Trogland XI: Stranger things are a prime example of why these go to 11!

[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; 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
Times Up!
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


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

Who:

All forumites are invited! Bring friends too!

Confirmed(15):

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Gryffon
DivaDe
Penguinsushi
BardicBunny
Zeb the Troll
Alarra
Atreyu the Masked Llama
Mountain_Fairie
Smellie_hippie
Mystic Muse
Chambers
Krade
Mauve Shirt (+1)
Lex-Kat

Possible(2):

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Haruki-kun (+1)

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. $70/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 TBA.
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 16^th, 2017
Ends: June 18^th, 2017

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?
X. Trogland X: The Trog Tribe Turns Ten

[mangosta71]

16-18? Not the last weekend of June? What madness is this?

[Haruki-kun]

Put me and my +1 as Possible. More sure information will follow.

[Mystic Muse]

Count me in, barring not being able to get off work for some stupid reason.

[Penguinsushi]

OK EVERYBODY

Trogland XI Approaches!

We're looking forward to another prime gaming weekend! Can we really make this go to 11!? Stranger things have happened...

Kicking around ideas for games to run this year, too.

The registration site at trogland.penguinsushi.com is up and running! As always, do your best to register by May 31st - so we know more specifically how many attendees to plan on. Sooner is always better.

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Here's a few logistical details on this year:

1) As Mango noted, the event has been moved up a week. This is partly due to some scheduling conflicts among the organizers, but mostly because that last weekend already had someone booked in the conference room for this year. (We actually had a suspicion last year that the last weekend might not work this year due to some other local events.)

2) As you may have noticed, the registration cost has NOT gone up this year like it was expected to!!! The hotel is under new management, but my contact there was keen to keep our business and our contract - our costs did not increase, ergo, neither did yours. In fact, I think the hotel group rate for rooms (which I've also been told have been renovated) actually went down a buck or two per night - she quoted me $70/night for this year (I'm not aware of a cut-off time for reservations, but sooner is always better). (From talks with our contact, we should be able to keep these rates indefinitely - but for me this is always a year-to-year thing. I make no promises there.)

3) In addition to Saturday/Sunday, we're actually getting the meeting hall for Friday as well - so any who are arriving before our annual gathering at Mid City (or any who would prefer to skip out on that one) can hang out in our con space - and we'll also be able to reconvene there afterward for fun & games as well. We are good to do our Saturday cookout there like last year, use the lawn for Kubb/etc (contact said hopefully their efforts have eliminated the ants), and use the pool as well (even any of those who aren't staying at the hotel).

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~PS

[Chambers]

I'll be there. Will talk to the spouse, see if she wants to attend this year.

Edit: Suggestion for the meeting hall for Friday night: Karaokoe! Any idea how much it would cost to rent a machine, or hire someone that does that for a night?

[Krade]

Awww yis. I will definitely be there.

[RabbitHoleLost]

I'm visiting Raistlin1040 in Japan in July this year and just can't swing Trogland

[KuReshtin]

As much as I'd really love to, I can't make it this year.
The past two years have been awesome to meet you guys, but this year, my finances are just nowhere near where they need to be to be able to head over the pond again.

[Gryffon]

I'll be there. Will talk to the spouse, see if she wants to attend this year.

Edit: Suggestion for the meeting hall for Friday night: Karaokoe! Any idea how much it would cost to rent a machine, or hire someone that does that for a night?

You need to tell Bob Schwab he should check it out, especially since he's apparently not going to GenCon this year. hehe


Also, are there any game requests that people have?

[Mauve Shirt]

I'm planning to be there with my +1.

[Lex-Kat]

I will be there again, with my +0.

[Haruki-kun]

Looking more and more like it's a no-go for me again this year. Sorry, everyone.

[Gryffon]

Looking more and more like it's a no-go for me again this year. Sorry, everyone.

Was it because I misspelled your avatar name in the first post? I've fixed that now.

[Recaiden]

Don't think I'll make it this year either.
Next summer at least I should be done with all this moving around.

Have fun, everybody!

[Mystic Muse]

Anybody want to split a room? I have a set amount of money for vacation this year, and am trying to stretch it as far as I can.

Lex, did you want to split a room again?

[Lex-Kat]

Anybody want to split a room? I have a set amount of money for vacation this year, and am trying to stretch it as far as I can.

Lex, did you want to split a room again?

We can do that. But, if anyone else wishes to split a room, then I wouldn't mind if you offered to help them out instead.

I shall, once again, be driving down. If anyone wishes a ride.

[Mystic Muse]

We can do that. But, if anyone else wishes to split a room, then I wouldn't mind if you offered to help them out instead.

I shall, once again, be driving down. If anyone wishes a ride.

How far out of the way was where I live for you?

And nobody else seems to be asking for a roommate, so may as well do it again this year, unless somebody posts/PMs me soon.

Just PM me whatever my share of the room and gas money is.

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

One morning, would anyone be interested in doing some Geocaching in Kingsport? Bay's Mountain has lots of trails, and lots of caches for finding. In particular, there is a good one called Mjolnir. A clumsy Asgardian seems to have dropped a hammer nearby. Its really heavy, none of the cacher's have been able to lift it.....yet.

Let me know if you're interested. Dewayne's World Comic's and Games in nearby, as well, so those brave adventurers can stop by afterwards if we desire.

Let me know if there is interest or if people would rather stick to the comforts of the gaming area.

Thanks,

Your Mascot and Director of Fun
Atreyu the Masked Llama

[Lex-Kat]

I will trek with you, Mister Llama. Should I bring croutons so we can mark our trail?

[The Valiant Turtle]

It just occurred to me to check the forums to see if this thread was up yet. Happy to see it! Everything looks like it should be fine for me, Mrs. Turtle and the turtle kids.

[Krade]

We can do that. But, if anyone else wishes to split a room, then I wouldn't mind if you offered to help them out instead.

I shall, once again, be driving down. If anyone wishes a ride.

I haven't discussed the ride situation with them yet, but tyckspoon and Kina said they were coming this year so I'll probably ride with them this time. I guess it depends on when exactly they want to leave/return since I generally like to get there earlier and stay later than they can get off work (e.g. get there Thursday evening and stay until Monday morning).

[Lex-Kat]

Well, those are the times I plan on going/leaving.

[KuReshtin]

Lexi, I'd like a ride if you can swing by mine to pick me up.

I just got an email from US Homeland Security that my ESTA authorization will run out in 30 days, just to further rub it in that I can't go this year.
So that would be another expense to get to the US.

[Lex-Kat]

You know I would love to come pick you up, Ku. And Archie as well. But you guys are a little out of my way. Sorry.

[Lex-Kat]

Room Reserved.

EDIT: Also, the clerk I made the reservation with wasn't sure if I get the discount for Friday through Sunday if I extended my stay out to Thursday and Monday.

[Mauve Shirt]

Unfortunately I'm not going to make it this year after all. I'm sacrificing this trip for some other travel.

[Penguinsushi]

Unfortunately I'm not going to make it this year after all. I'm sacrificing this trip for some other travel.

You do realize that this means we're all going to refer to you as "Mawve" at this year's gathering, right?

Seriously though, we'll miss you.

Rabbit? You too? Dang.

KuReshtin!? EEERRRRRGGGG! That sucks, man! We've gotten used to having you. Also, where is my daughter going to get cool scottish imports now?

Recaiden!? Other peoples!? Ugh.

Ok, people. The rest of you are going to have to work extra hard to pick up some slack.



Raldor - glad to hear it! More NTYE this year?

Chambers - I'm not going to talk you into Battletech again, am I?

Lex, Krade. I know we can always count on you.

~PS

[KuReshtin]

KuReshtin!? EEERRRRRGGGG! That sucks, man! We've gotten used to having you. Also, where is my daughter going to get cool scottish imports now?

~PS

I know. I've started to get used to heading to the US in the middle of summer. I guess I'm just going to have to go visit my family in Sweden instead.
Cool scottish imports can be had even if I can't make it.
I know where some of you live.
Also, if you ask your daughter, I'm pretty sure she told me last year that she doesn't like sweets and candy.

[Penguinsushi]

*bump*

So we're down to just about 2 months till the big show.

The registration site is still up, running, and available. It's reporting 57 days on its countdown.

Try to get registrations in by the end of May - and sooner is better. The sooner we know what our attendance looks like, the sooner we can sort out how much of what we need.

Any talk about what kinds of games people would like to see this year?

~PS