HAHA YEAH THERE WERE LIKE 4 DRIVE BY SHOOTINGS IN NE PORTLAND ON DAY 0 AND I WAS A BLOCK AND A HALF AWAY FROM ONE OF THEM WHEN IT HAPPENED???

NOBODY DIED BUT MY FRIEND WHO WAS WALKING WITH ME JOINED THE VERY EXCLUSIVE "HAS HEARD NET CUSS LIKE A SAILOR" CLUB

on the bright side I'm pretty sure that level of bad on the first day is why the rest of the weekend went as well as it did. I'd already exhausted Murphy's Law on day 0.

PRO TIP FOR CON GOERS ALWAYS HAVE A WALKING BUDDY WHEN HEADING BACK TO YOUR HOTEL BECAUSE CRAP LIKE THIS HAPPENS IN CITIES ON OCCASION

...................jesus

I'm still kind of processing the whole thing.

I'm glad you're okay but that's awful.

Yeah and the worst part is they didn't catch the guy. Like it was probably gang activity because NE Portland is kind of awful rather than cosplayers being targeted but

it'd be nice to KNOW 100% WHY THIS HAPPENED

Like my friend and I were literally walking in the direction of the incident when we heard BLAM GLAM and my friend was all

"Are those fireworks???" Except I love where you learn the difference between fireworks and gunfire and so I was just

"NOPE."

So yeah... honestly I've been around too much violence in the past couple of years. I should probably bring this up with my therapist instead of ranting about it at 4am ...

Thanks for listening though