How I Spent My Birthday

[jducoeur]

(Warning: diary ramble ahead.)

Intercon was scheduled a couple of weeks earlier than usual this year -- our experimental hotel last year wasn't great, and by the time we found our new site, the only options were this weekend or Easter.  So this year, I got to spend my birthday (yesterday) in high-intensity LARPing.

Let me say first: the new hotel

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[pryder]

The Warwick Crowne Plaza is gradually becoming the home of all the weird. Templecon has been there all along. CaptainCon, the new gaming convention that took over the February dates now that Templecon has moved to summer, is there. The winter Fetish Fair Fleamarket has been there for a couple of years now. And just to add a dash of less weird, there is a regional bridge tournament there every fall.

It's a good place in many ways. It almost has enough parking (the largest events arrange overflow parking in a nearby industrial park), they try to offer affordable food options, and the staff actually seems to like having weird things going on. The main downsides: it's a pain to reach by public transit (the best you can do is to reach TF Green airport and then have the hotel pick you up), and there are few food options that you can easily walk to.