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It’s been a few days since MichiCon,so I thought I’d do a roundup.

Two of us showed up Friday and almost two of us showed up Saturday for the convention. Brian (that’s me!) was the only one who wound up being able to attend both days.

With only one exception, nobody cared at all about “old Ghostbusters” vs. “new Ghostbusters.” The general consensus was, “Hey, neat! Ghostbusters!”

This is how it should be. Any fan of Ghostbusters - any version of the Ghostbusters - is welcome at our table.

Day One

I had a full table for “Ghostbusters Vice.” But I’ll probably have to tighten that scenario down a bit if I’m going to run it again. I’ll definitely have to pare down the amount of locations. Other than that, and having to truncate it for time, people seemed to have fun.

The Michigan Pinball Expo was going on at the same time as MichiCon. So when the two of us weren’t setting up for the convention, we were checking PKE valances on the new Ghostbusters pinball machine. I highly recommend trying it out.

Day Two

Due to the age group of the people playing “Punk is Dead,” I tweaked the difficulty and the subject matter a bit. Much fun was still had zapping and trapping ghosts. It actually felt awesome seeing kids getting into both Ghostbusters and role-playing games at the same time. I sincerely hope I did a good job creating a welcoming environment for them.

The players seemed to have an easy time hitting their target numbers, but the dreaded ghost symbol kept showing up on their dice. Eventually we mutually agreed this was because their franchise had been mailed cheap knockoff power cells by Peter Venkman, due to him considering their franchise a low priority. A player told me once the adventure was over, his character was going to drive to NYC personally to punch Venkman right in his face.

When someone can take a series of wonky rolls and make an in-universe explanation for them, that’s good role-playing.

Overall

Metro Detroit Gamers’ two annual conventions WinterCon and MichiCon have been a regular fixture for decades. We definitely want to return in the future. With any luck, all three current members (and any possible future members) of the OMGB can make the entire convention next time around.

My fiance only snagged a couple of shots from Friday’s tales shoot. But it’s ok because it was a pretty quick shoot anyway, I think we got done in like 15 minutes? Something like that.

I ran into another Yuri and a Judith at this shoot! They were super nice and friendly and made me feel really comfortable in the crowd (I’m a nervous wreck in crowds of people I don’t know). So if you two are out there, thanks for making the shoot super fun for mee!! :D

Here’s the Estelle cosplay that I made for this con!

There’s a lot of mistakes with it, but it was the first cosplay I made all by myself from scratch, so I was really really proud.

I would have probably had more photos, but the Yuri who came with me ditched her cosplay like 5 minutes into our shoot. Thankfully I found another Yuri and even a Judith cosplayer! Those photos are in the next queue post! O:

I finally got the photos from the later pokemon shoot!

This one was so much fun. Everyone here was super cute and friendly and came up with a lot of good photo ideas. I’m so glad I decided to show up to this shoot

I wish I was able to take photos, but I didn’t he a camera. My fiance only took the group shots that I was in, so I didn’t get to capture a lot of the great stuff that happened. :(