Countdown to Total Confusion 2012

[Black Jack Rackham]

Another Update: Event Previews are now up! http://www.totalcon.com/eventpreviews.html

[Black Jack Rackham]

WOW! Total Confusion has certainly kicked the cheerleading into high gear. Over on Facebook, they've started mentioning all their GoH events and throwing out links to their events like crazy. AND you'll never guess who they mentioned first...

Yup, Heroes of Altamira just got a big mention, all our premere events, links to the site and our facebook page, everything!

VERY COOL.

Mark

Oh and it appears that I am a Guest of Honor this year

[salamanca]

Guess that means I will be meeting you on an elevator.

[Black Jack Rackham]

well there are 885 people who've "liked" Total Con, but of them only 72 have indicated they are coming this year. So we'll see...

[Sister Sonya]

Does anyone have any comments about Spirit Airlines? I can get to Boston for a vacation and take in Total Confusion for an airfare under $100.00.

[Black Jack Rackham]

I've heard they're an airline that's working on the logistics of charging you to breath air while in flight. And I can say for certain they'll charge you for ANY baggage you bring (whether you check it in or not). So, wear all the clothes you intend to bring with you and buy all your toiletries when you get here and you should be fine.

You can read customer reviews here http://www.airlinequality.com/Forum/spirit.htm

[Sister Sonya]

Well, I can travel light and endure cramped seating, but I balk at taking no changes of clothing. I'll wait on this until the new year.

Some of the comments on your site are pretty tough! Thanks.

[salamanca]

Thanks, now i have an image of Mike boarding a plane lookinglike the michelin man in 5 shirts, multip,e pairs of pants socks and presumably underwear. But the real kicker is that he is wearing 4 ties in my head.

[Sister Sonya]

...razor and toothbrush in one coat pocket...toothpaste in another...don't need deodorant and I'll fit right in with a certain class of gamey gamers...

[salamanca]

Pssst, Mike. Don't forget your dice.

[Black Jack Rackham]

You could always mail your stuff to the hotel*...

EDIT: *Or even me.

[Sister Sonya]

Pssst. Romeo?

I forgot to bring dice to the Con. Can I use yours until I can get to that dealer where I can stuff ten-siders into the cup?

[Black Jack Rackham]

Thanks, now i have an image of Mike boarding a plane lookinglike the michelin man in 5 shirts, multip,e pairs of pants socks and presumably underwear. But the real kicker is that he is wearing 4 ties in my head.

Why did this picture just pop into my head...

Mike, just put your arms down when you get to TotalCon

[Black Jack Rackham]

Just under 8 weeks to go folks!

They should be announcing con and event registration here any day. Which reminds me...

Mike are you planning on coming or did our discussion of Spirit Airlines scare you away?

As it stands I know I have three players (Laura, Eric, and David) with another seven almost guaranteed (Jen, Bob, Paul, Christine, Mike, Mike, and Scott). All but Jen have played all the first sessions, so there's still plenty of space left open for all sessions. Pretty soon now I'm gonna have to go out and get all the doo-dads printed up for the beginning of YEAR TWO!

[Sister Sonya]

Mike are you planning on coming or did our discussion of Spirit Airlines scare you away?

Back from four days at VerneCon, and still recovering.

If I were 30 years younger, I'd have my ticket for Boston in hand by now and would have found a cheapo hotel.

As it is, playing games with Spirit in February doesn't have much appeal, so I probably won't try it. I'll have another look much closer to the Con, though...

[Sister Sonya]

Hey! There's a train station in Mansfield that will take me directly to Boston.

Supposedly, effective January 26, Spirit and the other tricky airlines are supposed to explain all of their fares structures!

Sister Sonya might just show up after all!

[Black Jack Rackham]

Hey! There's a train station in Mansfield that will take me directly to Boston.

Response...

MBTA (http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/rail/lines/?route=PROVSTOU&direction=O&timing=W&RedisplayTime=Redisplay+Time) has trains that go back and forth to Mansfield, but from the train station, you'd probably have to use a taxi because it's about 2 miles from the station to the Holiday Inn, and Mansfield has no public transport that I know of.

[Sister Sonya]

... you'd probably have to use a taxi because it's about 2 miles from the station to the Holiday Inn, and Mansfield has no public transport that I know of.

Well...I walked 2 miles from the Convention Center in Indianapolis to the Econolodge on Meridian St., since the buses don't run late, for 4-5 years. So that wouldn't be anything new.

Besides there is a Red Roof Inn about halfway to the train station! And, the Holiday Inn may even have a courtesy car...

[Black Jack Rackham]

JUST under the wire, I got in our first official DOMINGO GIGANTE! event. Laura will have to run it (as I will be busy running our return to The Keep on the Borderlands for David) but all looks good.

We're less than 6 weeks from the start of Year 2. Wow it seems like just yesterday I was saying 6 months with nothing to do...

Mark

[Black Jack Rackham]

Quick Update for those of you without Facebook, TC had a snafu with Paypal suddenly not interfacing with their stuff (after years of it working smoothly). They are trying desperately to fix it and will start Registration as soon as it gets fixed.

Mark

[Black Jack Rackham]

And Just like that, We're on our way. TC registration (both con and event) are up and running! Go! Quick! Sign Up!

http://www.totalcon.com/eventpreviews.html

[yves vincene]

Can't wait till total con

[salamanca]

Since Yves is sorta new at this, let's teach him the proper Altamira method of displaying excitement. First, you must wait until 5 days before Totalcon. Then you post in this thread the word "Totalcon" but you do it while enlarging the font size and adding a bunch of exclamation points behind it. You should repeat this daily and each day you add extra vowels to stretch the word out to emphasize just how excited you really are. (example: "toooooootaaaalcoooooon!!!!!") Seeing as this is your first big convention, you can start early on that and just keep making it bigger each time. But you MUST limit it to once per day. If you need other examples, go look for Kara's samples in the 2011 Origins thread.

[Black Jack Rackham]

Why is it that what disturbs me the most is his flawless use of emoticons...

[yves vincene]

Tooootallllcooooon