August 2008 Highlights

friday night was kinda slow for me. saturday at the chess game was awesome.. I knew I as a pawn had zero chance againt the jester's knight.. so I went in to do what I could.. make him blow some defenses to soften him up as much as i could for the next guy to face him. (tom thank you for giving me the first shot) and I also set a personal goal for myself walking into the arena against a knight "last atleast ten seconds.. which i did.. I lasted 12! -so proud of my self- the 3 brawls that broke out were awesome! never before had I gotten brax so close to berserker rage.. maybe with a little more time i can really flip out as him. hmmm oh yeah Quildar's mom was freaking delicious! and Double fudge chunk brownies!... and getting a non combat all rp character on sunday (farmer steve) was awesome!

thanks everyone for the great rp and great combat!

This was hands down the best event of my life yet!!!  It also happened to be one of the most anticipated events ever.  Thanks Judge.

Friday night was a bit tough, coming in and telling everyone that Kiellor was missing and I couldn't tell them anything about it.  The frustration on people's faces when I would confirm things they knew but refused to tell them anything new was so fantastic.

Also with Alex's plot the all out brawls were so fun.  As well as going to protect a little caravan, and coming back to hear I was the new queen.  Being completely terrified as I knew what happened to the last queen and just thinking of how I was going to get slaughtered if it was another one on one battle.

Stacey as Tari this month being so obviously agitated that everyone wanted to save Rosa, but couldn't care less if Tari died. I was waiting for you to snap and choke Rosa to death.

I think this can be the quote of the weekend.  I really think that I was considering the idea.  That or telling Pes he can have me as long as I can kill those who really love Rosa....luckily I realized that wouldn't end well. 

Literally all interaction with Judge no matter who he was playing was amazing.  Though it is hard when Judge jumps oog to tell you something, and then jumps back ig for me to tell Ethan.  Though you are excellent at pretending this is all new knowledge. 

My interactions with Pes were amazing, I was so terrified when I walked out of my tent and he was standing there.  It was such a private interaction that really brought 3 people closer together, not in a good way but still amazing.

I loved the tree ent pcs.  You guys were amazing, there was never a slow moment because whenever things would calm down you absolutely showed up to entertain me. Also I've been friends with most of Gavin's pc's but this is a whole new friendship we have going, and I'm absolutely enjoying it forever.

The fact that I went from never seeing Rosa to hanging out with her constantly and wanting to kill her and protect her at the same time, is a new interesting situation but one I love so much.

Getting to meet and interact with pcs I haven't had much time to and getting to know others better.  Sean you always make me laugh so hard.  It seems now I can throw Tom into that category as well.

Judge you are seriously my hero, and I can't wait to see what you do next.  Your plot is not only amazing but it makes me want to almost interact with you and Pes all of the time.  Thank you for the amazing compliment, and I agree that I am so glad that you are back and I finally get to know you better.

The makeup thing.  It hurt so bad, and it looks like I'll at least carry partial markings and memories of Pes for a few more days but so worth it.  As many people yelled at me, and as many times as Judge told me to take it off.  Is as many as he told me how cool it looked.  Everytime I was told that it stung, I didn't have to pretend.  And I'd absolutely do it again, it really helped my rp, and I found myself completely aware of the marks and Pes for the entire event.

Everyone really did great and this really was the best event ever.  You all are amazing

Awesome Event!

Friday:
- Jester minions come into town, battle strategy: DANCE! = never got hit once all battle
- Drinking with Nym in the inn, via Jonas Kanes free shots, having everyone think Satyrs have NO drinking manners,"I didn't get any" lol
- Caravans, Werewolves, and Bandits, o my!
- Assisting in operations and arresting TWO bandits....Aleister: "Take this man to jail", Cael: "WHAT, ME? HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DO THAT?", Aleister: "Figure it out", then charming the bandit and offering him satyr wine when we get to the jail, i was so scared that bandit was gonna kill me lol

Saturday:
- Getting a free staff IG and OOG via Ilana/Mars = much love
- all the roleplay with various people, and all the talks about druidics and religion
- A REAL LIFE chipmunk saving Nym's and Cael's life, Nym going "Your totem animal is definitely a chipmunk"
- All the demon/baby eating talks, big thanks to Bromius for "soul gazing" Cael and clearing his name
- getting immunized to Lizardkin poison - so thankful to Dr. West for that
- flesh cookies and all that craziness and then awesome chicken soup

Sunday:
- lizardkin coming into town and NOT getting eaten/kidnapped/poisoned/murdered by them
- Talking to the goblins to have one slaughtered while talking to me by a overzealous dwarf, healing said goblin, only for him to mime death threats at me while no one was watching, sooo unnerving
- saying "I haven't been hurt at all this feast" and then about five minutes later wolves run into town and Cael gets sucked into a crazy dark druid adventure where he got to beat down wolves, which made him really happy, while being terrified at the same time, big thanks to everyone that had my back in that fight

Overall a great event! Once again having my character develop in ways i hadn't planned was a great joy and discovery

Oooh man,

Agreed. everyone brought their a-game to this event, and it was probably the best event I've been to in 6 months.

Right off the bat, friday night was fun, and my npc shift late at night was pretty good too. Vince yelling out "who wants to be a virgin sacrifice?" and everyone's eyes taking a beeline right to me. Later on, after Wally's npc comes back, he tries to sell me into marriage for 4 cows. You definitely can't read or write!

Saturday during the day was fun, and market faire food was tasty. Had a good conversation with Father Edwin, right before being unexplicaply happy after that. It was funny telling people with a creepy wide grin in a happy singsong voice "my face hurts".

The chess match, and Quin being progressively more and more angry at the jesters' antics. Accidentally pulling my groin muscle protecting Rosa and screaming at the jester to hit me (in order to provoke a fight). Sorry if my screaming freaked you out, andy. Then, fights actually breaking out and Quins' horrible dilemma at feeling rage and very much wanting to start wailing on people. Then the baron fighting, and the perfect win. "Don't worry about healing me, mother. He didn't even get past my armor."

Saying benediction for feast is always tough, especially standing on my leg muscle screaming at me to let it rest. Welsher's speech, then Lex getting lorded and proceeding to knighting Ethan. Very awesome. Resting up before main mod, hobbling back to the inn and Thomas asking me to be a super fighter, and me agreeing for some crazy suicidal reason. Borrowing Fogrom's armor, then proceeding to fight like a crazy person. Accidentally running full-force into Tommy, whoopsie. Running away from a crowd getting wailed on to pull some of them away from people, then bubbling, then running to fallen, then bubbling, then running away, then running back, then running running running....my leg muscles are actually fully sore for the first time in a long time. Passing out in the "cave" right after the battle from exhaustion and lots of people running to me asking if I was ok. Heheh.

Coming back to the inn, and finding out about ardis's death. Shaking Quin to the core, and it's only the beginning of the emotional roller coaster. Burying Ardis, then the whole cookie thing and throwing up and generally being completely furious. Then finding out that Rosa is missing and running out with the baron and draknar...straight into Pesmerga. Mentally coming up with contingency plans to get Rosa back, then all of them flying out of my head as soon as Pes noticed me and running the hell away. Yelling at Rosa. Later on, thowing out all of my mental defenses and Pes telling me the exact thing I don't want to hear. Resisting the very strong urge to run up to him and hitting him with everything I've got (and dying or something worse), walking away and fuming with Cinder.

Sunday and finding Antrim. Bonding with Morwenne. Hooray!
SUCH a fun event.

ps. The football throwing was fun, up until I sprained my finger. Yikes!

I'd forgotten how much fun it is to simply play KR. Thanks Alex for giving me the green light to go tear things up on the tomb mod. Specific highlights:

Friday night

Fence session - "We'll get to Jonathan in a minute Orion, but right now the focus is on ridiculing Max over here..."

Shots with Jonas, Orion, Victor, and Nym, and toasting to Brik Brockles and her boyfriend, Dr. Hix.

Dan and I rolling out as two Arkovnian / Germans and giving the town a perception test. I honestly thought we'd be able to stay in the inn with our horribly gored wounds for an hour and no one would be alarmed that we'd gotten them from a werewolf. The highlight of that whole encounter was pantomiming irony to Lord Birnum.

Saturday

The tomb mod, and the amazing timing of Fogrom remarking "well if we have someone who can detect traps and disarm them, shouldn't he be up here instead of all the way in the back-" and then a hold was called because some PCs had set a trap off.

The 'blood in the water' moment when Jonny G's death assassin took Fogrom's sever limb to his leg, and I knew the end was near; a hail of attack skills followed...

The chess match and realizing that I was going to be the head referee, whether I wanted to or not. Sub-highlights from the duels:

• Slack's acrobatic rolls against the Master of Games.
• Logan's awesome dive under the Lightning Storm spell by the queen, and the subsequent NASCAR-like audience accident of spell debris flying into the crowd; fortunately the magic circle held the spell in and prevented fan casualties...
• What Judge said. I'm not often surprised like that when I go to check a stat. Also, the other question I asked him was about the strange name he used for the ritual that he had invoked. Judge's response: "yeah I figured I'd call it that to avoid confusion." My response: "yeah, that didn't work..."
• The "prison riots", as Judge called them. I kept being blocked out of them because of the magic circle, and then when I'd finally start moving around to join in, the Baron would manage to get things under control. Probably for the best...
• One editorial note I have to mention at the risk of being a buzz-kill, the duels unfortunately highlighted a too prevalent tendency lately to a) not role-play damage in combat and b) way, way, way underestimate the damage being taken. I'll be discussing the issue with the RMs to see what we can do, but in the meantime everyone can help by role-playing your damage when you're hit, and realizing how quickly your Body Points get eaten up in a combat.

The conversation in the inn with Ot-Gnarr, Nym, Cael, and other passers-by. Repeatedly offering to break people's legs for Nym.

Helping Mother Quinn don Fogrom's armor and then watching her run around calling herself a mini-Fogrom.

The trap I invented for main mod and the excellent effectiveness of the alarm portion of that trap.

Fence session number two, by the lake, eating chicken soup over mashed potatoes and drinking a root beer, and the only other company at the meeting being the moon and a fish picking off bugs that came too close to the surface of the lake.

Sunday

Having Kleidin explain to Fogrom that the sylvan elf and dryad wanted to track Pesmerga and rescue Rosa from him, with her clearly expecting that I would talk sense to them, and instead I just nodded to them and said, "let's go."

Sitting with the Black Orchid company, Cassandra remarking that Ardis died and that it was a shame, and Fogrom being the stoic barbarian and suppressing his very heavy heart and just nodding. Cassandra then remarked that Alia had also died, and that that was a shame also, upon which Fogrom let slip his feelings for Ardis by looking up and saying "no it isn't." I'm often not the world's best barbarian, but I have my moments if you're paying attention...

Rosa taking out her sword and offering it to Fogrom and Ot-Gnarr to kill her, and both of us reaching out to accept it. And the irony we noted about it later, that in being willing to kill her we had demonstrated the most understanding and compassion about her situation of anyone.

Going to help Atrus and Lethias arrest someone and thinking "please resist, please resist..."

Teaching the master profs and body block, and learning a skill from Lethias. I especially love when teaching the master profs turns into a symposium on the subjects with other master warriors chipping in their advice and comparing notes with each other.

Dinner at the Thirsty Moose. But yeah Judge, that was a good moment to cap the weekend with.

Hahaha, I had a Great time, and I feel bad for all those I was trying to Communicate with I could literally see Kyle and Brendon, just sighing as they walked over to us putting our hands above our heads shouting Cheif Cheif Chief! whenever there was a problem.

It was fun putting war paint on everyone (Remember no one died who wore it!) , also trying my best to kill Brian and Kimmel and well.. Nature took care of the third problem.

Promoting the Druids with Headdresses!

Chief Chief
Forest Chief
Great Wardancer / Great Shaman / Great Wall Builder
War Dancer / (Insert Type Here) Shaman / Wall Builder / Wall Maker
Brave / Scout

Was pretty Much all the words to come out of my Mouth for a while day.

Kate never let Two (for all intensive purposes)  Screaming Ringtailed Leamer's see bite marks on your neck, were going to tell EVERYONE.