Soulriders, THE GATHERING!

[Music-chan]

Sorry, we only took pictures of THINGS. People are so last century.

[Carthrat]

At least caption the last picture so we know who's who!

[odin]

At least caption the last picture so we know who's who!

The arm you can barely see is me.

I am ninja.  :-D

-Dan

[Yuthirin]

I thought I recognized that arm!

[Dracos]

I'll throw up pictures eventually.  Lamers! :3

The Soulriders Gathering 2011: Survivor Report.

This is a completely factual account of what occurred during the event known as the Gathering.  These records were acquired at great personal risk by the investigator who is only filing them so that this can be properly finalized and sealed.  This record is property of the Observers, and should not be read by anyone without Silver Raid clearance.

Friday.  April Twenty Nineth

The various attendees gathered slowly at the Novetel from a variety of directions.  Some came by plane.  Others by car.  Others by train.  Iron dragoon was deployed by an aerial parachute drop over the hotel, and yet made his way down as if nothing was strange about this.  He then killed the butler who asked if he could help him with his bags by turning his head until his neck broke.

Immediately following this, the current attendees were lead to a different bar than the scheduled friar.  Perhaps to throw off police pursuit.  Either way, it was mere minutes before they had conquered the scottish embassy, kicking the ambassador out and enjoying a few drinks in the comfort of his private office.  The others were informed that they were to meet here to begin The Gathering.

Grey and his girlfriend were the first to show up.  Dracos beheaded him and sent his girlfriend fleeing off into the night.  This was taken in perfect stride by the attending Odin, Agent S, Onigiri, and Iron Dragoon.  The blood splatter marking the floor was first questioned by Ginrai, when Corwin and he arrived late.

Dracos gazed at him.

And no one had any dinner that night.

Saturday.  April Thirtieth

At nine am, everyone gathered to face the day.  At nine thirty, they actually went off halfway across the city to their breakfast place.  Nothing happened between these time periods.  Odin naturally had upgraded to a sports jacket.

After feeding on excellent delicacies, they traversed through parts of Toronto's downtown, an intriguing sight that has its own unique charm.  It mixes a variety of buildings that are clearly over a hundred years old, placed naturally next to skyscrapers, without apology.

Iron Dragoon desired two things during this day: A shave and a suit.  He intended to hide his ferocious nature behind a veneer of civility.  Odin and Ginrai joined him for a shave at an expensive shaving place.  The others patiently waited their return.

Seventeen hours later, they came out with magnificent haircuts to find a pile of sleeping fellows.  Naturally they went to town with the markers and made sure everyone had their own design.

They attended chinatown that evening, traveling among the misbegotten and dispossessed, searching out hacked off poorly made knock offs of various japanese shows.  Sader watched from on high in one store particularly, cursing it with failure.  Truly, the stench must have been bad as they detonated the central business hub on their way out: "Nobody important was working there anyway".

The observing agent involved again phoned the police at this.  Strangely, they insisted that the destruction of Toronto's southern china-town branch had been planned demolition and that there was nothing they could do.  They then began singing Tarantara over the phone, forcing the agent to hang up.

An endless conveyance of cheap sushi was had for dinner, but even that place was not spared as Ragnar destroyed their bathroom and the one next to it, declaring them uninhabitable before dashing off for the hotel.  Dracos insisted on mangling people's names and devouring enough sushi for an army before declaring the place mediocre.  The owner committed sepuku in shame at the declaration.

The crew finally sat down for a delightful operatta, where the importance of piratical duties were espoused upon, and major generals got up to sing and in the end, this was a triumph, everyone enjoyed except the ones that were dead.  The pirates married all the women, for the good of everyone except for all the women who were now married to random pirates.

(More to come :P)

[Onigiri]

How about this one then?

[Dracos]

We apparently have gone a few hours since last spammer logon.  Perhaps the new combo even works.

[Dracos]

No, i haven't forgotten that I owe people pictures.  Fell into the gap of moving.

[Dracos]

http://www.soulriders.org/soulriders/SRTrip2011/

There was nobody there but me, Corwin, and Ginrai it seems.

Anyhow, my phone really sucks for pics, Cor was right :3  But here are some pics.  First one (The group shot) is probably the only one of interest to most :)

[Iron Dragoon]

Dude in the tan beanie is me. Cy made fun of me because I'm short ;_;

[Music-chan]

Dude in the tan beanie is me. Cy made fun of me because I'm short ;_;

Lies! I believe his words were "I thought you'd be taller."

He could have been way more mean if he wanted to make fun of you =p

[Yuthirin]

I propose that we have the next gathering.

Why?

Chicago is the crossroads of America.

It is full of rich museum culture and art, as well as architecture.

There's a big river that has boats.

It's not on the other side of the planet from most of us, and getting here is not prohibitively expensive...for most of us.

We have one of the largest anime cons in the country.

Me, 007, and KLSymph live here, and can attest.

[Iron Dragoon]

If we keep doing them in North America, then the people who can't make it never will, though.

[Yuthirin]

North America is SO GREAT, though!

[Music-chan]

Of course, if we have them outside of North America, how many people would actually be able to go to those?  I have no issues with other countries and I'd love to travel, but there's no way Cy and I would be able to afford it unless we won the lottery or something silly like that.


That being said, in three years, I propose we have another GAthering in Canada, wherever it is that Cy and I are at.  Gotta celebrate our 10th anniversary with our fellow SRians!

Just to emphasis, in THREE YEARS. Not next year. =p