Metatopia 2019

METATOPIA 2019 OVERVIEW / SCHEDULE (ae338)

5 November: Election work: Wake up at 5AM, get to Stand By location by 7AM, get sent to polling place via cab, with several other people -- a polling place all of us could have walked to if they'd known in advance we'd be needed there. Work till around 10PMish, with 2 hours of break in there, then go with Josh to Flushing for dinner.

6 November: More or less recover, have exercise session. Pack for Metatopia.

7 November, Thursday: Go into Manhattan, stopping by Strategist to pick up Chaosium's latest CoC product, stop for lunch, catch train to Metatopia, where I crashed and Josh worked remotely. Then, hang out, chat, read, get badges, get dinner, bring Josh leftovers, hang out more, chat, read, shower, crash.

8 November, Friday

• 10AM: R114: Focus Group: Death Knights, Anna Kreider
• 11AM - 12PM: R141: Alter Arms, Duffy Austin
• SNACK/NAP
• 2PM - 3PM: R195 Focus Group: Coven, Kate Bullock

SNACK/NAP

• 4PM - 6PM: R263: Unnamed Gumshoe Superhero RPG, Kevin Kulp (with Josh)
• DINNER: Soul Food (with Josh, who'd already done Mehndi's, and Soul Food was new to us)
• 8PM - 10PM: R303: An Angelic Bureaucracy, Noel Warford
• 10PM - Midnight: R352: Pantheon, Smirk and Dagger, Curt Covert

Saturday

• 8AM-9AM: D041: Lean Coffee, Rob Donoghue
• 9AM-11AM: R396: Psychic Detective Agency, Jay Treat
• 11AM-12PM: R439: Derby Drama, Libby Horacek
• LUNCH (probably in room)
• 2PM-3PM: R496: Grognards & Gorgons, Rick Dakan
• 4PM-6PM: R547: Famous Last Words, Ash Cheshire
• DINNER
• 8PM-10PM: R607: Between the Margins, Amr Ammourazz
• 10PM-Midnight should have been R651, but, if I understand correctly, the GM was double booked. So, I hung out, read, chatted, and eventually got some sleep.

Sunday

• 8AM: BREAKFAST BUFFET
• 9AM-10AM: D079: Kevin Kulp talks about sleep.
• 10AM - 12PM: R691: Palanquin, Jason Pitre
• 12PM - 2PM: R724: An Armored Society, Brendan Conway
• LUNCH at Mehndi's
• 3PM - 5PM: R749: Come Home, Ash Cheshire (with Josh)

I'll probably get into specifics in later zines, but as you can see, i didn't really give myself enough downtime. This led to Josh telling me to curl up in the most comfortable chair in the room where we had our final game and nap, and to me taking him up on that. (The GM assured me that this was fine, and that when I was dropping my pen without realizing it, it was pretty clear I needed the sleep.)