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Sindobook:
I just got word that the team will be there, I don't know how many but the message I just received (it was actually sent three days ago) was that at least some of the guinea pigs and bunnies are being deployed to the local area for a 'burrowing' type operation.
"At least a small vanguard is being detached, more details will be discussed at the all paws meeting at 11am this Saturday. Look for the guinea pig with the megaphone or the bunny, both will be in black and silver outfits."
I don't know how many Pandas will be there (if any at all) I'd venture a guess that they aren't just going to take this one sitting down.
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Friday
FanVibe Presents: Convention Story Time
Friday 12:30 PM-11:50 PM Pacific Salon 2
2pm Area 2 (by the pool) - Adventure Time Gathering / Parade (if my friends are in it)
Jabronie Pictures
Friday 2:30 PM-3:20 PM Towne
Adventure Time
Friday 3:30 PM-4:50 PM Sunrise
Saturday
FIRST: From Fantasy to Fact!
Saturday 10:00 AM-11:20 AM Esquire
11am Area 3 (by the Royal Palm Tower Gazebo West) - Vocaloid Gathering, immediately followed by a dance contest
12pm Area 1 (by the Rose Garden) Final Fantasy Gathering
12:30pm Area 1 (by the Rose Garden) South Park Gathering
1pm Area 2 (by the pool) General Shooter Gathering
2pm Area 3 (by the Royal Palm Tower Gazebo West) - My Little Pony gathering[1]
3:30pm Area 3 (by the Royal Palm Tower Gazebo West) - Hetalia Gathering
Sunday
School Life in Japan: Is it REALLY like that?
Sunday 11:30 AM-12:20 PM Pacific Salon 3
Christina Vee Q&A
Sunday 12:00 PM-1:20 PM Pacific Salon 1
Hetalia: Dating Game Show
Sunday 2:30 PM-3:50 PM Pacific Salon 2
Killer Lolitas and Scary Shojo (18+)
Sunday 4:30 PM-5:50 PM Pacific Salon 3
[1] - I will NOT be there under any circumstances, please do not even ask.
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It's still uncertain, but I'd say it's probable. So I did send a request out. I don't know if they'll be able to do anything about it, though. They're probably logistically challenged just like the rest.
Sindobook:
It was causing a problem at first, but it was mainly with the hotel employees and not the staff who were always helpful towards small animals (can't say they had the same attitude when dealing with people). Mr. Sparkles and Samantha smuggled themselves in by hiding underneath the Miku wearing the big turquoise 'wedding dress', I know once we found that Miku, several guinea pigs and even a guy who could not afford a badge were getting smuggled hiding under her dress. They didn't even have a clue, or if they did, they couldn't do anything about it.
Bunny S and her group of three other bunnies were treated well by the staff, though I cannot say the same for the way they treated people. Word of mouth, I heard bad things, but then I couldn't confirm anything bad either (other than mentioned in prior posts). Of course, you also have to consider that Bunny S and her group were prized by [H] and and his minions, [H] had seen them at [DELETED] and wanted them so much... so he and his minions were probably paying special attention to them.
Granted the people I was with, we were always able to get what we wanted by being assertive and throwing our collective weight around. You had to talk to people, you had to find and talk to the right people, and be patient, but doing these things we didn't have any major problems.
Sindobook:
That is not the truth, the 'kitty games' have no use for the theatre and it was actually one of Cat P's rallies that got them kicked out.
"The theatre and the other areas are owned by a number of different entities, but they are run by the same staff, security and otherwise."
"Several months ago, when morale was at an all-time low, Cat P was running one of his 'pep rally' type events in an adjacent facility. He was giving out free catnip and some of the cats got a little out of control and started shredding the seat cushions and scratching the seats and walls."
"By the end of the event they had probably done a [few thousand dollars] in damage to the facility. Cat P refused to pay for the damage so they were blacklisted from that facility and most of the other surrounding ones run by the same people."
So really you can blame it on those guys. It's too bad, but that's how it is.
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The reason is, they can't do it yet.
Hopefully they will be up to that level in a few months. But with the state of things now, I just don't know. When I asked, I was told 'wait until May'.
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I am going, along with at least 5 other friends, I just signed up today. It's big enough that I should be able to stick to the preferred focus (VO/UT/TO).
I know he is planning on being there, he said the whole gang should be there so I presume they will, unless somebody decides to be a jerk like the last time. But I think he has a lot more juice in the local area, after his previous performance.
Sindobook:
I already summarized this in #123, it is now long past and you can read all about it in the public sources. There's no reason for me to report or comment on the past, it's the future people really want to know.
From an insider -- "When the article was released [February 3], cat P nearly exploded. Cat W nearly had a heart attack. It wasn't a good day in the gang's headquarters. At least what was left of it."
What I can report is that the transfer of power from the old leadership is nearly complete, and Cat K is readying the gang to fight his arch enemy, the also locally based Cat X.
From Mikey "Cat X, a mysterious figure surrounded by much uncertainty and, well, mysterious-ness. Secretive to the extreme, said to be very careful, very conservative in his actions, acting with a heightened sense of, almost, paranoia. It's rumored that he's one of the reasons that the small animals in neighborhood cat gang territory have risen up, refusing to pay up to the gang's protection racket and those mysterious dog sightings and attacks against the gang? It's rumored he's behind them too. He's said to have his own protection racket nearly three times larger than what the neighborhood cat gang controlled at its height, and perhaps now has extended into their own territory while they were collapsing."
So using the party line, feeding the rumors, asserting that Cat X is the source of all their problems, Cat K has in a sense drafted the whole gang to fight his target. Cats are like that, you might be leader, but you still need to give them a reason to band together and fight. And fight they will, but do they really have a chance of standing up to a rival gang that is three times their size? In the end, he wants to claim to claim X's territory for himself, and the gang is just a tool or bunch of stooges to be thrown away for his senseless pipe dream. Certainly, I wouldn't bank too heavily on their chances of long term survival. Now maybe the cat can succeed in the end, he has his own followers and if he gathers all them up, he still doesn't have as many as his enemy but it's enough to stand a chance at winning if he goes all out. It may simply be that the cats sold out by Cat P are being set up to be the front line, the sacrifices or 'cannon fodder' of his crusade.
From Tuan Tuan - "For the best? The best, for who? You never know what happens, at least in the short term. I wouldn't write it off just yet. [1] They say a man burns brightest before he burns out, but is 'burning brightest' last year, this year, or next year even?"
[1] Old Chinese saying, he's actually quoting from 'Tiger and Bunny'
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Mr. Sparkles has now formally opened the pool, your small animal can place wagers on either of the two belligerents at the current returns (check his twitter). To place a wager, small animals need to mail (snail-mail) the carrot slips to his address along with a written description of who they are bidding on, dated and signed with a paw-print, or they can send carrots through Samantha's new "Paypet" website (follow the instructions on the site. The recipient is MR-SPARKLES-493 and the item number is S-79. Be sure that your small animal includes the belligerent they are wagering on in the "Notes for Recipient" field and a valid e-mail address.
Sindobook:
That's right, but here's the problem. There's a whole one guy (snake Z) in good standing[1] with the gang who the small animals have any kind of open contact with, and that's only from time to time. There's a few others not in good standing like Cat Y or K, but these guys can't be counted on to know a whole lot. Other than that, there's no one in the organization who openly talks to small animals, or who small animals talk to on any kind of regular or semi-regular basis. If your small animal wants to get a hold of the bunny brigade, black bunny squad, or Mikey's group that handles local security, it's very easy. But trying to get a hold of these guys, it's close to impossible.
So most of the information comes from spies, defectors, etc. While the information these guys provide can be reliable and insightful, it's not always current or even relevant. Cat gangs as a whole are quite uncivilized, brutal, and deadly; spies have to tread very softly and often have to prioritize survival over gathering information and timely reporting.
[1] relatively good standing...
Likewise the gang is so large that it takes a long time for information to move up and down through the ranks. It's not unusual for it to take a month or even more for some vital piece of information that is known by members of the vanguard to filter down to the rank-and-file.
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It's somewhat unclear, but multiple sources have reported on their demise both before and after the fact. I think we all know what happened, it's no secret that the rank and file were not happy with the leaders and now they have all but abandoned them. The leaders themselves may try to continue, but without followers they can't hope to have much of an organization in the future.
In the meantime it is fully expected that the rest will continue to do _something_, they are said to have significant funds, 200,000 carrots thereabout.
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Today, Mikey released a report detailing information revealed by Cat M's defection from the gang.
"Cat M held a high position in the gang, as part of Cat P's vanguard and in charge of the 'special committee' that handled internal security duties within the gang. Her specific reason for defecting was that her name was misspelled below the gang's photo of her on the website. When she tried to go to Cat P to fix this, Cat P told her that a few other's also had their name misspelled and they never came to him to complain. Enraged at having his afternoon nap schedule disrupted, he ordered her not to come to him over such a trivial matter again."
"After this, Cat M avoided contact with Cat P but still overheard a great deal. On more than one occasion she overheard Cat T, Cat P's right-paw cat, reporting on attempts and threats by other gangs in their territory. Cat P had a totally ambivalent attitude toward these threats, refusing to take any action at all."
"When Cat K took over the operation, he left Cat P in charge of day-to-day operations for a short period. Believing farther demotion was imminent, Cat P seemed to be scheming in secret with Cat T and some others. She wasn't able to figure out what they were scheming, but what happened next was more than telling."
(aside by Mikey) The mysterious Cat X's gang was Cat K's long time enemy from when he was just a kitten. Evidently Cat K had wanted to be part of Cat X's gang, but was denied due to his general lack of physique. At one point, one of Cat X's minion had told him he just 'didn't have the back legs for it' and Cat K then made it his lifetime goal to build an empire capable of taking on Cat X's gang. Both control national players, Cat X has many more minions, and more territory; but Cat K is a very astute at business and is quite popular among his minions.
"Presumably knowing the war with Cat X's gang was imminent, Cat M had overhead Cat P secretly briefing his agents to relay messages to Cat X's gang in secret. The would ally themselves with Cat X's forces, and in exchange they would be allowed to maintain their own organization as a new part of Cat X's gang. She thought Surely if Cat K found out about this, he would be incensed and it would be the end of Cat P."
"But when she want to Cat K and ratted out Cat P's plan, Cat K just smiled and purred about it being his plan all along. 'This is exactly what I foresaw. Cat P is toxic, utterly incompetent and hated by those under him. His only redeeming quality is that he has a knack for escaping certain death and will do whatever it takes to stay in power. He takes over this area's operations working for the X gang, and over the next few years continues to run things into the ground. He wastes a lot of their funds, angers many cats, and creates a bunch of logistical nightmares and PR disasters for them. And I'm sure you can figure out what happens next. [while purring contently]. If you want to work for me in a few years, you're always welcome. Think it over, why don't you?"
"With that, Cat M just couldn't take it anymore. She defected from the gang completely, and seems to want to nothing to do with other cats anymore."
(from Mr. Sparkles) She spends her days curled up in her owner's lap, or sometimes on top of (his) XBOX while he is playing it. It's an older style model, one of the one of the ones that has a tendency to overheat.
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