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BrickCon 2008 will once again feature the popular Dirty Brickster.
If you want to participate, you have to think ahead to bring and wrap
something[1].
If you've done it before: worth $10+ to an AFOL. No junk. Please wrap
ahead of time.
If you've never before experienced the anguish and rapture that is the
Dirty Brickster:
The Dirty Brickster is a gift-giving game. Each participant brings a
wrapped gift, which will be placed on a table which the participants will
encircle. Gifts should be Lego and worth about $10 to $20 to an adult fan
of Lego (so definitely no clones or garbage brick; usually no gear.)
Participants draw numbers out of a hat for order. (In the event that more
than 30 people wish to participate, participants may be split into two or
more groups.)
The first participant chooses a gift to unwrap. Subsequent participants
have the option of unwrapping a wrapped gift or stealing an unwrapped
gift. If you are stolen from, you have the option of unwrapping a new
gift or stealing from someone else, except that you may not steal back the
gift that was just stolen from you. After a gift has been stolen for the
third time it is locked and cannot be stolen again.
After the last gift has been unwrapped (which can only happen after every
participant after the first has had at least one chance to unwrap or
steal) the participant who started it all has a chance to steal any
unlocked gift, potentially starting a new cycle of stealing (except now
it's really swapping, rather than stealing).
Protocol:
The cooler the gift, the better. 7648 is fine but a mint $10 set from
fifteen years ago is even better.
Wrapped gifts should not be shaken or unnecessarily handled.
Touch it and it's yours.
Gifts not yet locked should be kept clearly visible in your lap. Locked
gifts should be placed under or behind your chair.
Finally, and this is most important, when someone steals a gift the other
participants should chant "Dirty Brickster! Dirty Brickster! Dirty
Brickster!"
The Dirty Brickster will be Saturday night at 9:30.
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BrickCon is an annual adult LEGO fan convention in the Seattle area.
BrickCon 2008 will be October 2--5, 2008, in the Exhibition Hall at
Seattle Center. For more information, visit
http://www.brickcon.org/
--
TWS Garrison
http://www.morfydd.net/twsg/
LEGO: CA+++ SW++ GA+c #++++++ LS+++ P+++++ YB77m
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[1] Okay, not *too* far ahead; the Dirty Brickster is Saturday night,
which is after the Friday night trip to the LEGO Store, but if you put off
the acquisition of your gift until then you may find that four other
procrastinators brought the same gift.
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