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xiphiasA guy from Security had come up for his massage on Sunday, late morning, early afternoon. After his massage, he was mentioning how calm Security had been this year. They'd had a betting pool going about "what time Saturday night the drunken rowdiness would require Security intervention."
As of noon on Sunday, nobody had collected.
We were trying to figure out why, and came up with a number of theories.
One, the elevator problems and layout things worked in our favor. You could go to a party and start drinking, but then, if you wanted to party-hop to another party with booze. . .
The party suite rooms were the ones that ended in 32. So, let's say there were big parties, with free booze, in 632, 732, and 832.
You could sort of imagine the floorplan of the hotel, looking from above, as something kind of topologically similar to a triskellion. That's not remotely what it was SHAPED like, but in terms of walking-paths, that will give you something of an idea.
The X32 rooms are at the tip of one branch, the two staircases were at the tips of the other two branches, and the elevators were somewhere vaguely close to the center point.
So, you're in 632, and you've sucked down their booze, and you're now ready to suck down someone else's booze.
So you leave your branch, and go to the center, and you wait for an elevator.
Which, of course, doesn't show up, so you get fed up and go to the stairs. So you walk down another branch, go down or up a flight, come out, go back through that branch to the center, then go out a branch to the X32 room.
That's a LOT of walking for free booze. And well worth it, but it meant that you actually had to be CAPABLE of walking that far to get more free booze.
Which is, frankly, a limiting factor.
I suggested that perhaps the membership cap was a factor.
This was not seen as likely, because, even with the membership cap, previous conventions were only 200 or 300 people larger.
"Ah, but WHICH 200 or 300 people?" And, let's face it -- our membership cap was 2000. 2200 or 2300 is 10 or 15% larger. That's not nothing.
And that does lead to another issue -- it's a smaller hotel -- there were just fewer places to put parties. A number of the perennial parties that are there year after year just weren't, for lack of space.
And of course, another reason was the layout. With an open layout to a central court, Security could really see what was going on, pretty much everywhere. You had good sightlines -- there weren't many places you could be staggering through a hallway where you'd be hard to spot.
As of noon on Sunday, nobody had collected.
We were trying to figure out why, and came up with a number of theories.
One, the elevator problems and layout things worked in our favor. You could go to a party and start drinking, but then, if you wanted to party-hop to another party with booze. . .
The party suite rooms were the ones that ended in 32. So, let's say there were big parties, with free booze, in 632, 732, and 832.
You could sort of imagine the floorplan of the hotel, looking from above, as something kind of topologically similar to a triskellion. That's not remotely what it was SHAPED like, but in terms of walking-paths, that will give you something of an idea.
The X32 rooms are at the tip of one branch, the two staircases were at the tips of the other two branches, and the elevators were somewhere vaguely close to the center point.
So, you're in 632, and you've sucked down their booze, and you're now ready to suck down someone else's booze.
So you leave your branch, and go to the center, and you wait for an elevator.
Which, of course, doesn't show up, so you get fed up and go to the stairs. So you walk down another branch, go down or up a flight, come out, go back through that branch to the center, then go out a branch to the X32 room.
That's a LOT of walking for free booze. And well worth it, but it meant that you actually had to be CAPABLE of walking that far to get more free booze.
Which is, frankly, a limiting factor.
I suggested that perhaps the membership cap was a factor.
This was not seen as likely, because, even with the membership cap, previous conventions were only 200 or 300 people larger.
"Ah, but WHICH 200 or 300 people?" And, let's face it -- our membership cap was 2000. 2200 or 2300 is 10 or 15% larger. That's not nothing.
And that does lead to another issue -- it's a smaller hotel -- there were just fewer places to put parties. A number of the perennial parties that are there year after year just weren't, for lack of space.
And of course, another reason was the layout. With an open layout to a central court, Security could really see what was going on, pretty much everywhere. You had good sightlines -- there weren't many places you could be staggering through a hallway where you'd be hard to spot.
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