by Jeff Mach | Feb 3, 2024 | Attractions, competition, cosplay, Steampunk
“I hate you, wardrobe. But here is what’s going to happen. I will close the doors, say a magic word, open the doors, and you will present me with a suitable evening gown.Work, dammit.”― A.W. Exley, Nefertiti’s Heart We were tired, so we asked the AI to...
by Jeff Mach | Jan 27, 2024 | Attractions, audience participation, cast, catered, comedy, competition, Goth, Guest, improv, live combat, live music, panels, performers, Steampunk, VIP
We’re hard at work on the full schedule, but we’re also being slightly obsessive about trying to schedule it as helpfully as possible… and it’s a LOT to schedule. SOME OF SATURDAY’S ENTERTAINMENT & ATTRACTIONS Everything You Ever...
by Jeff Mach | Jan 27, 2024 | Attractions, audience participation, competition, Steampunk
“I’ve done a lot of geeky things in my life, but I think the geekyest of all of was my first effort to build props and cosplay when I was 12.” ~Wil Wheaton (As a Steampunk event which permits polygenre fandom costumes and cosplay, we’ve had the...
by Jeff Mach | Jan 25, 2024 | Attractions, audience participation, competition, culinary, Steampunk, tea
“Honestly, if you’re given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don’t say ‘what kind of tea?’”– Neil Gaiman Magda Knight provides this description of Tea Dueling, which we will, of course, follow with all due seriousness, from Mookychick’s...
by Jeff Mach | Jan 23, 2024 | Attractions, competition
“You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that....
by Jeff Mach | Dec 29, 2023 | Attractions, audience participation, competition, demonstrations, Steampunk
As boardgamegeek puts it: This not-quite-a-role-playing-game requires players to sit around telling fantastic (but completely true!) stories. Players may attempt to trip up another player’s story by wagering a token (“But the Prussian Army had dissolved by...
