"A chemical leak forced the evacuation of several floors"
"...following a leak in a suburban Chicago..."
"The Chicago Tribune: 19 people were hospitalized..."
"...Midwest Furfest scurrying into the streets..."
"...were evacuated and..."
"...Fire alarm went off and so..."
"everybody started leaving..."
"We have a lot of costumers here with big fluffy costumes..."
"Where are you going?"
"Hey!"
"Come back!"
Oh my god!
Ooooh!
Getting ready for the fursuit parade,
oh my god!
I'm already hot and tired,
the elevators are just being a pain in the ass
so I had to walk,
aaaallll the way down
I'm already tired and worn out
Staircon!!
Why do I do this? Why do I drive 13
hours to feel all hot and sweaty
WHY??
Why, why did.... WHY??
Why do we do this to ourselves?
*sobs*
OH!!
That's why.
That's why YOU come here.
You come all the way here
to do that! I get that.
It justifies your trip, right?
Getting ready for the parade!
Hope you join us!
I spilled my alcohol, just...
Febreeze!
Check it out!
It keeps fursuiting clean!
It's good for you!
It's good.... No!
I wouldn't drink it!
Hi there!
I'm not drunk!
I'm not doing anything!
You are such a camera whore.
No, you are!
Now you're the camera whore!
Coz you called him out!
Are you guys excited?
Firestorm!
They're going so fast!
[people yelling]
Aaah, BBF!
Awesome!
Aaah!
The camera is mine!
AAAHHH!! AAAHHH!
It's like the sun!
And you're doing it or some crap like that....
You just can't help yourself, can you?
Film me!
You gotta film me!
Even when I'm not doing anything important
or entertaining.
I hate you.
[manic laughter]
That was him!
He's the one who did that.
What did he do?
Oh!
Nono! Don't go away.
Stay right here!
You're not allowed to leave.
Good, good!
Now you may leave.
It's so magnetic!!
Aaayyyeeee!!!!
It's okay!
It's okay to go away now!
There's a bunch of other furries you can record!
Like this bunny.
Go and get the bunny!
Bark!
BAAARK!
Aaaahh!
We've got some wild German, he likes to record us!
Oh look at him!
Oooh!
Oh God, it's not recording!
Am I doing this right?
Mmmmm-hmmm!
Hahaaaaah!
It's a husky with a camera!
Beep
Boop!
Baap!
Bark!
Hello!
I am zee professor! How are you today?
What do you think of this, Mr. German species?
I wanna go to Disneyland. What do you think of this, Mr. German species?
I wanna go to Disneyland.
But we're not at Megaplex anymore.
We're in Chicago.
I didn't do it!
It wasn't me!
Turn the camera off!
I didn't do it!
I never did!
There's nothing to see here!
Move along! Nothing to see here!
Ass-brushes!
Huskies love ass-brushes!
I'm not a husky! Huskies love ass-brushes!
I'm not a husky!
You get fluffy asses if you brush husky asses!
Now do dog things!
Video camera!
Oh, this is video!
[laughter]
Yip!
I'm a fursuiter too!
Here it comes, haha!
Boop! Haha!
I'm so sorry!
Don't look at me!
I'm not cute and fuzzy!
You can..... look at this one!
Look at his nose!
Smells like watermelon!
Oh no!
Is the camera gonna smoke, too?
HAAAAH!
Hi!
I'm about to enjoy a hot dog!
With mayonnaise!
Like I'm in Europe or something!
Are you a fan of Oddy?
I'm a fan of Oddy!
No no no no...
You're doing it all wrong!
Doing it all wrong!
Let me help you. It should be like this:
Hahaha, much better, isn't it?
Buggerin' the pussy!
So you've got the camera on me now!
What do you want from me?
I'm the King here.
I've got the crown on my head.
Ready to rule my kingdom.
I'll be...
I'm so tired!
I'm in America,
and I'm drinking booze in public space!
YOLO!
It feels good to be a rebel!
Nyaaaah!
For me?
Oh, thank you!
I can blame the badger now!
Confirming the badger's to be blamed!
The badger is to be blamed.
It's the badger's fault!
We've confirmed he's to blame!
Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh....
I'll just nosebeep.
Lightly.
Whooo!
As the words of one Coopertom once
said, "I'm gonna nosebeep the crap outta your camera!"
AAHHH!
HEY!
OHH!
NOOOO!
Okay, I'm just kidding!
AAHHAAAAAA!!
It burns!!!
Meow!!
Space!
Space space space!
Space?
I wanna go to space!
Space?
To space!
Space?
I wanna go to space!
You wanna go to space?
YES YES!!
Go to space!
Yes yes!
Hey!
Hey, hey, hey, hey!
Hey?
Aaah!
Let's go to space!
Space!
SPAAA
SPAAAAAA
SPAAAAAAAAA
SPAAAAAAAAAAAA
SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!!
Meow.
MEOW!
Meow meow.
Meow.
Maaaaaaaaooooow!
Alright, I hate to do this
but we need to clear out.
Staff just told me we
need to get out.
It's probably a gas leak or something
in the hotel, so
we need to get out.
Sorry.
I would not do this
unless I was told to do it.
Let's get out.
If everyone's back in,
I'll start over for you.
Are they serious?
Fuck!
"There has been an emergency reported" Fuck!
"There has been an emergency reported"
"in the building. Leave the building"
"immediately. Use the marked stairwells"
"and exists."
"Do not use the elevators."
It's 1:30 in the morning...
Awesome!
Fantastic on a Saturday night.
The guys that do this con do not deserve this bullshit.
The hotel is actually being evacuated.
[Siren noises]
To the outside, please!
And here's Nbowa with cookies!
Best con before this fucking shit happened.
What did you do?
Maybe I've stepped on a building or two.
There actually is something in there.
I don't know...
No, no.
There is something in there.
[wailing sirens]
Shorts...
...and a T-shirt!
Gentlemen! We have more people
exiting the building! Please
move this way! Thank you very much!
We now have been evacuated,
It's now an official con!
iFC, you've been outdone!
The firealarms of yesteryear are gone.
We now have a gas leak, we've called in the fire dept.
All the furries here are on the street!
What are you gonna do to step it up?
We're outside the Hyatt...
and OMG, somebody
some fucking idiot..
Wow, what was that?
This takes me back to the days of MFF 2008.
Same thing, but 40 degrees colder.
Gas con 2014!
Hey, my jacket is nice and warm!
I'm fine!
Snuggly fursuits!
[sings] It's the end of the world
ás we know it,
I feel cold!
The full hotel is not
quite burning down...
Apparently we had a gas leak so the entire
Twitter is now full of people making jokes
about gas leaks involving babyfurs
and other kinds of persons.
We have multiple sources of music
really the only thing we're missing
is just some outdoor bar
some Tiki-bar with torches,
that would be fantastic out here!
We do have....
WHOOOO!
We have fucking cider!
This is amazing!
Truck bay, right over there!
It is warm inside!
Thank you very much!
Oh my god it's the human megaphone!
I am a megaphone
and I hate my life!
Hello!
Papst Blue Ribbon!
Whooooo!
Here we are at
Midwest Furfest 2014,
It Saturday night, 2:30 in the morning,
Nobody is in the hotel,
Hi, Xzadfor! Nobody is in the hotel,
Hi, Xzadfor!
It's called a hotel evacuation party. Hi, Xzadfor!
It's called a hotel evacuation party.
[Drumsounds]
I just want one year
just one year where
where I don't have to work for the con.
Just one.
This is my 12th consecutive MFF.
This is the first time the alarm is real.
I need a drink.
I turned the furry switch off about
3 hours ago but I still
kept this bitch on in a massive
evacuation.
Hardcore.
No, it's because I'm
fucking a siberian husky.
Good morning, Michelle and Susan,
a short time ago police started letting people
go back into the building
Some of those did tell me
they did smell chlorine in the building.
It's all you guys do?
All that just for that?
No, we've got about four left.
Like, go around in the city or something?
Like here?
Freezing for that?
You know, I really wanted to mess with the news crew
but...
uninspiring and boring.
Like normal news.
Join zee German hallway party!
So, having returned
from your adventures at the hospital today
You're wearing paper clothes!
How was it?
Describe your incident for the world.
I was on the 9th floor,
I must've run right into...
where they did whatever they did.
I ran down that stairwell.
So yeah, I wasn't feeling so great
when I came out the front.
So this was not Big Blue Fox and a
bacon cheeseburger?
Apparently not.
Lots more toxic than that.
Oh dear.
Well, we're glad to have you back.
Did you have any anal probing while you were there?
Not anymore!
Without further ado, we are going to
start things off!
The hell was that???
What ya gun do with that, hah?!
Nothin'!
Get outta here!
Shadowcheetaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!
Sparkeeee! And ...
AAAAA...
OOOOOOhhhhhhh......
EEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhh!!!!
A/V: Next year we apparently
we need to have an airhorn sample ready
on demand for when we have no words.
[airhorn sound]
[laughter]
Thank you very much!
Let's bring out to the stage:
FurReeeeaaaaaaalllll!!!
We've got...
German Skrat!
German Skrat! German Skrat!
German Skrat! German Skrat! German Skrat!
German Skrat! German Skrat! German Skrat! German Skrat!
Let's give it up!
Let's kill it
for Gale and Fenrir!
Awwww, look they're cute!
That'll be novice!
Novice cathegory everybody,
Clap your paws for Khord!
Skkyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Let's welcome:
Sadie!
Uptown Foooooooooooolk!
My work here is done!
Exciting weekend, guys!
Despite how exciting it was
the fact that we have a packed
house at the end of the weekend is
a good sign that we had some
thing that went right with this weekend.
Last night we received a
complaint about a chemical odor on
the ninth floor in the main tower.
After calling 911
the first responders determined that it was
chemical related
Right now, we believe it was
a chlorine type
chemical.
At about 1:am
the entire hotel was evacuated
per the Rosemont fire department.
I can't thank you guys enough for your
understanding, and how much you worked
with us. You made it
very easy for us.
That says a lot about our community
that people understood
the situation was complex and
and they helped us
help you guys.
Can we get a thanks for security?
[applause]
We're a big convention.
So, the numbers.
We haven't got everything quite cleared up yet
but I can safely say that we are around
4600 attendees this weekend.
Which one of you was in the fursuit parade?
Yeah I get it, it's like most of the con.
The total number: We had
1132 fursuits in the parade
That also means
a huge thanks to KP who has been helping
us out quite a bit, we will be
re-looking at, or
restructuring or changing around a lot
in the future because quite frankly,
if you're growing by 400 suits every year in the parade
something's gotta change.
I think the next thing we should go into
Maybe we can have Linnaeus come up to the stage
and introduce our charity?
[applause]
I hope you all got a chance to meet Beth!
As far as I'm concerned,
we don't really need a reason to
get into a car, plane and travel
dozens, hundreds, thousands of miles
to spend a weekend with a bunch of people
wrapped up in carpet remnants.
People making table donations came to
3197 dollars!
A total
of 11.150 dollars!
Thank you so so so much!
You have no idea...
This has been
a fantastic experience for us
and all of you are
amazing and we love you
from the bottom of our
forry and scaly and feathered hearts!
On behalf of the board and staff and
everyone in this room
Let me pull a Steve Jobs and
say 'there is one more thing':
[Beth shrieks]
We have a little something on top of this
We're adding $20.000 to that!
[random sounds of excitement]
I couldn't talk before...
I can't...
This is beyond our
wildest dreams
of how great this would go...
and even
last night, everyone pulled together
the animals were fine
and everything went great
yeah
We have so enjoyes sharing
our animals with you guys,
you've all showed such love with our
unusual animals that we rescue
cause we're the only ones in the whole country
that does that we do and give sanctuary
to the old and sick and the unadoptable
little animals that nobody else
wants to care for
at crittercamp.org!
So, this is the...
I'm serious, when we totalled up at $11.000 we were like
Yes, we can pay the vet, we plenty for food
I can breathe again,
I can sleep at night and
Because last night, that's me anytime,
I'm up going "How am I gonna feed the animals?"
Aaaaaaawwwww!
I have feelings!
We joined MFF back when it was
an idea
and...
in 1999 and in that time we
got to see a small kind of rag-tag group of people
start a small, couple hundred people convention.
This has grown into
something that we can clearly
*sobs*
really be proud of!
Something that we can be really proud of!
We have made some
of the most amazing friends
and
we look forward to continuing to work with them
we're gonna take a step back,
we're gonna take a break for a little bit
and we hope to be back in the future!
But...
all the good folks up here
and the many folks on staff we worked with
they all made it worth it!
Thank you all!
So, I've...
I've been doing this con chair thing for
three years now,
Oh, this is gonna be a mess!
[laughter]
And therefor,
how terrible things like last night
obviously test us
and pull us to the edge
the take back the next days is
seeing...
hundreds, if not thousands of tweets
of people supporting us
seeing our staff members
and security and everybody
just hugging it out
like, all we did this day was hug it out,
I can't even out into words
how magical it is
at a normal year,
just getting through this weekend and saying
"We really did it!"
"We put together a pretty decent show!"
but in years like this
we really made it work and
for me, to have been part is...
I just can't tell you...
it is the stuff I will obviously remember for the rest of my life.
and...
I am forever grateful for
my staff and for the community to have
had confidence in me to
allow me to do this.
It's been a really fun ride!
I look forward to...
I'm not also leaving, I will be helping
on secondary roles
But they put a, I'd say younger
prettier face up, like
[laughter]
But:
He is one of my best friends
and I have all the upmost confidence
that our next chair
Woody...
coz you're dumb!
I'm so stupid!
*chirrrrrrrrrrrp*
Whoah! What did you do?
Step on my shoes?
These are Apollos!
You steppin' on my Apollos dawg!
Where'd you get those from, Payless?
Aaaawwww!!
I know your mom!
How do you know my mom?
Weasel ears are the best!
This is like the perfect ear!
Can't get any better than that!
These are the greatest ears!
When you look up ear in the dictionary
this is what you'll see.
What's up, it's Sunday!
Last day of the con!
Everclear!
This is not Everclear!
It's totally Everclear!
It doesn't have to be anything,
it's just booze!
Love you BBF!
What?
Hi all those people down in that small
camera, awfully tiny!
You need to come out into the real
big wide wonderful furry world!
Hi five, BB!
C'mon BBF, you can jump!
Jump for us!
I give everything back
of what you do to us!
I'm not Fender,
I don't know what you're talking about.
Hi!
We're at the end of
Emmmeff Eff
Yeah, that's the one!
MFF!
MFF?
Emm Emm Eff!
Mem mem mef!
MWFF!
or MFF!
Mem mef mef!
Mid....
Mid wud wid... mid...
Muth wuth!
Mmmmmm....
Muh?
Anyway! Happy-uhm!
Happy uhm...
Happyum!
Happy Gascon!
Don't forget to take your chlorine pills!
We love them!
Gouvernment demands you have them so
don't forget it!
AAHH!!
Ahahahah!
Every timem you're.... ick!
Ow!
No nono....
No no....
OW!
JESUS!!
I think it's the only reason he comes
into this country
to hit me on the nose
with a really expensive
camera
over and over again!
Oh god!
It's endless!
Look, there's another nose!
Look, here you go!
Here you go, come on!
Aaah!!
[evil laughter]
MFF is awesome!
It's the last day
I hand out Lion bars every year at this con
And there were lots this time.
All these people wearing the "I'm a Fan of Oddy" shirts
this is the guy that made it!
Come on, give it up for Oddy!
[cheering]
Give it up for all the DJs we had this weekend!
Thank you all for making it out to MFF
we'll see you next year!
But before we do that I'm gonna make
Oddy do something I make him do every con!
He's gonna go down from the stage
and we're all gonna give him a big group hug right now!
MFF! MFF! MFF! MFF! MFF!
That was a fun convention,
everyone should come out for MFF 2015
I forgot what the theme is
oh wait, we don't have a theme because our
con chair didn't remember to make one!
Have fun guys, see you next year!