The rumors are true kids, and we have pictures to prove it (need to join as member to view pix). To quote Vinod, last night was “the BEST Sepia Mutiny Meetup EVER!”

GujuDude and his macaca

The quick run down- the place was hip, the people that came were cool, the drama kept at a minimum and the party was a great success. It started at happy hour time, and went late into the wee morning as 15 of us broke bread together at The Pantry at 1am. As you can see from the pictures, everyone was smiling and having a great time. Big ups to all the mutinous (I’d guess we had a posse of 50 throughout the night) that came: Abhi, Vinod, Sumit, Karthik, Rumi, Builder, Vinod (x2), Hanish, GujuDude (+1), Prashant, Lata, Payal, Ravi the lurker, Amar, Gaurav, Pawan, Sharat, Sachin, Rajan, Lavanya, Arun, Deep, Shivani, 1 /26, Satish, Thomas Kurma, Shruti, Dimpal, Vivek, Anu, Ami, Mad Guru, – and all those others that didn’t sign in!

What exactly happened that made it so kick ass?

Though it started at 7pm, people were naturally on IST time. As people joined the mutiny, they had a sepia rakhi tied to their wrist to let them know they were now a ‘part of the mutiny.’ People slowly filtered in, and folks hesitantly approached our table of brown folks. We then loosened folks up (or was it the alcohol?) with an icebreaker. The icebreaker was to a list SM handles that people had to match with real names and on the flip the Sepia Mutiny Trivia (after the jump). First to answer all corrrectly was GujuDude and his prize, as you can see from the picture, was a toy macaca.

1. What city does Amardeep live in?
2. What is the name of Neha’s assistant monkey?
3. Who was featured on the candy bar that we “sold” last April Fool’s day?
4. Where will the newest SM blogging offices open in January of 2007?
5. Where is SM’s world headquarters located?
6. What University did the original Macaca attend?
7. In what year did the Sepoy Rebellion take place?
8. Name one of the books that Kaavya V. plagiarised from:
9. Who is the desi congressman from Louisiana?
10. Last year did an Indian kid win the Geography Bee or the Spelling Bee?

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The juicy details everyone is waiting to hear…? The whole bar waited in baited breathe, one eye on the door, for the infamous pardesi gori to arrive, but she never did. I don’t recall any ass grabbing, but, I do remember seeing lots of shots being had. The room was heavy with chemistry, and though, Sepia Destiny made no love matches last night, I do forsee some connections in the future. Let it also go down in the SM records that 3100 to 12790 was the Ms. Pacman score that I beat Abhi with. But the real winner to the Ms. PacMan Mutinous Challenge was bike-riding builder, who royally kicked MadGuru’s ass at the game.

Lata and Payal show off their mixtape CD

The goody bag? It was The Sepia Mutiny End of Summer Blow Out: The Mixtape, a compilation of a song by each mutineer, and some great other “mutinous” songs. I wish I could share but the lawyer in the bunker has informed me that it may not be the best thing to post online. I will say this- there are some musicians that will let you download music legally off their myspace site, and almost all of the bands have been talked about here on SM. Until the lawyer changes his mind, this will be a list for the special few that came out for the Sepia Mutiny End of Summer Blow Out!

Abhi, Taz and Vinod Thank You for the Fun

Much love to everyone that came out and thanks to all the bloggers, commenters, and lurkers for being so open and friendly about meeting new people.

**The first person to answer all the trivia questions correctly (and doesn’t live in the Southern California area) has a chance to win the last CD I have from last night. Just answer in the comments and include your e-mail address.