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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Plemmons" data-source="post: 4432361" data-attributes="member: 1287">Well, if you were playing HackMaster and came to the Knights of the Dinner Table Live Reading, you could have won some +1 bonuses and other items off the prize chart... [cough cough] And speaking of the Live Reading...   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Sometime after 9 pm, during the event, a GenCon staffer or volunteer (a big bearded guy with a nametag that said "Ivan") came into the Live Reading as it was underway, and asked our staff for their badges (he started with Jolly Blackburn, then moved to Dave Kenzer and others).  When he found our staff didn't have their badges, he said that everyone without a badge would have to leave (this would competely shut down the event, leaving 200-300 people staring at an empty stage).  When he was ignored, he began taking notes on a pad, and even checking members of the audience to see if they had their badges.  The audience, naturally, did not take kindly to Ivan, and he was 'boo'ed'.  One fan even gave his badge to David Kenzer and left the event.  Finally, Ivan simply stood in the aisle taking notes and glaring at everyone.  The event started roughly 20+ minutes late because the technicians stripped out all the microphones after the previous event (costume contest, I think)  and had to come set them up again.  So the event ran about 10 minutes over, and when it was packing up, some other guy hops up on stage and says something about Order of the Stick!  <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=":)" />  From what I've heard, he was either saying that Order of the Stick rocked harder than Knights of the Dinner Table, or that he thought we were the Order of the Stick guys and that our fans should go out into the hall instead of lingering inside the room to get autographs.Of course, I missed all of this, since I left the event early to grab some food, but that's a pretty accurate picture I've painted based on the stories of those who were there.Part of what makes the whole thing so funny is that the most recent issues of KODT feature the characters at 'GaryCon', and some encounters with a fat guy in a stormtrooper outfit (the 'door nazi') who won't let anyone into the dealer room without a badge.  So it was like a joke coming to life in a really extreme way.</blockquote>

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