/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

[Anonymous No.9141820]

Anyone have stories about rooming with randoms at conventions? I'm curious. I mean I don't do that and nobody I know does but someone must have done it.

[Anonymous No.9143761]

I've only done it twice, one good and one bad. I'll start with good one first.

>Friend really wants me to go to con, a mutual friend has a room and she's offering me a spot for super cheap
>decide "why not", go ahead and go
>mutual friend is rooming with the con staff
>I'm instantly connected with the con staff, one of the "insiders" so to speak
>we sit around playing cards against humanity and drinking into the wee hours of the night
>all in all, pretty fun night.

Now for the bad one.

>Friend wants me to room with her and some others at ACEN
>dunno who's holding the room but I meet them
>its some 27 yr old with anxiety issues, mental issues out the ass, and walks around in her underwear the entire time she's in the room
>smells exactly like sardines. No exaggeration.
>tried to use little friend as a body pillow
>noped my way out of there

[Anonymous No.9143793]

>Room with friends for Anime Expo. They have a few stragglers to makeup for last minute drop outs in the room.
>They don’t know one of the girls to well but they need the money.
>Girl IS probably where the term Hambeast originated as well as a few other words. (See: Weeaboo, japanophile, fucking retard)
>We’ll call her Tarry. We get to the con Friday night and Tarry is 3 hours late. (This wouldn’t have mattered but we had to pay at check in and she hadn’t paid yet).
>Get settled in. She throws her stuff all over the room and proceeds to start yaking about her new favorite thing. Homestuck. (A forward, I don’t mind homestuck itself, but I hate the fandom.)
>Saturday rolls around. Tarry is cosplaying a troll from homestuck. (The one with the red eyes and the Libra symbol.)
>She locks herself in the bathroom. “I need to get into my troll makeup! Don’t come in!”
>2 Hours later she still isn’t done.
>There are 2 people in the room with Trinity Blood costumes, and my self and my friend have makeup that takes at least an hour to apply. Plus we all still need to shower. (Not that our costumes automatically take priority but 2 hours, really?)
>We notice a funny smell coming from the bathroom.
>Door is locked, and she wont let us in.
15 minutes later we start to get really suspicious. Friend decides to shimmy open the door.
>Her purse and valuables are in there and she needs to go.
>Get door open.
>Tarry is sitting in the bathtub, naked. The bathtub is filled almost half way with what we later found out was 70% alchohol and sharpie dye. Bottles and sharpies everywhere.
>It’s all over the walls. On the tile. On almost all the towels. On several articles of clothing and bags in the bathroom.
>What she says?

“I was going to clean it up!”

>BITCH YOU TRIED TO DYE YOURSELF GREY IN A BATHTUB.
>We kick her out of the room. She pays the $700 dollars in damage fees. She gets skin poisoning/damage from her stupid stunt.
>Fucking Homestuck fans.

[Anonymous No.9143809]

My first out of state con, I flew halfway across the country to Acen and roomed with randos from the forums.
Nothing bad happened except one night I had gone to sleep early and one of their friends comes in with a motherfucking TRUMPET at midnight.

[Anonymous No.9143819]

>>9143793
What a fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.9143838]

>>9143793
Pls be real, I want to believe

[Anonymous No.9143869]

>>9143793
That's amazing, real or not

[Anonymous No.9143874]

>>9141820
> friend says these girls were chill and cool
> arrive 2 hours late to the hotel (They live in the town of the con, I travelled 7 hours and made it on time)
>I had a heart condition at the time
> told them not to get into my food and snacks, I needed them for health reasons
> painting boots green on the floor, no newspaper or anything
> cutting wigs everywhere, never cleaned up clippings
> They drank all my juice on day 1
> kept touching my AP in the closet
> brought 13 year olds over and were doing shots with them
> my ass can get fired because I'm in the same room as minors consuming alcohol
> They go to the rave
> come back at 3 am and being loud, kicking my stuff around (including my expensive power bag I borrowed from family)
> knew we were gonna get charged extra for housekeeping
> snuck out at 7 am with all my stuff
> I took pics of all the damage so they couldn't blame ant of it on me (I didn't have anything to paint, my wigs were already cut)
> tell friend about it
> 'oh, yeah I forgot they were different at con'
Worst con experience ever

[Anonymous No.9143877]

/sci/ here

Does anyone have that image with a lot of comments about /cgl/ girls getting their periods and blod clots and shit?

It was really disgusting and I want to read it again. I want to feel that feeling again. Someone please tell me you have it.

[Anonymous No.9143878]

>>9143793
Pretty sure this is copypasta from years ago

Still good shit though

[Anonymous No.9143893]

Is this a general Roommate horror story thread? Because I've got one of those.

It wasn't exactly with randoms. My BF and I needed a place to stay at a con and my friend (more of an aquantance at the time, had only met her once) was hosting a room with a bunch of people. It was my first year at the con and I trust her, so it seemed like a good plan to get a cheap room share with her.

Night 0, we arrive Thursday of the con. My friend, who we'll call Apple, comes down to greet us as we arrive.
So far, I know we're rooming with Apple, her bf, and her bf's brother (who we'll call Moby Dick the Sperg Whale.) Apple and Moby come find us in the lobby of the hotel.
To best describe him, Moby is what the Lorax would like look it if was human. Short, fat, hairy, and grotesque.
As we make our greetings to Apple, Moby shoves himself into our conversation and asks what we'll be cosplaying this weekend. I politely tell him, to which he aggressively responds "Well, I'M cosplaying a pokemon trainer." I brush it off and try not to think too much about it.

My bf and I had carpooled up with a nice friend of BF. She was sweet enough to help us carry our things up to our room even though she was staying in a different hotel, and as we finished putting things away, she bid us farewell and told us she was going to check out a tea shop. Moby invited himself, and this poor girl didn't know any better than to reject. Sunday on the way home we found out Moby had "forgotten" his wallet and made BFs friend pay for him.

We go to pre-reg soon and get some promotional stuff from the con. There's a bit in a pamphlet about the 3-2-1 rule or whatever it is, including showering daily. Some of the girls in our room joke about how sad it is that they have to mention you should shower daily, Moby joins in. This is important later.

(1/?)

[Anonymous No.9143898]

>>9143893
(2/?)

Apple had made nice plans for all of us to go out to dinner that night. As we're heading into the restaurant with a large party of us, Moby decides that my bf needs to hear all about his Pokemon OC backstory. The backstory of his OC is every bit as weird and pathetic as he is. Because Moby is corning BF while he forces this onto BF, we get seperated from Apple and her BF and end up sitting at the other end of the table from them for dinner, and have to sit next to strangers. Our delightful dinner topics included major surgery and 9/11 recounts from teenagers.

After dinner, we go back to our room and meet some more of our roommates. One in particular is a 17 year old (the only underage in the room) who we'll call Nozo.
Moby strips down to just his boxers. We're all uncomfortable but it's still Night 0, we don't want to say anything to be rude. Everytime a new room mate walks in, Moby thinks it's appropriate to go up to them in his boxers and force a handshake onto them, and ask them what they will be cosplaying. So that he can mention his cosplay. After about the third time he asks, he tells the girl "Wow, it sure seems popular to bring THREE cosplays these days." It was a three day con.
Apple, Nozo, me and our bfs decide to go swimming. Moby seems upset by this, and resigns himself to stay in the room as he didn't bring a swimsuit. Once we've all changed and are heading out the door, Moby stands up and asks if we think his boxers will make a suitable swimsuit. We say no.

[Anonymous No.9143902]

>>9143898
(3/?
Also, Sorry for any spelling or grammatical mistakes.)

Day 1.

Everyone had set alarms for the morning but I was the first one out of bed, take a shower, and get ready.
By the time I'm out of the shower others are starting to rise and prepare themselves for the con. Most of the room is girls, so it's a lazy storm of shapewear, wigs, and makeup.
Moby removes himself from his sleeping bag, and puts on his Pokemon Trainer OC outfit. This takes him all of five minutes, and he asks if anyone is ready to go to the con. We all decline, clearly not ready. He says he'll see us later and leaves.
About an hour later BF and I are prepared and head out for the con. We take the elevator down to the lobby and as the doors open.. there is Moby. Sitting on the floor across from the elevator, waiting for his prey of someone to follow. He stands up the second he sees us, ready to make himself our shadow. We tell him we have a photoshoot that we're running late for and need to go. He sits back down and waits for his next victim.
My bf and I run into Apple and her bf throughout the day a few times, chit chat, we genuinely enjoy each others company. I feel bad that they have to live with Moby, but I don't want to be rude still so I don't say anything.
When it's time to return to our hotel room, we're all going over our purchases from the day.
Moby constantly sits on our bed, or finds other ways to invade personal space. As I'm showing something to Apple he starts to waddle his way into our space and stand just a biiit too close, and force himself into the conversation.
He once again decides it's a good idea to sleep only in his boxers, scarring the rest of us for life. Moby snores like a lawnmower, BF has trouble sleeping.

[Anonymous No.9143904]

>>9143902
(4/?)
Day 2.

Once again, I'm the first one up and ready to go in the morning. Moby has repeated his routine of removing himself from his sleeping back, only to put on the same clothes he wore yesterday, ommitting showering, brushing his teeth, or taking any part in a daily hygenic ritual.
Moby heads out for the day and once again waits by the elevators for someone to follow around. Bf and I once again dodge him.
Day goes by pretty uneventful, Bf and I return to our room near the end of it to find our underager, Nozo, wasted off Apple's booze stash. Apple and her bf were at a room party to which Apple's BF had to clearly tell Moby he was not invited to after he tried to trail them, but Moby is missing from the room at this point thankfully.
Bf and I were teenagers once so we don't judge, Nozo is well behaved albiet a bit loud. Overall we're having some laughs and we find her entertaining in her drunken state, BF and I make sure she stays hydrated and under control, feed her a little food so she can settle down.
We hear someone coming through the door and we all get excited because we think it's Apple and that the good times will continue to roll. But in walks Moby.
We still try to have a good time despite Moby being a total mood killer. I give Nozo a waterbottle and tell her to keep drinking water so she won't wake up hungover, Moby tries to convince her to chug it so that she'll vomit. BF scolds Moby, Moby can't take a fucking hint.

[Anonymous No.9143908]

>>9143904
(5/5)

Nozo has hit her emotional drunk point and is talking about how much she loves everyone. She mentions what a good guy Apple's bf is, but she is astounded by how hairy he is.
Moby disputes this with "I'm pretty hairy too!" to which he stands up and walks over to Nozo, and tries to start taking off his clothes to "prove" it. My BF tells him to keep his fucking clothes on, to which the rest of us commend him for and back him up. Moby is unhappy with this but pretends he doesn't care.
As we're all still trying to have a good time, Moby must loudly anounce every five minutes what he's just eaten for dinner. He then forlornly sighs how he's all out of money and he hopes he can convince Apple and BF to accompany him to another meal so that they can pay for him.
Night ends with Moby once again in the same boxers he's been wearing all weekend.


Day 3.

Sunday, the weekend is finally over and while Bf and I have enjoyed seeing Apple we are looking forward to being away from Moby. As everyone in the room gets ready, Moby, for the fourth day, does not shower or brush his teeth, only puts on his well worn clothes and heads out to sit for an hour, to wait for someone to annoy. We once again dodge him with a photoshoot excuse.

I'm sure that there was more but it's been a few months since and I've tried my best to forget what I could. If I remember any more I'll be sure to post about it but I think I've managed to include the "good" bits.

[Anonymous No.9143938]

>>9143878
anon who posted, yeah it's old copy pasta, but I think everyone deserves to read it real or not.

[Anonymous No.9143940]

The one time I roomed with randoms was because the friends I usually went with had a falling out and decided not to go. The guy setting up the room was a photographer who kept two jars of peanut butter (and nothing else) in the mini fridge. The other people sharing the room were me, an aa vendor selling sailor moon friendship bracelets, and a guy I never saw but who left the massive amount of merchandise he bought (including two dakimakur) draped over the one arm chair in the room.

[Anonymous No.9143951]

>>9141820
I did it this otakon first time. I had a ton of fun, really cool people, we just played uno and took pics of each other

[Anonymous No.9143979]

>>9143877
found it for you. Have fun.

[Anonymous No.9143987]

>>9143979
Thank you my man. I will save it this time and post it on /sci/ for the other people who brought it up.

[Anonymous No.9143996]

>>9143979
Same guy. Do you have similar stuff? For some reason I don't feel as disgusted as I thought I would be.

Do you have like a hardcore version of this shit? If not that is fine, thank you for the efforts.

[Anonymous No.9143998]

>>9143996
Isn't there like a disgusting female frog meme somewhere? I remember it on cgl sometime ago.

[Anonymous No.9144003]

>>9143979
That is nasty.

[Anonymous No.9144012]

>>9143996
Naw. That thread wasn't too bad in reality. That's pretty much the worst of it.

[Anonymous No.9144014]

>>9144003
>>9143979

I remember getting an actual headache from reading this back in the day.

Maybe this is not the most updated version? I get the feeling that there was so much fucked up shit there.

Reading the last part still gets me but I feel like it should get me harder. I feel like I should be questioning humanity but I am barely cringing a bit.

[Anonymous No.9144017]

I remember there was a manga about an all girls high school that isn't clean and proper like most guys think. I suppose without men around this is how girls behave.

[Anonymous No.9144023]

>>9144012
Maybe we need a new one. I want to cringe. I need the cringe.

[Anonymous No.9144027]

>>9144017
In real life men don't really influence girls' actions though. Girls act like girls act. Boys act like boys act.

[Anonymous No.9144036]

>>9144017
>mfw I went to an all girls high school
It's not that bad. A lot of cursing though. It's more like teenagers will act like rowdy, cringy teenagers.

[Anonymous No.9144151]

>>9144014
You've become desensitized

[Anonymous No.9144158]

>>9144151
Im someone else. I really don't find it bad at all. Knowing it was on /cgl/ does, but taking this as a girls just talking about their bodies type of thing really doesn't bother me.

[Anonymous No.9144245]

Not a roommate horror thread. Not a general horror thread. A thread about rooming with randoms. Stop derailing.

[Anonymous No.9144378]

>friend of a friend hooks me up with a suite at MAGfest this year
>$50 to stay, and every hotel was booked
>had a falling out with a group of friends from last year, so staying with them wasn't an option
>thinking only about 5 people were staying in this suite
>turns out fucking like 10 people stayed
>smelly kid kept spraying axe body spray
>one guy kept throwing magic the gathering cards all over the room
>random hambeast shows up and bangs one of the guys and kept bragging about it
>almost get into a fight with this cunt, she eventually left
>not before stealing half our alcohol
>get sick on Saturday because everyone was gross as fuck and didn't shower
>in bed all Saturday sick as fuck, someone stole my badge
All I can remember but a lot more happened. I was sick/hammered half the time so I can't greentext it all. Never again though.

[Anonymous No.9144382]

I got one for you. I had a friend from college, she was very sweet, I didn't know her too well though. She tells me she wants to get into cosplay and I say I'll help her with whatever, etc. We spend a whole semester gearing up for a certain mid-January con. It's the Thursday before the con.

>phone rings, friend on the phone bawling.
>the con's tomorrow-- can you believe they're sold out of rooms? I have nowhere to stay!! I don't know what to do!
>Well... I guess you could stay with us, despite already having a ton of people in the room.
>Okay!! My Cousin is coming too, alright? he is SO nice, you'll LOVE him.
>We agree she will bring sleeping bags, and carry a larger part of the room cost because she didn't plan ahead and everyone else has to squish in for her.
>She shows up on Friday at 7pm, very late, and at the wrong hotel. Have to walk, in cosplay, in January to go pick her and her cousin up. Drop them off in the room with two other friends who are napping in the room before late-night. She is 20, her cousin is 24 or some shit.
>At this point in total, we have 2 19 year olds, 3 20 year olds, and 2 21 year olds... PLUS these two.
>I go to dinner with my family as we do cons as a family affair as well.
>Come back about 1-1.5 hours later and the room door is thudding. unst unst unst unst unst
>19 year old friend greets me at the door with a 40 in each hand.
>20 year old weeby friend crying in the corner because she doesn't know how this happened
>Here is college friend doing body shots on the bed with around 6-7 strange men PLUS her cousin.
>I turn off the music and ask WTF they're doing, two guys ask if I OK'd the room party. Fuck no I didn't.
>they start apologizing and picking up and agree to go
>College friend screams THE PARTY'S NEVER OVER!! VODKA IS GREAT!! And starts swinging around a bottle of vodka while standing on the bed
>Falls off and lands on the desk which shockingly does not break but she's crying
<cont>

[Anonymous No.9144391]

>Guys and her cousin escort her out, 19 year old friend follows behind him because he wants to 'feel the beat of the rave in his heart'
>It's like 12pm at this point and we're a group full of cosplayers, so we're touching up Sat's costumes, changing out of Friday's, relaxing, watching some HGTV. Everyone starts coming back, we've got the 3 20 year olds and the 2 21 year olds in the room. The previous group has left a literal garbage bag full of vodka, rum, and four lokos on the ground.
>We are all in bed at about 2-3am when the door busts open and the lights flip on, I jump up to see the 19 year old, drunk off his ask, screaming I WILL SAVE YOU
>College friend in his arms beings projectile vomiting
>19 year old falls over and drops her, explains that she was in the Rave when she grabbed some dude out of his pants, tried to suck it, vomited, and passed out.
>He carried her back
>She briefly regains consciousness, begins ripping at her Legs Avenue Sailor Moon costume
>Begins moaning and touching herself
>Screaming 'it hurts it hurts!" and throwing up everywhere
>We immediately grab her phone and look for her ICE, call her cousin 10-11 times and he never answers, calls some of the other guys, they don't answer. Call her fucking mom, also doesn't answer
>100% sure she has alcohol poisoning, underage drinking.
>21 year olds in the room start yelling fuck, fuck, I'm going to get in trouble, they bag the alcohol and trash it ALL.
>She cries for HOURS until near 4 am her cousin stumbles back up looking for more booze.
>Dude you have to take her out of my fucking room, she's thrown up all over everything.
>He starts saying 'what's your fucking problem, why do you have to be a fucking buzz kill, it's not like you're doing anything, i have to go back to the rave, stop killing my buzz, where are we supposed to go.'
>no fucking clue but you're out.
>what are we supposed to do?
>not my problem
>I will fuck you up!
<cont>

[Anonymous No.9144393]

>>9144391
>I stand down this guy- he's like 6' and probably 300 lbs, totally drunk, and tell him to fuck off.
>was pretty sure he was going to kick my ass
>Finally he relents and decides to take her to stay at a friend's place
>He has the drunk 19 year old carry her downstairs
>19 year old drops her many times on the way down. they call an uber.
>Cousin comes back up, starts putting on PJS and laying out his sleeping bag over the vomit.
>WTF DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?
>Well I got her out of here. I called an uber and put her on it, she'll probably make it back.
>No you are not staying here.
>THEN FINE FUCK YOU
>He leaves
>They never paid.
>Get back to school after that weekend, she's not there.
>She dropped out of school to be a cosplay model.

[Anonymous No.9144407]

>>9144382
>>9144391
>>9144393
Oh god why

>They never paid.
Next time get the money before the con

[Anonymous No.9144862]

>>9144245
If someone makes a roommate horror thread they're just going to get redirected here anyway. Deal with it.

[Anonymous No.9144908]

>>9143979
Honestly, I've heard of male anon's collecting their own sperm in 2L soda bottles, with pics. Or another guy who put an MLP figure in a sealed cup with his semen in it to ferment, also with photo proof. So this doesn't really bother me.

Unless of course, there are some femanons out there who collect their own menstrual blood....

[Anonymous No.9144916]

>>9144908
I guarantee that the guys of other boards are 100x grosser than the average seagull.

[Anonymous No.9144928]

>>9144027
But they do anon, just like girls influence guys actions.

[Anonymous No.9144984]

>classmate from school asks if I'd be interested in rooming with her for a convention
>agree, says her sister has an artist's alley table to tell some stuff and she'll be with us
>sister turns out to be some fat chick in her twenties that's one of the worst weebs I've ever met
>not like a cringey loud weeb, just a really mediocre artist/seamstress/cosplayer and complete slob
>threw a fit because barely anybody bought anything from her table (just cheap headbands with bows and bookmarks)
>tried to enter the cosplay contest and threw a fit because the winner had made a costume of the same character that was 100x better and not made with tinfoil and joanns baubles
>not to mention actually attempted to resemble the character they were cosplaying
>when it came to nighttime I got to find out that they sleep with all the lights and television on and were not willing to let me sleep on a bed during the time we stayed (I curled up on a chair)
>they also invited an extra person to room with us, some quiet asian chick with a sleeping bag that wound up disappearing partway through after she realized what a nightmare her roommates were
>by the third day room was coated in cosplay, underwear, other miscellaneous clothing and art shit along with days old takeout and pizza they couldn't bring themselves to throw away, my friends came by in a surprise visit and were mortified by the condition of the room

How the hell is it so hard for people to not act like complete animals when they have a hotel room? I went solo a couple months ago and I couldn't make a quarter of the mess they made if I even tried.

[Anonymous No.9145003]

>>9143908
Did he smell like rancid cheese because I can only imagine that your room smelled like con stench with that dude not showering for the whole weekend.

[Anonymous No.9145020]

>>9144908
I read a story about some girl using her menstrual blood in cookie dough so I think it's just people in general that are fucked up and gross, no matter what their gender. It's sad that I had to see that MLP one. Disgusting as hell.

[Anonymous No.9145786]

>>9144908
yes, I know the pony thing you're talking about. Also, collecting and cooking with menstrual blood is an old art that some people still use today for some fucking reason that is beyond me. It only got worse when 4chins made the fake "free bleed" movement and people took it seriously. Goddammit, /b/, this is why I will never love you (other than all the separate cancerous things about /b/).

[Anonymous No.9145856]

>>9143908
>No green text
> A little TL;DR
Good shot though

[Anonymous No.9145878]

>>9143979
Thread was posted on other boards and guys came to troll.

[Anonymous No.9145919]

>>9143996

[Anonymous No.9145923]

>>9145020
Was that the girl who tried to turn her boyfriend into a vampire?

[Anonymous No.9146008]

>>9143893
>3-2-1 rule
forgive my noobness, what's the 3-2-1 rule?

[Real Human Bean !1GbSmgU73c No.9146017]

It can be really fun if you find a way to bond with them outside of the con. One of the strangers I roomed with for Fanime drove my friends and I there so we had plenty of time to bro up for the weekend. You don't want things to get awkward, which will happen if you stay for a weekend in a room with people you don't even know.

I also suggest getting together prior to the con if possible.

[Anonymous No.9146174]

>>9146008
I've heard of 5-2-1... hours of sleep, meals, and shower.

[Anonymous No.9146179]

>>9145923
I have no clue. I saw the story years ago on Tumblr and wanted to vomit.

[Anonymous No.9148248]

>>9143877
>>9143979
>>9143996
>>9145919
oh god the first one wasn't fucked up enough for him
second one is scary as fuck

[Anonymous No.9148295]

> be me, at a con that is about 30 min away from campus
> be hanging out with my friend, we'll call her Arleen
> Arleen has a group of friends I have met before, one of them is a man, we'll call him Dave
> Dave is chill af
> be hanging out with friend group all day. it starts getting dark.
> i have terrible vision, and can barely drive at night, so i start to worry about making it back to my dorm safely.
> "it's ok anon, you can stay in my room" says Dave
> ok cool! are there any girls in your room?
> none
> discomfort.jpeg
> Arleen offers to stay in the room with me
> sounds great, we go to the room to meet Dave's other roommates.
> One of them is a huge, terrifying, offensive ham man.
> He continues to hit on me, i am clearly uncomfortable
> he says really offensive things, makes rape jokes, etc
> Dave is continually apologizing for him
> it becomes REALLY late, Arleen gets up
> "ok anon, i'm going back to my room"
> um... what?
> "i don't want to sleep in the same room as Ham Man"
> f u c k
> is stuck in the room with Ham Man and Dave because at this point i cannot drive back to my dorm
> is terrified to fall asleep because im afraid ham man might assault me in my sleep
> finally morning, i wake up, dave checks on me to make sure im ok
> im fine, but ham man drunkenly destroyed my costume
>......
sigh, i guess it was mostly my fault for just not going back to my dorm but i was genuinely worried that ham man would come onto me in my sleep. i was really glad dave was there.

[Anonymous No.9148653]

Ok, I have a good story and a bad one.

>Normally I room with the same few people but one year we decide to let a new guy room with our group.
>I've known him for a while and he's sweet so I think no problem.
>We meet at a commuter lot in town to save money on parking at the hotel.
>New Guy is an hour late, when he shows he has an entire truck full of stuff we have to fit into my car that already has 3 people and their things in it.
>He painted his armor and props right before leaving
>His shit barely fits and we are all holding our suitcases on our laps
>We are choking on paint fumes the whole drive.
>trytostaypossitive.jpg
>Get checked in, New Guy has to get his own bell cart for his stuff.
>Tries to stiff the bell hop
>His costumes aren't done, so he SPRAY PAINTS IN THE HOTEL BATHROOM I put on my credit card.
>More fumes
>So scared
>He only ends up wearing 4 or the 9 cosplays he brought
>I got a friend to throw New Guys shit in her pickup bed and drive out of her way back to his car.
>literally dump his crap in the parking lot
>He is now a running joke between everyone who survived rooming with him.


The good experience is the only time I ever roomed with strangers.
> It was a friend's ex-girlfriend and her friends. Me and my hubs were expecting the worst.
>We get to the hotel and they all come down to the parking garage and help us unpack our car.
>We get up to the room and they have a PS4 and games all set up
>They are so sweet when I have to spread out and do some last minute stitching on my cosplay
>They brought soup and a hot plate and make soup for everyone.
>We all go to bed at a reasonable hour.
>They insist me and my husband have one of the two beds every though there are 7 of us in the room.
>They brought a cooler with bacon and cook bacon and rice for breakfast to share with the room.
>Everyone compliments my cosplay and cheers for me when I win an award.
>We all help each other pack and load our cars

Perfect con

[Anonymous No.9148730]

>Been going to cons with the same group of friends for about 6 years
>Husband brings his work friend who is hella cool, but a heavy drinker.
>Friend and I are working an artist alley table and are in our first masquerade. So we're hella sleepy and just pass out Friday night early.
>Other friends drink, aside from our 1 weenie friend who doesn't drink at all.
>Husband leaves my laptop out on room table with my plushie prop behind it.
>His friend sets his drink by the laptop and passes out on floor.
>Non drinker is an early riser and is heard shuffling around and pouring a bowl of cereal at 5 am.
>I get up at 7, take a shower and start a cup of tea. Decide to check out tumblr and 4chan for any con photos and stuff.
>Laptop won't turn on, so I check the battery's connection to laptop
>Puddle of red liquid under it. Lift the laptop and it's just a puddle of it. Start freaking out.
>Nondrinky quickly says "I tried to clean it up, I don't know who spilled it"
>How's there a puddle if you fucking tried to clean it?! Says he used towels to clean if, none of them can be found. Laptop is DRIPPING when tipped sideways.
Trying to remain calm cause I'm known as a freak out queen at the con because the room explodes every time and I clean all Saturday night while they rave.
>Husband tries to look at the laptop while I get ready for the masquerade.
>Go to grab my plushie prop, and it's soaking wet and it's white foot is soaked pink from the drink.
>Start crying and screaming into a pillow because my gaming laptop and prop got fucked up. Really frustrated over it all.
>"I tried to clean it up" is said so many time my friends pull him from the room so I don't try to stab him with scissors.
>Husband's friend feels like shit about it, and offers to pay for the fix on laptop even though we know he didn't spill it.
>Nondrinky is not invited back to con and isn't spoken to by me or my friends for months, still won't admit to it.

[Anonymous No.9148733]

>>9143987
>>9144003
>>9143979
>>9144158


Some r9k femanon admitted that she started all the period threads and posted gross stuff in them in order to get cgl to also post gross stuff. Then she screencapped the thread and like >>9145878 said, posted them to other 4chan boards for more fun. Apparently she found this amusing.

Some of the stuff in the caps may be real, but there's probably fake gross stuff mixed in. So don't let it bother you too much. lel @4ch science tho.

[Anonymous No.9148737]

>>9143793
I remember someone mentioning this during the Convention War stories panel.

[Anonymous No.9148826]

I have a few, but this one is the one i remember most

>Otakon last year
>Wasn't planning on going originally, but friend convinced BF and I to go
>Work on costumes, set aside money, etc
>Arrive in Baltimore and get to hotel
>Discover we're rooming with friend and some people her bf found to fill out a room when him and his friends couldn't go.
>So there's 8 of us which is fine, i've had more cramped space
>One of them was a really nice girl (Sweets) about a year younger than me, her sister (Sour) who was kinda weird and her bf (Bitter), and two of her friends
>One was neckbeard (Grizzly), other was seemingly normal but had no common sense and some serious social problems (Dumbo)
>Come back to hotel room after first day after going to photoshoot
>Bitter and Grizzly ate ALL of the food i brought (to save money i just bring a cooler with some food i make). They didn't even get in costume and spent the whole day playing League on laptops
>Dumbo seemed to have the hots for me, ended up calling his mom to have me talk to her on the second night. He told her we were hitting it off earlier that day
>My bf gets miffed and tells him to fuck off. Dumbo says he doesn't deserve me and can tell i don't like the status of our relationship
>Bf decks him in the face, and tells him that wearing a black robe doesn't make him Ichigo (his costume that day was literally just the Bankai robe, didn't even have a sword)
>My friend is seriously distressed at the turn of events
>Sweets takes her outside to console her
>Dumbo and Grizzly decide to leave that night

1/2

[Anonymous No.9148841]

>>9148826

>The next day Sour is making an absolute mess of the shared space in the room
>Food, alcohol bottles, make-up, clothes, you name it
>Friend asks if something is wrong
>Sour says that they have extra room now with Grizzly and Dumbo gone. Bitter claims she's just in a bad mood and to not press it further
>Sour finally finishes a Kagome costume after 45 minutes in the bathroom
>Bitter literally just put on a red gi and some dog ears
>Whatever
>Sweets and friend go as Mikuru Asahina and Yuki and they're adorable. Bf and I Chrom and Lucina
>Dumbo comes back before we all leave and apologizes but not before asking Sweets out. Sweets in a rare turn tells him to piss off and never come back.
>Arrive back at the hotel room that night, Sour and Bitter are banging on the floor
>They don't even stop when we go in.
>Leave earlier than expected the next morning
>Later discover Grizzly tried to go through my phone on Dumbo's behalf

I had fun whenever I wasn't in the god damn hotel room

[Anonymous No.9148845]

>>9148826
>>9148841

Oh also I never really knew what Grizzly's deal was. He very rarely left the hotel room, didn't go to any panels, did almost nothing but play League, only showered once the entire time, and only brought one costume (Bob from Tekken) which he never wore, and implied he was only an acquaintance of Dumbo.

[Anonymous No.9150018]

>Gen Con 2013
>Room with a friend and three randoms
>Was kind of nervous/scared
>Two girls and a guy
>The first day one of the girls and the guy just disappear the entire day and don't come back until the next morning, and even then it's just the girl
>Ask where the guy went
>"I wouldn't worry about him!"
>Wake up the next morning to find a note saying they had to leave that night
>The two of us had a room to ourselves the rest of the con

[Anonymous No.9151245]

>>9143998
>Foul Bachelorette Frog.

[Anonymous No.9152284]

>>9148841
>Bf and I Chrom and Lucina
W-why anon?

[Anonymous No.9152357]

>room with pseudo friend from previous Otakon
>thought he was at the Holiday Inn across from the con but turned out to be the holiday inn 20 minutes away
>people claim the beds before we even got into the room and refuses to trade them off at any point during the weekend
>boyfriend there with me
>boyfriend proposes by the harbor
>say yes
>return to hotel and tell them the news
>"Congrats anon"
>doesn't surrender bed
>spend first night engaged on the floor

It's not like they owes it to us but its not like they paid more or anything like that. Husband and I are now well off and never ever get a room with anyone but the two of us.

Also same room
>bring big bags of jerry for the room
> add them to what I assumed what the shared food table
> open a bag of Pirate Booty that was already there
>pseudo friend freaks the fuck out and demand I compensate him
>bitch my jerky is 10 times more valuable then this puffy cheese crack

[Anonymous No.9152367]

>>9152357
You're right, they don't owe you shit just because you got engaged. And you should have asked if the food was shared rather than just taking whatever the fuck you want. We teach small children to ask before taking.

You all sound like terrible people to room with.

[Anonymous No.9152373]

>>9143938
I am friends with the OP of the pasta and yes, it is sadly, tragically real.

[Anonymous No.9152377]

>>9144393
WHAT'S HER COSPLAY PAGE.

Holy cow I want to see.

[Anonymous No.9152524]

>>9152357
you sound like a spoiled brat. Maybe ask on food before you assume shit. Did you pay for part of the room? If not, no bed for you. If so, sorry they don't understand sharing.

[Anonymous No.9152535]

1“Do not judge so that you will not be judged. 2“For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. 3“Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4“Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye? 5“You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

[Anonymous No.9152868]

This was a couple years ago.

>Unable to room with friends at con. Can only stay overnight instead of the whole weekend.
>Ask on the official con forum if anyone can put me up for one night. Someone responds, let’s call him J.
>J says he has floor space and we agree on a set amount to pay him.
>Day of con arrives. Meet up with J after getting my badge to pay him my share of the room.
>First warning sign was that he tried to weasel out of giving me my change. “I thought you were nice and paying me extra.” No, we agreed on a set amount and that's it.
>Find out J is not staying in the actual room but acting as “room head.” He is staying in another room.
>J lectures me on room rules and to follow them or be evicted. While these were generally common sense things (no smoking, keep your stuff in one area) he was treating me like a little kid (I'm at least 5 year older than him) and I had never been to a con before.
>J takes me to the room and starts bitching about how messy it is.
>5 people are staying in the room and it's honestly not that bad. I’ve stayed in messier con hotel rooms with fewer people over the years.
>Trying not to provoke any fights I just get my room key from J and go off to enjoy the con, but not before I see J take two boxes of pocky that don't belong to him.
>Later that night I head back to the room to get some sleep and this is when I meet fellow my roommates, who are pretty cool.
>We all share our experiences with J and agree that he is a dick and that there is something wrong with him.
>Find out that J was being a creeper towards one of the roommates, let’s call her M.
>M is asexual and clearly not interested in J. M talks about how J kept hitting on her and trying to touch her when she was trying to arrange her stuff in the room.
>At one point J bursts into the room looking for M. We hide her under the bed until he leaves.
>Don't see J for the rest of the night.

cont

[Anonymous No.9152870]

>>9152868

The next day:

>It's late in the afternoon and I head back to the room to get my suitcase so I can drop it off at my car and then enjoy my last few hours at the con.
>J is waiting in the room alone. Someone must’ve let him in because he does not have a room key.
>J starts pestering me to room with him again at future cons. I politely turn him down. After the experiences I've had I want nothing further to do with him after the con.
>J then starts whining about people not talking to him in his room and how he wants to spend the night in this room instead.
>He just wants an excuse to creep on M.
>Luckily my fellow roommates arrive and shut his idea down.
>I then have to wait for J to leave so I can give my key to one of my roommates because I know J would want to take it from me.
>J dicks around in the room for 20 minutes trying to make awkward conversation while the roommates are trying to change and get their stuff together.
>J finally leaves the room so I give the roommates my key and leave.

>After the con ends J makes a whiny post on the con's fb about how he wasn’t trying to be a creeper. He had apparently been creeping on other girls besides M and several people called him out on it.

It gets better! A year later J messaged me several times asking if I wanted to room with him again at the same con. I don’t think so.

[Anonymous No.9152882]

>>9152357
>we should get the bed because we're engaged
>all food in the hotel is shared food
It's nice to share beds but they're not obligated to do that; they got there first so first come-first serve. And just because there's food in the room, that doesn't mean you just take it without asking. It's probably a good thing that you room alone now because you sound really entitled.

I kind of have a story, it's a good one though:

>Get room all booked for con months in advance
>everyone pays on time, no issues until...
>About a week before con, one friend (I'll call her Curfew Girl) starts telling us about the hotel having a curfew at 11:00 PM
>"Nobody can stay out late! Everyone be back by 11! We're already overcrowding the room!"
>Six people
>Curfew Girl keeps bringing it up whenever we mention our plans for the weekend. Starts getting extremely annoying
>Curfew Girl is also uber religious and doesn't seem to want to do anything that we do
>First time rooming with Curfew Girl so I'm nervous
>Gets to the point that I've had enough. Me, my best friend, and one other friend decide to room with two guys we met at the same con last year
>Thankfully they have room and say yes
>Get our money back ASAP and use it to pay for new room
>Room is small (only one king bed) but we agree to alternate
>Guys brought tons of food and alcohol to share with everyone
>Extremely funny and helpful the entire weekend
>Have such a great time that we all say we're going to room again at future cons
>Other friends had an awful time in their room
>Couldn't even drink because Curfew Girl doesn't like alcohol
>Curfew Girl went to bed at 9:00 every night and left early every morning without talking to them
>Didn't see Curfew Girl at all during the con, despite us even trying to meet up
I felt kind of bad for leaving but I can only imagine how awful my con weekend would've been otherwise.

[Anonymous No.9152884]

Not quite rooming with randoms but

>at a con a couple years ago, staying in a pretty big suite with a lot of people
>have some local friends who aren't staying at the hotel but are using our room to store their stuff while they walk around
>local friend brings along his manager
>we are all hanging out, drinking, having a laugh
>manager disappears
>local friend can't find manager
>a few hours later, manager is returned to our suite without any pants or underwear on by hotel staff.
>apparently he pooped himself?? no idea where his pants and underwear went
>we put him in the shower
>he cleans himself with THE TOWELS
>ohmygod
>never again

It was terrible.

[Anonymous No.9153779]

>>9143893
How do i read this when its not green?

[Anonymous No.9153804]

>>9148295
No one isgoing to rape you you are a 5

[Anonymous No.9153818]

>>9148730
>gaming laptop

[Anonymous No.9153834]

I've only stayed with randos once, a group of six ranging from 18-40s (I was 16 at the time), but we quickly became friends, and I dated one of them for almost three years.

[Anonymous No.9153837]

>>9153834
The 18 year old, I dated him. I realized "one of them" was vague enough to allow for gross assumptions. We've broken up but are still very close friends, and I dont really talk to the others often anymore but am always happy to see them when I do.

[Anonymous No.9153838]

>>9153834
>16
>staying with 40 year olds
that's pretty weird

[Anonymous No.9153848]

>>9153838
I think only one of them was in her 40s. Most were more lIke 25-32, iirc. It was still sort of weird, but they were all genuinely nice people (friends of a friend who wasn't there) helping a baby weeb.

[Anonymous No.9155565]

>>9152357
Sorry for being late but kill yourself you entitled shit. I'm sure you get that a lot irl though

[Anonymous No.9157825]

>>9141820
>Got strongarmed by idiot brother to go to a con all three days of it
>He doesn't have space for me in his hotel room
>Scramble to find a room, settle for randoms

>Get to the hotel for the con
>See a bunch of weebs standing in a corner, hope it's not them
>Message the room group "hey I'm here in the lobby"
>Group of weebs shout "HI ANON"
>They're mostly in their late 20's, but like half have naruto headbands around their necks
>All act like mid 2000's high school weebs
>One in particular is an easily excited Tumblr idiot who has to fucking shout every goddamn word she says
>Won't stop trying to show off her Halloween City Bilbo Baggins cosplay
>Fuck this shit I'm going to bed
>Can't, they're playing Cards Against Humanity and are getting us a bunch of noise complaints
>Just try to hide in a corner and sleep to not be associated with these fuckers
>Wake up extra early, leave for the con, and avoid them all day

>Have splitting headache all day, try to go to bed early at the hotel
>Two of the roomies come in
>"HEY ANON ARE YOU AWAKE BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA USE THE JACUZZI IS THAT OK" (our room had one)
>"Fine just try to keep it down ok I have a headache I'm trying to sleep off"
>"OH OK"
>They're really loud, have the TV up loud, won't stop giving their commentary on what they're watching
>Tumblrtard girl tries to get everyone to play CAH again
>Five minutes in genuinely claims to be triggered by a joke
>"HEY ANON ARE YOU AWAKE WE'RE GOIN TO THE RAVE WANNA GO"
>"no"
>"OH OKAY"
>They spend the next half hour bickering over calling a cab to the con, freak out about getting back
>"Look if you guys can't get a cab back, call me, I'll come get you guys. I can only seat four though."
>"LOL ANON YEAH LIKE I'VE GOT A HUGE ENTOURAGE."
>Decide to just go back to sleep and ignore them if they call

Also I somehow may have accidentally converted one to Catholicism. But other than that, that's about it. I'm probably forgetting some stuff but that's the most memorable.

[Anonymous No.9157839]

>>9157825
Oh yeah, now I remember what I forgot:
>Two roomies were engaged
>One of them was looking through their bags to find Cards Against Humanity
>Couldn't find them
>Starts threatening to cut her fiance
>The tone sounds genuine
>Digs a little more, finds it
>"hehe sorry puddin!"

[Anonymous No.9161357]

>>9157825
>Also I somehow may have accidentally converted one to Catholicism.
Please elaborate.