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Leaving Indy, the magic is gone

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I am always saddened when I stay in a convention hotel beyond the end of the con. The cool, nerdy, familiar things are gone and the place is just a hotel again. Here in downtown Indy the GenCon layer has been stripped away from countless locations and it’s just another city center. My tribe has left. The magic is gone.

Maybe this is a good thing, because it leaves me all the more anxious to be home again. My plane leaves at 11am. Not soon enough.

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16 thoughts on “Leaving Indy, the magic is gone”

  5. I suspect it depends a bit on the event.

    With local or regional SF cons, often most or all traces and faces are gone by Sunday evening.

    But last week, I wasn’t completely separate from Anticipation until we were at the Chicago airport. There were still a lot of con people around the Delta on Tuesday morning, and almost 1/3 of our flight from Montreal to Chicago were people we recognized from the con.

    On the other hand, by the time I left the Palis on Monday, little of the con remained there.

    How late the event runs on its last day, how many people have to travel and how long it takes to clean up all have an impact on this.

  6. I suspect it depends a bit on the event.

    With local or regional SF cons, often most or all traces and faces are gone by Sunday evening.

    But last week, I wasn’t completely separate from Anticipation until we were at the Chicago airport. There were still a lot of con people around the Delta on Tuesday morning, and almost 1/3 of our flight from Montreal to Chicago were people we recognized from the con.

    On the other hand, by the time I left the Palis on Monday, little of the con remained there.

    How late the event runs on its last day, how many people have to travel and how long it takes to clean up all have an impact on this.

  7. I have experienced that so many times in my life. I went back to the Javitz Center after ComicCon in New York to fetch a bag which had been miraculously found intact (after having been stolen), and found just another convention center:

    It’s a strange, haunting feeling, and always a little unsettling. What it shows me is that the magic is in the relationships – it’s the only thing we can take with us.

  8. I have experienced that so many times in my life. I went back to the Javitz Center after ComicCon in New York to fetch a bag which had been miraculously found intact (after having been stolen), and found just another convention center:

    It’s a strange, haunting feeling, and always a little unsettling. What it shows me is that the magic is in the relationships – it’s the only thing we can take with us.

  11. It was great to finally meet you. 🙂 Thank you for the conversation and the Frag stories, as well as the awesome sketch in my copy of XDM (I’m already a Level 2 Wet Newt).

    Parker the Schlocker

  12. It was great to finally meet you. 🙂 Thank you for the conversation and the Frag stories, as well as the awesome sketch in my copy of XDM (I’m already a Level 2 Wet Newt).

    Parker the Schlocker

  15. Well, one solution – that you’d have to do with someone you trust implicitly, is to do the con, and once its over, go follow a cool nerd home. 😛

  16. Well, one solution – that you’d have to do with someone you trust implicitly, is to do the con, and once its over, go follow a cool nerd home. 😛

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