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Anime Room Friday |
5:00 PM |
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10:30 PM |
Anime all day Friday! Non-stop episodes and movies, with anime music videos and anime trailers between shows.
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Art Show, Day 1 |
5:00 PM |
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11:00 PM |
Prepare for an awesome aesthetic experience!
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Monopoly [Verilympics] |
5:00 PM |
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7:00 PM |
Do you like money?
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Open Gaming I: The Fellowship of Gamers |
5:00 PM |
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2:00 AM |
Play games and meet people.
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Video Gaming I: It Begins |
5:00 PM |
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11:00 PM |
Play video games non-stop for as long as you want.
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Panel: Childrens Literature |
6:00 PM |
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7:15 PM |
Come listen to our guest authors of children's and young adult literature.
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The Song and the Sunrise |
6:30 PM |
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10:30 PM |
An oriental tale in LARP form, full of martial combat... and True Love.
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Star Wars Epic Duels [Verilympics] |
7:00 PM |
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9:00 PM |
Luke Skywalker vs. Boba Fett?
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Panel: Dystopia |
7:30 PM |
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8:45 PM |
Come listen to Orson Scott Card, Jim Kelly, Kelly Link, and William Sleator talk about dystopia.
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1000 Ideas Session |
9:00 PM |
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10:30 PM |
Orson Scott Card and his audience develop story ideas together.
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Apples to Apples [Verilympics] |
9:00 PM |
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10:30 PM |
The game where players decide if Madonna is really more "sensational" than Jupiter.
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Settlers of Catan [Verilympics] |
11:30 PM |
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2:00 AM |
What can you do with brick, wood, stone, and sheep?
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Wise and Otherwise [Verilympics] |
11:30 PM |
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2:00 AM |
When you take a rat out of water...it contrives a plot against you.
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| Saturday |
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Anime Room Saturday |
9:00 AM |
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10:00 PM |
Anime all day Saturday! Non-stop episodes and movies, with anime music videos and anime trailers between shows.
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Art Show, Day 2 |
9:00 AM |
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10:00 PM |
Prepare for an awesome aesthetic experience!
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Open Gaming II: The Plentiful Players |
9:00 AM |
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2:00 AM |
Play games and meet more people.
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Video Gaming II: It Continues |
9:00 AM |
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10:00 PM |
Play video games non-stop for as long as you want.
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Capture-the-Flag With Stuff |
10:00 AM |
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Noon |
If Capture-the-Flag were Calvinball...
The first game will begin promptly at 10; come early or read the rules
beforehand to be in it!
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Munchkin Tournament [Verilympics] |
10:00 AM |
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2:00 PM |
It's like Dungeons and Dragons, without all the actual roleplaying.
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Scrabble [Verilympics] |
10:00 AM |
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Noon |
Letters and words.
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The Multiple Myths of Philip K. Dick |
10:00 AM |
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Noon |
Was Dick a mad visionary? Drug-crazed genius? Regular converser with God? Or PR stunt-creator run amok?
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Panel: Revealing Your World |
10:30 AM |
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11:45 AM |
Come listen to Orson Scott Card, M.T. Anderson, Marie Brennan, Elizabeth Haydon, Jim Kelly, and Kelly Link talk about how authors reveal their world.
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Diplomacy [Verilympics] |
Noon |
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7:00 PM |
The stark game of strategy and negotiation.
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Karaoke |
Noon |
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2:00 PM |
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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Mafia [Verilympics] |
Noon |
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3:00 PM |
Some villagers may not really be so innocent...but which villagers?
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Magic: The Gathering Draft |
Noon |
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5:00 PM |
The granddaddy of CCGs
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Panel: Childrens Literature |
Noon |
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1:15 PM |
Come listen to our guest authors of children's and young adult literature.
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Veritas Games Company Demos and Open Play |
Noon |
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3:00 PM |
Play the latest games from Veritas Games Company with its President, Lee Valentine!
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Milk and Cookies Storytime |
1:00 PM |
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4:00 PM |
Cold night, warm fire. Cookies, stories.
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Signing: Elizabeth Haydon and James Kelly |
1:00 PM |
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1:45 PM |
Come get books signed by Elizabeth Haydon and James Kelly!
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Panel: Webcomics |
1:30 PM |
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3:00 PM |
Come listen to our guest webcomic artists, including Randall Munroe of xkcd, talk about webcomics.
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Scavenger Hunt |
1:30 PM |
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4:30 PM |
The Annual Vericon Scavenger hunt! Something that *should* be!
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Signing: Cassandra Clare and Donna Jo Napoli |
1:45 PM |
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2:30 PM |
Come get books signed by Cassandra Clare and Donna Jo Napoli!
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DDR Tournament |
2:30 PM |
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4:00 PM |
Got skillz? Rhythm? Lung capacity? Come compete in the Vericon Dance Dance Revolution Tournament on a massive (this thing is GIANT) projector screen!
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Signing: M.T. Anderson and Kelly Link |
2:30 PM |
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3:15 PM |
Come get books signed by M.T. Anderson and Kelly Link!
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Anime Trivia Contest |
3:00 PM |
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4:00 PM |
Think you're an Otaku-king? Prove yourself against your fellows by answering questions about anime.
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Panel: Whose Folklore |
3:00 PM |
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4:15 PM |
Come listen to Marie Brennan, Cassandra Clare, Elizabeth Haydon, and Donna Jo Napoli talk about folklore in fiction.
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Signing: Webcomics |
3:00 PM |
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4:30 PM |
Come get the signatures of our webcomic guests!
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Zendo [Verilympics] |
3:00 PM |
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5:00 PM |
Pretty patterns of pyramids...!
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Signing: Lois Lowry and Sharyn November |
3:15 PM |
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4:00 PM |
Come get books signed by Lois Lowry and Sharyn November!
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Collateral Damage: The Anime Board Game |
4:00 PM |
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6:00 PM |
Finally published! While there are several anime-themed card games on the market, Collateral Damage is the only known anime based board game in existence. In it you control typical characters from romantic comedy anime in order to take over the world. Collateral Damage is a fun board game for 2 to 6 players ages 12 and up.
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Donna Jo Napoli Reading |
4:15 PM |
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4:45 PM |
Come listen to Donna Jo Napoli read from one of her works.
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Buffy the Vampire-Slayer Boardgame [Verilympics] |
5:00 PM |
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7:00 PM |
You've watched the television show. Now play the boardgame!
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Guest of Honor Speech: Orson Scott Card |
5:00 PM |
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6:00 PM |
Orson Scott Card amazes us with his oratory.
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Panel: History of Gender in Manga and Anime |
5:00 PM |
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6:00 PM |
"Why can't a woman be more like a man?" The cultural background, history and evolution of the reversed, mixed, confused and confusing gender types which have been one of the signatures of anime and manga from its origins to today.
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Cosplay Human Chess |
6:30 PM |
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8:00 PM |
Watch your favorite anime/fantasy/sci-fi characters battle it out in world's most famous game of war. See Queen Akane defend the King of All Cosmos from the assaults of Drogo! Gasp as Witch Hunter Robin tries to set fire to Treebeard!
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Shadows Over Camelot [Verilympics] |
7:00 PM |
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9:30 PM |
As the Knights of the Round Table, unite in arms to protect Camelot.
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Signing: Orson Scott Card |
7:00 PM |
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8:00 PM |
Come get books signed by Orson Scott Card!
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Jim Kelly Reading |
7:30 PM |
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8:30 PM |
Come listen to Jim Kelly read from one of his works.
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Masquerade Ball |
9:00 PM |
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Midnight |
tImE WaRp: A sUrReAl, DrEaMy dance in costume...
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| Sunday |
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Anime Room Sunday |
9:00 AM |
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3:00 PM |
Anime all day Sunday! Non-stop episodes and movies, with anime music videos and anime trailers between shows.
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Art Show, Day 3 |
9:00 AM |
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2:00 PM |
Prepare for an awesome aesthetic experience!
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Open Gaming III: The Return of the Munchkin |
9:00 AM |
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3:00 PM |
More gaming!
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Video Gaming III: It Never Ends |
9:00 AM |
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3:00 PM |
Play video games non-stop for as long as you want.
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: Redline |
10:00 AM |
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1:00 PM |
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Puerto Rico and San Juan [Verilympics] |
10:00 AM |
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12:30 PM |
How skilled a colonial governor are you?
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Boffing Tournament |
Noon |
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3:00 PM |
Don't miss the chance to hit your worthy opponent with foam until he admits you're the greatest boffer at the Con!
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Betrayal at House on the Hill [Verilympics] |
1:00 PM |
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3:00 PM |
"Where in this blasted house is the underground lake??"
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Game Design, Publishing, and Marketing Seminar |
1:00 PM |
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2:00 PM |
Learn about the gaming industry from the President of Veritas Games Company!
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Salah Ad-Din Playtesting Session |
1:00 PM |
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3:00 PM |
Come playtest an exciting new game set in the time of the crusades.
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Science Fiction and Poetry |
1:00 PM |
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2:00 PM |
Harvard Professor Stephen Burt talks about science fiction and poetry.
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Closing Ceremony |
3:00 PM |
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3:30 PM |
Closing Ceremony for Vericon 2008
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Tokyo Kid Dance-Off |
6:00 PM |
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7:00 PM |
Anime Dance-Off at Tokyo Kid. Note: Not an official Vericon event. See our Sponsors page for details.
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