[Open!] Lock-con, the Locke City Science Fiction Convention

[unwakingwaters]

Who: NERRRRRDS. But basically everyone who would want to go to a science fiction convention. Also, Maya Aaronson, famous science fiction author.
What: LockCon, Locke City's science fiction convention! The name is a pun. Isn't it great???
Where: The Locke City Westin Hotel.
When: Semi-backdated; LockCon takes place July 12 - July 14 this year.

This is OPEN TO EVERYONE and intended as a fun casual way for people to get CR. Feel free to backtag and backdate stuff, even if your character hasn't formally introduced themselves to the network yet (as long as they've been accepted to the game is probably fine)

The Locke City Science Fiction Convention, affectionately called Lock-con (it's a pun!)

Lock-con was founded in 1990 as a sort of response to the dumb actions of a much older locak science fiction con, Keyvention. Keyvention had been founded as a strictly sci-fi con in 1953, but by 1985 had gotten really insular and exclusionary; for example, Star Trek, Anime, and comic books were banned from discussion at Keyvention because “we only talk about REAL science fiction here.” Eventually, they got so huffy at all these new fake fans trying to ruin their precious literature that they left the city. Keyvention still happens in the suburbs of Locke City, but very few people go.

Lock-con, meanwhile, was founded in 1990 by people disgruntled with Keyvention's draconian policies. Their philosophy? If it's sci fi or fantasy, or remotely related to sci-fi or fantasy, it's in. They cover the gamut from SF&F literature (which, admittedly, is still the main attraction) to Japanese media to Western comics to video games. Lock-con is small for a con (about 5,000 people) but pretty lively and considered one of the best local cons on the East Coast.

This is intended as a casual way to get CR with everybody. Feel free to backtag into the abyss.

Comments

[espigeonage]

Julien's not the biggest fan. He likes the books fine, don't get him wrong! But when he's outside of the company of those of his friends who are serious StarHeartHeads (he tries not to use that term too often, but it's right there, come on) they're just sort of there.

Today he gets recruited into standing in line in place of one of them while she goes to the bathroom and stretches her legs and so on, and he does so willingly, carrying her battered copies under one arm. But "and so on" has gone on a bit later than expected and the line's moving faster, too... ah, well, so be it!

A text informing Lorry what she's missing, an internal check that he's prepared to talk like a normal person, and he switches it to polite mode just in time, because he's up.

Today his cheer is tuned down thanks to a simmering headache, and tuned further by the knowledge that anyone sitting and signing this much is going to be tired. Still, he smiles broadly. "Hey, this is for a friend, she stepped out... Would it be too mean of me to ask you to write something along the lines of 'Too slow, maybe next time'?"

[unwakingwaters]

"That would be pretty mean, yes," she said, raising an eyebrow. She didn't say it, but she actually hated this sort of thing. At least he wasn't clearly a misguided e-bay scalper vastly overestimating the value of a signed copy of one of her books.

[espigeonage]

"Aaah, that's fair. I'll just have to say it in person." Undaunted, Julien shrugs and lays out the three novels. There are two nearly pristine hardcovers from editions released a few years ago, still in their dust jackets, numerous varicolored bookmarks visible and clustered at points in the text, and there is a paperback version of one of those, from an edition that came out a decade ago, sporting a spine so cracked it's almost unreadable and pages warped from exposure to water.

"She's Lorry Brown - 'Lorry' with two r's and a y, I mean. I guess these are a less popular part of the series? They're her favorites, though."