Cramer

I saw a plague doctor fixing his mask, his robes were a bit off, and you could see his wrist watch. I was a bit thrown off, and wanted to laugh at him, then realized he probably got attacked by some asshat kid. I was at health services last night and noticed that that's where they rally all of the idiots. I had a chat with the medic there, talking about how they should be trespassed for longer than a year. Sorry you guys gotta deal with 'em, but at least you're getting them out of our park.

Yes, I'm in the group lol. My cat got cat-napped (I like that term) by the doctor after the man in the ceiling/rafters/whatever lol....twice. The first time he wouldn't give him back for a while XD. I was tempted to follow him into his boo-area, but didn't want to get him in any trouble lol. I had a few pecking at me, a few following me around, and one clapping for me . Also, almost EVERY scareactor in the scarezones picked up on the cat too, so I'm going to keep bringing him. This idea provided me awesome interaction throughout the event lol.

Iwa! Making my night, yet again!

Here is a shot of a "To eat brains, or not to eat brains" pic with who I think is Jakemeister (I SUCK with remembering names, so my apologizes if I got it wrong).

Here's one of the Woflmen (I think it was Army) munching down on my Kitty Thanks for that great bit of entertainment there! This zone is beginning to grow on me a bit more, now that I've given it a chance.

Got a few nice pics here, with my kitteh! I figure that if I can't get pictures of myself, may as well take some of my stuffed cat. Here's Cindy not wanting to let the kitty go She made me promise to bring her another lol, I really want to, but I don't know if she's allowed to accept gifts or not . The Caretaker did great in his character...I called him "Mr. Caine" the whole time and he remained silent. I requested him to put my kitty into his scissors, and he obliged. He LOVES those scissors man. And I got Ms. Strict to get a picture with the kitty as well. I don't know if that was Kim or the other (Marge, I think her name was?) but thank you for letting me get that shot! Thanks to all of you lol. Also, to the Director on that cast, he blended in with the crowd so good, then BAM right in my face...so fast that I actually pulled my hamstring. I went to health services, and popped some ibuprofen. Pretty bad pain for a bit, but the ibuprofen kicked in, and I was able to walk it off, and now it's completely fine. That may sound like a complaint, but it isn't. That. Was. AWESOME. I've never had such a reaction to a scare before! That just means that you were doing your job great, and I would accept a broken leg for a scare of that caliber! Note, I think that I may have gotten those pictures on varying casts, but the Director who got me was on the same cast as The Caretaker. I am NOT complaining! Kudos to you for an awesome scare!

I was in line for Psyhcoscareapy and this VERY loud drunk, who kept calling me the "Five years of whores shirt guy" repeatedly, until I turned around and said in a semi angry voice "Ok, LOOK. It's TEN Years of whores, five years of horror. Got it?" he left me alone, but he would yell and scream about how he thinks he's in the wrong line, over and over and over again, and his girlfriend kept telling him "No we're not, stop embarrassing me" until finally we got to an ops, and they asked the ops what house that was...the ops actually had to describe the house to them, and they group said "omg, we HAVE been through here before" so the ops puts them in the express line to Hades. Wtf? So they got in the wrong line, and now are allowed to skip everyone in the Hades line. Either way, though, I was happy to have those drunkards out from behind me, and I was able to enjoy my experience. Also, I met a good ops. I don't want to put it in scareactor shout outs, and don't know where else to put it. Anyhow, I was going through Zombiegeddon alone...got passed the bridge/cage ish scene, and one of the scareactors from behind the fence got me REAL good. So the ops says "Heh, you think that THAT was scary, keep on going!" I actually grinned. May have killed the experience for some, but it amused me.

Great great great night tonight! I decided to take my cat and comb with me, and wow I'm so happy that I did. I got SO much attention from everyone from it! Shout out to the plague doctor who stole my kitty from me (twice, but not so long the second time) the various ones who pointed and clapped, and did some "funky" things at me XD I love this house, definitely going to come back again. I was the guy with the vault shirt, glasses, and a black and white stuffed cat with a comb. I was most likely combing the cat the whole time haha. Big shoutout to Mirple aka Iwa yet again for making my night in Esqueleto Muerte. I got the classic "boop!" and then the cheer, and then a quick convo involving sugar...and eating my cat. I asked her if she wanted to comb it, but she said "No, I'll just eat it!" Hehehehe. This gave me the inspiration to get as many scareactors as I could pose with the cat and let me get a picture of it, which started with mirple/Iwa here Looking at the image, I notice somebody behind her with the "I did it Alone" shirt...holy shit, that's a coincidence if I've ever seen one. Shoutout to Cindy, again! For stealing my heart, and wanting to steal my cat, but reluctantly giving it back. She made me feel so sad, since all of her toys got burnt up. Then I realized that SHE did it...haha. A bit less remorse there . I promised her that I'd bring another to give to her, I wonder if she's even allowed to take gifts from guests haha In Saws and Steam I had C_D tell me "Nightmare...rules!" and I smiled and nodded. Note, that I'm wearing a vault shirt...lol. Another time through, I had a scareactor that i don't recognize bat at my cat. I moved the cat closer to him "Wanna pet my kitty?" He knocks it out of my hand, and stops near it! I reach down to grab it, and he stomps again! I reach again, and he revs up the saw.....he shakes his head at me. I say "Oh, C'mon, don't you need human body parts, not animal parts? Are you gonna kill my kitty?" he smiles, and makes one quick rev and jab at the cats throat. He backs up, and I snatch up my cat. Hehe, nice one. To other actors in Fear Revealed...I used to knock this zone, but wow it's gotten great. The Director literally made me pull a hamstring muscle, he got me so good. Ms. Strict, dunno if it was Kim or the other one, let me get a picture of her and my kitty and The Caretaker even agreed to "cut" the head off of my kitty Such awesome interaction! 20 years of fear....wow, I always liked this zone, but felt that it was more of a "good" zone than a "Great" zone. Well, tonight coming through, I was more than impressed. Alice is a great scareactress! We chatted for a while about my cat. "Is that a chesire cat?" "Nope, afraid not" "I like chesire cats! You should have brought one!" and I said "I like him too, but every time I see him I get sucked down this whole with a whole bunch of weird crap happening around me" her already HUGE smile gets bigger "Don'tcha just HATE IT when that happens?!" And off she goes. The cheerleader did a cheer for me and the kitty, and the Ice Queen pet the kitty and even kissed him! Wish I woulda taken a picture of that. I came through the zone a second time and Alice recognizes me again, and chats for a while. "You should bring in more pets!" Oooh, GREAT idea! I'll keep the kitty with me for cats n' combs, but maybe I'll also bring a duck or something with me next time . Then here comes The Wolfman...actually had to get him at a good time. He just hugged a little girl (awwww) and I had to wait around for him to finally notice me. He starts barking in my face, and then I hand him the kitty. "Want supper?" he snatches him up, does this little canter back to the other end of the zone while "munching" on my kitty, and then I snapped this epic picture . He then handed me back the kitty, snarled/barked s'more, pointed at my shirt and barked "VAULT!" and went on his merry way. In Zombiegeddon I had the privilege of going through mostly by myself two times, and chatting a bit with the guy up front with the microphone ("You survived?!") and the zombies were on their A-Game. I enjoyed it quite a bit. The nailgun man was great, and in the ending scene, I saluted a scareactor who gave me the Vault sign both times through. Kudos to him! Through Zombie Gras, I had a lot of fun dancing and hanging out with the zombies, and one particular zombie who introduced himself to me on these boards before, but I can't for the life of me remember him. My third or fourth time through, he beaded me, and I requested a picture with the kitty. For some reason he stared at me stoically. Umm, I know that it was part of the act, but I couldn't for the life of me think of how to go with it. Then a random guy comes by to ask for directions -.- REALLY?! Ask an ops, or get a map. And he figured, "eh, what the hell." and got me this "To eat brains, or not to eat brains" picture. Last few shoutouts, so bear with me here. Havoc had a very angry female shouting "GET OUT OF HERE VAULTER, I COULD SMELL YOUR STENCH FROM A MILE AWAY, WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?!" hehe nice. I almost walked into a rather large male's boohole, after getting a bit disoriented...there was an OPS standing RIGHT THERE and she didn't point for me where to go until after the scareactor popped out with a "WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING?!" Hehe oopsy. In the finale, I had a few follow me to the door to scream. That was nice. This was the last run through I believe. And right before that run in Havoc, and my last shoutout, in the Orfanage, the pirate GOT ME AGAIN! Kudos to you. I saw that grin as you went back to hide hehe. And Cindy at the end, I called out her name, and she pops up and says "I'm the one who burnt down the vault!" Very nice. I really enjoyed that. Edit: Decided that this post was already too big for this thread. I'm going to be putting the pics into their respective threads, to help save the mods from a bit of headache.

I'll be bringing my stuffed cat and a comb tonight .

Don't get me wrong, I love hearing screams, I love it when people scream, but there are some who walk into a zone and before anyone's even LOOKED at them they begin wailing at the top of their lungs. This happens more in houses than zones, but it is so annoying. Those that scream loudly when something pops out at them, cool, I dig that, I enjoy that even....even if my ears begin hurting. Last year in The Spawning I was behind a group of tweens and early teens who did just that, and I found it hilarious. Then I was behind a similar group who just began screaming as if to announce their presence...ugh. Ah, I see. That makes sense. The ops that's supposed to have his eye on it must've been looking the other way whenever this angsty group came by, but probably took care of them without creating much of a ruckus.

Yes, I'm trying to avoid getting any in people's faces or whatever. Sometimes pipe smoke can be thick. The people that puff their smoke into peoples faces really piss me off...line smokers piss me off. People who smoke in huge crowds, ala the lines waiting for the metal detectors on a bad night, seriously piss me off. I mean, you're in a huge cluster of people, and you're gonna light up...just ridiculous.

So, no vault shirt, even though the vault is dead? I'll just wear my jacket and button it up if so, no biggie.

I was thinking that maybe they were limiting drinks or something as an experiment, but I guess it's just....there. For no reason other than being there.

Dunno where to put this, so I'll put it here. The other night I saw a booth up where 21+ had to get a wristband to drink alcohol. Is that a new step from Universal to curb drinking, or is it a convenience thing so they wouldn't have to show their ID at every booth or something?

That's on topic for me, if those benches are far enough from the crowd to not bug people with smoke . I've been seeking out spots around every scarezone, seems to me that Saws and Steam and Zombie Gras are the only ones with really good watching places where I can sit and smoke, but then again I may not have been looking hard enough, because I was waiting for a response such as GeekBsmrT's . I'll be #2 and enjoy the scarezones. I just hope that the asshats working security don't say anything about my pipe, or insist on searching my tobacco baggy (when it's dark it could look similar to weed, but judging by the smell it obviously isn't.)

Maybe it just appeared to me that the oven was closed...I never stopped to look that close at it. I think that they should close it just because of these idiots. I also hate the "Scream louder" crew. Especially when they're just...screaming. No scares going on, nothing....like a friggin extremely high pitched klaxon going off or something. Quite annoying.

I just remembered something. On the 14th when I went last, which was extremely busy and full of idiots, had a few particularly bad idiots. One was making rude gestures to the guy on the machine. "Oh, what is that, your age or your IQ?" was a great response. The totally EPIC response from the teen was "fuck you." I'm still shuddering at the sheer originality of the teen, as that is quite a creative insult (Yes, that's sarcasm to you white knights out there.) Anyhow, they actually opened up the oven on the side closest to the alley, took a few body parts out, and were about to make off with them when the guy on the machine shouts "YOU DARE STEAL FROM THE MACHINE?! YOU'RE PATHETIC. YOU ARE TRASH" or something to that extent. He ran up to them, snatched the body parts back up, and stuffed them back into the oven. So, that brings up a few questions. One, to the scareactors that were working that shift, what happened to those idiots? The crowd was too thick for me to see if security got them. Also, why the hell can you open the oven? I mean, holy crap, put a lock on it or something. That's ridiculous. I think that the shouter on the machine should have the same rights as security, or at least have some sort of code word to summon them over in case idiots pull that crap off, because I was about ready to walk on over and help him out...but I didn't want to start a fight, nor did I want to get trespassed for a year for "participating in a fight" so I just kinda backed off.

Cool. Honestly, you guys look exactly alike in that costume lol. I really enjoyed Margie though, she was so sweet to me but caustic(edit: caustic in a characteristic way, not being rude or anything) to everyone else XD. She taps on the shoulder of the lady that was sitting in front of me, and slowly moves the knife to her face smiling, then walked around the room a bit, and as she left she gave me this really creepy "old lady finger wave." As far as hell week being next week....damn. I hope that it isn't too bad on Thursday/Sunday or even Wednesday. From my experience, hell week has only been bad on Fridays/ Saturdays, but then again I've only been on a hell week day on a Friday or Saturday heh.

It's unlikely, but it's possible. I was just saying off of the top of my head. I failed a drug test because of a person smoking while around me. Granted I was sitting with this person, and this was before I knew what weed smelled like. What a great way to figure out, huh? It is about 80% my fault for not asking why his cigarette smelled funny though. Anyhow, there are some people who are vehemently opposed to it, or just can't handle smelling it for some reason or another, and smoking it in public is just plain out rude. Take it to your vehicle or your home, and I have no problem with it.

Sadly, I concur. There were a few times that I was literally lost in a normal house, because I had the chance to go through by myself...no ops...nothing. I had to listen for screams and loud noises and whatnot. It was great. Hardly any ops at all in HOS houses. The only thing that bugged me is if you go through alone they send a cop behind you, but still....I'd rather that than an ops in every room. They also sent "stage managers" or whatever they're called through with the lines in lieu of ops, who really didn't do anything, and were hard to pick out unless you stared them down and looked really closely for the name tag. I'd much rather have Uni send discrete people through to do the same job as the people who just stand around, annoying us all.

Yes, shout out to all scareactors for making it through last night. Holy crap. I've seen bad nights before, but that was one of the worst I've seen as a guest. Shout out to the fear revealed guys again for having fun in the VIP lounge . Storyteller kindly taking a seat next to me=win. Jack insulting the A&D people's Terra blade=epic. And Cindy...omg, I'll adopt you from the orphanage, just lemme take you home! Such amazing acting! She comes prancing into the VIP lounge, and grabs one of the electric candles, and I look at her....and, to my horror, she turns it upside down (I thought that they were real) she giggles, and says "These aren't real!" "Wow...I did not know that." Giggles again "I wish they were though, so I could burn this whole place down!" I was so awestruck by her acting that I just smiled, and she pranced on out. I have a feeling that I posted some of this already, if soo, oopsy. I came home at 4AM last night and typed what I could.

I guess it's the perfect time for security to up their security, when the crowds go insane. Well, although there were a few teens that I would have loved to become real victims, there were a few that entertained me quite a lot, especially the screaming teen girls. For some reason I haven't experienced them on a weekday for a WHILE. And seeing scareactors get them -good- made the event better. In catacombs I was following some guy that insisted on touching EVERYTHING and ops said nothing...and Hallow'd Past, I was following a guy with his camera out taking pictures of everything o.0 and ops still said nothing. This was towards the end of the night, as ops were opening their backstage doors in the house exposing everything, talking to each other, and really kinda killing it a bit for me. I'm typing a lot about last night because I was too tired to type everything when I got home.

I love the interaction you guys provide to the VIP lounge. Especially whoever was playing the storyteller that came in and sat right next to me (not before asking for permission first though hehe). I think that that was Kim, but I'm horrid with names and faces. I wasn't sure what to do or how to react at first until she was just being straight forward obvious lol. Also, I've been asking people and looking around, but I just can't find too much info on Chance. Is there any official backstory for her? She's like an even more forgotten about Eddie. But I love the character...and the people who play her, holy crap. One of the A&D guys (The tall one lol, I forgot his name) was talking about the 2005 rewards they gave the people who played the game...and Chance just so happened to be hanging out in the room, and he joked that "We gave you Chance as the gift!" and she gave this laugh and jiggles her breasts! I don't have a single female friend that would get THAT into a character. They'd just kinda try and tame the character down.

I think it's gotten a lot better. I'm a HUGE Bill and Ted fan, to the point where I even sat through the crappy ones and still enjoy them. But the first night Bill and Teds was just....weak. I laughed for the first 5-10 minutes, then everything was kinda dragged on and I was just thinking "...meh." but I watched it again and was pleasantly pleased that they fixed the "flow" of the show, threw in more jokes, and made it live up to its name. It's doing great this year. The best? No. The worst? Definitely not.

Ok, another security rant. I come to the park around 8:30 PM last night, and holy shit the "line" to get through the detectors is larger than I've ever seen before in my HHN career..and not only that, it's just a big group of people. No organization. After a good 20 minutes or so of waiting, I figure out what the hubbub is about. They're checking every. Little. Thing. I think now they're trying to make up for all of the crap they missed before, and now they're going overboard. Everyone had to take off their belts (umm...WHAT?! This isn't a court room!) and a security guard barred me from entering because the key to my motorcycle looks like a golf car key 0.o. He steps in front of the detector as I'm about to walk through, and holds the key in my face, and says "Son, why the hell do you have a golf cart key?" Not that it's any of his damn business if I had a golf cart key or not (I mean, REALLY, WTF does that have to do with ANYTHING?! Friggin power tripping prying ASSHOLES) so I responded "It's to my motorcycle, you douche." He didn't say a word, and put it back in the bowl, and motioned me through. Once I obviously didn't explode, I grabbed my stuff, and stormed off. Also, were the crowds last night ginormous for a Thursday or is it just me?