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[EAST] PAX East Train Alliance 2012
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Name: John
Location: Philly, PA
Boarding Stop: Philly, 30th Street Station
Ticket Purchased: Yes, Boarding the 1:55 train
Sounds like there will be a party on this train. Looking forward to the good times.
Name: Nick
Location: Erie, Pa
Boarding Stop: Erie, PA 125 West 14th Street
Ticket Purchased: Yes, Boarding at 7:22am
Name: Brent
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Boarding Stop: Union Station DC
Ticket Purchased: YES.
What boardgames would people want to play?
What line you will be on: SONIC
Name: flatline [matt] and Cernunnos [Zach]
Location: Baltimore/Washington Sprawl
Boarding Stop: BWI
Ticket Purchased: YES
We will hopefully be taking the last car again, yeah? And playing munchkin/pandemic in the galley car.
Name: Samuel
Location: Akron
Boarding Stop: Cleveland
Ticket Purchased: YES
This is my first PAX and my first big convention, actually. Finally realized that I was just going to get more and more busy as I get older and I should try to get to one before I graduate and REALLY don't have time. This setup looks like the most fun way to get there.
Also if anyone on the line has any hotel space and would be willing to let me pay to stay Thursday and Friday night, give me a PM ASAP.
I was thinking about getting a G+ hangout going on for people who are going on this line. The past 2 years, it's been a lot of Dominion, Munchkin, EPYC, Smallworld, MTG, DS gaming and the like.
Sounds cool. Shame my DS broke, but I'm definitely gonna be up for some Munchkin. Maybe I'll bring my Citadels deck too, that game works great with a decent number of people.
It's probably worth noting that last year on the Metal Gear, there was a group that reserved the dining car for a couple of hours and they kicked everybody else out. So don't count on being able to sit in there for 12 hours and play Twilight Imperium or something.
I don't foresee any major issues, both years of riding the train has proved to be quite fun and it just depends on the staff on the train. They didn't ask us to bunch together last year.
This was definitely the snack bar car (the dining car splits off in Albany and goes to NYC), and it was definitely reserved for some party.
Yeah it was a little weird/ couldn't even go in to get a drink during that time.
Hey Binary, would you be willing to call Amtrak and see what it would take for us to reserve the snack car? Since you had first-hand experience with it last year, you could probably better explain what we're asking for.
Name: JerzeyLegend aka Orlando
Location: Palmyra, PA
Boarding Stop: Philly, PA (via Harrisburg, PA)
Ticket Purchased:Yes
Comments: This is my first con, I will be most likely looking like a lost puppy. If you are boarding the early morning train on Thursday, you'll find me wearing a Team9000 shirt. I'm pretty approachable, so don't be shy.
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Who else is coming from Charlottesville?
What line you will be on: Sonic
Name: Amy (aka Moocifer, aka @amysophie)
Location: Western NY (#teamhoth)
Boarding Stop: Philadelphia. Taking a lonely nonPAXtrain to from WNY to Philly to visit a friend, then hopping the Sonic line to head to PAXachusetts.
Ticket Purchased: Yes!
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Twitter: @amysophie
Gamertag/Steam: Vixen Valentine
With the number of people on the Sonic line, I'm starting to think that maybe we could support two trains, one in the morning, and one in the afternoon.
I also hope that everyone remembers Wheaton's rule while on the train; the conductors and attendants aren't usually used to dealing with large, somewhat rowdy crowds, so we should go out of the way to be polite and non-dickish in our behavior. I feel a little bad for them, they always seem a bit overwhelmed by the whole thing.
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Keep in mind, the time chosen for the Sonic and Metal Gear lines are chosen so that people on other lines are able to connect to those two final lines. A second, earlier train would make it impossible for people on other trains to make that connection.
Oh, sure, I understand and agree. I wasn't so much thinking about being sold out, as much as the fact that at a certain point, we will fill up an entire train car. People will be forced to split into two groups anyway, and while being separated by train car isn't that dramatic, there are other limits to train enjoyability. For example, the cafe car eventually fills up with PAX people; only so many people can be playing games there at one time.
Just a thought. People forced to take the earlier train for other reasons may want to organize something themselves, like a certain train car to congregate in.
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Moe is flying this year. He now lives in Seattle, so the train is a more difficult option than when he lived in Cleveland.
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Name: Topher
Location: Long Island, NY
Boarding Stop: Penn Station, NYC, NY
Ticket Purchased: Just bought it now!
Glad to be returning to the PAX train this year. Last year was a great experience and an amazing start to my first PAX. Hope to see some familiar faces again this year!
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Name: bryan
Location: fremont, ohio
Boarding Stop:sandusky, ohio
Ticket Purchased:yes
If you're at the first stop (Chicago in the MG case), your spidey senses will have to tingle. It should be pretty obvious, and I may make a sign of some kind, as I've heard that's worked well in prior years. By the time we get to Ohio though, we will probably have posted to the thread which car we've gathered in.
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