PAX 3: The Hompening (people start to arrive!)

neville

PAX.
Its coming.

If you're planning on attending, post your info (arrival, departure, where you're staying) if you want it to be posted here. Or PM me if I miss it.

List of Attendees

Neville - lives here; staying at his own apartment (apt is now FULL)
Munkus Beaver - crashing with neville; arriving at 8 FUCKING 48 pm on Thursday, ok? LETS BE PRECISE!!!
Mully - staying with nevs thursday, in the crowne plaza from friday - sunday
Arsenic7 - clak clakin' with his purple lady from Friday - Sunday
scarlet st. - crashing with neville some; arriving ?
Javen - crashing with neville some; arriving ?
Captain Cthulhu - local
Weaver - crashing with neville some; arriving whenever he makes bond
naporeon - local
Jordyn - local
Framling - local
Druhim - local
doublehawk - local
Rankenphile - also will be rockin' it at pax
Darkblade_1 - stayin at the green tortiose hostel; arriving via west coast party train.
Monkeybomb - Arrives Wednesday for work. Will be at the Sheraton from Thurs -> Monday
Bogey - arriving afternoon on Thurs. and leaving Sun. night. Staying at the W.
the wook - Flying in early Friday, leaving Sunday night
Doc - will be present. Time? Why do you ask such a silly question? [And local, despite never showing up for any local events. booo! :P]
- arrives Thursay morning, leaves Monday afternoon; staying with naporeon
dumbhero - arrives Thursday, leaves WHO KNOWS WHEN
Monkey Ball Warrior - local
Tossrock - staying somewhere, arriving sometime
ZeroZero - staying ?; leaving morning of the 26th to hang out with people not as cool with us. =( We 00, we truly do!
sarukun - here... sometime
futility - arrives thurs, leaves sunday
Legacy - local
The Geek - local
TSR - staying with family in a hotel
cSpooge - arrives Thursday morning sometime and leave monday morning sometime!
Makershot - local
TDL - arriving at 10:50am Friday, and departing at 10:00pm Sunday. I'm staying with Naporeon.
Kusugattai +1 - arriving thurs, leaving sunday: Staying at the Dong Palace
Sheri - arriving Thursday, leaving in the distant future: Staying at Nev's on Thursday, in mully's hotel room for the remainder
Shorty - local
arithena - local
WhipstitchZombie - local
Poorochondriac - coming sometime, staying somewhere... ladies :winky:
Keith - staying with Jordyn & Framling; arriving Thursday morning, leaving Monday night
Larlar - I'm coming the evening of the 22nd (Wednesday) and leaving the morning of the 28th (Tuesday). I'll be staying at a friend's house in Seattle but something tells me at least one of my nights will involve getting drunk and sleeping on the floor in an upper hallway of a hotel.
Fallout - Arriving sometime... >_>
weretac0 - Neighbor to the north, will be here, covered in delicious jam
Trillian & Polago - will be at the Sheraton, arriving on Thursday and leaving on monday
Grath - Fresh out of jail and will be looking for some fun.... ladies.
World As Myth - Arriving Thursday, leaving Saturday morning
Sami - Arriving Thursday, leaving Saturday morning
Ani_b & Kuribo's shoe - will be staying at the Sheraton; arriving Thursday morning

Pre-PAX dinner headcount (Buppo di Beppo's) [ 25 people ]:

THIS IS JUST A GUESS ON HEADCOUNT. IT DOESNT MATTER IF YOU'RE LISTED HERE, JUST SHOW UPPPPP

Menu: http://www.bucadibeppo.com/menu/default.aspx?id=4701#category-37
Location: http://www.bucadibeppo.com/locations/location.aspx?id=4701
Time: 8 pm
Price: Depending on what you order


Druhim
Trillian
Poorochondriac
Zerozero
Legacy
Rankenphile
Weaver
Keith
Larlar + gay lover Brian
The Geek + AND HIS WIFE
Javen
Scarlet?
Jordyn
Framling
Monkeybomb
mully
Kusu + nonforum friend (if they make it on time)

Doc
ani_b
Kuribo's Shoe
Whippy
arithena
futility


Traffic warning to be aware of, for those driving in:

Makershot wrote: »

I-5 northbound from Spokane ST to I-90 (Map. Royal Brougham is where Safeco Field is, Jackson is the southern edge of downtown) is going to be down to two lanes. It's scheduled to open up again on August 29th, so it'll be in effect during PAX.

So pretty much expect traffic to be ri-goddamn-diculous throughout.

Rank's Spirit of the Century game:

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showpost.php?p=2640565&postcount=19



PM ME IF YOU WANT TO BE ADDED AND I'VE MISSED YOU.

Bogey

Reserved 2nd post that I will never use! :P

PS. It would be cool if somebody brought extra 360 controllers.

Garlic Bread

is there a price on dinner yet

Orestes

So.... PAX?

neville

Bogey wrote: »

Reserved 2nd post that I will never use! :P

I'll give you one hug and you can "reserve" the others.
:P

PotU

So, when's pax, you guys?

Rankenphile

Keith wrote: »

is there a price on dinner yet

I called and left a message, they called me back but I was in a meeting. I'll call again right now.

TDL

Bogey wrote: »

Reserved 2nd post that I will never use! :P

PS. It would be cool if somebody brought extra 360 controllers.

I'll try and bring 2 if I have room in my bags.

doublehawk00

bogey what are you planning to do with said 360? i can bring a wireless controller.

The Geek

Man, there's totally already a thread for this

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=31118

Rankenphile

doublehawk00 wrote: »

bogey what are you planning to do with said 360? i can bring a wireless controller.

he's gunna stick his dick in it

what the hell do you think he's gunna do with it, it's a damn xbox, you play games on it

TDL

haha

Harrier

One day, one day, I swear I will make it to PAX.

doublehawk00

Rankenphile wrote: »

doublehawk00 wrote: »

bogey what are you planning to do with said 360? i can bring a wireless controller.

he's gunna stick his dick in it

what the hell do you think he's gunna do with it, it's a damn xbox, you play games on it

i was thinking, when, where, what games

ALSO YOU CAN WATCH MOVIES ON IT MR. SMARTYPANTS

Tube

I AM COMING TO PAX

neville

Cardboard Tube wrote: »

I AM COMING TO PAX

No you aren't.
You hate people.

doublehawk00

Cardboard Tube wrote: »

I AM COMING TO PAX

cool

neville

doublehawk00 wrote: »

bogey what are you planning to do with said 360? i can bring a wireless controller.

People can come jam on my 360 during the day as well.
I'll be hanging some for gaming, I'm sure Munkus will as well (he'll have a key)

Rankenphile

Reposting stuff about the Spirit of the Century game I want to run Friday night, from the last thread.

Looking for 5-6 players total, may have room for one or two more, but I do want to keep this relatively small so it is manageable. Post or PM if you're interested in playing.

People who have shown interest in playing:
Monkeybomb
Framling
Sami
Smart Hero

alright, so this Spirit of the Century thing I keep talking about. It's a role-playing game that looks super simple to play but offers a shitload of possibility for intrigue and adventure.

I just made a long post about the general mechanics about it over in oDaM, and I'll repost it here so you can get a general idea of how it goes. This isn't a D&D type game where you need to have an entire rulebook memorized to have an idea how to play - it's really designed around pick-up games and crazy adventures rather than "do everything by the book".

So I got the rulebook for this in last night.

Holy shit this game is fucking brilliant in its design. It really strips away all the complicated bullshit in traditional "PnP RPGs" out there and builds what the genre should be - A role-playing game.

THe core mechanics - you don't choose a race and a class and assign stats to your attributes and buy your gear and blah blah blah zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

No, fuck that. You come up with a name - the shorter and jazzier, the better - like Jet Ryder or Captain Duke Skyway or Kent Diamond. You think up a brief (like, two to three sentences) origin about your childhood, and you assign two aspects from it to your character.

So Keith Greenback is a two-fisted private dick that grew up on the mean streets of Chicago, orphaned and struggling to survive? What are two aspects about that sort of thing that could be potentially useful, but still offer potential story hooks and could even get you in trouble here and there? Let's say "Tough as nails" and "Back-alley brawler".

Next up, two sentences about how he spent his time in the Great War - the fictionalized version of WWI. Let's say Greenback spent some time working with the CIA doing covert ops in Europe, basically drinking his way across the continent on the Government's dime, learning to schmooze with the upper crust while digging up dirt on the back-room wheelings and dealings. Two more aspects - let's say "Wine, dine and looking fine" and "A Couple Hot Leads".

This goes on through creating your own novel blurb about the character, then one he guest-stars in with another player

These aspects are ones that you make up, that you assign your character. The more flavor, the better. You can use invoke your aspects when the time is right (confronted with some thugs in a back alley, you invoke "back-alley brawler" to give you bonus points in your favor to make sure you make it out of there alive) or the DM can attempt to invoke your aspect to make things go not exactly your way (you're right on the edge of what feels like a hot tip, but some thugs are giving you a hard time. You can either ignore them and pursue your lead, which would be the smart thing to do, but your character does love a good brawl, so if you go down that line of thought even though it isn't what is "best" for your character, you'll earn a Fate Point you can use later to influence things to go your way).

Seriously, this is just a great game, from everything I've seen so far in the book, in generating a good story-based adventure rather than another by-the-numbers hack-and-slash equipment-driven questathon. I'm seriously excited to try it out.

I'm hoping to run a game of this Friday night - anybody up for it? Let me know, and be thinking of a general character that would fit in a 1920s-era pulp setting. Scientists, pilots, indiana-jones type archaeologists, whatever, it's more important to have a good flavorful backstory rather than a "strong build", if you know what I mean.

the more I work on this game, the more ideas I get. I've got a pretty ridiculous story idea going right now, but I'd need a volunteer to take a role that would suit the situation at least a little bit. If anyone is interested, PM me for details and we can talk it over.

Bogey

Cardboard Tube wrote: »

I AM COMING TO PAX

Can we have a booth?

We should get a booth.

Khoo should give us a booth.

You punch people and then I will hug them.

Rankenphile

Cardboard Tube wrote: »

I AM COMING TO PAX

fucking rad.

Rankenphile

doublehawk00 wrote: »

Rankenphile wrote: »

doublehawk00 wrote: »

bogey what are you planning to do with said 360? i can bring a wireless controller.

he's gunna stick his dick in it

what the hell do you think he's gunna do with it, it's a damn xbox, you play games on it

i was thinking, when, where, what games

ALSO YOU CAN WATCH MOVIES ON IT MR. SMARTYPANTS

yup. need a bunch of controllers to watch a movie.

Good thinking, you nailed it.

Tube

Rankenphile wrote: »

Cardboard Tube wrote: »

I AM COMING TO PAX

fucking rad.

not really

HA HA TAKE THAT YOUR DREAMS

doublehawk00

Rankenphile wrote: »

doublehawk00 wrote: »

Rankenphile wrote: »

doublehawk00 wrote: »

bogey what are you planning to do with said 360? i can bring a wireless controller.

he's gunna stick his dick in it

what the hell do you think he's gunna do with it, it's a damn xbox, you play games on it

i was thinking, when, where, what games

ALSO YOU CAN WATCH MOVIES ON IT MR. SMARTYPANTS

yup. need a bunch of controllers to watch a movie.

Good thinking, you nailed it.

a friend of mine had a modded 360

we watched a movie on it, but any controller was able to pause it or fast forward, so we'd take a controller and pause the movie while we were in a different room

of course, bogey would never mod his 360

Rankenphile

Cardboard Tube wrote: »

Rankenphile wrote: »

Cardboard Tube wrote: »

I AM COMING TO PAX

fucking rad.

not really

HA HA TAKE THAT YOUR DREAMS

shit.

And here I bought all this ex-lax already, in preparation for my grand welcome for you.

neville

updated OP with a link to your post for your Spirit game, Rank

Garlic Bread

doublehawk00 wrote: »

Rankenphile wrote: »

doublehawk00 wrote: »

Rankenphile wrote: »

doublehawk00 wrote: »

bogey what are you planning to do with said 360? i can bring a wireless controller.

he's gunna stick his dick in it

what the hell do you think he's gunna do with it, it's a damn xbox, you play games on it

i was thinking, when, where, what games

ALSO YOU CAN WATCH MOVIES ON IT MR. SMARTYPANTS

yup. need a bunch of controllers to watch a movie.

Good thinking, you nailed it.

a friend of mine had a modded 360

we watched a movie on it, but any controller was able to pause it or fast forward, so we'd take a controller and pause the movie while we were in a different room

of course, bogey would never mod his 360

doublehawk do you think you're too into video games

Rankenphile

like, you ever hear about those dudes down in Portland who ate a bunch of mashed potatoes and food coloring right before the president showed up in some parade or something there, and right when he drove by they all drank ipecac or whatever and puked in big streams of red white and blue, except the bile fucked up the blue food coloring so it was all red white and green?

it was gunna be like that, but with more just spraying liquid shit all over your hotel room and then getting the fuck out of there.

TDL

Rank, I would play, but I don't think I will be able to Friday night.

PotU

Yeah, really now, when's PAX.

Garlic Bread

Rankenphile wrote: »

like, you ever hear about those dudes down in Portland who ate a bunch of mashed potatoes and food coloring right before the president showed up in some parade or something there, and right when he drove by they all drank ipecac or whatever and puked in big streams of red white and blue, except the bile fucked up the blue food coloring so it was all red white and green?

it was gunna be like that, but with more just spraying liquid shit all over your hotel room and then getting the fuck out of there.

game idea: russian roulette

except instead of guns

it's a bunch of drinks and one of them is spiked with ipecac!

Rankenphile

PotU wrote: »

Yeah, really now, when's PAX.

what, are you serious?

it ain't like there'a great big fucking web page about it

it ain't like we've not been talking about it for the past six damn months

it opens a week from today

Rankenphile

Keith wrote: »

Rankenphile wrote: »

like, you ever hear about those dudes down in Portland who ate a bunch of mashed potatoes and food coloring right before the president showed up in some parade or something there, and right when he drove by they all drank ipecac or whatever and puked in big streams of red white and blue, except the bile fucked up the blue food coloring so it was all red white and green?

it was gunna be like that, but with more just spraying liquid shit all over your hotel room and then getting the fuck out of there.

game idea: russian roulette

except instead of guns

it's a bunch of drinks and one of them is spiked with ipecac!

this

is

genius



GOD DAMN I wish knob was coming, he would be all OVER this kind of shit

doublehawk00

Keith wrote: »

doublehawk00 wrote: »

Rankenphile wrote: »

doublehawk00 wrote: »

Rankenphile wrote: »

doublehawk00 wrote: »

bogey what are you planning to do with said 360? i can bring a wireless controller.

he's gunna stick his dick in it

what the hell do you think he's gunna do with it, it's a damn xbox, you play games on it

i was thinking, when, where, what games

ALSO YOU CAN WATCH MOVIES ON IT MR. SMARTYPANTS

yup. need a bunch of controllers to watch a movie.

Good thinking, you nailed it.

a friend of mine had a modded 360

we watched a movie on it, but any controller was able to pause it or fast forward, so we'd take a controller and pause the movie while we were in a different room

of course, bogey would never mod his 360

doublehawk do you think you're too into video games

[15:51] doublehawk23: he jumped off that dam
[15:51] grathungar: and falls but no jumping
[15:51] grathungar: oh, but you jump off the dam in the game
[15:52] doublehawk23: well
[15:52] doublehawk23: you kind of walk off

that is all about goldeneye, so

Bogey

Knob would take 2 drinks.

Garlic Bread

Bogey wrote: »

Knob would take 2 drinks.

he would just take the bottle of ipecac

Orestes

doublehawk00 wrote: »

Rankenphile wrote: »

doublehawk00 wrote: »

Rankenphile wrote: »

doublehawk00 wrote: »

bogey what are you planning to do with said 360? i can bring a wireless controller.

he's gunna stick his dick in it

what the hell do you think he's gunna do with it, it's a damn xbox, you play games on it

i was thinking, when, where, what games

ALSO YOU CAN WATCH MOVIES ON IT MR. SMARTYPANTS

yup. need a bunch of controllers to watch a movie.

Good thinking, you nailed it.

a friend of mine had a modded 360

we watched a movie on it, but any controller was able to pause it or fast forward, so we'd take a controller and pause the movie while we were in a different room

of course, bogey would never mod his 360

What the hell does a mod have to do with a controller being able to control a movie?

REGULAR 360's DO THAT TOO.

PotU

Rankenphile wrote: »

PotU wrote: »

Yeah, really now, when's PAX.

what, are you serious?

it ain't like there'a great big fucking web page about it

it ain't like we've not been talking about it for the past six damn months

it opens a week from today

Oh, okay, thanks.

I didn't really think about the web page and man, I never read one word in that one PAX thread.

It's cool that at the same time you're over there I'm at the Games Convention.

Rankenphile

Keith wrote: »

Bogey wrote: »

Knob would take 2 drinks.

he would just take the bottle of ipecac

"fuck the middle man, let's get these fireworks started."

glug glug glug

doublehawk00

Orestes wrote: »

doublehawk00 wrote: »

Rankenphile wrote: »

doublehawk00 wrote: »

Rankenphile wrote: »

doublehawk00 wrote: »

bogey what are you planning to do with said 360? i can bring a wireless controller.

he's gunna stick his dick in it

what the hell do you think he's gunna do with it, it's a damn xbox, you play games on it

i was thinking, when, where, what games

ALSO YOU CAN WATCH MOVIES ON IT MR. SMARTYPANTS

yup. need a bunch of controllers to watch a movie.

Good thinking, you nailed it.

a friend of mine had a modded 360

we watched a movie on it, but any controller was able to pause it or fast forward, so we'd take a controller and pause the movie while we were in a different room

of course, bogey would never mod his 360

What the hell does a mod have to do with a controller being able to control a movie?

REGULAR 360's DO THAT TOO.

only the 1st controller i believe

Rankenphile

PotU wrote: »

Rankenphile wrote: »

PotU wrote: »

Yeah, really now, when's PAX.

what, are you serious?

it ain't like there'a great big fucking web page about it

it ain't like we've not been talking about it for the past six damn months

it opens a week from today

Oh, okay, thanks.

I didn't really think about the web page and man, I never read one word in that one PAX thread.

It's cool that at the same time you're over there I'm at the Games Convention.

which games convention?

Gen Con?