The title says it all.
What I remember about attending
Fandemonium '04:
I pre-registered, but when I got there, they had lost my form. I ended up getting in anyway, but I would have paid again if I had to.
I attended the
How to Play Go panel, and the panel on being a GM. (I think that was what it was, anyway. It was something about building campaigns)
I made my first attempt at DDR by entering the tournament, and failed miserably. Ooooo...that was embarassing.
I watched a preview of a show in the viewing room that made me want it. Very badly. I think it was
Fullmetal Alchemist (a show which I have subsequently purchased all of the singles and boxes for *points to empty pockets*)
I remember being a little disappointed at the selection in the dealer's room - and the size of the room itself - but I still managed to get a few cds.
<Insert bootleg rant here>
One of them turned out to be flawed, later. :evil:
I did do a colored picture! There was a low selection of crayons (seeing as how I was competing with my friends for them *growl*) but I DID submit one!
I borrowed someone's wooden sword to join in the costume contest, thought up a completely random phrase for a character I didn't even know - after I found out that we had to say something, five minutes before the contest started. It turned out surprisingly well, and I was a little shocked by how easily the audience accepted me. O.O
My cosplay was Kaoru from
Rurouni Kenshin, because I had a kimono I'd found, but couldn't think of any other anime characters to be who wore one.
(And now, my secret is out....nooooot good) :wink:
I heard about some kind of sword fight in the parking lot, but by the time I got there, the fight was no more. I was a little disappointed that I hadn't been able to see it.
To this day (though I now know the where's and whyfor's of that fight) I maintain that I thought it was a scheduled - yet unannounced - event.
I managed to win something in the raffle. It was a copy of an anti-virus program, with Orson Wells'
1984 attached.
Winning was very cool, but I ended up trading it for a D&D compendium on
Krynn (from the
Dragonlance series, and I hope I spelled that right) that my friend spotted - and wanted, pretty badly.
They were so nice to let me trade.
I wandered around for a while, and ended up going to the store with my friends for pocky. I didn't go in costume, but I
did have to wear my flip-flops, as I had neglected to bring alternate footwear.
I remember the blisters fairly well. Winco was a ways away from the hotel.
I asked quite a few people when they would be announcing the winners of the costume contest, and a lot of people said "after the dance", so I hung around.
The music was weird, loud and obnoxious, I did
not dance, and spent most of the time there talking to my friends at a table and eating the few refreshments available.
Note: if I have to go to a dance, there had better be something to eat, OR people to talk to. Otherwise, Kira gets VERY bored.
And then there was the fire alarm. Heh.
I remember standing out in the parking lot and thinking, "You know, at least we're not at AO doing this. It was
cold." I seem to remember commenting that to someone, and having them agree with me.
And then there was the fated hallway conversation. I walked out of the dance, and wandered around, and noticed someone sitting on the floor, who had happened to be selling glowsticks earlier. I'd remembered saying hello to him, so I made my way over, sat down, and -I do believe- asked him if he was okay.
*one random and very Borneo'ish response later*
He asks me what I thought of the convention.
So I tell him.
It is beyond me if we discussed anything else, but I do know the conversation lapsed, and I figured it would be better if I stopped bothering the poor man.
So I wandered back into the lobby, and went home soon afterward.
It was Saturday, I had to work Sunday, and someone had finally told me that they would be announcing winners on the next day.
Since I couldn't attend, I gave the contest up as a lost cause.
And that, dear friends, is what I remember of my first Fandemonium.
Which also happened to be the very first Fandemonium, and the only one for which I was involved as an attendee.
