OK..sorry about being late putting the update. Also, Slayer? Be glad they don't put a giant V on your forehead
in red lipstick and make you do "Stupid Virgin Tricks" like I have heard about from the Audience Participation of RHPS.
Anyway....
GenCon Day 1
OK, so..got up at 6 A.M., got breakfast from starbucks at the Marriott, then went to the center.
Spend a bit scoping everything out, and got in 2 rounds in the Pods, but my second round
I could not get the sheet for as there were some technical difficulties with their printer, and then the Pods crashed. In the scoping out, I went to see where CGL was in the miniatures hall..MAN they are OUT there! But they are closer to the restrooms this year.
When the doors opened, me, ShadowSeraph, Leonard Kerensky, and our GCV stormed the
Catalyst booth. I got Leviathans core box, Shadowrun 2050, the reprint of TRO:3067, and Sprawl Sites, as well as a thing of the shadowrun dice. Unfortunately, apparently a guy
was a bit a really not nice guy, and bought ALL the BattleTech dice just so no-one else could
have them. I HOPE CGL has more that they can bring in tomorrow, as I *STILL* want my Liao
dice!
From Catalyst, I made a mad dash over the the AEG booth to get the Book of Air and the
Second City boxed set. From there, I brought all this heavy stuff back to the room and headed back to the hall. In the hall, I got two copies of the old Shadowrun: Germany soourcebook(one for me, and one for one of the guys in my group back home), and the Crimson Skies
sourcebook?: Pride of the republic. At the "Everything is 5 Dollars" booth(love them!),
I got the Decipher Star Trek RPG book Creatures(just short Aliens!). As I was wandering around, I found this booth that had LOTS of second hand Games Workshop stuff...I plan
to go back tomorrow, but I picked up the Sister Dialogus and Sister Hospitaler I need
for my Sisters of Battle army....and with the last of my discretionary spending money for
the day, I got them, a really cool looking Sister Superior with Plasma Pistol and Chainsword,
and an OLD, rogue trader/second edition era Space Wolves Vindicator. While I will be
stripping the Sisters pieces, the Vindicator is not going to be touched...probably the only
piece I will ever field in 40K not painted by me. Only tweak I plan is to do the touch-up
to make it show my Great Company's marker.
After that, I took a bit of a break, came back to the room to get my slight extra money to
cover food for the rest of the day, and typed up part of the report to Wordpad, and headed back out.
First thing I did was go over and get a nice meal of 2 foot long coney dogs and fried from the A&W in the mall.
I have discovered that by eating a big meal for lunch, a) I walk most of it off, and b) I do not need to
be constantly trying to snack my through the rest of the day(so it is cheaper on food!).
By the time I got back to the convention center, it was time to mosey over to the canon event. Me and my group
got into the Big Battle on the side of the Good Guys....the Amaris forces. I ended up controlling a lance of a
the AC-20 Von Luckner, a Burke, a Manticore, and a Phoenix. It took us most of the game, but we finally cracked
the lynchpins of the SLDF defense: an Emperor, a Battlemaster, and an Atlas. However, they got ammo hits on the
Mackie and King Crab that were in our Assault Lance. However, Checking back later, I had heard that the Maris forces
had finally brought it down to an "anyone's game"..and, as of the end of the grand Melee, the tanks were STILL on
the field. (And the SLDF was still, apparently, going "Oh..its only tanks.")
From there, we had to immediately rush over to the Grand Melee. I took a Hellbringer H for fun, and to get my mind
into the "fight smart, fight viscious" mentality needed for the Trial of Bloodright today. I died fairly early because
I got caught between a Flamberge and two Summoners. In retrospect, i should have used a Lupus B again this
year. But, hey...this was for fun.
After the Grand Melee, we headed back to the room, got some Pizza, went down stairs tot eh Starbucks and set
up Leviathans....and about 3 turns in realized we were all about to fall over unconscious. So..back to the room
and that thing called "sleep."
