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CritterCon #19
Con Day Five
In which we eat, buy stuff, do seminars, play games, celebrate the World Cup win, get a Big Announcement as the con closes, and eat pie before leaving.
By 7:00 this morning, con staff said that about 150,000 people had gone home. Of course that still leaves nearly 350,000 congoers still here, but about a third will be gone before the con shuts down at 6:00. We will be out of our hotel by 4:00, and gone from Vermont by about 7:30. But until then, here’s what happened.
The High Points
Fun Food Facts
Breakfast was at Waffles From Outer Space, lunch was Taco The Town, dinner was pie…lots of pie.
Stuff We Bought
Dice! The Nature Trail expansion for “Don’t Let The Weinerdogs Get Melvin.” About 90 fridge magnets. Skateboard Wars. Shrunk: The RPG GM’s Guide and Players Handbook. T-shirts. Bandanas. Socks. More dice. A couple of very cool coffee mugs.
Seminars
At 10:00, I was on the panel for our “What Did You Do At The Con?” thing, where the panel and the audience got to talk bout how the con went for them.
Then at noon, it was time for 2 hours of “Ask The GMs ANYTHING!” there were 400 people in the audience, 12 GMs, and about 100,000 people watching remotely. By the time it was over, we GMs had sun, danced, answered many personal questions, read game rules dramatically, talked abot our favorite con foods, and devised a new boardgame in 5 minutes flat. As always, it was laugh filled fun.
The QW World Cup Finals
This was a frantic pair of scenarios. In the first one theuy had two real time hours to get across a huge metropolis full of people gone batshit crazy, then steal a spaceship and get off planet and 1,000,000 miles away before the planet blew up.
The second scenarion gave the two finalists two real time hours to get to Level 5 of the Dungeon Of No Mercy, then kill the 3 headed undead giant troll. Team Fred got their 3 minutes ahead of Team Scandal At The Disco, but lost their mage and one fighter. Team Scandal At The Disco was able to get the win, but only had 2.5 of their original 6 member team left.
Congratulations to the winners!
The Starters
Team Tough Girls Team Scandal At The Disco
Team Fred Team Shotgun Monkeys
The Finalists
Team Fred Team Scandal At The Disco
The 2026 Quest Worlds World Cup Winner
Team Scandal At The Disco
A Big Announcement
15 minutes before the con closed the announcement was made that CritterCon has gotten too large for one place/con, so the concom are capping attendance at 150,000. BUT, they are going to team with
WinkerCon to become Winter CritterCon, taking place in mid-January in the DocCave 500 feet under our house. Winter CritterCon will cap attendance at 200,000 and have many, but not all, of the same pubs and restaurants. It will also be hosting a big gaming event to be announced.
Judging by the cheers, this is a popular decision.
PIE!
The traditional Post-Con Eat Pie And Cool Down party started ar 6:30 and there were 30 different kinds of pie. Our Merry Band ate more pie than we should have, hugged fewer people goodbye than we should have, then at 7:30 were on The Bus and heading home.
Sweetie will be driving all night while we sleep. She estimated an average speed of 80 miles per hour. Most of our traveling companions are portaled home by now. The newlyweds called to tell us that they are relaxing on the beach in Hawaii. Almost everyone but Annie and I are already asleep.
More reportage from our few stops tomorrow.
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