TOPIC: *****Alert, Alert, Alert********

I start working as an volunteer in Union Building Team as setting up True Dungeon in Hall B and not Hall D as in last year was there, but not this year. So meeting on the side of Hall D is the food court will not be wise because it not in front Hall B which is the opposite direction from the Will Call. To be specific it in the begin street of Missouri Street beside the Marriot Hotel then hit along Maryland Ave or Street. Then the enter that a stairway up to next enter down from Hall D which is Hall B. But this caught me by surprise that there is NO locker available in all the Convention Center which is Gen Con. They took out every single one of locker that we had plan for, but there will be backpack search as security measure is on the higher since what they me as toward the bomb from Boston marathon. That threw monkey wrench in my plan already as I brought 12 aluminum briefcase with tokens. Also I'm been lucky that plan B is still in effect as I was here early. On the side note if you don't have an Adventurer Guild Badge that will be only bag holder and backpack inside the convention center. As a reminder that if you have the Adventurer Guild Badge that you must take out your bag from bag check by the very end of the each day at 12:00am for every day until Sunday at 4:00pm when Gen Con end. I'm sorry that I have to inform you like this, but I thought it will be helpful before getting smack with the news at the enter door of ICC aka Gen Con.

-Eversuede-

Should have seen that coming, but I confess I didn't.
On a related note, the value of an AG Badge just skyrocketed...

i wish volunteers could check a bag while we are working.

Brad Mortensen wrote: Should have seen that coming, but I confess I didn't.
On a related note, the value of an AG Badge just skyrocketed...

What is the going rate for those anyways? I've got an extra one and I'm frightfully in need of cash...

They've seemed to be in the $50-75 range.

Eversuede wrote: I start working as an volunteer in Union Building Team as setting up True Dungeon in Hall B and not Hall D as in last year was there, but not this year. So meeting on the side of Hall D is the food court will not be wise because it not in front Hall B which is the opposite direction from the Will Call.

Can someone translate this? Have they moved TD entirely from last year, or just the entrance doors for it?

They have moved rooms.

Is it near the newer food court area/the new main exhibit hall?

Toran wrote: Is it near the newer food court area/the new main exhibit hall?

Neither, based on the original post it sounds like it is in Hall B.

www.icclos.com/floor-plans.aspx

(Click on the lower floor in the image to see where Hall B is).

It looks like the entrance to hall B is across from the escalators the come down from the Parking Lot/JW Marriot Skybridge (so Not where the Regular/Older Marriot comes in and the old food court)

So if that is the case, it is the one of the farthest points away from both the new food court or exhibitor hall and still be in the convention center.

That's still relatively near the old food court, although not right at it. Hardly a reason to start panicking about it being too far away for Wednesday night trading. But good to know for getting to events on time.

Seems like it will be the furthest away. I'm hoping for something food wise in the both area across from B, but not holding my breath. We loose the consession in the TD room, but still have bathrooms inside of TD. Now I hope we still have access to them so we don't have to leave for that but we won't know that until we see the layout Jeff has in the Hall.

TD being moved to Hall B has been a known quantity for some time now (since all the GenCon events were listed, it shows the location of all TD events as "ICC :: Hall B :: HQ")... It just hasn't been very well, or explicitly, communicated.

According to the floor plan diagram from the ICC website ( www.icclos.com/pdf/floor_plans.pdf ) the move nets TD an additional 1400 sq ft of space.

I think the bigger thing that Eversuede is trying to communicate is that the lockers that have been in area of the convention center outside of Halls A, B, & C have been removed. Lockers that he, and many others, were planning on using to store things (like their token collections) while they were playing TD.

In addition to the locker removal, he says something about backpack searches?? Apparently ICC security is stepping up it's game after the Boston Marathon Bombings. Unclear if the increased security measures is being initiated by ICC or GenCon.

It appears that the Adventure Guild Bag Check will be the only place where TDers can drop their gear in the ICC. Which of course, you only have access to if you have an AG 2013 Button.

**GIANT DISCLAIMER**: All I've done is try and clarify what Eversuede has posted above. I have no more information or sources on any of the security related information other than the original post in this thread.