Everfree Northwest

[Queen Bright]

Posting this now before I get too busy to...

Thursday the 16th, I will be leaving with a bunch of Arizona bronies on a roadtrip in a VAN (free candy anyone?) all the way to Seattle Washington to attend Everfree Northwest the 17th - 19th, and returning the 19th to20th. It is a 26 hour trip without rest and a few hours before the convention starts.

I HAVE to go on this one as I signed up and applied for staff and got in. Which means I am general staff there, with a free t-shirt and ability to help out the convention~ (Which means being close to Tabitha Germain the voice of Luna ^^) and other VAs and such.
So yeah, 16th-20th I'll be in Seattle Washington.

That includes the 18th so I'll be there for my birthday when I turn 22. 

Till then my stuff (what stuff?) is off limits. HOWEVER if you need me in a post like say Games in Hell or such, K2323, Nisorin, or Jeebus can play my characters as they know them the best.

Hikaru is ALWAYS sarcastic as hell and only in helping if it's for her own benefit. (That should be easy to pull off.) Though there are differences between Ingrounded!Hikaru and Subgrounded!Hikaru since Ingrounded!Hikaru is more of her past self. Ingrounded!Hikaru is MORE prideful (hard to believe I know) and combat happy with no tact. Where Subgrounded!Hikaru has learned to be slightly more patient and calculative with tact.

Hikari is naive, innocent, and VERY VERY loyal to Eli, so if you wanna do your torture thing in one post you can K2.

The rest of my characters I don't think are anywhere needed but if it comes to it, play them as needed.

[Queen Bright]

Officially gone in only a few hours. I'm taking my laptop for the trip but don't expect me to poat or be active except lurking. If the people thatare using my characters ABSOLUTELY need to get a hold of me for some question though... my phone number 480-734-9326, unlimited text/data.

[Queen Bright]

Annnd I'm back. Because I don't feel like detailing tonight on no sleep, I'm just gonna copy and paste what I gave Ben.

For the entire car trip there it was a mix between music, the MLP episode challenge with sound only, or MLP themed 20 questions. Someone had all the episodes on their laptop and brought a converter so we could charge phones and laptops in the car and hook up the laptop to the radio to play the episodes.
You already know about being stopped by the cops so I don't need to go over that..  Other than that since there were only 10 people going in the end, they didn't rent a van and instead drove two cars, the drivers and navigators of the cars keeping up with each other through wally-talkys. Kinda funny.

Anyway, first day of convention I didn't do much because the lead guy that was supposed to tell me what to do was way too busy. There were a lot of miscommunication problems within staff at tracking people down, getting into order, all those kinds of things...

So after getting my badge and t-shirt, I basically just wandered around from Con-Ops room at the Holiday Inn to the one at the Merriott trying to find the Guest Relations leader to tell me what to do. After about the 5th back and forth, Galileo the main staff guy gave me some odd jobs. ONE being to watch the livestream room which was dead and I eventually just left. It was like, what am I supposed to be watching? Making sure people don't throw chairs?

So in the end that day I ended up wandering the Dealer's hall, didn't make any panels in time, and then wandered back to the Holiday Inn to the arts and crafts room where there were drawing and other supplies.

That was already 2 days no sleep, no sleep the night before the trip, no sleep on the trip because I was crushed between two people and it was hard to sleep.

WELL because everyone was exhausted and did not know where to find me even though I texted Puzzle Plate where I was, I was left behind. After Ponystock which I did not attend and instead was in the arts and crafts room, they all went back to the room which WAS NoT the hotels the Con was in but the Holiday Inn Express. So I was stranded without being able get a hold of any of them even after calling thousands of times...  And because they had never told any of us the name of the hotel. (miscommunication)

I sat in a chair at the Holiday Inn lobby all night. LUCKILY when I went up to the Staff Lounge to get chicken and other food, I ran across Tails, the girl under the Guest Relations guy and she got me in touch with the Guest Relations guy.

So after ANOTHER night of no sleep sitting in the lobby, we all metup at the restraunt in the Holiday Inn and ate while talking about what to do, and such. We were with the VAs, crowd control, and making sure people didn't get too out of hand in the Autograph room.

WELL, going on 3 days no sleep now, about 1 hour from my shift ending, I took a break and went to grab a snack at Con Ops room but also a nap. Asked if I could sleep under one of the covered tables, and did so. However it was too cold in the Merriott (where the autographs were located) as they kept it freezing that I didn't get ANY sleep and ended up getting up from that.

By then I had finally gotten in touch with the rest of the group and heard thousands of apologies for forgetting me, etc. So the eldest of the group, the wife of one of the drivers went to eat with me at Ihop since I also hadn't had dinner yet and took me back to the hotel where I FINALLY got to take a shower and change freakin' clothes. Then after I went back to the Merriott to see the PMV contest, one of the panels I DID want to go to.

ONLY it was canceled because the guy that ran it never showed up and in its place they played Friendship is Witchcraft which got rather boring since I had already seen it.

So I again walked back to the Holiday Inn and found myself AGAIN in the Arts and Crafts room and did not bother to go to Ponystock. 1. Music dance is no fun by yourself. 2. I heard it was the smelliest room in the Con due to people not paying attention to hygiene, lol.

Spent all night in the arts and crafts room and AGAIN got left because I didn't notice the time. Was trying to sculpt Luna and also get free arts for my birthday, which many people did.

So since that room was 24/7 at about 8:00am  I finally stopped drawing (drawing on four days of no sleep is odd...) and walked to the Merriott to meet Tails and the other staff for the super secret discount staff autograph signing. (Basically we get autographs for $10 instead of $20 like other con-goers.)
Had the print I had bought for Nicole and Tabitha to sign, and Derpy for Tabitha to sign in hand while waiting in line to buy the $30 worth of vouchers...

Well, 4 days no sleep is baaaad. In line I started shaking, really really badly. Like it was noticeable. My arms felt like lead, heavy and numb, the floor was moving due to vertigo, and I was really flushed. Another staff person noticed me, and ironically she was on the first aid team and told me I should go to Con Ops and get checked out right away >.<

So I didn't get to meet Nicole OR Tabitha. Instead I told Tails that I didn't feel good and asked if she could get my stuff signed to which she agreed. I went to Con Ops, got checked out (not a heart attack, just sleep deprivation), ate something small and then slept under the super cold table again. This time got SOME off and on sleep.)

The day ended, metup with the group, got in the car, and they drove almost all night to some rest stop in Oregon which since we weren't in a hurry this time they stopped and we all slept in the car (rather difficultly) for a few hours before they drove again.

During this car ride we blared MLP Mentally Advanced, Rainbow Dash Presents, and finally the real episodes again.
And here I am on nearly 5 days of off and on but mostly no sleep.

[K2]

....Well that sucks.

[Queen Bright]

How so? Sure there were issues and I about near collapsed from sleep deprivation. But eh. It was still fun!

[Embodiment of Cringe]

Despite your troubles, it's good to hear you at least had fun. Now take an extra day off SP and sleep!

Also, Happy Belated Birthday if you haven't already seen it.

[Ghost]

Did you meet BlackGryph0n there?

* Yuki Shiotaro couldn't go because mom said no ;____________;

[Admiral Regis Hermitage]

Im sure if i went she'd let you.

[Ghost]

lol yeah right.