[Stormy-chan]

Okay my first con ever was Acen 2000 and I met one of my bestest friends ever there! and I was at Acen 2001, but sadly do due to moving and other such events havent been back till last year 2009 which was awesome!! And thankfully me and few friends will be back this year too!!!!

Now in the inbetween years i did go to a few other cons here and there, but the one that sticks out the most and i will never forget was the first year i went to Ohayocon ummm i think it was 2007 or 2008.

A group of friends and I went to a panel that starred Vic, Greg Ayers, and Scott McNeal! It was the most fun i have ever had a panel, they were insanely funny to watch and ask questions of. Now it gets better *grin* Scott had a signing session in the back of the room when the panel was over, so ofcourse the line started to form.... You could see the con staff coming just as my group got close to the table telling him her would have to finish up because the next panel needed the room. He looked at the staffer and said he couldnt just leave yet motioning to the line still waiting. So just as i step up to the table the staffer says they have a table set up in the hallway and he could continue out side. So what does Scott do?? He stands up takes my hand and puts it on his arm and walks me out to the new table like he is escorting to a ball!! ahhh we reached the table and he hugged me and kissed me! on the cheek *swoon* i was so giddy i almost forgot the pencil board i was holding for him to sign.. LOL

My friends told me later that there were a few envious looks and evil glares during this, but i will always remember this con for that reason.. I got my first voice actor smooch there!!!

Anyone else have a good story to share??

[Lina]

http://www.acen.org/...showtopic=34192

[Stormy-chan]

Lina, on Mar 11 2010, 08:36 PM, said:

http://www.acen.org/...showtopic=34192

Some of those are great stories Though it seemed they are mainly Acen fun times I am curious of other experiences from other cons to!

[Lina]

Hanging out with Michael Sinterniklaas between like 2am and 4am or so at Youma was hilarious.

[sentinel28a]

Scaring the hell out of vampire LARPers was a highlight of a gaming con I went to a few years ago. Probably why the LARPers haven't come back in awhile.

Ben Da Mad Irishman
"That and the Twilight craze"

[gadgets]

sentinel28a, on Mar 11 2010, 10:24 PM, said:

Scaring the hell out of vampire LARPers was a highlight of a gaming con I went to a few years ago. Probably why the LARPers haven't come back in awhile.

Ben Da Mad Irishman
"That and the Twilight craze"

ohhh what happened sounds interessting lol

[sentinel28a]

gadgets, on Mar 12 2010, 04:27 AM, said:

ohhh what happened sounds interessting lol

Let me think about it for a minute...okay.

So the story goes: I'm attending Montana's one and ONLY convention for any kind (combination sci-fi/gaming/anime con) back in the late 1990s. Vampire the Masquerade was at the height of its popularity then--you know, the game that briefly ignited the "gamers are devil worshipers" meme that was so popular in the 1980s, when some idiots who played the game started digging up corpses and acting like they were really vampires. (Today, this would simply be put down to Twilight fans.) I played Vampire (still do), but I didn't go to the extreme of LARPers.

LARP--Live Action Role-Playing--is basically taking gaming to the next level, where you become your character as much as you can. You dress as the character, talk like them, and act out your character's actions instead of just throwing some dice or drawing their picture. The only thing that isn't allowed is actual combat, since people get killed that way and the gaming industry didn't need any more bad press. It's pretty harmless fun, kind of a combination of cosplay and gaming, though I prefer to keep the two separate.

Where I lived though, the LARPers took themselves way too seriously. If you weren't in the game, they refused to discuss it with you. And they were worse at cons. They came up to a friend of mine--who wasn't even in the LARP--and demanded he tell them what he knew, because "you're Dominated (i.e. hypnotized) and you must tell me." My friend laughed and gave them the finger. The LARPer was actually stunned--mortals can't do that to 9th generation Toreadors!

This sort of idiot behavior escalated until we, the con's Battletech players, decided to take revenge. So on the last night of the con--when the vampires had their big conclave to discuss "secret clan business"--we sat opposite the door of the conclave (in the hotel's convention center), and began sharpening pencils with penknives. In the LARP (or at least the one that was run at the con), pencils represented stakes. We would just smile at the vampires and continue slowly sharpening the pencils. Occasionally, when someone who really took their vampire cosplay to the limits, we would huddle together, whisper nonsensically, and look over our shoulders at the vampire in question...and smile some more.

We heard later that the LARPers were absolutely convinced we were a group of vampire hunters who had been sent in to kill them all--in game, of course. The fact that we never actually entered the conclave, nor talked to the "vampires," only made them more paranoid. Apparently, the people who were running the LARP had no idea what the players were talking about.

The harrassment of non-LARPers ended after that, because they could never be sure which ones were players and which ones weren't. The LARPs stopped at the con soon after that.

Ben Da Mad Irishman
"And there was great rejoicing"

[gadgets]

sentinel28a, on Mar 11 2010, 10:47 PM, said:

Let me think about it for a minute...okay.

So the story goes: I'm attending Montana's one and ONLY convention for any kind (combination sci-fi/gaming/anime con) back in the late 1990s. Vampire the Masquerade was at the height of its popularity then--you know, the game that briefly ignited the "gamers are devil worshipers" meme that was so popular in the 1980s, when some idiots who played the game started digging up corpses and acting like they were really vampires. (Today, this would simply be put down to Twilight fans.) I played Vampire (still do), but I didn't go to the extreme of LARPers.

LARP--Live Action Role-Playing--is basically taking gaming to the next level, where you become your character as much as you can. You dress as the character, talk like them, and act out your character's actions instead of just throwing some dice or drawing their picture. The only thing that isn't allowed is actual combat, since people get killed that way and the gaming industry didn't need any more bad press. It's pretty harmless fun, kind of a combination of cosplay and gaming, though I prefer to keep the two separate.

Where I lived though, the LARPers took themselves way too seriously. If you weren't in the game, they refused to discuss it with you. And they were worse at cons. They came up to a friend of mine--who wasn't even in the LARP--and demanded he tell them what he knew, because "you're Dominated (i.e. hypnotized) and you must tell me." My friend laughed and gave them the finger. The LARPer was actually stunned--mortals can't do that to 9th generation Toreadors!

This sort of idiot behavior escalated until we, the con's Battletech players, decided to take revenge. So on the last night of the con--when the vampires had their big conclave to discuss "secret clan business"--we sat opposite the door of the conclave (in the hotel's convention center), and began sharpening pencils with penknives. In the LARP (or at least the one that was run at the con), pencils represented stakes. We would just smile at the vampires and continue slowly sharpening the pencils. Occasionally, when someone who really took their vampire cosplay to the limits, we would huddle together, whisper nonsensically, and look over our shoulders at the vampire in question...and smile some more.

We heard later that the LARPers were absolutely convinced we were a group of vampire hunters who had been sent in to kill them all--in game, of course. The fact that we never actually entered the conclave, nor talked to the "vampires," only made them more paranoid. Apparently, the people who were running the LARP had no idea what the players were talking about.

The harrassment of non-LARPers ended after that, because they could never be sure which ones were players and which ones weren't. The LARPs stopped at the con soon after that.

Ben Da Mad Irishman
"And there was great rejoicing"

HAHA LOL
that was great
I still have that game too and its still awsome to play sometimes