January Event Highlights

"Tari is here???"

*Sleep* Fear, Dark whisper: the inn is on fire!

Getting woken up at around 4:30/5:00am Saturday morning by Lord Fallow and getting a minor insanity from necromancy terror. Nervous leg. Interesting to RP when I already have it OOG.

Waking up for good around 10:00 am, getting ready, hearing a girl scream downstairs and going down to see what was going on only to fight against a few bandits. Escorting a prisoner to jail, walking out to find another person escorting another prisoner, turning my back to follow them only to be quick bound by Cameron's PC. Getting dragged down the road only to be greeted by a fellow towns member who was also captured right then and there and we were both chained and turned into slaves along with a few other people.
----being comically saved by Kenny's psyon and Logan----

Playing "Toss Caimen" only to realize that he liked being tossed alot and wanted me for his bride.....creepy derrick that's all I'm going to say, but it was fun lol

Putting more people in jail only to interrogate one of them and finding out stuff where the punishment was death.

Feast was awesome Luis. 

Caimen....you will pay....

Nightmare bear!!! I found a full head bear mask and was like "Hey Steve, is this good?"

"That is the smallest bear I have ever seen!" *5 darkness, 5 darkness, 5 darkness, 5 darkness* "Ow! That Hurts!!"

Talking gargoyle. "AwwwWWW! It's so CUTE! take a picture!"

Sunday morning: Let's go kill undead!

Lets go tell Shen about how horrible Caimen is....

Overall, thanks John and Steve for a fun event, Matt V, and everyone else who interacted with me as an NPC and as my PC. I had alot of fun even though I was unexpectedly busy this whole weekend.

So much fun stuff that went on this event:

• Within ten minutes of lay on, Alia came up to Galen eating a cookie, and in every effort to be friendly and kind, offered him one, not realizing until after she said it what sort of response Galen would have.  Having a near-instant vomit reflex come up on seeing the cookie was weird, but great.
• Getting sucked into mod after mod, after mod on Friday Night, and still going with Magnus on patrol.  Kindness never goes unpunished in Travance...
• Walking the thin line between bravery and stupidity for yet another time, thanks to Lord Fallow.  One of these days, Galen's going to get killed crossing it.
• Being classic Galen to the insomniac farmers, including getting a small war party to bring them back home along with Alia, much to the chagrin of that shift's monster marshals.  Who expected 4-6 people, and got somewhere near thirteen.
• NPCing the Saturday wake-up crew Slaver Mod, which ended up being spectacularly successful, especially on my part, as I captured Jasmina right outside the Guard Barracks just after another guardsman walked by, leading one of my erstwhile allies in chains.  While walking back with her, I ran into another PC, who was tricked into letting his guard down long enough for me to capture him as well.  Then going back to the Inn, pretending to be a mercenary who just escaped the slavers, watching the bulk of the town's heavy hitters go off after the slavers in the woods, nearly getting caught by Quan Liu, and then kidnapping Rosa when Quan Liu went inside to refill his flask.  Poor Rosa, always the damsel, never Princess Charming
• Telling Mother Quin, "I told you so..." after she unleashed nasty badness on the Inn after I told her not to.  Listen to the Galen, the Galen is good.
• Being mentally scarred along with Quildar by the Witch Hunters.  You guys are magnificent bastards.
• Getting freaking whomped after feast.  I was dead to the world after the fact, my muscles ached, my lungs burned, I was a mess, but damn it all if I didn't feel like I gave a halfway decent showing for myself in the process.
• Getting yelled at by Gideon after being tripped by the invisible thing causing mischief around the Inn, wanting to argue and knowing that out of game, he was wrong, but in game, he was totally right, leaving Galen feeling appropriately chastised.  Thanks for caring, Geoff.
• LARPers Gone Wild?  I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about...
• The late night talk with Lethias.  No big details here, but good stuff, all around.
• Disarm, without the disarm skill on the Sunday Morning mod.  Always fun.

only thing i really have to say....   LARPers gone WiLd ^^

yesss that was fun lol

Okay first off let me just say that out of the few event i have been to, this was by far my favorite.

1. Singing at the feast! (my first solo)

2. winning my first honor combat. (though I'm not sure how honorable throwing a fire bomb is. nor do i know how i ended up in honor combat.)

3.Lord Fallows Christmas special ( never have i laughed so hard at the antics of a villain)

4. Feast! (best feast ever! the only thing i regret is not having thirds)

5. Finding the coolest loot during the low level mod (still don't know what the flowers were for though)

6. Npcing a goblin. (always a treat for me)

7. pissing off a dwarf as said goblin (p.s sorry for the spit, hope it didn't hit u, i was aiming for the ground, and the masks got in the way.)

8. cutting off a couple of goblins trying to run away, and killing two of them. (with the help of Perry the hobbit, and Thrasher the barbarian)

9. Thank god for main mod being at the inn!

10. being a ghost guardian on sunday mod, and rolling around in the snow as one of my fighting styles (Note to self, less people get hurt if u aim for their shins.)

11. getting a chance to butcher a quote from "The Prestige" in order to give an abundance of stage names to Lord Fallow and his men.

I'm sure there is more, but my brain can't think straight from lack of sleep ( I blame the nightmares) thanks to everyone who made this event such a terrific experience for both me and Gentleman Jas. oh yes!

12. getting a chance to meet most (if not all) of the new players! you guys seem like a great bunch, hope to see u all at another event real soon.

This event was pretty fun for me and very eventful! I got to play both my characters as early birthday presents (thanks Zach and Matt D.)

Friday Night -
- Coming into game as my gypsy and decided not to wear my purple contacts due to the fact that it was really cold, i was already dehydrated upon arriving at KR and i had the migraine from hell and then a few minutes later deciding to put them in because i'm a nazi when it comes to my characters appearance... so i spent the next 20 minutes with eyes tearing simply to look to part... talk about dedicated! lol

-getting to be a helping hand in teaching Ilana intercept along with the other "family" members and getting to see Kwildar nailed in the face with a cream pie (absolutely wonderful!)

- Having Tobar teach me how to Disarm/Retain was highly entertaining because my sword has a good basket hilt and i had thick gloves on... actually trying to drop my sword for the RP was entertaining ME = *laughing* wait! hold on! it won't come off (as i pry the sword and throw it to the ground LOL)

-having Carlos say that i need to learn how to teach for the good of the family, and although not thinking i would be a great teacher, picking up the skill anyway cuz i had nothing better to put my build into and it was for the good of the family.

-deciding half way through the period that it was too damn cold to be a gypsy and that my contacts were killing me and asking James to play my other character... Barbarian = warmth 

-Enter Barbarian Babe of Awesomeness! LOL! walking into game as Pracika and having Rayven put a sandwich in my face... if there was a slay sandwich i would totally eat it! I'm usually not a big fan of lunch meat but i downed two right then and there lol! It was very easy to Rp a barbarian without table manners.

-Going to sleep as my gypsy at 3 am (i promised Zach  would sleep as her) and then hearing Fallow have the loudest tea party ever outside my door praying that he wouldn't come in there. Also, yelling at Rayven because he has the most horrible reputation of "oh i hear noise i need to go beat something"... dumb barbarian 

-switching back to sleep as Pracika because Zach was too sick and making my way to my bed and hearing my husband outside fighting against the town members and praying to Gaia that he wouldn't come in and Cuddle/Incapacitate me lol. Then being so relieved when he came back in and fell right to sleep.

Saturday!
-waking up to go do NPC shift and having the best shift ever! I am always gonna NPC marketfaire because they told us to go out and buy a picnic! i agree completely lol. I also loved going out as a Slaver... i have to say i thought a lot more people would catch on to the fact that i was randomly leading people out of the Inn against their will lol. "hey Cameron! i caught 4 of them!" but he did win for quality over quantity for capturing Mother Rosa. Also walking right up behind a towns member fighting off another of the Slavers and walking up behind him and quick binding him and handing him off to the other Slaver.
Brother McBride: What's going on here?
Me: Oh nothing, he just had too much to drink and was causing a ruckus, so i quieted him down.
Brother McBride: Who Are you?
Me: *yawn* pardon me... long night at the bar. Name's Samantha *shakes hand* pleasure to meet you. I'll be on my way now.
The watching Steve Oros laugh so hard OOG at the whole exchange.

-coming back as my Barbarian only to find that my husband has been missing for the last 3 hours and no one could find him. Telling myself that i needed to hunt him down because he was either dead or hanging around with that whorish gypsy woman everyone keeps telling me about. lol

-finally finding Rayven and having Shamus show up around the same time then going to enjoy one of the best feasts EVER! those mash potatoes were awesome! I only wish i could have eaten more! Also, the conversations between all the Celts, Shamus and Rayven were HILARIOUS! lol

-Asking Shamus to teach me how to concentrate positive energy and having him lead me to Lethias and talking about Witch Hunter things... i kinda felt included in my own little cool club! Shamus: "Go away Rayven, this is witch hunter stuff" lol Master Baiters, Popping Cherries and Positive Puppies... enough said... i love witch hunter conversations lol

-going upstairs after feast with Rayven and having a hole open up and pin his foot to the floor them being hit with a dark whisper to make me believe my husband was cheating on me... i'll get that dirty gypsy tramp yet...
ME: so Rayven, were you off gallivanting and rolling around with that trampish gypsy of yours?
Rayven: Which One? there are a lot of trampish gypsies in town...
ME: *screaming* YOU MEAN THERE'S MORE THAN ONE?!?!
the whole 5 minute scene was hilarious to watch. But John, you are a cruel individual for doing that lol!

-having to heal Rayven like 3 times because things kept attacking us and he didn't have any of his armor on at all... *sigh* i felt useful though for at least being able to raise some people and get them to better healers. I did my best. Then going downstairs to find that we needed to put creepy armor on someone in order to stop the nightmares from coming after us... the logic still doesn't make sense to me and i have no idea why any of it happened, all i know was that i beat the living crap out of anything that came near those healers lol.

-in the chaos of combat, accidentally swinging around and hitting Tyran Radley for 5 damage because i saw his sword glowing and thought me was a monster lol. I felt like such a moron lol but we had a good laugh about it later.

-going to sleep at midnight and getting a full night sleeps until 10am... that was so nice! then being woken up by a wolf and watching Shamus use animal empathy and then tell it to attack the other things with it lol... saved me the effort f drawing my swords.

-learning how to channel positive energy from Kwildar because Shamus was busy learning other things. Having him explain the channeling as holding very cold snow for a while and saying it would be painful (knowing OOG that i have a disorder in which extreme temperatures cause pain in my extremities it was easy to RP). When letting the energy go Mal told me i would feel a pain in my chest and conveniently i had a chest pain because of a stifled cough... i'm glad my aches and pains play into my RP!

-having a long talk with Father Edwin about how i shouldn't bother picking up Deflect because it's a waste of time when he could simply get me a sword with a Deflect stored in it. Being very cautious and asking whether there was a way to get such a thing through divine or druidic means (being a barbarian) and he simply replied "you tell me what you want and i will get someone to make you a weapon that wont offend you."Saying that i will considering it, and then thinking that Father Edwin is a shifty person, yet not wanting to offend Rayven's honor for keeping such a  friend, so i kept my thoughts to myself.

- hearing about the undead outside and having such a bad headache that i was like "screw it... everyone and their uncle is going out on this... i'm taking a nap" lol so i changed out of costume and slept til clean up hold was called.

Overall i had a blast! the RP was awesome and there were a lot of new faces which was good to see. I hope the events just keep getting better

Just wanted to do a shout out to Volk and Steve for all the work they put in to this event, without either of them we wouldn't have been able to do it, Volk nailed the NPC role beautifully, and Steve spent hours upon hours writing different things up for this event.  Also, the NPC's were awesome thanks guys.

I had a bunch of highlights, but I'll probably list them at some point in the future.  My only low light was getting sick Sunday.

Also, thank you Tom, Adam and Karen for the donations of ludicrous amounts of glow sticks.  I had a great event, so perhaps we'll run something again in the future.