May Event Highlights

GREAT weekend!  Only a bit of rain on Friday night, we lucked out the rest of the weekend, given the forecast.

Highlights:
* TONS of new players!  It was good to see you all!
* The GLORB.  Even I'm calling it that now...
* Holy cow, a snowball was thrown in hell!  Kristen made it to the event!
* Being specifically sought to get dragged into a portal as a backup fighter.  Really, guys, I'm not that powerful... thank you for the ego boost, but really...
* Feast was delicious!
* Missing a Dark Geomancer sent out to kill Gideon.  While it was a bit of a shame I missed him OOG, the fact that I had no clue he was in town until after the encounter was over was an IG blessing to Gideon.
* Londwynnian Literacy Lessons.  Well done, Cass!
* Diane brought me a case of Pepsi Throwback to keep me going.

One lowlight:
* Getting home and finding my right foot a bloody mess from the boot it was in.  Time to get new boots...

Highlights:

-Making it to an actual event instead of a festival.  Million times more exciting!
-Making friends with many people that I've never met before, especially Ming and his talented nephew, the Afronan  , tons of my own people from Khitan, a young ranger who's name I forget (I'M SORRY!), Lily my Kitty/Celt/Gyspy companion, all of the celt clans (especially the McGregors and the McBanes) and many many others!
-Seeing familiar faces after coming back from a tragic visit to Khitan
-Studying with Xanifer...that was wicked seeing him touch a sword and have it just become encased with ice when he wielded it 
-Going through the woods on my own and NOT getting ganked!
-I haz potions, many many potions 

*Seeing Seamus completely annihilate a lesser skeleton by calling Slay Posi and literally kicking it in the butt after having an arm around if for around 30 seconds and saying "how's it going?"*  <---  superior highlight

-Meeting Sorel.  That alone was kinda awesome.  And giving him a potion.  Wonder if he used it.  Hmm...
-Tea with Ming and his nephew == MASSIVE WIN!!!  I've never had such amazing tea before!!!
-Constantly being asked by Ilana if I was in need of Earthen Armor.  Such an wonderful W. Mage

*Obseving several skeletons blast through the inn doors late on Sat. night followed by a rapid fire volley of "Lore: Undead!" for Lethias.  Mostly lesser skeletons with one greater, shortly followed by Lethis saying "It doesn't matter, I'm going to dissapate all of you in about 5 seconds anyways"*  <---  BAMF points to Lethias

-Helping Galen (sp?) realize he can channel posi energy 
-Balthier...just...there's no words to describe it.  He just plain made of awesome.  Period.

And of course, the addition of a part 2 to the main mod.  Going through that portal and beating the crud outta bandits was absolutely fantastic.

Downers:

-Getting all of my limbs broken by a single attack that could have been blocked if I only had a single defense skill
-Losing 25 gold in the field by having it fall from my pockets

Times tripped and fell over my Hakama (spants) = 8

Ouch.

Final thoughts:

Absolutely cannot wait for the next event and I'm looking forward to getting in touch with and meeting my new and old friends again soon!!! 

Highlights for May 1209

Friday night we set up Gwynedd’s Herb Shoppe, with the fabulous Salt Light (thanks Geoff).  I gathered up ten gold and visited the Cassandra’s Absinthe booth.  It was an amazing experience, and I can heartily recommend it to anyone!  I came away with a new skill (totally unexpected).  About that time the caravan of new townsfolk arrived.  So many new players!  It’s great to see such a large influx of new blood.

Later that night there was a giant magical explosion from the Absinthe booth.  Just goes to show that you can never know what’s going to happen at Knight Realms.

Saturday morning I was up early, and the inn was deserted.  While sipping coffee on the front porch, a herd of deer quietly grazed just down the hill.  Later in the morning I had a chance to get some photos of the townspeople of Travance.

By Saturday afternoon, Ming had set up his wonderful Tea Tent.  His presentation and attention to detail was top-shelf!  It’s great to have such a dedicated merchant in town.  Next, I spent some time shadowing Matt White as he marshaled a short Paladin mod.  Later in the afternoon I helped Brendan marshal a mod at the rally point of the Night Blade minions.  These experiences showed me how challenging mod-running can be.

The Night Blade mod had an unexpected twist right at the end.  The PCs were trying to decide what to do with the NPC they’d captured.  Should they kill him or drag him back to town?  Just about then, some Lizard Kin (from a totally different mod) arrived on the scene.  One of the PCs suggested that they should leave the NPC and let the Lizard Kin “dispose” of the body!  It showed me how PCs can come up with amazing unexpected ideas.  Plot marshals must be able to adjust the RP on the run to deal with such unexpected events.  My hat is off to Matt, Brendan, Andy and the other mod marshals I’ve shadowed… they’re able to deal with the unforeseen and keep the fun rolling along.

The Baronial Feast was delicious, and the entertainment, with all the singing and dancing, was magnificent.  After the feast I went around to get pictures of the decorated cabins.  On the way back up the hill from Kaladonia, I came across another deer.  Later that night, after teaching Advanced Literacy to a player, a bunch of us went down the hill with “Grandfather” and participated in a druidic ceremony about the Queen of the Celts.  The RP was very exciting, especially when they two NPCs who brought us there suddenly changed to ash!

With so many new players, the marshals sent out not one, but two Main Mods!  I participated in the “low level” mod, and had a wonderful time running around in the full moonlight.  The mod as originally written to be in three parts, but when some of the PCs jumped thru the portal, it expanded into a fourth part!  It was another example of yeoman marshalling by the fine folks in the white headbands.

Sunday morning I had a great time playing Harold the Magnificent as I levitated a bit of paper with the power of my mind.  Then, after taking a few more photos of the players by the inn, it was time to clean up the camp and go home.

I’ll be sending along the pictures very soon.  Thanks for a wonderful, unforgettable weekend!

#1 highlight of the weekend: Jacking everything I could on every mod I went on.  Good stuff.

This event was so much fun!

It's really great to meet so many people with such amazing characters, lol.

It was fun to NPC with the guy who played QuanLu (sp?) LOL, I wonder if the PCs got what we were doing.

Being a wolf was fun too, no one killed us! They fed us brownies.

There is so much to be seen in this world. Travance is really a living breathing world.

I can't wait for the next event!

Thanks to everyone that helped me while I was sick. I don't know where it came from, but it was gone fast enough.

This event was a great OOG for me simply because of the generosity of others.