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ApolloCon from the movie house

timechick — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:14:01 +0000

That’s most of what I saw that is. I spent most my time working in the media room this year and missed all the panels. I even missed the Firefly LARP and the dance, but I did manage to get to run a GURPS game for 4 hours and make the late night parties. I am particularly broke this year so I only made two or so cursory runs through the dealers room and didn’t see anything I couldn’t live without. I would say our quality of vendors has gone up a tad as has the quality of the fan movies we got to show this year. Everyone wanted to see “The Hunt for Gollum”. It’s a fan made movie but from looking at it, you’d think they rented Peter Jackson and New Zealand to shoot it. It was phenomenal! The acting looked professional, the locations were breathtaking, the costumes looked were just wow. My only complaint would be they could have given the female romantic lead a nose job, but I’m picky about noses. I’m sorry, when she came on camera, all I could do was look at her amazing white nose sticking out like a unicorn horn. Can’t they air brush that stuff now days? Lots of good action, fine killing of orks and well, lots of nose. lol

I did this year get a bit of a chance to see much of the costumes before the contest. I admit I ADD’d out of the improv fan comedy light bulb joke session and didn’t see the actual cosplay, but I did get a chance to see a few of the players standing out in the hall and this year’s selection was very good. (pictures pending)

I did run that GURPS game in one of the board rooms. It did turn out very well and they did give me a lot of good RP, I don’t think we had as much action as I wanted. I still have the characters and I may run a continuation of the game next year as per request. By then, I will have my rules down better and I won’t be looking stuff up as much. GURPS is a very easy system and I can fudge a lot if I have to. lol The system lacks a good ship battle system so what I did was played the ships like they were battletech mecs with lots of guns and armor and just described movement. It was fairly easy. Next time I may bring the hex grid and get serious on ships battles. That was the best part of the game. I do need mini ships for this don’t I. hmm.

Parties. Lots of parties. I lent my room out for the Wholigans Dr. Who party both nights. I think we had most the alcohal on the floor this time around. Our party could have had a few more signs, but we did have a OMG amount of beer and other things. We even got one of my gamer friends completely smashed who doens’t usually do that sort of thing as he repeatedly told us over and over again. lol We had to help him back to his room, gawd he was gone. lol I think the highlight of our party was the “Empress Dalek” costume. I’ve got a bunch of pictures of that and as usual, pictures pending. Next year, we need to top that guy who brought the cello, maybe a whole chamber orchestra lol.

Busy week ahead

timechick — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:23:56 +0000

Fortunately most the ApolloCon movie stuff is done. We’ve got the schedule done, most the staff set up and ready to go, and the flyers are all up on the website. I am aslo going to run a game on Saturday afternoon/evening. It’s up on the gaming schedule under the title “Velasco”. I have room for 6 players, if you are interested, it will be Steampunk/Western alt universe Texas in 1836. I’m a little nervous about it, but I’ve had a bunch of sessions down with GURPS now in the past few months and I feel much more ready about running games than I had in the past with total strangers. It should be fun, at least I hope so. I have nothing for prizes, but there will be MIB’s there, maybe I can wrangle something out of them. lol! I just need to get off my butt in the next few days and polish up the character sheets and stuff and we are ready to roll. I had them put me down as 18+ mature, but in reality, I am being a mean GM and I don’t want to fool with munckins. Personally I do like kids, but I really want to swallow that task when I feel more ready for it.

I got the rest of the week filled with laundry, and cleaning, maybe a bit of maintainance, and family diplomacy to work out. I hope to get at least a little sleep before the con, but that doesn’t look likely. I certainly am not getting sleep while I’m there. My room will be taken over by the Space City Timelords for parties on Friday and Saturday night. Gawdz, what have I gotten myself into?

I know for most of you this is like watching paint dry but

timechick — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:40:29 +0000

If you are at least a little bit interested in the U.S. Chess Championship, you can watch the games live here. http://saintlouischessclub.org/US-Championship-2009-Live

Another Friday

timechick — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:16:06 +0000

I’ve made a few update to the wordpress site. I just need to work on more drupal stuff for the rest of the site. I also need to upload more stuff. I have one other site I’ve been working on, and that one will have to wait till it’s a little more baked before I announce it’s existence. Bear with me.

I have testing stuff to do tomorrow at the Elissa. I have two choices tonight. The new gaming convention, or studying. I’ve taken the test two times. I may skip out on studying. Con-Jour is at Uof H at Clear Lake. I have friends who are guests at this con. It would be fun to see what they are up too.