So I’ve arrived in Las Vegas for a gathering of Internet spaceship nerds. The temperature here actually compares favorably with that in my home of Dallas, so the weather’s bearable. After I got to the hotel and checked in early, I wandered around for a burger. For my first time in Sin City, I don’t think I was prepared for the food prices, but, well, the views compensated for it.
After a nice long 3-hour nap, I managed to track down the pub crawl as it began by looking for EVE celebrities. This worked out well, as The Mittani was holding court in the humidor at a hotel bar. As many other EVE players have told me, the in-game hostilities and rivalries melt away almost immediately when players meet IRL, especially when bonding over beer and other alcoholic drinks. I had a really nice time chatting up Kristoffer “Soundwave” Touborg. Also, it turns out The Mittani is a friend of this little blog, and I quickly got introduced to folks as “that Ecliptic Rift guy”.
When we started to lag out the bar, Zapawork warped the fleet over to Bally’s Sport, where the station bartender in an almost-empty system rejoiced at the spike in local. Before ganking another beer, I met Sean “Sreegs” Conover, and found that a number of folks there also work in the same general area as we do (digital forensics and incident response). The total lack of through traffic, though, led us to roam cross-region to Planet Hollywood’s Heart Bar. Unquestionably Gallente, I noted with pleasure the presence of multiple Minmatar girls. One in particular drew lots of attention from my fellow pilots, and I was proud to see her representing our people.
After a few casualties – I think some pilots might have managed to put themselves into structure somehow – we all met at the out gate, passive aligned while we held for the stragglers to arrive, then made it back to the Paris Las Vegas. At this point, a number of us decided to dock up. I understand that the roam continued, however.
About time for me to undock and head to the POS for fleet assembly, so check in with me on Twitter later.
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