Dragon*Con Report
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Well, as usual, Dragon*Con was exciting, bizarre, confused and fascinating.
Laura and I arrived on Friday, checking into the Marriott Marquis downtown, where we had a beautiful room on the 40th floor with floor to ceiling windows and an amazing view. After a short search we were able to find registration for Dragon*Con and get our badge with relative ease (less then ten minutes). There we meet up with Allan Hird, our old friend from Oregon who flew out for D*C, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
st_rev and also ran across laughingfang. We headed out for a late lunch, then coffee, visited the art show where coffeebadass was selling his jewelry (Dave's website designed by Laura by the by). Then more stuff until dinner (at the lovely food court) and then a panel on "Cyberpunk- Alive or Resting". The panel only had one host, the others having not shown up, and was therefor a little unfocused and wandering. The decision: Alive by a unanimous vote. Ended up back in our room for an after panel discussion before shooing everyone out just after midnight so they could catch their MARTA trains home.
Saturday dawned later than it should have as my alarm clock decided to run out of power. So, we grabbed our free breakfast, we shared the elevator down with Peter Jurasik, and headed out late to watch the parade. Missed much of it, but still got to see the Doctor Who group marching. They had a good turnout which was pleasing. Maybe next year I will have a costume and join them again.
Killed time in the dealer’s room, buying some stuff from the talented Phil Foglio who has not been at Dragon*Con in years, until my Shadowfist tournament at 1pm. Had a decent turnout for a virtually un-advertised event: eight players (including me), five of whom were people I have never seen before. One of them won convincingly, going undefeated for four rounds. Handed out promos and prizes (from Shadowfist and Z-Man games) and everyone seemed to have fun.
Eventually caught up with Allan,forvrin, kawakaze and two of their friends. Grabbed food from the food court and chatted up in our hotel room until everyone, except Allan, had to head off home. We headed down to watch Heather Alexander perform live. Laura ended up buying all of Heather’s CDs after the show, so if you want to hear . . . Afterwards, Allan headed back to his hotel and we did the same.
Sunday, up and packed to check out and drag all of our stuff over to our car. Then back to the Hyatt for Heather Alexander’s last performance of the Con, where Laura finally got to hear her perform March of Cambreadth live. A last swing through the various art shows, dealers rooms and comics allies. Competed to win a copy of Ptolus and did poorly by ran acrossshieldhaven who mocked us during the contest, and met his girlfriend (whose name has fallen out of my head) afterward. Then ran across comicmonkey and his friend, whose name I have also forgotten, and we made loose plans for a Freelance Gaming Panel at D*C 2007. A final swing through the gaming area, where we saw Chris Tang and Trin and ran across Alva at almost the last possible moment, and said goodbye to Allan. Finally, headed home around 4pm after a long three days in Atlanta.
A good Con, had fun, spent too much money on food, and saw everyone that I had wanted to, at least in passing.
Well, as usual, Dragon*Con was exciting, bizarre, confused and fascinating.
Laura and I arrived on Friday, checking into the Marriott Marquis downtown, where we had a beautiful room on the 40th floor with floor to ceiling windows and an amazing view. After a short search we were able to find registration for Dragon*Con and get our badge with relative ease (less then ten minutes). There we meet up with Allan Hird, our old friend from Oregon who flew out for D*C, and
st_rev and also ran across laughingfang. We headed out for a late lunch, then coffee, visited the art show where coffeebadass was selling his jewelry (Dave's website designed by Laura by the by). Then more stuff until dinner (at the lovely food court) and then a panel on "Cyberpunk- Alive or Resting". The panel only had one host, the others having not shown up, and was therefor a little unfocused and wandering. The decision: Alive by a unanimous vote. Ended up back in our room for an after panel discussion before shooing everyone out just after midnight so they could catch their MARTA trains home.Saturday dawned later than it should have as my alarm clock decided to run out of power. So, we grabbed our free breakfast, we shared the elevator down with Peter Jurasik, and headed out late to watch the parade. Missed much of it, but still got to see the Doctor Who group marching. They had a good turnout which was pleasing. Maybe next year I will have a costume and join them again.
Killed time in the dealer’s room, buying some stuff from the talented Phil Foglio who has not been at Dragon*Con in years, until my Shadowfist tournament at 1pm. Had a decent turnout for a virtually un-advertised event: eight players (including me), five of whom were people I have never seen before. One of them won convincingly, going undefeated for four rounds. Handed out promos and prizes (from Shadowfist and Z-Man games) and everyone seemed to have fun.
Eventually caught up with Allan,
forvrin, kawakaze and two of their friends. Grabbed food from the food court and chatted up in our hotel room until everyone, except Allan, had to head off home. We headed down to watch Heather Alexander perform live. Laura ended up buying all of Heather’s CDs after the show, so if you want to hear . . . Afterwards, Allan headed back to his hotel and we did the same.Sunday, up and packed to check out and drag all of our stuff over to our car. Then back to the Hyatt for Heather Alexander’s last performance of the Con, where Laura finally got to hear her perform March of Cambreadth live. A last swing through the various art shows, dealers rooms and comics allies. Competed to win a copy of Ptolus and did poorly by ran across
shieldhaven who mocked us during the contest, and met his girlfriend (whose name has fallen out of my head) afterward. Then ran across comicmonkey and his friend, whose name I have also forgotten, and we made loose plans for a Freelance Gaming Panel at D*C 2007. A final swing through the gaming area, where we saw Chris Tang and Trin and ran across Alva at almost the last possible moment, and said goodbye to Allan. Finally, headed home around 4pm after a long three days in Atlanta.A good Con, had fun, spent too much money on food, and saw everyone that I had wanted to, at least in passing.