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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 310142" data-attributes="member: 2">I believe my response was, "Sure! Got an X-acto knife?"Saturday5:24 am: I'm awakened by snoring. Loud snoring. Rumbling snoring. I lift my head - and chortle at the irony. It's my friend who complained the other day!Glee.I keep hoping that he'll turn over, but no such luck. I stagger out of bed and try to wake him. Twice. Nope. So I go and get my laptop - you know, the laptop with the built-in microphone - and record a minute of his snoring. I feel guilty and don't save it, but it helped me feel much better. Finally, I wake him briefly and all becomes quiet. Ahhh, the sweet silence of self-justification.Showing up in the arena at 8:45 reveals a tremendous surprise. Sure they SAID they'd come, but who thought? Waiting at the Call of Cthulhu gathering area is Doctor Doom, Urbanmech, Nemmerle, Barcode, Dinkeldog, and Halma. I collar the judge coordinator and ask to get their table, and off we go!The game was one of my favorite of the con, and it alone was worth the price of admission. Three dead, three insane, and everyone having a heck of a lot of fun. I strain as I try to convey about eight or nine simultaneous NPCs, all of whom have different voices, all while trying to build on the horror that keeps growing.  Even now, I can hear Dr. Doom's voice as he talks to his hallucinated dead mother... chilling.  Good stuff, and a reminder of why I love the game so much.Only seizing time for a bagel for lunch, I hit the dealer's room, and run into Al. I invite him to come play that afternoon, hoping that I can get him at my table. I explore the dealer's room but remain mostly strong, not purchasing much in comparison to last year. My local gaming store offers a big discount, so I try to keep a modicum of will power; I partially succeed. Then to run the Spider Queen module! Al doesn't end up at my table, but Nemmerle manages to be his judge, so I know he's in good hands. I do my best to add some roleplaying to the setting and end up succeeding well enough that I'm not unhappy with the result. The players have fun, too, so all is well.  After the game I run to a local steak house to have dinner with Fiery Dragon Productions. Over a long and meat-filled meal - mmmm, meat - we manage to roast Mearls and discuss everything from gaming strategy to industry rumors to bad Fiend Folio monsters to comic books to why Fiery James is posing naked in the next product. Doesn't get much better than this.Afterwards, Claudio Pozas and his wife stays with the FDP guys as they stalk me. I sneak away, make it to my hotel, and settle down on my bed. Alone for the first time in days! My friend comes in and offers a Safe House trip, but (already half asleep) I decline.  Then the phone rings.Next: drunken bouncing and the Sunday finale.</blockquote>

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