PaizoCon Europe ahoy

Paizo has been wanting to start a branch of PaizoCon in Europe for a while, but with the ongoing plague it's another round-the-clock online convention for now, just with signups opening at Europe-friendly times and a number of European organized play coordinators involved with setting it up. It starts tomorrow.

The layout of the time slots worked out so that I can only make it to one full-length session per day, so I signed up for a bounty each morning and a full adventure at noon, then getting the evenings to myself. I'll be playing the end of season 2 and the just-released beginning of season 3.

I picked the bounties just on the basis of what was available each day so that I could play four different ones. It was only when I checked back a couple days later that I noticed I'd accidentally signed up for an author table-- one where the person who wrote the scenario is running the game. And not any random freelance author, either, but the second-in-command of the entire Paizo organized play apparatus. Plus this is one of the games where I'm bringing the character based on Miss Piggy.

I thought about feeling embarrassed, but YOLO, and there are worse things to become memorable for.

As I did for the more notable conventions last year, I'm going to get some food appropriate to the location so that I can pretend I'm travelling in some small way. The powers that be refused to be drawn on where a physical PaizoCon Europe might have been when I asked on the event Discord, and when I mentioned why I was told it would be appropriate to just eat as many different available European cuisines as possible.

This is unfortunately not a broad category around here. If it were PaizoCon East Asia or PaizoCon Latin America, it would be easy. But the total of reasonably accessible European options I could come up with after seeing what I could recall and some extensive online searching was:

• My favorite fish-and-chips place, which is a cart specializing in Scottish foods
• The German place we picked up dinner from one night during SPIEL.digital last year
• A couple options for Italian food
• The Turkish place out by the local gaming store, except it turns out it's had a change of management and is now an Iraqi place, which is not a problem from the standpoint of things I like to eat, but rules it out for this exercise
• A local chain claiming to be a French-style bakery and cafe, but whose menu is largely American foods with fancied-up names, so I crossed that one off
• The French-Asian bakery in central Beaverton
• A Greek food cart which currently forms one-third of Hillsboro's attempt at a downtown pod

So, some options at least. The SO has tentatively agreed to German dinner at some point, and I'll have a couple hours or so between morning and afternoon games during which I should be able to make it to food carts and back.