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Furry Connection North 2013
12 years ago
Day 1 (Thursday)
I got to the con about 2pm. Luca Fox and Fusky arrived shortly after I did - I doubt I waited more than a half hour for them. Got everything up to the room in one go, surprisingly. Usually takes me at least 2 trips, lol.
Kiba the Bunnolf came up to visit for awhile, while Luca ran off to fursuit and socialize for awhile. Fusky eventually joined him, leaving the Bun and I to chat for a bit, and get to know each other better ^^
Lightpaws arrived around 4:30pm. Put his stuff up in my room for the night, and headed out to Chilli's for the annual Pre-Con dinner with Hypr Cat, joined by Luca, Fusky, Crafty Andy, as well as Pyro, Itsukine, and many others. We had a grand total of probably 25 of us there for the dinner :) Good conversation was had over good food, had a few laughs and offended Itsu :D (LOVE YOU MEANFOX)
Poor Kiba Wolf arrive at the hotel in the meantime, about the time everyone else was getting to Chilli's. He had to wait for us to be done there, and with a quick run to Meijer (Luca and I needed new belts for our fursuit tails) before I could get back to give him his room key.
Waiting for Kiba, I witnessed poor Nekari being assaulted with cameras, as is what usually happens at cons xD I wasn't in suit yet, so I figured I was safe... BUT OF COURSE, BBF told me later (Right after I gloated that he wasn’t gonna film me this con, out of suit) "I already got you! When you were by the front doors!" FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. That’s okay. I have a plan. When in suit, I'm gonna DEMAND to be filmed so much HE WON’T WANNA FILM ME ANYMORE >:C
Back in the room, Light suited up and took off after that. I suited up about 30 minutes later and ran down to the lobby to socialize for a bit. Ran into der Shep, Kage, Beggar, and Skroy, before eventually happening upon BBF again.
Hey, I made him put the camera down, that means it was good right? :D
Managed to stay in suit for about an hour. Not much, but... I'm a fat guy, and I'm new to it. Plus there weren’t too many people I know wandering around at the time.
Went back upstairs, threw the head on my blower fan, relaxed and watched some TV with Kiba (Wolf). Light came back and de-suited, chatted a bit. Luca came back with a friend. Watched em play Super Smash Bros. Brawl, lol. It was actually pretty entertaining. Luca would pick random, and no matter who the other guy picked, he couldn't win xD Kinda felt bad for him xP
Eventually (Around 1:30am) we got hungry again. On the way to the car (Light, Fusky, and I. Kiba was passed out by now, and Luca was gone, socializing again), we ran into Steel Yena. Drug him with us to Taco Bell, where we ended up going through the drive through 4 times xD
I guess for some reason, they couldn’t do multiple orders per car, so we had to circle the building 4 times - once for each of our orders, haha.
Got back to the room, ate, and now it's bed time :) Alarm is set for early am, cause Light and I need to go to Chase in the morning, and we don't wanna miss con stuff!
SLP: 3:02am
Day 2 (Friday) (Note – Details will be vague, timeline may be wrong. I forgot to type this day up until LATE Saturday night, so it is NOT fresh in my head!)
got up eeeearly, about 8am. Ran over to Chase with Lightpaws. Opened up the account we'll be using for paying rent and bills at the new apartment. :)
Came back to the hotel, and socialized a good bit. I remember at one point palling around with BBF. He stuck one of his GoPro cameras to the sliding door in the lobby, lol. I wished I were in suit so I coulda had some fun with it. THOUGHT about running up to grab it, but decided against it – as I figured, the fun didn’t last long enough for me to have gone up, put the suit on, and came back down.
I barely remember what I did most of the day… up until shortly before Kage’s Story Hour. I was hungry. HUNGRY I SAY. I WANTED to take Lightpaws to the Macaroni Grill… but we both decided it was too expensive for us. We ended up in the Headless lounge along with Bix Cat. Her and light were in their own little world for awhile, while I chatted with a lovely wolf named Connor. Blaidd had tweeted that people should find and harass me. Connor found me and… reported he was “Supposed to” harass me, lol. In response, I blatantly hit on him xD Ended up talking quite a bit – He’s a very sweet guy, and we seemed to connect almost immediately.
Eventually, Bix left, so Lightpaws and I ran to Mcdonalds for food. Came back and went right to Kage’s Story Hour. Heard some new stories from the bug, and then a few older stories… ending with a bit of a speech – though I’m not really sure if that’s what you’d call it… involving Lemonade Coyote. Left me fighting back tears pretty hard. I made my way up to the stage afterwards and gave Kage a big hug. Tried wandering the lobby a bit after that. Was feeling a bit down still. Ran into Connor, in his other suit, who’s name I cannot for the life of me remember.
We hung out a bit, wandered around, talked to a few people. Eventually we went back up to my room and cuddled for awhile. (Before anyone says anything, Fursuit cuddles are the BEST THING EVER. It’s like a giant warm teddy bear that can hug back :D)
We ended up talking a lot more, got to know each other better. Went down to ConOps and recovered a Badge that he’d lost at some point. He went back and changed into Connor, and we met back in my room for more fursuit cuddles :) It was a pretty good night :)
SLP: roughly 2am
Day 3 (Saturday)
Woke up around noon, very out of it and just feeling… Ick. Took a long shower, and then looked at the clock… to see I had THREE MINUTES OH FUCK till the fursuit parade! …Yeah, no. No shot. I got dressed and ran downstairs, grumbling the whole way. Watched the parade, then went off to find Lightpaws. I wanted to know if Syberfox was still around, cause I hadn’t seen him yet.
Ended up standing around chatting with Connor and Kristofur while waiting for Light to come back from the group picture. No idea how he snuck past, but I somehow missed him. Wandered around the lobby a little. Ended up running into Tillikum and Onai. They needed a ride to the store to get some salmon, so I volunteered my car whenever they wanted to go. :)
Before we went, I ran into BBF again, this time with a GoPro camera attached to a shake weight. I helped him get a couple suiters to do it, before he made me do it as well x3 THEN we got Lightpaws to do it! :D I of course mad many jokes about his vulpine species and it’s stereotypes :)
Shortly thereafter, I found Onai and Tilli again. We ran up to Meijer. Tilli and Onai got their Salmon; I ended up getting noodles and sauce to make Spaghetti in, as well as a cheap bowl and nice $5 strainer for it as well!
Made it back to the hotel, blasting Con Bro Chill’s “Partied Out” when I dropped Tilli and Onai off at the front doors :D When I tried to park… there were NO spots. I tried the back lot where I’ve been parking… I tried the front lot… nothing. I ran into Syber as I was looking in the front lot. Told him there were no spots… He says to follow him – He’ll find us a spot. X3 Okaaaaaaay… I follow Syber. Sure enough, NO SPOTS… so he had us park on the grass xD
On our way in, we ran into Lightpaws. We ended up jumping right back in my car and running over to their room at the other hotel for a bit. We sat around and talked, joked, laughed… watched YouTube videos and laughed some more. I really miss when we used to hang out together more often. Now with Syber and I working as much as we do… neither of us has time to make the drive to visit the other :(
Eventually we decided we were HUNGRY. HUNGRY like MEN. Cause I said so. We went to Kirby’s Coney Island right next door to their hotel, after running back to Syber’s car so he could grab the card he left in it :P
Had some really good food for pretty cheap. Hung out with Syber and Light. Went back over to their room so Syber could suit up, and ended up hanging out there for awhile again. Syber got into his suit, we drove back over to the con and I ran back up to the room to FINALLY grab my phone that I’d left in the room all day, haha. It was about 7:40pm by then. Just enough time to rest my feet a little bit before running down to the Fursuit Dance Competition Finals.
I’m no dance expert or anything, but damn there were some kickass acts. :)
My personal favorite was “Spazz Fox’s” performance. Kiba Bunnolf was another favorite. Holy CRAP though, Wolfpup TK did an AMAZING job with his performance. I remember his from FC, and he’s improved a phenomenal amount since then :D
Atsu Fox won 3rd place, “Spazz” won 2nd, and the JD Puppy – Sadie duo took 1st place :D
For the record, I was totally oblivious as to who “Spazz” really was till way later, when a friend told me x3
After the Dance Comp, I decided to socialize for a bit. Found BBF and O’Wolf, and chatted with them out front for a bit. BBF had a GoPro stuck to his beer bottle this time.
I went upstairs to find my roomie, Luca, engaged in a heated match in Super Smash Bros. Brawl with some of his friends, and got into suit for the second time all con, just so I could run back down and bug BBF more :D I demanded he film me while I was fuzzy, since he always seems to get me when I’m NOT >:C
Played around a bit with the camera, along with… I wish I could remember his name. I WANNA say “Syler” or something similar. A red Husky suiter. Wandered back inside, bugged a number of others. Ran into Irish Fox, and stole his Juggernaut cutout :D I gave it to Giza.
Ended up outside again, out back by the ballroom. Met a couple new friends there, including a guy who’s first con this was! I told them a few con stories, and we talked about various other cons and other furries. At some point, the three of us went and got my car. I drove it in suit up to the doors, parked, and turned up the volume :D
We had a pretty good dance party going at one point. I hope I see some pictures of it later :D I know some were taken.
After that, I finally dragged myself back up to the room – had been suiting about 3 hours by then. They were still Brawling, so I watched for awhile while typing today’s events up and chatting with Blaidd, Marcos, and Amber White. :)
And now… time for SLEEP.
SLP: 4:56am
Day 4 (Sunday)
Today was such a freakin blur… Even typing this at the end of said day, I remember almost no detail. I spent most of the day in suit, hanging out with friends, haha. That’s about all I remember in any detail x3 about 6 hours of suiting, and lots of hanging out with my friends, especially Syberfox. I still really freakin miss you, dude.
I got to the con about 2pm. Luca Fox and Fusky arrived shortly after I did - I doubt I waited more than a half hour for them. Got everything up to the room in one go, surprisingly. Usually takes me at least 2 trips, lol.
Kiba the Bunnolf came up to visit for awhile, while Luca ran off to fursuit and socialize for awhile. Fusky eventually joined him, leaving the Bun and I to chat for a bit, and get to know each other better ^^
Lightpaws arrived around 4:30pm. Put his stuff up in my room for the night, and headed out to Chilli's for the annual Pre-Con dinner with Hypr Cat, joined by Luca, Fusky, Crafty Andy, as well as Pyro, Itsukine, and many others. We had a grand total of probably 25 of us there for the dinner :) Good conversation was had over good food, had a few laughs and offended Itsu :D (LOVE YOU MEANFOX)
Poor Kiba Wolf arrive at the hotel in the meantime, about the time everyone else was getting to Chilli's. He had to wait for us to be done there, and with a quick run to Meijer (Luca and I needed new belts for our fursuit tails) before I could get back to give him his room key.
Waiting for Kiba, I witnessed poor Nekari being assaulted with cameras, as is what usually happens at cons xD I wasn't in suit yet, so I figured I was safe... BUT OF COURSE, BBF told me later (Right after I gloated that he wasn’t gonna film me this con, out of suit) "I already got you! When you were by the front doors!" FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. That’s okay. I have a plan. When in suit, I'm gonna DEMAND to be filmed so much HE WON’T WANNA FILM ME ANYMORE >:C
Back in the room, Light suited up and took off after that. I suited up about 30 minutes later and ran down to the lobby to socialize for a bit. Ran into der Shep, Kage, Beggar, and Skroy, before eventually happening upon BBF again.
KIRO used SHOULDER MASSAGE!
It's Super Effective!Hey, I made him put the camera down, that means it was good right? :D
Managed to stay in suit for about an hour. Not much, but... I'm a fat guy, and I'm new to it. Plus there weren’t too many people I know wandering around at the time.
Went back upstairs, threw the head on my blower fan, relaxed and watched some TV with Kiba (Wolf). Light came back and de-suited, chatted a bit. Luca came back with a friend. Watched em play Super Smash Bros. Brawl, lol. It was actually pretty entertaining. Luca would pick random, and no matter who the other guy picked, he couldn't win xD Kinda felt bad for him xP
Eventually (Around 1:30am) we got hungry again. On the way to the car (Light, Fusky, and I. Kiba was passed out by now, and Luca was gone, socializing again), we ran into Steel Yena. Drug him with us to Taco Bell, where we ended up going through the drive through 4 times xD
I guess for some reason, they couldn’t do multiple orders per car, so we had to circle the building 4 times - once for each of our orders, haha.
Got back to the room, ate, and now it's bed time :) Alarm is set for early am, cause Light and I need to go to Chase in the morning, and we don't wanna miss con stuff!
SLP: 3:02am
Day 2 (Friday) (Note – Details will be vague, timeline may be wrong. I forgot to type this day up until LATE Saturday night, so it is NOT fresh in my head!)
got up eeeearly, about 8am. Ran over to Chase with Lightpaws. Opened up the account we'll be using for paying rent and bills at the new apartment. :)
Came back to the hotel, and socialized a good bit. I remember at one point palling around with BBF. He stuck one of his GoPro cameras to the sliding door in the lobby, lol. I wished I were in suit so I coulda had some fun with it. THOUGHT about running up to grab it, but decided against it – as I figured, the fun didn’t last long enough for me to have gone up, put the suit on, and came back down.
I barely remember what I did most of the day… up until shortly before Kage’s Story Hour. I was hungry. HUNGRY I SAY. I WANTED to take Lightpaws to the Macaroni Grill… but we both decided it was too expensive for us. We ended up in the Headless lounge along with Bix Cat. Her and light were in their own little world for awhile, while I chatted with a lovely wolf named Connor. Blaidd had tweeted that people should find and harass me. Connor found me and… reported he was “Supposed to” harass me, lol. In response, I blatantly hit on him xD Ended up talking quite a bit – He’s a very sweet guy, and we seemed to connect almost immediately.
Eventually, Bix left, so Lightpaws and I ran to Mcdonalds for food. Came back and went right to Kage’s Story Hour. Heard some new stories from the bug, and then a few older stories… ending with a bit of a speech – though I’m not really sure if that’s what you’d call it… involving Lemonade Coyote. Left me fighting back tears pretty hard. I made my way up to the stage afterwards and gave Kage a big hug. Tried wandering the lobby a bit after that. Was feeling a bit down still. Ran into Connor, in his other suit, who’s name I cannot for the life of me remember.
We hung out a bit, wandered around, talked to a few people. Eventually we went back up to my room and cuddled for awhile. (Before anyone says anything, Fursuit cuddles are the BEST THING EVER. It’s like a giant warm teddy bear that can hug back :D)
We ended up talking a lot more, got to know each other better. Went down to ConOps and recovered a Badge that he’d lost at some point. He went back and changed into Connor, and we met back in my room for more fursuit cuddles :) It was a pretty good night :)
SLP: roughly 2am
Day 3 (Saturday)
Woke up around noon, very out of it and just feeling… Ick. Took a long shower, and then looked at the clock… to see I had THREE MINUTES OH FUCK till the fursuit parade! …Yeah, no. No shot. I got dressed and ran downstairs, grumbling the whole way. Watched the parade, then went off to find Lightpaws. I wanted to know if Syberfox was still around, cause I hadn’t seen him yet.
Ended up standing around chatting with Connor and Kristofur while waiting for Light to come back from the group picture. No idea how he snuck past, but I somehow missed him. Wandered around the lobby a little. Ended up running into Tillikum and Onai. They needed a ride to the store to get some salmon, so I volunteered my car whenever they wanted to go. :)
Before we went, I ran into BBF again, this time with a GoPro camera attached to a shake weight. I helped him get a couple suiters to do it, before he made me do it as well x3 THEN we got Lightpaws to do it! :D I of course mad many jokes about his vulpine species and it’s stereotypes :)
Shortly thereafter, I found Onai and Tilli again. We ran up to Meijer. Tilli and Onai got their Salmon; I ended up getting noodles and sauce to make Spaghetti in, as well as a cheap bowl and nice $5 strainer for it as well!
Made it back to the hotel, blasting Con Bro Chill’s “Partied Out” when I dropped Tilli and Onai off at the front doors :D When I tried to park… there were NO spots. I tried the back lot where I’ve been parking… I tried the front lot… nothing. I ran into Syber as I was looking in the front lot. Told him there were no spots… He says to follow him – He’ll find us a spot. X3 Okaaaaaaay… I follow Syber. Sure enough, NO SPOTS… so he had us park on the grass xD
On our way in, we ran into Lightpaws. We ended up jumping right back in my car and running over to their room at the other hotel for a bit. We sat around and talked, joked, laughed… watched YouTube videos and laughed some more. I really miss when we used to hang out together more often. Now with Syber and I working as much as we do… neither of us has time to make the drive to visit the other :(
Eventually we decided we were HUNGRY. HUNGRY like MEN. Cause I said so. We went to Kirby’s Coney Island right next door to their hotel, after running back to Syber’s car so he could grab the card he left in it :P
Had some really good food for pretty cheap. Hung out with Syber and Light. Went back over to their room so Syber could suit up, and ended up hanging out there for awhile again. Syber got into his suit, we drove back over to the con and I ran back up to the room to FINALLY grab my phone that I’d left in the room all day, haha. It was about 7:40pm by then. Just enough time to rest my feet a little bit before running down to the Fursuit Dance Competition Finals.
I’m no dance expert or anything, but damn there were some kickass acts. :)
My personal favorite was “Spazz Fox’s” performance. Kiba Bunnolf was another favorite. Holy CRAP though, Wolfpup TK did an AMAZING job with his performance. I remember his from FC, and he’s improved a phenomenal amount since then :D
Atsu Fox won 3rd place, “Spazz” won 2nd, and the JD Puppy – Sadie duo took 1st place :D
For the record, I was totally oblivious as to who “Spazz” really was till way later, when a friend told me x3
After the Dance Comp, I decided to socialize for a bit. Found BBF and O’Wolf, and chatted with them out front for a bit. BBF had a GoPro stuck to his beer bottle this time.
I went upstairs to find my roomie, Luca, engaged in a heated match in Super Smash Bros. Brawl with some of his friends, and got into suit for the second time all con, just so I could run back down and bug BBF more :D I demanded he film me while I was fuzzy, since he always seems to get me when I’m NOT >:C
Played around a bit with the camera, along with… I wish I could remember his name. I WANNA say “Syler” or something similar. A red Husky suiter. Wandered back inside, bugged a number of others. Ran into Irish Fox, and stole his Juggernaut cutout :D I gave it to Giza.
Ended up outside again, out back by the ballroom. Met a couple new friends there, including a guy who’s first con this was! I told them a few con stories, and we talked about various other cons and other furries. At some point, the three of us went and got my car. I drove it in suit up to the doors, parked, and turned up the volume :D
We had a pretty good dance party going at one point. I hope I see some pictures of it later :D I know some were taken.
After that, I finally dragged myself back up to the room – had been suiting about 3 hours by then. They were still Brawling, so I watched for awhile while typing today’s events up and chatting with Blaidd, Marcos, and Amber White. :)
And now… time for SLEEP.
SLP: 4:56am
Day 4 (Sunday)
Today was such a freakin blur… Even typing this at the end of said day, I remember almost no detail. I spent most of the day in suit, hanging out with friends, haha. That’s about all I remember in any detail x3 about 6 hours of suiting, and lots of hanging out with my friends, especially Syberfox. I still really freakin miss you, dude.
Basically, you replace all the properties with furry conventions. I'm PRETTY sure he said the Chance or Community Chest cards are turned into "Swag Bag". I can't remember what the other cards are called xP Either way, it sounded really interesting and fun, especially with the twist that whatever con its played at, if someone buys that lot, the rent payment is tripled when you land on it! (OUCH!)
eventually, Lightpaws came over to say goodbye before heading home. Firestorm went to de-suit shortly after that.
I wandered off and ran into Artie and Kristofur. Chatted a bit, crush-hugged Artie, teased him a little. All that god fun stuff, before suddenly Ticer the Tiger comes bursting out of the stairwell, followed closely by Revit and his camera. They turn around and run back in, just to repeat the experience again! This time I caught a look at what they'd been filming - Ticer doing freaking parkour down the stairwell in FURSUIT o.o
ended up in the headless lounge with Rev and Ticer, along with Neko Haiku and a friend of his, chilling, shooting the shit, and watching Ticer try to do a flip on the wall. Was in there a good couple hours just hanging out. After that, I grabbed a handful of giant straws for fursuiting on my own later, and went back to my room. SLEEP TIME NOW.
Can't wait to see you again! <3