You have been killed by Shiny Pebble

Cullen and Cam entered the Halo II tournament at Balticon today. Chris was going to play but he wanted to go to a panel on the Seven Deadly Sins of Illustration and I was going to a panel on missing good books because they are marked for kids and teenagers so Bobbick ended up sitting in on the tourney for a little while.

He said he was watching and trying to figure out which of the many screens was Cullen's (who plays under the name Shiny Pebble) but every time he looked at a screen it said "you have just been killed by Shiny Pebble" so he figured Cul had it under control and left to go do something else.

Sure enough, Cul won first prize and is now the proud owner of three Halo novels and a very cool action figure. Go Cul!

We also sat in on panels on dinosaurs and art, how to use polymer when modeling and colored pencils. It was most definitely a good and useful day.

The only thing that was bad was that the van overheated just as we got the parking garage. Now the only other time the van has overheated like that was last October when we went to the Library of Congress Book Festival when it overheated at the parking garage also. There is something about skiffy and fantasy that makes the van too hot to handle I guess.