Trogland X: The Trog Tribe Turns Ten

[Gryffon]

What:

The Annual Southeast Trogland Meetup is a weekend full of friends and fun!
Traditional activities include:

• Dinner and gaming at Mid City Grill
• Delicious homebrewed beer!
• Cookout at the Ropes Course, featuring gaming and food cooked by everyone's favorite Mandalorian Chef.
• Kubb
• Ca$h 'n Gun$: Live
• Live Werewolf
• Gaming
• More Gaming
• Even More Gaming

Games available:

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Ca$h 'n Gun$: Live
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Munchkin(Various Varieties)

There is a registration fee. The vast majority of that goes toward snacks & tasties for saturday's cookout and for the hotel-space rental, but there are a couple of inexpensive-but-cool extras we typically throw in.
Registration Fee: $25

Due to rising costs (particularly of the banquet room), next year's registration fee will be increasing.


Registration for the meetup will be available at: trogland.penguinsushi.com

Who:

All forumites are invited! Bring friends too!

Confirmed(24):

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Gryffon
DivaDe
Penguinsushi
BardicBunny
Zeb the Troll
Alarra
Atreyu the Masked Llama
Mountain_Fairie
mangosta71
Mauve Shirt
LightWraith
Krade
Reverent-One +1
Haruki-kun +1
The Valiant Turtle
Lex-Kat
Mystic Muse
Godiva +1
Chambers
ZombieRockStar +1

Possible(2):

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Gitman00 +1.5

In Spirit:

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Where:

Johnson City, TN

Important Note: The Hippie Hut is no longer the gathering/muster point. This location will be moved to our "host" hotel, the Best Western. Please do not drop by the Hippie Hut or the Igloo without a prior invitation.

Accommodations:

We will have a meeting area at the Best Western on N. Roan. It should be available to us starting at 6PM Friday evening until checkout time Sunday morning. As part of the booking, we have told them we will fill up a 10 room block. The room rates are pretty great. $72.99/night. These rates will apply to Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night. Please make sure to let them know which nights you are staying. You are not obligated to stay all four nights, it's just setup that way, so that we have enough rooms blocked off.

The number to contact the Best Western at is: 423/282-2161.
The group name for this block is "Trogland Group."
Reservations must be made before May 23^rd.
Please let me know when you reserve one of these rooms, so that we can keep track of what is left/available.


Room Count(Confirmed): 0
*They will add extra rooms, but we'll need to make sure to get at least 10.

Hotel Amenities include:
Restaurant on-site
Cocktail lounge
Complimentary breakfast
Outdoor pool
Free internet

When:

Begins: June 24^th, 2016
Ends: June 26^th, 2016

No official events will be happening outside this time!
However, feel free to coordinate with other attendees if you think you may be arriving early/leaving late, to form your own events.

Why:

Quite simply, because it's fun. Trogland is full of people. The Trogland Meetup is attended by some of the most awesome people in all of Trogland. Do you really want to miss that?

Additional Information:

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Previous Threads:
I.
II. Second Annual Southeast(ish) Trogland Meetup
III. South East Trogland Meet-up 09!
IV. 4th Annual Southeast Trogland Meetup! A roaring success!
V. 5th Annual Southeast Trogland Meetup!
VI. Trogland Meetup Episode VI: The Return of the Forumites
VII. Trogland Meetup VII: Forum Children
VIII. Trogland Meetup VIII: Now with the appropriate amount of tentacles!
IX: Trogland IX: Are you a bad wolf too?

[Penguinsushi]

Trogland 10! Awaken the sleeping forumites! Let the conversing begin!

FYI - We'll be setting up some of the formal info and registration stuff in the coming days/weeks. Gryf's dates are likely accurate.

Pushing the boulder to the edge of the hilltop; will give the final nudge soon.

Please stand by.

~PS

[RabbitHoleLost]

Provided Mango goes, I will probably go

Ya'll don't know how bad I need this this year

[mangosta71]

This is the best vacation I get every year. Of course I'll be there.

[Diva De]

This is relevant to my interests.

[Mauve Shirt]

Me me me me me me me

[KuReshtin]

I want to return to Trogland meetup! Last year was awesome!
That Triple Full Nelson won't eat itself, you know.

Probably won't be able to afford it, though.

[LightWraith]

I have been waiting for this thread! I am going to do everything in my power to make this one, it has been much too long. I actually get vacation days now, so I'll request the time off as soon as the dates are locked in. Then I just need to behave myself financially and we're golden. I guess I also need to figure out how I'm getting down there.

[Krade]

I'm going. I will always go. No one can stop me.

[Reverent-One]

Currently planning on attending again, though certain events this year could possibly take up too much time off/money to do it.

[RabbitHoleLost]

Hey guys - wondering who's doing the swag this year?
I'm just asking because, you see, I'm sort of involved with a guy who does custom stickers, shirts, hoodies, etc and I'm just throwing it out there as a thought

[The Succubus]

It seems like a thousand years ago I went to see you all...

[Gryffon]

Hey guys - wondering who's doing the swag this year?
I'm just asking because, you see, I'm sort of involved with a guy who does custom stickers, shirts, hoodies, etc and I'm just throwing it out there as a thought

It's generally a discussion about what kind of swag to do. Sometimes it's thematic, but we already used Xs on the pirate theme a couple of years ago. This year being a milestone date, I've suggested something that can be signed again, so that attendees can commemorate being at the 10th Trogland.

[mangosta71]

Will there be climbing at the ropes course this year (weather permitting)?

[Gitman00]

Put me down as a tentative. It's a long haul from New Mexico with a toddler, but we'll make the effort!

[Haruki-kun]

I've been saving up and preparing for this. Count me in, with a +1.

[The Valiant Turtle]

Things look good for me so far. Wife and kids might be coming this year as well.

[Penguinsushi]

Mango: Not sure - I'll pass it on to the Hippie directly.

Gitman: Would love to see you all again!! And toddlers should have some company!

Haruki: Sweet.

Raldor: Awesome, man!

Everyone: Still finalizing some details. Registration will hopefully be available soon. We're running a *tad* behind this year, but it's coming!

~PS

[Lex-Kat]

Hopefully in! Just put in my slips to get those days off, and we'll see. Can't wait to see everyone again.

[Lex-Kat]

UPDATE: In!! And I will be coming down the Thursday before, and staying until Monday noonish.

[KerfuffleMach2]

Always wanted to go to one of these, but I could never work things out to be able too.

This year is no exception.

Just started two jobs, and I'm already gonna have to take a week off at the end of July. And I have to save up the money for that trip.

So, you guys have fun this year!

[Penguinsushi]

UPDATE: In!! And I will be coming down the Thursday before, and staying until Monday noonish.

1) Glad to hear it!

2) You may want to note that, as the OP says, we haven't yet confirmed the dates with the hotel. Will keep you all posted - hopefully we get that ironed out very soon.

Always wanted to go to one of these, but I could never work things out to be able too.

This year is no exception.

Just started two jobs, and I'm already gonna have to take a week off at the end of July. And I have to save up the money for that trip.

So, you guys have fun this year!

Alas, perhaps another time...

~PS

[Gryffon]

First post updated, updates include;

Dates are locked in! They are as predicted.
Room block is prepared! Call! Book! Let me know!
Attendee list updates though this post!

[Penguinsushi]

Hooray!

Things are moving forward! The registration site will be coming online soon - probably in the next couple of days!

Stay tuned!

~PS

[Krade]

UPDATE: In!! And I will be coming down the Thursday before, and staying until Monday noonish.

Terrific! On a side note, tyckspoon said it's very unlikely that he and Kina would make it this year, and I was perhaps wondering if you might take the slight detour to pick me up? I can offer gas money and the pleasure of my company.

[Lex-Kat]

Terrific! On a side note, tyckspoon said it's very unlikely that he and Kina would make it this year, and I was perhaps wondering if you might take the slight detour to pick me up? I can offer gas money and the pleasure of my company.

Waaait a moment. Wasn't it you who rode with me when my Trans-Am had issues? What if you're cursed and your curse destroys my Challenger?

But yes, I would welcome your company on the long drive down there, and the gas money is bonus! Let me know if things change, and we definitely need to make sure we are straight on when we are going, since I also remember a little scheduling mishap that year as well.

[Penguinsushi]

Sorry to hear about Tyck's absence. They'll be missed.

Announcement

The coordinators are hammering out a couple final details before the registration site can be activated. Expect to see that flip on this week (will let you know). There are a couple of things that might be a little different from previous years.

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In other news, let's talk gaming.

I usually run one or two tabletop sessions of some variety over the weekend, and I usually post something about that here to see what people might be interested in playing. This year, I figured I'd open it up a bit.

Tabletop stuff I think would be a blast to run for excited players:

1) Little Fears. This has been a perennial favorite of some. This year's game would be a little different, with some darker themes and focused on slightly older kids (9-10).

2) No Thank You, Evil. This game was JUST printed, and is a lot of fun. Like Little Fears, this game is centered around PCs as kids, but where LF is horror and survival, NTYE is whimsy and adventure. This game is actually aimed at kids 5-11, so if any actual kids want to play, I'm totally down with that.

3) Battletech. I have fairly recently acquired and re-learned the Battletech tabletop miniatures game, and would totally run/play a session if people were interested. It would be a scenario-based miniatures wargame. Could possibly make something with some RP elements if desired as well.

4) Mouse Guard. Because I loves me some MG, even if I house-rule the system a bit. The concept is awesome and I've always had fun running this game at mini-cons.

5) Retrograde. This is one of my settings which can, essentially, be described as "steampunk space exploration". I run this game with the Fate Core system. I ran this at a mini-con a while back, and it was a ton of fun.

Depending on what the weekend is looking like, I can probably bring 1-3 of these to a table at some point if people want to play. Any takers?

~PS

[Lex-Kat]

Little Fears! I loved playing that last year.

[Krade]

Waaait a moment. Wasn't it you who rode with me when my Trans-Am had issues? What if you're cursed and your curse destroys my Challenger?

I am at least 72% certain that I had nothing to do with those car troubles.

But yes, I would welcome your company on the long drive down there, and the gas money is bonus! Let me know if things change, and we definitely need to make sure we are straight on when we are going, since I also remember a little scheduling mishap that year as well.

Right. Friday morning it is

[Lex-Kat]

Only 72%

And I'm thinking more Thursday morning. But, if you can't get the time off... I guess Friday Morning will do.