Thursday
To start off the weekend, I visited my good friend and the person who put me in the
position I am now with everyone at Palladium Books, Dennis Hughes/Subjugator. If you
didn't know, Dennis had a recent medical issue crop up and things were looking very
serious at first. In fact, as of that morning, he was going to have surgery and wasn't
sure if that was going to be the end of the problems or not. So, after a solemn yet
positive visit, I left for the Open House with word of Dennis' condition.
Arriving at the Warehouse, the place was a bit quiet. I'm always used to the Open House
being a bit busy, but I arrived earlier this year. I proceeded to take in the sights of
some special tables, meet some people, and just hang around until things really took off.
Of course, I was also assaulted by a short, little Canadian woman who you may know as
Sara/Mierin. All because she "claims" I stole a character of her's for a pre-gen in one of
my games. I was merely immortalizing her creation in an Open House game. A double kick
to the shin was what I got for my gratitude. Go figure.
Things started with the Opening Speech that Kevin likes to give every time. After this, I
jumped into one of the games that night, "Ben 10 is Missing" being GM'd by Julius Rosenstien.
The game was fun, but like always, the warehouse echoes all the noise and was at times hard
to hear. The concept of the game was fun. Essentially, we all played 'minor heroes' who
were 'Plumber's Kids', like Ben Tennison (reference the Ben 10 tv show on Cartoon Network).
We all had a weaker Omnimatrix, so each of us had 1-3 other forms. I personally got 'Lee
Threenody' who happened to have a Bird, Insect, and Reptile form (all were Aliens out of the
Aliens Unlimited book). So, we set out in adventure looking for Ben 10. For my character, Lee,
Ben owed him 10 bucks, and I was determined to get it back.
We snuck, we bullied, we fought, we ambushed, and finally we blitzed the 'enemies' only to find
Ben 10 had been, in Julius' words, "Hammering out a deal with the Alien Princess". So, here we
are risking life and limb and he's 'negotiating' with the Princess, on top of that, he owed me
10 bucks. I don't care if he became Humongasaur, I wanted my money. So I punched him in the toe.
That night, many gathered in the Hotel Conference Room to play in an off Rifts game of mine. If
anyone has ever been to one of my earlier Con Games, this adventure is known as 'Requiem', in
which the players are hired by Lazlo to rescue an Archeologist and retrieve his data from a dig
that went awry. Essentially, the game come in a couple parts: Travel from Lazlo to Detroit,
Traversing Detroit Ruins, Travel to Dig Site, and Exploring the Dig Site. Thanks to Carmen Bellaire's
Dragon Hatchling, we skipped from Lazlo to the Dig Site thanks to Teleport: Superior. However,
his teleport did send a Demi-god healer and a Wilderness Scout to Duluth. Thanks to his Remote
Viewing, Carmen was able to teleport to them and bring them back.
Shortly after that, the plans went down hill as Nick Bradshaw (playing the aforementioned Scout) and
Carmen begin a little feud that ends with both of them violating each other and then Nick's human Scout
being eaten like a snack, much to the horror of some others. The game ended shortly after that as this
was the end and all that was left was learning the mysterious of the site.