It was a very tiring weekend.

[missmiah]

There was a smallish, local gaming convention this weekend - almost exclusively historic tabletop battle things with little armies and tanks and whatnot, which is pretty much as far from "my thing" as you can get and still be in the same game store. However, the people who own the local gaming store that we frequent were running the con this year and I could see they were very overworked, so I asked if they needed any help this weekend even though Captain and I couldn't afford to attend as players.

They took me up on it.

So, I spent the last three days having people fill out registration forms, accepting fee payments, selling t-shirts and raffle tickets, going over hotel contracts (I don't even understand how that happened), counting money, directing vendors and gamers to the right tables, handing out medals, organizing the crap out of some very disorganized files, matching payments to registration forms because no one remembered to make a note of the people who had pre-paid...

Captain popped in after work on Friday to help out where he was needed, which was - apparently - mostly hanging around to keep an eye on the Game Store's vendor table when the person manning it had to go pick up his kid, and making a food run for dinner for several of us.

However, Saturday morning we arrived an hour before the first gaming sessions started so that we could deal with everyone who needed to register that morning, and about thirty minutes after the first session started I happened to get a chance to finally look at the list of events for the day...

There was Captain's name, listing him as an Event Host for Open Board Gaming at all three sessions for the day. Luckily we had packed some games in the car, just in case there was some free tables and someone wanted to kill some time. Perhaps I should have noticed that our name tags both said "Event Host" a bit earlier? Mine also said "Registration Assistant" so there was a lot of words on mine, in my defense.

I wasn't really expecting anyone to be interested in board games, but we tried to lure them in by displaying all the games we'd brought and setting up the Mansions of Madness board. Suddenly we had a full table. I left after running the first game because I needed to get back to the registration desk, but Captain demo'd several more games and had someone who wanted to play Mansions again today (so I ran them through it early this afternoon).

I met all sorts of people I will probably never remember the names of (or possibly even see again), got a free massage (Again, I don't know how that happened), was given a medal for being an awesome volunteer type person (that I have to share with Captain), and won a con shirt.

It was a very, very tiring weekend.

And I think I offered to possibly help with next year's con before we left today.

Because I'm a softie.

Comments

[devsgma.livejournal.com]

Aww, you're not only a softie, you're a very sweet person who has a generous heart and helps those she likes. ;)