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Here is us in the main lobby where NoBrand Con was held. This is the Davies Center on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire.
On the far left is Nolan, in the middle is my "co-writer" Chris, and on the far right is myself. |
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The guys on the right were just some of the Anime vendors that placed themselves at the con. The man on top sold me copious amounts of Ranma manga and VHS. He even threw an extra tape in for free! The man on the bottom is actually the person responsible for the Con. He had a nice selection of J-Pop, and other music. In addition to being the only person in the room with a "17 and older" box to look through.... Well, he did have a copy of the fabled Yakyuken Special. It went for $70 I believe. Of course I didn't look through the box myself. It was a rather large event though when someone purchased the aforementioned title, considering that their was a rather large commotion when he announced to all his friends that the "Tennis girl" would have to remain unbeaten in the game of rock-paper-scissors. ::rolls eyes:: |
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This is the Game room of the Convention. Nolan speent his entire time here (almost) getting owned in various games like "Soul Calibur 2" and "Super Mario Smash Brothers Melee." And yes they had DDR.. It was actually Just outside the door. I did rather well at the game, but did not attend the tournament. |
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Nolan: I owned as nightmare.................. Until the tournament. |
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Jon: ::supressing laughter:: |
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This is the room that the vendors occupied during the first two days. The main attraction here was definately the foam sword display. The man with the ponytail holding the shortsword was in charge here. He even let people demo his products in the middle of the room. We created a large arena, Nolan had a hard time trying not to hit the chandalier when he fought me with the foam Claymore that you see closest to the end of the table. |
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Happy Story Time!
There was a spar between me and Nolan on the first day. I was doing rather well against him with various weapons. He stuck with his claymore. I decided (after an extended period of owning) that I would attempt to fight Nolan and his claymore solo dagger. The spar started out in his favor, each lunge I made at him was countered with the loss of one of my limbs. Firts my right arm (dagger switched to left hand,) then my right leg. I hopped a bit until I lost my left leg. Kneeling on the ground I kept my cool and promptly lost my left arm. The average con-goer would have forfeited under these circumstanced, however I defiantly placed the hilt of the dagger in my mouth and made for one last blow. Nolan was somewhat astonished by this, and he gave me the opening to score an instant kill across his stomach. Heh, yeah. |
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On the note of swords, I believe this picture is a good tie over to the Cosplay event that took place on the second day of the Con.! |
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CONTINUE |
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BACK TO PICTURES MAIN |
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BACK TO COMIC MAIN |
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