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Frodo Died, But the Golden Hall Is Taking Shape:
Day Two Wrapup
Day Two of DecipherCon 2003 was also Day Two of both World
Championships. For each game, all the Day One qualifiers plus those who
had byes from territorials, continentals, and other sources slugged it out
for the coveted 16 places in Day Three. But there was time for breaks between
rounds, for opening Reflections packs from an All Good Things set, trivia
questions with the roving Ranger, and revelations of yesterday's arrest
of Brian Sykes by the Klingons for "consorting with Romulans and associating
with known Tal Shiar." Now I wonder who in the quadrant they could
have been thinking of?
  
And outside the tournament hall, the DecipherCon bustle went
on. Fellowship Anthologies were in high demand at the Decipher Store, while
stickers asking "Where's Tom Bombadil?" started appearing everywhere.
A 3D puzzle of the Golden Hall of Edoras started taking shape on the side
counter. No chicken impersonations were in evidence at the Ultra-Pro booth
today, but across the exhibit hall at the Rook Steel Storage booth, a large
number of people who coveted Black Rider cards were seen and heard to declare
musically that they were "a little teapot, short and stout" in
return for the day's password. And always, the demos went on.
  
On the small stage at one corner of the booth, Mark Tuttle
demonstrated our new anime trading card game .hack//ENEMY wih oversized
cards for admiring spectators. Would-be roleplayers ran through quickstart
sample adventures. Even your friendly Decipher web writer sat down at a
momentarily unattended PC to try out the Lord of the Rings Online
TCG. Aside from getting Frodo killed by a horde of Uruk-hai at site 6, I
had great fun.
  
Oh, and that 3D Golden Hall puzzle? I even worked on that a bit near the
end of the day. My contribution is shown below (those two pieces do indeed
fit together).
Even as I write, the second annual Austin Powers TCG World Championship
is taking place in the tournament hall, where a record 40 players have gathered
to play shaggers, assassins, and Frickin' bones in hopes of going home with
the title. We hope to bring you more on this exciting event tomorrow. Until
then...
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More photos from Friday
Kathy McCracken
Web Writer
July 25, 2003
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