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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teflon Billy" data-source="post: 3006824" data-attributes="member: 264">This year's Gen Con (after a terribly inauspicious beginning which included the loss of my wallet/all my money, fistfighting a 60-year old man and the forced disposal of my hair gel,  toothpaste and deodorant) I arrived in Indy pretty in pretty much a Glowering, Murderous and unhappy frame of mind.So I arrived at the Circvs Maximvs Kareoke Throwdown at Champs bar only to find out that Kareoke there was only on Wednesday. The evil was starting to pile up. :\ But, the folks I was meeting were, as it turned out, like a balm to me. Truth Seeker, Fusangite, Reveal, Diaglo (you heard me), Stebbins, Ladytoll, Reveal, Queen D, The Universe, and Kiznit managed to...using only the tools of Rye + Seven and their own personalities turn my mood around about 180 degrees by just letting me bitch endlessly and drink it away. So, thanks for that you guys. I'm not sure the rest of the Con would've really sang for me the way it did if you all hadn't slavaged that first night for me the way you did.And it did sing.I thought 2005 was the best Gen Con I had ever been to, and 2006 was always at least comparable to it and exceeded it on more than one occasion.I got a lot more gaming done this year than I have any other, which is odd, because I don't have a great record of actually enjoying convention games very much.So without further ado, I will reiterate what everyone has said ever since we've become aware of him as a GM: Piratecat is the real deal. His games always deliver, but this year's Mutants and Masterminds extravaganza was a tour-de-force.The group of Ethernaut, Kiznit, Cthulhu's Librarian, Queen D and The Universe were truly great.Queen D and The Universe both really got into their characters, with vocal stylings, physical tells, and broad comedy and I'll be honest--this is often a recipe for "Spotlight Hogs". Not in this case, they were near perfection as fellow Players. Almost as perfect as Kiznit managing to credibly portray a "Floating Brain in a jar" as simultaneuously crafty, insane, powerful, overconfident, intimidating and whiny<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Everyone else was equally brilliant, and it stands as one of the best games I've ever played...largely becasue of the skill of Piratecat and Kidcthulu working as a GM'ing duo. They set the tone, the rest of us picked it up and ran with it.Good all around.More to come later... </blockquote>

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