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The Revival – Three.

by Trae Dorn on November 27, 2018 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Chapter 9
└ Tags: lynn, ruth
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  1. A Guy
    A Guy
    November 27, 2018, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    Having once lost a venue two weeks out and being on staff of a con that we moved to an open working airport. This seems so much easier.

  2. Chiaroscuro
    Chiaroscuro
    November 27, 2018, 2:02 am | # | Reply

    When your con is broke, ‘Almost nothing” is the right cost.

    In this situation I’d perhaps have the “Mini-Bork One Day Con” at the Expo Center with the goal of fundraising, and then plan the real con at a real hotel.

    • Viktor
      Viktor
      November 27, 2018, 9:35 am | # | Reply

      At the least go do a walkthrough. Maybe it’s not as bad as you think it is. (Granted, maybe it’s worse). At this point, they shouldn’t ignore any options.

  3. Ashonai
    Ashonai
    November 27, 2018, 11:22 am | # | Reply

    I have a feeling that I know where the con will end up…

  4. EcchiKitty
    EcchiKitty
    November 27, 2018, 2:15 pm | # | Reply

    Having seen what emerges when you move the shelves of a grocery store that’ve been there a while… it could be nasty.

  5. mitamaking
    mitamaking
    November 27, 2018, 5:46 pm | # | Reply

    I’m trying to imagine a converted grocery store into convention center and I just can’t, it always ends up way too small. If Bork Con is expecting less than 250 people it might work, but Bork Con seemed to be pretty successful before so I can’t see that.

    Seriously though, how would there be more than 2 or 3 rooms in a converted grocery store?

    • KORfan
      KORfan
      November 27, 2018, 6:35 pm | # | Reply

      There was a con that did this a year or two ago. You don’t really get rooms, you’d have to put up pole & drape.

  6. Xheralt
    Xheralt
    November 27, 2018, 9:01 pm | # | Reply

    poorly converted store? {flashes back to early X-Cons in Oconomowoc} Now that I think about it, X-Con landed there as a result of the Astor Disaster. “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”

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