{For thos of you just joining in on this - Mark Cook and Richard
Johnson are talking about the ongoing PBEM. Richard is the GM, and
Mark is playing a journalist. Richard speaks first here.}
> Are you keeping records of all these interviews? Might be fun to
> get together when this is all over and compare notes.
I've kept everything, from everybody, that I've received since the beginning
of the game. For purposes of my 'story', I don't dare delete the stuff!
> ... I'll have to
> see about some excuse to rent a plane to some mutually agreeable
> place to fly us west-coasters to though. Nick Sylvain and Dan
> Corrin are also keeping some extensive records (Dayton and Waterloo,
> respectively.) Hmm - I'll give that one some thought. This game
> aught to take a *lonnnng* time, the way it's been going. :-)
Man! If the price is right, count me in! I'd kill small populations just
to get to meet everybody (or most of everybody) face to face! I can just
see us all now: milling around in a rented hotel conference room, holding
plastic cups of fruit punch, each wearing a sticky-tag with the words,
"Hi! I'm _Adrian_Bishop_", or "Hi! I'm _Count_Ger_", or "Out'a my way,
PinkStink!" in Mike's case. :-)
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So how 'bout this bizzare idea, folks? A Mailing-list or a PBEM
convention somewhere, sometime? Since I started it, I must say that
I like the idea. There's a lot of stuff to think about first
however:
Where would we meet? GDW's home town? (I forget where that is)
When?
How would we distribute the expenses of such a venture?
Could we talk Marc Miller and/or Joe Fugate into showing?
(would we want to?)
What would we do?
Here's my initial answers to the above questions:
Where: I like Wisconsin (think that's where it is) but that
might make it too expensive for most folks, both
east-coasters and west-coasters. A secondary choice I
would like is mid-west somwhere, like maybe Chicago area.
Of course, to be fair to everyone, including those on
other continents we should meet somewhere like, oh,
Tahiti :-).
When: My first preference (a strong one) is sometime within a
week or so of Labor Day (Sept. 3). That (long) weekend
would be almost ideal for me (at this tme).
Expenses: Ugh. We don't need no stinking expenses. Having
never tried this before, I don't know. Probably share
out the location fees and personals are personals?
Guests: There are others who might want to show - like our SO's?
Should we tell them to go fly a kite? Anyone else have
any good ideas for guests? Anyone want to ask Herr
Miller or Herr Fugate?
What: Depends on who wants to do this, and a host of other
factors. I think we should table that discussion until
we decide *if* we really want to do this.
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