Last weekend, me and Spointer headed over the river Delaware and across the mountains to Mid-Eastern PA (MEPA). The drive was much less harrowing than our prior weekend's trip under the river Hudson. In both cases, Friday night traffic sucked. The joke about Jersey being the parking lot for NY, CT and PA... painfully true.
It was our first time hitting Mepacon, so had no idea what to expect. We weren't there but five minutes and we knew we were going to have a rocking time. I think it was the hotel, a Holiday Inn, perched on the mountain overlooking endless mountains (not that we would actually have time to enjoy the view). The other cool thing was that, like the Luxor in Vegas, all the hotel rooms opened up into the center atrium, inverted pyramid style. And the final cool bit was that a prominent feature of the hotel was the indoor pool and jacuzzis at one side of the atrium (so they whole interior lobby smelt of chlorine - and this would be a big plus to counter some of the gamer funk that would be building after three straight days of gaming!). If we knew this place had a cool pool we would've brought our bathing suits. Heck, we could've run games poolside. Dice float, don't they?
Most of the WEGS games went off with full tables. When games didn't run, we could retreat quickly to the hotel room and relax. Having a room just a short elevator ride from the game table is great. I'm beginning to really appreciate the "self-contained" convention where you don't have to pack stuff up between games, load your car and then drive to another place to sleep...
Yeah, that's the old man in me talking...
And he's talking louder and louder these days!
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