GenCon 2005

Ghosts of Albion RPG

Angel RPG

Deliria: The Miracle Season, Act III

The original plan was simple: Spend a couple of weeks in the UK, attending both WorldCon and Mythcon / Tolkien 2005, returning home with a four day buffer to recover. Then, Josh discovered that those four days corresponded to GenCon. He questioned the need for recovery. As a result, our schedule, from Wednesday, 17 August to Monday, 22 August looked like this:

11 am - Noon GMT: Wake up at Gwen Knighton's place in London.

2 pm GMT: Head out to Heathrow

6 pm GMT: Begin boarding plane. This involved a bus ride from within the airport.

7 hour flight during which

• I finished the Altclair write up for my zine
• Josh watched the rest of House of Flying Daggers
• We both watched Kung Fu Hustle, as I wanted something lighter than Madagascar
• We had 2 meals and a snack
• We didn't really nap

9 pm EST: Land at JFK, go through customs, collect luggage, get a cab. JFK's cab line is less well organized than La Guardia's, with more aggressive gypsy cab drivers

Midnight EST: Arrive at home and call to set up car service pick up.

4 am - 5 am EST: 1 hour nap

6 am EST: Get into car to La Guardia

8 am EST: Board plane

9 am EST: Plane take off. Doze on plane for about an hour.

10 am CST: Plane lands, luggage collected, bus caught to downtown Indianapolis

11 am CST: Too early to check into Hyatt, so we check luggage

11:30 CST: Buy our memberships

Noon - 1 CST: Dealers' Exhibit, buying lots at Forge and SJG booths.

1 - 2 pm CST: Meeting Lizard, aka Ian Harac, and his SO, Jane, and doing lunch with them after greeting Laura Davidson and checking into our hotel room

2 pm CST: Buy 30 generic tickets

2:15 - 5 pm CST: Wander around the Dealers' Hall, looking and buying.

5 - 6 pm CST: Back to hotel room to drop off stuff.

6 pm CST: Josh to Shadowfist tournament, Lisa to pick up dinner and go to 7 pm Ghosts of Albion game.

11:30 pm CST: Ghosts of Albion ends. Lisa finds Josh and Mark Hartstein, who's rooming with them.

12:30 am - 1 am CST: Lisa back in hotel room, gets cot for Mark and ice for her sinuses.

2 am CST: Lisa lies down to sleep.

3 am CST: Josh and Mark go to hotel room and eventually lie down to sleep.

8 am CST: Lisa's alarm rings.

9 - 10 am CST: Lisa eats breakfast, buys antihistamines and cookies at a CVS

10:15 am - 11:45 am CST: Lisa in Dealers' Hall, drops cookies off at Forge booth, gets into a Mountain Witch demo

Noon CST: Nicole Lindroos' Blue Rose game fills, so Lisa generics into Todd Furler's Angel game

4 - 6 pm CST: More dealers and demos, including Sweet Dreams demo

6 - 7 pm CST: Grab dinner

7 - 11 pm CST: Generic into Deliria larp

11 - midnight CST: Touch base with Josh, head back to hotel room.

1 - 3 am CST: Shower. Somewhere in here, get some sleep.

8 - 9 am CST: Josh, Lisa, Mark wake up.

9 - 10 am CST: Grab breakfast to go, head for convention center.

10 - 11 am CST: Eat and shop at auction store, while Mark heads to Dealer's Hall and Josh to Shadowfist tournament.

11 - 1 pm CST: Dealer's Hall

1 - 5:30 pm CST: Generic into part 3 of Scott Haven's The Miracle Season for Deliria

5:30 - 6 pm CST: Dealers' Hall. Met Tony Lee, and saw Kat Miller, who told us she was running an unscheduled Everway game at 9 in the Embassy Suites lobby

6 - 6:30 pm CST: Touched base with Josh, who was playing the final round of the Shadowfist tournament. He said it would end soon, so I should meet him at the Looney Labs room.

6:30 - 8 pm CST: Dinner, drop stuff at hotel room, fail to find Josh in Looney Labs room, find him in Shadowfist room, still playing the same game.

8 - 8:40 pm CST: The tension builds. 2 out of 4 players are about to deck out. I'm on the edge of my seat, even with an imperfect understanding of the game. Then, Josh wins! We get someone to photograph us kissing and head over to Embassy Suites with Julian.

9:15 pm CST: Julian swears eternal vengeance on Josh.

9:30 pm -- around 1 am CST or so: Kat runs Everway.

Around 1 am -- around 2 am CST or so: Julian heads back to his hotel, Josh and Lisa walk Kat back to her room, then come down to the lobby and chat with Ron Edwards and various folks from the Forge group

Around 2 am - 3 or 4 am CST: Josh and Lisa return to hotel room. Mark returns to hotel room. Everyone gets ready for early morning wake up, as Mark has an early flight and Josh and Lisa plan to meet Laura for breakfast.

7:30 am CST: Alarm rings.

9:15 am CST: Mark is on his way, and Josh and Lisa have hooked up with Laura

10:10 am - Noon CST: Josh, Lisa, and Laura wander Dealers' Hall, do demos and last minute shopping, then Laura goes to her Deliria game.

About 12:30 pm CST: Josh says he's going to the Looney room.

About 1:30 pm CST: Lisa finds Josh in Shadowfist room.

2:15 pm CST: Lisa pulls Josh away from Shadowfist room.

2:30 - 2:50 pm CST: Far too little time to do the art show.

3 - 3:30 pm CST: Josh and Lisa reclaim luggage, fail to locate missing Cthulhu, get into a cab to the airport.

5:30 pm CST: Airplane takes off.

9 pm EST: Airplane lands at LaGuardia.

11:30 - midnight EST: Josh and Lisa go to sleep

6:45 am EST: Alarm rings to get Josh and Lisa up for work.