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Hard to believe, but we almost went through an entire BotCon without a single game of Paper Telephone. Luckily the remaining few of us on Sunday night managed to pull this together:

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It was originally a joke Graham made. Here's the story: Graham, Walky, Malin and I were on the same bus to the PARTY AT PARAMOUNT WOO, and our driver made announcements now and then over the PA. His delivery had this older-black-guy smoothness that at times just made his comments seem jovial and funny, and at other times added a bit of creepiness, especially when he chuckled.

On the funny side, there were comments like, "On your right you will see a body of water. Well, you won't really see it because it's nighttime, but we all have imaginations, now don't we?" And on the creepy side, there was the time he said, "I'm not sure how this happened, but you can see to our right the freeway we're supposed to be on. So we'll be going through Chinatown, heh heh heh heh heh heh heh."

And as we were, indeed, going through Chinatown, Graham made the surrounded-by-flames joke. Graham also spotted this place as we drove by it. Other good Graham-imitating-the-bus-driver commentary:

"As I am not a man of the cloth, nothing I can say to you now will be of any use to you whatsoever, so this will be my final message. Heh heh heh heh."

"I'm not sure how this happened, but we have arrived before our time of departure. Please try to avoid any contact with yourself, as the results could be... disastrous. Heh heh heh heh."

Through a not-insignificant amount of effort, we managed to get on the same bus going back, but sadly that trip was both entirely on-course and silent. Disappointing, but we'd already gotten our money's worth anyway.