Re: Re: Normal Transmission Resumed

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_...>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:43:38 -0800

> For those who don't know, this weekend is also a big roleplaying weekend
in
> Australia, with ArcanaCon in Vctoria, and CanCon in Canberra. The CanCon
> venue was in a part of the city largely unphased by the fires, though
there
> was concern amoung Victorian punters heading up that the venue would be
> swung over to emergency relief. The Game... it seems, goes on. No one, not
> even god, can presume to stop a gamer convention.

No, but He can make them very difficult - the San Francisco GloranthaCon was held at a hotel that had been taken over by the Red Cross/Emergency Services for the Bay Area floods, and those people chain-smoked like there was no tomorrow. The entire convention area was virtually fogged up with cigarette smoke (the convention area was on the second floor/mezzanine of the hotel, and the smoke level was below the level of the mezzanine in the lobby).

All the Californians became sick with the smoke (normally smoking is not allowed *at all* in public buildings in California - even bars are supposed to be smoke free), as did, I suspect, some of our guests.

Roderick