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Oni-con 2006
Oct. 22nd, 2006 03:12 pmGoing to try to be coherent but I just got back recently so no promises. I did have a lot of fun though.
Thursday night: Not much happened. Went to the hotel and was hugged by Oni-con 2005 survivors. Such love. Met up with Misy, Nikki, and Brian to check in and get ready for con start. Brian also introduced me to the insane cracky Male cheerleader game on nintendoDS. SO much crack.
Friday: I woke up before dawn(WRYYYYY!) and spent time just laying and bed watching it grow lighter outside before giving up and getting up. After getting dressed I went in search of breakfast and failed. I did find a japanses sushi restarant though. Then Misty and I went in search of registration, found a Starbucks and so had breakfast. We did find registration but it didn't open for serveral hours. SO we just hung out, I got a pic of a Cloud cosplay who then kindly gave me beef jerky. YAY for free food.
After several hours, registration opened. Misty and Nikki were pre-reg while Brian and I were not. Oddly Brian and I got our badges first, even though the pre-reg line was shorter. One minor though, was that they had no maps and no schedules at the registration desk(they had been printed, but they just hadn't gotten the boxes yet) Anyway we were registratered but the con wasn't officially opened yet so I began wandering. Stumbled upon Brian again and we went on a con Dungeon crawl to find stuff. We successfully located the viewing rooms and the arcade. Con EXP was awarded and we leveled up. I drooled over a girl's lovely dollfie that she had dressed up as Axel. I actually spent a lot of time over the weekend drooling over dollfies. I want one soooo much.
The con finally officialy opened and into the dealers room I went. I wanted to pace myself so I managed to limited myself to just a few pins and manga and later some ff7: ac gashpon figures and Zidane figure.. Then I noticed a sign one of the dealers had. "Help Wanted: 3 hour blocks, paid in store credit" And I ended volunteering my help along with another girl named Laura. It was oddly fun working there and it kept me from spending too much money. I did only 3 hours that day before wandering the con again, but did agree to work on saturday as well. Met up with the others and we ordered pizza which I ate way too much of. Also the ice machne on our floor did not work all weekend so I went off to a random floor to raid their ice machines. Later after the others had gone to bed I realized it was way to early for me to be sleeping and I was not tired at all. So I put on my shoes and jacket and went off explore the con at night. I met up with a group of people playing duck duck goose and joined them. We played another children's game that I can't remember the name of and then I went off again. I caught the last 15 minutes of the friday night Hentai-fest. It was quite amusing. Finally felt tired enough to sleep so head back to the room. Found that I suck at working those damn keycards, but Misty woke up and let me in and I went to bed.
Saturday: I got up nice and early to go back to the dealers room to work. Took pictures of cosplayer who came by our booth and had a lot of fun leading people to things they would like. Though my co-worker refused to believe I was 27 even though I showed her my id. And slightly disturbing I told henry(guy I was working for) that I wouldn't be able to work Sunday as I was going to be hung over and he responded by saying I should join him later and he'll get me booze. Later he asked how old I was and revealed he though I was 19 and not supposed to have booze. Nice. Anyway the end of my 6 hours came and I claimed my merchendise an awesome FF7: AC Cloud and his bike action figure and some naruto pins. Took my swag back to the room and grabbed my Sandman: The Dream Hunters book to find the Amano autograph session. Found it with some others and started lining up. Good thing I went early as they capped it at 100 people. I was number 5. It was great. I couldn't do more then a fangirl squeak of love and appreciation, but he drew a little portrat of me in the book and signed it. *sigh* soooo happy. Wandered, bought prints and a My Little Bad-ass Sephiroth badge in the artist alley. Though about buying a pair of very nice fairy wings, but they didn't have a color I liked.
Later we ordered in chinese and it was rather nasty and overpriced chinese and proceded to get drunk, except for Brian cause he doesn't drink. Watching toonami and Ultimate avengers movie laughing all the way. Nikki unfortunatley got sick and missed out on the rest of the evening's adventures. Misty and I put our booze into water bottles and went in search of Hentai-fest. We picked up a little 15 year follower(who I think was hopeful for booze, I said no, Misty said yes and we let Brian be the deciding vote) But were first distracted by a bring your own pillow fight, which ended before we got our pillows but moved on to a card game. I was sent to get something and found hentai-fest. So Misty and I ditched the card game and the minor for porn, but we picked up another follower so it was ok. Hentai fest was filled with sick twisted shit which should be rather unsurprising. Many comments were made and we were quite loud. What was sad is at one point we moved from our seats to ones closer up. Misty thought she lost her waller, so I went back to our old seats. No wallet but found a cell phone. Yelled to the room asking if anyone lost one, no response. Went back to Misty who had her wallet, but turns out the cellphone belongs to our completely sober(if sleep deprived) follower. He's very lucky I found it when I did, but he looses at con. We finished off the booze during Hentai-fest and switched to water when it was over. Played and talked with Tentecle guy in the cafe area of the con center with a few other people. I can't even remember a lot of what we talked about, but then Misty and I were simply babbling drunkenly while others watched on and were highly amused before we gather our pillows and went back to the room to sleep off the rest of the booze.
Sunday: I awoke with an extremely dry mouth which was part hangover and part allergies. We then packed up our stuff, loaded out cars and checked out of the hotel. I went back to the con because there was an artist in the Artist Alley I wanted to get a commission from and to check the dealers room one last time. Got soem host club manga. Such a wonderful series and then waited for the artist to show up. I managed to be third in line for her commissions that day. The picture is pretty cute and I will scan it later. It's me with Sano(Kenshin) and Fai(Tsubasa Reservior Chronicles) And that pretty much did it for me I finally headed home.
Pictures will be posted later. but for now I need a nap and later have to go out to my parents place.
Thursday night: Not much happened. Went to the hotel and was hugged by Oni-con 2005 survivors. Such love. Met up with Misy, Nikki, and Brian to check in and get ready for con start. Brian also introduced me to the insane cracky Male cheerleader game on nintendoDS. SO much crack.
Friday: I woke up before dawn(WRYYYYY!) and spent time just laying and bed watching it grow lighter outside before giving up and getting up. After getting dressed I went in search of breakfast and failed. I did find a japanses sushi restarant though. Then Misty and I went in search of registration, found a Starbucks and so had breakfast. We did find registration but it didn't open for serveral hours. SO we just hung out, I got a pic of a Cloud cosplay who then kindly gave me beef jerky. YAY for free food.
After several hours, registration opened. Misty and Nikki were pre-reg while Brian and I were not. Oddly Brian and I got our badges first, even though the pre-reg line was shorter. One minor though, was that they had no maps and no schedules at the registration desk(they had been printed, but they just hadn't gotten the boxes yet) Anyway we were registratered but the con wasn't officially opened yet so I began wandering. Stumbled upon Brian again and we went on a con Dungeon crawl to find stuff. We successfully located the viewing rooms and the arcade. Con EXP was awarded and we leveled up. I drooled over a girl's lovely dollfie that she had dressed up as Axel. I actually spent a lot of time over the weekend drooling over dollfies. I want one soooo much.
The con finally officialy opened and into the dealers room I went. I wanted to pace myself so I managed to limited myself to just a few pins and manga and later some ff7: ac gashpon figures and Zidane figure.. Then I noticed a sign one of the dealers had. "Help Wanted: 3 hour blocks, paid in store credit" And I ended volunteering my help along with another girl named Laura. It was oddly fun working there and it kept me from spending too much money. I did only 3 hours that day before wandering the con again, but did agree to work on saturday as well. Met up with the others and we ordered pizza which I ate way too much of. Also the ice machne on our floor did not work all weekend so I went off to a random floor to raid their ice machines. Later after the others had gone to bed I realized it was way to early for me to be sleeping and I was not tired at all. So I put on my shoes and jacket and went off explore the con at night. I met up with a group of people playing duck duck goose and joined them. We played another children's game that I can't remember the name of and then I went off again. I caught the last 15 minutes of the friday night Hentai-fest. It was quite amusing. Finally felt tired enough to sleep so head back to the room. Found that I suck at working those damn keycards, but Misty woke up and let me in and I went to bed.
Saturday: I got up nice and early to go back to the dealers room to work. Took pictures of cosplayer who came by our booth and had a lot of fun leading people to things they would like. Though my co-worker refused to believe I was 27 even though I showed her my id. And slightly disturbing I told henry(guy I was working for) that I wouldn't be able to work Sunday as I was going to be hung over and he responded by saying I should join him later and he'll get me booze. Later he asked how old I was and revealed he though I was 19 and not supposed to have booze. Nice. Anyway the end of my 6 hours came and I claimed my merchendise an awesome FF7: AC Cloud and his bike action figure and some naruto pins. Took my swag back to the room and grabbed my Sandman: The Dream Hunters book to find the Amano autograph session. Found it with some others and started lining up. Good thing I went early as they capped it at 100 people. I was number 5. It was great. I couldn't do more then a fangirl squeak of love and appreciation, but he drew a little portrat of me in the book and signed it. *sigh* soooo happy. Wandered, bought prints and a My Little Bad-ass Sephiroth badge in the artist alley. Though about buying a pair of very nice fairy wings, but they didn't have a color I liked.
Later we ordered in chinese and it was rather nasty and overpriced chinese and proceded to get drunk, except for Brian cause he doesn't drink. Watching toonami and Ultimate avengers movie laughing all the way. Nikki unfortunatley got sick and missed out on the rest of the evening's adventures. Misty and I put our booze into water bottles and went in search of Hentai-fest. We picked up a little 15 year follower(who I think was hopeful for booze, I said no, Misty said yes and we let Brian be the deciding vote) But were first distracted by a bring your own pillow fight, which ended before we got our pillows but moved on to a card game. I was sent to get something and found hentai-fest. So Misty and I ditched the card game and the minor for porn, but we picked up another follower so it was ok. Hentai fest was filled with sick twisted shit which should be rather unsurprising. Many comments were made and we were quite loud. What was sad is at one point we moved from our seats to ones closer up. Misty thought she lost her waller, so I went back to our old seats. No wallet but found a cell phone. Yelled to the room asking if anyone lost one, no response. Went back to Misty who had her wallet, but turns out the cellphone belongs to our completely sober(if sleep deprived) follower. He's very lucky I found it when I did, but he looses at con. We finished off the booze during Hentai-fest and switched to water when it was over. Played and talked with Tentecle guy in the cafe area of the con center with a few other people. I can't even remember a lot of what we talked about, but then Misty and I were simply babbling drunkenly while others watched on and were highly amused before we gather our pillows and went back to the room to sleep off the rest of the booze.
Sunday: I awoke with an extremely dry mouth which was part hangover and part allergies. We then packed up our stuff, loaded out cars and checked out of the hotel. I went back to the con because there was an artist in the Artist Alley I wanted to get a commission from and to check the dealers room one last time. Got soem host club manga. Such a wonderful series and then waited for the artist to show up. I managed to be third in line for her commissions that day. The picture is pretty cute and I will scan it later. It's me with Sano(Kenshin) and Fai(Tsubasa Reservior Chronicles) And that pretty much did it for me I finally headed home.
Pictures will be posted later. but for now I need a nap and later have to go out to my parents place.
