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Escape from Astigar's Lair, by Allen V Pruehs and Ree Moorhead Pruehs, with Kevin Siembieda cover art, Judges Guild, 1980. This is a timed AD&D tournament dungeon created for Michicon VIII, for 2 pregenerated characters, to be played in real time for only 1 hour.

[omghostbusters]

MichiCon wrapup

It’s been a few days since MichiCon,so I thought I’d do a roundup.

Two of us showed up Friday and almost two of us showed up Saturday for the convention. Brian (that’s me!) was the only one who wound up being able to attend both days.

With only one exception, nobody cared at all about “old Ghostbusters” vs. “new Ghostbusters.” The general consensus was, “Hey, neat! Ghostbusters!”

This is how it should be. Any fan of Ghostbusters - any version of the Ghostbusters - is welcome at our table.

Day One

I had a full table for “Ghostbusters Vice.” But I’ll probably have to tighten that scenario down a bit if I’m going to run it again. I’ll definitely have to pare down the amount of locations. Other than that, and having to truncate it for time, people seemed to have fun.

The Michigan Pinball Expo was going on at the same time as MichiCon. So when the two of us weren’t setting up for the convention, we were checking PKE valances on the new Ghostbusters pinball machine. I highly recommend trying it out.

Day Two

Due to the age group of the people playing “Punk is Dead,” I tweaked the difficulty and the subject matter a bit. Much fun was still had zapping and trapping ghosts. It actually felt awesome seeing kids getting into both Ghostbusters and role-playing games at the same time. I sincerely hope I did a good job creating a welcoming environment for them.

The players seemed to have an easy time hitting their target numbers, but the dreaded ghost symbol kept showing up on their dice. Eventually we mutually agreed this was because their franchise had been mailed cheap knockoff power cells by Peter Venkman, due to him considering their franchise a low priority. A player told me once the adventure was over, his character was going to drive to NYC personally to punch Venkman right in his face.

When someone can take a series of wonky rolls and make an in-universe explanation for them, that’s good role-playing.

Overall

Metro Detroit Gamers’ two annual conventions WinterCon and MichiCon have been a regular fixture for decades. We definitely want to return in the future. With any luck, all three current members (and any possible future members) of the OMGB can make the entire convention next time around.

What are we bringing to WinterCon? We’re not saying (mostly because we haven’t thought of it yet).

[omghostbusters]

We’re ready for MichiCon tomorrow. Are you?

[michiblarg]

My fiance only snagged a couple of shots from Friday’s tales shoot. But it’s ok because it was a pretty quick shoot anyway, I think we got done in like 15 minutes? Something like that.

I ran into another Yuri and a Judith at this shoot! They were super nice and friendly and made me feel really comfortable in the crowd (I’m a nervous wreck in crowds of people I don’t know). So if you two are out there, thanks for making the shoot super fun for mee!! :D

I really love seeing Tales cosplayers, they always look so colorful, pretty, and extravagant. c: All the swimsuit variants at colossal were great to see too!

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Here’s the Estelle cosplay that I made for this con!

There’s a lot of mistakes with it, but it was the first cosplay I made all by myself from scratch, so I was really really proud.

I would have probably had more photos, but the Yuri who came with me ditched her cosplay like 5 minutes into our shoot. Thankfully I found another Yuri and even a Judith cosplayer! Those photos are in the next queue post! O:

I got a few photos taken of me by other con goers. If you guys have any, let me know I’d love to see how they turned out!! O:

[michiblarg]

I queued the rest of the con photos that I got so that I wouldn’t over flood the blog all at once. I hate that I’m posting all this so late, but none of my cosplays had pockets so I couldn’t take any photos for myself.

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I finally got the photos from the later pokemon shoot!

This one was so much fun. Everyone here was super cute and friendly and came up with a lot of good photo ideas. I’m so glad I decided to show up to this shoot

I wish I was able to take photos, but I didn’t he a camera. My fiance only took the group shots that I was in, so I didn’t get to capture a lot of the great stuff that happened. :(

My wig is so long and unruly, I have tangles for days x_x;

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A few pics from the early Pokémon photoshoot on Saturday! I was worried that my Cynthia cosplay was gonna have me boiling but bless that I am really heat tolerant because I ended up being fine.