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This is actually a really hard question. Sure would be nice if the con director was there to answer it.
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July 25th, 2019 | by Trae Dorn
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  1. John Trauger
    John Trauger
    July 25, 2019 at 2:18 pm | # | Reply

    Ah Old Garner, we really didn’t miss you. I am mildy surprised Garner doesn’t know who the head of Wakame Con is by sight since cons share equipment and apparently volunteer at each other’s cons.

    OTOH, then this is Garner.

  2. Scotty
    Scotty
    July 25, 2019 at 4:30 pm | # | Reply

    No, really. We don’t want volunteers speaking to the hotel on behalf of the convention. That’s why you bump that shit up the chain of command.

    Also my experience, most con chairs have no fucking clue how their staff and volunteers make the magic happen. Your volunteer coordinator has a better idea how to make it work. It’s the old officer vs NCO trope.

  3. EcchiKitty
    EcchiKitty
    July 25, 2019 at 5:38 pm | # | Reply

    There does become a grey area in most things, and is troubles with situations in theory, and situations in practice.
    ‘I think that guy has a gun. Crap, gun! Gun! Gun! Gun!’ …and now they’re panicked and can look directly at the floor manager without recognizing them.
    Explain WHY you’d prefer no interaction with hotel staff, and understand that if it becomes an issue, the situation is crap anyway, let it slide.

  4. Langland
    Langland
    July 25, 2019 at 10:50 pm | # | Reply

    What is stopping a con goer, not staffed with the con, from pulling out their handy dandy smart phone and dailing 911 to get the police officers to show up? Just curious.

    • Scotty
      Scotty
      July 26, 2019 at 12:15 pm | # | Reply

      Absolutely nothing would stop them

      However,
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_John_Crawford_III
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Tamir_Rice

      Sometimes you’re Bar-B-Que Becky and sometimes you get someone killed

    • EcchiKitty
      EcchiKitty
      July 26, 2019 at 6:50 pm | # | Reply

      Nothing. Which on some levels side-steps the problem, and on other levels makes whole new problems.
      And I’m not sure about BorkCon, but know at least some cons have officers walking around, so there’s that.

      • Abdiel
        Abdiel
        July 27, 2019 at 10:40 pm | # | Reply

        Yep, in some cases they’ve just gone with “big group of people, often carrying at least repro weapons, not the best combination better send a person to be a presence.” I’m not saying they’re wrong, either. Sure, you try to make sure repros are actually going to hurt anyone, but if you have a determined jackhole it’s amazing what you can do some damage with. I feel like I should make a ‘Batty’s Last Speech” out of this crap – “I’ve seen foam swords embedded south of the belt, I’ve seen glittering fairies driven to madness and despair tearing at their foes…”

      • Langland
        Langland
        July 29, 2019 at 5:26 pm | # | Reply

        I can tell you, the last year that No Brand Con, the convention that the creator is apart of as staff, in its last year in Eau Claire, WI, had police officers patrolling quite regularly during the busy hours. This was because the 2 previous years saw some bad behavior from the con such as a con goer chasing people around with a knife and some drunken con goer broke glass bottles in and around the pool this causing the pool to be drained and cleaned up. Finally in the last year at the venue, which would be demolished shortly after, the con got the city police to make regular runs through the hotel to at least intimidate the con goers into behaving.

        • Trae Dorn
          Trae Dorn
          August 1, 2019 at 1:22 pm | # | Reply

          That’s not exactly how things happened. The police only showed up when the con called them over specific incidents, and we never used them to “intimidate” congoers. Frankly, the con has an integrated security policy to PREVENT congoers from feeling intimidated.

          Also: The guy with a knife was NOT a congoer, but tried to hide in the con, and was quickly identified by No Brand staff and the police.

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    Peregrine Lake

    So today saw the final update to the ten year run of UnCONVentional, and with it comes the announcement of my next project -- Peregrine Lake. Now that's just a title and a splash image, and since the actual comic won't premiere until April I thought I might fill you in on a few of the (non-spoiler) details.

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