Hiya! Nos Hyena here! Today's video is "My 10 Craziest Furry Con Stories!" Yay!
Now I've been part of multiple con hotel evacuations, and I've even taken some
crazy stuff, but that doesn't even make the list for my 10 craziest
furry con stories! So here they are!
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Now this story happened at my first furry con which was
IndyFurCon in 2015! Now it was Saturday afternoon and I was leaving the
hotel to get some food! I saw this guy, and he had an entourage and he was
getting photos with the people at the reception desk, and I didn't really think
anything of it, so I went to get food, and then I came back, and then out of
curiosity, I asked the person at the reception desk, "hey who was that before?"
And she was like "don't tell anyone, but it's totally not Chris Brown"! And I
realized it totally was Chris Brown! Chris Brown was 10 feet away from me and
I didn't even recognize him. It turns out that he was playing a show in downtown
Indy that night, and I guess his managers decided to hide him at a furry con
because there's so much fun and amazing awesome stuff going on, no one including
myself would even notice if there was a celebrity there! Now here's the thing I
don't listen to Chris Brown, he has a questionable past, but this really really
superficial part of myself was still kicking myself that I didn't run up and
ask for a photo. Like this is a reflection of how much back then I was
like, "look at me! look at me!" on social media, and I definitely don't do that
anymore, nope! That's why I've only tweeted thousands of times because I'm
totally not an attention whore.
Okay, now the second story is how we hid in a basement at a furry con! Okay and
I'm not gonna tell you which furry con it is because I don't want to
name anyone. Okay so this was before I did YouTube and I was at a furry con and
one of my friends who is reasonably well known in the fandom had a fan come up to
them, and the fan was like for lack of a better word: crazy! Like this fan was
saying things like, "I dreamed about you! I want to take you away and hide you in my
castle! I want to drink your tears and your blood!" So really creepy stuff like
that! Here's the thing, this went on for like half an hour, and all of my friend's
friends were just standing there laughing, because I guess these things
that this person was saying they just found too hilarious!
So we endured half an hour of ramblings, and then eventually one of my friend's
friends made up some excuse like, "Oh! we've got to go to a meeting at 11:00
p.m. at night for some furries!" And then everyone kind of shuffled out of there,
and then the first thing we did after going away from this person is we
literally went and hid in the basement of the hotel. Like we were so scared of
this person we just hid there. It was kind of a little bit of an extreme
response in hindsight. There was this curtain behind us and we were all like
clutching onto each other hugging each other like the scared scooby-doo gang or
something, I'm exaggerating here. And then from behind the curtain it goes "shhh!" And then
like people like jump but it's like a cleaning lady, and some people are like
"Oh my god, I totally thought it was that fan that was coming with a machete to
come and like, chop all of our heads off!"
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Okay this next story is about how TSA opened my fursuit head in front of
everyone! So this actually happened twice! So the first time it happened was on my
way to MFF last year and this was literally my first time flying with my
fursuit head. And then the guy from TSA security takes my head out of its bag,
holds my head by its nose, just like gripping it like that, I'm like "oh no,
don't hurt the head!" and then he just kind of gives me this weird look, and I'm
like "yeah it's a mascot head!" and he's like "okay". And then it happened again
when I was coming back from "Vancoufur" and it was at LAX and the lady pulls out
my head, and she's like, "what is this?" and I'm like it's a mascot head and she's
like "oh what team are you a mascot for?" and I'm like, "um... I'm... a mascot for the hyenas?"
Like just completely lying. And then she gives me this really like puzzled "I
don't believe you look", and then she gives me back my fursuit head and I kind of
awkwardly shuffle away.
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Okay this next one is the time I walked through the
forest with a suitcase to get to a fur meet. So this is back when I had my Booga
kangaroo fursuit, and I was new to the fandom and I was about non-stop
socializing and meeting as many furries as possible, so I guess to save money
instead of taking an uber there because I didn't have a ride to the bowl meet I
took a bus and then took a light rail to where they have the bowling meets, but
then as I was looking at my phone waiting for the GPS to update, I realized
that I overshot my stop by like 2 stops, and the next light rail that was coming
back was coming in like 40 minutes, so I'm like, oh gee I need to walk this. And it
was definitely walkable, it was like a 20 minute distance but the problem is I had
this huge suitcase full of fursuit. So I walked through the car park of
this medical building type area that was closed, so that was kind of spooky, and
then I walked through this apartment complex, and then I realized that I was
following these GPS instructions but it was gonna take me through this like, mini
section of forest that was basically a 45 degree angle down to the highway, so I'm
basically going down this black run difficulty, with a suitcase full of my
fursuit, basically running down straight towards a highway where there were
oncoming cars, and the thing was at the bottom of the slope, there's like two
feet of distance between me and the cars, so I like just ran down this steep, steep,
hill, I somehow didn't trip it was like I could have broken something honestly I
should have just walked around but it was like an extra 20 minutes so I ran
all the way down, kind of like stopped myself right before the forest ends and
the road starts, I kind of like break just before I get on that two foot gap
and then I run across and luckily there's no cars around, and then I like
get to the fur meet, and it's just a fun fur meet. But it was like just
ridiculous the lengths that I went to to save money and go to a fur meet I should
have just got an Uber at some stage but I was like "I can do it myself I'm
totally competent at this!"
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So this story's about how I suited up in thirty seconds
to hug my fursuit crush. And no I'm not gonna say who my first crush is. It was
an Anthrocon this year, and I was at a room party, and I was hanging out, and then my
fursuit crush walks through the door! So it's like that scene in the movies where like
their eyes turn into like love hearts, my instinct is, must get in suit so I can
get a hug! Cuz when I'm nervous I'm like, "well if
I'm in my fursuit" I can go and get hugs, so I just like bolt out of the room
unexplained, I run upstairs, I like put my suit on in a record time, I don't even
know how I did it was just like this desire that was like fueling the speed,
and this is all being in a full sprint, so I sprinted up these three flights of
stairs, sprinted into my room, sprinted into, fursuit, this isn't sponsored
by Sprint mobile by the way, and then I get back in the room, I'm in fursuit,
and then I get my fursuit hug. So that is literally the length that I went to
to get fursuit hugs. Now someone would ask me, "Nos why didn't you just ask for hugs
while you're out of suit?" And I'm like, I don't know I just get easily flustered
sometimes, and it's easier for me to try and get a hug when I'm in my fursuit
cuz it's like, "I'm an anthro! Anthros get hugs easier!"
"So yeah".
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Okay, this next story is about the time that I DJ'ed for one person. So this is a Furry
Down Under in 2016 I had a fantastic con, I made a lot of new friends, and I DJ'd
three times! But the first set no one turned up to because they forgot to
include it in the schedule, which is fine, because I had two really cool sets. So I
do my DJ set, and there's like a maximum of like seven people that come in and
then they slowly trickle out until there's literally one person left and
this is a really cool person, they're doing their spinny stick thing it's
really awesome, but this was still pretty early in my DJ career, and I was still
trying to work out how everything works so I was just so nervous like playing
music to keep this person going! So I noticed that if they enjoyed the track a
little bit more, they do more spinny stuff and it wasn't a great track for
them they wouldn't, so it was a really fun experience in the end getting to
vibe with one person and see which music they like, so it was a real challenge and
a lot of fun, and then he left. But then actually some of my new friends came in
and I played for like, four people, and it was fun, it was really intimate, but by the
time Sunday rolled around, I had like dozens and dozens of people turning up
to my furry con set, which was fun. They were all really fun experiences
and I had a blast.
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So this is another sprinting story, this is the time that I
almost missed my flight back home from MFF, so this was back in 2015 it was my first
MFF, the first night I got there, I had drinks with Koshiro, and some of his
friends, and Koshiro pointed out that that was literally shaking, like I was shaking
from nervous excitement and all of these fursuiters around, and this was before I
had nos, and this is the first time that I saw like hundreds of suiters in one
place, it was an overwhelming stimulus for my brain, and I was just in my happy place
and I was feeling so excited. So by the time Sunday night rolls around I'm
like chilling, I'm like still walking around, I'm still mesmerized at all
the fursuiters. People were starting to go home, and I'm like, "yeah I don't have my
flight until 9:00 p.m." So I'm walking around all that kind of stuff,
I was filming as much as I could, I was having as much fun as I could, and then
I'm like hmm I should check when my flight is so that
I can leave for the airport you know at a reasonable time, so I check my flight
schedule and I realized that my flight leaves at 7:30 not 9 p.m. so I got the
time wrong. So it's like an hour 15 before my flight, I'm like, okay I just have to
be at the airport in like half an hour, so I run back up to my room,
luckily I'm in the main hotel, I grab my bags, I'm trying to go downstairs in the
elevator and I'm realizing it's not working, so I literally point to a random
person I'm like, "you! help me move my bags down!" So he helps me with my bags
down, and I'm like, you know what I'm gonna go say bye to Koshiro
even though I should have been at the airport at this stage. So I'm like
Telegramming "where are you? I gotta say bye!" And as you may know MFF is
really hard to meet up with people in! So when you try and meet up with someone it
takes like sometimes five minutes just to find someone in the same general area
because there's so many people around there. And I didn't really hear back from
Telegram, so I'm like, "oh I kind of know where he is!" Because he told me he'd be
eating dinner here, so I kind of, I walk back upstairs with my bags, trying to find
one of my friends, and I'm like "oh no, I just have to leave". And now it's like 50
minutes before my flight, so like technically I should have checked my
bags in like five minutes, now the MFF hotel's at the airport hotel,
but it's like a 5 to 10 minute drive away, it's like not right next to the
airport, so I like hail an Uber, the Uber gets there, I check into my flight online
in the Uber, and I somehow manage to drop off my bags 30 minutes before the flight,
the airline's policy's 45, I don't know how but they accept my bags,
and I like run to the gate, and I get there like two minutes before the flight
closes. So had I not made that flight, I would have been out of pocket a lot of
money so that would not have been fun. So I was really glad to make that flight and
yeah, that's the story of how I almost missed my flight because I misread it.
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Okay this story is about how I got second place at a fursuit dance competition. So
I used to do dance comps before I got Nos and I never did them really
seriously, like, I basically just freestyled, like that was what I was doing
right? And in 2015 I decided to go to FA United, and that year it was in Whippany New
Jersey, like it was a pretty good con, you know, i was my second con ever, it was fine.
And I wanted to enter in the fursuit dance comp, but it got canceled like on the day
of the competition, because I think the judge pulled out or something like that?
And then about 30 minutes before the dance comp start, I saw a tweet about it
like, maybe getting un-cancelled, so I get on my kangaroo suit,
I like run downstairs, and it turns out they are running the dance comp! So, I
think there should have been like 15 people entering, but only 7 people made
it to like the cancelled and then un-cancelled fursuit dance comp. So I get to
the dance comp, it's actually MC'D by Pepper Coyote and Fox Amoore so
that's pretty cool, I do my thing which is basically this for a bunch of times,
and then after I repeat it enough, I do my pet trick which is a flip, and that's
my entire routine, and it lasts like 20 seconds. And then I guess it's not a very
common practice, and it's a questionable practice but they gave the scores
at the time of the dance which was interesting? And I can't remember my
score but what ended up happening is I ended up getting second, so yeah it
was pretty crazy, I still would call myself a novice at dancing, but it was a
fun experience.
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This next story is about how my entire flight back from BLFC was
furries. So Biggest Little Fur Con is one of my favorite cons, it takes place
in Reno Nevada, it's inside the Grand Sierra, it's a Resort and Casino, so there's a
lot to do, there's go-karts around. "Nos, I'm gay!"
There's Walmart across the street, there's
indoor bowling, it's a really cool environment to have a furry convention.
So I had a blast, and then on my flight back it was literally like, everyone was
a furry, like I swear the flight attendants and the pilots might have
being furries. Because I went to the airport with a couple of fur friends and
then there were furries at the airport, so it's like the con migrated from the
Grand Sierra to the airport, so it was pretty darn cool to have our own chartered
furry flight. It wasn't. It was a public flight. But it felt like that and
everyone had their fursuit heads. I saw people in the back that I knew putting
on their first suit heads and taking selfies before the flight took off, so it
was like a complete furry takeover of this flight. And then when we landed
everyone who didn't have like a quick connection to make we actually all
decided to get a group photo, and this is the photo of the furriest flight ever!
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Okay and this last one is another DJ story and a little bit of a confessional, so
this is my first con I DJ'd at, I didn't know how to DJ when I applied. So
I've been a musician my whole life, I started producing music, so I decided on
a whim to submit a DJ demo, I was like "yeah this is a cool way to perform for
the fandom and connect with people and have a lot of fun". But the problem was
that my DJ demo, it was made using computer software, so I manually mixed in
the tracks by hand, which is a huge no-no, and it's hugely frowned upon. So yeah, I
probably shouldn't have done that, but I didn't know I didn't know that, that
wasn't the etiquette at the time because I didn't know anything about DJing. So I
submitted my DJ demo that didn't actually have any DJing, and to my
surprise and excitement, I got a DJ slot! Which means that with the con starting in
two weeks I had to learn DJing really really quickly, and also
I didn't have any equipment, so what I did is I what on Amazon, bought a bunch of
DJ equipment, hit up my two friends that are local DJ's, basically begged them
like, "teach me your ways! teach me how to be good
in a really short amount of time!" I did have any music I had like 10 songs
that were EDM, so I had to frantically download. I skipped a fair amount of
class for this venture I remember. So it was like a two-week scramble to get
everything together, and I got to my set and it ended up going pretty well, like I
didn't have any major train wrecks, I even got some kudos after the sets some
people were like "yeah great set". So I did well enough but not to super stuff up, so yeah
it was great in the end. It was fun. So that's the story of how I faked my way
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