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Yeah, I had a look at prices the other day. Qantas seems to be about $400 return, though I'm sure we'll probably have to get in early for that.

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Yes! Coordinate and book! It'll be so funny if you're all on the same flight... :-D

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I wonder how much a train down to Wellington from Auckland would be...cheaper than flying, you think? ^^

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Well, Hannah and I will be at least. Al and Meelie, if they're coming. We'll probably meet

i_naiad at the airport in Wellington unless she comes down from Brisvegas first.

We could be terrors on the plane. :)

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I fear for the other passengers! ;-p

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No, it's not. Irony of ironies. BUT!

If you hurry *right now* there seem to be ten dollar fares from Auckland to Wellington on Intercity buses!!! You have to poke around, and when it asks "time" put in "after 6pm". I think it's the 7.50pm bus. You'll spend most of the night in a bus seat, but at that price I think it's worth it!!!

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So you should! :)

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Holy crap, that is pretty damn cheap. Just have to talk to the parents and ask if anyone else from around here is interested, then.

Thanks for the info!

P.S. I'm mainly in anime fandom right now, is that a problem?

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Of course not! As long as you're happy, then I'm very happy.

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blademistress and I would probably be coming up together, if it all works out. *grins* How big is Stately Luthor Manor? Enough to fit all of us crazy slashers?

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It's pretty big. Not seventy-five rooms, some I've never seen big, but three bathrooms and a mini movie theatre big. :-D

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The HoF have a question (I speak for us all, muaha!): we're renting a car for road-tripping afterwards - do you think it would be a good idea to get it on Saturday, so we have it for the gathering? How close are you to shops etc?

Also, would it be okay if all 5 of us stayed at the Stately Luthor Manor Friday night through to Monday morning, or is that going to make things a bit crowded? No problem if so, we just need to start sorting out hotel bookings and such. Currently we're all in a state of high excitement and equally high disorganisation. *g*

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I live about ten minutes from town by bus. I was thinking of getting everyone to kick in ten dollars or so and buying drinks, snacks, breakfast foods etc. If we just go out for dinner it'd be cheaper to get a couple of cabs. It's up to you.

You're certainly all very welcome to stay. There's plenty of room as long as you don't mind a little bit of improvisation with mattresses. :-D

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Would it be too crowded if we (meaning us two Aucklanders) stayed there too? XD

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Hee! No, between the spare bedrooms and the lounges I think we can swing it. ;-p

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Okay, excellent, sounds like we can leave it till Monday. And good idea with the buying of breakfast foods and such.

You're certainly all very welcome to stay.

Thank you very much! We'll certainly be fine improvising, we've shared before in some pretty cramped and unmattressy places. *g*

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That sounds like *perfection* to me. We'll do some polling.

*oh, god, electioneering on the brain... the official campaign started today... snore*

Fantastic idea, thank you. Dot it, file it, stick it in a box marked done.

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Awesome. I suspect individuals might want to keep a personal favourite for their own pimping sessions, but vids generally, this is definitely the way to go.

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Vids are always good for filler too, especially when the brain has lost the ability to comprehend anything strenuous like plot and can just be mesmerised by the pretty pictures and music.

If you're thinking of doing something like an hour long thing, you might want to think of burning them to dvd. Would probably be a lot easier than just hooking up a computer.

Also, what about some of the old school vids? The ones that are still on tape and haven't been redone for digital media? There are some amazing ones that we have floating around here that I've never seen converted.

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Filler definitely good. I have multiple videoplayers as well as dvd and laptop all hooked together through the projector so bring anything you would like to have a look at, in addition to the stuff Kirrily puts together.

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Either's good, *vbg*, and the videos - I had no idea there even *was* such a thing - can just play on the vcr if people want to look at them.

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There's, at the very least, an amazing RayK vid that only on tape. As long as the vcr will play NTSC we should be good. :)

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Cool. Is it going to be a democratic voting, set list, decision as to what people want on the day? Also, what kind of spread of fandoms is on the books for vids? Because I know that Hannah has over a gig worth of vids on her external in probably 25 or more fandoms.

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Groovy. We'll have to be selective if we bring tapes with the limited luggage we're probably going to be bringing. *ponders*

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I may have underestimated Hannah's vid collection by about, oh, um, 7 gig and that's not including most of the VividCon vids. I actually got off my backside and checked instead of guessing. Oops. :)

Anyway, that sounds cool. So many vids to choose from in so many fandoms, it's going to be hard to limit it.

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Hi, I'm an Aucklander looking for someone to travel with, so thought you might like another crazy slasher to travel with. I'd go for the bus option. My preferred travel day would be Friday, Cause that's when my leave starts, but hey, I'm easy

Can contact me at sethra2000@yahoo.co.nz

Cheers

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We can always tape the good ones on to one tape, if we were to get organised.

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Only problem with that is the PAL vs NTSC issue. It's a pain.

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My video tapes ntsc to ntsc though.

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Does it cme out okay because when we tried, it went green.

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Yeah, I've taped something that was fine. A little fuzzy, but I think the orginal source wasn't the best anyway, so it could have come from that.

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Weird. Obviously I was doing something wrong. hmph.

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No, I think it's just that my vcr is magic, where other vcrs just do internal conversiony ntsc-pal, mine will actually play and record ntsc, pal and secam (as i remembered last week after accidentally taping a pal broadcast in ntsc. oops). At least it doesn't work on my old vcr which plays ntsc, so that's what I figure.

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Mine does that to. Maybe it doesn't like Hannah's.

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Could be. Maybe we need to get our vcrs together *bowwowchickachicka*

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