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Hello!  We are a small group of gamers and panelists that need some more roommates with us at the Holiday Inn.

The total cost for the rooms is $808.76, so if we have another two people the cost per person would be $101.  $25 of that is for the security deposit and would be returned to you after the con if the room remains in good condition.  We can accept up to 4 people, but no more. Talk to [email protected] for details on how and when to pay.

We're a pretty chill bunch.  All genders are welcome, and couples are not a problem - one of the rooms is going to have a couple in it before anyone else comes.  Smoking and drinking is alright so long as everyone can keep it together and quiet when we get back to sleep.

Please email [email protected] for more information.  Thank you very much!  We hope to hear from you soon.

[Bliss Stage,]

Definitely going to be there, running Bliss Stage, Apocalypse World, and possibly Panty Explosion (the game of psychics in high school) if I can get hold of it.

[Bliss Stage.]

Hello Fanime!  I'm Bliss Authority, the head writer for an upcoming Bliss Stage Visual Novel. My team, Perpetual Motion Entertainment, is going to be running a series of panels this Fanime (subject to approval from the panel organizers, knock on wood, and so forth) which I wanted to talk about here.

These panels are:

• Bliss Stage.

A 2-hour, in-depth panel about the tabletop RPG Bliss Stage. Includes discussion of it's major influences from Evangelion, Macross, Ender's Game and The Matrix; examples of tabletop play with advice for character builds and new game-masters; and a discussion of the Visual Novel and it's production.

• Cel-Style Games.

A 2-hour panel about the various anime and Asian media inspired tabletop games distributed under Cel-Style's name, including Bliss Stage, Maid:RPG, Panty Explosion, Clover (a Yotsuba-inspired game), Classroom Deathmatch, and Hot Guys Making Out: The Yaoi RPG.

• Ren'Py Game Design,

an hour-long panel on exactly what it says on the tin. Come to learn how to make a game in the Ren'Py visual novel and RPG engine - the engine used to create Katawa Shoujo and for the Bliss Stage VN, with numerous war stories and exampled from the latter.

• Asian Visual Media Roleplaying,

an hour-long overview of tabletop games and other roleplaying based on such diverse genres as Wuxia, Chanbara, Toku, Magical Girls, Mecha, and slice-of-life Anime.

What do y'all think of these panels?  Which excite you, and which would you like to know more about?  I'll pop in to answer questions.

I'm probably going to go as Nomiya (complete with "Ask me about ruining my student's lives!" sign taped to his back) for at least one day.  Is anyone else going as a character from Katawa Shoujo?  A meet-up would be kind of cool.

Moar Maid RPG.

I'd be willing to run it as part of my whole 'Pimping Cel-Style Games' duties.

I'm also going to be running late-night Bliss Stage, and Panty Explosion and FATE/Stay Night (using the Dresden Files variant of the FATE system) during the day.