In the convention justice system
the furries are represented by two separate and equally important groups
The con security who will investigate crime...
and the board of directors who prosecute offenders.
These are their stories.
Mach das weg! Put that away!
Ho.. Hey ho...
Why is there fursuit fur in this...
oh... OH!!...
[DUCK SOUNDS ... I THINK]
Ruhe jetzt!
Ruhe Badezusatz!
Ha haa!
Ich bin nicht Nighty (I'm not Nighty)
Crazy! Ich bin nicht Nighty (I'm not Nighty)
Crazy!
Was? Crazy!
Was?
Ich bin nicht Nighty (I'm not Nighty)
Mmhhh!
Tilli's cone of shame
Auww
Der König kommt. Der König!
Morgen kommt die Königin, da kommt dann auch der König hin...
Was macht ihr hier so eine Taibu Begrüßung?
Anblasen!
This...is Eurofurence!
De muffin Burpagurk
Muffin? Burpagurk?
Is good Burpagurk!
No engine!
So bleiben? (That okay?)
A steadycam is not good enough
you need a Segway too?
Uhuh!
Hi!
Oh god!
I haven't even arrived yet! I've got no room yet!
Come back later and we do a proper introduction!
Wait wait wait! Wait wait wait wait wait!
This is Andy, and he is coming with me!
Yeha!
Cause he heard that bunnys are having a nice time here.
Ahah!
I can't sleep without him!
Der mir die Kamera in die Nase hielt...
Hi! We're at Eurofurence. Look!
Why are you always here?
That's way cool! That is so cool!
Oh my god!
Hello! Hi!
[LAUGHS]
Jawoll!
Hallo!
Day 1:
Still being chased by Blue Fox
I suspect he's after me.
Need to get out of here!
Yes, hello and welcome to Eurofurence 20
Dude, where is your badge?
My, my badge?
Oh yes, of course
We're all supposed to wear our badge, so...
I've got my badge. Just a second...
[APPLAUSE]
Cheetah!
Yes?
This year's badge!
Oh shit! This year's badge!
Oh shit!
I suddenly feel so heavy now
Yes, yes. And there is a lot of good memories...
and bad memories...
and horrible memories...
but mostly good memories associated with...
with most of these.
Warm welcome to all of you. We are very happy to have you here
for the first time at the Estrel. Hopefully not for the last time!
We have two...
altogether we had already 20.000 events...
here at the Estrel because the Estrel is 20 years old now...
but I think this one is the most craziest of all. I'm sure!
[AUDIENCE CHEERS]
And I'm a little bit jealous of all the costumes I have already seen
and we have to wear all these normal Suits...
but, I promise you next time it will be different. That's for sure!
[AUDIENCE CHEERS]
I would like to say:
Welcome to Sardyuon and Imohata. Would you please come on stage?
Hello and welcome to EF
Unfortunately, Sardyuon doesn't speak English very well so he's coming with his own translator
He is a wonderful stage and fursuit performer
and he is going to have a show on Thursday.
Thank you so much for making the long way over here!
We are very honored to have you here.
He is saying that it was always his huge dream to come to Eurofurence
and finally it is coming true. So he is very thrilled to say hi to you!
Can I please have Kyell Gold up here?
Kyell, come up here!
In case you don't know:
He is, probably one of the most popular authors of the furry fandom right now!
And don't need a translator for you!
I hope not!
It's a real pleasure and an honor to be back here at Eurofurence.
We were here, sadly, six years ago...
we always meant it to be sooner and it's a real honor to come back and...
hope to entertain your guests with your wonderful staff
This is always one of our favorite cons so thank you for inviting us back!
You're very welcome!
Jeff and Alopex from Sofawolf Press!
would you please come up here?
It's an honor to have you guys here!
Thank you all for having us. This is a wonderful con!
Like Kyle we where here last in 2008 in Suhl
and we've already been here since Saturday, enjoying the great city of Berlin and...
thank you for all of the staff for hosting us
and please come to our talks. We won't be as entertaining as Kyell or other guests
but we'll try to make that at least educational!
And they've been around forever!
Thank you so much for coming!
It's a pleasure!
And then finally, we have:
Hugo-award winning Artist:
Ursula Vernon
It's a pleasure to have you here!
Oh thank you guys so much for having me
this is my first time in Berlin and I'm thrilled to be here
There are a lot of you, although because of the stage lights I can't
actually see most of you but I hope I will get to meet
a statistically significant portion of you
over the course of the con,
and I'm looking forward to it.
I will look forward to it!
How do you like the new hotel?
Last year my biggest concern was Fursuiters jumping into the hotel pool.
luckily we don't have one anymore.
If you have any questions regarding the hotel you can go to the reception
or find me. We will try to solve all your problems.
Please bear with the hotel staff
it's really really new to them and they are still overwhelmed.
But if you have anything we can...
solve or fix for you approach us first before
complaining. I think we can do everything.
How about a little report from registration?
It works!
I don't have that much to say this time
because you already told them.
In fact we have...
by now we have 2071
attending persons.
[APPLAUSE]
Out of 2244 registrations.
And from these over 2000 registrations...
already 1750 persons are here.
Yea, I gotta keep myself short
I got killed three times in last years for
Uhh...
Did I mention this has a cancel button?
Not this year!
This is even worse as last year when somebody got me a concussion...
I really like this thing!
I start to hate you!
This will help us keep our timetable!
Our head of security: Dharyyyyyy......
Head of security because there is a second one!
Now, I'm called the chief but that's not entirely true
because my long year,
friend Gyroplast, sitting over there, the guy with the
snow white hair is actually my right hand,
my left hand and the person behind me.
And together with him and our 40 people team...
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING] And together with him and our 40 people team...
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
*SIGH* [AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
*SIGH*
[APPLAUSE] *SIGH*
[APPLAUSE]
Is that what you guys are doing in that secret room?
I'm going to tell his wife!
Did you know sex is a crime?
Oh, it's a misdemeanor!
The more I miss it...
the meaner I get.
Ehh, Gyro, could you please...
Cheetah! That was so bad.
What what what? Cheetah! That was so bad.
That Joke was a crime...
to humanity!
What the hell is...? Can...
What?
Gimme that!
Stay right there! Get on your place!
What? Stay right there! Get on your place!
Sorry dudes, we have to cut off this... sorry, it doesn't work like that!
Dispatch! Dispatch: We have a pun. I repeat: We have a pun!
Why aren't you doing anything dude?
Please send an evacuation team immediately along with evidence extraction!
Please come up here. I need an evidence extraction team. STAT
Come on up here, guys...
Snag em, bag em, tag em! Get the civilians out of here!
Well at least I still have my cupcake!
Oh yea, right! Gimme that!
What? Oh yea, right! Gimme that!
What? That is evidence. I need to get this!
Get him right behind there, we have to "talk" to him!
Yea, great. We need to get this scene clean real quick!
Yea, we gotta "talk"!
And by the way!
Eurofurence 20 is hereby officially opened!
[APPLAUSE]
Mew!
There is a camera in my face!
and it's operated by a werewolf!
I like!
Hey BBF!
So where's the camera?
Hahaa!
And... Bibi?
This one is just for you:
Ich fress dich, aaaarrghhhh! I'll eat you! Aaaaargh!
The dragon is kinda occupied
Time share. Yaay!
And this is the state of security on the second day!
I'm fine! We're fine! Honest! Honest!
For me it already feels like it's like day... I lost count! I'm fine! We're fine! Honest! Honest!
For me it already feels like it's like day... I lost count!
cause we've been here a couple of days. Everyone seems to have arrive early
sooo... it's like opening ceremonies was our kind of closing ceremonies.
We're already knackered!
Although it did feel fun to make the... We're already knackered!
Although it did feel fun to make the...
What would you like me to draw?
A tiger!
A tiger?
Any tiger?
Okay, allright!
There, how is that?
Is fine!
Oh wait wait wait!
Tigers have stripes!
And they've got round ears...
Oh, and whiskers!
And claws!
Claws!
You miss the tail!
Tiger!
Oi!
Verpiss dich! (Fuck off!)
¡Muchas gracias por favor!
¡Si Señor!
¡Si Señor! ¡Ola!
¡Hola!
¡Come to our convention!
¡You little shitbag!
Si Señor Taco Bell
¡Taco Burrito!
Eeeeh.... ¡Ole!
Is the least mexican convention there!
I'm gonna mage-quit this con
But first I'm gonna have this beer!
Do not spill my beer!
That's a felony in this country
You spill beer in Germany you go into prison!
Ladies and gentlemen
Welcome to the Eurofurence 20 fursuit parade
which is about to begin exactly on time at 15:37
Only seven minutes late
The fursuits will be coming down on the opposite side of this barricade here,
they will cross over the lava pit via a rope bridge
and then they will have to swing from vines to make the way to the dealers room
and then, finally, to the group photo, which will take place in the Biergarten outside.
See you there!
Arf arf arf arf arf arf arf. Arf!
No, no NO!
Oh, it's empty!
Nein, das ist der fursuit freundliche Weingläser!
Sardyuon!
Hello YouTube!
Holy shit it's batman!
Holy bat, it's.... nah!
Sardyuon just kicked me in the face...
All I did was asking if I could play
with his balls here.
Maybe it didn't translate well.#
I'm gonna use this table!
You're gonna need a mike, aren't you?
Although you have a keyboard!
I'm just gonna shout very loud! Although you have a keyboard!
I'm just gonna shout very loud!
He's Scottish! I'm just gonna shout very loud!
He's Scottish!
Ladies and gentlemen: That's Fox Amoore!
Oh, before I forget...
there was wonderful Dragnorus out there
who make sure I don't fall over at night.
take that to him, would you be so kind? Thank you very much!
Alright!
And oh, Mr. Amoore....
Uhmm...
Somebody brought this up for you
I don't know if this is the kind of thing you're looking for...
And he said, uhm....
I'll take that as a yes!
He said you had to do some sort of ritual
by pouring it in that.
I want to tell you about a man
that I had the pleasure of knowing.
he was....
...an amazing and memorable fellow.
His name was Paul Gordon.
He, back many years ago
in 1942 in fact,
was a crew member
in a B17 bomber
that...
shall we say,
encountered difficulties in the skies
of France.
several men in his aircraft
died in that difficulty,
Paul parachuted out
he landed in a farm field
was rescued by the French family
who owned the farm field
and when the
representatives of the German gouvernment
came to get him, they patched him up
and he spend the rest of their war
as their guest.
At a hotel called Stalag 17.
I loved to listen to
Pauls stories.
There was something about them
that I couldn't put my finger on.
Normally we'd see an absolute
engaging storyteller.
He could hold your attention just by
making noises and pointing at you.
and drinking wine. It's amazing, I've
NO idea how he does that.
But I never tired of his stories.
Paul passed away very recently
and I was asked to say a few words
at his funeral.
And I told his wife:
I don't know, I...
It's so difficult for me to talk in
front of people!
But I'll try!
And as I started to think
about Pauls stories
I started to realize
what it was that he was
trying to convey
in those stories.
Paul tells his story
in a way that I've never heard
an American war veteran tell.
He never at any time
said anything rude
or even slightly insulting
about the German people
or the German army
in fact, he went out of his way
to remind people that
these guys were just as much
prisoners as he was
by the circumstances that he was in
He, later after the war,
developed a friendship with the Luftwaffe pilot
who had shot him down.
He presented in his book
a description
a very detailed description
of the military
inquiry into
the deaths of his crew members.
and that description includes
how the bodies were prepared for burial
the names of the burial detail
the religious hymns that were sung
as these men were taken to their grave site.
How the salute was fired
with the rifles.
And how reeds were laid on the graves
following prayers were read.
And then the detail returned home
Sounds like run of the mill stuff.
But this was a translation
of a German dispatch.
These were members of the German Luftwaffe
who had taken time
to bury enemy fliers
with full military honors
They don't teach us that in history class.
I don't think anybody teaches
that in history class.
And that was what Paul
was trying to teach us and what I hope
I learned that
even at the worst of times
in the worst of circumstances
there is still
good in everyone and
all you have to do is
to look hard enough to see it.
When I went to Paul's funeral
I brought along a friend
many of you know the artist Gideon.
Gideon is one of my oldest friends,
He also knew Paul.
And he admired Paul as much as I did.
And we went to say our last Good Bye
it's always very difficult
and I...
...told the story I just told to all of you
and people seemed to appreciate it
and hopefully they'll take that same lesson home
when I was finished, we
went up to a big memory book,
Gideon stood on my right side
we opened the book,
and here were pictures of Paul
when he was a young man
pictures of him in the aircorps
there's pictures of his airplane
pictures from his time
as a prisoner in Stalag 17
we were looking at this and remembering the stories
that he told us
and then, I turned one more page.
And I stopped.
And I said, Gideon,
isn't that your art?
And he looked and he said:
Oh my god!
It was a picture of
an anthropomorphic wolf
in a Luftwaffe uniform.
And over here,
was an anthropomorphic fox
in an RAF uniform.
And we stared at this and I said Gideon,
did YOU give these to him??
And Gideon said: I never did!
And I said: But where would he've had found them?
And Gideon said the only place they had ever been
was on my web page!
Here's to you Paul, you son of a bitch!
Day two:
still being followed!
Highly suspect...
something is up...
Must investigate further.
I think he's filming us!
Hi!
Habt Ihr Spaß? Having fun?
Wunderbar! Wonderful.
Ich bin fertig mit der Welt. I'm soooo done!
How about the next election?
Conservative, I hope.
Absolutely excellent.
One of ours, good to see.
Well, delighted, delighted!
Have a delightful time here.
I shall catch you later?
Good bye!
Pleasure, pleasure!
My pleasure!
Good bye!
A couple of ours, a couple conservatives.
Are you guys having a good fucking time?
That's a yes!
Put your hands together for the wonderful
Tygs!
You came all the way up here from Australia, did ya?
Eh, oh...
And he's down
I killed him!
Put your hands together for Sparky!
Oh, now you're just trying to bribe me!
It will work.
Come here you thing, you're so cute!
I just have one
complaint.
Where the hell is my private lapdance?
Yeah, a very lucky
person over here got a lapdance
That was kind of awesome!
Okay, you get top grades!
That's it! I can't do anything else!
Oh my god you're hot!
Holy crap!
Put your hands together for Skrat!
Okay, now that they're done with you
Let's go to my room.
Show's over, folks!
Here, all the way from Norway,
It's FreesTyler!
That doesn't only make my sun rise!
Aaaah!
So....
Holy shit!
This is why the Japanese are ahead of us, folks!
That was so entertaining
for us all!
I'm staying in room 30328
come see me after the show
we'll discuss your horizontal
movements at great length!
Sofia!
Are you okay?
Please tell me you're okay!
Looks like you could've injured yourself doing that!
I know I almost injured myself.
A round of applause for Wolvinny!
These are the results of the Israeli
jury! The third
place, with
a grand total of 35
points is Skrat!
Well done, congratulations Skrat!
Here you go!
Number two:
second place....
with a grand total of
37 points
is....
Math!
The first place with a
grand total of
38 out of 40 points
Konichiwa Kyowe!