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Re: Dragoncon

Postby 4ofSwords » Sat Aug 23, 2014 8:01 pm

Okay, I'm starting to get excited. Anyone have an interest not in a meetup, but in meeting up? I'm tied up Saturday, but otherwise open to blowing off the schedule and hanging out for an hour or so - getting a bite to eat, or whatever.
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Re: Dragoncon

Postby Emperor_Palpatine » Tue Aug 26, 2014 9:42 pm

A bite to eat? Oh my, 4ofSwords. Are you trying to stuff your fellow forum users down your throat!? :P
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Re: Dragoncon

Postby 4ofSwords » Tue Aug 26, 2014 10:28 pm

Heh heh heh.
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Re: Dragoncon

Postby sansuki » Tue Aug 26, 2014 10:51 pm

I am interested to see how the procedures for getting a guest badge differ from that of you hoi polloi. :lol:
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Re: Dragoncon

Postby Silversepiroth » Tue Aug 26, 2014 11:42 pm

I want to go so bad, because this one's the closest one to me that's decent, but I can't because money. Hoping to go next year, though.
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Re: Dragoncon

Postby 4ofSwords » Wed Aug 27, 2014 12:41 am

sansuki wrote:I am interested to see how the procedures for getting a guest badge differ from that of you hoi polloi. :lol:


Look at you!
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Re: Dragoncon

Postby XDDX » Wed Aug 27, 2014 2:47 am

Emperor_Palpatine wrote:A bite to eat? Oh my, 4ofSwords. Are you trying to stuff your fellow forum users down your throat!? :P


Does that joke ever get old? :P
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Re: Dragoncon

Postby Shinnigami » Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:02 am

Of course. I live right outside of atlanta so i attend almost every year. This might be the last time for a while that I do all four days though. They hiked the price up again and the preregistration is getting too procey for my blood. Might have to just do single/double day passes next year.
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Re: Dragoncon

Postby 4ofSwords » Wed Aug 27, 2014 12:23 pm

Well, since EP has earned a gold star by seeing through my nefarious ploy, I put an up-to-date picture up on the "what do we look like?" thread. If you see some guy who looks like this: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=777&p=2100089#p2100089 running be hotels like the straight-super-A nerd afraid not to be fifteen minutes early for classes, then BEWARE! (Or you can say hi, but you take your fate into your own hands!)
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Re: Dragoncon

Postby Emperor_Palpatine » Wed Aug 27, 2014 8:19 pm

XDDX wrote:
Emperor_Palpatine wrote:A bite to eat? Oh my, 4ofSwords. Are you trying to stuff your fellow forum users down your throat!? :P


Does that joke ever get old? :P


Nope!

And 4ofSwords? You look kind of like David Cross. Neato! XD
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Re: Dragoncon

Postby sansuki » Wed Aug 27, 2014 10:02 pm

Flight leaves at 10 AM. I am too hyped to contain it anymore. Didn't do any costumes this time despite debating it last year. Never enough time~
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Re: Dragoncon

Postby Emperor_Palpatine » Wed Aug 27, 2014 10:19 pm

I wish I could show off my costumes here, but I'm way too private. I'm super excited, though! I doubt I'll be able to sleep until Friday~~~
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Re: Dragoncon

Postby sansuki » Mon Sep 01, 2014 4:53 pm

help i've made a terrible mistake


i need a vacation to recover from the last four days


send pedialyte and coffee

edit: OH GOD I HAVE TO GET ON A PLANE TOMORROW
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Re: Dragoncon

Postby 4ofSwords » Mon Sep 01, 2014 6:10 pm

sansuki wrote:send pedialyte and coffee


pedialyte and coffee

pedialyte and coffee

(thinking of those two liquids coexisting in the same individual's body makes me feel a little retch-y)
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Re: Dragoncon

Postby sansuki » Mon Sep 01, 2014 6:31 pm

Post-party breakfast of champions. Haters, to the left.

(also oh my god that dragoness that won best novice at the masquerade was incredible)
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Re: Dragoncon

Postby 4ofSwords » Mon Sep 01, 2014 7:16 pm

How did you your Guest-badge-getting go, by the way? I walked straight into the Sheraton on Friday at 9:15a, and walked back out with a badge before 9:20a. It was actually kind of disorienting.

But I liked it.
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Re: Dragoncon

Postby sansuki » Mon Sep 01, 2014 7:21 pm

Well, I wandered around the Sheraton asking everyone I saw where to go to get my 'professional' badge, and got kicked around like a complicated hockey puck until one of the long-time volunteering graybeards overheard and directed me to the VIP registration room in the Marriott. Pretty swanky!
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Re: Dragoncon

Postby 4ofSwords » Mon Sep 01, 2014 8:15 pm

Sounds it! You didn't even have to leave the real hotels or slum it with we Alt History/Urban Fantasy folks. Except you did, but now you know for next year!
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Re: Dragoncon

Postby sansuki » Tue Sep 02, 2014 5:43 am

True! We'll see if they want me back next year, but I think they will since the panels I was on seemed well regarded and standing-room-only. Of course, that's true of most of the sessions at the con... :lol:

Seriously, I think they've again hit their size limit. Adding more hotels is no longer an effective way to cope with overcrowding, as anyone in the Marriott on Saturday night can tell you. Distasteful as it'd be, I think they have to start looking at attendance caps, because adding another few thousand every year is not sustainable.
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Re: Dragoncon

Postby 4ofSwords » Tue Sep 02, 2014 9:42 am

Speaking of Alt History, I thought it was really sad (not in a "shame on you con-goers" kind of way, but just kind of a disappointing turn of events), that Harry Turtledove was the literary guest of honor, but his panel didn't even draw enough people to fill the first two rows in the Regency room. It meant good seating for me! But still.
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