Most of the time dressing strangely and making a fool of yourself happens after the imbibing of alcohol. So, if you're a cosplayer you have to catch up. To facilitate this Akadot presents:

Since the art of cosplay really begins with the genesis of those purty clothes, way before the convention even commences, so too does the drinking game.

If you don't start making your costume until the night before the convention, reward your efficiency by downing the drink of your choice, follow it up in the morning with another drink and have another with lunch so by the time high traffic hits the convention floor, you're on the ceiling.

Each time you hot glue-gun yourself, or prick yourself with a pin or needle, take a drink. If there's blood or blisters involved, drink until it dulls the pain.

If you are awake to see the sun rise, make sure it's of the tequila variety. Add orange Juice and vodka to a glass, and slowly pour grenadine into the mix. Grenadine is heavier than the orange juice or vodka and will sink to the bottom, so bottoms up and slam it down.

While walking to the convention, for every safety pin, staple and piece of tape holding your costume together take a drink. For every safety pin, staple and piece of tape that is no longer holding your costume together, take two drinks. For every person you bump into while counting ever safety pin, staple and piece of tape, buy them a drink. If they too are counting every safety pin, staple and piece of tape on their costume, you've found your soul mate. Screw the convention and belly up to the bar.

If your costume is so elaborate and unwieldy that you: a) block traffic in the dealer's room, take a drink; b) injure a fellow con-goer, take two drinks; c) impale a guest of honor, take three drinks; d) knock into a little kid, buy him a drink.

If in the course of this game you spill alcohol on your costume, protect your garb by carefully lifting that section to your mouth and sucking as much of the drink off as you can. Then chase it with a shot of Reverend Jack.

If you see someone dressed as the same character you chose, whip out your card table, a few shot glasses and shoot it out "Raiders of the Lost Ark"- style until one of you drops. The winner must strip the unconscious of his false badge of office.

If your drunken stumbling into the Masquerade attracts more attention than what's on stage, take a drink. If security attempts to escort you out, take another drink. If you offer a drink to security for not throwing you out, take another drink. If they accept, give them a drink. If the judge then awards you with Best in Show, take a drink. If scores of angry cosplayers now come after you, fend off their attacks with your powers.

If an ebullient fan mistakes your character for another, they must die.

If by some off-chance you feel like a complete idiot for being utterly immature, blatantly imbecilic and amazingly moronic enough to actually want to dress up as a two dimensional animated character who doesn't even speak your language so that a bunch of people you don't know and will never see again can take pictures of you to put on the internet, take a drink. Repeat this rule until you come to your senses and remove all of your clothing. You win if you jump in the pool.