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yelled, "Yo, Domino's dude. If you want to get paid, come down here!" There
was no reaction. "Hey, you can deliver it to us here now or to jail, and then
you won't get a tip." He finally got the point.
We grabbed the pizza and headed for a field north of Lambert Field (St. Louis
International Airport). The place was known as the PVA (Private Viewing
Area), but FR informed us that it was really a PFA (Private Fucking Area) as
we noticed when we arrived. However, we were content with eating our pizza
and drinking what was left of the beer. The hotel tried to get Tuc to pay for
the room next door to his because the occupant complained that he didn't get
any sleep. Tuc refused and checked out of the Best Western.
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PreCon'87; The Omni International Hotel Thursday, June 18, 1987
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This event was hardly as eventful as the previous one, but at least I can fill
in a few blank days. Monday, June 15, 1987, we all saw the movie "The Witches
of Eastwick" and visited North West Plaza. Tuesday, June 16, 1987, I don't
know about because I wasn't there. Wednesday, June 17, 1987, KL, TK, and Tuc
visited Union Station (a luxurious shopping mall) and Tuc picked up souvenirs
for friends back home.
On Thursday we had several guests arrive. Dan The Operator (a real geek)
arrived the earliest and Lucifer 666 and Synthetic Slug arrived a little later
(together). Excluding Cheap Shades at the time, we all converged at Taran's
house where the excited crowd wanted to see Metal Shop Private. Sadly though,
a disassembled shell was all that remained. It wasn't long before we became
bored and left for the hotel. L666 and SS got a room and we killed the rest
of the afternoon at North West Plaza. Afterwards we began to party it up in
the room while watching TV.
Some hours later, we received a call from Bill From RNOC, who was traveling
with Ninja NYC. They were at The Omni International Hotel, downtown and
adjoining to Union Station. The Omni is one the most expensive hotels in the
city and we were all anxious to see it. KL, TK, Dan The Operator, and Tuc
left to go visit Bill and Ninja.
After some misadventures in downtown St. Louis, we arrived at The Omni, which
was a pretty secure building. The elevators required a room key to be
operated. It seems kinda silly though when you consider that the stairs
didn't. So up we went to the third floor where Bill and Ninja were actually
staying.
The rooms at The Omni aren't a whole lot bigger than at Best Western, but they
are quite a bit nicer. They have a TV and a phone in the bathroom. The main
TV is remote control and gives you a billing readout on channel 3. It was
different.
Bill came well prepared for the Con, he had stacks of old and new issues of
2600 Magazine and other propaganda and material. He had several other
interesting items as well including his mysterious notebooks that never left
his sight. However, the most intriguing item that he had with him was his
"bible." "Engineering and Operations in the Bell System" published by AT&T
Bell Laboratories. You can guess what was inside.
So we all talked for a while and then said our goodbyes. The rest of the
evening was for the most part uneventful for us, however, back at Best
Western, Forest Ranger was lighting everything on fire and L666 attempted
(unsuccessfully) to breath fire. I guess he wanted to live up to his name.
SummerCon '87 was about to begin.
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SummerCon '87; The Beginning Friday Morning, June 19, 1987
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This was the day we had been waiting for. Dan The Operator had shared a room
with Tuc (and he still hasn't paid his share) and Bill From RNOC and Ninja NYC
got a room at the Best Western. Everyone soon gathered in Bill's room and
decided to order pizza.
So we called Pizza Hut, which was just down the road and Bill was very
surprised to discover that they did not have "BIG Igloo Jugs." After
harassing the lady on the phone for a while, Tuc, TK, KL, Shades, and Dan left
to go pick up the pizza. We didn't know Dan was taping us, but that story
will be told later. We messed around at Pizza Hut for a while and then headed
back to the hotel. On the way we had a drag race with some guy who thought he
had a cool car, we won.
It wasn't much longer until Sir Francis Drake arrived bearing surprises. With
him was Dr. Strangelamb (named for Dr. Stranglove, who wasn't too happy about
it), a small stuffed black sheep that makes a "baa" sound when turned over.
Lucifer 666 had a lot of fun at the Con playing with it. SFD also had several
pictures of Oryan QUEST, his car, and Aiken Drum. As far as QUEST's pictures
go, well lets just say that The Executioner's file in Phrack 13 was totally
correct.
While back at the hotel, we had some problems with the management. They
didn't appreciate our attempts at putting up signs in the lobby for SummerCon
people. We worked something out, but on a nearby payphone was perhaps the
strangest person we encountered the whole weekend. It was some weird lady who
barked and scream and kicked the wall, while on the phone. FR was on the
phone next to her and she screamed the word "COCKSUCKER!" He looked at her
and she said "My son-in-law, what an asshole." FR's response was, "Uh yeah, I
think I know some people like that."
We relaxed for a while back in Bill's room (We couldn't stand to stay in
L666's room because of the lingering smell of Synthetic Slug's shoes). As we
became bored, things started to be taken apart. Like the TV, phone, and the
internal speaker system in the room. Throughout all of this, Dan The Operator
had been taping us, but again that will be explained later.
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