(Photos by Ben McFarland)
Indianapolis, IN: The first thing you learn about booth setup is to pace yourself. The kobolds arrived in Indianapolis on Tuesday night, got the badges organized, and found some of the booth materials already in place at #2439. Kobold-in-Chief Wolfgang Baur (your humble narrator) and Chief Cryptoanalyst and Booth Monkey #1 Wade Rockett intended to carry or drive the rest to the exhibitor’s hall. A simple enough operation… but we did not know then of the marshaling yard.
Meek little kobolds that we are, we got in line at Exhibitor HQ. We told them, “We’re the first ones here! We came all the way from Seattle! We just want to unload our precious goods and freebies at booth #2439!”
The volunteers shook their heads. “You’ll have to go to the marshaling yard,” they said.
“Where is that?”
“It’s a secret,” they said…
To handle all that, the con needs a staging area to keep the loading docks from being swamped by too many companies hauling their freight in all at once. They need a place to make exhibitors wait a while, and appreciate the heat.
Yes, that’s right, no A/C in the exhibitor’s hall on Wednesday before the show. A Wednesday, we soon learned, of ludicriously high temperatures in Indianapolis.
But kobolds are diligent creatures. We wrestled our boxes into place, and got them open with a box cutter borrowed from Paizo (our scissors were packed in a box. D’oh!). The heat continued, but we were undeterred: we got the area nice and booth-shaped.
More news right here tomorrow on KQ Radio and the all-KQ network—”all kobolds, all the time.” We’re having a blast, but it’s now time for a refreshing beverage…
They can’t keep the Kobolds down! Have fun, guys – once you have that covered, everything else will fall in place.
have fun, kids!
Awesome report! I wish I was able to be there! I’ve told a friend of mine to stop by your booth. let’s see if he does! (I’m going to quiz him once he gets back)
Day 1 is in the books, and it was a BLAST. I met about 50 people, friends and freelancers. Talked myself a little hoarse (not too bad!), and everyone was talking about KQ #14 and Sunken Empires and upcoming Open Design projects.
Report to follow…
Wish I could be there with you guys, sounds like a lot of fun.
Hi Wolfgang hope you guys are having a great time and everyone is excited about the Zobeck/Midgard miniature news ;)