EQ2 Guide Calthine's Blog - Part 3  

Calthine's Blog - Part 3

SOE Fan Faire 2007===

Friday:

What a day it was! After posting yesterday's blog I caught up with Kiara, Coyote, Shipwreck (yes, they ARE two different people), Taea and a bunch of other folks. After harassing our marvelous waitress Tina we headed out to hit the Fan Faire proper.

The first person I meet as we walk out is Niami, who hands me a bag of her famous Trail Mix. We begin to make our way down the concourse, about a quarter mile, to get to the Legends Lounge. I rapidly fall behind the gang because I'm very social and I kept seeing people to talk to!

Eventually I make it to the Lounge which is also the Marketplace and online tourney area.  This room is huge! I mill around and find Julie the Intern and several other folks from Community Relations working on stuff for the auction. I get my picture snapped with Storm Troopers. Hubby goes and applies for the Open Casting call for a profile series on SOE players.

I've already missed the first round of panel 'cause I gab too much. We find Momochi, the Japanese Community Manager, who invites us to lunch. We hit the buffet, which is very good and very huge and makes me think think the quarter mile hike back to the conference area is a good thing. Joining us are Mrs. Grimwell and the gentleman from Mojo.com, a picture hosting site that is pretty neat and is hosting lots of Fan Faire pics to make up for the ones I get get to upload.

Time flies REALLY fast. I find Kiara and and we split up the EQ2 panels. I run up to my room to blog a bit and prepare the piece on Legends of Norrath (which Summit attendees learned about on Wednesday, but Brenlo had that mind control chip thingie).

I dash back down to the Mechanically speaking panel. I have the whole thing recorded and if the quality doesn't totally suck I'll transcribe it on the plane home. Most important to me was I got to ask THE Tradeskill question, namely, what's the order of events in a crafting session? I'd forewarned Domino, and apparently Don Newfield helped her dig through the "gnome-like recesses" of his department for the answers. It's tremendously complex, but she gave me a copy of the flow chart. Again, stay tuned!

Half an hour break and we're off to Smed's presentation. We see previews for not just upcoming games but upcoming expansions for EQ and EQ2, and get to see some of the work done on SWG in the last year. As soon as the lights come up I dash back to the room to get the Legends of Norrath info to y'all.

No time to even breathe! Allakhazam and Ilia are paging us because he's taking the Zam staff to dinner. then we're off to the Pool party where I collect a two-group raid to throw Grimwell in the pool. He's not spawning, so petition Ashlaine who works on the spawn but gives us Gordo to throw in instead. Grimwell spawns and goes in. I'm thrown in by a couple of Freeps; I take one with me but I wipe on the second. Niami goes in too.

I turn around and it's 2 am. ACK! We have to be up to play in the EQ2 Neriak Power Level Challenge in the morning. Which is where we are off to as soon as I push this button.....

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