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Jan. 8th, 2018 07:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichI'm torn. With the breaking of the news about the accommodations at Atlantian 12Night, I am loathe to attend. I have a feeling of betrayal. $18 to attend (member cost) and you cannot bring any beverages or food into the venue, but must eat in the hotel restaurant, whose prices are apparently around $15-20 per diner. That is just for lunch. If you wish beverages, you must buy them from the restaurant or the hotel bar.
None of us in our khanate have a lot of recreational funds right now. One is without a job at all. But we agreed to host the gaming room, which was to be open all day. There are only five of us. Do we go and cheat the rules by gingerly sneaking in beverages we can afford, and take turns dining in our cars while in the parking lot, or do we send a message to the autocrat saying that in light of the information she'd withheld for months, we are withdrawing from staff?
Which is the most ethical way to handle it? I could, perhaps, release everyone except myself and man the room alone, drinking hotel-provided water and reducing the hours of the game room to just the afternoon. Maybe that would be the best solution since I was the one who'd she had approached and who'd taken it to the khanate.
I am disgusted and feel tricked. I'm angry.
None of us in our khanate have a lot of recreational funds right now. One is without a job at all. But we agreed to host the gaming room, which was to be open all day. There are only five of us. Do we go and cheat the rules by gingerly sneaking in beverages we can afford, and take turns dining in our cars while in the parking lot, or do we send a message to the autocrat saying that in light of the information she'd withheld for months, we are withdrawing from staff?
Which is the most ethical way to handle it? I could, perhaps, release everyone except myself and man the room alone, drinking hotel-provided water and reducing the hours of the game room to just the afternoon. Maybe that would be the best solution since I was the one who'd she had approached and who'd taken it to the khanate.
I am disgusted and feel tricked. I'm angry.
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Date: 2018-01-08 03:21 pm (UTC)West Kingdom Twelfth Night gate fee: $25 at the door.
Hotel parking: $22/day unless you're a hotel guest, in which case it's $11.
No outside food, of course.
Room rates: what you'd expect for a hotel convention center next to San Jose airport. Not to mention the incessant pre-event guilt trip announcements about how much more the kingdom will have to pay if not enough people blow money on hotel rooms.
The less said about the construction in the lobby and the handicapped toilet stall next to the conference center that never got taken care of the better.