Prairie Boy: August 2006

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

GenCon Indy 2006

Circumstances allowed us to go to GenCon Indy again this year. I had to do a little bit of recruiting work this year, but it made the trip possible.

We ended up getting in Thursday night and booked in at the Crowne Plaza. It was overly crowded, and our room ended up being taken. It worked out for us though - we ended up being upgraded to one of their train car suites! The hotel was part of an active rail station servicing sleeper cars, and now has a number of stationary sleeper cars they rent out as a novelty. Each of the sleeper cars were named after a celebrity who used them at one time - we got the Greta Garbo car! Also by the cars and throughout the hotel were these fiberglass statues of the "ghosts of people past" who used the station and hotel - kinda cool and kinda creepy.

The Sleeper Cars

Inside the Greta Garbo car

Creepy fiberglass sailor eternally lighting his cigarette

GenCon itself was lots of fun, as always. It's becoming more of a place to meet friends, like Freelancer Five and his lovely wife, Don and Dan from S'toon, and a whole bunch of the other PEG folks.

One cool bit: I was at our recruiting booth, I was approached by Dave Arneson (co-creator of D&D for those of you not in the know). He said, "I really like your game!" I just stood there for a second, then said, "Well Mr. Arneson, I really like your game too!" :-)

Now on to other gaming and costume pics from GenCon!

Cool Gaming Stuff

Medieval castle under siege from The Miniature Building Authority

Massive MasterMaze set by Dwarven Forge

Costumes

Obligatory Star Wars costume

Dice head guy!

Obligatory chainmail bikini

Mmm... succubus

Wee fairies!

I am the Grand Wizard!

Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi

Our friend Jen and the Femtrooper

Look at the wee Boba!

Confrontation booth babe

It's Kitty! She's ALWAYS at GenCon

Who ya gonna call? Indiana Ghostbusters, apparently

I think they're from a video game

P.S. We also attended the Miskatonic Frat Party to celebrate the release of Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition. I lost some sanity.

P.P.S. We're thinking about attending Origins 2007 to help run this.

Monday, August 07, 2006

Those Wacky Rosicrucians

When enthymeme was down a few weeks ago, we ended up taking a visit to the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum. Don't know much about those Rosicrucians, but they sure collect a whole lot of neat Ancient Egyptian stuff! TUO already posted a picture on her blog, but here are a few more.