Orvan's LibertyCon, How It Happened, and a bit of rambling on.

Blame mzmadmike. Evidently others are doing so, or at least planning revenge on him. Or maybe it's jmaynard's fault for triggering Mad Mike. While planning for the visit and deliveries to Penguicon in April, Jay pondered the various kinds of scopes (telescope, microscope, oscilloscope and such) noting that Mad Mike wrote The Scope of Justice. Mad Mike was so taken with the delivery and the gag that he asked what it would take to get Orvan to deliver things at LibertyCon. I hadn't made any plans for such a thing so I would need some help with a place to stay and with finding things to deliver. I found out later that the things to deliver weren't too big of a deal and that some were in mind before he thought of having Orvan make the deliveries. It was sort of "Hey, I know who we can get to do this." The upshot was that I had a place to stay overnight on the trip to LibertyCon and back, and some space to stay at the con itself. I pretty much just had to get there.

The deliveries went well. I haven't done anything with the photos yet, but I can list the recipients and who got what - and why.

( The List )

Saturday night as I was wandering the halls and checking out the parties as myself rather than Orvan, someone recognized me or at least Orvan's badge, which I was wearing. "Do you know someone is looking for you?" "No..." "Follow me."

The hall costume judges were divided into a male judge (for female) and female (for male). The female judge was, I learned, immensely pleased to discover that the person under the fur was male ("Oh good! I can judge him!"). Orvan's ACME delivery shtick, Cow Tail giveaway, and general - though silent - interaction earned him a little medallion: Best At Con - Male. I really had not been expecting that. A couple folks had told me or suggested to me that some hall costume award was a possibility but I had pretty much dismissed it. I wasn't there as any known character nor really from any obvious science fiction or even fantasy universe. I was there as a living cartoon character, and not any specific one. But evidently that didn't matter to the the judge. What mattered was that I was (at least somewhat) entertaining and therefore memorable.

( Additional commentary )