Ours is, but you can get an escort. …or the old trick of “I need to speak with [person X] about a badge, are they in there?” works sometimes. Trying to get a badge is the best reason to be without a badge.
UnCONventional is a comic that ran from December 2009 to December 2019 about the staff of a small town anime convention and their lives. This is a complete online archive of the comic.
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7 thoughts on “The Runaround”
Blitzkrieg1701
Man, I WISH most of my badge getting went that smoothly.
EcchiKitty
Not shown, twenty meetings with clueless people supposedly in charge.
Chiaroscuro
This is even more fun when you have Dealer / Staff / Sponsor badges. Multiclassing, whee!
(I eventually mandated a hierarchy system. Also, making certain things just a add-on ribbon makes life pleasant.)
Kay Shapero
There’s a REASON I like working Con Ops – you have at least a fighting chance of finding out what the heck is going on before the end of the con. 🙂
KORfan
How did she get into Artist Alley to talk to the head without a badge? 🙂 Yes, I’ve seen that scenario happen.
Trae Dorn
Most cons don’t put Artist Alley in a badged area, so pretty easily. 😛
Chiaroscuro
Ours is, but you can get an escort. …or the old trick of “I need to speak with [person X] about a badge, are they in there?” works sometimes. Trying to get a badge is the best reason to be without a badge.
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UnCONventional is a comic that ran from December 2009 to December 2019 about the staff of a small town anime convention and their lives. This is a complete online archive of the comic.
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