The motif was Asian I think, though they did it with the flair that is Vegas to such a degree that you only get it in small doses. The Aisianess I mean. The rest is “where you from?” concierges and “cocktails?” from the well endowed waitresses. I am under the firm belief that there must be a cup size requirement for the waitresses there, for they were quite bouncy and efficacious. Yet there were those that, when asked of course, would REFUSE to get a poor man a drink. I was amazed. It seemed that there were areas, though it makes sense to a certain degree I guess, but it was evil incarnate at the time. And I think that they got wise to the penny slots angle my bruthah and I had goin last year, though at the Rio they were very fluid in their disbursements. Also last year. So we actually paid for drinks at many points throughout the weekend. I shed a single tear for the money wasted.
After we checked in and roamed the hotel, just a little, we headed over to the Hilton and the fan faire check in. we arrived to a Sony flub up as the name I had given them was not the name they had for me. As my character in EQ2 my last name is Sequoia, though they had me down as Serverquestaquoia. Kinda whacky, yet changeable. And so after a bit of noise and other flub up control was activated I got a little sticker thingy to put over my name badge, by a girl who had fairly straight hands I must say. She clipped the edges and stuck it on and the bruthah and I wandered the “shop” area and checked out the stuff. The choice that I belabored on whether to acquire the ranger Zippo lighter was taken from me as they had no lighters left in the ranger category. I’m sure that money went into a slot machine somewhere though, no worries.
They had the usual crap from last year. Multiple ads for all the new Sony stuff coming out, the swag bag area of course, and a little bit of renaissance faireishness by way of clothing and goblets and all. Seemed like the Faire prices were in evidence as well, though for the craftsmanship it wasn’t too horrible. Just slightly painful.
