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The Con started off rather slow as no one really knew how to get it started.
Finally Lex Luthor decided to discuss the current rumors about the BBS
decline. From there the topics included;
Bulletin Boards
Busts (Texas, Virginia, New York)
Fiber Optics
Automatic Number Identification (ANI)
REMOBS
Laws
Handles
Groups
Broadway Hacker
Methods of blowing 2600 Hertz
SCCS
4TELs
800 CLID
Later, Bill From RNOC told some stories about his exploits and proceeded to
draw diagrams of whatever came to mind. Phantom Phreaker and Doom Prophet
were upset that no one wanted to discuss CAMA.
In the meantime, I noticed that Dan The Operator had disappeared. Forest
Ranger and I investigated only to discover that the tapes had disappeared as
well. We caught up with Dan later and discovered that the tapes were now in
Control C's rented station wagon. LOKI let me in and I took the cassette I
had been looking for and a roll of film. The tape had all of my SummerCon
article memos on it and this article is partially the result. We didn't know
about side B, but more on that later.
After the Con, Taran King, Control C, Lucifer 666, Bill From RNOC, and I
headed out to my house where we had some serious copying to do. Control C
brought his computer and we began to copy Metal Shop Private on to his hard
disk drive. While this was going on, Lucifer was receiving a copy of my very
own PWN software to aid him when he takes over with issue XVI. I left the
cassette and film at my house, its a pity I didn't play it right away because
this article would have had a very different end.
Anyway, we finished up and then headed to Chesterfield Mall, a nearby shopping
center. From there we proceeded to the local CO and recovered some
interesting artifacts. Our next stop was to pick up some hardware that we
needed and then more trashing. We returned to Best Western and learned that
Lex Luthor and The Leftist had left due to Leftist's tight schedule.
The rest of the afternoon was mostly uneventful. Lots of rain and not much to
do. As night approached, the party part of the Con began to restart. Several
of us got bored with this and decided to explore parts of the hotel. We found
a Navy wedding reception and decided to take in the food. The management
didn't approve and we were bounced. So then we decided to take a look at the
telephone wiring boxes in the hallways of the buildings. The problem was that
to open them you had to rip out part of the wall. Nevertheless, things have a
way of happening and the residents of several wings of the hotel found
themselves without phone service.
The management didn't like what was happening at all and called the police to
investigate. They spotted several of us running around the hotel and it was a
mad dash back to the rooms for cover. LOKI was spotted going through an open
window into Lucifer 666's room and the police decided to investigate it more
closely. After an hour of panic and excitement, things cooled down and most
of the people in Lucifer 666's room either went to sleep or were playing with
Control C's computer and logging on to Metal Shop Private.
We were bored and so Ninja NYC, Bill From RNOC, Taran King, Tuc, and I decided
to go throw ice on Dan The Operator. We ran down the hall and banged on
L666's door. Suddenly one of the hotel managers appeared and threatened us
that if we didn't go to our rooms and keep quiet he would call the police. We
left the hall and went to the back parking lot. Ninja started a wheel rolling
towards the building and we all knew what the result would be <CRASH!>.
Before it hit we ran at full speed around to the front of the hotel where we
were greeted by a hefty officer of the Bridgeton Police Department. He was
sort of leaning on his car facing us. It was so eerie because it almost
seemed as though he knew we were coming and was waiting for us. We slowed
down considerably until he said, "Run to me boys." No one really reacted
until he said it again, "C'mon run to me boys." Ten seconds later he was
joined by the asshole manager that had yelled at us not more than 60 seconds
ago. "How old are you!?" he asked checking for curfew violations. Our
replies varied from 17 to 21. "Where are you from!?" Bill and Tuc replied
New York, the rest of us kept quiet. "Lets see some room keys!" We showed
him two keys and then he looked at the asshole manager and said, "They belong
here." "Why are you outside, what are you doing!" Taran replied, "Going to
get something to eat, is that okay mister!?"
Our car was parked next to his and we took off for a while. He tried to
follow us, but we quickly left his jurisdiction. While we were out we found
the home of Bigfoot (the truck). We messed around there for a while and then
returned to Best Western and walked around some of the vacant floors of the
hotel.
The only other interesting activity we did that evening was a 3 AM trip to a
24 hour food store. Bill From RNOC, Taran King, Tuc, Sir Francis Drake, and I
went to a Super Schnucks and messed around there. It was huge and we almost
lost SFD. After making a few purchases, we went back to the home of Bigfoot
and Taran decided to play bumper car with some of the super huge tires in the
parking lot. We returned to the hotel for the last time and found Ninja NYC
on the phone with L666's current girlfriend. We harassed her for a while and
then I fell asleep. Taran and a few others made a few other trips around town
and woke me up at about 6 AM Sunday morning.
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