Blizzcon...

Buffoon, Binky, Russell Brower, Turpster and Billavoider

Buffoon, Billavoider, Ghostcrawler and Binky


Binky and Billavoider in front of Blizzcon

Yesterday, Binky and Billavoider started a quest in search of the Holy Grail know as Blizzcon. We live in the beach areas of San Diego, so it is probably about a 100 mile drive. After we got off of the freeway, we started seeing a lot of people who were obviously there for the convention. The closer we got to the convention center, the more active Binky's nerd-o-meter got. Once we got to the heart of it, Billavoider yelled to me..."Oh my god, look at all of the nerds! These are our people!". We headed into the meet up area and were greeted by our fellow guildies (AIE) and the festivities began. We had a lot of fun meeting people in person for the first time. We hung out for several hours before heading out to the Wowinsider.com party about half a mile away. Billavoider met up with Buffoon and Grark, from AIE, and we headed over to the party with them. This place was going nuts. There were hundreds of people surrounding a pool area with not funny comedians performing off to one side. We got to see a recreation of Booty Bay done completely out of Lego, which was very impressive. Buffoon and I just people watched while Billa ran around like some sort of crazed person. He was home. Off to one side of us were all of the people from "The Guild", with photographers snapping photos like crazy. It wasnt long before a handful of people were in the pool. Binky called that one as soon as he saw the pool. After mingling for quite some time, we were able to meet Anne Stickney and chat with her for about half an hour about lore. This was really fun. Buffoon was in his element and I just sat back and enjoyed the conversation. I told her about Graz, one of my guild mates, who has killed the Baron over 900 times and still no mount. Anne told me the trick to getting the mount. "All you have to do is whisper someone and say, 'I am going to get a horse'. " She went on to tell me how it worked for a friend of hers. Then she did the same thing and voila. Shortly after our conversation ended with Anne, I see Billa heading our way talking to some guy. As he got a bit closer, I realized it was Ghostcrawler. He was very nice and asked what we played...class, spec etc. Shortly thereafter I ran into Turpster from our guild, who was entertaining as always. He was with Russell Brower who we were able to talk with for about half an hour about how he comes up with ideas and inspiration for his music for Warcraft. I told him Anne, Buffoon and I were just talking about how much we loved Karazhan and how awesome the music was. When I told him this, his face lit up and he said, "I wrote all of that." Shortly after this, we decided to head out and make our way back to the hotel. On the way Buffoon shot a photo of Binky and Billa in front of Blizzcon with the huge banner behind us. You may be asking yourself why there are no photos here. Well, Binky did not check his battery on his camera and it was DOA. After getting to the hotel, we parted ways with our friend Buffoon and made headed back to San Diego. We were both on cloud nine. It was an awesome night that we will never forget. Next year I am going up for Blizzcon itself. It was an awesome experience .