The Bitter Guide to the Bayshore Sale

So, Saturday was Euchre & BBQ (BBQ postponed due to rain; we cooked them on the Foreman instead). After that, I motored over to luxurious castle pyat. We kibitzed a bit while the ladies prepared to head on down to a fashion show/bondage expo. Played most of a game of Showbiz Shuffle.

We watched one of Futurama's Anthology of Interests, and a few minutes of Drawn Together (Which, unsurprisingly, pyat does not like).

Bedtime was fairly early (eleven, IIRC), because we had to be up at an obscenely early hour to make it to the Bayshore Hobby Sale! (Yay!)

The annual event, which had begun to wane in recent years since it was held as part of Bayshore's Great Canadian Baycon, is a used game sale par excellence. Oodles of stuff is let go for little less than a song. It's like Mecca (with the ceremony and the waiting and the lines, but you're allowed to break for pork based foods for breakfast) for gamer geeks.

Ironically, the first time I attended the Bayshore sale with mr_weasel and Peter from our AQ game, we went to the wrong Bayshore store, which WAS the one it was held at this year. So I saw the hotel we asked directions from (amusingly enough, it was actually only a block from the store, so the clerk was obviously retarded), and the convenience store where we bough a map of Hamilton to find the other Bayshore. Good times.

Anyway, we slogged out at Oh, Fuck It's Early o'clock and got in line. pyat and I jawed and jibbered with some of our linemates, until his former co-worker showed up. I split to perform a forgotten morning ablution and pick up cocoa and bagels.

Upon my return, I found that a game of Flux had started. God, that's a fun game. pyat had been defending Team Bitter's honour in my absence, but when I returned I took over Taking Care of Business.

They followed it up with a game of B-Movie Badasses, unfortunately demoed by someone who didn't know how to play the game. Really, when you want THAT sort of thing, you go to the Hairy Tarantula.

Anyway, after Rose finally came out to distribute numbers (lucky 14!), we toddled off to a local greasy spoon to take in breakfast. I enjoyed a nice plate of over easy eggs & peameal bacon (Canadian Bacon, to our Yankee bretheren!) courtesy of my host. Thanks on that, pyat.

After that, and a fruitless diesel search (the entire Bayshore expidition took a couple litres of rapidly depleting fuel), we returned to the line. I toted along a copy of d20 Past for reading, but since the line was moving at that point, we were about ot go in the door. But problem! How would they know the book was mine?

Thankfully, we were parked right next to the store, so I heffed the book to the car, and strolled back for the sale.

I had a good haul, but nothing of significance. The only item that struck me as really interesting that didn't look like it was store backstock was a copy of Albedo 1st Ed; I handed it off to pyat instead, for obvious reasons.

I got a few items to round off my OWoD collection; a few Vampire books, Ascension and Time of Judgement. Got a copy of some Pulp Adventure game in the 24th Century for .50, Ultimate Martial Artist and the Hero Accessory Pack for Hero, and a few other things. Best acquisition was Blood Feud in New York, which I picked up for $15. I thought it might be defective, possibly missing pieces (pyat said "Then you can sell it here next year!") but it turned out to be complete.

Seriously, though, I think everything I picked up was store overstock. And afterwards, I picked up some store overstock (a Judge Dredd module & supplement, and a few other things).

What shocked me was that they had Monte Cook's Expanded Arcana Evolved for $35. Wha? I spent a few minutes trying to convince everyone I saw that this was a REALLY GOOD DEAL. The game, simply put, rocks. And that price was a steal.

After a bit of kibbitzing with etherlad, sassy_fae and danaeris we headed out, our game swag packed into the Smart's storage space. Well, my stuff was on pyat's lap, but that's just because we got so much stuff.

Dropped him off to wife and child, and headed home for a well deserved nap and shower.

Afternoon (remember, that was all before noon), we went up to Guelph to take in Kung Fu Shuffle,which was great fun. We went with Valerie and her husband Chris. Cool peeps. We grabbed dinner at a Casey's afterwards.

Kung Fu Shuffle was very enjoyable. Sure, Landlady was kind mean to Coolie (it was coolie, right?), but overall it was cool. Liked the escalation of Kung Fu masters, and I can't be the only one who thought the two harpist hit men HAD to be based on the Blues Brothers, right? "We're Musicians."

Or not.

Anyway, very enjoyable; and, like everyone else, loved the Shining reference.

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