Deadlands: Harrowed and Hookers - Session 2

 

No pictures this time around. Maybe sometime I'll make a banner or something to go with this.

Perhaps unsurprisingly given the time between last post and this one, the Deadlands game had to miss a couple of weeks due to health concerns. We did get to our second session on the 20^th, however, and it was fun!

We started with the sun dawning upon the day of the Science Expo. Shing Li, Wade, and Sister Eldritch woke up, did their various morning rituals and preparation. We learned that Shing Li likes bacon. Once finished with their respective morning routines each made their way to the fair grounds where they met up with Sheriff Shanker to get details of their assignment serving as temporary security for the event.

Shanker assigned all of them to the western portion of the fair grounds with the job of keeping watch and dealing with any issues as they deem fit. Such issues would include rowdy people and haywire machine. I'm sure nothing will go wrong.

Shing Li had a minor freak out at being given a badge, surprised that they were being gifted gold. Shanker had to explain it was just gold plated iron and was pretty worthless.

On their way to their section comments were made in regards to Sister Eldritch's habit being... Non-traditional, with a close fit and high-slit sides. Wade danced around the subject a little, while Shing Li proved to be a sledgehammer and bluntly asked if Eldritch was searching for a mate. The answer was yes, and the fact that she had NOT taken vows of chastity and celebacy took Wade by surprise. It was also at this time that Wade accidentally let slip that he thought she had nice legs.

This pleased the nun.

Meanwhile, Edward and Jane were waking up and getting the inventor's setup going. As this was happening an older woman wandered by and introduced herself as Diana Berghauer, a wealthy, independent financier. Presumably she's at the expo to find promising inventors to finance and/or milk for all they're worth. She recognized Edward's surname and brought up the "grisly rumours" regarding his family. Said rumours at least didn't seem to harm Edward's chances of her patronage.

Eventually both groups came in contact with one another when the trio of Shing Li, Wade and Eldritch stopped by on their patrol. Edward and Wade came to a deal where Wade would step up and test out his gun (a .50 caliber buffalo rifle) with the inventor's product.

Around the same time the church bells rang and the expo opened properly to the non-wealthy public. The screaming of ghost rock furnaces filled the air like something only marginally better than a children's birthday party filled with screeching little (redacted). Ahem. Jane and Eldritch both had negative reactions to the sound, with Jane's being considerably more severe. However, the worst was yet to come.

A sudden, terrifying sound rang out near the group as another inventor unleashed his infernal machine upon the weird west. The screaming horror of the ghost rock was but a minor infraction against the eardrums compared to the cacophony of a mechanical orchestra made by a tone-deaf mad scientist.

It was deeply unpleasant. The crowds agreed and began to leave the vicinity. This would be bad for the expo and was, technically, a disturbance, so Shing Li and Eldritch went to talk with the man. The latter mostly went to back the former up in case she faced more good ol' fashioned ol' west racism. Yeehaw! Thankfully that didn't happen, but the man was clearly not going to turn his damned, terrible invention off. So our little martial artist whipped out her combat gloves, took a stance and... punched the ghost rock furnace right out from the machine.

Amusingly, Wade was also getting ready to use his gun to disable the crime against music. Edward was preparing a strongly worded letter, and Jane was having an even stronger reaction. She does not like ghost rock furnaces. Can't blame her too much.

Eldritch just gave the now-emotionally destroyed man some money to go buy booze and get some tea to calm his nerves. Two things of whiskey doesn't constitute enabling substance abuse, right? Tea with cinnamon also doesn't count... Right? Should probably ask the GM about that and how it works with her litany of sins, hmmm...

I'm sure it's fine.

Our session ended with Edward getting ready to put on his demonstration, which is where we'll pick up next time. Will Edward find investors? Will Jane feel better? Will Wade, Shing Li, and Sister Rodriguez have a threesome as God intended? We'll find out~

Quotes of the Session

• Shing Li: Shing Li offers a low bow to the sheriff as he walks away, her black hair flopping a bit as she does so. "Good luck sir on your patrol of unwanteds!" She turns to Sister E and cocks her head a bit, finally glad she could speak to her new friend again, though a curious question on her mind. "Sister, it is making my heart the very happy to see my new friend again, but your new choice of clothing is very interesting. Are you in the wishing to attract a mate with such showy clothing?"

• Wade: He’d grasp his chin in thought with his left hand while extending the index finger and scratching his left cheek a bit with it while muttering loudly enough for her to hear, though he’d think he was being quiet and thinking out loud to himself. “Though her legs are nice….focus Wade..focus…”

• GM: Oblivious Noise Inventor forces himself to speak between heavy sobs "I ... I need a .... DRIIHIHIIIIIIIIINK"

• Edward: Edward Grimm draws the attention of the crowd by stepping up and speaking loud. "Ladies, Gentleman, apologies- apologies! The kind sir's invention had... some kinks that need working out. Let's not make fun of the poor man, we're all here to witness some technological marvels! If you're looking for a show, I've a demonstration of a brand new technology that any laborer, gunslinger, or military man will be excited to take a look at!"

• Jane: Jane Doe gives him a look for a second but, softens a little. "I know, I'm being silly just.." *She looks to the side a little, showing a tiny bit more vulnerability. "My people believe...believed, that the sound was the dead wailing and it was their spirits inside of it. Like their souls are fuel for these machines and the sound is too much."

Deadlands: Harrowed & Hookers - Session 1

 Previous Session (Intro)

 

So! Deadlands did not start on the 23^rd due to acts of Zeus cracking down on one of the players' house. So instead we did a dry run/test of the combat a bit since most everyone but the GM is new to the system. It was nice and educational, and the game was on for the 30^th instead.

And then I got covid over the weekend.

But I was better enough to play (thank heavens for online gaming). So Deadlands: Harrowed and Hookers has begun, muahahahahahaha!

First session was a trio of scenes to establish characters a bit and what they were doing in Chimayo.

Starting with Wade and Sister Eldritch. The former had recently returned from hunting down a bounty alongside Shing Li. Having found no new bounty to hunt down, he opted to attend the expo and was going for a walk the day before. The latter was spending her day running errands for the church, in particular ferrying supplies from the general store back and forth in an effort to rebuild the strength and endurance she'd lost to a number of questionable decisions.

Artist is sunsetagain (pixiv link)

Whilst carrying a few sacks of potatoes, Eldritch was met by Sheriff Shanker, the sheriff (gasp, awe) of the city of Chimayo. Wade soon spotted and joined them, pleasantries were exchanged and Sister Eldritch's foolish decision to try carrying -four- sacks of potatoes back from the general store was remedied by the two men each taking a sack, thus sparing her noodle-like arms from spilling them all halfway there. Both Wade and Eldritch offered to keep their eyes out and help with security at the expo before the trio made their way to the church.

Next up was Shing Li. Our intrepid martial artist was interested in the science expo even if she wasn't entirely sure what it entailed. So she approached a man in unform and encounter some goold ol' fashioned old west racism... Though the guy was probably from back east, a corporate guard, so fuck'em. He was at least nice enough to tell her she was in the right place, and armed with that knowledge she headed to the church, hoping to encounter Sister Eldritch as the two had previously had a pleasant conversation on theology.

Artist unknown

Arriving at the church, Shing Li was met with the sight of Sister Fatima Rodriguez, another nun leaving the church and nervously looking around everywhere except she was going. Upon stubbing her toe and -almost- swearing, Shing Li rushed to the sister's aid which further frightened her and made her -almost- swear again. Sister Rodriguez lets slip that she finds Wade handsome (Sultry Sisters of the Southwest, coming soon to a penny dreadful near you!), and that he and Eldritch are in the courtyard discussing the expo.

Being the helpful sort that she is, Shing Li decides to help Sister Rodriguez out. Can't let her go walking on an injured foot after all. Missing that the nun had been -leaving- the church, the martial artist used her prodigious strength and hefted the sister up and over a shoulder and promptly carried her back inside and to the courtyard. Finally, the dam broke and Sister Rodriguez began to swear like a sailor. Upon seeing this, Sister Eldritch burst into laughter hard enough that she couldn't breathe -and- dropped her accident for a couple of words.

One let down, Sister Rodriguez stomped off, followed soon by Wade to make sure she didn't get into any trouble – or carried off by anyone else.

Finally we had a scene between Edward Grimm and Jane Doe. Things started off with Edward working on his presentation and performance for the science expo while Jane watched. This lead into the pair conversing about the upcoming show, the performance, if Jane should 'slut it up' for the crowd and finally weird holy people and a bit of theological discussion as they made their way to the saloon... Sorta.

And that was that! The session was a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to the next one. There was supposed to be some between-sessions roleplaying on the Discord group between Edward, Jane, Sister Rodriguez and Wade, but with people being busy it might not happen. If it does, I'll recap it in the next post!

 

See you all next time!

Session Quotes

• Sister Rodriguez: ""h-huh WHAAAAAA!" the sister flails as she's suddenly lifted, her feet kicking a little and her arms swinging around in a mild panic attack "W-what are you doing!? I j-just fucking left from there!" quickly she falls into a string of panicked cursing and not actually anything useful to stop the asian 'monster' from carrying her back onto the compound "

• Shing Li: Shing Li comes to a stop at the entrance to the courtyard, lifting her gaze and looking around to see if she sees any familiar faces, her powerful grip not letting up on the sister. After all she wouldn't want the poor girl to be walking on such a horribly hurting foot, she has to do what she can to make sure she's niiiiiiiice and comfortable.

• Sister Rodriguez: "THAT WOULD BE MOST FUCKING WELCOME YES, THIS YELLOW BEHEMOTH JUST FUCKING LIFTED ME OUTTA NOWHERE AND JESUS FUCK ME CHRIST"

• Wade Harper: "Take care Sister!" (I just got strong smartass energy from this one)

• Jane Doe: "Want I should put on the dresses the whores wear? I hear it gets you men all flustered. Might be good if they're thinking more with their cocks then their senses." She didn't much understand why some of those layered dresses were all that hot but, then again, she didn't have a dick. Putting her cigarette back in her mouth."

• Edward Grimm: "Never could quite get my head around the logic of it all. Y'know there's a part in there about a guy with a dick the size of a donkey? True story!"

Deadlands: Harrowed and Hookers

 Next Session (1)

 

    Coming up soon I'll be playing in a Deadlands game, which I am... excessively excited for. Seriously, I've been pestering the GM pretty much every day about it. She is probably ready to have me hanged. If I stop updating again, it's safe to assume that an angry Dutch woman has hunted me down and I now swing from a tree branch.

    Ahem, anyway. Deadlands is a game that I've wanted to play since, like, the 90s. I remember seeing the books at Active Imagination in Albuquerque and thinking they looked neat. Also there was a game going on at one table one time I was there. Don't really remember what was going on in their game, but the GM was a staff member and used that to play... That stereotypical western dueling song... Old West Song? Theme from Good the Bad and the Ugly? Whatever. That one. It was amusing at the time to... tweenage me?

    God my memory sucks. The point is: Deadlands. Awesome. Wanted to play since young. It's the Savage Worlds version we'll be playing, which isn't entirely the same, but it's still Deadlands so I was excited when the GM messaged me and mentioned it was an option.

    For those unfamiliar with it: Deadlands is an alternate history setting in the mid-late 1800s (I believe our starting date is going to be 1886 or so). Focus on the Weird West, with monsters and super coal that's probably the souls of the damned (and maybe not damned? I'm unsure). Poker magic, mad scientists, and old timey shootouts galore.

    Oh, fair warning: Given the time period and location the game will likely touch on some sensitive subject matter. Not as a primary theme, but the group isn't uncomfortable with things like racism and sexism and superstitious bigotry being obstacles and road bumps to deal with. I will be keeping the majority of such things glossed over, but if you're uncomfortable with just the idea of such themes being present, well, fair warning like I said.

    Our posse of insanity consists of (character blurbs written by their players)

 

Artist is solkorra,

    Between the awkward flirting, openly carrying a number of weapons, and dressing in a habit that would be more appropriate in a brothel, you'd be forgiven to think that Sister Eldritch was not actually a nun. The friendly nun and the other sisters at El Santuario de Chimayo swear that she is an honest-to-God member of the church. Of note are her deathly pale complexion and accent best described as “someone trying very hard to sound American.”

 

Artist is ???

    Wade’s loyalty has gotten him in plenty of trouble, whether that’s loyalty to bad friends, his morals, or his belief in justice has resulted in issues for him. Despite this, the green-eyed young man’s always trying to do right by him and those who he calls friend, even if they’re not true friends to him. These morals of his even led him to enlist with the Union, fighting against the Confederacy and the injustice of slavery. Course, after this, he didn’t know what to do until an unlucky incident for one individual set him on the path to bounty hunting. Rifle and pistol in hand, he tracks down those who’ve wronged others and brings ‘em to justice.

 

 

Artist is this person on pixiv.

    Finding it hard to really talk to many of the locals, her broken English and lost sense of direction getting her into more trouble than she'd like to admit, Shing Li stumbles from town to town almost by pure luck as she tries to find small work here and there. Having come overseas to help trade silk from her land, her job now finished, she had a desire to stay and learn more about the 'world of the white men', as their customs and different ways of life were fascinating to her. Her journey is not without its hardships, from those looking down on her for being different, to outright being denied for being a "dirty yellow skin", whatever that means. Still, the Emerald Dragon Of East, with a high code of honor and righteous sense of morality, carves her own path in this new world. Just be sure to never anger her, as even a thick wooden door would be not but splinters against her powerful and deadly strikes.

 

 

 Artist is rity_k

    A man of science, progress, and keen intellect, Edward Grimm has the potential to become one of the greatest forces of industry in the Weird West- if his hunt for vengeance doesn't put him in the ground. Last survivor of the Grimm family, as a boy young Edwards family was brutally slaughtered in an '"Injun Attack" that he swears was just a front for shadier dealings. Dedicating his life to vengeance, Edward was picked up by Smith and Roberts after demonstrating incredible technological aptitude at a young age. Now a full grown man, and blessed with the smarts and willpower to take full advantage of the miracle substance Ghost Rock, Edward travels town to town plying a living as a gunsmith and traveling inventor all to fund his true goal; get back his families land and fit the bastards who stole everything from him for pine boxes. A wise man once said if you embark on a quest of revenge, dig two graves. Ed plans on digging a hell of a lot more then two.

 

Artist is ??? 

     Jane Doe's player didn't get a blurb to me, so what I know is this: Westernized (Europeanized? Americanized?) Native American hottie rocking two pistols. She works with Edward.

 

    The GM asked us to have connections to everyone else. I don't know how everyone else is connected, but as far as Sister Eldritch goes:

• Wade is probably the closest to a friend she has outside of the church. She and the bounty hunter have talked on numerous occasions.

• Shingi Li was sent to Eldritch's church by a drunk that said the foreigner would burn in hell if she didn't. The sister was not amused, but did get along with Li, they talked about religion and the afterlife.

• Sister Eldritch's relationship with Edward is one of business. She gives him money, he gives her special ammunition, custom speed loaders, and has done some tweaks to her prized LeMat revolver. Eldritch has recently put in a request for some rattler-hide armour.

• Jane and Eldritch didn't get a connection set up.

 

    The game is starting in Chimayo, New Mexico. The town has been selected to host an expo showing off a selection of the wonders that modern science has to offer! Why was such an out of the way place selected? Because of the volatile nature of modern science, of course! If something explodes there nothing -important- will get damaged.

    The game is set to start on 2022/08/23. I'll try to get new posts out a couple of days after a session.

Gencon Report: Thoughts and Swag!

First of all, huge thanks to Templar for paying my hotel and flight to the convention. Without him I'd not have been able to go. ^_^
Second, the gallery of all of my con pictures is located here!

Gencon was freaking awesome. ^_^ It was my first year attending, but hopefully it won't be my last (with luck I'll have a better job soon and can save up for next year).
The best part had to have been meeting a bunch of my friends from online. Templar, April, and Mason being the top three. Putting faces to names is interesting enough, but getting to hang out with people is great... especially since I don't get to get out of the house nearly enough. :D
Second best is just being able to get out of the house and have a real, proper vacation. Going into it I didn't think I was going to be able to relax and put everything aside. Turns out, a day into the convention and I was able to actually relax and have fun, so woo!
Third was the shopping, because shopping is awesome and I managed to get a lot of neat stuff (mostly to do with Malifaux and Wyrd Miniatures).
Finally the panels, seminars and general game demos were a lot of fun. The seminars were insightful, especially the RPG Freelancing one. I spent a good deal of my time at the Wyrd Miniatures areas, watching or participating in demos. At least when I wasn't hanging around with friends. I have to admit, if I had more money and space I'd probably have grabbed Pupet Wars and Showdown, as they were a lot of fun as well. Well, Showdown was, Puppet Wars I need to try out some more, but the models looked like fun and I could use them for Malifaux. Jetpack Unicorn, being a party game, was interesting but not something I'd get much use out of right now.
The real game-demo winner for me though was Winter Tales. I will likely do a longer review of my thoughts on the demo, but suffice to say it was awesome. So awesome, in fact, that if they had it available to purchase there I would have grabbed it in a heartbeat. Sadly, they did not. Still, I'm totally going to get it as soon as I can (the FFG release. I'm still debating if I want to order the Italian version or not. It DOES have bilingual rules...).

This.

This is awesome.

The downside of the convention has been that I brought home the Con Plague and spent the last couple of days sleeping most of my hours away. XD

Now, onto the swag! Sweet, sweet swag. :D I did pretty well, methinks!
I bought:
 1x Malifaux Second Edition Rulebook
1x Tara, Herald of Obliteration Box (Malifaux)
1x Lady Justice, new box (Malifaux)
1x Fancy Convention Fate Deck (Malifaux)
2x Arsenal Decks, Neverborn and Arcanists (Malifaux)
1x Rasputina, new box (Malifaux, for a friend)
1x Evil Baby Orphanage + Expansion
1x Candy & Cola (Relic Knights Exclusive)
3x Nyan Nyan (SDE Exclusives, one for a friend)
1x Shadowrun 5e (for a friend)
1x Shadowrun Patch (for a friend)
1x Shadowrun Poster (for a friend)

Technically got for free!
1x Viktorias, new box (Malifaux, costume contest voucher)
1x Lady Justice, new box (Malifaux, for a friend, costume contest voucher)
1x Beckoners box (Malifaux, costume contest voucher)
1x Hanging Tree Box (Malifaux, Achievement League prize)
1x Rotten Belle box (Malifaux, Achievement League prize)
1x Witchling Stalker promo (Malifaux, from Templar)

Gencon Report: Day 4 (Sunday)

Sunday began with sadness, for it was to be the last day of the convention, which meant coming back to Arizona. :(
Once everything was packed up and I said my early goodbyes to Chris and the others I took my bags down to get checked in. Figuring I wouldn't be doing much gaming I opted to check in all of my bags... My shoulders were hurting a lot anyway from carrying my minis bag around the whole con. This would be a slightly bad idea as I would get a bit bored later on, oh well.

There were bellydancers. They were awesome. I have video. ^_^

Much of the morning was spent just wandering around. My plan for the day was really to just get some last time to hang out with April, Mason and Nick, until the Malifaux Achievement League prizes were announced. The others hand things to do though, so after hanging out a bit everyone went their separate ways, mostly. I followed Mason to the Pandemic table. I was even considering joining in if they accepted my bondage ticket as a generic one, but that's when something unusual happened!

Why yes, that is a Klingon playing a mandolin (I think) next to a bellydancer. Gencon is weird. ^_^

I received a phone call from a number I didn't know. Now, normally I don't answer these sorts of calls. They're usually just depressing, but I answered it... and it went to my voice mail. Then, I checked my voice mail, which is odd as I'm usually -really- bad about checking it, but I'm glad I did this time, for I had a neat message. A message from the Wyrd Booth, telling me that I needed to come by "about the costume contest".
I pretty much grabbed my stuff and ran to the dealer's hall where the tide of people slowed my journey. *shakes fist* Eventually though I made it and learned that I had placed second in the Wyrd Costume Contest. Second. Place. I wasn't expecting that at all! In fact, it still feels a little surreal. Awesome, but surreal. :D

Voucher, woo!

I used the voucher I got to get April a starting Crew (Lady J) and grab some Beckoners and the Viks Crew for myself... All while wondering where and how I was going to store this stuff. My bags were packed as it was.

We also convinced April and Mason to try out Winter Tales. :D

April, Mason and I did a very very quick demo of Puppet Wars before returning to the Wyrd Booth for the raffle (I never got any raffle tickets, which was slightly annoying, but oh well. I got second place in a costume contest, that was awesome enough to make up for it! :D ) and for the Achievement League prizes... Which I placed 6th in, woo! That put me in the second tier of prizes... a Minion box and a box of the Hanging Tree minis. The minion box wasn't worrying to me because it was small, but I was staring in mild horror at the hanging tree box and how I was going to pack THAT in with everything else! XD
Once all the prizes were given out, the four of us decided to get in one last meal together before we all had to go our separate ways... So to Steak'n'shake we went! Sadly, because of the time and when my limo was ariving, I had to dash out early just to be safe, so I grabbed a to-go box and went back to the hotel. After getting hugs, because hugs are awesome.
Miraculously, I was able to pack everything into my bags. I was worried about stuff breaking, but thankfully it would only be the Hanging Tree box that was damaged, and even then only a bit. April stopped by and we chatted for a while until my ride arrived. One more hug and then I was off to the airport where check-in and security were, thankfully, short.
Obviously, the flight made it back to Phoenix safely and I was back home quickly. I have to admit, after five days of being in a non-smoking area, coming home to a heavy smoker was like being punched in the nose. I'm still getting used to it. @_@
And that was the last day. ^_^ Coming next will be the aftermath and my thoughts on my very first Gencon, woo!

And because I can, have an angry giant spider-chick. :D

Gencon Report: Day 3 (Saturday)

Saturday began with a swearing that I would not be spending any more money save for food and transport fees. It also began with me deciding that I wanted to spend more time gaming and working on my Achievement League stuff than going to seminars. To be fair though, the seminars I had for Saturday really weren't that interesting, so gamnig it was!
Meeting Mason, April and Nick down in the halls, we hung out for a while. While I had scrapped all of my planned seminars and panels and activities... They had not, so soon enough I was left alone. Not a big deal though, I did some wandering about to get some costume pictures before coming back to the Wyrd area in the Miniatures Hall. There I watched people demoing and playing Malifaux, and I even helped out in running demos and answering questions, which was fun. It also helped with my Achievement League purposes, so woo!

Didn't get as many pictures as I'd have liked to.

Eventually Nick returned to the minis hall and after hanging out a while we got in an amusing game of Malifaux. Our Strategy was Reconnoiter while most of the Schemes involved murdering models in the other Crew. As I had given him a 5 point advantage, I was at a pretty big model disadvantage, and decided to take cover in a building to lure him to me. It... didn't work quite as well as I'd hoped (damned Seamus and his teleportation!), but I did manage to kill one thing to get me the sole winning VP, so woo!
Once Mason and April returnd from their panels/games/whathave you the lot of us went to get dinner together. This time we opted to just go to the mall, because yesterday's exploration weighed heavily upon our minds. Except for Mason who was gleefully unaware of our perilous journey. (Note for next year: Send Mason on perilous journey).

With food obtained it was back to the event halls where we played some games. I ended up doing a beginner game of Malifaux with April, her running Lilith while I ran Tara. Lilith thuroughly stomped the Herald of Obliteration, as any good Neverborn should. Afterwards we went back to the hotel to watch TV and make fun of the various Ghost and House hunting shows until bed time.

Gencon Report: Day 2 (Friday)

Friday began as any other day begins; by waking up, taking a shower, doing my hair and putting on makeup! In this case though, my hair required two tubes of washable blue hair dye and my makeup consisted of black and blue facepaint! Yes, dear readers, I did some cosplaying on Friday!
You see, the Malifaux Achievement League that I had signed up for had an Achievement worth 10 points, to dress up as a Malifaux character! Ten points was a lot, so when the achievement information went live I realized I had to try for it. Unfortunately, with only a week until I left and limited funds (if I wanted money to buy swag at the con itself) my options were... limited. Enter the Death Marshals, with their trenchcoats and guns and hats... but I didn't have a hat, and googling the prices of them was a little extreme, boo... But wait! Second Edition brings with it a new set of Death Marshals with the option of having skulls with blue flames! I can do that! Maybe!
Thus, I dressed up as a M2E Death Marshal, using blue hair dye and lots of hair spray to make my hair look vaguely like wisps of ethereal blue flame... I'm pretty sure if someone struck a match within a meter of me then the head flames wouldn't have been fake. :3 Face paint was then used to give the impression that my face was a black skull with blue glow.
While I was getting ready, Masons topped by dressed up in his own costume (McMourning, also from Malifaux). Once dressed, we escaped the hotel and went back to the convention and to the various halls! Mason being Mason went to troll the AEG people some, while I went to buy more stuff in the Dealer's hall, as was the style at the time... Also because I had gotten paid, so woo!
First stop was Cool Mini or Not to get the Nyan Nyans I needed... But no, the shipment hadn't arrived yet! They claimed that the truck would be there around 3 and to come back, and that there would be enough for everybody. So I went to the Catalyst Labs booth next to grab the Shadowrun 5th book for another friend, as well as a poster and a patch. Friend's purchase completed, it was back to the Wyrd Booth, because I had more stuff I wished to grab!

There were no Nyan Nyans, but there were cosplay girls!

Purchases in hand, I left the hall to sit down and wait for April (who was dressed as Kirai from Malifaux) before we went to find and troll Mason, as you do. Unfortunately for us, Mason had wandered around, making finding him difficult! Clearly he had spies. Eventually we found him and another friend playing Malifaux. We then headed back to the Wyrd Booth to sign up for the costume contest. Afterwards we hung out for a while and played a game of Cthulhu Fluxx before everyone had to run off to their own panels. For me, this meant going to a seminar on RPG Freelancing... also an adventure!
The seminar was in another hotel, and the path to the hotel was... Interesting. I had to go up stairs, down stairs and through a skybridge. Unfortunately, due to the way the path was set up, I ended up going through the hotel I needed to be (I couldn't find any elevators, and the stairs were down for maintenance) and into an entirely different one! Eventually, however, I made it to the seminar room with time to spare, which was awesome. :)

This path doesn't look ominous. Not at all.

The seminar was very informative, I even managed to record it all on my phone. There was the added bonus that all three of the panelists had worked on Through The Breach and recognized my costume. :D
After the seminar it was back to the vendor's hall to get my copies of Nyan Nyan (one for me, one for a friend). The models still hadn't arrived, but the truck was on its way, so I got in line with the others. It ended up being a 30+ minute line, but I bought three copies of the model, muahahahahahaha!
Then it was off to meet with April and Nick and hunt down some lunch. We decided on Subway, but Google Maps lead us a few miles off course to find a Subway... We later remembered that not only was there one closer, but there was ALSO one in the nearby mall. Still, it was an adventure. A painful, hot adventure in a very heavy duster... Yeah, by the time we got back to the hotel I was drenched in sweat and filled with pain, so the decision was made to say "fuck it" and take a shower and get changed... but fist I touched up my makeup a bit so I could get a picture of my costume!

We did see this during the lunch-hunt though.

Shower completed, I went with Templar and his brother to TGIFridays, which was tasty and a nice, relaxing break from wandering around the area. Overstuffed with food, I really wanted to just get a nap in, but no, I hung otu for a bit and eventually had to run to meet up with April, and Mason to go to a rope bondage class in another hotel. Sadly, as it would turn out, this was not to be.
We arrived at the hotel and were told that we would need our IDs and, more importantly, that the ropes for the class hadn't come in. This meant that we'd need to return the loaner ropes, but there would be no partial refunds (the tickets were 10$ a piece). As one of our group had forgottn their ID and it seemed like it wouldn't be as interesting as we thought... We went back to the convention center and met up with Nick to play some Small World, which was probably more fun than the bondage class would have been. :)

There was also this, which is pretty awesome.

Afterwards, it was time for much needed sleep again.
Also, at some point during the day, Nick and I wandered about and played a really awesome game called Winter Tales. I will likely be doing a longer post on it later.