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I wasn't planning to post about GenCon just yet, as I still have a playtest report to write from notes, but...
A company called Cheese Weasel Logistics, who make a very cool product called the Card Coffin, have been nice and friendly every time I've been to their booth at a convention, and who not only kindly donated a Card Coffin to the NSO at Origins '04 when I asked at their booth, but gave me another one when I stopped by to thank them during Origins '05 (I didn't ask this time, honest), ran a very cool meta-game at GenCon this year. It started with a man standing outside the Exhibitor's Hall with an exclamation mark over his head announcing loudly, "This item starts a quest."
You got three cards in three different colors. Each had the first stage of the plot of a quest, and the booth number of the place to go for the next step. The booth people could make you perform a task to continue on the quest. (Having to demo their games, oh, the horror, was the usual task.) Then you'd get the next card in the matching color. After six, the last booth would collect your six cards and give you a little raffle ticket to fill out.
Being me, I decided that if I was going to do this, I was going to have fun with it. I'd show up at a booth slightly out of breath, angle for someone in charge, and start rapidly, "I have a letter from the Captain of the Guard in [wherever it was] for the mayor! It's very urgent, there's been an Orc attack!" while holding up the quest card (because I noticed after the first one or two that they tended to get confused otherwise, and, hey, it made as good a phys-rep for a letter as anything else). Apparently very few people, if any, did that, and I think people enjoyed it overall. It certainly made it more fun for me. Actually, I think the ability to inject a little role-play into it may have had a large part in making it the most fun of the meta-games I've participated in at any convention. In others, it's been kind of a, "Hi, can I have your card?" thing. This let me interact briefly with the people at the booth.
Anyway, at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon yesterday, while I was on a Hudson Line train a bit south of Croton Harmon, I noticed my cell phone had a missed call and a message from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wylddelirium. It said that ninjaslug had called. I'd won the Quest Raffle, I was to haul myself over to the Cheese Weasel booth, pronto. I called her back, got her voicemail. I believe the message I left was, "You're shitting me. Call me back?"
I just got a letter from Cheese Weasel. The subject is, "You were the GenCon Quest Game Grand Prize Winner!!"
It then goes on to talk about how disappointed they were that I wasn't there to see all the stuff laid out myself and have people see my reaction, and talk about all the nifty stuff I won. Apparently it took about three boxes to fit it all.
A company called Cheese Weasel Logistics, who make a very cool product called the Card Coffin, have been nice and friendly every time I've been to their booth at a convention, and who not only kindly donated a Card Coffin to the NSO at Origins '04 when I asked at their booth, but gave me another one when I stopped by to thank them during Origins '05 (I didn't ask this time, honest), ran a very cool meta-game at GenCon this year. It started with a man standing outside the Exhibitor's Hall with an exclamation mark over his head announcing loudly, "This item starts a quest."
You got three cards in three different colors. Each had the first stage of the plot of a quest, and the booth number of the place to go for the next step. The booth people could make you perform a task to continue on the quest. (Having to demo their games, oh, the horror, was the usual task.) Then you'd get the next card in the matching color. After six, the last booth would collect your six cards and give you a little raffle ticket to fill out.
Being me, I decided that if I was going to do this, I was going to have fun with it. I'd show up at a booth slightly out of breath, angle for someone in charge, and start rapidly, "I have a letter from the Captain of the Guard in [wherever it was] for the mayor! It's very urgent, there's been an Orc attack!" while holding up the quest card (because I noticed after the first one or two that they tended to get confused otherwise, and, hey, it made as good a phys-rep for a letter as anything else). Apparently very few people, if any, did that, and I think people enjoyed it overall. It certainly made it more fun for me. Actually, I think the ability to inject a little role-play into it may have had a large part in making it the most fun of the meta-games I've participated in at any convention. In others, it's been kind of a, "Hi, can I have your card?" thing. This let me interact briefly with the people at the booth.
Anyway, at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon yesterday, while I was on a Hudson Line train a bit south of Croton Harmon, I noticed my cell phone had a missed call and a message from
wylddelirium. It said that ninjaslug had called. I'd won the Quest Raffle, I was to haul myself over to the Cheese Weasel booth, pronto. I called her back, got her voicemail. I believe the message I left was, "You're shitting me. Call me back?"I just got a letter from Cheese Weasel. The subject is, "You were the GenCon Quest Game Grand Prize Winner!!"
It then goes on to talk about how disappointed they were that I wasn't there to see all the stuff laid out myself and have people see my reaction, and talk about all the nifty stuff I won. Apparently it took about three boxes to fit it all.
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