From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
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ReplyDeleteJames LaManna is 200-something right now...
ReplyDeleteOdds are, all of my things will be gone. Such is GenCon.
ReplyDeleteI had to handle kid stuff and just was able to get to it 13 minutes late. I was 64xx in line.
ReplyDeleteYeah, there's four of us online so we might get a few.
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ReplyDeleteHaha! Karl Keesler you will see my crew for both Ghostbusters and Mystery Men.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping to get a slot for that morning Ghostbusters game
ReplyDeleteCasey, what's your Saturday looking like? I think that's when I'll most likely be running both my games.
ReplyDeleteStuff's graying out on my list. Boooooo.
ReplyDelete6080, despite being out of the gate. Canadian internet I'd guess.
ReplyDeleteSaturday is looking fairly open. I'm still at position 1000+, so I'm guessing the event I had picked for the morning won't happen.
ReplyDeleteCasey G. Awesome! 👍🏼👍🏼
ReplyDeleteLost one of my True Dungeon sessions and Both Karl Keesler's Goonies/Ghostbusters game and Christopher Sniezak's Sapphire Star game. Grrrrr....
ReplyDeleteStill in the queue.1714
Well, got Karl's events, a Frostgrave demo, a DCC thing, and someone is running Star Wars: Imperial Assault with GI Joes, so we got that. I've got time Friday and Saturday if anyone wants to run anything off the books.
ReplyDeleteAnd one of my TD games came back. Weird.
ReplyDeletePeople drop stuff because they have conflicts. We chucked a ton of stuff. You might get lucky.
ReplyDeleteMy list is whittling down to nothing too :(
ReplyDeleteYou just worry about GMing, Karl!
ReplyDeleteI should have read up on how the Wish List works before I casually kept browsing for things after picking my first couple.
ReplyDeleteoddly enough, the stuff I thought I'd have no trouble with I lost, the stuff I thought no way I'd keep I got.
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