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Jericho Fraction
The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2007.11.13 16:38:00 -
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My great memories from Fanfest:
Hanging out with all of my "enemies" and finding out most of them were decent guys. *waves at PieGuy and Scagga 
It was great to meet someone, have a few laughs and drinks and then say "so who are you anyway" and check their pass. I had a few "Ugh! your a @#$%*& Fractionite?!" followed by a few friendly kicks to the shins, but more often it was "Star Fraction?! Cool!" with beer or shot purchased for me. 
Thursday night, we were hanging out at the Nordica bar with our new-found friend Krandor from Black Mesa. We start chatting with three nice Brits (double fisting pints as it's happy hour) who we then find out are Taurus Inc. ... who have just been in a three month war with Black Mesa and (from what I gathered) walloped Krandor but good. Good times and laughs all around!
The Icelanders were very friendly, hospitable and all of them spoke English which was great because my Icelandic sucks! More than once someone told me they love the USA which rocked, (I didn't think anyone did anymore) but that they think our President is an idiot. (which also rocked )
It seemed like every native that I spoke to had to be sure I tried Brenevin, often on their ISK.
Icelanders really know how to party. My single best memory is Hakel coming to find me in the Celtic Cross and telling me to leave because it was 6am. There were more people in the bar at 6am then at 2am when we arrived! (Hakel was a most awesome local guide for SF too! Thanks again Hakel!)
The only bad part I'd say was that the US$ sucked there! (~$1.70 to 100ISK and a burger was $1,500ISK!) I found myself waking up each morning, running conversions through my pounding head. The calculations were worse than the hangover! I met the very cool Dev in charge of the economy (A big Viking dude with a Mohawk -sorry I forgot your name man, but you were cool!) and he told me everyone's money sucks in Iceland, including their own 
What the hell, it' is a vacation afterall, but I'll be prepared for next year.
I don't think you can say you've really been to FanFest unless you've had a beer with Oveur.
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