ApolloCon Report of Sorts...

... can't say much, since this time instead of spending all con at a table selling things, I spent virtually all of it in the game room as a volunteer.

Games Run: WLP playtest of Sakura; WLP playtest of Eternal Battle GZ; Ninja Burger (twice); Risk: One World Dominion; Settlers of Cataan (a loaner copy: I REALLY want my own copy, and all expansions, but that costs close to $200); Guillotine

Games Played: Ra, Ingenious, Frag (very, very briefly; I hate FPSs, be it computer or tabletop gaming), Knightmare Chess, Starfarers of Cataan, Bosworth.

Games Didn't Get to Play: Civil War Risk (I spent way too much time prepping for a game that never ran, dammit.)

The games coordinator asked me if I'd like to take over next year- running the con's gaming myself. I'm tempted, but I certainly can't commit until the transmission's changed out in the Exploder, and that'll be August minimum.

ApolloCon is currently the only con I go to that has no (apparent) con security, a con ops that closes at night... I went down at about 8:30 AM Sunday to throw my bags in Con Ops while I got breakfast, before opening up gaming. There was a sign on the (locked) con ops door saying "Open 8:00 AM." The hotel unlocked all the con activity rooms, including ops, at about 9:00 AM; I was the only con volunteer (and my badge was not a volunteer badge) present. I hung around a few minutes in con ops, then outside the door watching and waiting (and, entirely by accident, watching the art show doors as well). At length another volunteer showed up and I hustled over to Jack in da Shack for breakfast.

morphyloon, your Pixie Stix have been given away. On reflection, it was not the best idea to give them to those under 18. (In fact, I'm thinking a daycare is in order, considering the number of -small- kids who were dropped at the game room's N64 as a substitute babysitter. I shall remember, at least for a week or two, the Hopper, the Chatterbox, and the Victory-Dancer... but that's unfair, since Victory-Dancer played games other than the N64.)

Helped tear down Russ's tables Sunday and police the DR a bit- what I should have helped do Friday, but Russ had to come get me due to various factors. (Russ printed a full-color con shirt, the net results of that experiment being that a reprint of Chichi-chan: Fanservice is put off indefinitely, awaiting certain equipment upgrades. Oh well.) Lack of transport sucks, but hopefully once I get Bootleg off to printer I can see if the ancient brown van works well enough to justify transferring insurance and getting it re-tagged.

ApolloCon Report of Sorts...

... can't say much, since this time instead of spending all con at a table selling things, I spent virtually all of it in the game room as a volunteer.

Games Run: WLP playtest of Sakura; WLP playtest of Eternal Battle GZ; Ninja Burger (twice); Risk: One World Dominion; Settlers of Cataan (a loaner copy: I REALLY want my own copy, and all expansions, but that costs close to $200); Guillotine

Games Played: Ra, Ingenious, Frag (very, very briefly; I hate FPSs, be it computer or tabletop gaming), Knightmare Chess, Starfarers of Cataan, Bosworth.

Games Didn't Get to Play: Civil War Risk (I spent way too much time prepping for a game that never ran, dammit.)

The games coordinator asked me if I'd like to take over next year- running the con's gaming myself. I'm tempted, but I certainly can't commit until the transmission's changed out in the Exploder, and that'll be August minimum.

ApolloCon is currently the only con I go to that has no (apparent) con security, a con ops that closes at night... I went down at about 8:30 AM Sunday to throw my bags in Con Ops while I got breakfast, before opening up gaming. There was a sign on the (locked) con ops door saying "Open 8:00 AM." The hotel unlocked all the con activity rooms, including ops, at about 9:00 AM; I was the only con volunteer (and my badge was not a volunteer badge) present. I hung around a few minutes in con ops, then outside the door watching and waiting (and, entirely by accident, watching the art show doors as well). At length another volunteer showed up and I hustled over to Jack in da Shack for breakfast.

morphyloon, your Pixie Stix have been given away. On reflection, it was not the best idea to give them to those under 18. (In fact, I'm thinking a daycare is in order, considering the number of -small- kids who were dropped at the game room's N64 as a substitute babysitter. I shall remember, at least for a week or two, the Hopper, the Chatterbox, and the Victory-Dancer... but that's unfair, since Victory-Dancer played games other than the N64.)

Helped tear down Russ's tables Sunday and police the DR a bit- what I should have helped do Friday, but Russ had to come get me due to various factors. (Russ printed a full-color con shirt, the net results of that experiment being that a reprint of Chichi-chan: Fanservice is put off indefinitely, awaiting certain equipment upgrades. Oh well.) Lack of transport sucks, but hopefully once I get Bootleg off to printer I can see if the ancient brown van works well enough to justify transferring insurance and getting it re-tagged.