The 2007 Las Vegas Fan Faire
The fanfaire was great, and I even took notes of people's names who I knew that I would forget... But the notes were in a notepad which was in my checked baggage which SouthWest lost along with all my clothes, my kilt, and other belongings... thus many names are forgotten. All the help I can get would be appreciated for the mislabled / forgotten people.
All of the following images are in chronological order.
The Images!
Tuesday
Inside the Las Vegas airport Tuesday afternoon
View out the back window of my hotell room in Gold Coast
My hotell room in Gold Coast
One of the fountains in the Ceasar Forums mall
Murryha (Marcie) infront of a another side of the fountain
The backside of the fountain
The trojan horse that is part of FAO in the mall
A fountain outside of Ceasar's Palace
A gorgeous old corvette in the Belagio
Murryha, Waring (Joe) and Banut (Andrew) at supper in Gold Coast
Waring, Banut and Jyve (Rob) in my room
The same three, deciding where to go since not many people were around Tuesday night
Banut, Waring, and Jyve in the bar at the bowling alley in Gold Coast
Iakovos and Reenee (Dani) arrived late and met us in the bar
Jyve, Reenee, and Banut... Reenee isnt that small, Jyve and Banut are both just huge
Banut, Jyve, Waring, Myself (Tharkis) and Iakovos
Jyve, Waring, Iakovos, and Reenee
Used the timer on my camera to get a picture of all of us, Iakovos, Reenee, Banut, Jyve, Waring, Tharkis
MEAT!! Everyone decided that they were hungry again, there was talk about finding an all you can eat steak house, instead we went downstairs for Tbone steaks and other food
Wednsday
Zieri (Melissa), Waring, Iakovos and Reenee in Gold Coast, we all got up early
The pouring rain followed me from Rhode Island for a rare rainy day in Vegas
Another shot of the rainy sky
Due to rain, we all waited on the double decker bus to take us up the strip. Reenee behind Zieri, Myself, Iakovos, and Waring
Myself with the remnants of a giant bag of skittles I had bought a week before and been munching to stay awake from jet lag
Reenee was making faces and doing strange things while Banut kept getting buisness phone calls every 20 minutes
Banut never even noticed
He didnt even notice this either, talk about comitment to your job!
Waring outside quarks with some of the alien statues
Waring being beaten on by a Gorn
Lion kittens at the MGM
A shot that didnt come out of the kittens
This kitten sat right infront of me and gnawed on a ball for a while
New York New York
The MGM Grand Lion
Looking up the strip from the bridge between New York New York and MGM Grand
Same as above but zoomed in all the way
Ormus, Waring, Reenee, and Iakovos inside New York New York. Ormus didnt have a cellphone and was supposed to meet us there... but we hadnt set up a meeting spot, we randomly turned a corner in the casino and there he was, talk about luck.
A very blurry Ormus, Reenee, and Iakovos
Same picture, but much more clear
Blurry Waring and Zieri
Waring, Zieri, and myself
Ipanema tower at the Rio
Nadev (Kieth) and Nevaran (Gary)
Alkaria (Sarah), Nuka (James), and Nadev
Arek (Erica), and Murryha
Murryha, Nuka, and Ashlane (Aimiee)
The backs of Nadev and Nevaren, because my camera didnt focus on the really good looking waitresses tending the bar behind them
Nevaren infront of Nuka infront of Alkaria infront of Arek, Murryha, Erica the SoE Intern, Nadev infront of Ashlanne and Brenlo (Alan)
Waring, Ormus, Shadoz (Ryan) and Ronda (Mordy)
Fendor giving Nuka a hug, he didnt have a cell phone thus a bunch of us waiting downstairs for him to arrive
Nevaren, Murryha, Fendor, Alkaria, Arek, and half of Nadev
Nadev, Nuka, Fendor, Murryha, on the prowl for food, we decided to hit the buffet in Gold Coast
Nadev showing off his pasties... err pastries
Nevaren cant help himself around such a *cough* beautiful person wearing pasties *cough* *gag*
Attempting to get a picture of the awsome huge moon rising between the towers of some casinos on the strip
Realizing the flash was kiling the shot I turned it off, only to find out my camera cant autofocus without the flash on
The same, still blurry
Very blurry
I gave up on the no flash option, and tried to get it to focus by having the flash on, but sticking my finger over it.. it focused but didnt expose long enough
Nadev got back from a booze run with these results
Nuka only faking it, no one actually passed out... and he hadnt even finished one beer yet
Nadev breaking out Guitar Hero II for some fun
Getting set up for some drunken Guitar Hero II
Nevaren playing GH2 for the first time, Nadev was taking lots of video
Fendor also playing for the first time
Arek just had to look back at the camera.. and as a result missed a bunch of notes... newb ! =P
Murryha practicing, before we finally went head to head
Nevaren vs Nadev, Nuka and Alkaria in the background
Fendor getting ready to rock out against Nuka, who didnt have a practice run
Nuka and Fendor setting up their avatars, Arek taking a photo too
Nadev and Murryha in co-op, Nadev has been playing a long time so head to head wouldnt have been quite fair at this point
Nuka, Alkaria, Fendor, Nadev playing, and Nevaren filming
Nadev as LARS UMAULT, he was a favorite avatar over the weekend
Nevaren and Arek as the first husband and wife team of the night, we never did get Nuka and Alky to play together
The same but from the front side
After enough guitar hero, around midnight we all headed up to crash Brenlo's marketing summit party. Brent from Virgin Worlds scowling from behind while I took a picture of Cuppycake (aka Zodiak, or Tami) and Naladini (Greg). The lowerhalf of Raijinn is in the background
The back of Raijinn, Hulkling (paladin correspondant) and Spare (from SWG I believe)
The back of Josh talking with a bunch of the Safe Haven folks, about guitar hero
Raijinn infront of Spare, Erica the Intern, and Ashlanne
I wrote these two people's names down so that I wouldnt forget... well I forgot their names, and dont have my notepad, sorry!
Nolrog, Zatozia (Lydia) and one of the two from the previous picture who I forget
Half of Naladini, Ashlanne, Zatozia, Nolrog
Brenlo making an apple martini for Nevaren
I forget, Grimwell, Cuppycake, and Brent ! weee, isnt losing your notes fun? This was about the time when someone who shall remain namless to protect him accidentally called Cuppycake ... F***ycake
Raijinn and Greg, Greg is a very good GH2 player
More milling about in Brenlo's suite, once I learn the names from the above pics, I'll label the two in the front, Cuppycake, Brent, Erica, Nolrog, and Nadev pouring a drink
Nadev and Nuka getting more to drink behind Raijinn, Ashlanne, and Zatozia
Hulkling and Erica the Intern
Greg and Josh They were both wicked good at GH2 going head to head in expert mode on hard songs and only missing 4 or 5 notes each
Nadev walking infront of my taking a picture of Spare and Greg
Nadev video taping Josh and Greg's insane playing, putting everyone else to shame
Cuppycake demonstrating the ROFLMAO emote
Cuppycake was just as good as the two SoE guys and put up a challenge
Nevaren recording them while Nadev thought of things to do to see if they'd even notice. They were concentrating so hard on the game
Spare watching from the side and Nadev giving bunny ears since Cuppy and Greg were too engrosed in the game
Nadev trying to see if he can get away with trying to lick one of their ears, hulkling in the background
Nadev walking infront of yet another picture
I dont even remember what this was supposed to be a picture of... it was something I should remember because I didnt delete the pic when it came out bad.
using STAR POWAH!
Cuppy and Greg kept going at it because they kept getting real close scores, Nevaren, Fendor and Josh watching and waiting their turns
Nadev getting another drink from the fridge while Cuppycake and Greg finish their song
Nadev, who was the best of us in the room earlier that night... getting utterly destroyed by Josh
Nadev having just lost horribly to Josh threatening to delete his play char or something in retribution
Josh and Greg going at it head to head again, being the most competitive with eachother
Josh kept sticking his tongue out in concentration, it was funny because whenever someone mentioned it he pulled it back in and missed a few notes
Thursday
Banut, Waring and Shadoz, getting ready to grab some breakfast
Inside the Rio buffet area
Banut, Zieri, Shadoz, and myself waiting for our drinks at the buffet
Ormus, Shadoz, and Waring in Banut's room, thinking about going for a dip in the pool
The Rio, from the pool area, Ormus obscured by the date stamp
Ormus, Waring and Zieri taking a dip
Shadoz and Banut join in, I left my bathing suit in my hotell room, so I just relaxed in the sun and took pics and talked
A travesty, Waring spills some booze... What a waste!
Waring and Noar
Banut, Iliyena and Shadoz
Waring, Noar, Banut, Iliyena, Shadoz, and Ormus
Banut, Iliyena, and Shadoz
Merloc (Keith) and his bouncy ball
Nodyin (David), I really liked his tshirt, true gamer geek humor
Noar, Banut, Shadoz, and Iliyena and the line infront of them for registration... we got there wicked early just to find people, and it's a good thing
... Because this was the line behind us, it went way down the hall and around a few corners
GM Sentana and Higsby
The T-shirt handing out line, after you got your badge
Reenee gesticulating at the line behind her
The line continuing around another corner
Slithinknott, the shiftiest and most shady player in the game... just as shadey in real life !
Jyve, Kela, and Golgren
A picture looking down the registration line. From this point it took Alky, Fendor, Nuka, Nadev and Murryha almost an hour
Bgheff of Fire and Fury
Tareyla, Rynara and Misharu (Rob)
Rashere (Travis) and Merloc hanging out as people registered
The never ending line for registration
Supper with Safe Haven at a japanese restraunt in the Rio, I lucked out and a lot of people didnt like Miso soup and thus I got a ton of everyone else's
Ronda, Qaman (tom) and Nodyin ontop of the Rio at the Voodoo Lounge
Reenee and a puppy
The Gorgeous view from the top of the Rio
Looking the other direction at the Vegas strip
Nodyin and Waring
Bgheff and a hugeass drink
As night fell, the Voodoo Lounge became quite crowded, Kendricke the White is the only person I recognize in this shot
The strip at night, not a very good shot
Banut, Ormus and others looking at something I forget
Another picture of the strip from the voodoo lounge, Sentana in the bottom center
Trying to get a better pic of the strip. It's much better looking in person
Someone I forget, SH Wow player, Brossy, and Neiebuse, back in Nuka's room for more Guitar Hero
Neiebuse and Nadev
Nevaren, that WoW player, and Brossy
Brossy and Nadev play head to head, we decided to handicap Nads and make himplay backwords over his head
Same picture, but clearer
Nadev was still kicking Brossy's butt, and got to dancing while playing
Nadev violates one of the guitars
Same as above but from the front
Amadicia (Sasha/Alex), Jyve, and Finelarya (Ronald), the only 3 AB players who showed up
Zieri, Shadoz, Iakovos, Tareyla, and Ormus
Shadoz and Tareyla
Prathun's Apples to Apples game arrives!
Iakovos, Prathun (John) and Zieri
Tareyla, Ormus, Qaman, and Amadicia
Shaman unite! Waring, myself, Noar, and Banut
This is a very 1337 picture
Amadicia, Jyve, Finelarya, and Iliyena
The compulsory "taking pictures of eachother" picture
Finelarya, Iakovos, and Iliyena
Apples to Apples
Iliyena and Noar
Half of Shadoz, and Noar
Noar, Terry, and Waring
Jyve, Shadoz, Finelarya, Iliyena, Noar and the backs of Amadicia and Zieri, playing apples to apples
Qaman and Terry talking, Apryl, Prathun and Merloc chatting, Tareyla playing apples to apples to the side
Half of Golgren and Kela infront of Zieri, Amadicia, Merloc, Tareyla Waring, Shadoz, etc playing apples to apples
Amadicia, Iliyena, Noar, Banut, Kela, Golgren, Zieri, playing apples to apples
Noar, Reene, Kela, Golgren, Zieri, and Amadicia
Ronda
More apples to apples
Myself and Reenee
Terry and his evil robotic laser eye
Prathun and Qaman looking at simulated wizard parses using some programs Qaman wrote
Adamma (mara) made it to Vegas late
Iliyena and Noar, she was just about to win that round of apples to apples
Adamma and Shadoz
Lunae and Zaii (Marla), back in Nuka's room for guitar hero. I think half my pics with Zaii in them have her blinking
Nevaren and Nads going at it head to head
Zaii's secret stash of sharpies, need to keep them away from Loonytoon (and away from my badge!)
./panic Lunae found a sharpie
Nevaren and Nadev rocking out
As if defiling one guitar wasnt bad enough, Nadev goes and defiles the second
Lunae was by far the best GH player of the night, whooping everyone
Greg), Neiebuse, Arek, and Nevaren
Murryha, Zaii, and Nadev
Friday
Azathool, Wycca, and Waring, up bright and early for the EQ1 dev summit
Waring, Terry, and Reenee talking, as there was some confusion about rooms, and some storm troopers thought that they had the room for the SWG live quest
Myself with the stormtroopers. Hey, stormtroopers are cool !
Absor (Alan), Rashere, I forget in the green shirt Nodyang I think, Terry's back, and half of Reenee
Naladini, Hulkling, and Waring
Nolrog and Tnexus (ranger correspondent)
Wycca, Reenee, and Merloc chat before the summit got started
Qaman, Merloc, and Wycca chatting
Absor's back, as Ngreth (Adam) arrives, CurtEQ (Curt) infront of Waring
Everyone finally settling down for the summit, 20 mintues late
CurtEQ, Absor, Prathun giving me the evil eye, Terry and Rashere
Merloc obscuring Clint (the producer of eq), Nodyin, Ngreth, and Wycca Kela and Golgren in the foreground
Assistant Lead Programmer Alan, Terry, and Wycca looking at something on Nodyin's laptop
The first EQ pannel, after the summit. Maddoc (Jason), John "the new guy", Rashere, Absor, Prathun, Curt, and Merloc
The Whin-O-Meter, version 1.0 When the meter hit 10 from players whining, we stood up and cheered
Jose infront of Ngreth, Maddoc, Alan, Merloc and Nodyin, at the 2nd everquest pannel
Shadoz, Adamma, and Dakora show up for the pannel
Jose (Trueno [sp]), Ngreth, Prathun, Maddoc, Alan, Merloc, Nodyin
Reenee's notes, (note SK Bitch #1)
People listening to the devs, Shadoz, Qaman, Naladini, and Kyroskrane are in the picture
Ormus and Higgboth
Ashwith (Wendy) and Mr Ashwith (mark?) having just finished a poker tourny
Dakora, Adamma, and Reenee
Blurry picture of the casino floor in Rio, back of Reenee and Iakovos at the side
Reenee, Iakovos, and Ashwith
The gaming room
Banut, Waring, and Gloriana (Jennifer)
A much better picture of the same, Gloriana is a wicked blinker, she pre-blinks in anticipation so hard to get great shots
Smed's community adress
Topics for the address
Smedly and Brenlo infront of everyone just before things began
Brenlo introducing the presenters
A very blury Smedly
Clint Worley, producer of EQ1
Scott Hartsman, producer of EQ2
A less blurry Hartsman. I wonder if that's the same bandanna he's worn for the last 7 years
The big new announcement, a new CCG Legends of Norrath, the first expansion being called Oathbound
The Rio pool party, open bar ! Fendor, Tiviona, Some random guy who stood amongst them to smoke a cig, Alkaria, Nuka, Nadev, and Nevaren
Live band kareoke
Was trying to get a better shot of the crowd here
Cuppycake up on stage singing
Blurry closeup of Cuppycake singing
Much better closeup of Cuppycake singing
Larry Elmore was in attendance again
This guy wore his sign around all weekend long, looking for a guild
Jyve got up and did another song, he rocks on stage
I forget his name, one of Tom's best friends, Tom, and Kytherea (Tina)
Brenlo getting up on stage to sing, first thanking us for all showing up
Brenlo crooning out a song that I forget offhand, I know some people got video with sound
Closeup
Far TOO close up when Brenlo did a little booty shaking
Another of Brenlo singing
Brenlo bellowing out his finale
The crowd dancing to Brenlo and the band
Final pic of brenlo singing
The back of Adamma, Slithinknott, Noar, and the back of someone I forget
Amadicia, Jyve, and Shadoz
People drinking and having a good time by the pool
Brenlo's SWG Underwear
Maddoc, Nodyin and Gloriana
Qaman and Gloriana
People in the pool having a good time
Myself, I forget, Sarilia (Jalane), and Qaman
Shadoz double fisting
The last time Waring was seen consious that night
Ronda being poked by Waring
Waring passed out
Kela, Golgren, I forget, Azathool, Tareyla, and Reenee in the foreground
Iakovos, Banut, Waring's legs, and Wycca
Kela writing NERF ME on Waring's forhead with lipstick
Waring unfortunately rolled over right after and ran his arm across his head, wiping out the words
Kyroskrane and Iakovos
Kickinrabbit (5Rings), Meahlana (Heros) and Rakath (Only the Brave) all from Luclin
Slithinknott brought a friend
Adamma and ... slith's friend
I forget, Kela, I forget, Slithinknott, I forget, and Amadicia
The whole Vanguard Dev and community relations teams showed up at the party
Zaii showed up a bit later
Massive game of apples to apples which half the room played
Even the Vanguard team hopped in to play
A short while later the EQ1 dev team showed up
Prathun had to walk over and take a look at waring passed out in the corner
The group playing apples to apples
Aruspex (Steve williams) from Vanguard, Naladini, Someone who i dont remember from the hair, and Jose
Nanyea (Tony) finally showed up late friday night, Zaii and Ormus in the picture with him
Someone decided Waring looked lonely passed out in the corner
Noar, Nanyea, and Slithinknott
Iliyena, Slithinknott, and I forget
Noar and Iliyena
People milling around the "Bar" area of the suite
Hulkling and Jyve and some others showed up, we had like 50 people in the room at peak
Iakovos and Noar talk while Hulkling and Iliyena chatted
Noar, Iliyena and Iakovos
Noar, Iliyena and myself
More game playing and partying in Reenee and Iakovos's suite
Faratha, Vanguard developer
Prathun, Zaii and Qaman
Prathun, Banut, Qaman, Tareyla, Zieri, Reenee, I forget, and Jose
Saturday
Honeypie and Taven, former Stormhammer, now on Luclin
Kimbial (Amy) with her kitty ears on
Brasse and Higsby
Myself and Ashlanne
Tareyla, Naylie, Misharu, and Higsby
Lotusis and Ronda
poor shot of the big screen with some of hte EQ2 sarnak on it in the gaming area
the LFG board, for people to leave notes for people to contact them
Misharu during the EQ1 Livequest
The township rebellion team doing the EQ1 livequest, at Misharu
Zatozia and Qaman
The line for questions at one of the EQ panels
Maddoc, Ngreth, Nodyin, Merloc, and Prathun answering questions
Secrets of Feydwar discussion pannel, Alan, Clint, Absor behind Rashere, Nodyin, Ngreth, and half of Prathun. They had projector problems and microphone problems
The Whine-O-Meter 2.0, new and improved
Rashere, Absor, Nodyin, Ngreth and Prathun, doing Q and A while trying to get the demo up
Iakovos and Ashwith
Agogo from Cestus Dei, Reenee, and Iakovos, at the Tilted Kilt bar in Rio
Banut and Nanyea
Dannin, a long retired former TR shaman
People waiting outside the banquet hall for supper
View from my seat of the stage
One of two Township Rebellion tables, Lieben from Luclin in the blue shirt with red
The other table, not yet full
Jalane and a future gamer!
Fendor, Nuka, and Alkaria, on the opposite side of the stage from where Township Rebellion was sat
Safe Haven table
Mrs Lotusis, Lotusis, Ronda and I forget
Noar, Iliyena, and Kyroskrane
Chow down at the TR table
Attempt to get a better shot of the setup for the wedding that was to come
Roohaha from Cestus Dei
Qaman, Ashwith, Banut, and Noar at supper
Azhe of Cestus Dei
Ormus Adamma and Shadoz
Lunae, Mr and Mrs Lotusis, I forget, and Slithinknott without his hat (OMG!)
Kyroskrane, I forget, and Higgboth
TR table full of people
TR Shaman representing ! Noar, Banut, Ashwith and Tharkis (myself) i just HAD to blink and ruin a good picture though
Higgboth, Iakovos with slithinknott hiding behind him to avoid the picture, Tharkis, Banut behind Ashwith, Lotusis, Ormus, Ronda, Reenee with Adamma and Nanyea in the middle row, and Qaman, Iliyena, Noar, and Shadoz in front
Same as above, Township Rebellion in attendance !
This was supposed to be a picture of stormtroopers leading the weding train
This was supposed to be the bride walking up to the front
The first ever wedding at a Fan Faire
Brenlo asked for some large guys to come on stage who wanted free stuff... then asked them to squeze into these tiny pink girls shirts in order to get it
Lunae was the first victim
He actually fit the shirt the best of anyone else on stage
Lunae... do you really want to discover his tallent? I thought not.
Former GM Nikolah, I didnt recognize him at first with the beard
Brasse after winning the costume contest, without the beard and armor
As always, send corrections to tharkisREMOVE@REMOVEgmail.com (yes, get rid of the two REMOVE it's a normal gmail account)