Okay, though my name has been thrown around a bit here I have never played an official role (besides chauffeur, manual labor, masseur and coffee boy ^_^ ) ...now I am a "Staff Writer"! *insert fanfare and fireworks here* For some reason or another, Team Ryuhana trusts me enough to now help out with keeping this site up to date. (Probably since I run my own site so well.¬_¬ ...Though I will do my best to leave my spelling errors there.) So without further ado, those of you on the net might know me as Digital Ruse, but here...you can call me Jodon.

I'm sure you have at least heard the news surrounding this area of the country. This made the con all that much more adventurous. -_-' We got a late start on the road Friday, but it wasn't really a big deal as most small cons things tend to have a lazy first day. After picking up our badges we headed to Artists' Alley to get ourselves situated. This didn't take long, and no sooner than we'd set up the table did the girlies get started on their work and accepting commissions. Meanwhile, Ed and I set out to explore that which was the con.

It hosted a multitude of Anime viewing rooms, a fairly large dealers' room, panels throughout the weekend, and other interesting activities. Traffic across the table Friday was light, but this was to be expected as people were either still trickling in and took a while to find Artists' Alley. Nonetheless, both Kate and Lindsey had picked up commissions before closing time. We then went back to the hotel and Kate got ready for Karaoke. (She was going to live up to her title as Karaoke Kate!) Back at the con she put her name on the list and we anxiously awaited her performance. I don't know what it was, but I personally wanted to get up there too. After thinking about it, and kicking myself, and letting it slip to KK that I wanted to go up there, she escorted me up and I added my name to the list. The DJ was…excited to say the least.

Kate's first time up she did "Voices" from Macross Plus... a cappella! (I hadn't seen her performance at Otakon 2001.) It was…well…wow. (Though Kate says she has no plans to release an album. Sorry, fanboys.) Next she did "Fukai Mori" from Inu Yasha.

Kate serenades our editor with Fukai Mori.

My turn was quickly approaching and never having done something so silly in my life I was a bit nervous. So Ed helped me relieve some tension by going through our Kung Fu form out in the hallway. I waited a bit more and then it came: my time to shine or be laughed at. With my fan club cheering me on, I got up there and did "Talent for Love" from Tenchi Muyo. No one ran out of there screaming, so I guess I wasn't that bad. W00t!

After that we went up to the game room and Kate and I got our DDR groove on. There were Red Octane pads there, but they weren't holding up very well after a day and a half of hundreds of abusive feet. Nonetheless, we were still able to perform well, and got to try some cool new songs since they had the 5th mix import. Back to the hotel we went, where we all fell asleep.

Jodon and Kate practice before their turn at Dance Dance Revolution.

Saturday was a much busier day, after the time-consuming effort to kick our editor into that which was the daystar. (Some people call it "the sun".) He considered this 12pm wakeup call to be "an ungodly hour". Oh well. The girls got into their cosplay outfits, which was a far lesser fiasco than Otakon, and we were off. We got the girls situated and already they were getting people coming up.

After we made sure they were okay Ed and I set out to explore the city in the hopes of finding food and some other necessary supplies. During the two hours we were away, Kate was interviewed by a local TV station and Lindsey continued to work on her commission from the previous day.

Upon returning to the booth, Ed and I tried in vain to talk to our visitors, but they were more interested in asking questions that only our artists could answer. So instead, we kept ourselves occupied and took our male roles as hunters to the letter. Of course, by hunting we found the Con suite. Not that this should be seen as a minor accomplishment. Con suites are tricky things, since when most people who attend conventions hear "free food" it doesn't last long.

The rest of the night went by pretty quietly (Well, quietly for having people constantly visiting the booth..) and afterwards, we all headed to The Olive Garden. Not to be disuaded by the conventions of normal cuisine, Lindsey asked the waiter if she could have warm chicken with her Caeser Salad opposed to the traditional cold meat.

I went back to the table where the girls were finishing up their commissions, and people slowly trickled by. We seemed to have picked up quite the fangirl following by the end of the day, as two different groups of girls repeatedly came back to the booth to talk to the girls and pick up more and more art. (I'm sure Ed was a little disappointed that they weren't just there to adore him.) Shortly after, the con came to a close and we packed up our stuff. I find that Ed's recollection of "Tekken Events" tend to be a bit skewed, but as he and I lugged out the stuff from the booth, a guy recognized him and yelled, "TEKKEN MASTER!" To which Ed just grinned. After a quick stop at Fuddrucker's, (Where Kate consumed a burger as big as her head…) we returned to rainy Maryland.

We had so many commission requests by Sunday that Kate had to start doing "mini-commissions" to keep up with demand.

*Phew* That's about it I guess. Hope I have led you on a tantalizing tale, and if you liked it these guys might keep me around and have me say something more often. Who knows! >_<'

-Jodon