Dragon*Con 2006 Sept. 1-4
POSTED BY: monkeytail
UPDATED: Saturday, May 20, 2006 15:30
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This will be my first year at DragonCon...I am going with my wife (a veteran of at least one) and will be meeting up with several far-flung friends there. None of them have the level of obsession I do (I am working on that 
you will convert!), so I have been told I can play where I want as long as I show back up to drive home Sunday night...
Now, not having EVER been a fan of anything to this extent, I never sought out others who shared the same love. I want to meet ALL of you that are going, and I would love to go to all these shindigs, but I don't want to come across as pushy. Is there generally a place that all the browncoats meet up to eyeball one another (to be sure they aren't Alliance plants, ya know)?
Forgive my rambling, but I feel like a kid about to go into a toy store without adult supervision (even if it is 150-some-odd days away.)
Thank you all for any advice.
HOlding until you get back, Captain.
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I've had an Idea (yeah, it did hurt a bit) The hotel rooms occupied by all on this fair thread will be getting signs on their doors 'Random Nook Towers' or some such.
That way, anyone looking for anyone else can find us with little trouble,
If the Marillion pouring out of one room, the alcohol flowing out of another, the corset clad lady pirates launching raids on their neighbours just for the fun of it and the people running clutching their heads and mumbling about randomness and sandy knickers don't clue you in.
More importantly, it means I can find my way back to the rooms, which is always good.
Then again, theres always phone tag.
oooooh. toy shops with out the restraints, fun.
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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.
FozzieWash, You know what I always say: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!
KermieMal, I never Know what the heck you're talking about.
FozzieWash, Hey, look! They're sending us free lumber!
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Well, at least one of the days will find the wife and I in medieval/dark ages armor. She will be in full plate, and I in something approaching the Rohan of LOTR (I am also an armorer in my spare time). I suppose I could bring along the siege engines...would the pirates mind a trebuchet aimed at their door?
Yeah...no restraints...toy store...chaos ensues!
Holding until you get back, Captain.
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I think having signs on the doors is a great idea, so we can tell people "Look for room number such and such with the Big sign on the door that says such and such. That's where the party's at."
Yeah.
Oooh, anyone remember the party last year with the glow necklaces (that we wanted to go to but didn't?) We need a cool theme so everyone will wish they were at OUR party.
Serenity, First Officer of Destiny
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er, no, but only if its about a foot high and flings candy. Anything bigger and you may face objections from the hotel staff.
Gorramit! A Firefly loving armourer, and he's married.
I have no luck.
Still would you like an apprentice? I'll work for room and board!
You'd better visit as well, I want to see your wifes suit. And your Rohan get up as well, and bask in the warm glow of my own jealousy for a minute or two.
If anyone is wondering what i'm prattling on about, I want to, if at all possible study leather working and possibly armour manufacture (right word?)
aw hell, I wanna run away and beg Weta to employ me.
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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.
FozzieWash, You know what I always say: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!
KermieMal, I never Know what the heck you're talking about.
FozzieWash, Hey, look! They're sending us free lumber!
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Theme, theme.....
*thinks, thinks*
How about Calvin ball? Everyone has to bring a mask of some kind, and earn emoticons. (ummmm.....)
we could serve pepsi-milk in the penalty box (the desk) and if enough cute strangers to go around turn up we could indroduce the cloven-fruit rule. 
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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.
FozzieWash, You know what I always say: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!
KermieMal, I never Know what the heck you're talking about.
FozzieWash, Hey, look! They're sending us free lumber!
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with my triumverate of awesomeness and all the nooksters and nooktressi and hidey folk and tree'ers and such our party will very obviously be the place to be ;)
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want to study leather work? I'll have my bracers.
Visit WWW.Marillion.Com for a better way to live
"Finding the answer It's a human obsession
But you might as well talk to the stones and the trees and the sea
'Cause nobody knows And so few can see
There's only beauty and caring and truth beyond darkness." -Estonia(This Strange Engine) -Marillion
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I dunno, strike that idea I had, I think masked strangers, sugary concoctions and the cloven fruit game may just be too much for one hotel room.
Yeah, I'm really interested in traditional craft as they related to costume, wanted to get somewhere that could combine the making with the research and the testing, but not sure hoe to even start. There alwway seems to be a huge block on every path.
Sorry, got another rejection letter today, feeling the 'should have a career by now' blues.
But this is the end of the whining right now.
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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.
FozzieWash, You know what I always say: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!
KermieMal, I never Know what the heck you're talking about.
FozzieWash, Hey, look! They're sending us free lumber!
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A foot high and flings candy...I think I can do that. The hotel staff actually hangs around during this weekend? I thought they'd run for the hills and turn over management to the first people that showed up.
Seryn, I actually started out working in leather, mostly lamellar-style armor, and then slowly graduated up to forcing my will upon sheets of steel. The first suit of metal armor I made was from the hood of a 1981 Cutlass...way too thin! I had no guidance at all when I began working with the leather, and I did not apprentice myself to an armorer to learn the steel. I do, however, have many, many reference books and a lot of patience (sometimes 
). I only cold-work the steel; I do not have a forge.
Depending on where you live, I am always willing to teach just about anything armor-related.
And yes, if I know where to find all of you, I would like to meet everyone that's going. Shouldn't be hard to find each other, eh?
If you have any questions at all, Seryn (or anyone), I will be happy to answer. I did not know there were other armoring Browncoats out there!
Holding until you get back, Captain.
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