Got back last night from PAX with the coterie ( @nevertrustanoracle and @ryttu3k). Went to all three days this time and had a blast. Bit underwhelmed by most of the panels but the Sims one was a fun (and OF COURSE our resident sim nut won the trivia 🤣🤣🤣), Death Roulette was fun and the Best Worst Games was hilarious. On Saturday I watched a Banjo Kazooie speedrun. I was really confused because in the two minutes it took for me to take a seat the speedrunner had gone from the start screen to fucking Rusty Bucket Bay. I have no idea what the fuck he did because his run took about an hour twelve minutes, the world record is two hours, and the internet makes no mention of how you'd fucking teleport there in such a short time or how this dude apparently fucking obliterated that record. The fuck??? honestly that speedrun was probably the highlight, BK was my childhood.
I kept my Sunday open so I had a couple of TTRPG one shots. In our game of Call of Cthulhu I played the British noble funding an Egyptian tomb expedition and my chief of staff went insane, tried to fight an eldritch pharoah and lost. His name was Dave and once the pharoah took his axe to him there were two Daves.
Before Dave died his player's IRL 14YO daughter also went insane and decided trying to burn everything down to kill it with fire was a great idea. On one hand this was fine because everything was made of stone anyway. On the other hand there was no ventilation down there.
On a third hand, guess who happened to have a stick of dynamite? Yup, my noble. The 14YO's archaeologist got the drop on her, wrestled the dynamite from her and lit it. The Keeper was like "okay, that's your turn. Next turn you roll to see if it blows up in your hands." EDGE OF MY FUCKING SEAT BECAUSE I WAS RIGHT NEXT TO HER!
Well, it didn't blow up in her hands. She lobbed it at the eldritch pharaoh! AND KILLED HIM!
and also us because the tunnel caved in and trapped us and we all starved to death. RIP.
Glad I went for all three days this time. If I can make next year work financially I'll go for three days again and do more TTRPGs and also do some board games.
