Firestar's FF report

**-Firestar-** · 08/13/2007 13:58:55

Day 1: Thursday

Wow! I almost didn't make it out of the airport! We had an incoming typhoon so, racing against time, I made it to the airport and onto my flight. The minute I hit Nagoya I heard all flights to and from Kyushuu (the entire southern island where I live) were cancelled and grounded! O.O EEEEeeeee!

With some 25 hours in combined flight time and sitting at airports, I used the dead time to create a game. Fueled by the suggestion Moonlight gave from this page, I compiled a list of the CS team and Devs that were at FF from the games I played: SWG, EQ2 and Vanguard.

Assigning points to different devs and CS members was easy enough as was coming up with different ways to log them. (Signature, Picture, bonus shot)

Got in at 2 pm. I thought I'd never get out of these airports. To my surprise, Jnoh had hired one of the limo drivers to stand in the baggage claim with a sign with my name on it.

Stubborn, independent world traveler-me was furious at the thought of wasting money on something as unnecessary as having the ability to get my own ride.

Tired, jet laggy, hungry me said "shut up and take it..."

Guess who won? Lol.

As I was robbed of my promised shower in San Fransisco because they cleverly changed my flight to a US airways flight right as I got to the gate, I was really eager to at least get clean again. As I get out of the shower though, Jnoh's sitting on the floor picking tiny shards of glass out of the floor. Shaking his head he remarked, "You know this isn't exactly the first impression I had in mind..." He had broken a gin bottle when he set down the bag. Hey, I had that happen once... only it was wine and that just sucked. I laughed and sat down to help him pick glass shards out of the floor.

We eventually just called the front desk to get them in there while we went to go eat. Cheap Chinese food! And at the hotel nonetheless! YAY! I just ordered noodles because I had an idea that "American sized" portions were going to be quite enough.

After about 20 minutes of eating though, the pile of noodles on my plate had not gotten any smaller. Jnoh had the same problem with his meal. I came to the conclusion that they must have an Enchanter stuffed in the back that turns these plates into "Never ending dot-dot-dot." We ended up boxing it up and taking it back to the room to be eaten later. Jnoh ended up giving me 4 shirts he had made for this event.

And caught a pic of me in the bathroom sipping water.

Time to go check in for the FF. ^_^

Lines! Lines of people that all speak your language! How exciting! Jnoh and I had SWG (read as swig for most of the FF) chatter in front of us and EQ2 chatter behind us. We met these really cool people from England and ended up hanging out with them whenever they appeared. The lines gave us bags with stuff in them- a signed pic of an SWG battle.(So much for my autograph hunting game.) a little ball that produced red lights (Do they really think it's a good idea to give something like that to a bunch of gamers?) pamphlets, a schedule, flyers, a FF t-shirt etc.

The issued badge holders were awesome and should be a part of everyday wear. They had pockets for all the junk- pens, schedule, a zippered pocket for money, a holder for business cards and your room key. Heck, I wore mine on the plane back just so I looked important lol. As I was sitting in business, this was really easy. Hehehe.

Time to head up to the Voodoo lounge.

After mingling with a few players, I got bored and headed to higher ground. I couldn't stand at the top platform though because I don't like loud things. That music was no exception. As we were standing on one of the steps just people watching, I spied someone that looked rather familiar walking up towards us. I poked him and said "You might be from my game."

"I am!" He declared and held his badge up to eye level so I could read it. Those badges had way too small of text, BTW. I'm glad he understood this. Turns out it was Dev-Vapor I had hailed. ^_^ Yay! Signature #1 for my game!

"I remember you from one of the summits." He mumbled as he signed my little book.

At that point though, the noise was too much so I went back downstairs to mingle at the bar for a bit.

Day 2: Friday

The live event started at 10. We got up so late we didn't even have breakfast aside from a little fruit.

Not so much a turn out- we only managed to get 3 groups going Awww.

Here's mine heading out to the event:

Events that we got to were as follows:

Two STs walking around asking: "Have you seen this man?" (Han Solo)
Cantina event- have two people dancing with flourishes and two people playing the cantina theme.
Saber game I actually have a video of this. We had to keep a balloon up in the air for 30 seconds. (This was where someone stepped on my glasses. They're not broken but I will need someone to help re-bend them.)
Shooting game where one person had to shoot a nerf gun and get 30 points.
Jedi force crystals- sort a large stack of different colored balls in so many seconds with a jedi trying to stop the balls from reaching the other side.
Pex's fav (Which was actually a giant time sink! GRRR curse you, Pex!)

Puzzles- an "identify that ship" game. (We actually had a disagreement with Pex on this one! I STILL think that's a regular interceptor.), decoding a message and a mad lib. There were 10 in all, but we only managed to finish a few before the time ran out.

Yay! Panels! We were in panels almost all day. So much so that lunch was hard to get.

Panel #1: A Day in the life of CS

Hmmm not much really happened here aside from players pointing out various exploits. It was however, brought up that we wanted a better reporting system. IE:

The in game browser is coming! WOOT!

There was a Q&A session where someone won a prize for asking a silly question: The "woodchuck" question lol.

I won the EQ2 polo shirt I had been eyeing by answering the silly question correctly SMILEY

42! 42 is the answer to everything! DING!

They also showed us a slideshow of some of the funnier names they were called on to answer. *snicker* aaahhh memories.

Here's a random Valaria picture.

**-Firestar-** · 08/13/2007 14:00:32

Panel #2: Bringing Star Wars to life!

This was basically an art dept. panel.

We got shots of the new Tusken King that is coming in the new heroic instances accessible via the village.

The Village is now a township (I won a piece of the artwork for it! Wish I had a scanner L ) I pulled 2 as my number and Jnoh pulled *snicker* 42.

Getting more Kashyyykian items idea was shot down because those that didn't have the expansion would not have the artwork. Boo! >.<

We also nudged the team to get more colors on our custom furniture other than pastel. So hopefully more decent SWG colors other than pink and puke green.

At this point, it was 2:00 and we were starving! (No breakfast, remember?) so we had to cut out a panel and go eat.

This was where I had another large meal. No really, Look:

I think these pancakes are supposed to feed three people. It was really tasty though. Yay pancakes! ^_^

We also cut out the next panel. I forget the reason. I think at that time we were GM hunting.

This is GM Sopis and GM Maenar.

Cool guys! I just felt a little sorry for them. Seemed every time I walked by, they were at the bag table.

I snuck a peek over the side of the counter when they weren't looking to make sure someone hadn't chained them there. >.< Shhh!

Panel #3: We've got plenty of space!

More Cyyysk-like quests are coming! /drool

People are still wanting capital ships- I still think it would be hard to do with the zones only being some 12k across.

There are no plans for giving players abilities to help with space. The reason being is that space is so dependant on player skill. There was one A-wing pilot beside me that soloed Cyyysk some few days into Kash launch.

Yay! Panel over! Need to go run to the Community Address and fight for seats. The mini-brawl over seats that Jnoh and I were trying to get was rather comical. We ended up sitting beside the media cameras. Not much happened in the address really and there's already a bunch of blogs already posted related to it so I'm not going to go into

Time to go get ready for the pool party. I heard my name being called though. I turned around to find Virrago half-running down the hallway trying to get my attention.

"So what are the rules of that game you're playing again?" I explained the rules, the point system and the bonus picture. TSRs are worth a lot since there's only two of them there, let alone how elusive they are to begin with.

"Cool! You should post that on the forums!"

"Err... okay. We're half way through the FF already though. Plus where do I put it? It's not exactly GPD..."

"Hmm... put it in there anyways. Just make sure Nadias knows."

We got dragged off by Skip at this point though I think. We borrowed post-it notes to put up silly tags all over the Rio like: ‘LFG Warren PST'

At one point I put up some fake gold seller spam on the LFG boards because it got too full... What? It was taken down!

We found a really nice spot at the pool party in the middle to sit at. Perfect place for people watching to try and get my signature book filled. (Although I've been yelled at to call them ‘autographs' instead of signatures. Bleh.)

It was also far enough away from the god awful noise to hold a decent conversation with the EQ2 guys at our table. I was actually kind of ridiculed when they saw my SWG badge L But...but... I'm kind of required..... you don't understand.....Senator.....*grumble* Ah well. At that moment I saw a short man walk by. There's only one man that short here with that kind of hair. I flagged him down for a beer pic. Yes, he really is that blurry in RL.

That's what I'm sticking to. He came over to our table to chat for a bit.

"Who are you missing?" (In regards to my game)

"Grimwell, TSRBill and umm... Deadmeat."

"Oh. I'm not sure who Grimwell is, but I'm going to go find him." I think I was trying not to snicker at this point, but my drink needed attending to so I'd shut up.

Not even three minutes went by when Virrago returned out of the crowd and whisked me away. "Bill is up on the stage singing and I've found Grimwell."

LOL! I soon found myself surrounded by people rounded up by Virrago to sign my book and have their picture taken <3 Thanks guys for helping me with my "game" although at this point I had a sneaky suspicion that Virrago was having more fun than I was trying to hunt people down. That and it was less embarrassing than having to pull people's tags up to my face to figure out who they were.

We were starving again so we went up to eat at the seafood restaurant right outside of the pool party. Good food!

The plan was to go grab our bathing suits and come back down, but I think at that point I got stupidly distracted by forums exploding.

**-Firestar-** · 08/13/2007 13:58:05

Panel #2: Bringing Star Wars to life!

This was basically an art dept. panel.

We got shots of the new Tusken King that is coming in the new heroic instances accessible via the village.

The Village is now a township (I won a piece of the artwork for it! Wish I had a scanner L ) I pulled 2 as my number and Jnoh pulled *snicker* 42.

Getting more Kashyyykian items idea was shot down because those that didn't have the expansion would not have the artwork. Boo! >.<

We also nudged the team to get more colors on our custom furniture other than pastel. So hopefully more decent SWG colors other than pink and puke green.

At this point, it was 2:00 and we were starving! (No breakfast, remember?) so we had to cut out a panel and go eat.

This was where I had another large meal. No really, Look:

I think these pancakes are supposed to feed three people. It was really tasty though. Yay pancakes! ^_^

We also cut out the next panel. I forget the reason. I think at that time we were GM hunting.

This is GM Sopis and GM Maenar.

Cool guys! I just felt a little sorry for them. Seemed every time I walked by, they were at the bag table.

I snuck a peek over the side of the counter when they weren't looking to make sure someone hadn't chained them there. >.< Shhh!

Panel #3: We've got plenty of space!

More Cyyysk-like quests are coming! /drool

People are still wanting capital ships- I still think it would be hard to do with the zones only being some 12k across.

There are no plans for giving players abilities to help with space. The reason being is that space is so dependant on player skill. There was one A-wing pilot beside me that soloed Cyyysk some few days into Kash launch.

Yay! Panel over! Need to go run to the Community Address and fight for seats. The mini-brawl over seats that Jnoh and I were trying to get was rather comical. We ended up sitting beside the media cameras. Not much happened in the address really and there's already a bunch of blogs already posted related to it so I'm not going to go into

Time to go get ready for the pool party. I heard my name being called though. I turned around to find Virrago half-running down the hallway trying to get my attention.

"So what are the rules of that game you're playing again?" I explained the rules, the point system and the bonus picture. TSRs are worth a lot since there's only two of them there, let alone how elusive they are to begin with.

"Cool! You should post that on the forums!"

"Err... okay. We're half way through the FF already though. Plus where do I put it? It's not exactly GPD..."

"Hmm... put it in there anyways. Just make sure Nadias knows."

We got dragged off by Skip at this point though I think. We borrowed post-it notes to put up silly tags all over the Rio like: ‘LFG Warren PST'

At one point I put up some fake gold seller spam on the LFG boards because it got too full... What? It was taken down!

We found a really nice spot at the pool party in the middle to sit at. Perfect place for people watching to try and get my signature book filled. (Although I've been yelled at to call them ‘autographs' instead of signatures. Bleh.)

It was also far enough away from the god awful noise to hold a decent conversation with the EQ2 guys at our table. I was actually kind of ridiculed when they saw my SWG badge L But...but... I'm kind of required..... you don't understand.....Senator.....*grumble* Ah well. At that moment I saw a short man walk by. There's only one man that short here with that kind of hair. I flagged him down for a beer pic. Yes, he really is that blurry in RL.

That's what I'm sticking to. He came over to our table to chat for a bit.

"Who are you missing?" (In regards to my game)

"Grimwell, TSRBill and umm... Deadmeat."

"Oh. I'm not sure who Grimwell is, but I'm going to go find him." I think I was trying not to snicker at this point, but my drink needed attending to so I'd shut up.

Not even three minutes went by when Virrago returned out of the crowd and whisked me away. "Bill is up on the stage singing and I've found Grimwell."

LOL! I soon found myself surrounded by people rounded up by Virrago to sign my book and have their picture taken <3 Thanks guys for helping me with my "game" although at this point I had a sneaky suspicion that Virrago was having more fun than I was trying to hunt people down. That and it was less embarrassing than having to pull people's tags up to my face to figure out who they were.

We were starving again so we went up to eat at the seafood restaurant right outside of the pool party. Good food!

The plan was to go grab our bathing suits and come back down, but I think at that point I got stupidly distracted by forums exploding. Yeesh. Smugglers are so riled easily.

Day 3: Saturday!

Yay! No early panels! This means we can have the banquet breakfast! *cheer* (This was where I was actually supposed to go take the survey... but forgot.)

Panel #1: Testing 1-2-3

The first ½ was about /bug reports

Have separate fields to file a ticket instead of one big blog! Fields are a lot easier to fill out than trying to figure out for ourselves what CS actually needs as far as info. Something like:

Description of bug:

What it does:

What steps did you take to get the bug?:

Can you repeat it?:

Workarounds:

The 2nd ½ of it was how to fill out a bug report and something else.... Sorry these panels are starting to bleed together.

Panel #2 Expanding Community

Oh boy. I'm glad I went to this. Here's what we were up against as far as panels that were going on for that hour:

EQ2's expansion

VGD: The state of the game

SWG's Let's not Fight about Combat.

We were originally going to go to the combat panel but I said no.... Can't you see it? BHs angry they can't kill Jedi, Jedi angry they cant kill BHs, Medics calling exploits on Spies etc.... yeah. Smugglers are NOT going in there. Although, I might've been just as happy in the SOE recruitment panel.... Maybe next year.

Anyways, there was only six of us and four panelists in the entire place. As there was so few of us, we went around and introduced ourselves. We had: The guy that ran Alahkazahm, The Community relations manager from FF XI. (EEK! This is going to get tense REALLY FAST!), a Guild Leader from a random server and.... Us. I'm not sure we're in the right room.

There was a lot of SquareEnix guy trying to pick the panelist's brain and the panelists blocking the advances and reversing the pick, saying "No no no.... what do YOU do to increase your Community?" >.<

Someone named Russel Shanks sat in with us. (He's a bigwig at SOE somewhere....) Too many people to keep track of.

Yay a free hour! Let's go bid on banners and try to hunt down my missing GMs!

I spent a lot of time at the information desk.

GMKimball: I just saw Greeblen running around. He had a goatee, about this tall....

Me (deflated): So like every other SOE employee?

GMKimball: (laughs) Ahh... I see your point. Well, he was wearing a brown shirt and shorts. Zekil had a lions cap on, dark blue

Me: Good! That helps! *runs off to look around all the tables*

I was looking around the large room looking for my missing GMs when Jnoh tapped me on the shoulder.

"What? I'm busy." He taps harder.

"Isn't that Chris Cao?" He inquired.

To my knowledge, he wasn't supposed to be coming, but as soon as I turned around, a rather tall man was standing with some other VIP. Let's go see SMILEY

Oh goody! A hidden Dev that was nice enough to play my game with me! I got his autograph and photo. The guy standing next to him was from marketing and flicked me his card. "E-mail me the rules of that game." Err.... Don't you guys realize I'm the only one playing this game? *stuffs card in my badge holder anyways*

Chris Cao: "Oh. Smugglers. (noticing my badge) Say, would you mind sitting down for a few minutes?"

*Internal big grin* "Sure."

Cao: "You know why we can't bring back spice right?"

Me: "Yes. I know about the LA thing."

Jnoh popped in. "Well why not label it as cinnamon? Something as a flavor enhancer instead for Domestics? It doesn't have to be spice as a drug."

Me: "And that's really all we want. Get rid of the no-trade, make the contraband do something. Something we can give to traders, commandos, officers. We want our interdependency back and the more professions that we can get intertwined into the system the happier we'll be. At one point we traded spice and sold faction- it's that community interaction that we want back. More than the expertise that's half useless and the fact we're labeled as "glass cannons."

Jnoh added the fact that we were a hybrid class in the beginning and that's what attracted a lot of our core community was the fact that we had some combat and some crafting and we had something the player base needed with slicing/spicing/FP-sales.

We got into the convo of the system itself,

He went on to say something along the lines of: We saw the train wreck coming when we were developing the Smuggler system, you know. From a developer standpoint, we saw that it wasn't going to come out very good, but we had a schedule to keep, so we had to push out what we had. We weren't happy with it but we really just ran out of time.

I went on to expand on our system that Smugglers really didn't care who they catered to. Take Restuss: A smart Smuggler will sell weapons to the Imperial base, and medicine and armor to the Rebel base and hopefully at the dust settling you will still have customers on both sides that need more of your business.

He went on to say that it wasn't on the schedule, but he would add it to the list of things that need to be taken care of.

Galaxies panel:

We got to see the new ITV coming up.

Greypawn:

(Does this guy ever stop smiling? Does he know something we don't?)

Pic of Senators and GP.

I did run into Domino on the way out. She's so tiny! She was also the last person on my "hunt" list. *cheer*

**-Firestar-** · 08/13/2007 13:56:56

The Banquet

There was assigned seating per server, but it seems someone forgot the 400 or so SWG players that were there..... COOL! Commandeer EQ1 tables! CHARRRGGEEE!!! Hahaha. At first we sat at a Crushbone table as the two of us DID play EQ2, but the conversation was so boring it took us all of three minutes to go find one of the commandeered tables.

Two Smugglers, two BHs and an Elder Jedi makes for more interesting conversation anyways. We tag teamed the "buffet"... Hamburgers and hot dogs. Are you kidding me though? I guess we've been spoiled the past three days but dang. I spied the dessert cart. Hmmm SMILEY

Yay! I put my plate back at the table and went back up.

PIE! Fought to grab the last cherry and blueberry slices that were on the table (dang people are quick!) I can have fun with this!

Greypawn was easy to find enough- he was sitting near my table.

He's so cute ^_^

Virrago

(look isn't he silly!) was sitting with Deadmeat.

Easy enough.

Deadmeat: "What's the pie for?" Virrago: "You're worth more points." It's okay DM, you're not supposed to get the joke, just be a good sport and play along.

Valaria came up and decided to lead me around and find more people. *hug* Pex, oddly enough was standing in the middle of the aisle. Easy target!

I gave him my two slices, got a great picture too.

As I was trying to put my camera away, he made a quick remark, then decided to lick the entire top of the cherry pie, hand me back the two tiny plates and walked away causually with me a little stunned and a hand full of pie that I couldn't eat....

After a few seconds of silence, (seemed Valaria was just as shocked)

Valaria: "He just nerfed your pie."

That he did... **edit**. Well thanks, Valaria that didn't exactly make the shock being able to partake in my pie go away. Now that I look at it though, that's something I should have expected from him.

Hunger took over and I wandered back to the table.

Now, we were told beforehand that there would be a wedding. Although, oddly enough I didn't expect him to go though the whole thing. Sorry, I did not come for your wedding, I came for fanfaire, so please make your preacher a little more terse next time.

(Right as they were declaired "Man and Wife", one single heckler belted out "SUCKER!" before the crowd managed to begin its cheering. -Jnoh)

Yes it was in the end cool, just took a little too long. Add to the fact that after a few prizes, they kept taking more time... "Hey, here's the reception. Who wants to catch the bouquet?"

I nearly hit the two BHs that suggested *I* go up there.

A guy caught it and ran away. That was definitely the funniest part of the whole banquet.

To me, Blix kept asking for "noise" way too often- to the point where it got old. He'd go through the entire line every time there was a pause: "Let me hear the Pirates; Gods n' Legends; EQ; OA; Galaxies; EQ2; Planetside.... Yeesh.

Costume contest was cool. At least I think it was with no glasses and sitting in the back of the room. Yippie.

Giveaways were done by doing a few things or having a Driver's Liscense in a certain state. The following is a list of some of the things that were done to win a prize:

Wisconsin DL

Produce a Wookiee roar

Do a Vanguard dance

Do an Eq2 dance

Do a SWG dance

(I'm not listing the T-shirt thing... That was just gross.)

Guam DL

UK DL

Prizes were: Keyboards, mice, shirts, a couple webcams (webcams?!?! Eeeew... -Jnoh) and headphones.

I did get to pick up my Chilastra banner though. I was going to go get my wallet in case they called for either of my location's DLs except 1. I didn't want anything they offered and 2. Devs were in the aisles throwing t-shirts at us SMILEY

Vanguard shirts. They're pretty. I used the chaos to filch the Crushbone table name plate that we were at earlier.

More swag for me ^_^ +Lucky+

We sat there for a few minutes even though a good number of people had filed out. Chip and Charles found us and sat down with us and we immediately saw a bit of a problem: None of us had drinks and we were all thirsty. Time to go find a bar for the rest of the night.

Last day: Sunday.

Walked downstairs mingling with the people that were leaving around nine. We had blue man group at 8, so what to do with the rest of the day? We had planned to just go see a movie, but we ended up going to two since we didn't feel quite up to doing anything else. Plus it was within walking distance. And by walking distance I mean, two blocks in scorching heat. Yikes! We made it out and decided that since we had to pick up the tickets at 7 for the 8 showing, that we would just eat at the other hotel.

Which was, in fact a great idea. We ate at the restaurant right across from blue man group and went in.

No sooner had we sat down then a lady came up and asked us "Do you want to be part of the show?" I would be up for it, but I wasn't quite sure, so I looked at Jnoh to see what his opinion was. "Nah"

Instead they took the people in front of us. I found out later that this was a really good move.

The staff handed out lots and lots of streamer paper. Jnoh has fun making me a headband with a bow for me while I covered his arm like an arm wrap. (And there's still paper everywhere.)

A few musical numbers with PVC pipes and they started walking around the audience. Smuggler's Luck again, they came to my seat. Really weird to have three people that don't blink, covered in blue paint all staring at you. One of them offered his hands to me.

Sure. This should be fun.

I took the offered hands and they led me up to the stage. Mind you I had no idea what was going on. They led me up to a table and put a chest plate with a hole in it on me. Errr... okay. At the table was a crude place setting- small cardboard "plate" and a few plastic utensils. One of them brought out a little candle in a taper, which I moved twice just to kinda play with them. I got a laugh out of the audience so I must be doing okay! Then they pulled out a lighter.

I don't like lighters, so I gestured a "You do it. Go ahead!" Sure enough, as soon as he tried to light the candle, one of the others had a fake fire extinguisher a blew it out. I was really glad I wasn't holding the lighter! I'm very jumpy and that would have gotten me 10 feet in the air.

A box of twinkies ("Twinkie Lights" -Jnoh) was brought up. Guess I'd better get over the fact I don't eat them REALLY quick. *sigh* All for the sake of a show I suppose. I opened mine and set it and the wrapper on the table. The others made like they couldn't open theirs. I offered to open one. The second one I turned over a few times before opening it like I was looking for the right side to open. The fourth one just pulled out an electric jigsaw and cut the twinkie and the wrapper in half.

The one in the middle brought out a vacuum to get rid of the wrappers and ended up scooping up someone else's twinkie, who promptly stole mine. Hey! (Yay! Does this mean I don't have to eat one? Yeah I didn't think so either.)

Eventually one of them shared theirs with me. Awww.

They cut off bites and showed them to the audience. Okay, I can follow that. Mirroring is cool. They had some goo shoot out of their chest near the end of the skit which also.. came out of the thing I was wearing on mine. Did I mention I don't eat pudding either? I hate the texture of goop! They offered me some (I shook my head furiously) they ate it up like it was candy, fed me some. (EW!) them scooped some up in a box, put a bow on it and sent me back to my seat. Oh joy....

The rest of the show was awesome but I'm really tired of typing and no one really wants to hear it SMILEY

**Castroman**

Valaria: "He just nerfed your pie."

Thats the funniest stuff i've heard all day

**Castroman**

-Firestar- wrote:

I did get to pick up my Chilastra banner though. I was going to go get my wallet in case they called for either of my location's DLs except 1. I didn't want anything they offered and 2. Devs were in the aisles throwing t-shirts at us Vanguard shirts. They're pretty. I used the chaos to filch the Crushbone table name plate that we were at earlier.

More swag for me ^_^ +Lucky+

We sat there for a few minutes even though a good number of people had filed out. Chip and Charles found us and sat down with us and we immediately saw a bit of a problem: None of us had drinks and we were all thirsty. Time to go find a bar for the rest of the night.

Last day: Sunday.

Walked downstairs mingling with the people that were leaving around nine. We had blue man group at 8, so what to do with the rest of the day? We had planned to just go see a movie, but we ended up going to two since we didn't feel quite up to doing anything else. Plus it was within walking distance. And by walking distance I mean, two blocks in scorching heat. Yikes! We made it out and decided that since we had to pick up the tickets at 7 for the 8 showing, that we would just eat at the other hotel.

Which was, in fact a great idea. We ate at the restaurant right across from blue man group and went in.

No sooner had we sat down then a lady came up and asked us "Do you want to be part of the show?" I would be up for it, but I wasn't quite sure, so I looked at Jnoh to see what his opinion was. "Nah"

Instead they took the people in front of us. I found out later that this was a really good move.

The staff handed out lots and lots of streamer paper. Jnoh has fun making me a headband with a bow for me while I covered his arm like an arm wrap. (And there's still paper everywhere.)

A few musical numbers with PVC pipes and they started walking around the audience. Smuggler's Luck again, they came to my seat. Really weird to have three people that don't blink, covered in blue paint all staring at you. One of them offered his hands to me.

Sure. This should be fun.

I took the offered hands and they led me up to the stage. Mind you I had no idea what was going on. They led me up to a table and put a chest plate with a hole in it on me. Errr... okay. At the table was a crude place setting- small cardboard "plate" and a few plastic utensils. One of them brought out a little candle in a taper, which I moved twice just to kinda play with them. I got a laugh out of the audience so I must be doing okay! Then they pulled out a lighter.

I don't like lighters, so I gestured a "You do it. Go ahead!" Sure enough, as soon as he tried to light the candle, one of the others had a fake fire extinguisher a blew it out. I was really glad I wasn't holding the lighter! I'm very jumpy and that would have gotten me 10 feet in the air.

A box of twinkies ("Twinkie Lights" -Jnoh) was brought up. Guess I'd better get over the fact I don't eat them REALLY quick. *sigh* All for the sake of a show I suppose. I opened mine and set it and the wrapper on the table. The others made like they couldn't open theirs. I offered to open one. The second one I turned over a few times before opening it like I was looking for the right side to open. The fourth one just pulled out an electric jigsaw and cut the twinkie and the wrapper in half.

The one in the middle brought out a vacuum to get rid of the wrappers and ended up scooping up someone else's twinkie, who promptly stole mine. Hey! (Yay! Does this mean I don't have to eat one? Yeah I didn't think so either.)

Eventually one of them shared theirs with me. Awww.

They cut off bites and showed them to the audience. Okay, I can follow that. Mirroring is cool. They had some goo shoot out of their chest near the end of the skit which also.. came out of the thing I was wearing on mine. Did I mention I don't eat pudding either? I hate the texture of goop! They offered me some (I shook my head furiously) they ate it up like it was candy, fed me some. (EW!) them scooped some up in a box, put a bow on it and sent me back to my seat. Oh joy....

The rest of the show was awesome but I'm really tired of typing and no one really wants to hear it

Yes i have seen the Blue man group preform in NYC 3 times

I think that they are absolutely hilarious

Good call on not participating SMILEY

**-Firestar-**

Yeah forgot to put in that the people asked to participate were just led in later with a "YOU ARE LATE!" type deal with red lights all over the screen and the whole skit stopped. They sat down and that was it.

MUCH funner to do the eating thing (even if it is twinkies and goop yuck)

**imperialcorproal**

lol awesome stuff.

GreyPawns pic was priceless.

**TakashiOokami** · 08/08/2007 18:28:23

imperialcorproal wrote:

GreyPawns pic was priceless.

Indeed

Good shot with Cao. At least its on the list, if not the schedule...

But but but but... Nevermind

**Shockied**

GreyPawn was trying to steal your pie!

imperialdremaer

Amazing Report!!!

**Krepar**

now i see they got pie, but where was the beer?!

**-Firestar-**

Right here! Let's see if I can get these right:

More Deadmeat!

Grimwell (EQ2)

TSRBillC ^_^ YAY! TSR!

DancingCorpse

Oh My GOD!

GreyPawn is bigger than me! You could spot that sucker a mile away in a pack of suckers all sucking pie suckers!

Nerfed pie SMILEY

Your dimensions are different than I pictured FireStar. (not a bad thing)

I know I missed a hidden Texan joke I could put in there thats really good but I forgot it.

**Aendracon-**

What is it your T-shirt says on the back? Can't quite read it...