Quezovercoatl's Super Doki-Doki Love-Love Botcon 2000 Report

Wednesday, July 26th: The Saga Begins

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Against my better judgement (translation: despite my concern for my friends' and loved ones' right to privacy and anonymity), I've decided to share my memories at Botcon with the rest of the online community. All photos are reproduced with permission from the parties involved.

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My story begins on Wednesday, the 26th of July. 'Twas a balmy day, the wind blowing in from the northeast, when young Hawkins spotted a spout of water in the distance. "Whale! Whale!" he shouted, waving his neckerchief as he leaned out of the crow's-nest, and the cry spread from man to man. "Whale! Whale ahoy!"

... But that has nothing to do with my Botcon trip, so we'll fast forward a few years to 26-07-00, two days before Botcon.

On Wednesday, my partner SwiftEagle and I embarked on our great adventure.
The time: Noon-ish.
The place: Port Authority Bus Terminal.
Our mission: To rendez-vous with Agents Thylacine2000 and Monocle at Gate 404, staking out the place for our target, the elusive femme-fatale-y Lithrael.

Sadly, our mission was sabotaged by treacherous Double Agents Picard42 and Perceptor (TFWW), who cunningly told us that the bus to Picard42 (henceforth "Pic")'s place left from Gate 404, when the bus-folks assured us that it was from Gate 405. Or maybe someone had an out-of-date bus schedule. In any case, there was much confusion, culminating in Thylacine2000, Monocle, SwiftEagle, and myself awkwardly hanging out in a nexus of bus terminals, while Pic and Perc shuttled between that area and Gate 404.

I entertained myself by doing some light Jedi training with Yoda Furby, who tormented me and taunted me for my lack of emotional control. Between bouts of trying to impale Yoda Furby on my electronic interactive light saber TM, I joined the others in shouting out
"LITH!"
"LITHRAEL!"
"PAGING LILITH RAEL!"
... every time that a bus pulled into the terminal, and unloaded a bunch of groggy commuters.

Things were looking grim. Some of us entertained the notion that Lithrael might be any one of the people passing us by.
"Hey... that pregnant lady with the toddlers could be Lith... did she mention bringing children?"
"Maybe that nice-looking man is Lith."

A young lady wearing a Cobra-sigil baseball cap passed up by, but as she didn't respond to the bellows of "LITH!" or "STARSCREAM!" we assumed that it was just coincidence.

A while later, Pic ushered us back to Gate 404, saying that Perc had just met Lith... who turned out to be the Cobra-cap lady, and was astonished to have somehow missed the hulking group of fanboys lurking at the terminal. As our cast was now complete, we hopped the next bus to New Jersey, were loud and obnoxious as we talked about Transformers and X-men porn, and took forever getting off of the bus due to our large Botcon luggage.

My memories of New Jersey are foggy, at best.
It was rainy and miserable.
We had lunch at Boston Market, which was neither situated in Boston nor a market in the sense of the word as I understand it. I wasn't able to finish my chicken caesar salad, so I ended up leaving it for the six-legged homeless folks to scavenge.

I think we may have gone to a comic shop after that, because I distinctly remember being horrified at a collectible card game for girls (or pedophiles) called "Boy Crazy" or something, in which you collect cards with pictures and vital statistics of young boys. Apparently you can vote for your favourite Boy Crazy Boy at their website, to whose URL I will not link on the off-chance that it's actually kiddy-porn.

Eventually we drove to Pic's house, unloaded our luggage, set up a sleeping/showering schedule and settled down to a comfy night of playing video games, reading Cosmopolitan Magazine out loud, and watching Lithrael's videos and reruns of the Powerpuff Girls. The comfy sleeping bags added a pleasant slumber-party feel to the festivities *, and soon I found myself wandering into the Land of Nod.

Onwards and Upwards to Thursday!

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* Even though Thylacine2000 wouldn't let me put pretty pink and blue streaks in his hair. Meanie.
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