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"Its lips are torn and bloodied, its flesh lies rotting at the bottom of the sea. Yet he is still my Emperor, and I hear his voice foaming up from the depths of the Pit, echoed in this eternal cup of bone...Where he commands, I have no choice but to follow." From "Fu Leng's Skull" 
Phoenix Clan Library
Lion Clan
JE by rarity
JE changes
HE1 spoilers
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Wednesday, September 30, 1998 |
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HE5 Spoilers A mispacked HE4 starter has revealed a few HE5 Spoilers. 5:41 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Rokugan 2000 Check out Rokugan 2000: The Diamond Empire. 12:20 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Yogo Ono's Densetsu Yogo Ono's latest Densetsu can be found here. Corrected URL 5:35 AM EDT, I.Andy |
Tuesday, September 29, 1998 |
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CanGames decks Bayushi Murai's top 9 Scorpion deck David Smith's top 16 Phoenix deck 10:08 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Of Gaijutsu Ree has written a new story for us, "Of Gaijutsu." 8:51 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Fan Fiction Kamwied, Inc., has added a fan story, "The Final Duel of Togashi Yoshi," to their front page. 3:58 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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CanGames Decks Bayushi Elvis's Fifth place Scorpion deck 3:50 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Card Search Updated I updated the card search to include HE4. 2:13 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Tournament Listing Here is the latest tournament list from Mindy. I'd encourage anyone near East Tennessee to show up for our local con, TennCon, October 10. There will be a sealed deck tournament there, check this list for more info. 2:06 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Tournament Report Hida John sent out an excellent tournament report. Read it here. 2:03 PM EDT, I.Andy |
Monday, September 28, 1998 |
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L5R RPG Code Most have probably seen it, but members of the l5rrpginfo list have developed an RPG code. Check it out here. Here I am: L5R (R1.3) GP+++ [PR++ CC] RP+ GT:! P+ LN++ S+ G R+ Y+ C++ CG++ U++ For completeness, if you're curious, here's my L5R CCG code: LN++/SH-- S G+ R+ Y+ C++ E-- ?M T+ D++ !K U++ 1:38 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Final Four CanGames Decks Zen has sent out the final four decks from CanGames here. 9:37 AM EDT, I.Andy |
Sunday, September 27, 1998 |
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Winning CanGames Deck Here is Christian Vikander's winning CanGames deck. 10:28 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Zen's CanGames Report Zen's CanGames "Return of a Lost Hero" tournament report can be found here. 10:53 AM EDT, I.Andy |
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CanGames Result The results of the "Return of a Lost Hero" story tournament at CanGames can be found here. Winner: Old school Crab Oni deck. 9:24 AM EDT, I.Andy |
Saturday, September 26, 1998 |
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HE4 Rarity Mark Perneta <turing@ma.ultranet.com> has provided some observed rarity information from packs of HE4. 10:29 PM EDT, I.Andy |
Thursday, September 24, 1998 |
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Ken and Zen on HE4 Tactics Ken Nabbe and Zen Faulkes discuss various anti-PCP (Province Crushing Ponies ;) decks here. 5:36 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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CanGames Bounties Here's the last CanGames bounty update. The rest will be announced on site. Updated 5:23 PM EDT, I.Andy |
Wednesday, September 23, 1998 |
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HE4 Flavor Texts Thanks to Brian Fox <bfox@europa.com> for several flavor texts. 1:24 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Yogo Ono's Densetsu Yogo Ono has posted his latest Densetsu with appendix. 12:54 PM EDT, I.Andy |
Tuesday, September 22, 1998 |
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Ryan on HE4-6 Collation Ryan discusses the collation of Hidden Emperor episodes 4-6 here. 8:34 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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HE4 Spoiler Updates Thanks to Alfred Friebe <friebe-emerson@worldnet.att.net> for providing several spoilers and flavor texts. 8:33 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Complete HE4 Spoilers I now have complete HE4 spoilers here. Please e-mail me any corrections. Also, I am missing some flavor text, if you would, please let me what I'm missing. Thank you. 8:18 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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More HE4 Spoiler Text Thanks to "Brian Fox" <brian@zat.com> for adding the spoilers for Flattery, Walk Through the Mountains and Goldsmith. Check them all out here. Addition: Kitsuki Evidence and Funeral Pyre from Mike Mullins <PugoCrydee@aol.com> Addition: Itako, Doji Shizue and Hida Yasamura from Seth Abraham <Jobsquad17@aol.com> Addition: A bunch by Paul Crosthwaite <pac@bemismfg.com> Addition: The last few are thanks to Bayushi Murai <smuray@nac.net> 7:25 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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CanGames Bounties Jeff Kyer has posted the latest CanGames bounties here. 9:32 AM EDT, I.Andy |
Monday, September 21, 1998 |
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HE4 Spoiler Text You can get a write up of the spoilers I have here. I do not currently have a source for any further HE4 spoilers-- if you have some, please send them to me! Thanks. 8:23 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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From Ikoma Andy Just some personal info: A big thank you to all my visitors! Yesterday was my biggest day ever, with over 5000 hits on the main page and over 20000 page accesses on the server. I expect today to far exceed that, too. Now, I want to know, how can I improve the site? Use the feedback link to let me know any suggestions you have on how I can better serve your needs, whether it is a layout change or a new addition to the site. Thanks! 12:51 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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A New Story by Ree Check out Ree's new story, Choices. 12:40 PM EDT, I.Andy |
Sunday, September 20, 1998 |
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More HE4 Scans Here are a few more HE4 scans:
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EuroGencon Winning Deck You can find Mark Wootton's deck he used to place second at Euro GenCon here. 8:32 AM EDT, I.Andy |
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HE4 Scans Here are some scans of HE4 cards, each is about 125k. I think this must have been a mispacked starter since it didn't have Yoritomo... ;) ;) ;)
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DragonCon Pictures Kamwied, Inc. has put up some DragonCon pictures. Go to Conventions, and click under the DragonCon graphic on the top right of the page. Here's a picture of the finalists, Joe Dumey (runner up, on the left) and Eric Wiener (winner, on the right), shaking hands. That's me in the Coin shirt behind them. 12:27 AM EDT, I.Andy |
Saturday, September 19, 1998 |
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Euro GenCon Report Mark Wootton, second place in Euro GenCon's "Crane Arts Festival," has written up a nice tournament report here. 5:45 PM EDT, I.Andy |
Friday, September 18, 1998 |
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HE5 Checklist The HE5 checklist as reported by Scrye (#5.4) can be found here. 7:37 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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HE4 Checklist The HE4 checklist as reported by Scrye (#5.4) can be found here. 6:34 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Tumbling Thunder? "L5R is leaving the monthly model after release 6," according to the latest Scrye (#5.4). "The Hidden Emperor conclusion set (code-named Storms of War) is going to be a 150-card set with 3 different factions, and is scheduled for release in February. After this, there will be a new L5R expansion every 4 months." Scrye also notes that Doomtown will move to "every 3rd month." They make no mention of changes in LBS or Rage, which will apparently be staying bi-monthly and monthly for now. 6:19 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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HE4 and 5 Info in Latest Scrye Andrew Susalla has sent out some info on episodes 4 and 5 gleaned from the latest Scrye here. 4:02 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Unicorn in HE4? Maybe. James Peirce has said his supplier now tells him HE4 will be Unicorn, not Yoritomo. Read his message here. 8:58 AM EDT, I.Andy |
Thursday, September 17, 1998 |
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Daimyo: Myth in Japan This looks interesting. Wahooka@ix.netcom.com pointed out a link off Dr. Turnbull's page for Daimyo, a Fuedal Japan game based on the Myth game engine. 11:29 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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HE4 at CanGames Tournament Zen says here that HE4 will be allowed for the CanGames "Return of a Lost Hero" story tournament. 11:36 AM EDT, I.Andy |
Wednesday, September 16, 1998 |
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Stephen Turnbull Stephen Turnbull is a scholar on the military history of Japan, and I just found his website. Check it out, it's very interesting. It describes many of his books, and has reviews of other works covering similar topics. It also has a link to an unrelated Samurai miniatures game called Killer Katanas that looks interesting, plus a humorous fictional account of the Wazoku Ninja clan. 9:45 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Yoritomo in HE4? Maybe. James Peirce says here that his local supplier is getting Yoritomo in next week. 9:38 AM EDT, I.Andy |
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Tournament Variants Kamwied, Inc. has posted some tournament variants on their web site, under the "Secrets of the Kolat Masters" section. 9:36 AM EDT, I.Andy |
Tuesday, September 15, 1998 |
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Ono's Densetsu Yogo Ono's latest Densetsu can be found here. 11:59 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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CanGames Bounties Jeff Kyer, the CanGames story tournament organizer, is tracking bounties for the event. See his message here. Let me clarify that I am not collecting bounties, Jeff is. I have offered a bounty: an Ancestral Sword of the Lion Clan to a corrupt Lion clan winner. 10:12 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Rides Needed for AndCon Michiko and Kimiko and looking for rides from the DC area to AndCon. Contact Michiko at smegan@erols.com for more info. 10:08 PM EDT, I.Andy |
Monday, September 14, 1998 |
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Today, on Springer-sama! Yogo Ono has written up how the clans has reacted to the Ken Starr report here. 12:29 PM EDT, I.Andy |
Sunday, September 13, 1998 |
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Possible Good Collation News Ryan implied that the HE4 collation problems may be able to be corrected before episodes 5 and 6. Read his message here. 10:34 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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More HE Collation Problems While I do appreciate Ryan letting us know ahead of time (see his notice here), I have to say this is very irritating to me personally. 2:29 AM EDT, I.Andy |
Friday, September 11, 1998 |
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Story Tournament CanGames in Ottawa, CA Zen and crew will be running quite a story tournament at CanGames in Ottawa, Canada, 11-3 on September 26. The Clan of the winner has someone who was presumed dead in the Clan Wars return, still alive. You can read Zen's announcement here. Note: I'll give an Ancestral Sword of the Lion Clan to a corrupt Lion Clan winner! Addition: Zen has noted that getting the story tournament was Jeff Kyer's idea (his e-mail address is in the message), so if you appreciate it, let him know. 8:05 PM EDT, I.Andy |
Thursday, September 10, 1998 |
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The Art of Kumihimo In the quest to learn how to make Samurai armor, today I found out that the art of braiding the cord used for Samuari armor is Kumihimo. Check out the Kumihimo stand and see how it's made. Unsurprisingly, I've been unable to find a web page that details the patterns to make the cords so I could attempt this myself... 11:31 PM EDT, I.Andy |
Wednesday, September 9, 1998 |
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PBEM RPG Scott Hebert is helping to run a Play be E-Mail RPG game. You can get more info here. 9:37 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Ono's Densetsu #2: The Sohei Yogo Ono has treated us to another Densetsu, this time on the Sohei. 9:30 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Euro GenCon Clarification Paul Bravey describes the Crane Arts Festival that determined the story tournament at Euro GenCon. 9:27 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Stories from Ree Ree Soesbee has written a few stories on l5rinfo: 9:19 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Samurai Armor Links Here are some interesting links I've come across:
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Tuesday, September 8, 1998 |
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John Wick is Leaving Rokugan John Wick will no longer actively participate in L5R. Read all about it here. 10:54 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Hida Kelly's DragonCon Crab Deck Here is Kelly Wallace's Crab deck that qualified at DragonCon. 3:12 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Akira Kurosawa Dead at 88 As reported by Zen, Akira Kurosawa passed away on Sunday, joining Japanese film great Toshiro Mifune in the void. For a look at Kurosawa's major influence upon L5R, see one of John Wick's old messages. Cited by both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg as a major influence, Kurosawa was one of the greatest film makers in the media's history. Go rent one of his films, they are truly wonderful. (P.S., Rashomon is my favorite, followed by Seven Samurai) 2:58 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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L5R and LBS tournaments in Richmond, VA Oni no Chuck (a.k.a., Jinn Chuck) will be running unofficial L5R and LBS tournaments at One Eyed Jacques in Richmond, VA, on the 11th. If you need directions or a place to stay, contact Chuck at oninochuck@geocities.com. 1:10 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Make Your Own Samurai Armor I'm considering making my own Samurai armor, and found this interesting website about a Japanese club devoted to making novelty cardboard Samurai armor. If you know of any other resources for Japanese armor making, please let me know. This is the best I've seen so far. Thanks. 1:03 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Sick, Sick People Yes, very sick. This was seen at a PPV Wrestling show. (Okay, I'm behind on the RPG list) 11:46 AM EDT, I.Andy |
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Doji Yakuza's DragonCon Report Doji Yakuza posted his DragonCon Report. 10:55 AM EDT, I.Andy |
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Euro GenCon Report Sean Frank sent me a report on the "Who's Harboring Akodo Kage" tournament at Euro GenCon. 10:31 AM EDT, I.Andy |
Monday, September 7, 1998 |
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Randall Amick's TA DragonCon Deck Randall Amick has posted his Toturi's Army deck he played into the round of four, losing a very good game to Con winner, Eric Wiener. I was secretly pulling for Randall to win; it warmed my heart to see Toturi's Army packing corrupted holdings and Kolat actions. ;) 8:37 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Joe Dumey's DragonCon Report Joe has sent out a DragonCon report here. 8:28 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Joe Dumey's 2nd Place DragonCon Deck Joe has sent me his Dragon deck that placed second at DragonCon. 8:12 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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How to Play Eric Wiener's Deck Eric has provided a correction to his deck listing, and a guide on how he played it. 2:29 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Winning DragonCon Deck Eric Wiener's winning DragonCon Crane deck can by found here. 1:01 AM EDT, I.Andy |
Sunday, September 6, 1998 |
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L5R Merchandise For those of you looking for cool L5R merchandise, I picked up some neat stuff at DragonCon. I finally got a Lion hat from Kamwied, Inc., and I picked up a cool Lion honor counter from Kirby Signcraft. 11:59 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Gateway '98 Report Here's a neat report on Gateway '98, held this weekend in L.A. 11:19 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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Honorable Dragons All the Dragon players that advanced at DragonCon were honorable, using old strongholds with Hitomi. These guys are very serious about redeeming not only their clan, but their champion as well. 11:11 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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DragonCon Finals Final 8:: C.Barnhardt (Unicorn), D.Redys (Unicorn), J.Dumey (Dragon), T.Day (Unicorn), E.Wiener (Crane), B.Settle (Crane), A.Cox (Lion), R.Amick (Toturi's Army) Final 4:: C.Barnhardt (Unicorn), J.Dumey (Dragon), E.Wiener (Crane), R.Amick (Toturi's Army) Final 2:: Eric Wiener (Crane) over Joe Dumey (Dragon). Both were excellent players with exciting decks, but I feel it went to Eric mainly due to a first turn Inheritence that allowed him to get out Rekai and Ginawa, and, despite a first turn Chrysanthemum Festival, Joe only saw Yoshi and Yasu the rest of the game. I hope to have both their decks up on this page in the next few days. For the story reward, as the (real, not clan) Dragons leave the world, disgusted with humanity's barbarism that led to their brother Togashi's death, only the Void Dragon retains any faith in humanity and fashions a naginata from the Dragon Pearl and gives it to the Crane. 11:07 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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DragonCon Found Okay, here's a quick overview of the DragonCon L5R events so far: Thursday: Sealed deck. I missed this, and don't know who won. I heard turnout was fairly light, only 25 or so. Friday: Sealed Imperial deck. Yes, Imperial; apparently AEG coughed up a box of Imperial starters and for $30 you got to take part in a 12 player multiplayer game. Eric Devlin won after about seven hours of play. There was a sealed Jade event for those that couldn't/wouldn't take place. I was the first eliminated, but I got Lion. Saturday: Storyline Tournament. There were about 57 people for this tournement. I went 1/4 with two close loses and two blowouts. Here's the breakdown of the qualifiers for tomorrow: Crane, 4 players: Brian Settle, Eric Wiener, John Andrew, Amy Chandler Unicorn, 4 players: Dan Redys, Trais Day, Chris Barnhardt, Robert Mason Dragon, 3 players (all old SH): Joe Dumey, Andy Morris, Arian Gulick Monk, 2 players (all new SH): Zev Shlasinger, Travis Ludwig Lion, 1 player: Andrew Cox Toturi's Army, 1 player: Randall Amick Crab, 1 player: Kelly Wallace 12:39 AM EDT, I.Andy |
Thursday, September 3, 1998 |
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DragonCon Bound I'll be leaving for DragonCon tonight. It looks like I'll have a laptop, so I'll try and update the page with news from the Con. 11:31 AM EDT, I.Andy |
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GenCon Final 32 Breakdown Zen Faulkes has posted a detailed breakdown of GenCon's final 32 here. There is also a humorous note about the RL origin of the Sparrow Clan. 11:29 AM EDT, I.Andy |
Tuesday, September 1, 1998 |
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More GenCon Pictures Chris Bergstrom has put up some more GenCon pictures here. JeetChon's Yoritomo impersonation rocks! ;) 4:50 PM EDT, I.Andy |
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