I almost forgot about the scavanger hunt!
Friday and Saturday the lady assistants to the stage magician in the dealer’s hall ran a scavenger hunt. I got involved with it when I stopped by the Steve Jackson Games booth Friday afternoon and found Spike Jones talking with Doc Cross. Spike was also talking with a lady who was collecting items for the scavenger hunt.
I glanced at the list: among the things like Stephen Donaldson’s and Walter Koenig’s autographs and a Pog with a dragon on it was “an Amber Trump”. Now I had brought my Amber character materials with me to GenCon, and that campaign actually has physical Trumps of everyone. (Amazing what a scanner, color printer and lamination equipment can do.) I promised Spike that I would supply that element of the list: all I had to do was go out to my car and get it out of my trunk. Actually them, as I have a card for my character Brigid and one each for her twin daughters Rowan and Rhiannon.
And much later I thought that even if I didn’t have my Trumps with me I could have gone over to the kindly people at the Phage Press booth and borrowed one of their French Trumps for a little while.
The contestants gathered at 5:30 pm in the open area in front of the TSR castle (which I always call Castle Greyskull). Spike was in the company of the same lady and the lady’s daughter: together they managed to obtain all but one thing (including my Trump), a pair of scissors. I pulled out my Swiss Army Knife with scissors, which made their list complete. Well, almost complete: they couldn’t find any vampire teeth so they made some out of paper. That only got them a half a point but they were still way ahead of everyone else. The daughter got the first prize, a $25 gift certificate.
The best single entrant, however, was another player who came down to the listing “a tie” and proceeded to bring out a Star Wars CCG card of a TIE fighter. Then he pulled another card, which had written on it “Cleveland 2, Chicago 2”: a tie score. (The rules said to “be creative”.) I said that he deserved two half-points for the both of them, and the two lady judges agreed with me. The guy also got to use one of Spike’s shoes, since he used the other for his own group: the list said “red high-top shoes” and Spike, from somewhere, got a pair and was wearing them; I actually think he wears them all the time.
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