METATOPIA 2012 takes place November 9 - 11, 2012 at the Morristown Hyatt and Conference Center in Morristown, New Jersey.
...with a REAL polar bear as my familiar...
See, if you're going that way, just make a character from the Golden Compass series. Then you get: massive ice bears with armor, a truth-telling device, a knife that can open doorways into new worlds, and a WHOLE mess of genres to play with.
The hotel might have a problem with that though, it would be a good way to deal with obnoxious hotel guests...
You would just need to get it officially recognized as an assistance animal and then the hotel couldn't do anything about it