Ember Costumes and Crafts

Guest Writer Time! Katherine is a friend of John and Angela's from Herioc Interactive Theatre (heroicit.net) who volunteered to write the blog about Nebraskon. This was my second Anime Convention EVER and my first time at Nebraskon, so I probably stood out as the total con n00b next to John and Angela, who even flew all the way up from Texas to help us promote Heroic at the con! Most of our time spent was at our booth running a Heroic-inspired Assassin game. The premise was pretty simple; people were split into three different teams: Fighters, Rogues, and Mages. You gain points by killing people from other teams but to kill them you had to remember your catch phrase. One thing that might get in the way of points for your team is everybody also had a team inspired defense. Fighters: "Prepare to Die! I smite you!" Defense: "Parry!" Rogues: "From the Darkness, I assassinate you." Defense: "Dodge!" Casters: "I set ...

The most Awesome RL brother and sister cosplaying the most Bad Ass fictional brother and sister? Hell yeah.

This year I went to the Texas Renaissance Festival for Halloween, which was loads of fun! I wore my Queen Susan Narnia Costume, which was incredibly hot and sweaty on a sweltering 90 degree Texas Halloween. Next year I'll have to be a scantily clad elf or something, I swear. The only thing to do was drink a delicious strawberry daiquiri and watch my friends ride the elephant, right? Also, I'm not a very good archer, unlike the real Queen Susan. Me and Nick, who is wearing Gunnar's Rich Merchant costume. There are no pictures of Gunnar's epicfail diseased villager costume on my camera. My brother-in-law Erik, below, had an epic monster/demon costume. I helped him by telling him to use his Darth Maul cape and hood and work mak-eup on whatever was left. No that is not his real nose. Yes, that is a real turkey leg. The whole gang at the end of the day. (G washed the make up off.)