Vericon in Review

[theyellowhobbit]

So I have yet to post on what happened at Vericon. Vericon was good this year, though we only had around 200 people (last year it was around 430).

Everyone liked the food in the Con Suite, though this year we didn't have a fridge like we did last year, which made things harder.

When the con first started one of the guests was having a bad day and was in the con suite. She wasn't wearing her shiny gold guest badge, but I easily figured out it was her, gave her a bottle of water (bottled water is specifically for the guests and not the average con-goer) and got into a conversation with her about knitting and showed her my then almost done (now completed) Scarf of Awesome (like the one I made for dsKC, only with green. And also with more Awesome. Pictures forthcoming.) She was working on mittens. And of course I wanted to knit since she was knitting, but alas, it was Shabbat.

Capture The Flag With Stuff was made of awesome. I was in both games, and was on the winning team both times. And I was even useful.

I got to moderate the Webcomics panel this year, though I hadn't read anything by the authors that were there. But all I had to do was choose people to ask questions. And the webcomics people were all really nice and made of awesome, even if they were not Randall Munroe.

I also entered 5 scarves into the art show this year. I gave them stats. People liked the scarves and the stats. One of the scarves actually sold. I guess I should have made the others cheaper, though they were priced fairly for amount of work and cost of materials. It's something to keep in mind if I do it next year. (I think I will do it next year, since at the post mortem JB commented on how it was awesome to have stuff from HRSFen in the art show.)

And of course there were lots of cool alums who I haven't seen in forever, like silkspinner and pastwatcher.

I played a bunch of games of Race for the Galaxy which is a good game and I might buy it eventually. Maybe when I have a job for next year.

And the Mask was awesome this year. I wore the Chinese Dress of Awesome again. Still has +20 charisma. And one of the guys who goes to swing dancing at MIT was there, so I danced with him for a bunch of songs. (Before that I was going around asking if anyone had ranks in swing dancing, since I had ranks in swing dancing and wanted to be able to use them.)

Comments

[desh]

I haven't played CTFWS in years, and I've long given up on trying to organize one in Philly. I'm so jealous.

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

This CTFWS is different from CTFWDG. But I think in a cool way. There are all these items that do things and stuff, and you can capture people and put them in jail and bribe your way out of jail and stun people and whatnot. Though I do miss CTFWDG. Also, CTFWS only happens once a year at Vericon.

[desh]

No, I know. I never did CTFWDG, but I went to Pittsburgh 3 times for the primary purpose of playing CTFWS at CMU. By the end my traveling companions and I were better at it than most CMU students...