My First Con

GenCon XV, 1983 from Alexander1968's Flickr stream

Yesterday I braved Odyssey Con in the badlands outside of Heathrow.  A strange landscape to traverse– part of it appears/disappears in The Desperate Ones. My partner who was good enough to accompany me said, "Don't you want to change all the H's to D's so it reads Deathrow?" Yeah, kinda.

The venue was small, labyrinthine and much too hot.  (What was with all the under-filled "water-interest" decor about the place?  Those glass fish beached at t...