GEN CON 2009

Well...where to start! It was another amazing year at Gen Con and everyone came back with different stories, games, and Best Of Moments. Here is brief highlight of the amazing things I did at Gen Con this year:

Wed: Flight out -boring- with a hour

connection in Kansas City (which is actually on the map in Missouri...weird huh?!) We get in, arrive at our hotel after hearing a really funny story from the cab driver about the one time he got lost. ^o^ Ate some dinner at P.F.Changs where Matt for the first time in our relationship refuses to tip do to the awful service. It was pretty bad...and wentto bed early.

THUR-FRI: This is where I loose Matt for most of the rest of the trip... I spend all my time at the May Fair Game Room playing: Settlers, Train game, Pompeii, and alot of various other board games. May Fair Games does this little event each year where you play the games, collect resources (ribbons) for playing that allow you to be Knighted, and highest achievement Defender. They throw in bonus stuff like free expansion packs and coupons. (50% OFF I couldn't resist ^_~ )

Matt and I meet up for the 40K tournaments at 6pm that lasted till 2am. I was way more prepared for the Friday tournament since by the end of Thursday I was tired, hungry and ready to just leave. The games were interesting and all had these crazy scenarios with them, some being 2-pages long, taking at least 15min to read thoroughly. Some helped your faction by adding special rules like we'll be back, or with out number others not so much. The thing I liked the most was where you would playing (All had 6 rounds, 15 points for win, 8 for draw and 4 for lost) and weather storms would hit or earthquakes. If a unit was not in cover it would take a Strength 6 AP 3 HIT *_* That's Nuts for orks, imperial guard, really anybody could loose a guy to this and vehicles would get stunned or worse immobilized. Some parts of the tournament were a little unprofessional like the sheets on sportsman ship were all kinds of confusing, they didn't check army list at all and a lot of players didn't have a copy of their list to give you. LAME but we had fun time. Thursday was 3-1 for me and Friday was 1-draw-2

SAT: Costume Contest Day!

Wake up...time for costume ^_^ The check-in was rather early and they ending up placing me in the sci-fi category instead of gaming since they thought sci-fi wasn't gonna fill and gaming was already filling. ANYWAY I didn't like being surround by super-heroes asking "what are you from?" drag...so I lost to this Captain Thor or whoever he was (it was lame too) and the other girl dressed in a Sisters of Battle costume won the gaming category... no fair... but hers was AWESOME. The overall winner was this AMAZING ice elemental that took her over a year1/2 to complete. The wings moved separtetly and everything! It was so cool!