Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
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 Arriving at the Hotel, a war of photographing breaks out. (Viqsi) |
 FV James photographs. |
 Viqsi breaks out a cocktail umbrella. (Morgan, Pakesh [obscured], Jacob, Fulminar [obscured], Viqsi) |
 Chatting in the Viqsin Room (ShadowWolf, Pakesh [obscured], Jacob, Morgan, Viqsi [obscured] |
 Getting ready to head to Arby's (Viqsi, FV [obscured], Pakesh, Jacob, Morgan) |
 Walking down the hall to the lobby (Fulminar, Morgan, Jacob, Shadow [obscured], Pakesh [obscured]) |
 Mr. Dude! We found this car in the parking lot. We can only assume he works at Arby's because Mr. Dude was there for hours. (Subsequently, Mr. Dude became a theme for this year's Bash.) |
 Fast food + Sudden Arrival of Bashers = Long wait for food (Morgan, Jacob, Pakesh) |
 FOOD! (Shadow, Morgan, Pakesh, Viqsi, FV) |
 Back to the hotel (FV, Shadow, Pakesh [obscured]) |
 At the Viqsin Car, Viqsi regales us with sports trivia (Pakesh, Viqsi) |
 Hanging out in the lobby (Viqsi, Fulminar [seated], ShadowWolf, Pakesh) |
 Shadow shows Viqsi something on his laptop. |
 And thus began the epic Hockey Discussion of 2009 (Jacob, Shadow) |
 A page out of the Bash Book |
 Viqsi...with her Zippo I did not alter this image in any way |
 Right before a game of Fluxx, IIRC (Pakesh, Jacob, Shadow, Viqsi [lying down], Morgan [back], FV [front]) |
 Rabbit arrives! (Rabbit [seated], Fulminar, Pakesh, Hsuan Te, FV, Viqsi [arm only]) |
 Chatting around in the lobby (Morgan [arm only], Felix, Pakesh, Rabbit, Fulminar, Jacob, Hsuan Te [obscured], Viqsi) |
 More lobby chatting (Shadow, Viqsi, Pakesh, Morgan, FV, Felix, Rabbit, Hsuan Te, Jacob, Fulminar) |
 Jangly keys! Viqsi distracts FV with shinies |
 Another trip to Arby's for the new folks (Fuminar, Weremoose, Rabbit, Felix, Jacob, Morgan) |
 Back in the Viqsin Room, more chatting -- We seem to do a lot of that, don't we? :-) (Weremoose, Rabbit, Jacob, Fulminar, Viqsi, Shadow) |
 I catch FV trying to sneak a drink of... |
 ..."Naked" brand juice smoothie. |
 Viqsi laughs in response to the cocktail umbrella that found its way into Felix's hair. |
 The Bash Book Now in Color! |
 Jacob regales us with some more hockey chatter (a lot of that going on, too!) (Jacob, Weremoose, Rabbit, Fulminar, Viqsi, Felix) |
 Jacob grabs Felix's cane (dubbed "The Stick of Whacking" or "The Whacking Stick") to use against someone making an awful joke (Jacob, Rabbit, Fulminar) |
 The chat winds down as people start dropping to sleep like flies. ...flies sleep, right? (Weremoose, Jacob [back], Morgan, Felix, Rabbit, Fulminar, Viqsi, Shadow) |
Friday, June 19, 2009 |
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 I catch Weremoose at the Continental Breakfast |
 The conference room opens! |
 Felix, by himself, at one of the tables |
 Weremoose finds something rather disturbing inside one of the cabinets |
 Maximum occupancy? Hah! We Bashers scoff at limits! Especially the limits on good taste |
 Fulminar produces the Inflato-Jon, an inflatable deer head that he's brought to many previous Bashes... |
 ...and nearly passes out trying to inflate it |
 We find a binder clip hanging from one of the ceiling fan chains |
 Poor Hatley. He became painfully aware of what would happen if he got "on the loose". |
 Viqsi lounges on the countertop. |
 Viqsi tosses Maurice back to FV James |
 More people show up in the room (Jacob, Pakesh, Morgan, Felix) |
 Maurice, the monkey puppet |
 Maurice, the monkey puppet, with a camera |
 Maurice, the monkey puppet, with a camera and a deck of Mao cards (Nelson, FV James) |
 Shadow shows Viqsi something on his laptop |
 Maurice, hanging out. |
 Caught red-handed! Viqsi places a cocktail umbrella on a light switch |
 A bit of history here: The night before, there was a severe thunderstorm which knocked out the hotel's Internet access. To make up for it, the hotel provided us with free pizza! MattTrike investigates |
 And then the conversations start... (Viqsi, Matt, Pakesh [obscured], Jacob, Fulminar, Rabbit, Morgan) |
 I don't remember what the conversation was about, sadly (Viqsi, Matt, Jacob, Morgan, Felix, Rabbit, Fulminar) |
 Ladies and gentlemen! We have a Bash! (Felix, Jacob, Rabbit [obscured], Viqsi, Fulminar, Matt, Morgan, Hsuan Te, Pakesh, FV, Shadow, Nelson [obscured], Weremoose) |
 It's Mr. Hatglassesman! Only slightly less cool than Mr. Dude. (FV) |
 Chatting in da Conference Room with Weremoose's laptop in the foreground (Jacob, Morgan, Rabbit, Fulminar [obscured], Matt) |
 The cocktail umbrellas just get everywhere! |
 A game of Fluxx (Viqsi, Shadow, Nelson, Jacob, Weremoose) |
 Meanwhile, more chatting! (Bunni, Morgan, Hsuan Te, Rabbit) |
 During the Fluxx game, Jacob tells a story (Shadow, Viqsi, Jacob, Weremoose, Nelson) |
 The Flying Spaghetti Monster -- in plush form |
 The Group Photo (Weremoose, Viqsi, Nelson, Felix, Hsuan Te [back], Pakesh [with Clue game], Shadow, Matt, Bunni [back], Dragon, Sheep, Rabbit, Morgan [in fursuit], Fulminar [back], Jacob, FV) |
 Various chat groups (Morgan, Bunni [obscured], Jacob [obscured], Viqsi [obscured], Hsuan Te [obscured], Rabbit, Weremoose, Matt, Nelson, Felix) |
 The countertop was quickly utilized. |
 More chatting groups (Weremoose, Jacob, Hsuan Te, Matt, Nelson, Morgan, Dragon, Felix, Rabbit, Shadow) |
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 Something that you must experience is a Bash Caravan. It's amazing how this is the only way to coordinate Bashers |
 After turning down the wrong road (GPS doesn't work if you enter the data incorrectly!), we arrive at the restaurant (Weremoose, Fulminar, Morgan, Viqsi [obscured], Shadow) |
 Morgan finds a horse-topped post outside the restaurant |
 Waiting for a table. They don't take reservations so we had to wait for a table for 14 to open up. (Fulminar [off-camera], non-Bashers, Morgan, non-Basher, Dragon] |
 The heat was grueling outside the restaurant. Some are not accustomed to such things. We break into groups. |
 Yup. This is Columbus, a college town. |
 Some of us duck into a fudge shoppe to escape the heat. (Weremoose, Jacob, Shadow, FV) |
 Schmidt's Fudge Haus |
 Shadow offers candy (Weremoose, Fulminar, Matt [obscured], |
 The horse-topped pole (now that people are done fiddling with it) |
 My attempt at....'art'... (Weremoose, Fulminar, Jacob, Bunni) |
 Viqsi gets fanned by menus (FV, Shadow [obscured], Viqsi, Dragon) |
 The Red Stable (an antique store) |
 Schmidt's is on the National Register of Historic Places |
 Finally inside the restaurant, we begin to cool off to pop music and showtunes played on the tuba. Yeah. (Viqsi, Dragon, Bunni, Rabbit, Shadow, Hsuan Te, Weremoose, Morgan) |
 "Tetrahedron." After less than one stein of beer, FV gets so drunk that everything is funny. Even plain English words. (Viqsi, Fulminar, FV, Matt, Dragon [obscured], Bunni, Rabbit [off-camera]) |
 Fulminar pays his bill and offers a looney (Canadian $1 coin) for a tip. |
 Who knows was weirdness lies in wait in this domicile? |
Saturday, June 20, 2009
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 A game of Scrabble has just ended. Two playable words found in the dictionary amazed the players: "Unsicker" as "Usufruct". A game of Finance goes on behind them. (Scrabble table: Weremoose, FV, Matt, Morgan. Finance table: Pakesh [obscured], Fulminar, Shadow) |
 The Game of Finance. With similar rules to Monopoly, Finance has no rules on how one may build property, leading to some...monopolizing |
 More gaming (Fluxx table: Matt, Rabbit, FV, Weremoose. Finance table: Fulminar, Shadow, Jacob) |
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 Bashers begin to exit the hotel to go to the Air Force Museum just outside of Dayton (Dragon, Shadow, Hsuan Te, Pakesh [obscured], Fulminar) |
 Group #2! (Shadow, Weremoose, Dragon) |
 Group #3! (and so on, in a similar fashion) (Matt, FV, Rabbit) |
 The hotel's sign, visible from a long distance |
 A fountain in the vestibule. You know, I never understood these things or why someone would make something with a liquid coming out of a creature's mouth. It's just...disturbing. |
 On the road to the Museum. The cloud in the center of this picture looked (to me, anyway) like an arrow out of a car-racing video game. |
 A 20th Century Wars memorial |
 Rabbit exits his car (why is it not a VW Rabbit?) |
 Walking to the museum (Rabbit, Matt, Fulminar [obscured], Morgan) |
 A sign for the park outside the Museum |
 Some Air Force inspired art outside another memorial |
 It couldn't be said any better... |
 A statue for the mythical figure Icarus |
 First stop in the Museum: Outside! War planes are stationed outside Don't ask me to identify them! |
 Walking to the planes (Morgan, Felix [in wheelchair], Fulminar, Matt, Shadow, Pakesh, Rabbit [obscured], Nelson, Dragon, FV, Weremoose |
 Approaching the planes (Bunni, Shadow, FV, Rabbit, Dragon, Weremoose) |
 The first plane. Rabbit begins telling us about them. (Shadow, Dragon, Rabbit, FV) |
 A sense of scale. FV towers over most Bashers, but he doesn't even make it up to the windows on this plane. |
 More planes! (Shadow) |
 FV tries to hold up the engine on an aircraft. |
 A triple-engine aircraft (Rabbit, Nelson, Dragon [obscured]) |
 "The Flying Boxcar" I can read the placard! |
 Investigating a plane with "622" on the nose (Pakesh, FV, Dragon) |
 A snub-nosed plane (Rabbit, Shadow) |
 Rabbit tells us all about the snub-nosed plane (Rabbit, Shadow, Fulminar, FV) |
 A bulbous-nosed aircraft. The nose contained a radar. The plane reminds me of Jimmy Durante. "Ha-cha-cha-cha!" |
 FV momentarily avoids the evil Day Star |
 Painted on the side of the bulbous-nosed aircraft is this anthropomorphic plane grabbing a panicky missile out of the sky |
 Matt gives the bulbous-nosed aircraft a nose-beep (Matt, Dragon) |
 "Keptin! A bird of prey cannae fire when she's cloaked!" ...sorry... |
 An armored missile-launching traincar |
 A jet flies overhead. Perfect! |
 Heading to a replica of an WWII-era air traffic control tower |
 Inside, various Bashers move about. On the wall in this "bedroom" is a "Who's on First" poster with complete script underneath. "I don't know?" "Third Base!" |
 FV demonstrates just how small the rooms are by touching both walls with his hands. |
 In this deceptively bright picture (the room is almost pitch dark thanks to the blackout curtains), Dragon tries to see the room, but it's not helpful when he's blinded by a flash from Sheep's camera! |
 Motivational posters (Esther Williams! and children at an ice cream shop) as well as a dartboard while away the hours for the troops. |
 More posters. Mum's not so dumb, apparently. |
 The anthropomorphic plane took my chow! |
 A 're-enactment' of a bombing mission planning meeting. People in WWII were stiff! |
 A re-enactment of a bar for the men... |
...with a boxing crow decoration |
 Suddenly, we realize the rest of the party has gone back to the Museum. We try to catch up! (Foreground: Matt. Middleground: Dragon. Background: Hsuan Te, Pakesh, Shadow, Nelson, Rabbit, Bunni, Fulminar) |
 An advertisement for a "Morphis" brand hydraulic "ride" |
Note: Many of the next sets of pictures might be fairly dark due to the fact
that we're in a dark hangar now.
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 Didn't I see something like this in "Young Sherlock Holmes"? |
 The Wright Brothers? |
 I attempted to amp up the brightness on my camera. Now you can see more, but at the cost of focus |
 A glider |
 More biplanes |
 A Spad VII, according to the placard |
 Meet the Fokkers? |
 A Canadian Uncle Sam? |
 A wind-tunnel |
 Careful, FV! Don't get sucked in |
 A bi-plane. I'm half-expecting King Kong to show up! |
 A German blimp (after the restaurant the day before, I could relate!) |
 A pink colored plane! |
 The Flying Ass No, really! That's what it is! It's part of the... |
 ...Blunder Trophy collection (a collection of "prizes" for bad ideas or actions) |
 An Air Force map of the Columbus region. Look to the railroad looking line, just above and to the right of the blue "2200" for Obetz. |
 A collection of planes |
 A model of a shipyard Almost looks real, doesn't it? ...okay, maybe not |
 A recreation of one of those so-called "blunders". A corpsman tries to explain what happened to his plane while others investigate. I found it funny. |
 Inside a Holocaust Memorial Truer words never spoken... |
 Fighter jets with beastly coloring By this time, Nelson and FV were well into a 'brainstorming session' for the most over-the-top anime imaginable including sword battles on the wings of the moving biplanes. |
 I....I just couldn't see myself flying around in one of these. Where do I put the quarter? |
 The configuration of this plane reminds me of the Millennium Falcon. "I got 'im!" "Great, kid! Don't get cocky!) |
 The Night Mare shows how many Nazi planes were taken down |
 The Strawberry Bitch. Yeah. |
 The Shootin In. Wow. That's...a lot of kills! |
 Can you imagine being shot down by a plane with a cute pink elephant? |
 A scope for one of the planes with lit crosshairs. Shiny! |
 The "Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby" |
 On V-E day, a soldier gives a child a Hershey bar |
 Back at the hotel, Viqsi pulls out a gigantic cocktail umbrella |
 A game of Chrononauts. See here for more information on this game. (Weremoose [back], Jacob [obscured], Shadow, Nelson, Dragon, FV [obscured], Pakesh) |
 The Chrononauts game (Jacob, FV, Pakesh, Dragon [off camera]) |
 ...PIZZA! It was all gone within minutes of its arrival |
 Hsuan Te GMs an RPG. (Rabbit, Viqsi, Felix, Jacob, Pakesh [head only], Matt, Hsuan Te) |
 FV and Weremoose ponder Apples to Apples. A bottle of Solarcaine sits closeby. FV got a sunburn from the trip to the Museum and turned his skin a bright red. You might be able to see it on the picture. |
 The letters I got on my game of Scrabble |
 A Settlers of Cataan Stonehenge! |
 No. This was not intentional. |
Sunday, June 21, 2009
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 FV getting the smackdown outside of a local Bob Evans after making the mistake of dissing hockey (Jacob, FV, Viqsi) |
 Viqsi held him down while Jacob "laid into him" (Jacob, FV, Viqsi) |
 Just afterwards, it was like it didn't even happen! (Nelson, Morgan [obscured], Jacob, Pakesh [obscured], FV) |
 We continue to wait for seats (Fulminar, Rabbit [obscured], Hsuan Te, Matt, Dragon, Shadow [off-camera]) |
 FV doing....something to a ketchup bottle. Don't ask me to explain it. |
 "Should I drink ketchup and mustard together?" FV muses while Morgan looks on |
 Full on food, everyone chats a bit before leaving (From back to front, left to right: Bunni, Dragon, Rabbit, Shadow, Pakesh, Matt, Hsuan Te, Jacob, Fulminar, Felix, Weremoose, FV, Nelson, Viqsi) |
 A game of Lupus in Tabula. Weremoose explains the rules and the cards. (Rabbit, Pakesh, Jacob [obscured], Weremoose, Morgan [off-camera]) |
 Ingame discussions about who the werewolf might be (it was me...both times!) and I did my best to divert attention away from myself and cast suspicions on other people. I've never played the game before, but I was lynched...twice. The village was saved |
Monday, June 22, 2009
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 Shadow salutes as he leaves the Bash. |
 Milling about in the lobby as Shadow checks out (Matt, Shadow [obscured], FV, Pakesh) |
 Some chilling in the conference room (Weremoose, Pakesh, Matt) |
 Weremoose gets ready to head out with others |
 Weremoose goes to get another load as Rabbit loads his car |
 The Hotel. It survived the Bash |
 Hanging around outside the hotel (Felix, Matt) |
 The final shots of the Conference Room. |
 This is how we left it. With... |
 ...a cocktail umbrella... |
 ....on every.... |
 ....table. |
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