Interesting use of the prompt, and I'm glad this is fiction rather than that you've lost someone. The folding in of the title to the story was really well done, too-- an unexpected.
For a second, I was afraid you might be hiding yet another person in a suitcase. ;)
The Wincons I've been to have people sometimes camping out in a single room, and I wonder-- HOW do you all sleep through the snoring and moving around (which seems to increase exponentially with the number of people in the room)? Or do you sleep like the dead? I so wish I did. :(
Thanks. I did try to layer things a bit, the pun in the title, going with a literal and figurative meaning of "walking on eggshells" -- Maybe next time I'll put a body in the luggage =)
One year, I WAS the snoring -- totally freaked out our friends because I have severe apnea and was choking in my sleep. Fortunately I usually have considerate roommates, and recently we not only have the white noise of my CPAP but we also bring along a portable fan (a con necessity ever since the Penguicon a few years back in which the air conditioning system failed hotel-wide). Since we tend to stay up late, often ending up at boozy room parties, at these things, sleep-like-the-dead happens as well.
When we did it, none of us slept through the moving around, but we were all good sports about it -- and with people sleeping wedged between the bathroom door and the furniture, there was nothing to do but wake them up so as to get into it. Some of us took naps and such in the afternoons, though.
We have many tales of the real Agent FOX; maybe you could meet him sometime =)
I've found at gatherings like this, from cons nowadays back to 4-H camps when I was a kid, that the best parts are what you do together, as much or more than what was on the schedule.
Oh, man. I've had moments where gaming partners long gone appeared to haunt us in one way or another at a later session. It's always a tad creepy and wrenches you a lot harder than you would ever believe. Well, YOU would believe, no doubt.
Extraordinarily creative, this is. I miss my big-time conventioneering days, but there just aren't any that are close by where I live nowadays.
One correction you should probably make: the phrase is "vocal cords", not "vocal chords". Chords are used in music. :) (Sorry, this is just one of my pet language peeves).
I've made the fix. I could claim it's a pun because the narrator is a musician -- but nope, just an honest mistake.
Thanks for liking this. I do understand. It's especially understandable in a world in which we tell our "gaming stories" as though they were adventures that actually happened. And I could go on long tangents now about the elves I've been and the time I played a fairy dragon and... =)
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For a second, I was afraid you might be hiding yet another person in a suitcase. ;)
The Wincons I've been to have people sometimes camping out in a single room, and I wonder-- HOW do you all sleep through the snoring and moving around (which seems to increase exponentially with the number of people in the room)? Or do you sleep like the dead? I so wish I did. :(
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One year, I WAS the snoring -- totally freaked out our friends because I have severe apnea and was choking in my sleep. Fortunately I usually have considerate roommates, and recently we not only have the white noise of my CPAP but we also bring along a portable fan (a con necessity ever since the Penguicon a few years back in which the air conditioning system failed hotel-wide). Since we tend to stay up late, often ending up at boozy room parties, at these things, sleep-like-the-dead happens as well.
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Nicely written, and I'm glad everyone is okay. I lol'd at your adventuresome Fox. :)
Half the fun of cons is having everyone together, IMO. I'm glad they're able to have fun even when they miss her.
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I've found at gatherings like this, from cons nowadays back to 4-H camps when I was a kid, that the best parts are what you do together, as much or more than what was on the schedule.
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Extraordinarily creative, this is. I miss my big-time conventioneering days, but there just aren't any that are close by where I live nowadays.
One correction you should probably make: the phrase is "vocal cords", not "vocal chords". Chords are used in music. :) (Sorry, this is just one of my pet language peeves).
cheers,
Phil
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Thanks for liking this. I do understand. It's especially understandable in a world in which we tell our "gaming stories" as though they were adventures that actually happened. And I could go on long tangents now about the elves I've been and the time I played a fairy dragon and... =)
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