, was also on a panel with Auntie Mary and 6 other folks to discuss “Living With An Uber-Geek”. We watched the video replay later and it was hella funny.
Mom played in back to back Call of Cthulhu games that were “Less Lovecraft, More Hammer Horror”. She also did a 4 to 6 stint as a DJ/interviewer.
Oh, yeah, lunch for us two gals was at Ed’s Big Weenie, partly because Ed now offers a meatless sausage suitable for mostly vegetarian apes. It was surprisingly delish, as was the beef/venison sausage.
The humans ate at various places or got delivery from Pizza My Heart.
We met up with some of our NHT friends to discuss the various NHT only room parties that were going on. By far the largest number of Non-Humans at the con each year are dogs, with cats running a close second, but other species are increasing in numbers, mostly rabbits, goats and pigs. We are also seeing an uptick in NHT from various other parts of the world, like the other gorillas here this year.
We nixed one cat party because it was mostly a bunch of nipheads who get high and play abstract board games. Rabbit parties are okay, but often turn into cutthroat financial game sessions. We’ll stop by a party being put on by the Labrador Retriever Gamers, because Lab parties are always goofy good fun.
There is a fairly big pig party, but given how smart pigs are, non-pigs end up feeling like dummies after about an hour. We are definitely going to a party hosted by some otters, because otters have the best parties. We’ll end the night at the official NHT Gamers Association party.
I think most of our humans are going to an Old Gaming Farts Party or something.
As we were heading out to dinner (at Thai One On) we were approached by a group of six female raccoons, who asked if Brownie was going to be at the con. The looked SO sad when we told them that he was 1: married, 2: a father, 3: not in our reality. They all said we should tell him they were very sorry he was not here, because they all REALLY liked him.
Jesus, what does that little blue butthead do? Bathe in sex pheromones?
Well, we are off to party, game, party, and maybe meet some cute guys.
More blogging tomorrow!
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