Hot: Day 21-Gen Con Festival

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If you live in Indy then you know how this post is going to go down. If you don’t live in Indy, Gen Con is the largest gaming convention in North America with over 12,000 attendees from all over the place. When I say “gaming” I mean Dungeons and Dragons/World of Warcraft type gaming. And when I say “attendees” I mean passionate fanatics.



The conference is four days. 24 hours a day. There were dudes asleep and/or falling asleep in every corner of the Indianapolis Convention Center. There were costumes. There were scale models. There were ten foot foam battle axes. Saturday after Blog Indiana I had every intention of going home when I mentioned Gen Con and my strong desire to go to Andy and Krista from Photrade. They live in Cincy, and boy howdy they were not going to let this opportunity pass them by. We headed downtown. First thing we saw? This guy.
(Andy took all the photos which is why this post is a week late, YOU THINK I’D LEARN TO TAKE MY CAMERA EVERYWHERE BY NOW.) When we finally reached to doors, Krista stopped to pose with a Jedi. The Jedi didn’t see the Sith until it was too late.

The Sith launched his lightsaber and sabered (?) the Jedi. (Sound effects and everything!) Everyone cheered. Seriously. I even cheered. I was overtaken by sheer geeky passion. Next stop was the Pirate vs. Ninja Peace Summit. While the Ninjas gave a convincing performance, I had to side with the Pirates, you’ll see why in a minute.
Ten feet later we found these guys, by now I totally felt like I belonged, can you tell?

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As we continued to wander the halls we found the Dungeons and Dragons room.

I can haz 70 foot dragun banner?

Then came the pirates. A whole group of pirates who travel down from Minnesota to do this every year. I can tell you my Gen Con experience was made whole by meeting Pirates with Minnesota accents.

Or so I thought. We were then hit on by a bunch of pirates with Minnesota accents. Somewhere is video. I’ll post it when I can. But it goes something like this: (in yer best pirate/Minnesota voice mind you) “Heave to! And prepare to be boarded! That’s pirate talk fer I think yer hot!” After the conference our pirate friends had every intention of going to the girlie bar in full velvet regalia.

“Ladies love the plumes!” said one.

“Sure you can’t use hands or teeth but they never say nothin’ about plumes!” said another.

I lost it. These guys were dedicated. And then? I was plumed.

I’ve already ordered Cody I pirate costume with extra plumage in blue, you know, to match his eyes.
If I’m still here next year? I’m totally buying a four day pass.

27 thoughts on “Hot: Day 21-Gen Con Festival”

  1. Is Nothing sacred? lol

    Good thing I didn’t see you there. I would have been the old “dude” (isn’t that what you’re calling us?) with his mouth hanging open in shock from the appearance of two hot mommas, not dressed up as Wonder Woman (I think I saw four in about five minutes) or Ms. Marvel (my personal favorite of the weekend).

    If you’re “lucky” next year. I’ll see you first and get you sent to Klingon Jail (if it ever comes back). Trust me, you’ll appreciate the experience. 😉

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  2. “Arrgh…prepare to be boarded!”

    Funny stuff. Nice meeting you at the Blog Indiana Conference. Glad you enjoyed Gen-Con.

    [oh, btw, I’m stacy’s husband and you were telling Gen Con stories at lunch on Sunday]

    Matt Qs last blog post..The Dark Knight

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  8. my junior year prom fell during the Star Wars convention downtown. the 4 of us in our group rode to the top level to the Eagle’s Nest with a few in full costume character Jedi. one of the guys asks the Jedi, “That’s a great costume, is this some sort of game?” extremely offended, he snaps back, “THIS IS NOT A GAME.” dead silence the rest of the way up.

    good thing the elevators had glass walls for all to see in – i think we would have been sabered to death.

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  14. You look like you are having a fantastic time. I spent an inordinate amount of time dating a D&D lover in college, and I might have had enough of 12-sided dice and other incomprehensible gaming tools to last a lifetime…but this does look very funny.

    MommyTimes last blog post..Story on the Spot

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  18. Matt and I walked through the convention center during pre-registration this year, and OH BOY was it ever a geek-fest (and we’re pretty dorky people). I looked at him and said, “I’ve got fifty bucks that says half of these guys haven’t even kissed a girl.” He didn’t want to take that bet! I’m sure it’s fun…we just got caught up with all the super-excited early birds…

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  25. I wish I would have known you were going to GenCon. We were there all day on Thursday. And saw many of the same people. We would have been there the entire weekend (husband’s an ultimate geek) but couldn’t get the babysitting.

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