mikailborg | Technicon 21 report (Reply)

The element of Technicon that has stayed with me most this morning is the great pain in my legs from dancing too much too quickly Saturday night. Oh, yes... and I think that next time

raininva and I go to India Garden, we're ordering just bland chicken "tanders" and the garlic "naan" (bread). Our stomachs aren't international enough for much else.

Friday afternoon we got signed in to the Amerisuites... frankly, it was so much nicer than the Red Lion that we may just do T-Con from there in the future. Nice comfy room, a foldout for crashers, and a good continental breakfast to start the day.

Friday night I got to catch up with friends I hadn't seen in several years, including

tzel. Only had an hour or two to schmooze before I had to climb up the hill to Gaming and run my first WizKids game of the weekend, but that was enough time to chat with

kittykatya for a while. My Mechwarrior game ran until 10 or so, so I got back down to the main con in time to hear Keith Brinegar and Thom Gressman jam together for a while. Eventually we ran out of steam and headed back to the suite.

Saturday was packed! After breakfast, we hit the Fest Halle to set up for click-base. I spent a little time catching up with Nick, one of the other high-level Battlemasters for the east coast... we have similar tastes in anime and PS2 games. Back down hill to appear in "Whose Con Is It Anyway?" with Tom Atkinson, Keith, and art guest Heather Bruton; we had a lot of fun doing that one, it's a shame there weren't cameras running.

Back up hill to run my Shadowrun demo, which was fun; then back down hill to run the BattleBots game. Three children with high-speed remote-controlled implements of destruction, and laughing parents thinking "Hey, it's not my furniture getting banged into!"

Finished that, then rehearsed a costume skit with Kate,

kittenchan, and

rainbowsaber. Though they weren't part of the skit, at some point during rehearsal I acquired a pair of bunny ears which stayed with me the rest of the night. I'm beginning to think they properly represent my fur side :)

Saturday night was a nice White Plectrum performance, costume call, our skit, and the Vile One Skit That Ate Technicon. I played an erring fanboy freaking out costumed fangirls... yes, it was method acting. Afterwards I scored a contact buzz from being in a hotel room with 20 drunk folks, and then hit the dance. Most of my time at the dance was spent catching up with longtime VTSFFC friends, but Denise dragged me out on the floor for a few songs, and thus my painful calves.

Sunday hit too early, as it always does at a con. We got breakfast and checked out, then did a final pass through the Art Show to check bids. Back up the hill, and I finally got to play some .hack//enemy cards with Nick. We cleaned up and packed all the game stuff, then went back down for the Art and White Elephant Auctions.

We got what we wanted in Art... I got a most excellent set of 5 etched Discordian glasses (5 different glass styles and emblems, natch) from

tzel. Rain ended up with the FanGOH art original by

kittenchan and

rainbowsaber. They only managed to get through about 200 of the over 300 W.E. auction items, despite Rockbender and

rattrap's best efforts. :(

Finally, things wrapped up, and we headed over for too-spicy food and good conversation with

rubinpdf and Fred Homan. Then we went home, I read my e-mail, and we collapsed.

Thanks to

nius for putting on a great con - I had tons of fun! I'm already looking forward to

vond's Technicon next year!