Wednesday: Are we sleeping in the car?!
I thought we were more prepared this year. We made it cheaper by bringing our own snacks and Ramen cup lunches. We basically ate off food trucks the whole time for dinner so that also saved us a few bucks. This year was not spectacular though. I made the mistake of over loading my Thursday with classes/events leaving little time for food or generally getting orientated. We got lucky on Wednesday. We were supposed to stay at a friend of a friend's place so we could register early (my first class was Thursday 9 am). Also you know, make new friends. But that plan fell through. We were SO lucky a friendly couple let us stay with them since their room mate wasn't going to be in their room (she got sick). And so we got to make some new friends!
Thursday: Class overload
As I mentioned I over loaded on classes. I ended up taking a book binding class which we ran out of time to finish our books (boo) it was fairly expensive too. I cancelled my second book binding class (a different technique) in lieu for a break and dinner. We did a little dealer's room but mostly wandered around until my next class which was geeky painting. There was no real direction to the class and nothing particularly geeky about it so I was a bit miffed I paid for the class. Technique was not taught, nothing to go off of. Just, I guess, a little time to relax and paint. The teacher had scrapbooking supplies up the wazoo that I should have taken more advantage of but whatever. We got 3 canvases of different sizes so I themed mine around dragons. I didn't get to finish 2 of the painting and haven't gotten around to them since I've been home.
Per usual we met with the "good" werewolf group that meets in the same place every year under the stairs and played a game. It was too big of a game to play more than one and Matt didn't feel like it so that was about it. We went to bed late that night.
Friday: Cosplay! Cards Against Humanity concert!
Since our Thur-Sat hotel was connected to the con; I got to cosplay this year! Although I didn't finish my Hilda/Ravio couples costumes I did finish my Beemo costume and had a stand Lolita one. Since costumes are so uncomfortable I thought it was great I could go back to the room whenever and swap out to normal clothes. I only ended up feeling good enough to do my Beemo cosplay on Friday (even though the cosplay parade was Saturday). The reason why I choose Friday was because it was the free-est day. We didn't have any classes or commitments. Pure dealer's room free reign. A lot of people did comment on my costume and I did get a few pictures which felt great. It's definitely a motivator to get more cosplays done for next year and/or any other cons we might be able to afford in the future.
Prior to the con I had found out that Cards Against Humanity was having a concert (what that meant exactly I'm not sure in terms of "concert"). I decided it was worth the price to go so I bought the tickets. Boyfriend was so reluctant to go mostly because we had no idea what it was going to be like. Earlier in the day I had did a little research and found out it sells out every year and is a big thing GenCons go to. Reviews saying it was worth the price.
We got there and got some silly pictures (I won't be sharing) representing the cards we like the most. But we're so awkward we just ended up doing dirty poses. We got a swag bag (pictured below) full of rando stuff and some (what i thought was) exclusive CAH card packs. Our seats were pretty good, it was easy to see the whole stage. It started late with a funny scrolling "what upset you the most about GenCn so far" text entry presentation screen. Some funny jokes were made.
The show consisted of the CAH panel talking about their favorite rejected cards followed by stand up comedy and song comedy by some well known people. I couldn't get over H. Jon Benjamin's voice thinking about Archer and Bob's Burgers.
Now I thought it was going from 8-10 pm. But I was very, very wrong. it went 8-past midnight. But in hindsight it was still very worth it. A fun side quest I wouldn't mind doing again next year with better seats. CAH Haul:
Saturday: True Dungeon!
Saturday was devoted to True Dungeon. We had time in the morning to wonder around but I think we got up late so we didn't have too much time because it started around 1 pm. I was a little sad I had to cancel the book binding class I actually wanted to attend but it saved us money and time. We had never done TD before but always heard it was worth the price tag and we were able to score the first and second (back-to-back) dungeon tickets.
We started on easy mode (no one dies) because we were first timers but the rest of the people with us (including kids, yuck) agreed it was fine. I played a Wizard my first Dungeon, boyfriend played a Cleric. The "things" we had to learn to use our powers were simple but seemed scary. I felt like a dork most of the time because I just kept pointing out irrelevant things in the rooms that our guide just had to be in character and be like "ignore that." I won't go into too much more detail but it was a lot of fun and the tokens you get you keep. So the second dungeon we were playing with generous well organized people. I was a Rouge this time, much more stressful and boyfriend played a Barbarian. We played normal mode which was a little harder but did it fine. Both times since we didn't die we got prize tokens but no ledgendaries. We can play with the same tokens next year which we plan to do.
Sunday
Sunday we were going to do our shopping and play some games in the dealer room but I just couldn't wake up. We had put all the stuff in the car when we checked out but I just kept stumbling around with my eyes half closed. I've been having a hard time waking up recently so I attribute it to that but I'm sad it cut our time short. Boyfriend basically understood and we headed out early (I wanna say noon). On the ride home I totally clunked out (which I can usually never sleep while traveling) for like an hour. Then the rest of the way home I was awake and able to keep him company.
Overall
Worth. So worth. Our haul this year is much smaller (I didn't do any tournaments and we didn't buy any games because of the whole house situation) but it has some quality stuff. Listed under picture:
1 baseball gen con tee
1 pikachu plush
1 seal in a shark costume plush
1 lamb plush
2 CAH expansion packs
Buttons galore
3 painting canvases
1 partly finished leather bound book
2 capsule dice for some game I have no idea (thought they were d6's)
1 set blue matching free gen con d6 of dice
Buttload of TD tokens
1 set rainbow dice
1 set synthetic large size opal dice
More buttons
Our TD character cards
1 misshapened thermo-plastic rupee
2 adorable fox posters from independent artist
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