Gen Con - Good bad and ugly

[fusangite]

On Sunday I used the stairs up and down to the 13th floor more than once. The elevator motor burning up leaving them with only two main elevators (not counting the service elevator) didn't help matters at all.

On Sunday morning, they locked the fire doors on levels 4 and 5 so it was impossible to get to breakfast without taking the elevator. And all the elevators were so full below about floor #12 that the only way to get down from floor #10 was to take the elevator up to floor #23 and then back down.

 

[Ethernaut]

Come for the free breakfast at the Embassy Suites -- they don't check to see if you're actually a guest. By the time I left, half of Gencon was eating breakfast there. Yeah -- the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced I need to run a Gamma World Escape From the Embassy Suites scenario at next year's con.

Oh, I'm *so* there!

Done! This should be an easy game. Outside of downtown, Indianapolis already seems a little post-apocalyptic.

You ain't kidding. The areas just over the river are especially distressed. But there are other sites for proper post-apocalyptic adventure. I always imagined that the power plant by the Best Western/Stadium would be an ideal setting for a climactic fight scene... especially under a full moon with heat lighting in the distance.

The cannal is also pretty cool, though not sinister in and of itself. But it would be nifty as a seeting for post-apocalyptic night market.

 

[francisca]

Why does everyone always wamt to play a mutant animal? Humanoids are more powerful.

Alex, I'll take: "All of us are not power-gamey munchkins for $1000", please.

 

[Buttercup]

The cannal is also pretty cool, though not sinister in and of itself. But it would be nifty as a seeting for post-apocalyptic night market.

Clearly I need to go exploring next year. I've been to Indy perhaps 10 times and yet I've not seen this canal.

 

[francisca]

You ain't kidding. The areas just over the river are especially distressed. But there are other sites for proper post-apocalyptic adventure. I always imagined that the power plant by the Best Western/Stadium would be an ideal setting for a climactic fight scene... especially under a full moon with heat lighting in the distance.

I have a picture of that, with the moon looming over it. Eric and I think it has shadowrun written all over it.

 

[WhimsyTheFae]

Come for the free breakfast at the Embassy Suites -- they don't check to see if you're actually a guest. By the time I left, half of Gencon was eating breakfast there. Yeah -- the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced I need to run a Gamma World Escape From the Embassy Suites scenario at next year's con.

I also want to play...if response is too great, would you consider running this multiple times? Don't take too long answering, you have a game to plan (and less than a year 'til GenCon '06)...

 

[wingsandsword]

On Sunday morning, they locked the fire doors on levels 4 and 5 so it was impossible to get to breakfast without taking the elevator.

Isn't locking a Fire Escape monumentally illegal?

 

[IronWolf]

On Sunday morning, they locked the fire doors on levels 4 and 5 so it was impossible to get to breakfast without taking the elevator. And all the elevators were so full below about floor #12 that the only way to get down from floor #10 was to take the elevator up to floor #23 and then back down.

Yep, we ran into the locked doors on Sunday too. Lady IronWolf pioneered a route down on the 3rd floor where you turned a corner opposite of what one would have thought and it brought you out in the covered walkway en route to the mall. A short walk took you to the base of the escalators and hopped on those to take you back to the main lobby.

 

[IronWolf]

Isn't locking a Fire Escape monumentally illegal?

The 4th and 5th floors weren't really where you should be exiting if the building were on fire. I believe I heard the doors at the street level were unlocked and came out near a dumpster. Not sure how one would escape if it were the 2nd and 3rd floors on fire though.

 

[fusangite]

Clearly I need to go exploring next year. I've been to Indy perhaps 10 times and yet I've not seen this canal.

I jogged along it on Thursday and Friday mornings; it's a local rendition of the usual disused waterfront gentrification scheme.