So, as with just about all cons, Furfright was awesome, but -far- too short; definitely felt the the shortest convention I've been to yet. Part of that is of course due to having to run home early to escape Sandy, but some is probably from fursuiting as well; it just takes up so much time and makes cons fly by! I spent a good bit of it in 'suit as Sarai this time; maybe not quite as much as I would have liked, but definitely the most I have at any con yet. I'm getting much more confident as a fursuiter; I'm definitely doing a lot more actual playing and performing instead of just walking around, and I gues it shows; I'm getting a lot of compliments now - even from the con chair!

This time I was lucky enough to be invited to join the DramaArmada and AsiaNeko for the Masquerade. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a bit nervous about it beforehand, but that disappeared the moment I was suited up and we started to rehearse it. It ended up being one of the high points of any con I've been at in the last near-decade, and we took second place overall! So, endless thanks to Kiffa, Sedge, and Asia for letting me be a part of that! If anyone has video of our performance, I'd absolutely love to see it.

Still in suit, I got the chance to do a photoshoot in fursuit with Nekokaori as Sherbert and PhoenixAsh as Lusty; I'll upload the pictures from that as soon as I have them!

Other than that, I spent a while wandering the halls with those two handing out candy and generally getting into the kinds of trouble Sarai loves to find ;) Such a fun character to "be" for a while...

I also got to spend some time in the game room; played a Pathfinder game there where all the dice seemed to be deliberately causing all the dramatic tension they could; ended up being a close fight at a few points, leading up to an epic finish. Great way to spend a few hours! Picked up a couple other games there as well; Kittens in a Blender (so wrong but so much fun) and Talisman + a couple of expansions, which I haven't gotten to really get into yet, lacking the time and players, but I'm very much looking forward to it.

Hmm, what else...I got in my required trip to O'Rourke's Diner for an amazing breakfast like always, went to the panel on Gender Benders in the fandom that Xiris ran, which kind of turned into a general LGBT rights discussion but ended up being quite enjoyable, caught con plague but seem to be beating it back fairly well, survived the 4AM fire alarm, got a couple beautiful badges done, and topped it all off with a trip to Lake Compounce's awesome Haunted Graveyard, before retreating home to weather out the storm in the hopeful-safety of my new apartment.

If anyone got pictures or video of me as Sarai (the black/white-striped Sabertooth panther/dire world with the red-tipped black hair, I was probably either handing out candy from a blue pumpkin bucket or in the Masquerade if you saw me!), I'd love to see them! I'll post my own here when I can.

Hmm...Maybe I should make a separate account for Sarai.