>>2496198
I cant really come up with any stories at this moment, but goddamn.. I love your picture OP.

>>2496207
It's a favorite among the /co/mrades.

Uuh... I once saw ten Euros falling out of the backpacket of the person standing before me and I gave them back instead of keeping them
/hero

>>2496221

Friend of mine saw a trio of congoers lounging in the arcade at AX a few years back. Apparently, a paycheck hadn't been deposited in time and they couldn't get their hotel room as a result. We let them crash in our room for the duration of the con.

YOU SMELL LIKE MAGIC.

>>2496231
Pretty bro right there, bro.

During ALA '09 I found and returned the wallet (and contents) of a con-goer that dropped it.

Not the hero in this story, but a couple years ago at fanime, I dropped my digital camera. After two hours of freaking out, I drop by the lost and found and find that someone has turned it in. Thankyou anonymous congoer.

>>2496524
That picture never made it to the internet, did it?

>>2496524
haha I remember seeing that story in one of the old weeaboo threads. Too bad you don't have the picture. I can totally imagine their faces...

i'm pretty sure I've done something nice for other con-goers in the past. Gotta dig my brains for -what-, exactly, though...

My first major con was when I was 13. I managed to cram into an elevator on the way to my room with a large, smelly guy who had just cane from the game rooms. He was wearing some kind of naruto cosplay or something- that's to say he was like 300 pounds and wore a headband. I'm like 90 pounds and 4'9" tall, so I snuck into the corner and hid on my way up to the 23th floor or some shit.

He smelled terrible. and started backing up. Not to cram more people in, just to back up. I saw him look back at me and he KNEW I was getting cramped. And he kept backing up. So I meekly voiced that he was backing into me, until all the sudden his fat rolls were touching me. I thought I was going to barf. He turned around a little, so he could look down at me, and said suggestively "You like that?" and put a hand on my chest.

Next thing I knew someone had smacked him in the back with a keyblade. It almost broke in his fat rolls. He turned around and yelled and a girl in her early twenties ducked behind him and pulled me over in between her and Roxas and some other cosplayer, who I can't remember quite what they were, as they screamed at the fattie.

saved from molestation,yesss. Thanks, random cosplayers. :3

I was working security in costume and I had to mend something. While going up, I saw that a mom and a daughter were looking for an ATM.
It was a late Saturday already and the ATMs always break by Friday afternoon. So, I assumed she was new to the whole thing.
I waved to the little girl to show her I was friendly, she waved back. I turned to her mom and she explained that she came here from a couple of tons over to see a friend.
She added that the badge people wouldn't give her a bade with a credit card and she brought no cash. I told her to hold on a moment while I fixed my jacket. I came back and walked them over to the badge counter. I asked if I could get two badges.
They asked for like 35 dollars or something and I pop my wallet out and pay for it. I turn back to the mom and girl and give them both badges. I smile and ask them to have a good time. I have never felt better in my life.

I really loved working security. Pic semi related, cosplayer at the con.

I found some dude's phone at a convention and ran up and down the escalators trying to find lost and found. His brother called at some point, resulting in that awkward "yeah uh whoever you're trying to call, I have their phone, go find the lost & found" conversation.

>>2496592
This is such an incredibly joyful story. I'm seeing it in epic movievision.

Saved a kid from a "private photoshooting" in a closed hotel room with a "professional photographer" without any references. As in: Overheard that this 40+ guy asked the maybe 12 or 13-year-old girl if she wanted to wear the sailor fukus he kept in his hotel room for a private photo session. She asked if he could just bring them here so she could change in the bathroom, and he said no. She asked if she could bring a friend and he said no. Uh-oh. He finally managed to talk her into it and when they were about to leave when I just grabbed her by the hand, yelled something like "She has to go now, asshole" and dragged her away.
I informed con staff but we didn't find the guy again.
No loli pics, I know the majority of 4chan does not approve, lol

If any Germans happen to read this... the flyers they gave to everyone on Ani 08 with the information that you shouldn't follow any strangers into their hotel rooms - that was because of me and that girl D:

Once, at a really small con, I kept running into the same lolita, often enough to recognize her parasol when she left it behind...four times. I returned it to her each time.

At a really huge con, I was volunteering at the registration desk and left my DS behind. One of the staffers I'd been working with saw it on the desk and thought, "Oh, Anon will miss this!" Cue me frantically looking for it for two hours (with two different staffers walking all over the con with me to find it), only to run into the first staffer, who flagged me down and told me where he'd put it for me. Love con staff!

>>2496671 Love con staff!
Stupid con staff, where the hell is my sleeping bag, I had to sleep on the floor atrdfsdsdfasgfffff

I once had a con outfit that ended up with a hole burned right through it because of a leaky battery on the LED light power pack (this is why I never buy dollar store batteries ever again) a day before the con. All that effort, GONE. That didn't phase me from going to the con though. Somewhere on the border of insanity, I came to terms with the loss, and I made myself an ammo belt of hot glue sticks, two holsters for hot glue guns, safety pins, a needle set, threads of all colors, a portable power supply, a small set of acrylics, my leftover sculpey and sandpaper, E6000, and a trusty roll of duct tape.

I then went around for the next three days in a green flak vest and red bandanna fixing staves, stitching seams, repainting props, re-attached a heel of a shoe that split from the base, and countless other wardrobe malfunctions. Before the second day had ended, my power supply was drained and some people helped me secure an outlet so I could keep working. There was no shortage of people needing help that weekend, and I made a lot of friends there along the way.

One of these days, when I miss the masquerade registration, I will do it all over again.

>>2496681
I've never been to a con where it was con staff's responsibility to make sure you have something to make your sleep more comfortable. Actually, I've never been to a con where con staff has any remote influence on where you sleep, as long as it's not the back of the video rooms.

>>2496648
Nice going!

>>2496685
>>2496648
>>2496603
>>2496592
>>2496231
I love stories like these. Way to prove that not all congoers are smelly trash, Anon!

at ALA this year we were quite hammered and sitting on the couches outside the registration line smoking a blunt and passing the bubbler around. a staff member comes walking up and says into her mic "no, theres nothing going on out here." then rips us a new one and tells us to go somewhere else.

that was pretty heroic of her. she was cute too. sorry if i just got you fired, but you're pretty much a bro forever for that one. i love you.

>>2496695
So my hicktown decided they should have a tiny anime convention, fine. And the con staff is a bunch of bored assholes, fine. They only had a tiny coat-check room-thing, where you can leave your stuff, and they didn't have extra coat check staff or something, and the two con staff members who were supposed to watch after the staff left because they were bored - so they just left everyone's backpackets, sleeping bags, props and whatnot alone.
Half off the stuff was stolen after the first con day, including my sleeping bag, grrrrrrr.
To my excuse, it was expensive and really, really comfortable ;_;
Yeah, and other people had their wallets stolen and everything. Con staff mysteriously vanished from planet earth. First and last con in my town.

>>2496728
Sounds to me like a "leave it at your own risk" kind of situation. It sucks, but maybe next time you'll know better.

>>2496743
yeah I know
what bothered me is that you had to pay for "guarded coatroom services" and these idiots just left (ore were the ones who stole the stuff, who knows)
I'm all for hotels now.

There was a lockdown at a con a few years ago, before the masquerade was set to begin. I was sitting in the overflow room with friends, where we were going to watch the masq streamed live from the next room over. Con ops volunteers came in and started telling people that a girl was missing, and said her name and age. I knew her name, as she was a friend/pen pal of mine, but the age they were telling everyone was wrong - they were telling people she was either 12 or 13, when she was 17. This resulted in not only a lockdown but an Amber Alert.

Before they went around handling the situation badly by telling everyone to "get the fuck on the ground," I managed to get upstairs in the hotel and ask friends where she was. The girl had gone outside to chat with her boyfriend, so she wasn't even in the hotel. Upon returning downstairs, I was told to GET ON THE ROUND but I calmly told the volunteer in question that I knew who and where the "missing girl" was. They took me to the head of con ops, who told me that the whole thing was a result of the girl's ride (probably some friend's mom) showing up and not being able to find her - when she asked con ops to help her, they locked down the entire hotel. When I insisted that she wasn't even in the building at the time, they lifted the lockdown, everyone was able to get up and move around normally, and the masquerade could start.

Unfortunately, I haven't seen the girl at the con since. A lot of misconceptions went around about her age and what she was doing at the time that would inconvenience so many people, so I can imagine she would've been pretty embarrassed about it. :(

>>2496685
That's awesome. :) I wish there were more people like you at cons. If I had a nickle for every time I had to run back to the hotel room to fix some part of my costume.... <3

>>2496754
*ground, sorry. Typo.

>>2496685

You kick ass, anon. Well done.

>>2496754
HOLY SHIT AN
God...that pissed me off so hard.

>>2496869
I know, a lot of people were annoyed about it, and plenty of people were insulting the "lost girl" after the fact. :( I was more concerned with doing what I could to find her, or at least stop the lockdown. It was the product of miscommunication.

>>2496542
>>2496576
I'd give a old homeless taiwanese guy a blow job to get the picture. The lady had a fucking shit fit too. good thing con ops thought it was funny

At ALA 010 I escorted confused football fans back to the 'normal' section of the hotel.

This happened a week ago at a con.

I was without a shirt on, talking to a friend of mine until suddenly I noticed a girl started to sway back and forth on her feet, she kind of slumped into a wall and I caught her. "Whoa whoa whoa...are you ok??" I said.

She said she was fine, she was just standing around for awhile and she had low blood sugar or something. I quickly got some free water for her and asked her if she needed anything. She said she didn't but that she needed to get to her panel at 2 or something.

Hotel staff came up to me asking for me to go to the pool or to my room since I couldn't go around the lobby/hallway without a shirt on, but I politely told them I was occupied since somebody almost fainted. I had a few friends in the location that was giving out free food, and without a con badge or anything, cutting in front of the line, I stepped in and had some asian person make me two sandwiches.

I told her that it didn't matter what the sandwich had in it, but I needed something with a lot of carbs or nutrition in it, so she put like tuna, cheese, turkey, some shit. I told her to make two, as I was hungry as well. I ate mine as I walked out and went out to look for her. I ran into a friend and I explained that I was looking for a particular girl, and luckily he knew who I was talking about so he took her to my panel, where she was just sitting around waiting for it to start.

Here I am, showing up, shirtless and just in slacks, handing her a sandwich. She thanks me profusely, even though she isn't sure if she could stomach a sandwich given how she was at the moment, but she was really thankful for the thought.

I left, I don't think I ever told her my name, I never got hers either.

>>2496592
This made me smile. Glad you got out of that safely. :)

one time i raped a girl wearing a jigglypuff costume

she was mentally retarded

oh wait, you said con, not daycare

>>2496754
what the hell? What con was this, and how long ago was it that they would pull that shit?

>>2496592
one day i'll find you

ITT: the forces of /cgl/ battle /a/

Finally, some good stories! Keep em coming, bros!

>>2496932
:D
Sadly we're the losing side.

>>2496918
Anime North 2006

>>2496908
Masa?

First time cosplaying, I was 13 or 12, and it was pretty late. Had a prop in my hand. Old guy (white hair) takes it from me and feels it up and starts commenting on my age. Being young, I wasn't sure what was happening, but cue this 20-something guy I'd never seen before walking up to me, taking the prop, and pulling me away saying, "There you are, sis! I've been looking for you!" He told me to stay in the front of the convention where everyone else was, and left. I was confused, but I did what he said.
Now that I'm older, I understand what he did and I'm so happy he helped me out. I wish I could thank him.

>>2496951

I am anon.

Where's the Yuuko Anon with the baww story about the girl with cancer who wanted a hug? That story gets me every time.

augh, I feel sorry for those of you who were molested/almost molested when you were 12-13 at a con. That's just fucking terrifying to even think about.

I'd like to say that everyone who returns stuff to the lost and found is my goddamn hero. I've lost my badge for a certain con two consecutive years in a row and while paying the $10 reprint fee isn't a huge deal, it still sucks because someone out there hasn't been honest enough to return the badge to the lost and found.
I'd tell my story about the tickets to meet the studio GAINAX folks but I'm pretty sure people have gotten bored of hearing about it.

>>2496965
I'm sure someone has it saved

>>2496971
I wanna hear it!

These pair of lolita girls dropped their badges in front of my table one time, I took them and returned them quickly to the staff. They later came by to thank me for finding them.

Countless times, I saved people from awkward situations or people they don't like. It pains me to see someone getting harassed by some creepy weeaboo fangirl or pedo. Whenever I see people with a distressed expression, I have an urge to make up a fake excuse to get that person away. It seems kind of fake, but I love the small thanks I get from doing that.

>>2497012
You are a good person and should feel good about yourself.

>>2496198
>>2497020
>You are good and you should feel good!

>>2497029
SHUT UP, ZOIDBERG!

>>2496980
Well...since you're OP and you asked, I shall tell it.
I was dressed as Adiane at Fanime one year and was approached by some cute Asian chick. She took a picture of my costume, then handed me a ticket to an event--turns out you could meet the people of GAINAX studios and the event was starting in an hour. Tickets were really limited, so not even the emcee at Stage Zero was giving out any more. I had to leave by the time the event started, so I didn't really have a use for it. I went up onstage and asked if I could give it away, he gave me the green light, and I asked if anyone wanted it. This completely adorable girl in a really nice frilly black lolita dress up front got on her knees and pretty much begged (in a nice...not shout-y, Narutard-y kind of way) for it. I told her I'd give it to her in exchange for a hug. I still don't think I've seen someone so excited since then. I thought she was going to explode in a burst of black lace and bits of fabric. Still get the warm n fuzzies thinking about it.

>>2496956
you sure? I saw that exact situation go down at ALA, I was getting food in the con suite so by the time I looked out side to see what the commotion was, Masa and the staff had it covered. A+ ALA

>>2496721
Then in that case you must have somehow met the idiots hotboxing on the first floor on Friday night.
Dude, if it was you or you know them, tell them to get better stuff. That shit didn't smell right.

sage for offtopic. Unless you guys want to count 'saving future cons from crappy second hand blaze' :\

>>2497045
D'awwww.

Any more?

>>2497067
Unless that shit is danky dank laced with codine.

>>2497166
;_;

>>2497156
Kids these days and their additives :|

>>2496524
Goddamn, what the fuck is wrong with you? Interrupting photoshoots is god-tier douchebaggery.

Keep it up. Enjoy getting your badge taken away for disorderly conduct. It's faggots like you that ruin the con for everyone else.

You cunts are far worse than any narutard could possibly hope to be.

I was in a production of "Oklahoma!" in a skit. I played the part of Mutey the Mailman. They had too many kids so they made up roles like that. I was good.

>>2497227
you must be a newfag. Story goes that the shoots he bombed were full of god-tier narutard hambeast assholes. The said narutards were the rudest con-goers you ever met, and ruined the con for everyone else, until Decade decided to serve them some justice.
So take your newfaggotry and fag it up elsewhere, moron.

>>2497227
>Interrupting photoshoot
>disposable camera
What are you talking about? this is photobombing which is quite funny, and if it was only one picture, get over it.

One time when I was cosplaying ANH Leia, a mom came up to me and told me that her little girls thought I actually was Princess Leia. It was the cutest thing that's ever happened to me.

At a con last year, I'm not sure how but I lost my wallet. Somehow it managed to get passed around between congoers and managed to get to a bunch of lolitas in a fashion show before going to con security.
I managed to get it the day after the con with my $350 intact. I still nearly cry at the kindness of those people.

>>2497476
>>2496524
Samefag

I helped Haruhi find her jacket. She was wearing Kyon's but left it in the vendor's room so we spent like an hour looking for it, but later in the hotel restaurant we find Kyon eating with the coat on the back of the chair.

I got a group hug from both Haruhi and Kyon before I went about the business.

>>2496908
That was me who you helped out, and seriously, I was so thankful even though I couldn't get more than a bite down. At the very least, getting me that water got me through the panel until I could go back to my hotel room and spend the rest of the night lying down drinking gatorade.

I swear, even not taking into account how often I end up half-passed out at cons (I have very very low blood pressure so I get dizzy easily), I've seen way more awesome people at cons than skeezeballs. Awesome people turning in badges, helping out strangers, returning wallets, or basically just being nice. It's the whole fans helping fans mentality that I wish more people subscribed to. This thread is wonderful.

>>2497166
I tear up every time. :(

>>2497771

Ah, so it was you then.

Glad you're doing ok.

Shit. All I've done was ensure the evacuations from the hotel were done in a calm, orderly fashion every time the fire alarm goes off for whatever reason. Fire safety is serious, even at a con.

It was my first time going to a con, I think I was around 13 years old. I wasn't cosplaying, just having fun with my friends(who were cosplaying). Somehow I got lost and ended up in a very deserted section of the con, WTF-ing and scared. Then this creepy guy (40+) walks up to me, puts his hand in my shoulder and asks me if I'm lost. Speechless, I just stand there, and he starts running his hand through my hair and saying that I'm cute and that we can go wait for my friends on his hotel room. I politely refuse, and he says "Are you sure? We could do lots of fun things while we waited for them" and he started to feel my entire fucking body as I tried to push him away.
BUT THEN a 20 year-old guy who probably overheard the conversation suddenly took my hand, saying that I was his friend and that "he was sorry he lost sight of me". I almost cried of happiness and relief, but then the old man said that I had dropped my cellphone and that he had it (cue creepy ass pedo smile), so the nice guy became very pissed and started shouting something like "give that shit back or I swear you'll go to a fucking prison you sick motherfucker" or something like that.
Thank you immensely, kind con-goer! You are my hero!

>>2497771
i think for some people it's more a "warrior of justice" mentality or something like that.

See all these stories of "old/fat/creepy guy started rubbing X body part and asked me to go to his room, until white knight Y saved the day and said "unhand her you rapscallion!""? Well, to me that sound like the 20 year old is the real pedo but that he's just failing at his plan. You send someone scary after your target first and they'll cling to whoever "saves" them. Cue the statutory romance.

>>2498371

True, but since this is a warm-fuzzy thread, I'm going to pretend that they're all guys with little sisters.

Last London MCM I went to, I saw a girl who must of been around 12-14 years old, on her own in cosplay. She seemed very stressed and was looking at many of the terminals with a confused look. Being the slight casualfag /cgl/er, I didn't know who she was cosplaying as but I approached her with my friends and asked if she was going to the con. She said she was but she didn't know the way and she was supposed to meet her friend at the centre but her phone died. I offered her to tag along with us and if she needed to phone them, she could use my mobile. We got to the con and she met with her friends and gave me a big hug. Saw her later on and she seemed really happy ^^

TL;DR: Helped a girl get to a Con who seemed hopelessly lost, warm-fuzzies gained.

>>2498371
I'm one of the people who posted a saved from old creepy guy story, and the guy in my story walked off after he got rid of old creepy guy. At least some of them are just good people. :)

>>2497166
oh wow hi actually crying now oh god

It's really nothing big and I think I've told the story here once before, but there was a 12 or 13-year-old girl at Sakuracon last year in mismatched-orange clothes, cardboard wings and pipecleaner antenna. I was like "...Excuse me, are you cosplaying Dragonite?" She completely lit up and got really excited and was like "You're the first person all weekend to know who I am!" It's really little compared to some of the stuff in this thread, but I think it made her day and it made mine to give someone her age a reason to love cosplaying.

Pic related, precious little egg.

>>2498674
Oh you.

My friends and I have a "bail out" plan if one of us gets harassed by someone that won't leave one of us alone.
It's pretty simple..one of us will run up to the one being harassed with a cell phone and be like "Hey, _____! It's your Mom!"
This way the person being harassed can excuse themselves and just walk away.
If they continue to be followed, they simply hang up the cell and say "Sorry..I gotta do something for my Mom real quick! See ya later!"
We've used it a few times and it's always worked.

>>2498674
there is something painfully cute about that picture.

I wish I could be a con hero, I am simply not that cool though.

>>2498710
That's pretty smart, to have a bail out plan. I'll have to talk to my friends about making one ourselves!

>>2498022
Did the creeper even have your phone? If so, did you get it back?

>>2498712
It's not about "Being a con hero", you can't spend the entire con looking for "pplzz en ned of sewport", if you see someone being a fucktard without the people at the con noticing, you best sort it out motherfucker.

>>2498719
It's sad we've had to come up with this. I'm amazed at how many times we've attracted cling-ons. Maybe we're too nice or something..I dunno.

>>2498710
My friends and I have a game plan where if some creepy person hits on them, they give me the signal and I toss them over my shoulder and start heading in some random direction untill the creeper is out of site. I'm a girl so usually they get really confused and don't attempt to follow.

>>2497636
I love it when kids think you're actually the character you're cosplaying! It's always so adorable.
I have cute stories about things like this but they're not really heroic or anything.

>>2498802
Well, seeming the lack of anything coming in at the moment, go ahead.

>>2498799
This sounds like a hilarious situation.