From: Barbara Braun (zbraun@minyos.its.rmit.EDU.AU)
Date: Tue 30 Jan 1996 - 04:34:48 EET
G'day this is Andrew Bean emailing (another of the "Unholy Trio").
Well MOB has said most of it already so I'll just chip in some of my
memories. Everyone has told me they had a ball. Even the hardened 10 year
veterans of Australian cons which was a pleasant surprise.
The organising all ran smoothly as MOB, John and I fit into our
assigned roles. However this is probably due to all the volunteers who
helped out throughout the con. MOB has mentioned the significant ones but
I would like to also thank the others who did an hour here or there when
we needed them. There was probably over 10 of them and it all added up.
Thankyou.
I spend most of my time running around making sure the canteen was
stocked and doing bank runs or on the book stall so I missed most of the
seminars and other activities so boy am I looking forward to the
transcripts. I did catch Greg's "Stafford speaks" and his insight into
Illumination and the Red Goddess's link to Nysalor and Yelm was truly
fascinating. Also my Lore auction question of "do you initiate into
pantheons or individual gods ?" was answered as "into Pantheons" from
Greg has made my year. HotB was a blast and everyone is still talking
about it with enthusiasm. I successfully saved Temertain from
assassination and became a certified Hero (depsite my best efforts to be
as incompetent as possible. I was Aleham Ratsbane).
Everyone has commented on how friendly and intimate the con was. No-one
was standing around bored, you could always drop into someone else's
conversation about Glorantha if you had a moment free. The games that
were there to be played sounded as if they were all fun. I certainly
enjoyed the Rose Briar Knight (damn fairies can't be trusted). Loki the
Unsworn failed to turn up to run his Cthulhu and as such should never be
trusted at another Con again!!
I got some goodies at the auction (although the people who turned up 45
minutes before it with copies of the Big Rubble etc to sell could have
helped us by getting their act together before the Con). So if you
thought we didn't know how many copies of stuff we had to sell you were
right <sigh>.
I entertained a bunch of the overseas visitors at my parents farm after
the Con which was fun. The highlight was going to a waterfall and being
caught in a huge downpour just as we arrived. As John said it was Far Point on
any afternoon at 2 o'clock. Which prompted a bunch of us Orlanthi to go out
and do a quick dance in the rain.
On the subject of which we had the weirdest weather around the Con. It
is the middle of summer here and although the weather is changeable in
Melbourne we had one 30 degree day and then during HotB we had huge
downpours and freezing winds and even some hail at one point. The Lunar
High Holy Day was a cold affair (even before an orlanthi caused it to
snow on us in the game). Strange and vicious thunderstorms abounded for
days afterwards (is Orlanth stirring against his crimson bonds .....)
Hopefully we will do this again in a couple of years (depending on survey
responses). A health warning to any future organisers: my headache lasted
3 days after the con and my shoulders were really tense for a similar
period. I still plan to go and see a masseuse. But it was definitely
worth it !!
Cheers, Andrew
PS I agree with Peter that we need more attendees responses. What really
happened out there whilst we organisers were haunting the shadows?
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