the Shark Jumps Us
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| Something about the old carpet |
Robin (Peryton) flew into town on Tuesday, which made doing things that one does for Wednesday at GenCon fairly easy, that is buy badges and have a per-convention party. Walking past the Will-Call line to the GM HQ was, as always, fun. Mark Hunt author and owner of Gangbusters RPG since about 2015(?) showed up for dinner, which topped off the night with Kevin J, Natalie, Kal Luin, Doug Jean (Zack), John Bennet and John's new gal Kirsten. GM Badges distributed and drinks had, this year's PeryPubbers, Mark included if he wants, let GenCon begin-- we voted on it even.
For the record, con pizza was had for lunch
I would also run Crawlspace: 21 and Over in the afternoon and evening with the tales "Ten Minutes Alone" and "Musical Gravestones." I was lucky enough to have many return players which means that I should have brought my popcorn because they did all the work. While it sometimes felt like a CAT 5 hurricane going on, wrangling the PCs into some sort of paced plot, I have only myself to blame. The rules system is designed to let people go wild. The PCs did make the sessions true B movie horror classics.
For some reason, Friday was my easy day. Running only a Qalidar session in the morning and then Crawlspace that evening. Peryton and I watched John run his Gangbusters game. I also met a fellow named Tyler that was American but living in Italy(?). He was running Arcanis a system and we talked in-depth about the 17th Century. Already speaking with Pedro Barrenechea(sp) about the system, it would one of two purchases of the con. Then some pizza happened with John and Kirsten. Of course, when "Dancing on Graves" came up, Doug Jean played Dug the Camera Guy and did his best to emulate the previous night's stress level for me. So after a bit of presenting the dilemma, I called upon the adage "when in doubt, zombie out" for the climax. Being a small group with intimates like Michael Springer, Peryton, and Doug's wife Rae-Rae, it was still a comfortable get-together. I think we all stayed around and chatted for another hour.
I'll admit it. Saturday was hard on me. The day started at 8am. A mistake on the scheduling but I liked getting to a parking space early and cheaper. Cheap enough for Peryton to Uber herself down that afternoon and still beat parking fees for the other two days.
The early session was Wobble so that was easy enough and the players were old-school like me. I enjoyed Doug, John, Mark, and Craig getting my 70s sci-fi references throughout the course of "Port Spoons: Anew." Mark was a great technobabble guy and Craig helped me run the game even.
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| Not pictured is Craig. PLZ contact me |
While I was tired, the player's for Crawlspace's "The Spirit Box" a couple of return players got everyone into the mood for some good old fashioned werewolf action. Things got campy and great by the end of it. Peryton showed up and helped me get myself ready for the final session with CONVENTION PIZZA!
To make things easier, the Spice Guys, from the "Gotham City" scenario returned to help me keep things smooth for "A Horror of Rooms." My fake nephew, Liam (The Boy!), and two other kids (Aden and Jenna), as in under 20 showed up as well. So I banned any mention of whiskey to keep things age-appropriate. One of the kids chose a bag of cocaine as his carry-on item for his character. Spice Boy Sage at least hid is heroin in his novelty bat. I was supposed to go to 11pm, but by 9:30pm and everyone having been spooked at least once, I "zombied out." The death scenes were decent I heard. The Boy! wanted to hang but I was flaking and Peryton's feet needed some doctoring.
We didn't go Sunday. Instead we stayed in my neighborhood and did the movies and just a bit more pizza. Scientists that we are, Peryton and I were experimenting with can one have too much pizza in one long weekend. No conclusions yet. We're still experimenting.
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| The secret hiding spot for good con pizza at the Convention Center |
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