Maxicon

[essentialsaltes]

All hail popepat! The only pope that has any hold on my allegiance. And of course, we must hail his wife and child as well. For once again, the papal residence was opened up for Maxicon. The sights, sounds and (yes) smells of a hard-working gaming con on the road is not for a host who is faint of heart. But Pat is large of heart, Elly has a surplus (

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[notjenschiz]

It should be pointed out that Donald Rumsfeld, with an extraordinary roll of his "Blame military failures on current personnel and have them replaced" skill did manage to regain his job as Secretary of Defense after the inevitable failure of the mission. Or at least that's what Brian promised me when I left the game an hour early.

[chibi_neko]

Argh! I was so frustrated that I couldn't make it down for Maxicon. Unfortunately my employers had me scheduled over the holiday weekend, making any real travel impractical if not impossible. The pictures are great though! And HoL is everything I remember it to be.

[aaronjv]

Snapdragon could and should return to more parties. If you want to do it yourself, here are my recommendations:

1. Get a big bowl; doesn't have to be deep, but wide.
2. HEAT THE BRANDY PRIOR TO IGNITION! My first attempt to light the fire (accompanied by the song "Fire" by Prodigy, which has the great sampling of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown bellowing I am the God of Hellfire, and I bring you...) ended when I dunked the lighter in the brandy, killing it. However, after a minute in the microwave, the alcohol fumes were floating nicely above the liquid, add one touch of the lighter and FOOMF

[popepat]

We SO did not adhere to that advice!
In retrospect, I should have intentionally failed to guess my accusers to that I could have gone on to witness a couple more rounds of yummy, good natured truthfulness.