Conclave 30

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Enjoy!

These are pictures from Conclave 30, held in Lansing, Michigan in October of 2005.

Conclave is also the "home" convention of the Dorsai Irregulars, so I got to see many familliar faces there. It was also my first ever science-fiction convention.

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Probably the only thing worth going to at Detroit airport. The rest of the airport was a dump. Seriously.

[Edit: It has since been pointed out to me that I was in the old "Smith Terminal", which sucked, and has since closed down. The other terminal of DTW is much nicer.]

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We were greeted cordially at the hotel.

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No really, this was it. The ENTIRE registration line. What's even more amazing is that the people for registration just showed up with a few cash boxes and binders 15 minutes before registration was to open. Being used to the big registration department for Anthrocon, this just blew me away.

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The lights on the ceiling were animated and ran down the hallway towards the consuite. The consuite also had a keg of beer, which was a first for me at any convention.

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If the title of this picture makes no sense, you need to watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

The guy with the pope cat was "elected" pope at a panel.

I did not ask for more details. :-P

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We had a big box of sake and proceeded to make use of it.

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Well, we had to come up with a way to heat it, and since we didn't have a double boiler available, we had to improvise with a coffee pot!

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Filking away in the Dorsai Suite

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Chatting in the Dorsai suite

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This was from a panel called "Fun with liquid nitrogen" or similar. They froze all sorts of things there.