The press release:
At 4:20 this afternoon a small fire broke out in the basement of the convention center. In order to fight the fire, local departments shut down the electricity to the building. At that time, the Greater Columbus Convention Center ordered an evacuation of the building. During the evacuation, games were still going strong in both our LARP and RPG areas of the Hyatt. A big thank you to the Game Masters and Attendees for their cooperation. Many GMs have offered to run their events later in the evening.
At 7:30 PM this evening, we were able to restore power and operations at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. If any attendees have questions about their events, please stop by customer service in the concourse.
Thank you again to all of our attendees, it takes a lot more than three hours to slow origins down!
Let the games continue!
