Saturday, March 7, to Saturday, March 14, 2020 on Holland America’s ms Nieuw Amsterdam

2O2O 2020 HIGHLIGHTS Returning Monkey or New, this stuff’s for you:

JOCOBOT 3000 In the Atrium on Deck 1 you’ll find what Greenhouse Gas Neutrality will, in the fullness of time, likely become the As part of our Carbon Roadmap initiative to hopefully-benevolent overlord of us all: an help achieve negative worldwide emissions by AI chatbot endowed with Jonathan’s voice, 2030, rest easy knowing we’ve already made connected to peripherals, and embodied by contributions to sequester CO2, and prevent LEGO Jonathan. Probably best to get on its N2O from entering the atmosphere in the first good side; you’re welcome to interact with it place. We’ve also worked with Holland any time during the sailing. America to reduce and reuse to the greatest extent possible during our sailing. Name Your Game Tabletop All-Gender Restrooms Table-er and Top-er than ever! Our This year, we’ve designated many of the public Cardboard Concierge team is ready to help restrooms on board as “all-gender.” All-gender complete n00bs and veteran players alike restrooms are open to all persons regardless Let’s boogie. find games they’ll love. Or you can just of gender identity or expression; they will have browse the massive JoCo Cruise library. door signage indicating the types of facilities available inside (urinals and/or toilets). Console Gaming The map on page 4 outlines the locations We’ve partnered once again with World 9 of the all- gender and gender-specific public Gaming to bring you a wide variety of restrooms on the Nieuw Amsterdam for JoCo consoles, up in the Crow’s Nest (a.k.a. “10 Cruise 2020. All restroom doors will also have Forward,” which this year is inconveniently a map indicating all other nearby all-gender located on Deck 11). Operational hours and and gender-specific restrooms. We’ve done our events are in the schedule. best to make it so that, on the main “public” Classic Arcade Games decks (1-3, 9-11), you’re never more than one Free to play in Billboard Onboard (Deck 2, deck and/or half the ship away from your Forward). Share and share alike; no game desired type of restroom. hogs, please! Also, clean your hands before and after playing. WASH YOUR HANDS Think of it as giving your immune system a 24-Hour Pizza Service hug (and your immune system LOVES hugs). Per overwhelming demand, the New York Pizza Also take advantage of the hand sanitizer station near the Sea View Pool (Deck 9) will be stations placed throughout the ship. open all day and all night! Hooray for on- demand late-night pizza of passable quality!

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3 4 JOCO CRUISE CODE OF CONDUCT NOW JoCo Cruise wants everyone to foster a healthy, kind, and respectful community in which all individuals will THAT feel safe and welcome. We created the policies below to help us all make it so. YOU’RE Be excellent to each other. Don’t steal things. Treat your fellow Sea Monkeys with kindness and respect. This Obviously. HERE is an enthusiastic and supportive community, and it is all of our responsibility to maintain it. Invite people into your Don’t use illegal substances or YOU conversations and activities; be supportive when your fellow bring them onboard. Sea Monkeys try new things (or choose not to); participate, No exceptions. MIGHT connect, help out. Events like these can feel lonely and intimidating when you’re new and don’t know anybody. Be We’re here to help. BE welcoming, inclusive and friendly, and look out for one another! Don’t hesitate to reach out and ask for help addressing an issue. If the matter is related to the ship and its operations, or ASKING Don’t harass others. the health or physical well-being of passengers and/or crew, we We are not a community that tolerates harassment. This must defer to the Nieuw Amsterdam management. The ship’s YOURSELF includes (but isn’t limited to): any kind of physical, verbal, or management, the officers, and crew are all ultimately psychological abuse; threats, intimidation, and bullying; slurs responsible for the safety and well-being of every person on “HOW DOES ONE JOCO CRUISE?” about race, gender, sexuality or ability; unwanted romantic board. We and they are all doing our best to ensure you enjoy attention, sexual harassment, and generally creepy or stalky your experience and that the values of our community The short answer is that there are no wrong answers, because JoCo Cruise is not a bogus multi-choice quiz put behavior; and photographing anyone or engaging in physical are upheld. together by Professor Terrible; it’s an open-architecture, living SuperThesis powered by your inclinations and interactions (hugging, tickling, backrubs, etc.) without consent. Our experience and expectation is that JoCo Cruisers act whims, and graded by YOU and you alone (if you even BOTHER grading!) If someone asks you to stop doing something and you keep responsibly and look after one another. But in the event of a That said, it can feel overwhelming to be dropped into the middle of this marvel without any guidance, doing it, that’s harassment. We’re all responsible for making breach of this Code of Conduct, we reserve the right to take especially for first-timers (hello, New Monkey!) But don’t sweat it. The hard part was getting here . . . and here you are. sure this doesn’t occur in our community. action, including (but not limited to) limiting access to events, So for those who really dig Cliff’s Notes, or just like to read things in general, here’s the broad outline of how expulsion without refund, and/or permanent banning from JoCo your week might look. Be excellent to the ship’s staff and Cruise events. anyone you encounter at a port of call. During the cruise, if you are subject to or witness behavior DAY 1 — SETTLE IN • All scheduled JoCo Cruise events take place on Remember that we share this community with others. Please that violates our Code of Conduct, contact any Helper Monkey or Ship Time—that is, the time set on the ship’s don’t be the person who makes the Sea Monkeys look bad to JoCo Cruise staff member. You can also dial 74501 from any AND RAMP UP clocks. Ship Time generally matches the local the HAL staff and/or the locals. ship’s phone. Off-ship you can email [email protected]. time of the ports of call; this can sometimes get Look at the week ahead! tricky when the cruise passes through different time zones. Here’s how Ship Time works this year: TO REPORT A CODE OF CONDUCT VIOLATION • Check out the detailed schedule you received in • At 2am on Sun., March 8 (Day 2 of the cruise— the terminal to see what’s on for the first day, or, if you’re a night owl, very very late the night CALL 74501 and check out the general grid on the next page. of Day 1), Ship Time will move forward to 3am, • A daily newsletter with the schedule for the following because Daylight Saving Time begins. day will be delivered to your stateroom each day. • THAT’S IT! 5 6 7 MAIN EVENTS GRID MIDN 11PM 10PM 9PM 8PM 7PM 6PM 5PM 4PM 3PM 2PM 1PM NOON 11AM 10AM 9AM THEME GOLD TEAM RED TEAM RED Welcome, New Monkeys! Meet up with old friends. old with up Meet DAY 1:Fort Lauderdale ALL ABOARD! Dinner Dinner “Once More Unto the Breach, Breach, the Unto More “Once Everybody switch! Everybody Prepare for a week Saturday, March 7 Get your bearings. Find new friends. new Find Up to you, really. you, to Up Sail Away Reception Away Sail SAFETY DRILL of awesome. Or sleeping. Orientation MAIN STAGE MAIN Or gaming! Or chilling! Dear Friends” More fun! More LIDO DECK GOLD TEAM Main Concert Main Concert RED TEAM RED Main Stage Main Stage

GOLD TEAM HALF MOON CAY MOON HALF RED TEAM RED DAY 2:HalfMoonCay Dinner Dinner Everybody switch! Everybody 8am to 5pm 8am Sunday, March 8 Up to you, really. you, to Up Or sleeping. Heroes Day Or gaming! Or chilling! More fun! More GOLD TEAM Main Concert Main Concert RED TEAM RED Main Stage Main Stage GOLD TEAM RED TEAM RED (Are you starting to sense to starting you (Are Shadow cruise events! Dinner Dinner for complete details. See the full schedule Everybody switch! Everybody Monday, March 9 General slacking! Up to you, really. you, to Up a pattern here?) Performances! DAY 3:At Sea Cosplay Day Or sleeping. Or gaming! Or chilling! Readings! More fun! More Gaming! Panels! GOLD TEAM Main Concert Main Concert RED TEAM RED Main Stage Main Stage

SANTO DOMINGO SANTO LAND CONCERT LAND PLAZA DE ESPA DE PLAZA DAY 4:Santo Domingo Plaza de España España de Plaza Tuesday, March 10 10am to 1am 10am 5pm to 11pm (DON’T FORGET AND LANYARD) opens at DOMINGO YOUR BADGE SANTO 4pm Ñ A Wednesday, March 11 Splines toSplines reticulate! know the evening drill at this point, point, this at drill You pretty much much You pretty OPEN DINING People to see! to People DAY 5:At Sea Formal Night Things to do! to Things Places to go! to Places because you are smart. GOLD TEAM RED TEAM RED GRAND TURK Dinner Dinner Thursday, March 12 Everybody switch! Everybody DAY 6:Grand Turk 8am to 5pm 8am Yup. GOLD TEAM Main Concert Main Concert RED TEAM RED Main Stage Main Stage GOLD TEAM RED TEAM RED Relax, Have a Drink with Me” with aDrink Have Relax, Dinner Dinner Everybody switch! Everybody Farewell Reception Friday, March 13 “One Last Time . . . . Time Last “One DAY 7:At Sea Jammies Day really wanted Get in all that that all in Get to do today, today, do to it’s back to to back it’s LIDO DECK LIDO tomorrow dry land... stuff you stuff because GOLD TEAM Main Concert Main Concert RED TEAM RED Main Stage Main Stage NOON THEME MIDN 10AM 10PM 11AM 11PM 9AM 4PM 9PM 6PM 8PM 5PM 2PM 3PM 7PM 1PM 8 Explore the ship! Feed yourself! an Early Show and a Late Show. As such, everyone has • The moment you set foot on the ship you can find an been assigned to either the Red Team or the Gold Team. • Check out the deck maps on pages 3 and 4. If you’re with the Red Team, you go to the early dinner • Basic shipboard terminology: If it’s your first JoCo Cruise, astounding assortment of goodies on Deck 9 at the Lido Buffet, or Dive-In grill counter near the mid- seating (5:30pm on Day 1) in the Main Dining Room • BOW or FORWARD/FORE: front of ship we’ve planned some on-ramps: and then the Late Show (8pm on Day 1); if you’re on the • AFT: back of ship ship Lido Pool, or at the New York Pizza counter by the Sea View Pool. All of which are great places to Gold Team, you go to the Early Show and then the late • STARBOARD side: right side of ship when facing • ORIENTATION - 3pm in the dinner seating. the bow Mainstage theater. We’ll give a meet and meet up with your fellow Sea Monkeys. Veg/Vegan and restricted diet options are available. You are, of course, under no obligation to either • PORT side: left side of the ship when facing brief-ish overview of the week and attend the show, nor to eat dinner in the Main Dining the bow general logistics, and answer any Room; there’s plenty of other food options available and • TENDER: small vessel used to transport people Enjoy the first concert and and all questions you may have. things to do with your time. You’re your own boat boss! from the ship to shore (think “shuttlecraft”) dinner! (Red Team/Gold Team) Show up when you wish/are able For dinner, unless you notified Holland America about • WASH YOUR HANDS: something you should do As we’ve noted previously, most nights of the cruise will special dietary needs ahead of time, it’s open seating. to, and leave at any time. frequently, for herd immunity of sorts feature a Main Concert event featuring our performers Sit anywhere you like on either floor (anywhere that’s • BUFFET: a series of purpose-built tables and • ATTEND A NEW MONKEY and guests. Because the ship’s Main Stage theater only not reserved for fixed seating, staff or 24/7 gaming). shelves where a variety of foodstuffs are laid out, fits half the ship’s guests, we present these concerts as Find new friends, meet up with old friends, collect ‘em all. by way of providing a self-service meal EVENT, which are selected for • If your cabin isn’t quite ready yet, it’s a great their ability to ease you into the opportunity to scoot around and become familiar fun. (These are noted and search- with the ship. It’s also an ideal time to book shore able in the online schedule.) Those who signed up for CLUB SRO are invited to watch either show (or excursions, spa treatments etc., if you haven’t already. both!) in B.B. King’s Lounge. Club SRO members may also watch the show • NEW MONKEY AMBASSADORS live in the Mainstage theater, if there are seats available 5 minutes after Meet and/or reconnect with your will be around the ship to answer the show starts. fellow Sea Monkeys! questions and help with ideas on where to start. They’ll be wearing • On your badge, be sure to jot down an “Ask Me About” topic, and look at other people’s badges for pink sashes, you can’t miss ‘em. theirs. Instant ice breaker! PLANT-BASED EATING • You’ll also see Your Pronoun stickers on many badges. If you didn’t get stickers in the terminal, If you’re all about plants at mealtime, we’ve worked with the Nieuw the Info Desk (Deck 1, Atrium) will have extras if Amsterdam to get you covered . . . you’d like to add one to your badge. • Join in the easy way! A Friendly Fez sign means “You’re • Nightly vegetarian and vegan meal options in the Main Dining Room • We’ve also teamed with Friendshipping to provide welcome to join us!” Grab one from the Game Library buttons for you to indicate your social mood. Wear or throughout the ship to invite • Added vegetarian and vegan options in the Lido Market, including a them as it suits you, and take cues from the people to join you at your game station dedicated to plant-based options Friendshipping buttons others might be wearing. or dining table. • Plant-based options at the Dive-In grill (including Beyond Burgers and Sausages!)

9 10 AFTER EMBARK, WHAT DOES A Into the night . . . “TYPICAL” DAY LOOK LIKE? Dinner/Show • The Billboard Onboard bar and lounge area (on Deck 2 next to the casino) will be set up as a late night Typical-schmypical! JoCo Cruise is set up to allow people to explore and pursue what interests them, and nothing is Day 1 social space. Comfy? Snacks (Later Taters)? mandatory.* That said, there is a general flow to each day, which varies depending on if it’s a sea day or port day. • Red Team: Beverages? Arcade gaming? YES TO ALL! *except for disembarking on the last day, but that’s, like, a million days away... 5:30pm dinner, 8pm Main Concert • All over the place: more official events, shadow • Gold Team: events, dance parties and hangouts happen well Good Morning! mind (any of these other bullet points) for getting 5:30pm Main Concert, 8pm dinner into the wee hours. • Going to bed early can be pretty great, too! (or possibly Good Afternoon-Morning!) Wake up, do your schedule info, if necessary. Days 2-3, 6-7 morning thang, enjoy a hot shower, etc. Have breakfast • JOCO CRUISE INFO DESK, ATRIUM, • Red Team: in your cabin (because you filled out a room service DECK 1 MIDSHIP. Daily staffing hours will be 5pm dinner, 7:30pm Main Concert form the night before) or seek it on the Lido deck or posted at the desk and in our daily newsletter. You • Gold Team: IF IT’S A PORT DAY: Main Dining Room. can also request a printed copy of the online schedule 5pm Main Concert, 7:30pm dinner at the Info Desk, if you need one. • If you’ve signed up for a Holland America Look over the day’s schedule Day 4 (Santo Domingo) shore excursion, you’ll get instructions • HELPER MONKEYS. The JoCo Cruise “volunteer • The Main Dining Room is “Open Dining”— (which was delivered to your stateroom the night before) about when and where to meet up and Helper Monkey” genus comes in two different try to get there in the neighborhood of and think about what appeals to you the most. what (if anything) you need to bring with species: Proctors, who work specific events/shifts (in your usual seating if possible (so the you. If not, you can disembark at your whole ship doesn’t all show up at once), Seek and pursue those things! pink vests); and New Monkey Ambassadors (wearing leisure for self-guided adventure. (Just get pink sashes), who are more generalized wandering but you can arrive anytime between 5pm back to the ship in time!) Or you can stay and 9pm. No need to bring along a schedule: we place fresh daily “help stations” (particularly for newbies). All Helper on the ship and enjoy everything it has to schedules throughout the ship, outside all the main Monkeys can help find answers to JoCo Cruise Day 5 offer. venues. questions. You can also turn to them about a Code of • No Main Concert, but Red/Gold Team • NOTE: Half Moon Cay requires taking a dining times Conduct violation or if you need to report a harass- “tender” boat to reach the island; you’ll Here are all the ways to keep on remain the same receive instructions on how that works top of the daily doings: ment incident. For general Nieuw Amsterdam or • The Main Dining Room is “Open Dining,” later in the week. But you’ll be able to Holland America-related questions (shore excursions, but please try to get there in the neigh- • DAILY NEWSLETTER – DELIVERED TO YOUR walk directly off the ship in Santo room account charges, etc.), please consult the ship’s borhood of your usual seating if possible Domingo and Grand Turk. STATEROOM EVERY EVENING. Includes updated materials or visit the ship’s Front Desk (Deck 1, (so the whole ship doesn’t all show up at schedule and key information about the next day. Midship). once), but you can arrive anytime • DAILY SCHEDULES – POSTED THROUGHOUT between 5pm and 9pm. • SELF-ORGANIZE. Easel pads are available in the THE SHIP. Complete daily schedules are posted in Explorer’s Lounge (deck 3, aft) for “analog” plan • NOTE: Fixed Seating table assignments/ REMEMBER THE the elevator lobbies on Decks 2, 3 and 9; individual times will still apply on all days. coordination and announcements. There are also SELF-CARE RULE: venue daily schedules are posted outside that venue. “Looking for Players” boards by the Game Library As noted, all Main Dining Room dinners are • ONLINE SCHEDULE – specifically for organizing gaming events. “open seating”—unless you’ve requested 5 - 3 - 1 JOCOCRUISE2020.SCHED.COM. HAL has Fixed Seating, you can sit at any table not • MORNING ANNOUNCEMENTS / PUBLIC Get “whitelisted” our schedule page, meaning you don’t otherwise reserved for fixed seating, staff 5 hours of sleep ADDRESS SYSTEM. For major reminders and per night, minimum need to purchase an Internet plan to access it. That or 24/7 gaming. announcements throughout the week, Principal said, Internet access onboard can sometimes be a Sabourin and others will notify you directly, via Eat 3 meals each day little dicey, so we suggest you have backup options in the ship’s P.A. Take 1 shower/bath each day 11 12 THE THINGS YOU MIGHT DO! SANTO DOMINGO LAND CONCERT This year our big Land Concert will be held on Tues., March 10, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in the Plaza Official Events The Shadow Cruise de España. Just a brief walk from the cruise terminal, it’s large enough for everyone to hang out in historic fashion. • Shows, presentations, panels, Q&As and more, • One of our favorite parts of JoCo Cruise is how Sea See the Schedule for the full list of performers. The Official Group Photo will also be taken just before the concert. featuring our performers and guests. Monkeys self-organize and create events of every • Your JoCo Cruise 2020 badge and up in the Plaza so you won’t need to choose between • Office Hours: small informal gatherings and sort. This process evolved at the dawn of JoCo lanyard will serve as your access seeing the concert and enjoying a tasty beverage. Food hangouts with various performers and guests. Cruise, and every year we offer spaces across the pass into the concert area. Please and beverages will be sold via tickets, which will be Setting will vary, from meeting rooms to bars to ship for these events. And this year the Shadow be sure to bring them. available for purchase on site via cash or credit. the pool to hot tubs. Check the schedule for Cruise features over 270 TOTAL EVENT HOURS (!). different options. That’s a lotta Shadow! • Transportation to and from the venue will be available • Most Santo Domingo restaurants, bars and stores for those with mobility issues. accept $US cash, but change will likely be given in Tabletop Gaming Lounging and General Ship Amenities • This will be a “stand-up” music festival, but there Dominican pesos. • The Game Library has been refreshed by Jenn Ellis • Chill times at the Lido Pool (Deck 9, Midship) and will be some seating available. There will also be a (of Twogether Studios), and features over 2,000 Sea View Pool (Deck 9, Aft) and other areas. • IN THE EVENT OF INCLEMENT section reserved for accessible seating. pounds (a literal ton!) of games. PLUS games • Relax like a boss at the Spa (Deck 9, Forward), WEATHER, we will notify all passengers as to loaned for the week by your fellow Sea Monkeys. shop like a boss at the Shops (Deck 3, Midship), • We’ve arranged to have food trucks with local cuisine any schedule and/or location changes for the • You’ll find more about tabletop gaming and the or be the boss of looking at photos at the available for purchase on-site, and there are also Land Concert via our newsletter and/or shipboard Game Library later in this guide. Photo Gallery. restaurants right on the Plaza where you could enjoy a announcements. (And YES, we have a rain • Roll them bones, hit on a soft 17, spin the hot meal before the concert begins. Bars will also be set contingency for 2020, heh heh *crying emoji*) Crafting marble, and laugh in the face of math and • New crafting programming in the Craft Room probability in the ship’s Casino (Deck 2, Forward). (Deck 2 Aft, near the shops) organized by Fiona’s • Gym? Sure. You could do that. (Deck 9, Forward) Fineries, plus meetups and events in other parts of the ship. (And/or you can do standalone crafting Daily Quiet Zones pretty much anywhere!) • 8am - 3pm: Crow’s Nest Bar (Deck 11, Forward) • 9pm - late: Lido Marketplace - Starboard Side Console Gaming (Deck 9, Midship) • Back by popular demand, more than 40 console stations are set up for you to play, from NES to The above Quiet Zones are where people can find some of the latest, in the EXC area (Deck 11, respite from the bustle of the busier and noisier Forward), brought to you by World 9 Gaming. locations. We encourage quiet activities (reading, Arcade Games puzzles, etc.), but ask that there be no gaming in • Also popular and demanded, we’ve set up an entire designated Quiet Areas. Think “library” sound levels. 1980s mall’s worth of classic arcade machines in Anyone engaging in noisy/disturbing activity will be the Billboard Onboard lounge (Deck 2, Forward). asked (politely and quietly) to relocate. Free to play! Are you ready to steal the Galaga high scores from JWC and POO?

13 14 Oh, you’re one of those devil-may-care folks 3:30 p.m. daily for actual dinner prep and actual TABLETOP GAMING AND looking for players right now. Check the schedule eating, and re-opens after dinner service has been and see what game events are happening right now, cleared. This space is so vast that we implore you to THE GAME LIBRARY or look for Friendly Fez signs at game tables to find note on the whiteboard map where your event is folks looking for players. Observe what they’re playing located, so your friends can find you. and if you’re interested in joining, utter the secret LET’S PLAY! your mood; and experts (the Cardboard Concierge team) phrase: “I see your Friendly Fez; are you still looking Billboard Onboard Lounge • Gaming events are included in the schedule posted in can make personal recommendations no matter what for players?” For late-night game happenings, we This is the happening place for evening party games, the daily newsletter, as well as throughout the ship. your skill or experience level is. Their office hours are recommend stopping by the Billboard Onboard lounge featuring comfy chairs and close proximity to • Check out a game in the 24/7 game library and ask posted in the Game Library. to find folks playing social/party games, or Deck 3 of beverages. It’s the best floating game bar in town. one of our Cardboard Concierge team members for the Main Dining Room. Well, except for the Lido. games that fit your taste. FINDING PLAYERS For the love of Manwë, if you are telling your AND JOINING GAMES Ocean Bar ABOUT THE GAME LIBRARY friends or a group to meet you for a game in the Lots of useful tables and chairs; plus there’s a handy The JoCo Cruise Tabletop Game Library is in the Upper Do you like the comfort and order of a day Main Dining Room on Deck 3, mark on the whiteboard bar right there for refreshments. Whenever there’s not Main Dining Room (Deck 3 Aft), just to the left as you or afternoon well-planned? Scheduled Gaming events map at the entrance where your friends can find you. scheduled events taking place there, it’s a great enter (starboard side). It’s available 24/7, and includes are listed in the daily newsletter and posted schedules. locale for gaming. games donated to JoCo Cruise by Our Generous You can also check out the “Looking For Players” board WHERE TO PLAY GAMES Sponsors as well as those on loan from your fellow Sea at the Game Library, which has notices from fellow Once you check out a game you can play it anywhere Lido Monkeys. (May Poseidon protect them and further their passengers running RPG’s or tabletop game gatherings. on board. That said, some places are better than It’s regular gaming, but in comfortable chairs steps good works. Amen.) All Sea Monkeys are welcome to post “Looking for others. Check the detailed board inside of the Game away from an endless buffet. Need we say more? The game shelves are color-coded based on game Players” notices in the game library and we recommend Library of recommended spaces to play based on time NOTE: after 9pm, the port side of the Lido is a play length; there are recommended game lists to suit doing so even if you posted something elsewhere. of day that the Cardboard Concierge team maintains designated Quiet Zone; silent gaming only on this daily. Here are some spaces you should know about: side in the late evenings, please. Designated 24/7 Gaming Tables NOTE: if there is an Official Event or a A section of the upper Main Dining Room on Deck 3 has Shadow Cruise event scheduled in any given tables (designated via table tent) for gaming at any The Sea Monkey community is an honorable one that takes great space, that event has precedence for seating/ hour of the day or night—even during dinner service! care of these cardboard jewels. Any game leaving the designated table space. Check the “Where to Play” board in the Game Library, which is updated daily. Main Dining Room on Deck 3 Game Library area must be checked out using our easy library Thanks for cooperating! Open almost all the time for gaming. It’s closed off at checkout system. This lets everyone know where games are, and when they’re due back. Specific check-in/check-out instructions are posted at the Game Library.

15 16 GOTTA CATCH IT ALL: PHOTO AND VIDEO POLICY

JoCo Cruise imposes no restrictions on where and when its cruisers may capture light photons and audio waves, and generally encourages you to do so, as well as share those images and recordings with others (including over social JOCO CRUISE AND ACCESSIBILITY media). JoCo Cruise operates under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license. That said, five things: JoCo Cruise works to ensure that all aspects of our event are fully accessible by all attendees. • At times, Holland America’s photo and video policies may be different from that of JoCo Cruise. If there’s a Holland America Line’s facilities are designed to accommodate people with mobility, hearing, and conflict, we must and will defer to the Nieuw Amsterdam’s policy. visual disabilities. You can visit HAL’s website for complete information regarding their various • Please be mindful and respectful of others when recording, and respect the JoCo Cruise Code of Conduct accessibility and special needs options, including info on accessible staterooms. at all times. Please don’t block someone else’s view with your gear or self; and ask permission before During JoCo Cruise, if anyone encounters any issues regarding accessibility, we will work with photographing or recording someone. Not everyone may wish to be photographed/filmed. HAL to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. • Some performers may request their performances not be recorded, or indicate that they may be recorded but not publicly reposted. In such cases we ask that everyone respect those requests. We’ll do our best to get word out in advance regarding performers’ preferences. • In addition to the ship’s photographers, you’ll likely encounter the ShutterMonkeys taking pictures throughout the week. Their primary mission is to document the cruise for the public, and for JoCo Cruise’s general documentary and promotional purposes, but if for any reason you don’t want to be photographed by them, it’s cool—just let them know. SMOKING POLICY • We also will have a crew aboard to make a video about JoCo Cruise. Same deal as with the ShutterMonkeys— if for any reason you don’t want to be filmed by them, it’s cool—just let them know. • Smoking of tobacco products (cigarettes, cigars and pipes), e-cigarettes and vaping are permitted in the Sea View Bar area (Deck 9, aft)—starboard side only. GOT IT? SHARE IT! • Smoking of tobacco products is not permitted on any Whether on the ship or on land, we encourage you to use social media to stateroom verandah, inside any staterooms, or in any other show the world how much fun you’re having while they slog around in the public areas. snow, stare at the beige walls of their cubicle, and generally face the • E-cigarettes and vaping are not permitted on any stateroom bleak reality of not being you on JoCo Cruise. verandah, but are permitted inside staterooms. Please use the hashtag #JoCoCruise when sharing JoCo pictures on Instagram, Facebook, and so other Sea Monkeys (and the Sea Monkey-curious) can check out your glorious 2020 adventures. We’ll also be awarding cool prizes from our sponsors throughout the week to people who prove adept at sharing the fun. And Follow and Like to stay connected!

17 18 JIM BOGGIA has three studio albums— 2001’s Fidelity Is the Enemy, 2005’s Safe in Sound and 2008’s Misadventures in Stereo—and he’s worked with artists , Juliana Hatfield, Mike Viola, Tracy Bonham, Bernadette Peters, David Poe, NRBQ’s Big Al Anderson, Beach Boys lyricist Tony Asher, MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer, Attractions drummer Pete Thomas, Emitt Rhodes, and Amanda Marshall. Boggia also performs with the well- known –based Beatles tribute band, the Fab Faux, as well as Mad Dogs & Dominos. Oh, and he plays a mean ukulele.

Having soaked up experience all over the world, QUELLE CHRIS has a style with no obvious lineage. Few other MC/producers can leap from teenage humor to intense personal reflection, is from the Internet. While from hardcore rhyming to serious experimentation a struggling music industry fell to pieces over file sharing and and make sense of it all. More succinctly, Quelle is shifting business models, he independently amassed a small the real deal. The multi-threat MC/Producer/ army of techies, nerds, and dedicated superfans. He’s known Animator/Director comes to the table with no for his songs in the games, plus an eclectic catalog of gimmicks or trends. Quelle Chris is just being his masterful songwriting on subjects from zombies and mad unapologetically honest self. His latest release, scientists to sad parents and dissatisfied software engineers. Guns, is available now on . He is the house musician for the NPR quiz show Ask Me Another, and a composer for Spongebob Squarepants: The Broadway Musical.

19 20 KELLY SUE DECONNICK is best EMILY FLAKE is a cartoonist, writer, known for surprise hits like Carol Danvers’ rebranding performer, and illustrator living in Brooklyn. She is a as Captain Marvel and the Eisner-nominated frequent contributor to the New Yorker, the Nib, and mythological western, Pretty Deadly; the latter was many other publications. She is the author and co-created with artist Emma Ríos. DeConnick’s most illustrator of Mama Tried: Dispatches from the Seamy recent venture, the sci-fi kidney-punch called Bitch Underbelly of Modern Parenting and, most recently, Planet, co-created with Valentine De Landro, That Was Awkward: The Art and Etiquette launched to rave reviews in December 2014 and of the Awkward Hug. She is the creator and has since been nominated for an Eisner. DeConnick cohost of NIGHTMARES, a monthly interview lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, Matt show/podcast about bad dreams. She gives Fraction, and their two children. DeConnick and good advice and bakes an excellent pie. Fraction are currently developing television for Find her at www.emilyflake.com Legendary TV under their company Milkfed Criminal Masterminds, Inc.

TYBEE DISKIN is a host and creative MATT FRACTION writes comic books out producer from Tallahassee, FL. She has worked in in the woods where he lives with his wife, the writer the internet nerdscape since 2009, starting with Kelly Sue DeConnick, his two children, two dogs, a Indy Mogul’s Backyard FX and moving on to produce cat, a bearded dragon, some fish, and a yard full of and star in the award-winning web series, Fallout: coyotes and stags. He won the first-ever PEN USA Nuka Break. Since then, she has co-created and Literary Award for Graphic Novels; his work in co-hosted two with Travis McElroy— comics has won Eisner, Harvey, and Eagle Awards. Interrobang with Travis and Tybee and Run: He wrote the first-ever comic story published by A Doctor Who Fancast—solidifying herself as GQ. Hawkeye sat atop the New York Times-best part of the “Extended McElverse.” She now selling graphic novel list, as did Sex Criminals, develops and produces content for mobile apps which TIME Magazine named the Best Comic BookNotes and YARN with Mammoth Media, of 2013. Fraction and DeConnick are currently and is the co-host (cult leader?) of developing television for Legendary TV under The Cincinnati Underground Society Show. their company Milkfed Criminal Masterminds, Inc.

21 22 VANCE GILBERT burst onto the is Jonathan Coulton’s singer/ scene in the early 90’s in the friend. He has done a lot of stuff on stage, page, and folk clubs of . He appeared with Shawn various screens. He is the host of the Judge John Colvin on her Fat City national tour. Vance Gilbert Hodgman podcast, and his latest book is called took audiences across the country by storm. Eight Medallion Status. Wikipedia will tell you the rest, accomplished albums later, Vance continues to or you can just ask him on the boat. refine his unlikely union of humor, virtuosity, and the unexpected, with a presentation steeped in deep humanism and bravery, stunning artistry and soul, and contagious, unbridled joy.

Critically acclaimed lyricist, producer, N.K. JEMISIN is the first author in the writer, director, cinematographer and all around genre’s history to win three consecutive Best Novel consummate entertainer has Hugo Awards, all for her Broken Earth trilogy. Her been challenging the boundaries of artistry since work has also won the Nebula, Locus, and her debut in 1996. Well into an almost 20 year Goodreads Choice Awards. She was a reviewer for long career that maintains not only relevancy, the New York Times Book Review, and she has but continues to push the envelope of perception, been an instructor for the Clarion and Clarion marketing and branding. Grae has worked West writing workshops. In her spare time she alongside Mos Def, Talib Kweli, The Roots, is a gamer and gardener, and she is also single- , and many others. Grae recently handedly responsible for saving the world made her directorial debut and created her from KING Ozzymandias, her dangerously company, KAGD. With videos for The Hellpit intelligent ginger cat, and his phenomenally Faeries, Talib Kweli and herself under her belt, destructive sidekick Magpie. she created Life With Jeannie a half hour sitcom, written, directed by and starring Grae.

23 24 is a 74-time champion on MYQ KAPLAN is a comedian named Mike the quiz show Jeopardy! and the author of twelve Kaplan. He has performed on , books, most recently Planet Funny: How Comedy , the Late Show with David Letterman, Late Ruined Everything, as well as the New York Times Night with Seth Meyers, the Late Late Show with bestsellers Because I Said So!, Maphead, and James Corden, in his own half-hour Brainiac. He and are the creators of Presents special, and in his own one-hour special the podcast Omnibus, a complete time capsule of on and now Amazon, Small, Dork, and all human knowledge for a post-human Earth. He Handsome. He has been a finalist on Last Comic lives in with his wife and two children. Standing and recently appeared on America’s Got Talent. His debut album, Vegan Mind Meld, was one of iTunes’ top 10 comedy albums of the year, his most recent album, No Kidding, is one of the top billion albums of eternity, and his next album, All Killing Aside, will be available this May. Thanks for reading all this. You’re very nice.

JOYELLE NICOLE JOHNSON Cellist and composer ZOË KEATING uses is currently the warm up comic for Hasan Minhaj’s a cello and a foot-controlled laptop to record layer talk show Patriot Act on Netflix and the permanent upon layer of cello, creating intricate, haunting and guest host for the Sirius XM radio show Godfrey compelling music. Known for her use of technology Complex. She has written for Broad City and and her DIY approach, Zoë releases her music performed on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Wyatt online without the help of a record label. She Cenac’s Night Train, This Week at the Comedy was named a Young Global Leader by the World Cellar, Comics to Watch and LaffMob, and can be Economic Forum and serves on the boards of seen in HBO’s Crashing. She was selected for the the Magik Magik Orchestra and CASH Music, 2018 FOX Comedy showcase, was a finalist in a nonprofit organization that builds open source NBC’s Stand Up For Diversity Showcase. She has digital tools for musicians and labels. She has appeared with Hannibal Buress, Dave Chappelle, composed scores for televisions shows The Russell Peters and Maria Bamford and with Lizz Returned and Manhattan, and played and Winstead’s Lady Parts Justice League. recorded with Imogen Heap, Amanda Palmer, Tears for Fears, DJ Shadow, Dan Hicks, Thomas Dolby, John Vanderslice, Rasputina, Paolo Nutini, Pomplamoose and many others. 25 26 YOON HA LEE’s debut novel, AIMEE MANN is a singer-songwriter and as Ninefox Gambit, won the Locus Award for fine a chronicler of the human comedy and painful best first novel and was a finalist for the Hugo, break-ups as popular music has produced. Aimee Nebula, and Clarke awards. Lee’s middle grade was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song space opera, Dragon Pearl, was a New York Times for “Save Me,” from the film Magnolia. After her New bestseller. Lee lives in Louisiana with family Wave band ‘Til Tuesday broke up, Aimee launched and an extremely lazy cat, and has her solo career and released her first album, not yet been eaten by gators. Whatever, in 1997. In 2017, she released Mental Illness, her ninth album.

MOLLY LEWIS is known for her quirky CLINT McELROY appears with his sons songs and insatiable desire to woo the Internet Justin, Travis and Griffin on and has also been known to slam revolving doors. podcast. He worked in the radio industry for Notorious for playing covers of her own songs, Molly forty-two years, has taught at Marshall University, had a breakout year in 2009, when she released I and wrote the comic book adaptations for Freejack Made You a CD, But I Eated It, and made her first and Universal Soldier and several Green Hornet appearances at W00tstock and PAX Prime. As a comic books. He claims to have kilt him songwriter, she focuses mostly on Mr. T and a bar when he was only 3, but this female reproduction. Molly’s bio may require has not been verified. cleanup to meet Wikipedia’s quality standards.

27 28 GRIFFIN McELROY is a co-host of the RACHEL McELROY is a part-time wildly-popular podcast My Brother, My Brother and Me podcaster, part-time community college grantwriter, along with his brothers Justin and Travis McElroy. The and full-time McElroy wife (to Griffin) and mom (to three brothers also host The Adventure Zone podcast Henry). She entered the family business in 2016 with with their father Clint. He also co-hosts the podcast the podcast Rose Buddies, a show with Wonderful! with his wife Rachel. Griffin was a Griffin about The Bachelor and reality dating shows. founding editor of Polygon, Vox Media’s gaming In 2017, this show turned into Wonderful!, a podcast brand. In 2017, Griffin was selected by Forbes for she and Griffin do about the pieces of culture their “30 Under 30” list of media luminaries. they love and think others could love too.

JUSTIN McELROY is the DR. SYDNEE McELROY is the host/co-host of numerous podcasts, co-host of : A Marital Tour of Misguided including modern advicecast My Brother, Medicine and Still Buffering: A Sisters’ Guide to My Brother and Me, medical history show Teens Through the Ages. She’s also a family Sawbones, RPG show The Adventure Zone. doctor and assistant professor at the Marshall He also writes and makes videos for gaming University School of Medicine, in addition to site Polygon, and can be see in in YouTube being mom to two-year-old Charlie. series Monster Factory, Things I Bought at Sheetz and Quality Control. He’s also one of the great huggers.

28 30 TRAVIS McELROY is a full-time PAUL (Sabourin) & STORM (DiConstanzo) Podcast Host/Producer who works on way are known for their original comedy music (often more projects than he has time for. He started with a “nerd-ish” bent). They are co-founders of the podcasting in 2010 with the comedy advice show geek-oriented variety show w00tstock, along with My Brother, My Brother and Me. Since then, Wil Wheaton and Adam Savage, and co-produce he has gone on to co-host The Adventure Zone, JoCo Cruise. The duo’s original webseries musical Shmanners, The Kind Rewind, Bunker Buddies, LearningTown debuted on YouTube’s Geek & Sundry Trends Like These, Til Death Do Us Blart, channel in 2013. Also in 2013, their song “Another Interrobang with Travis and Tybee, The McElroy Irish Drinking Song” was featured in Despicable Brothers Will Be In Trolls 2, Can I Pet Your Dog, Me 2, and in July had their guitar smashed on and Surprisingly Nice. He and his brothers also stage by George R. R. Martin (and deserved it). adapted MBMBaM into a similarly They have released five albums. They are also titled television show on Seeso.com. staff writers for, and contributed numerous songs to, the rebooted seasons of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

When LA Weekly called MEGA RAN “The LIZ PHAIR is is a Grammy-nominated complete package as an MC,” they meant it. singer/songwriter whose debut album Exile In A former teacher, Mega Ran (formerly Random) Guyville is considered by music critics to be a blends education, hip-hop and gaming in amazing landmark of indie rock. She has been a recording new ways, penetrating the farthest reaches of the artist and touring performer for twenty-five years, galaxy with his unique rhyme style and electric and has sold over five million records worldwide, performances. The first ever rap artist to be with three US gold albums and two Grammy licensed by a major game developer (CAPCOM), nominations, paving the way for countless music Ran takes the old and makes it new through artists, particularly women, who count her among his unique form of music he calls “Chip-Hop.” their major influences. Her deeply clever and often As gifted with off-the-head “freestyle” rhymes brutally candid songs have been garnering critical as he is with the written word, Mega Ran praise since she began her career in the early has dazzled crowds the world over for a 1990s in Chicago. Phair joined Lilith Fair in decade thanks to engaging wordplay, vivid 1998-9, performing as a main stage headliner storytelling and a tireless work ethic. along with top female acts of the day like Sarah McLachlan, Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow and Missy Elliott. 31 32 DAVID REES is a writer and entrepreneur. He’s JOHN RODERICK is the songwriter and the author of How to Sharpen Pencils and the former singer/guitarist of , forming the band host of Going Deep with David Rees, a how-to show. from a mound of clay back in 2001. Widely acclaimed as one of America’s preeminent artists, credited with resurrecting Seattle’s moribund music scene and bringing new life to the rock genre, John also writes his own press bios. A central figure in the Northwest music community, John nevertheless maintains his outsider status by being both dangerously edgy and completely huggable, in contravention of established Seattle practice. Equally talented at almost any instrument, (except guitar, at which he is even more talented), John has made it nearly impossible for any other musicians to find work in State.

REBECCA ROANHORSE is a Nebula, RIZ ROLLINS (just ‘riz’ to his friends) Hugo and Locus Award-winning speculative fiction is a writer and DJ who has been a presence in writer and the recipient of the 2018 Astounding the Seattle music landscape where he has hosted a (Campbell) Award for Best New Writer. Her novel variety and electronica show on 90.3fm for almost Trail of Lightning won the Locus Award for Best First thirty years. A stalwart in both the club and event Novel. It was also selected as an Amazon, B&N, scene, he has played alongside a diverse roster of Library Journal, and NPR Best Books of 2018, artists that includes Nirvana and James Brown, among others. Book 2 in the Sixth World Series, Die Antwoord and Funkadelic, Amon Tobin and Storm of Locusts, has received starred reviews from Osunlade. Proficient with a plethora of styles Publisher’s Weekly and Booklist. 2020 will see the that include disco, hip hop, house, world, r&b, release of her novels Race to the Sun and Between ambient, jazz and gospel, he regrets that he Earth and Sky. Her short fiction can be found in won’t be slugging his vinyl on this trip, but Apex Magazine, New Suns, The Mythic Dream, and maybe he’ll invite you over for tea and rekkid various other anthologies, and her non-fiction in playing, hopefully soon. Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, and How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation.

33 34 PATRICK ROTHFUSS read extensively MARTHA WELLS has written many as a child (he was deprived of television) and fantasy novels, including The Books of the Raksura wrote terrible short stories and poetry to teach series, the Ile-Rien series, and YA fantasy novels, himself what not to do. The tactic paid off, and short stories, media tie-ins (for Star Wars and his first novel, The Name of the Wind, published Stargate: Atlantis), and non-fiction. Her most in 2007, won the Quill Award and made the New recent fantasy novel is The Harbors of the Sun in York Times Bestseller List. The Adventures of the 2017, and she has a new series, The Murderbot Princess and Mr. Whiffle—a children’s book for Diaries. She was also the lead writer for the story adults—followed in 2010. Wise Man’s Fear was team of Magic: the Gathering ’s Dominaria published 2011, and reached number one on the expansion in 2018. She has won a Nebula Award, New York Times Bestseller List. He’s currently two Hugo Awards, an ALA/YALSA Alex Award, two working on the final book in the series. Locus Awards, and her work has appeared on the Philip K. Dick Award ballot, the BSFA Award ballot, the USA Today Bestseller List, and the New York Times Bestseller List.

JOHN SCALZI is a New York Times– WIL WHEATON has been an actor bestselling and Hugo Award–winning author of since childhood, and is best known for his role as science fiction, including the books Old Man’s War, Wesley Crusher on the hit television series Star Trek: Redshirts, and Lock In, all of which are currently The Next Generation. He currently hosts Falling Skies: under development for television. He’s also written Second Watch for TNT. Off-camera he is also the several non-fiction books, including The Rough creator, producer, and host of the webseries Guide to the Universe and Your Hate Mail Will Be Tabletop, now filming its third season. A voice Graded. He’s the writer of the video game Midnight actor, author, and popular blogger, Wil is Star, developed by Halo co-creator a champion of geek culture. In 2009 Forbes Alex Seropian ans was the Creative Consultant named him the 14th most influential web for the television show Stargate Universe. celebrity. This is all amusing to Wil. Visit him online at whatever.scalzi.com.

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Geek Out with Elisa Teague! Catch her running the 2020 JoCo Cruise Geek Out! Team Trivia Tournament and speaking in the Game Designer Salons. THE PEOPLE IN THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS

There are so many people who make significant contributions to making JoCo Cruise a fun and memorable time (we’re looking at you, Helper Monkeys!), but these are the people who are primarily responsible for this one-ship armada . . .

THE CRUISE PALS DECOR DESIGN: THE CONSULTANTS: (A.K.A. MANAGEMENT): Kristen Bonnalie (Lead); Nathaniel Granor (Lead), Geoffrey Calkins, Zola Chihombori Quao, Jonathan Coulton, Paul Sabourin, Gianna & Cade Bonnalie (assistants) Ryan Dailey, Fabio Dallorto, Chlöe Ivanson, Alexandra (Xala) Johnson, Storm DiCostanzo, Drew Westphal Michael Lavigne, Darlene Lopez, Alison McAlear, David McIntosh, AUDIO & STAGE TECHS: Eli Mitchell-Larson, George (Aki) Nikolaidis, Andrew O’Donnell, OPERATIONS MANAGER: Mark Brasel (Shipwide Lead), Molly O’Donnell, Michael (Bryan) Oltman, Joel Pattison, The Mysterious Anna Chris Bailey (Main Stage Lead), Dragana Savic, Samantha Quinn, Lida Richardson, Brian Fitzpatrick, Gerardo Lopez, Benjamin Watsky, Sarah Weitlauf, Kelsey Westphal LINE PRODUCER: Dana Packley, Chris Saul Stephanie Cowan VIDEO PRODUCTION: STAGE MANAGER: Searle Video, Mark Maloney CRUISE MOM: E. Sara Barnes Thera Heller MARKETING & ONBOARD SHADOW CRUISE TECH: MERCH SALES: SHADOW MASTER: Josh Meridith (Lead), William Gamble, Wendy Sauder, Erin Zipperle, David Slivken Bob Gorski (a.k.a. rhaje) Jason Deeds GRAPHIC DESIGN: “YAY!”: CODE OF CONDUCT Liz Connor Kate Cantrell REPRESENTATIVE & OFFICIAL SHIP LISTENER: WEB DEVELOPMENT: SHIP LIAISON: Colin Adamo Mike Palmer Diana Bloss & Tara Carpenter TABLETOP TEAM: SHUTTERMONKEYS: CRUISE PUBLICIST & VIP Jenn Ellis (Lead), Keith Baker, Jessie Dettwiler, Steve Petrucelli (Lead), Kristin Amsden, Bain, HOSPITALITY LEAD: Eleanor Todd, Kevin Grant, Ryn Grant, Brooke Nelson, Mark Barrington, Erba Carskadden, Chela Cooper, Brenda Ellis, Danielle Davis Kathryn Thompson, Derek Grimsley, Danny Quach, Beth Gordon, Marni Hager, Corry Haines, Hadden Hoppert, Drew.0 Brian Irwin, Marc Mandelbaum, Mike Palmer, Josh Ward, HOSPITALITY TEAM: Tanya Ward, Jennifer Williamson Amy Swank, Nick Boulton, Natalie Monaghan-Schnelle, CRAFTING: Reilly Hannigan, Harley Annett, Jamie Bressler, Christine Fellows (Lead), William Fellows, OFFICIAL TARTAN: Kaloyan Filipov Jeannette Spice The Kraken, via Off Kilter Kilts