PAX: Endgame

The third day of PAX was pretty chill. We slept in, grabbed lunch at a Mexican place, and then headed into the convention.

At Dan's urging, we won another set of passes to the upcoming D&D Online beta. To do so, we had to play through a 10 minute adventure and kill a boss at the end. For anyone else playing this demo adventure, note that when facing the boss clerics need only push "7" for the win. Without that little tip, the guy's actually pretty hard to beat.

After that, we caught the tail end of a "Marketing Games" panel. Dan and Hawk then went off to the team Magic tournament, where they made it as far as the semifinals. Bill and I stuck around and watched the second Penny Arcade panel, where we got to hear the sound of 2,000 people simultaneously cracking their knuckles (don't ask) (it was awesome, by the way).

Finally, we saw the finals of the Omegathon, which was a super-old-school Atari tank game. The winner walked away with an original NES and every single NES game and peripheral ever released in the U.S. He and the runner-up also each got an Alienware PC.

After that, it was dinner at a tasty Thai restaurant and then a speedy limp through the rain back to the hotel. We're holed up with the Simpsons now, drying off, and getting ready for a nice, early flight tomorrow.

If the past is any indication, I probably won't be blogging again until I take another trip. So thanks for reading!