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[oakenguy]

Arisia (Boston's SF/fantasy/general celebration of geekiness) rocked.

It rocked because watching friends excel in something is a very fun thing to do, and I got to watch jesshartley moderate the hell out of a panel, and palusbuteo, derspatchel and audioboy rock the house with their performances. Woot, I say. Woot.

I also got to play 'Encore', thus scratching any 'I want to sing in public' itch I might've been feeling--House of Red Doors & assorted folks, have you played this game? It seems custom-designed for you.

That took up my Friday night and my Sunday day. I spent Saturday at a Changeling LARP watching a character sacrifice all his magic to protect his fiancee (and the rest of Boston) on a battlefield, which was just one of those "hell yeah" moments I love about gaming...but that's a whole other topic.

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[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

It was /so/ awesome to meet you, Oakenguy! I'm sorry we didn't get more of a chance to hang out!

I'm glad you had fun,and thanks for the complement. I've never really considered "moderating the hell out of a panel", but I'm glad you thought I did! :)

[feyfire.livejournal.com]

Jess, meet Brian. Brian, meet Jess. :grins:
I love it when friends collide ;)
~Lana

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

I actually met several of your friends this weekend! Jason from Pandemonium says "You do realize I'm going to attempt to get you into the Boston Domain, right?" :) But an hour and a half is /far/, and last time I tried to synch up my cam-login and my ww log in, it killed both. I have no idea where to start.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Oh yes yes, Boston's much too far.

Now, there's a performance/sword troupe in Worcester, on the other hand... ;)

(It was great to meet you too! Hopefully our schedules will synch up better at the next event, whatever it is!)

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

is that the higgins armory?

the lead actress in my film is involved with that...

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

She is? Neat!

I was thinking the Phoenix Swords troupe, actually. But there's a lot of crossover between the two groups.

[ice-cream-eyes.livejournal.com]

I love Encore!

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

We should play sometime!

[ice-cream-eyes.livejournal.com]

Yes- I frequently feel the need to sing, but no one wants to cast me in musicals!

I think I need to either produce my own or just go play Encore.

There used to be an awesome piano bar called Napolean's but sadly they closed down a few years ago.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Hmm...what musical would you produce? A non-puppet version of 'Avenue Q' would be fun and meta, but I bet the price of the rights would be hellacious.

[maxineofarc.livejournal.com]

Aw, I didn't know you were there. Sorry I missed you.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to've missed you! From the sound we totally alternated days.

[spatch]

Dude! You were at Chicken Heart? Did I actually say hi to you and subsequently forget, or did we pass once more like two ships in the night?

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Ha! More like two ships with several hundred other ships in between us all trying to bob around the same buoy, but yes.

[gardenfey.livejournal.com]

Sorry I missed you, but then you probably weren't hanging out in Fast Track too much.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

So close and so far...what I saw of it (glimpses of the face painting and the morris dancing), I was very impressed by!

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

Thanks for comin to the program, glad you enjoyed it. It was cool having a friend/co-consiprator in the audience other than the people I was demo-ing with the whole weekend, it was a nice surpirse.

The LARP'ing thing - did you see the Boffer stuff on Sat / Sun morning? And did it make you giggle? Silly Bofferheads. :D

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

I caught a bit of the Sunday morning boffing (heh), and oh oh oh...it's hard to dress up like a rabbit and look stylish. It's hard to boffer fight and look stylish. Combining the two? Wow. Just....wow.

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

...


I think I saw that guy Sat morning?? Ladyhawke and I looked at each other and said "Furry?!" in unison

made me think of MR in NJ if ya know whatimean and I thinkyaknowwhaddimean

[lemonediscream.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeeeey. I was at Arisia. I was vending under Materialis... we keep missing each other.