Arcarnacon 2001
This last weekend, the Australia Day weekend (January 25-28, 2001), I went to Arcarnacon. This has been my second RPG convention in a number of years (I went to Unicon at the end of last year), and when I could get games, I had quite a lot of fun.
Arcanacon 2001 will be held in Melbourne Australia, over the Australia Day long weekend, the 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th of January from 2pm on the Thursday until prizegiving at 7.30pm on the Sunday, cramming in 13 sessions of roleplaying, wargames, card games, game shows and more.
Thursday
After work on Thursday, I eventually got to the convention at Collingwood College (the public transport to the place sucked - buses are bad forms of transport for getting anywhere on time... if for no other reason than they are very infrequent!) in time for the second session of the con.
After a rather hot and tiring walk between the bus stop (I ended up going on a few stops too far!), I ordered dinner (Mmmm, the cheese platter was good - and only $2!) and found a game to play.
Origin of the Species, a table top by Mike(y) McClure.
Though I didn't get to actually play with anyone I knew, our group of five people still had fun! I got to be the female doctor of the group... Heheheh, I got to self destruct the ship, which ended up blowing up half the city, but that actually worked to our advantage. Hopefully the report I wrote will go up on the web site (Mikey said it would!), and you can see my character's version of events.
Unfortunately, that was it for the night. Three hours a session, it was time to go home and rest. The next morning would be an early start (getting up at 7am, as a normal working day, to get there on time for the first session at 9am!) Thankfully I got a lift home (I hate the thought of travelling on the train at 11pm at night!), thanks Michael!