Gen Con Fallout....(nudity?)

[slaughterj]

Re: Re: Gen Con Fallout....

Didn't see that, alas; LARPers are always good for a giggle. However, just before we left on Saturday night, my brother and I were trying to figure out one of the TimeWarp puzzles (figuring out the desmurfified versions of proverbs like, "One smurfy smurf for smurf, one giant smurf for smurfkind"), when I heard a guy yell from the stairway nearby, "Hurry -- the cops are coming!" I looked over there to see a woman sitting on the stairs wearing (I think) skimpy underwear very quickly grab a little dress and throw it over herself, just before a couple of officers strolled around the corner. At the base of the stairs were three guys with video and regular cameras. They all waited until the cops were gone, and then the woman put her dress on properly and they left.

It made me nostalgic for DragonCon, I tell you.

Daniel

Hmm, DragonCon as in Charlotte, NC area? If so, I went there once around 1997 or so, quite a blast, with the women suspended on the rack in the party suite, etc.

 

[Kliqueman]

I think next year.. I'm gonna habe to play in some larps... even tho I dont much care for them....

 

[Pielorinho]

Re: Re: Re: Gen Con Fallout....

Hmm, DragonCon as in Charlotte, NC area? If so, I went there once around 1997 or so, quite a blast, with the women suspended on the rack in the party suite, etc.

DragonCon is in Atlanta, GA -- but that's just a couple hours away from Charlotte .

I've gone to it twice, and in my experience, the costumes at DragonCon are incredibly cool (and often minimalistic -- the convention program actually details Georgia's anti-nudity statutes, and the rent-a-cops end up telling people to go put on some electrical tape ). Besides the ubiquitous women-in-fishnets-and-electric-tape costumes, however, there were tons of awesome homemade outfits. My favorite was the fellow (?) who'd constructed his own Megaman suit out of foam and cloth, such that he looked exactly, and I mean precisely, like a cartoonish Nintendo figure.

The music at DragonCon was also pretty impressive: lots of great bands, great soundsystem, great lighting. Rocky Horror went on at midnight with the raunchiest floor show I've ever had the pleasure of witnessing -- I thought the Raleigh, NC crowd was rowdy, but I had no idea.

The gaming at the two DragonCons I went to -- well, how do I put this? It totally freakin sucked. Disorganized, surly reluctant DMs, players more interested in gaining points for Living Campaign characters than in joining a good time, and more crap.

GenCon's costumes were something of a letdown after the spectacle of DragonCon, I admit; while there were occasional ultracool costumes, they were nowhere near as common as they are at DragonCon. And the music was pretty much nonexistent, unless you count Karaoke at the costume ball. (I don't). But the gaming more than made up for it.

I'm skipping DragonCon in the future, unless i hear that they've improved the gaming scene mightily. Making GenCon has become a priority.

Daniel

 

[Angcuru]

Ah, the things one misses while living in the suburbs... But then again, I never was interested in gaming conventions in the first place. Maybe next in a few years there should be an ENCon. Now THAT I would gladly attend.

 

[Pielorinho]

This thread might be the appropriate place to mention the most pathetic thing I saw at the con: a nebbish-looking guy in glasses and peach-fuzz beard, leading a skinny little skimpy-dressed girl in a bikini-and-fairy-wings-costume about by a chain leash. As they walked through the vendor room, he stared straight ahead and kept saying to nobody in particular, "Yep, I own this fairy...this fairy is mine...this fairy is my property..." in a dispirited monotone.

I wanted to go up and say, "Oh, you poor dear." But I wasn't sure which one of them to say it to.

Daniel

 

[ThirdWizard]

This thread might be the appropriate place to mention the most pathetic thing I saw at the con: a nebbish-looking guy in glasses and peach-fuzz beard, leading a skinny little skimpy-dressed girl in a bikini-and-fairy-wings-costume about by a chain leash. As they walked through the vendor room, he stared straight ahead and kept saying to nobody in particular, "Yep, I own this fairy...this fairy is mine...this fairy is my property..." in a dispirited monotone.

I wanted to go up and say, "Oh, you poor dear." But I wasn't sure which one of them to say it to.

Daniel

Sounds like somebody lost a bet!

 

[Angcuru]

But the question is which one?

 

[Pants]

There definitely was a lack of Pants at Gencon.

Daniel

Is this a good or a bad thing?

 

[Scion of Vyshaan]

You should have been at the Whitewolf Party.

I should know better than to go to the party with free scotch.

 

[ThirdWizard]

But the question is which one?

There's a reason I didn't specify.