Dust Chronicles Issue 4

spotted!: dust nights
at olympic cards & comics
Dust Nights on Thursdays and Saturdays from
6pm to10pm.
In the the heart of the Pacific Northwest, at
the base of the Puget Sound lies the store built
with love by Gabrielle Shepherd-Trautmann.
Known as Gabi by all who have ever entered
her store, she is always there to greet everyone
with a smile and treat you like family from the
first time you meet.
Olympic Cards and Comics is a 7000 square foot
wonder of gaming, cards, and comics of every
variety and the store dwarfs the small mall store
that she first bought 19 years ago when she was
just merely 18 years of age. Since then, she has
grown the business to be the place to go for your
geeky guilty pleasures in the South Puget Sound
area of Washington State. Looking for something
obscure, hard to find, that unique thing
you saw online once? Odds are, she has it there
somewhere.
Gabi has also built her business into a pillar to
the community, whether it’s been auctions, food
drive tournaments for the community, a sanctuary
for people out of power or victims of bad
weather with hot food on hand. She has even
won the highly coveted Best in the Northwest
comic store category from a local Seattle news
group in 2010.
She currently has been very supportive of the
Dust group that has steadily been gaining momentum
from about 4-5 players to the last Dust
Regional tournament that was 16 players strong.
You can usually find a game of Tactics or Warfare
on Thursdays or Saturday nights depending
on the time of year (hard to get a good turnout
on Saturdays during the summer). And there are
a bunch of other mini and card game leagues,
games, and tournaments being run there pretty
much every night of the week. So, if you are in
the Seattle and Tacoma area, feel free to take
a spin down to Lacey and check the place out,
you’ll not soon forget the experience.
dust chronicles #4