Crescent City Con XX

I think I can type this without crying... Let's see, shall we?

I'm going to skip all the prep work we had to do. The Friday morning meeting, taliaphoenix and I gave Robert Neagle his O.F.M.I.C. Munchkin card drawn by Steven Bennett, complete with a purple lanyard:) Ours has a cute kitty girl :) *dances* I'm wearing her to every con! *grins* Thanks to Karen for the lovely memento!

Friday went well. We had fun and I got to see Midnight Lotus!!! There's a story to that....

The Mini-Virgo passed out. I go to my room to change from my day clothes into my pjs (Nothing like pjs at a con!). As I'm leaving, the door opens. It's a very surprised Gena. "Billy said we can use your room to get ready?" I was a little surprised but let them in, apologizing for the fucking pit our room was. I remember saying "Kick anything that's in your way. We put the fragile stuff up high."

I'm on my way up to Gaming when I realize I have the BEST CON STORY EVAR! How many people can say their room was invaded by belly dancers?

They were fantastic, used movie scores: "Diva's Aria" from Fifth Element, the theme from Outer Limits and "Clubbin'" from the Matrix. To quote stargazercmc who was sitting next to me: "I didn't know you could belly dance to opera..." The costumes were beautiful. They went for a more "alien" sort of look than a traditional tribal look. I meant to ask about the bustle they had, looked like it would make it difficult to do torso rotations...

We had fun in Gaming that night, played Munchkin and hung out:) We were full for a Friday, so much so that when pizza was ordered the guy came up with an ice chest sized warming bag. Robert came in with the guy and was surprised when over half the room said they ordered pizza. We're kicked back, playing Hacker and suddenly there's a swarm of pizza-hungry gamers. What can one do but DUCK!!!

newhotness kept calling claws_n_stripes a Communist while me and arisbranwin discussed in front of the aforementioned newhotness which one of us would get to enjoy his charms. He looked really puzzled, since he was trying to play the game despite calling people Communists. He DID say 'For the Emperor; for the Senate, and for the people of Rome!'" and I lost it. Anyone who does not know why that's fucking funny, rent "Caligula" then come back and tell me why we're laughing so hard. Look out for the midgit in the orgy scene...

In all Friday night at con was great. Felt like a Saturday night, to be honest.

Later on, I'll post about Saturday:)