Wednesday July 3rd, 2002-

"Once again, thanks to a cute girl's butt, Scott wins the argument!"
-Scott Watson, Q Cosplayer/Nice Guy

Tetsugyu: Once Aniki, Jim and I arived we unpacked our stuff and proceded to get in line for pre-registration. I bought this 75 fuckin' dollar mini-boom box (*sighs*) to help easy the time in line as well as for the Party I was planing to have after Pre-registration was over with, and to play some music in our room if we should buy some CDs. I for one had my sights on the Final Fantasy X soundtrack. *drools* We where pretty close to the begining of the line, and we brought the player like planned, but of course, the darn thing wouldn't play the CDs. We knew it worked, because we had it on in our room when we where unpacking.

Taisou: Jarod tried to get the CD player to work for over a half-hour, and the bastard thing kept fucking up! I think poor Jim was getting frustrated.

Tetsugyu: I saw this guy in the line, already in costume. He was dressed as the Squall from Kingdom Hearts, who was orginaly from Final Fantasy 8.

I asked for his pic and name. He said he was Wayne. I gave him my name, and he asked me if I knew Kitty. Well, I did know Kitty because she was our GinRei! Small world it turned out to be, for he was a close friend of hers. Wayne was a really nice guy, and in fact was the moderator of the EZboard for Cosplay Gatherings at Anime Expo. Luckly he added our planned Gathering to the list. *wipes sweatdrop away*

Taisou: Yeah Wyane was a kool dude. The whole sword thing was kool. He made a good Squall. I met up with my friends Tina and her sister Lisa not more than 10 feet away from where we were. I wasn't suprised to see Tina, but I was suprised to see Lisa. I'm glad that they came, they where good company.

Tetsugyu: I for one was suprised to see both of them. It was my first time meeting Lisa. He he he, I even got a picture with Tina on Firday when she was cosplaying as "?" from Final Fantasy 8.

Well the line finaly moved. Long story short, we wren't in the right line! >_< Leave it to me to pic this year as the first time I didn't pre-register in the mail. Oh well. Nate and I decided to just go back to the room and come back later. We headed up and chilled with Lisa and Tina. After a couple of hours or so, we decided to go back. I had this wild idea. What if Nate went to the line as Taisou? Heck Wyane did it, why not?

Taisou: Well.. I thought the idea was grand, but as always nothing went as planned. We discovered how ill-ready the costume really was. Half the work we did the night before... was for naught.

Tetsugyu: The costume was not just not going right. The arm and leg wraps weren't holding in place, the tube-top kept sliding down. We had to order atleast six sewing kits to put safety-pins in the problem areas...and still nothing worked! Then Nate had told me that he didn't even want to wear the costume at all, if this is what we had to go through to get it on him. I got really depressed. It totaly sucked how bad the costume was comming apart on us. I can't really blame Nate for not wanting to wear it. I was more mad at the fact that this had to happen to us.

Taisou: I was pretty upset with my decision, but there was no way I was going walk around the Convention with my costume falling apart everywhere. You gotta understand, this was my first time Cosplaying, let alone signing up for the Masquerade. So... this was a HUGE disappointment for both of us, but... things began looking up no more then 2 mins later ^_^

Tetsugyu: Just then Kitty stopped by our room for a visit. Upon hearing of Nate's cosplay problem, she said...

GinRei: "There's now way your not gonna dress up! I worked too long and hard on GinRei < the costume > to have you not wear your costume. I brought my sewing machine and we are gonna fix it, damn it."

Taisou & Tetsugyu: *Sweatdrop*

Tetsugyu: We where saved by an angel! *Hugs Kitty* Now nothing could stand in our way to being in the Masqurade! *Laughs like Vogler*

Taisou: ...Anyway, now with that taken care of, Jarod and I decided to go with Kitty to the Pre-Registration line. I relaized how great she looked, "pretty" as always, however I was somewhat worried. She explained her and shawn where having problems with their booth.

Tetsugyu: ...Yeah. Kitty and Shawn are founders of Galactic Studios, an independant film production company. They were trying to use AX as a means to get off the ground; get noticed; ect. But it seems things were never going right for them with all the prep work, the booth, and the time constraints. I remember her telling me on the phone about all the problems they had -_-'

Taisou: Jarod and I offered our help...

Tetsugyu: Ohi!!!

Taisou: ...Thank you. Anyway, she seemed thankful but, was so adament about getting things done on their own. I have alot of respect for the two of them. I wish them well in the future.

Tetsugyu: Hai...

Taisou: After pre-reg was over, Jim and I went back up to the room and had alot of discussions about anime and video games. About an hour passed, and Jarod showed up.

Tetsugyu: Nate and I decided to go over to Kitty and Shaun's room. While we where their Kitty showed us her costume...

Taisou: She was leaning over by the window, digging through this chest she had, filled with costumes. She suddenly pulled out the GinRei costume. The only thing I could do was drop my jaw, turn red, put my hand over my mouth and say "Oh...My...God..." The costume was so tiny, I thought only a little kid could fit into it! However, when she decided to put the costume on, Jarod and I got a bird's eye view of a pair of legs that could entice the gayest of men.

Tetsugyu: I burst into tears of happiness. Well...they were also tears of shock, and tears of pain. After all the girls who I had asked/offred to join me as GinRei...the dream had finaly come true. I had found someone to go with. I wasn't alone anymore. It was also a sensual overload! I had but one thing to say...

Taisou & Tetsugyu: TAMAN NAE YO NA!

Taisou: I was extremely embarassed and yet... even though she knew how I was looking at her she didn't seem to care. In all honesty, I do like her alot but I'm so embarassed that she knows, that it sucks to look at her sometimes. I don't want her thinking that it bothers me, it's just I wanna have as much respect for her and Shaun as possible. So I keep my distance as much as possible.

Tetsugyu: After that we went back to our room to see if anyone was there for the party. Nothing. I was disapointed that no one showed. Well...then again two things happend which were partly to blame.

1st - I left my Cel phone at home! T.T

2nd - The Fucking hotel wouldn't let me post my sign in the lobby for my room party! How &*%#$*&%#*&% is that! >_<

Taisou: FUCKING ESKIMO NAZIS !!!! >_<

Tetsugyu: *Sweatdrop* Nani, Aniki?

Taisou: *shakes head, snapping himeself out of it* ^_^; I'm ok now.

Tetsugyu: So I decided to leave and go to Shawn's room and chat with him a bit. I enjoyed the talk I had with him alot. I miss him now...*sighs* I need my Shaun fix! He's the biological brother I've always wanted! ...er aside from you of course, Taisou-aniki!

Taisou: Two of Jarod's friends showed up, Isaac D. Alexander and Eric Kobet. For some reason they looked as if they had recognized me from somewhere...or something. Maybe I was mistaken. Anyway, Jarod forgot to mention where he was going, or at least I thought, so I couldn't tell them where he was. That sucked because at least we could have had SOME people over.

Tetsugyu: FFFUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKK!!!!!!!!! I can't believe I missed Eric and Issac! I really wanted to Fucking see them! ...And with my luck, I never ran into them the entire con.

Taisou: Dude that sucks!!

Tetsugyu: Yeah! Especially when I was but a mere ten rooms down the hall talking with Shaun. They came all the way from the Hyatt to the Westin to see me... T.T

Taisou: < Imitates a scene from GR Episode 1 > There, there. *Pats his back* ...before you know it you'll see them at AX 2003! ^_^

Tetsugyu: *Sighs* Well when I got back I was still worried about Patrick. Patrick was a friend from Atlanta who I met through my GR site. He was going to stay with us in the room, but his flight was delayed. I was wondering when he would show up. I was periodicly checking the Lobby for him, and though I didn't have a clear idea of what he looked like, I would yelled out his name and see who answered. It was akward. During my final check, I found him on his way up to our room. Just the luck. After he got settled, we decided to head over to the Rennisance Hotel to check out the Dance.

Issei-Doujin: The Dance was funnnnn! I got to dance like a monkey. Then I started dancing like a Zombie. And Jarod was dancing alone, which was weird. And I was like flipping around and all that stuff. I banged the back of my head, but I kept going until the end of the dance. Afterwords Kitty & Nate, were worried that I had a concussion, so we headed back to the room to put a pack of Ice on the back of my head. I was really hoping I didn't brain my damage.

Taisou: I was worried he'd try and fall asleep... and I was right at first, but when I explained why Kitty & I were so worried, he understood and went along with it. He's strong, that's for sure, but I wouldn't expect anything less from the fearsome Monk of Senjitsu. ^_^ Oh BTW, Kitty looked GREAT on that dance floor. O_O hehehehehehe!

Tetsugyu: *giggles* Yeah. When she wasn't looking, I pretended to spank her bottom to the beat to a classic NIN song. ...Does anybody want to mention the Marilyn Manson? who was humping the speakers??

Issei-Doujin: He looked like your Step-dad, Craig!

Taisou: WTF!?

Tetsugyu: *Fuckin' Lie! Dude you are just wrong...

*Fuckin' Lie: Slang term created by Taisou and Tetsugyu that means the equivilent of "Oh My God!" or "Whatever!"

Issei-Doujin: Unfortunately, I survived the head injury. To the Chagrin of my compatriots.

Tetsugyu: Chargrin? You just made that up...

Taisou: Fuckin' lie dude, just fuckin' lie. Anyway, even Patrick got on the dance floor, after I decided to. And man... we were ALL white boys with no skills. WE can't dance worth a shiznit. One thing's for sure, if a chick had came up to dance with me, I'd have taken up the offer... and then some. *wishes this one cute chick there had done so* But it wouldn't have mattered, the dance ended quite quickly because we showed up late.

Tetsugyu: Speak for yourself! I was the master of the Funk! Well I tried to be anyway. So when it ended we went back to the room to just relax and chill. It was great to just hang out with Pretty Kitty. Patrick, Kitty, Jim, Nate and I all sat around and went over our lines for our skit in the Masqurade. We even used the music for the scene we did, 'cause I brought the CD. Luckly the CD player worked. I swear that player is a fussy bitch. But it was fun to read the lines and act them out. Kitty was sooo cute! She's so adorable! She makes me wanna say-

"Come here wee Lass! Ima gonna eat 'cha! Git in my Bellay! Oh Aye!

Kitty, the other, other white meat!

Kitty, She's what's for dinnar!

I want my Kitty-Kat, Kitty-Kat, Kitty-Kat, Kitty-Kat, Kitty-Kat Ribs.
I want my Kitty-Kat, Kitty-Kat, Kitty-Kat, Kitty-Kat, Kitty-Kat Ribs.
Kitty's Kitty-Kat ribs, Kitty's Kitty-Kat ribs...barbaque sauce."

Taisou, GinRei, & Issei-Doujin: *Large Sweatdrop*