Countdown to Origins 2014

[Black Jack Rackham]

Alright, all our events are in (had to change some stuff for the LARP). Here is the schedule (assuming Origins doesn't change anything).

Wed -
Ep. 3 - Gentleman's Wager (1pm)
Ep. 5 - Evil Intent (7pm)

Thur -
Ep. 6 - The Balance of Profit (9am)
Ep. 7 - Scientific Method (1pm)
PLAYTEST (5-ish pm)

Fri -
Ep. 4 - A Small Favor (9am)
Ep. 8 - Mistaken Heresies (9am)
Personal Agendas x2 (1pm)
Heroes of Altamira LARP - Pilgrimage (7pm)

Sat -
Ep. 5 - Evil Intent (9am)
Ep. 7 - Scientific Method (9am)
Ep. 6 - The Balance of Profit (1pm)
Ep. 8 - Mistaken Heresies (1pm)

Sun -
DOMINGO GIGANTE! (10am)

[CaitlinCallahan]

Any idea when registration will be?

[Black Jack Rackham]

Any idea when registration will be?

I'm tempted to write June 10th, but Badge Registration will probably be sometime in March. Which speaking of, Deb, I happened to look on our Guild of San Marcos Club List and noticed that neither you nor your hubby (nor anyone else in your crew) is on our list.

We can save you around $20 off the cost of a full con ticket. Check out our Origins 2014 HOA Club thread for more info

[CaitlinCallahan]

Thanks, Mark - somehow, I missed that thread. Just PM'd Dave.

[Black Jack Rackham]

Ok just got my confirmation for Crowne Plaza (as usual) and (as usual) they couldn't find the official code for the Origins discount (neither under GAMA nor Origins) THAT was because the code is listed under (and no I am not making this up) "OOO" (no that's not Zero, Zero, Zero, it's "O" as in "Oscar" 3 times), because that makes perfect sense.

So I have my reservations, now it's on to waiting, and waiting, and waiting.

[salamanca]

Slacker. I have been booked since thursday of Origins 2013. Nice to know I beat you to something.

[Black Jack Rackham]

Slacker. I have been booked since thursday of Origins 2013. Nice to know I beat you to something.

I did that on purpose, I didn't want you to feel left out

[kenderleech]

remind me around.. march? to reserve my room. unless GMS get a special deal. then remind me then.

[salamanca]

If you need a room, book it now. Rooms on and within a block of the site vanish fast at the convention rate.

[kenderleech]

itll be march before i can afford to book it. Or when my tax return hits, whichever is later.

[CaitlinCallahan]

Glad I checked the site - just booked my room at the Hilton.

[Black Jack Rackham]

How's this for a coincidence? I did some vague counting of months today and realized we have about 6 months to go before Origins. Then just now I counted the weeks and it turns out 26 weeks from today, Laura and I (and hopefully Charlie, Eric, Jen, and Megan) will have arrived in Columbus earlier today, in preparation for Origins start tomorrow!!!

[Black Jack Rackham]

Ok AGAIN without anything EVEN RESEMBLING notification. Origins Badge Registration is open. BUT if you're going to be a member of the GoSM club, I haven't sent anything in yet, SO DON'T REGISTER (YET)!

I will let you know when we have official permission.

[Black Jack Rackham]

Ok spoke with an Origins Rep today. We have everything squared away for everyone on the list (save Cole Perkins) HOWEVER, they aren't releasing the code to groups yet. But the rep told me to let you all know that everything's still fine, they will have the codes out WELL before Event Registration goes live. And for those of you who already got a badge, you should be able to get a refund for the full price badge once the codes are available (though I'm still not clear how that's supposed to happen).

[Dr. Miguel Contreras]

Cole's email address is: REDACTED TO KEEP THE SPAMMERS AWAY

[Black Jack Rackham]

EXCELLENT! Thanks Mark!

[kenderleech]

Anyone up for splitting a room for origins?

[Black Jack Rackham]

Ok since I cannot PM everyone in one mass unit, I'm going to post the instructions here.

When you go to register:

1. Choose the Club badge type.
2. Enter gosm832 in the “Coupon Code”* field on the first page of registration.
3. Put your club name in the “Business Name”** field on the Registration Demographics page.

*The BOLD'ed thing is, of course our code. It will only work for those who've given me their name/email addy and had me send it into Origins.

**Our business name is The Guild of San Marcos

[CaitlinCallahan]

Is anyone else having trouble with the online registration? I can get all the way to the payment screen, select what type of credit card I want to use, and then it ends - no fields to enter the actual card information, and when I click the "submit" button - absolutely nothing happens.

[Black Jack Rackham]

Yup, Glad (and sorry) to see I'm not the only one (and I even tried several different browsers, IE, Firefox, and Safari). I sent an email to tptb and we'll see where that gets us.

[Black Jack Rackham]

None of the browsers I have here on my laptop worked, so on a lark I tried the children's laptop. It worked fine. I suspect one of the gizmos I have on for IE/Firefox is blocking this somehow. So theoretically if you tried it using a different computer (or just with some magical new different setting which I am, as yet, unable to figure out) it should work.

[salamanca]

Just gonna make a guess and say nobody on their end updated the system for windows 8 users and there is some sort of compatability issue. (crawling back to my shed grumbling about how we used to do just fine MAILING registration forms in).

[Dr. Miguel Contreras]

Ok since I cannot PM everyone in one mass unit, I'm going to post the instructions here.

When you go to register:

1. Choose the Club badge type.
2. Enter gosm832 in the “Coupon Code”* field on the first page of registration.
3. Put your club name in the “Business Name”** field on the Registration Demographics page.

*The BOLD'ed thing is, of course our code. It will only work for those who've given me their name/email addy and had me send it into Origins.

**Our business name is The Guild of San Marcos

I just tried to register and it said that there is no such Coupon Code. Any suggestions?

[Dr. Miguel Contreras]

OK, I figured it out. I didn't choose the club badge like you stated as the first thing to do. So once I did that it was no problem.

[Black Jack Rackham]

I don't know what it is either, since both the kiddos computer and mine run the same version of Windows (7 Home Edition). I assumed it was simply some pop-up blocker I'd put on my computer that wasn't on theirs.