Redemption day 2

So, I was on a panel.  The future ain't what it used to be.  Which was one of those delightfully vague panels that could go absolutely anywhere. Took a bit of a shove to get started.  Max made a valiant effort to keep things on track.

So, the hall costume - Silver rocket pack.  Grey jacket, black trousers and boots, black goggles, grey nail varnish, grey snaz over face and hands. 

I was a black and white era rocketman in Greyscale! Which some people just didn't get...  One person did actually spot the Captain Proton influence which was cool.  James Swallow is a Star Trek novelist so I'm actually quite pleased about that.  It was the original idea but the design had diverged way too far.  I received 19 hall costume tokens (each attendee gets three of these and they can give 1, 2, or 3 to their favourite hall costume)!  I don't know if anyone else managed more but I'm happy to have made a decent showing.  And I used coffee tins rather than coke bottles for the fuel tanks.  This means I can lean back on it without crushing it.

It was easily good enough for the masquerade except that needs some material.  Not a lot.  Just a few lines.  Had I a co-conspirator I would have thrown together some bad dialogue but I couldn't think of anything to do by myself.  I really meant to ask tinkerbell1980  since she's great at this sort of thing.

Masquerade was great but not enough entries.  Several Chaos entries though, and an absolutely fantastic (non-chaos) Morgana costume from Merlin.  The cabaret was actually rather good.

Went to history of chloroform talk, which was fascinating, Physics of the impossible talk, which sadly ran out of time, the Real Word Biology panel and the Could We Build Kitt panel.

Party theme was Saints and sinners.  Fans liked dressing up but seemed to prefer the convention songs to the themed songs. 

Am still feeling too tired for this but somehow am enjoying myself.