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Durelin · 09-10-2008, 11:09 AM

Tomorrow would be the first day of Omnicon. In twenty-four hours, the Barrow-Downs Convention Center would be filled with robed witches and wizards, steampunkers with spiky blue hair and goggles, ninjas, wielders of foam swords and Nerf guns, gamers with carpal-tunnel syndrome, and Ring-bearers. The Barrow-Wight watched the preparations with distaste. The amount of off-topic shenanigans that would ensue… With squirrel recruitment down by 30% just in the past two years, there was no way he could keep this abomination fully Tolkien related. If only he had thought of Oxonmoot…and lived anywhere near Oxford…

Once this thing got going, he would not be setting foot out of his Barrow for a month at least.

Special guests were being seen to and schedules finalized. Andy Serkis was scheduled to perform several times, though no one was sure what. Sean Bean would perhaps sign autographs. Emma Watson was to stop by and answer a few questions, Hermione style. Leonard Nimoy was late – presumably because William Shatner had arrived early. Mark Hamill had turned up uninvited.

The con-goers had been arriving in the area, as well, checking into their hotels or settling into their cars for the night. Those who tried to set up tents outside (and inside) the convention center were chased away, or rather sent away with the name of the hotel where...well, where whomever the nuisances happened to “<3” (as displayed on their t-shirts) was supposedly staying.

The preparations went long into the night. While most con-goers dreamt of their fictional or celebrity lovers, three figures plotted in the darkness. This would be easy-pickings. As far as they knew, only a handful of vampire-hunters might be attending…

Night 1 has begun!

The werewolves may PM each other to plot. Seer, send me your dream.

Sweet dreams!

09-10-2008, 11:09 AM	#1
Durelin Estelo dagnir, Melo ring Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,063	Tol-in-Gaurhoth L: Battle of the Fandoms Tomorrow would be the first day of Omnicon. In twenty-four hours, the Barrow-Downs Convention Center would be filled with robed witches and wizards, steampunkers with spiky blue hair and goggles, ninjas, wielders of foam swords and Nerf guns, gamers with carpal-tunnel syndrome, and Ring-bearers. The Barrow-Wight watched the preparations with distaste. The amount of off-topic shenanigans that would ensue… With squirrel recruitment down by 30% just in the past two years, there was no way he could keep this abomination fully Tolkien related. If only he had thought of Oxonmoot…and lived anywhere near Oxford… Once this thing got going, he would not be setting foot out of his Barrow for a month at least. Special guests were being seen to and schedules finalized. Andy Serkis was scheduled to perform several times, though no one was sure what. Sean Bean would perhaps sign autographs. Emma Watson was to stop by and answer a few questions, Hermione style. Leonard Nimoy was late – presumably because William Shatner had arrived early. Mark Hamill had turned up uninvited. The con-goers had been arriving in the area, as well, checking into their hotels or settling into their cars for the night. Those who tried to set up tents outside (and inside) the convention center were chased away, or rather sent away with the name of the hotel where...well, where whomever the nuisances happened to “<3” (as displayed on their t-shirts) was supposedly staying. The preparations went long into the night. While most con-goers dreamt of their fictional or celebrity lovers, three figures plotted in the darkness. This would be easy-pickings. As far as they knew, only a handful of vampire-hunters might be attending… Night 1 has begun! The werewolves may PM each other to plot. Seer, send me your dream. Sweet dreams! Last edited by Durelin; 09-11-2008 at 11:03 AM.