Sunday Part 2
The Healers'' Art by Gail Miller.
This was based on Anne MacCaffrey's "The Dragon Riders of Pern", and though I'd probably read it at one time or another, I didn't remember much about it... but it wasn't too difficult to pick up (especially when there were players there who did know what they were talking about!).
I got to be the Fort Hold WeyrWoman, rider of the Gold Dragon... I made my major focus be to find a way to stop the sickness killing off the dragons (and their riders). Well, that all actually got sorted out (yay!) so my beautiful golden dragon wouldn't end up getting sick and dying, nor would any of the other dragons of my hold.... or any others, for that matter.
It was fun, but I'm sure it would have been better had I read the books beforehand. Such is life!
Well, the last part of the convention was the award ceremony.
Apart from the certificate for the Jerry Springer game (which everyone who was a guest recieved), I actually won a 'block of wood' trophy for playing the Doctor in the Origin of the Species game!
My first trophy!!! ^_^
(At Unicon, I got a certificate for another best character award, for the Legend of the Five rings game, which I'd never played before.)
Now I, too, can be like my friends - I have an Arcarnacon trophy with a little plaque on it!
I'm happy. ^_^
After the ceremony wrapped up, the after party was at a Mexican place near by, where lots of the RPGers went to eat, drink and chat. I got to meet some of the people there, and talk to others I'd met but not really talked to before. (Though there was a whole lot that I didn't get to meet, too! And I got to re-meet people from Unicon, too! There're lots of nice people... and not all of them are guys! There're lots of girls, too!)
It's a way to start getting known in the RPG circles of Melbourne (especially since my friends are already well known in those circles - knowing people is good!), so I'll be going to Conquest at Easter!
Michael, the lovely person that he is (can't you just feel the sarcasm?), kept rubbing in the fact that he had Monday off, and made me wait till 12.30am before heading home! (Pft, I think he just did that because he wants me to punish him, or something. :p ) So I'm half asleep as I type this.
I think I need a couple of bottles of V... especially since we've got our regular RPG session at Alex's house tonight! Gyah, no sleep till tomorrow!
Anyway, it was a whole lot of fun, and I'm glad that I went. (I'm even glad that I went to the after party, despite how little sleep I got.)
Arcarnacon was a lot of fun.
http://arcanacon.vurt.net/
I need sleep, now. Zzzzzzzzzzz...