Here's the con report I put on my blog:
On the way out, after dropping my son off with his mom in Boston heading up to Lowell to stay at the home of
The Brilliant Gameologists, with whom we were going to stay, I recorded a carterview (this was the weekend for portmanteaus) with
Joshua A. C. Newman for the new "Talk To Me Now" segment of
The Independent Insurgency. We talked about some play techniques we had been using in the "
Human Contact" series of
In A Wicked Age... we've been playing in with
Meguey and
Vincent Baker. Looking forward to putting that one up.
Friday night, Joshua and I were the first guests ever on an episode of The Brilliant Gameologists' podcast. I'm pretty excited to hear that episode come out. It was a lot of fun. We laughed a lot and we had moments of serious-talk. I started to develop a cold that night, but it's starting to abate now.
On Saturday, I ran a game of
Misspent Youth with Josh from the Brills,
Jonathan Walton, and
Dev Purkayastha. Jonathan and Dev were co-running the event with
Nathan Paoletta, so it was kind of them to fill out my slot. We played in a game where the Authority was the Department of Homeland Security, on the hunt for AI cults and cracking down utterly on civil liberties. The game was set in a post-crash-of-the-gambling-industry-due-to-AIs Las Vegas, and the kids were a skyrodding crew of flying car racers. Tons o' fun.
In the afternoon slot, I played along with Joshua, Meg from the Brills, and a few others in
Epidiah Ravachol's game in development,
Time and Temp. You're time-traveling temp workers (only uninteresting, historically unimportant people can be time travelers) trying to fix history. We went back to recover from Beowulf showing up late to Hrothgar's hall. I played a former short-con artist, plucked out of 1982 and distressed at the lack of profession in this new crew. Again, lots of fun.
Afterwards, Eppy,
Emily Care Boss, Joshua, and I went to this excellent Cambodian restaurant called
Elephant Walk, then Joshua and I raced out to Providence to pick up my kid. I was back in my home in Leeds by about 2:30 am. It was a great weekend.