This is Thursday night in the card game hall, one of several massive rooms left open for organized events and 24-hour pickup games. This is where we tend to spend our evenings at Origins.

Ooh, another Origins success story. One of the closeout card shops let me buy a Mysterious Islands tournament kit for $2.50. These kits are a couple of small ships that come packed one to a booster box, the idea being that the game store that retails the box can use the tournament kit as prizes for in-store events. Either I don't know much about the true value of Mysterious Island tournament kits or the booth clerk didn't, but $2.50 sounded like a good deal to me. The pack has three tiny ships, including a British Turtle Ship that lacks the Turtle Ship keyword and a Pirate Galley that lacks the Galley keyword (hopefully both errata'd!)

At the back end of the vendor hall there was a zone sectioned off for foam weapon fighting. Here's Clark hacking away at Mommy.

Something else fun for Clark in the vendor hall, Paint-and-Take. You can choose from a selection of primed lead miniatures, grab a seat, and then get to paintin'. You can keep what you paint, all for free. Clark painted two figures. Not being a minis guy, I couldn't tell you what we painted, but it was a nice bit of craft project in the middle of buying and demoing stuff.

And here's a rather random 360 of the vendor hall, shot from somewhere near the front-middle of the room.