The Obies 2005!

Rules: Nominations are made from Amber games actually played during one of the Slots during the relevant year of ACNW. (Golf games, drinking games, head games etc. are not eligible.) Each Ambercon Northwest member may submit as many nominations per category as they wish. Please do not submit the same nominee more than once in a single category. You may, however, submit the same nominee in a different category. Nomination forms, ballot boxes and rules are available at registration and in the Winery Wing near the games posting. Presentation and Awards: The Awards Ceremony is held during the post-convention party on Sunday. Winners are presented with a Trump bearing the image of Oberon as the Black Rabbit - an "Obie." Winners are also posted on the ACNW web site. Small Print: This "contest" (meant to be a helpful descriptor, not a legal definition) is open to all ACNW members regardless of age, rank or Shadow of origin. House Lightfoot and the "Obies" competition are not affiliated with Ambercon Northwest. ACNW organizers, volunteers, and staff of the McMenamins Edgefield are in no way responsible for its content or competence. Nominations, like courtesans, are judged by frequency and quality of their submission. All entries become lost property and are tabulated non-scientifically by the Amber Northwest Academy of Skills & Silliness (A.N. A.S.S.) Decisions of A.N. A.S.S. are arbitrary and may not be appealed to any higher authority including the Unicorn, the Serpent or the Simone. All awards have no cash value and may be declared to be non-existent. Special thanks to - Cort Oderkirk and Chris Lightfoot for Obie Art, Simone Cooper for hosting ACNW, and the staff of the McMenamins Edgefield.

Past Cons: [ 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 ]

This year's winners:

Best Supporting Tyrant

Winner - John Randall as Uric the Dread Usurper

Game: The Chronicles of Corwynne Stormlord
Description: Eric's 6" action figure. Every step of the way his 6" sister, Jilian would undermine him because, "We can't trust you. It says right on your box: 'Usurper'."

Runners-Up

Game: Whose Throne Is It, Anyway?
Nominee: Jenn Edwards - GM - as Dworkin
Description: As the players are examining the 'smiley face' in place of the Pattern, Dworkin says "Welcome to my fun house!"

Game: Out of Heaven's Hands
Nominee: Sean McGuiness as Indichi
Description: A healer who freed the Angel of Death from her bonds, and thereby made himself eligible to take the Throne of God.

Best Original Dialogue or Quote

Game: Asylum
Description: Upon discovering that he was tied to a chair: "Before we start, I want you to know my safeword is zucchini."
Upon discovering that his chair had been flipped over face-first onto the floor (and heard by the other players in the other room): "Zucchini! Zucchini!"

Runners-Up

Game: ShadowWorld
Nominee: Andi Blija - OOC
Description: "It's like playing whack-a-mole, but with satellites."

Game: Amber Shadows
Nominee: John Kim as Mio
Description:

Most Heinous Betrayal or Offense

Game: Of Patriots & Tyrants
Description: Funneled cursed Trump power to assist another player walking the Pattern - and thereby destroyed it.

Runners-Up

Game: Whose Throne Is It, Anyway?
Nominee: Carrie Varley as Corwin
Description: While under the influence of the lust-bespelled crown of Amber, Corwin lip-locks that 'fine figure of a man', Julian.

Game: A Festive Romp
Nominee: Jeremy Zimmerman - GM
Description: From a player: "When I signed up, it was never disclosed until FAR too late that being in his game meant also (sometimes) being in another game where we had to help pathetic sucky crap shadow versions of ourselves achieve *their* objectives. AND we had to spend time in *their* pathetic suck version of Amber."

Special Achievement in Costuming or Props

Game: ShadowWorld
Description: The $12 rhinestone jeans. For "that southern effect."

Runners-Up

Game: Amber Pirates
Nominee: Ann Sasahara - GM
Description: Ann's Pirate Costume

Game: After all, what are friends for?
Nominee: Amy Edwards as ?
Description: The Halloween costume her character wore was... divine!

Best Improvised Storyline Based Upon an Unexpected Plot Twist

Game: The Forms of Things Unknown
Description: Took the scribbled line on a map drawn by another GM indicating the tunnel past the Pattern Room and used it to lead players to the source of Oberon's power. "That corridor in the Castle off the Pattern Room no one goes to? Yeah, we found out. Poor, poor Corwin."

Runners-Up

Game: ShadowWorld
Nominee: Rob Haight as Duncan McArthur
Description: Challenged Mab to a personal duel after killing the Captain of her Guard.

Game: Of Patriots and Tyrants
Nominee: Sean McGuiness - GM
Description: Took advantage of a player character's attempt to be helpful by destroying her.

Outstanding Performance by an Item/Creatue/Shadow in a Supporting Role

Game: The Shadowwalker's Guide to the Universe
Description: Brilliant depiction of an uber-depressed Trump Artifact. Under-appreciated, ignored and disrespected.
"Emma's portrayal of 'Marvinwheel', manically depressed construct with a brain the size of a shadow, was fantastic and hilarious - definitely the best of the Con."
"Awesome performance as a depressed construct. Emma so perfectly captured the essential element of the Marvinwheel character. One of the characters was irritated to the point of telling Marvinwheel to SHUT UP!"
"Set the perfect tone... Outstanding!"

Runners-Up

Game: Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Nominee: Simone Cooper - GM - as the "Corpse of Flora"
Description: The mice crawling out of her chest cavity... brilliant!

Game: The Silver Glass
Nominee: Meera Barry - GM - as the Black Unicorn/Shroudling
Description: Herding a dreamlord to inscribe/heal a Pattern of Dreams then stabs him with her horn.

Honorable Mentions