GenCon Saturday: the rest
After leaving Dresden early, I went to grab food (I was starving) and then the exhibit hall...only to discover that it was about to close. So double-fail on that one. Not only had I just spent several hours not having fun in a game, but I'd missed the exhibit hall almost entirely.
I met up with Trysh and Katrina, we got dinner at the Claddagh Irish Pub (on my map), which had Strongbow on tap (for the win!). They had gone shopping and acquired many cool things that I was most envious of. We returned to the convention center and played the Catan collector's edition at the game library, allowing me to use my remaining generic tickets not in my name (trades from Dresden LARP and RPG). It was nice. Up to that point, I had been feeling that having not played a single board game I had somehow failed at GenCon, but even playing one (and one I've played before) solved the issue. We tried to see if Dominion Prosperity was still out in the Rio Grande room, it was not and I adjourned to the hotel to get ready for the White Wolf party.
I stopped along the way to chat with John and his friend Brian, made myself late, but made it back before the crew was leaving and changed into my blue pirate getup for the dance. I neglected to bring a long black skirt this year or my pirate pants, so I had to wear a shorter skirt, but it was ok. Lia did my makeup and we were off to Club Industry (also not on my map).
They've got a new pyramid-shaped dance floor in the center betwixt the cages. And there were cage dancers. They seemed ok with female attendee's dancing in there, but not male. The booze was free and flowing fast. They were even giving out sloe gin and 1800 tequila; not sure if this is an upgrade to encourage people to attend the Grande Masquerade, or just standard operating procedure and I've never noticed before.
I left a bit early to try and kidnap John for a little alone time, but was interrupted by Dustin's return to the hotel room. He'd had much to drink and needed to lie down and we got to reminisce a bunch, which was fun.
I met up with Trysh and Katrina, we got dinner at the Claddagh Irish Pub (on my map), which had Strongbow on tap (for the win!). They had gone shopping and acquired many cool things that I was most envious of. We returned to the convention center and played the Catan collector's edition at the game library, allowing me to use my remaining generic tickets not in my name (trades from Dresden LARP and RPG). It was nice. Up to that point, I had been feeling that having not played a single board game I had somehow failed at GenCon, but even playing one (and one I've played before) solved the issue. We tried to see if Dominion Prosperity was still out in the Rio Grande room, it was not and I adjourned to the hotel to get ready for the White Wolf party.
I stopped along the way to chat with John and his friend Brian, made myself late, but made it back before the crew was leaving and changed into my blue pirate getup for the dance. I neglected to bring a long black skirt this year or my pirate pants, so I had to wear a shorter skirt, but it was ok. Lia did my makeup and we were off to Club Industry (also not on my map).
They've got a new pyramid-shaped dance floor in the center betwixt the cages. And there were cage dancers. They seemed ok with female attendee's dancing in there, but not male. The booze was free and flowing fast. They were even giving out sloe gin and 1800 tequila; not sure if this is an upgrade to encourage people to attend the Grande Masquerade, or just standard operating procedure and I've never noticed before.
I left a bit early to try and kidnap John for a little alone time, but was interrupted by Dustin's return to the hotel room. He'd had much to drink and needed to lie down and we got to reminisce a bunch, which was fun.