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What we were told last year is that the breakfast at the Hyatt charged during the Fanime weekend. Example, my group and I arrived Wednesday and we were told breakfast was free on Thursday morning, but Friday/Saturday/Sunday the cost was $7 (up from $5 the year before!) - don't know about Monday, because we were so beat we didn't even try ha ha~

I hope that helps~ c:

My group got back to me, and they'd be interested in participating! (fun fact: our Cecil actually does a really good Cecil Baldwin impression rofl) I think Saturday evening/night would be best on our end, so if this winds up becoming a thing we'd love to attend~ c:

This sounds like a lot of fun! Funny enough, my friends and I are going to have a WTNV group at Fanime (Cecil, Carlos, Man in the Tanned Jacket [or hooded figure] and an intern), however we were planning to only wear our costumes on Day 0. If we could have an idea of what day you're planning this panel, I can ask my group of they'd be interested in participating~ c:

[Character you cosplayed]

    Character you cosplayed: Garry (Ib), Novice (Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood), Justine (Amnesia: Justine), Ellen (The Witch's House).
    What series he/she/it is from: Listed above^
    What day(s) you wore it: Garry and Novice were on Friday, Justine was Saturday, and Ellen was Sunday
    Reference picture of costume/character (Optional):
Garry: http://25.media.tumblr.com/afe5fc49a15b5bd60dbdb37a08ddb7bc/tumblr_mncaenSB2m1rcv73xo1_500.jpg (to the far left, I was with an Ib group)
Justine: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m567kvvxF71qkdacto1_500.jpg (I was also with the monster in this picture)
Ellen: http://24.media.tumblr.com/be8c3d5f3ea1782adee59617f65f6908/tumblr_mnga2dyfPz1r3jhpno1_500.jpg (to the right, I had gouged/no eyes, lol).

Hey! You may have already seen this, but one of the Fanime staff had a whole collection of pictures of who I assume is you, as well as others! Going back to the 'Fanime Group' link, there should be pictures added around Thursday, I believe.
http://jamiefloyd.slickpic.com/a/Friday?squared

Ahhh thank you so much! Yes, that is my group~ <333

[Character you cosplayed]

    Character you cosplayed: Garry (Ib), Novice (Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood), Justine (Amnesia: Justine), Ellen (The Witch's House).
    What series he/she/it is from: Listed above^
    What day(s) you wore it: Garry and Novice were on Friday, Justine was Saturday, and Ellen was Sunday
    Reference picture of costume/character (Optional):
Garry: http://25.media.tumblr.com/afe5fc49a15b5bd60dbdb37a08ddb7bc/tumblr_mncaenSB2m1rcv73xo1_500.jpg (to the far left, I was with an Ib group)
Justine: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m567kvvxF71qkdacto1_500.jpg (I was also with the monster in this picture)
Ellen: http://24.media.tumblr.com/be8c3d5f3ea1782adee59617f65f6908/tumblr_mnga2dyfPz1r3jhpno1_500.jpg (to the right, I had gouged/no eyes, lol).

Hello, Frictional fan from Southern Cali coming up to Fanime for the second year. I'll be at the gathering as the Grunt, and my friend will be Justine.

Looking forward to this!

Awesomeness! I have you and your friend down on the front page~ :y <3

My girlfriend and I may bring our Michael and Raphael outfits to louge around casually ha ha~ <3

Awesomeness - I'll pass the word to her and let you know about her answer! ^^ (she's not on the forums lol)

I have a friend who is cosplaying as Angela from SH2 for Fanime; I think she'd be interested in this! :y

Our times and event has been updated!

Looks like we're good to go. Ahhhhh so excited~! <3

[Your Name of gathering/event:]

Your Name of gathering/event: Amnesia/Penumbra - Frictional Games Cosplay Gathering
Your Changes to gathering/event info: N/A
Your Possible attendee count: 15-25
Your Gathering/event photography order:
Penumbra
Amnesia (All)
Protagonists
Antagonists
Monsters
Monsters/Protagonists
Requests

I'm flying in from New Mexico, and others in my group are flying in from Canada and Connecticut~ c: We're also have friends come over from Montana, Virginia, and SoCal.

List updated! Ahhhh so excited!

I dont know about fried pickles... but I know where you can get some good philies! : D

might wanna try yelping it if no-one can help you::
http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=fried+pickles&find_loc=San+Jose%2C+CA&ns=1

I just barely started using yelp a few weeks ago.

Ohhh I like philies! Don't know about my friends, but I like 'em ha ha~ <3

Ahhh I totally forgot about Yelp! Thanks for that - I'll be prowling that for a while lol~ :y

[fried pickles]

Hey guys!

So some friends and I were wondering if there's any place near by the convention center that serves fried pickles! None of us are from the area (surprise surprise), however, we want to share the amazingness that is fried pickles with another that's joining us this year~

So do any of you locals have any recommendations? We're well aware of the local food places posted throughout the forum, but thus far we've seen nothing about our beloved fried pickles~ ; ^;  Or hell, if you have any specific favorites that you'd recommend to outsiders - my friends and I love food, ha ha!

Not exactly related to Pewdie per se BUT for those interested, my friends and I are hosting an Amnesia/Frictional Games gathering at Fanime. We're expecting monsters and hopefully Stephano again this year~ <3

[Amnesia: The Dark Descent]

Reposting from the old thread for this year~ :y

Hey guys! My friends and I pretty much have our costumes set for this next Fanime, and we'd love to meet up with other cosplayers from the same series, especially from lesser known series that we'll be dressing up from~

Amnesia: The Dark Descent or Amnesia: Justine
My girlfriend will be cosplaying as Daniel from A:TDD for a while, and we'll be changing to Justine (myself) and a Suitor (my girlfriend) from A:J.

Indie RPG Maker games
We'll have a small group from the game Ib, and my girlfriend and I will later be Ellen and Viola from The Witch's House ("Majo no Ie"). We'd like to take pictures with anyone else from either of those series, or even from other games like Ao Oni, Mad Father, Yume Nikki, etc.!

Also, we'd like to know if anyone else would be interested in joining us as the Assassin Apprentices from Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood! We'll have a small group going, and it'd be so much fun to have more join us~ :y <3

This isn't set in stone yet, but my girlfriend and I are also thinking of bringing outfits from Godchild/Count Cain by Kaori Yuki! Any other fans of the series gonna be at Fanime this year? c:

Either way, totally looking forward to the con~ <3

[Amnesia: The Dark Descent]

Hey guys! My friends and I pretty much have our costumes set for this next Fanime, and we'd love to meet up with other cosplayers from the same series, especially from lesser known series that we'll be dressing up from~

Amnesia: The Dark Descent or Amnesia: Justine
My girlfriend will be cosplaying as Daniel from A:TDD for a while, and we'll be changing to Justine (myself) and a Suitor (my girlfriend) from A:J.

Indie RPG Maker games
We'll have a small group from the game Ib, and my girlfriend and I will later be Ellen and Viola from The Witch's House ("Majo no Ie"). We'd like to take pictures with anyone else from either of those series, or even from other games like Mad Father, Yume Nikki, etc.!

Also, we'd like to know if anyone else would be interested in joining us as the Assassin Apprentices from Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood! We'll have a small group going, and it'd be so much fun to have more join us~ :y <3

Either way, totally looking forward to the con~ <3

Is there anyone who's stayed at the Saint Claire that can confirm the $50/night deposit? I'm only asking because I could of sworn my friend paid $100/night two years back, but maybe because they had a junior suite and not a normal room?

My girlfriend and I stayed there last year, and I can confirm it was $50 a night! We had the deposit held on a different card than the one we paid with (we paid using half with cash, the other half with the card we reserved the room with), and had no problems at all regarding that~ <3

Hope that helps!

[Hotel Name:]

Hotel Name: Sainte Claire

Would You Book Next Year: More than likely!

Pros:
*Close to the convention center and all the little shops behind the Fairmont~
*GORGEOUS HOTEL!
*Amazing staff! They were so friendly and accommodating! They were quick to respond to requests as well~
*Absolutely no wait for the elevators! I think we were able to cross the street, get to our hotel room on the top floor (6th), then return back to the con center in less time than it took our friends at the Marriott~
*Sizable refrigerators in the hotel rooms! We went grocery shopping on Thursday and were able to store all of our food that needed to be chilled in the said fridge for the entire con. :3 We even had a cake from Bijan fit in there!
*I've read online that some of the rooms were small while others were big, and we were kind of worried that we'd get a small room (we're cosplayers lmao). We winded up with a pretty spacious room with a really high ceiling! It's no Fairmont, but there was definitely tons of space~
*Really comfortable beds! Again, we read reviews stating otherwise, but our bed and pillows were WAAAY comfortable~
*DVD players and MP3 cables in our rooms!
*The business center, although small, had quick computers and color printing. We used our user/password given for the internet, but no charges on the printing that we did~ :O
*Speaking of, FREE INTERNET! And it was FAST!

Cons:
*Across the street from the con, so you have to go outside~
*It's obviously an older hotel, so I wouldn't recommend it for those who like more modern things~
*The rooms got really stuffy! We had to open our window a few times~
*For some reason, we smelled bacon in our room, lmao. We figured it might've been from opening the window, or because of the restaurant down stairs. It wasn't over powering, just something we noticed on occasion when we'd enter our room.
*The walls were pretty thin. Although we really couldn't hear our neighbors, when our side of the room got quiet (like working on cosplay stuff or getting to sleep), we'd be able to hear their mumbling/laughing. They got really loud a couple of times, but at that point I don't know if it was because of the walls or because they were just being loud~

Special Notes to Share:
Although we didn't think the air conditioner was loud at all, I've read reviews of people complaining about them being too loud for light sleepers~
We heard that sleeping in a room facing the streets were really loud as well, but we had an interior room so we had no problems with that~
The hotel allowed us to split the cost of the room between cash and cards, as well as putting our security deposit on another card. There was a wedding going on I believe Sunday of the con, so the lobby got a little crowded with that, ha ha~

We did a lot of research on this hotel, since my girlfriend and I are picky and wanted the weekend to go as smooth as possible regarding our hotel accommodations (especially considering that we were arriving earlier/departing later than usual). I've stayed at the Hilton, Fairmont, and Crowne Plaza/Hyatt since I started attending Fanime, and I gotta say, I really enjoyed staying at the Sainte Claire. I'd totally recommend it if you wanna stay within close range of the con, but don't want to deal with those awful elevators~ :D