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Thursday: Had enough time to get to the Greek cart in Hillsboro, only to discover that it was not opening at the given time. One of the other food cart operators volunteered that the Greek place had recently had someone quit and its hours had become unpredictable.

Central Hillsboro has a one-way street grid, so I had to walk my bike along the block to get to a street going my way. Halfway there, I found one of those tiny places which is just a window for placing orders with a kitchen right behind it built into the side of the building. It's called Abu Rasham Express, and it serves Mediterranean food including recognizably Greek dishes, so I got a pita plate from there.

Friday: Had the second half of the pita plate for lunch. For dinner, we picked up German food from Gustav's. I tried the sausage plate, and the wild boar sausage was a definite winner.

Saturday: Timed it just right to get to the central Beaverton pod after stopping by Tous les Jours, which I have since learned is actually a global South Korean French bakery chain. And it is not even the biggest global South Korean French bakery chain out there. Over the next few days I would find the yuzu hand pie to be good, the blueberry cream cheese filled bread roll to be like having a bagel adulterated with a lot of air, and the fancy macarons to be tasty but nearly all the same despite allegedly being different flavors.

At the pod, I picked up some traditional cod fish and chips from The Frying Scotsman, which I would have half of for lunch.

Sunday: Had the other half of the fish and chips for lunch. Couldn't talk the SO into getting Italian food so we had homemade spaghetti for dinner instead.

The gaming went well too. Nobody recognized Pigathia, or at least nobody admitted to it. Somebody did recognize the token for Ahiru in my last game of the con. The game to brag about turned out to be the Thursday afternoon one, where I was part of a party that made it through a level 7-10 adventure with no healer. (We did have a wizard who did amazing work with counterspells, a couple of smart prepared spell choices on the part of my wizard, and a veritable ton of healing potions.)
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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.

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