Gealcon 2003

AL][EN

AAAARRRGGGGHHH I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!

3 days 15 hours 52 mins 4secs 32ms

/me shifts from foot to foot impatiently!!!!

AL][EN

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yes i have way too much free time on my hands i know

hedgetrimmer

Can't make it but good luck to all involved, have fun, and spend loads at the Charity Auction.

AL][EN

aaaahh no way hedgetrimmer that sux! the auction just wont be the same without you!!

yea the charity auction should be fun this year too should be good to see whats up for auction!

Specky

AAAAAGGHHHH!!!

I've noticed a worrying trend that everyone's posts are beginning with the word AAAAGGHHHH or AAAAAHHHHHHH or other such exclamations.

For the sake of my fragile nerves I do hope that this trend is not going to be extended beyond boards into our normal lives.

"AAAAGGGHHHHH a pound of sausages please."

"AAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH excuse me, could you direct me to the gentlemen's lavatory?"

See what I mean? Very distresssing

Nevyn

AAAAAARRRRGGGGRRRSAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH

Nevyn

Sorrry just could not resist.

the fun bit is I can be that loud in person.
teee heeee

thaed runs arround in mad circles,


oooohhhhhh I just had the berst idea for a get to know you excersie.

ah come you all know and hate them.

Right going to see how many people we can get in a conga line.

lol conga chats,

Conga like you mean it
we love monty burns more
I am evil homer
Gealcon, Gealcon, Gealcon.

Nevyn

oh and I am seriously thinking about taking a step into the relams of LARP.

the cocktail party one seems like a good giggle I may, even bring a martini glass with me as my prop

Specky

Will need to be a rubber martini glass...don't want anyone getting hurt now do we?!

Yeah...interesting point, everyone will recognise me of course 'cos I look just like my little Penfold head over on the left there but how will we know Squall/Gaunt/Rnger etc???

Suppose we could tell everyone just to head towards the loudest person in the room and it'll probably be Thaed...

AL][EN

for those of you who want to know my ugly mug is on

www.boards.ie/nerds my nick and picture are on the first page
Squall / ganutif you want to meet up with us at Gaelcon PM me and i'll PM you my mobile number that goes for the rest of you guys too!!

if someone see's ranger on MIRC tonight can you let him know gaelcon is THIS weekend not next week end went over my logs last night and saw that i told him its in two weeks time!!

thanks

Squall

Muhahaha!!!

so none of ye know what we look like ehhh.

GOOD GOOD!!! (Evil bug from family guy)

PM away Alien, we might aswell meet up face to face. Even if we cant get a game going there, well theres always the pub

AL][EN

Done Squall PM'ed u my number

as far as im aware there's pre gaming/gaelcon drinkies the night before in fibbers (thead has the details she can post here if different) i'll be there so will thead i dont know what time / when you'll be in dublin Squall if your up on the friday lemme know we can meet up for a few drinks then

if not no worries i'll see you at the con (there's a bar at gaelcon too you know )

talk to you sooon

Specky

so none of ye know what we look like ehhh

That's right. This could be the premise for a really bad 70s sitcom....


we could end up dragging some poor innocent little Japanese person into a game and making them play the squad gimp until we eventually find out he's part of a trade delegation in Ireland selling lady's underwear who was supposed to meet a chap called Mr Ramsbottom who has a rather rumbucsious wife, then we all accidentally loose our trousers and end up in a mad chase around the grounds of the hotel looking for the gardner who's in the potting shed in a somewhat compromising position with one of the chamber maids from the hotel who's actually Russian and so has an amusing accent and ample bussoms.....

Jeez! It could be a hit!!!

Squall

Nope its up at 5am saturday morning for me, o hang on the bus is leaving at 5, awwww crap thats even earlier then

AL][EN

ouch 5am!!! jeez thats early!!

fair nuff so well we'll all see you there then my plans for world domination begins!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
(COUGH) (COUGH)

i mean well all sit down and have a chuffing good time drinking tea and playing role playing games what what!!

Nevyn

Originally posted by AL][EN
Done Squall PM'ed u my number

as far as im aware there's pre gaming/gaelcon drinkies the night before in fibbers (thead has the details she can post here if different) i'll be there so will thead i dont know what time / when you'll be in dublin Squall if your up on the friday lemme know we can meet up for a few drinks then

if not no worries i'll see you at the con (there's a bar at gaelcon too you know )

talk to you sooon

What what waht Details ?
are you and my deliquinet lil brother trying to plot behind my back again ?

DeVore

I'll see you guys there too... I have a certain something to do at it this year! *evil grin*

DeV.

AL][EN

Originally posted by DeVore
I'll see you guys there too... I have a certain something to do at it this year! *evil grin*

DeV.

GULP!!! Dev's on the loose!!

/me runs and hides!!

i remember last year thead and lemming with the pink hair spray wasnt it thead or was the Dev you stung with the hair spray??
and my apologies it wasnt friday nite the beers thing is,

its actually saturday night there is an offical galecon nite out type thingy thats on (was fibbers last year no idea where it is this year) thats what i was yammering on about, so ignore my post about the drinkies on friday as its just my overactive imagination running away with me again. there are no pre gaelcon drinks there is no nite out on friday........ there is no spoon!!!

Lir

Eh, right, Gaelcon drinking dates...

Yes, we will be in the pub on Friday night. These days the commonly held wisdom is that the con really starts on Friday night in Fibbers. We'll be in there from about 9ish or so and it promises to be a great night.

Saturday features the pubquiz in Clontarf Castle. There will also be a think in town if you don't fancy the pub quiz, but details will be available at the con. We'll also be going out after the pub quiz obviously.

Sunday is the legendary Charity Auction in Clontarf Castle and then to Fibbers.

And I'm sure we'll end up in Fibbers on Monday night too

So yeah, there are drinks tomorrow in Fibbers, come one, come all.

Lir
Larp Coordinator, Gaelcon 2003

Nevyn

ah wonderful, I will be in the city centre tomorrow eve anyway so I shall most defintaly be there later.

Will you lot be upstairs ( the gods know why but I have to ask), or down stairs.

hedgetrimmer

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

AL][EN

good god thead it better be downstairs!!

although last year all the usual suspects (ie the gaelcon krew)
were upstairs and lots of fun and frollicing was to be had

likewise i'll be in town myself tonight however i'll pop down to fibbers with the lads if there's drinkies to be had

Nevyn

ahhhh poor Hedgetrimmer,

I am sure we will all post our own lil highlights for you to read and grind your teeth at .

Devore wrote I have a certain something to do at it this year! *evil grin*

ohhh I sense plotting and deviousiness,
if you need a hand ..........

The Brigadier

Originally posted by DeVore
Oh yeah, I remember stinging Hedgetrimmer for the shirt he was already wearing. That was fun.

The charity auction is going to be a LOT of fun this year. Oh yes indeedy.

DeV.

Charity auction....oh that brings back memories...

hedgetrimmer

Well,...how was it?!?!?

Arken Thell

Twas good squishy....hey I even bid in the charity acution. Much fun was had by all.

Specky

Well I'm certainly not going to jump in with my big stampy boots and stamp stampingly all around in an excessively stampful fashion. It was my first Gaelcon and my first games con for many a long year so I can't comment on the relative good/evil of the event however I would make a few comments:

Conventions should be about fun. As a result the games chosen, the scenarios played and the way in which they are presented should reflect this.

Because of the way the schedules were worked out I only got to play in three RPGs during the two days I was there (couldn't make Monday), D&D (which I don't generally play but had no other choice), SLA (which I'm playing "in real life" anyway) and CoC (which I'm also playing in real life).

So not a lot of novelty factor there then.

The D&D scenario was....let's face it...crap. Very poorly prepared, very poorly presented and only saved by a bit of competant GMing on our table.

The SLA scenario was....IMHO....not very good, although it played out reasonably ok. Like I mentioned earlier, the scenarios have to be a bit different at cons to make them a novelty. What's the point in running "just another game"? You can do that any night of the week.

The CoC scenario was....wait for it....excellent! and very well run at the super-extended-late session by Nick. Definitely the highlight of the whole con for me.

The RPG room was WAY too crowded. I had a lot of trouble just hearing what was going on (ok, I have dodgy ears but even so...) and it was very hard to develop any atmostphere for the D&D and SLA games.

So besides the games what else was wrong?

1. way too much waiting for games to start. The whole thing would have worked better with a number of overlapping sessions rather than a morning and an afternoon with a big gap in between. I can't remember how much time I spent sitting around just waiting for something to happen.

2. the scheduling of the games could have been done a lot better with very little effort so as to allow people the opportunity to play the games they wanted instead of (like me) finding yourself having to play D&D and missing In Nomine altogether on one day then having to make the choice between two games I wanted to play running at the same time on the next day!

3. better / more demo games should have been running throughout so there was something new and interesting to watch (ok, so we could stand around and watch the tournaments but that's nothing like a good demonstration....and when I say demonstration I mean people actually demonstrating the stuff not sitting in a corner playing with themselves).

4. pub quiz....what was missing? The one essential ingredient....a pub. Long and drawn out to the point of excruciation...sorry to all those that thought it was a hoot...I didn't

Hopefully all my companions (with whom I did have a jolly jape or two) don't think I'm a boring miserable old fart now, but I honestly think the whole event could have been a hell of a lot better with a bit more sensible planning and an eye to having a bit more fun....maybe the organisers have lost sight of the ball a little but it just seems to me that the games chosen should be something a bit out of the ordinary and the scenarios played should be better suited to convention playing (they should also be a lot better than the crap served up for the D&D game).

Nevyn

Arrrggh yes the waiting and the 9 , 9 tables of 6/7 people at each in a very very small room could not hear the Gm sitting with in shin skicking distance from me.

more to follow..............

Nevyn

Yes the timetabling this year was allover the place. And with there being two slots per day one starting at 11am and the next at 3 pm there should have been the chance like the last two years to fit in 6 RPG sessions a mad near 20 hours.

But it just didnt seem to happen

I'm not sure if it was lack of senarios being handed in or lack of people offering to GM
but there were a lot of people not being able to get tickets of rpg sessions as they were sold out.

but I did get to have a lot of fun playing,
in nomine, marvel superheros, Sla was not as polished or as fleshed out as expected, there was no Pen on the char sheet ???

Thank you soooooo much to Nick for his wonderful Call of Cathlu session and for running a late game for us die hards and to David who jumped in to gm the session again when there was suddenly 12 of us.

And I must Admit I enjoyed Vampire Darkages a whole lot, another wonderfully tough political stoyline from hilary, and not a submachine gun in sight.


Part of the Fun of Gealcon is meeting with people you have not seenin a while or in fact from last year.

AL][EN

I'll echo what both Thead and Specky have said it was a very good con (not quite as good as last years) it was VERY crowded in the RPG'ing rooms as i go to the CONS mostly to roleplay
it was quite alot of fun but you couldnt really hear what was going on around you and i was DM'ing a game of SLA ind and i pretty much had to shout to my players so they could hear me.

BIG BIG thanks to both nick for running CoC and Gar who made the Con really special for our gang but listening to us even tho he was rushed off his feet