Rubicon 2002 April 5-7 2002 ----------------------------------------- Another Swanky, Stylish, In depth, Un-important Write up By G. ----------------------------------------- Version 4.0 ----------------------------------------- This years con was a blur for me. And most people know why. (If you dont, then you dont need to know) ----------------------------------------- 19:00 4.5.02 Showed up at the con late due to job circumstances. 19:15 4.5.02 My crew and I check into our hotel room. I out of the crew of 4 is mostly disturbed that we did not get a smoking room, which let me remind you we did indeed reserve on 4.4.02. This irritates and stresses me, I storm out of the room smoking multiple cancer sticks on the way down to registration 19:25 4.5.02 I make first contact with people behind the desk. My mentor RijilV is asleep. I also find out he is the only one with the volunteer badges. Great, now I dont look important 19:35 4.5.02 As I stumble around the convention, things seem to be running very smooth. I also notice that there was much energy from everyone. 19:42 4.5.02 I run into my comrade DarkCube. We skeedattle back up to the crews room and have a nice chat about the usual things. 19:48 4.5.02 Mr. Cube points out to me the neat trick of covering the smoke detector with a wet rag to block smoke in the room from reaching it. 19:49 4.5.02 I rejoice, as I light up and smoke many cancer sticks. 20:05 4.5.02 Question? Whats a great, traditional, greasy way to start rubi-con? Answer! Grease ball burgers from McDonalds!!! w00t!! 20:35 4.5.02 Upon returning to the pad in room 381, the great steroid filled burgers cause me to clinch my bowels in pain, I counteract by smoking even more cancer sticks 20:40 4.5.02 NFF gets on the speaker system in the network room. A flash of fjeer and excitment cross my mind. Two thoughts cross my mind Thought #1 "Is NFF coming out of the closet finnally?" Thought #2 " Has Win NFF's Tshirts has been changed to .... .... match or exceed NFF's BAC from last years con, and win a Tshirt and a free trip to the ER?" 20:42 4.5.02 NFF's announcement comes, my thoughts/predictions are horribly off, his Tshirt contest is later that night, and JT says "its on" kind of makes you wonder 21:00 4.5.02 After overcoming the great feeling of indigestion, I decided to go afoot and wander the great and classy hotel. 21:20 4.5.02 After wander the 3rd and 2nd floors for now 20 minutes, I have come to the incomplete, yet reasonable conclusion that the hotel is a great maze of infinite rooms and stairwells. 21:25 4.5.02 Getting down to the first floor, I smell chlorine. What a delicious and intoxicating smell! I have come to find a pool and jacuzzi awaiting someones owning! ;) 22:30 4.5.02 After more meets and greets, I return to 381, of course after walking around in an aimless fasion, to find Al taking apart his newly acquired laptop and trying to hook up some way to use a regular box to edit the OS on his laptop (not having CD-ROM or Floppy) 23:30 4.5.02 After many cancer sticks and listening to Al bitch about how nothing ever works, we decide to go back to Als house to seek party favors 04:04 4.5.02 Note the time. I check rubi-cons website to see if there were any new neat and wonderfull things. I look on in horror, I scream for help. Many people come to my aid. I cannot believe someone hacked the official site. After my shock had been reduced to a dull roar, I watch the flash movie expecting the worst. Then I laugh, whoever did this did a great work of art :) 05:00 4.6.02 Upot return to hotel, everyone decides to call it a night, except of course me. *****Important note: After last years con, I decided that I'd try to stay awake/coherent for the duration of the con. Stay tuned to see if I suceed***** 08:00 4.6.02 Hunger once again sets in. I try to seek someone to induldge in some hotel food with me. I fail, even Karl turned me down (due to his fatigue), So I proceed to get breakfast 08:30 4.6.02 Yum, soggy eggs, half cooked hash browns, burnt toast, and a pepsi, all for the small fee of 12 dollars! Such expensive prices for such gormet food I guess. 09:30 4.6.02 I decide since my only box is a crusty palm pilot, and all are asleep in 381, I'd go for a swim. 10:00 4.6.02 Upon reaching the pool, my brain storms on. How could such a thing like a pool/hot tub be owned? 11:00 4.6.02 The 25 hour mark zips past me, 25 hours without sleep, I still feel pretty damn good, w00t! 15:30 4.6.02 The room of 381 awakens, well most of us. Kas3 is missing. 16:00 4.6.02 Me and Al skeedaddle to the merriman bar and grill, actual good food for a decent price. Walking out on the bill never crossed my mind, no, honestly :) 17:00 4.6.02 Finnally, I meet my mentor, the one, the only, the sup3r 3117 RijilV. He gives me the most leet looking badge i have ever seen. 19:00 4.6.02 I skip over to RijlV's room and hang out with the PN crew (rious, phrozen napalm, big tony, eta) and tone from the mob 20:00 4.6.02 I bump into Krazy Karl. He wants to know if i want to throw down on some rubi-con's hardcore lemonade v2. Despite the feeling of not wanting to induldge in the pure love of my own drink, I threw some loot on it. I parted ways with Karl, and went to seek action. 20:30 4.6.02 I turn to to room 381 for some temporarily relief from people. 20:31 4.6.02 Loud noises come from inside 381. I start convulsions. I walk inside and see nothing but fine young 17 year old girls, I guess my temporary relief has changed to an out of body expierience called "pimpin" 23:00 4.6.02 All of the ladies have left. I look around and see nothing but drunk dudes arguing about day light savings time and what not. I look to my protege hodge, and tell him we should go out and cause some non digital mayhem, he of course, is down. 01:00 4.7.02 39 Hours without sleep. Hodge says he wants no more of my non digital mayhem. 01:25 4.7.02 My non digital mayhem ends, it only consisted of taking everyones privacy tags off their doors. Im so lame. 01:30 4.7.02 I bump into Karl again, and he starts yelling at me to come drink with him. I go back with him to his hotel. I start drinking, for the first time at the con. 03:30 4.7.02 I stumble around the con some more with a very strong mixed drink in my pepsi bottle, when for the 3rd time at the con fjeer strikes (3rd times a charm!) 03:32 4.7.02 After my brain over takes my buzz, I decide to ditch my alcoholic bevarage and replace it with some fresh pepsi, to avoid being arrested by the police. 03:40 4.7.02 Since I am still in shock to actually see a team of 4 police in the hotel, it doesn't shock me more to see a K-9 unit come in. But it scares me nontheless. 04:30 4.7.02 People are gathering outside the doors and smoking. I join them and induldge in some cancerful smoke. 04:40 4.7.02 Nate drives by and tells us the hotel is on complete lockdown and all entrances/exits are blocked off by police. 04:42 4.7.02 Some people start to panic like the end of the world is coming. I saw a man crutched in the fetal position under a table in the network room rocking back and forth whispering in a raspy voice "we're all going down, I just know it, help me god" 05:35 4.7.02 After random talks and searchs by multipul people, its official that the police have left the building. We find out moments later, they have not left the property yet as Kas3 and some other guy got the pat down from the police because someone is breaking into cars. 06:22 4.7.02 I meet up with S.. He is drunk and irritated. He wants to know if I am down with some more non digital mayhem. 06:33 4.7.02 Back at bubonics room, I realize that S.s version of non digital mayhem is much different of mine. He comes up with a great idea on how to tottally 0wn the pool/hot tub. 06:40 4.7.02 We revised S.s plan to send someone (un-named) into the hot tub and to dump some liquid soap in the hot tub and turn on the jets 07:00 4.7.02 We have low reserves on liquid soap, so I go looking. I obtain approximatly 55 ounces of liquid soap. My ways of doing this are unknown to everyone buy me ;) 07:13 4.7.02 We have found a kink in our project. We have no key card to get into the pool area, bummer, we wont give up. 07:18 4.7.02 Key obtained. 07:22 4.7.02 Revisions to plan. Instead of the chosen one taking bottles of soap in the pocket of their swimming trunks, we decide to fill latex gloves full of soap instead. 07:40 4.7.02 GO RED TEAM GO RED TEAM GO!!!!! We move into position. I am the chosen one. I tell S. to watch from a distance. I play it smooth. No ones around, so I turn on the hot tub and jump in. Relaxing for a little bit and enjoying the bubbles, S. and t7g show up with some girl who I dont know. They are fux0ring my plan and making themselves accomplices. S. bugs me to rip one of the gloves open, just one, with the bubbles going. I agree. 07:41 4.7.02 Not even a mere 15 seconds later, the hot tub is full of suds. I flip out, and empty the rest of the load. I calmly get out and shut the hot tub off so my cover is not blown. I turn the tub back on and get out of the area quickly. 07:45 4.7.02 I am back up in 381 and changed, I meet up with S. and others. They decide to go take some pics of the mayhem and get a good chuckle. 08:10 4.7.02 Back up in 381 again. Someone had taken fire extinguishers and sprayed them everywhere in the stair wells. It looks like a chemical rain cloud. as Im almost up to the 3rd floor, I hear "look out below" I then hear a loud rumble and find out later, it was one of the maids carts that went down the stairs. 08:30ish 4.7.02 Fire alarms, damn those mothafukas are loud. 08:31 4.7.02 Fire alarms, again jeeez o peets 09:33 4.7.02 I look out the window, police, and fire, here again! 10:08 4.7.02 Sleep Deprivation gets the best of me. I fall asleep. Total uptime 47.25 hours 14:00 4.7.02 I wake up. We havn't checked out, its 2. YIKES 14:30 4.7.02 We get on our way and depart, I see another K-9 Coming into the hotel. I miss closing cerimonies again, oh well. All in all, the con was alright. If it would have kept bumping like it was friday night, It would have been a lot better. Shoutz to the 381 crew, DarkCube, and of course PN. Also, Karl, Ben, NFF, and XdR Thanks for reading my babling --G. Out of the last 59 hours, 4 of those were sleep, caffeine rocks!