September Highlights

Good event - the weather, despite the rain on Saturday night, was nice - cool enough not to be an issue, not so cold it was bad to be outside, if you had a cloak.  Good sleeping weather, too!

Highlights:

Awesome feast - Thank you, Yhatzes!

Plot was interesting - the sudden lack of alchemists and smiths after dinner made things awkward, but we got it done.  Draknar's political views / rants were WELL done, and I had to keep reminding myself that Gideon would not listen to him just because he was a Drow, even if Geoff agreed...

Judge's New Threads.

Dinner Mod on Friday Night.  Again, well done.  When a mod that involved food feels more dangerous than a mod that involves combat, that means it's excellent RP.

RP with Antrim over Mage stuff.  Each time Gideon learns more about being a mage, the world shifts another notch for him, even when it's a basic Mage Sphere.

Geoff was damn glad there were Wild Mages staying in his cabin to protect it.  Gideon, not so much.  Maybe I can build a closet under the stairs to keep them in...

The only Drow I saw all event (other than Draknar) was Wally OOG escorting Suzi back to her cabin.  Yes, this is a Highlight.

MattWhite and the Ice Ore mod.  Small, but fun!  The number of small, good-quality encounters this event kept the pace up, and kept it exciting.

To the NPCs playing undead on Sat night at the Forge:  Excellent job of RPing being undead, and challenging us.  Even though I had armor on and was immune to some skills (being a High Elf), I was worried I would get ganged up on and taken down.  The small pile of paralyzed people that kept growing behind me didn't help...

One lowlight - I didn't get to bring Garrun out, due to the lack of smiths.  Next time...

Wow I'm amazed to see this up so soon. But here are the pros and cons from my end.

Pros:

*Watching Peatros Yathzi convince trolls that there was things to eat down the path more and that the lizardkin princess girl. It worked well until they decided it was a trick. That whole scene was awesome up until I ran away. (Michael sorry if I am spelling your name wrong)
*Chilling being trolls waiting for PCs to show up.
*"My face is minty Fresh!" "Its like getting kicked by the sun!"
*Mead flavor Hooka
*Yathzi Dinner! So AMAZING!
*Ian (Hamish) with Black Face and White Hair looking old and cranky.
*Hanging out with Yathzi's
*My staff being used by other people more then it was used by me.
*Finding a TON of spell packets on the ground Saturday Morning on the way to breakfast, for once I did not run out.
*Porsha paying for my amazing breakfast Saturday morning (you're my favorite)
*Finding out that my new boots were indeed water proof!

Cons:
* getting hit in the mouth during main mod part 1 and then getting Gene thrown into me. My body is not going to like me tomorrow. My body has welts and bruises from getting hit so hard by the PCs. and knowing if I had nuts, they would have been struck hard by PCs during the field battle.
* My hair after the white hair spray.
* The side walks kept trying to kill me.
* Cold and Rain

Thats all for now. I need to go soak some more.

Highlights!!!

1. Fighting with brothers armor made me feel like a true front line fighter! yay!

2. Steves Circus Sideshow Mod.

3. Boar hunting

4. Insulting a Troll but telling it's mother lives under a bridge.

5. finally being the loud mouthed egotistically DOESNT TAKE THE WORLD SERIOUSLY AT ALL Gentleman Jas that I had wanted to be since event one.

6. Geoff, You are welcome

7. NPCing a Darkelf who can be described as Gentleman Jas with no remorse.

8. cornbread

9. actually having tag skills for this event.

10. YOU GUYS ROCK! hope to see you all sooner then half a year this time around.

Awesome event overall!  I'll get the low-lights outta the way, and then make with the highlights:

Lowlights:
-Battling a sinus infection throughout the weekend.
-Rain
-Not having enough hours in the day to do all of what I wanted.

Highlights:
-RP with Ming Na and Co.  Always good fun!
-Hooka with the Yathzi's!
-Gathering groups to join The East Londwyn Trading Company
-Scholar Meeting
-Porsha and the numerous talks we shared,  both of the world and Chronicler
-Getting terrified to the point of almost casting a spell
-Glammachian priests holding my things for me, while I read the map.
-Courting Lineth
-And the numerous amounts of awesome RP I had with so many people off the top of my head:  Emar, Father Edwin, Lou, Collin, Dr. Maxwell, Porsha, Felicia, Lineth, and so many others sorry to forget names.  It's just fun to the point of my head exploding!

===And now we play the waiting game:  4 days, 23 hours ish till game on!===

Highlights:

Making new friends in Travance.

Having Jack Cypher share Londwyn drinking songs with me.

Getting captured by Drow with Toravisu. There was some excellent RP going on in that room.

Uncle Grisel calling me anything but my name.

Witnessing Kamei getting accidentally married to a gypsy!

Late night coffee with Jack and Lineth.

Asking air elementals if they would get the honey for the coffee.

NPCing as a thief, even if I wasn’t good at it.

Talking with Amizar at the Inn.

Having a McBane tell me my last name would be a good name for a goat.

Lowlights:

The rain!

The cold!

Getting my butt kicked by my NPC shift.

Getting my butt kicked by Drow.

Fantastic event!

Great Memories: 

Meeting so many new people over my hookah, and getting approval for my home made mead shisha.

Tricking the trolls and ogres into first leaving the captive alone so that the lizard kin could rescue her, then getting away to see kobolds coming up the path.  As I turn to go the opposite direction, seeing the trolls and ogres had caught up and being able to get the trolls and ogres to attack the kobolds.  Lastly, getting the surviving trolls and ogres to in fight while reinforcements came.  Huge thank you to everyone NPCing during that scene.

The music box mod.  Balthazar and Paetros could not resist the voices of trapped gypsy entertainers.  The scene was very well done.

Big field ogre mod.  Having both legs and one arm broken but still fighting from laying on the ground.

Giving ballroom dance lessons.

The Sunday morning thirty second "join us or die" speech.  Fantastic RP and while a brief interaction, a huge swing in my characters world.

So many other great memories....

Downside:

Scale.  I keep getting into mods and hearing people swing multiple times my body points.  I get healed more often than a golden retriever. 

Rain.  Wool cloak and leather armor becomes as heavy as a full suit of plate once the rain comes down.

So much good this event, even though my big complaint Sunday morning was, "My everything hurts." I won't try and organize this stuff other than in Highlights and Lowlights

Highlights -

Two more Andorrans! Will possibly soon be two more Andorran Clergy!

Several women conspiring to make Kwildar blush throughout the weekend. (He doesn't react well to flirting yet, it seems)

The McBane women's refrain of, "You look better than the last time we saw you." ... All weekend.  I don't know if Kwildar will ever be able to properly talk around you all again... Ever.

Humour...?

Starting/continuing a tradition with Linneth.

Looking over a slain Apollo, Andy whispering to me, "Crit... out of 1,500" and Kwildar's immediate response of, "There is something VERY wrong here..." as everyone else was frantically trying to think of a way to get past the Jester to a proper healer.

Looking over a perfectly fine Apollo immediately afterward and finding out what his real capacity for taking wounds was.

Sunday morning Agaurran cultist shenanigans.

Sunday morning banditry.

The Elri -- I mean Zero brothers. (I hate you, Matt!  Meh, love ya anyway! )

Lowlights -

Only one really - Having to run home in the middle of the event due to a medical issue, and leaving my two prospective Andorrans hanging for their Baptisms for a few hours.

Highlight... Judge is a vampire.

so this was my first event...and enjoyed it thoroughly...and here are are a few highlights:

NPCing a goblin shaman and Pinning a guy to his doorframe and watching his comrades try to stab around him...then
being exploded by a 100 Body attack..lol

followed one re-spawn later by "run away! FLEEEEEE!" *crash* "ahh! who put that tree there?!? stupid nature!" *pummeling by heroes commences*

having my NPC assassin spend like 20 minuted hiding on a roof due to troll npcs interrupting his assassination attempt..

being mistaken for a drow/demon/something nasty due to my oni mask and armor...

and finally the odd looks I kept getting whenever folks saw me walking around with the black-veiled face and ring-staff..

The Elri -- I mean Zero brothers. (I hate you, Matt!  Meh, love ya anyway! )

BWAHAHAHAHA!  Who gets to be Winry Rockbell?

If only Roy (S.) was still around... he'd make an *excellent* Roy Mustang.

Friday Night:
-The Drive up was nice.
-Getting to finally use that giant cloak, and feeling tons of warm. Then, the realization that everything else on me needs an upgrade at some point in the very near future.
-Stumbling behind the counter and being a tender for a while.
-"Now I know how Brogan felt."
-Snipping at Bhaltazar about having to do Inn work when there were more important things to do
-The meeting of what needs to be done, and doing guard work.
-Lore: Chaos should be left to the professionals. End of Arguement.

Saturday:
-Snorefest defeated by plastic and adhesive.
-Billiam's future educational fate. El-oh-El.
-Elated to learn Gideon is an enchanter, and resisting the urge to double birdflip at Tari at this new knowledge.
-Fun Times with Derrick W.
-WTFing thrice on the way back.
-Finally fighting creatures with brains, and being useful!
-Grant Strength to a dragoon only to watch him lose his spear 2 minutes later.
-Sitting at the Mage's table. "Trees: Thems good burnin'"

Sunday:
-Um... Dorian Cloaker?
-Sonic's. Yum!

Highlights:
- Dinner mod on Friday.  Excellent RP and amazing food to be had
- Sith test.  Absolutely intense and outstanding.  Learning a lot about the ancient dragoon traditions.  Also, becoming a Sith is cool too.
- Tea time at Ming's.  Probably the most relaxed I've been in a long time.
- Dragoon business.  Sith Lords coming to town and dragoon meeting
- Yhatzis!
- Feast was fantastic!
- The drow assault on the town.  It was fun despite it being pitch black out.  Unfair advantage!

Lowlights:
- Rain.  I hate being cold and wet
- Early Friday night I got hit really bad in the neck that dropped me.  I need to invest in a gorget

Friday!
- going out as my gypsy and having some fun Rp with Zafron (sp?)
Zafron: why don't you get to work on letting your sunshine out and getting rid of this darkness?
Amara: Da, i could do that, but it won't be the kind of sunshine you want! (lol you had to be there)

-finding dr.maxwell and having him cut open my chest to remove an IG letter that was placed there.

-having it pointed out that i was a Kinslayer, at a gypsy family meeting... talk about uncomfortable.

-going out as Pracika and having some VERY intense role play with Rayven.

-forgetting my cloak in the cabin and just saying to heck with it i'm going to sleep.

Saturday!
-waking up for NPC shift and going out for 3 hours as Backwoods Becky Sue and her redneck family that had a giant mushroom take over their crops. We had the angry BADGER of Travance, and a giant MUSHROOM... now if we only had a snake.... hmmm
role play with that npc was soooo much fun... having a chat with Collin McBane about "family night" with cleetus and earl lol

-the mcsweeny/mchammish/mckreager (whichever celt family you are) kilt rope bridge of death... kilt 120 gold, crops being destroyed -1,000 gold.... watching celts try to knock down an evil mushroom with a  rope bridge of flaming kilts while in their skibbies? PRICELESS!

-going out as a group of knolls FTW! Jim Bob i LOVE npcing for you! i always have so much fun!

-coming back from npcing and going on the volcanoe mod of death and destruction! blasting through so many firewalls the npc's put up.... elemental shield was such a good investment. Having Lethias say that was one of the most reckless things he had ever seen lol

-going on the troll mod of doom and having pracika lose both her arms and run around like crazy trying to dodge attacks without being able to defend lol. Taking a fall REALLY hard on that mod and feeling slightly concust.

-went out to eat cuz pork roast just isnt my thing. came back got clocked in the back of the head where i landed and ended up missing main mod and the rest of the event... but i'm ok guys!

i had fun... the weekend was so busy it made me feel i was there for a month not a day! it was great... so little down time! the weather stunk though... cold+rain=

Second event success! I'll get the low lights out of the way first.

Mini Lowlight:
Not having my character history down yet! This needs to be fixed!

Lowlight:
Only one. Getting told that I wasn't good enough for a mod, even after it was made clear that it was a low level one. Honestly, what's a bunch of fighters with out someone to heal them?

Highlights: Honestly there is too many to name, but I'll try.

-Friday night had to have been some of my favorite RP of all time. I was kidnapped for about 2 hours by the Drow. Kudos, from the sneaking three in the woods to the hours to RP after.  Mr White, great job on the "good cop"; Rapius Yatzi (I think I spelled the first name right) was playing the "bad cop". Incredible, fantastic RP.  I still don't know why I wasn't killed simply because of my race, but I'm glad! I was thoroughly ecstatic to be able to incorporate not only the characters heritage in this RP, but her role as a healer. "Taking peoples pain is what I do, so I will also take yours." And letting the "joker, bad cop" torture me.  Now I have to take Vengeance vs. Dark Elves.
-Getting my Major Insanity cured. Damn, it made me clingy.
-The major insanity forced my character to meet and attach herself to people that she wouldn't normally. So this is a highlight. <3 to Billium and Peatro Yatzi.
-Friday night, first mod, was awesome too. I still can't believe I kept all of you up.
-Unexpected IC romance.
-Tea, Coffee, Hukkah, Tea, Coffee Hukkah.
-Helping Ming with his business and finding a way to explain logically why I was serving tea to people.
-Twice a year pulling off his kilt during mushroom mod. Yes, he had on undies...This was just very funny and I had to remind myself that Linneth wouldn't be laughing at it.
-Kuilwdar! <3 We will make this tradition!
-Many talks with Dr. Maxwell and Jack Cypher.
-Learning everything I wanted to.
-Library.
-There was ALWAYS something in the darkness. From trolls, to goblins, to drow and everything in between. THIS is awesome. Thank you MMs for keeping the threat on the town realistic.
-Getting attacked...twice...while learning how to use a staff.
-Late night cabin raid and feigning death to make sure we all didn't perish and yay for traps on doors and floor!
-LIEEF! (Sorry if I'm spelling it wrong) Cameron, what I've seen of you so far is incredibly awesome. I cannot wait to meet Gaillon next week.


I can't think of any more at the moment.

Had a great time, the time I was able to spend. Was happy to see that a lowish level smith could still have an impact and fill a need. I had to leave early as my wife, who was under the weather gave me a ring and asked me to come back and help with my son. Made a few coins and sadly I missed some plot (uuugh) but still was fun. Spent a little too much time at the forge so I need to balance that with going on some mods and being more social, but it helps that so many people come to find you

Very much looking forward to next weekend, when I'll be there Friday eve and all day Sat. Cheers!

Friday night interrogations. I've been looking for an opportunity to run that scenario for years now, and all of my prisoners were simply outstanding in their performances being on the receiving end. It was also fascinating to see the different attitudes at play as everyone tried to figure out what was going on.

Treant mod and the campy horror show that it began with.

Fence session, as always. I felt so bad not having any jobs to offer, but such are the joys of running main plot.

The smithing mod with one smith. It's a cardinal rule of KR that when you write a mod for a group of characters that seem to be in abundance, they will all vanish when you go to run it. My personal favorite sidebar to that mod was conspiring with Uncle Grizzle to murder the goblin once everyone started fighting the trolls. A shame it didn't work out in the end...

Main mod certainly didn't play out as I'd hoped in terms of everyone understanding just what took place, but the battle for the Baron's Manor was much fun. If at the end of the night you didn't know what had happened, I apologize. I was hoping that things would play out in such a way that everyone would know what the drow had been doing all weekend, because I know it's frustrating to be in the dark about main plot all the time.

Finally, I have to say that my favorite highlight was the point during Saturday afternoon where we had several people trying to run mods, enough NPCs to do so, but no PCs around to go on them. If we're going to have a lack of one of those three components, a lack of idle PCs is by far the best scenario!

My First KR event, I want to thank Charlie, Geoff , James, Jenna, Kleidin, Tsoli and others whose names I have forgotten that made me feel very welcome.
My wife asked me yesterday on the drive back when I was planning to return


Low Lights: Being a very low level character and kept  in the back on most mods

High Light: Being a low level character and protected by FRs Edwin and Brax
The Fire Salamander Egg hunt was a lot of fun SOrry to the one whom I extinguished by flipping water on his bod. ( Not a real KR Weapon) but was the only thing I could think of to do after being downed twice and healed by the plenteous supply of healers.

Liked very much watching all the RP wherever it happened    Really enjoyed that

Thanks again and Ded Dawg O'Doul will return from Coast Haven
,Hopefully

Hope some enjoyed my Turkish coffee and other the Mid East delicacies

Ded Dawg O'Doul

This weekend was so much fun. I was really happy to be able to come back and join in.

Highlights:
-Going on a main mod tracking for the lich was very fun. I felt encouraged to come out of my shell and be more of my character for this event.
-Sharing hookah with the Yhatzis (The Feast was incredible and delicious. Thanks guys!)
-The in between time talking to everyone on my NPC shift. It was really relaxing and fun to talk about the game before we ran out to get PWNED.


Lowlights:
-Being whacked too hard with latex weapons during my NPC shift.
-The constant slippery rain and mud that made it hard to navigate in the darkness

edit: Wanted to add. I had so much fun with my McBane family. I told them so but it felt like a nice big, rowdy family. I love you guys.

Rapius Yatzi (I think I spelled the first name right)

LOL!

Close.

Friday Highlights
Being captured and tortured.  Great RP and an exciting way to kick off the event
Being rolled by lizard creatures shortly after being dropped off from said torture and the way people came together to save us three Celts.  Thanks to all involved.
Trying and failing horribly to properly explain courtship to Hamish
Keir Keith Owain's accent
Multiple battles on my way to bed which sleep all the more rewarding

Saturday
Watching Billiam and Hamish "be heroes" with their clothing rope during the mushroom mod
Wearing ridiculous combinations of clothing to keep warm.
Serving feast with the Yhatzis.  The level of organization was amazing and made serving so much easier.  Also, they made sure all their servers ate very well. 
Story time while waiting to NPC the Smithing Mod
Going out as a drow and having the group get lost on the way to the mod (The image of all of us in full makeup standing around telling jokes still makes me laugh)
Successfully pretending to be a townsfolk at least once during the drow fight in the field
Post main mod burgers and hot cider (Thanks Ian and Gene)

Sunday
The Lizardkin wake up call and our healer hiding under the covers and avoiding the fight
Being healed in time to confront the lizardkin at the non Celt cabin and win
Being part of the demon knight fight by the Yhatzi camp.  Even though I couldn't do much, it felt pretty awesome just to help out in my own little way.

Lowlights
Not packing warm enough clothing
Having nothing that was dry for Sunday
Confusion caused during the drow battle in the field by the darkness and rain

Highlights

-RPing more with the other Khitanese. Long time in coming.
-"So...are you going to get in trouble for telling me all this?"
      *silence*
  "Thats a yes isnt it."
  "If you answer all the questions right.....no."
        *long pause*
  "Is that a question?" *laughs*

One other person knows what I mean. That was hilarious to me on the inside.

-Healing people
-Helping a woman get back her daughter alive by draining my HP.
-Being slightly relieved and jealous that others have a better ability to heal on account of them having more points. Restricting my healing sucked soooo much
-Yelling at liam to shut up! so I could heal Sister Rosa. Then having half the town think shes dead and that I left her to die.....


Lowlights

-Im just gonna say Daddy Allen for this. Its dark, rocky, etc etc. lol. The drow fighting was some of the craziest Ive ever seen and Im very glad I didnt twist my ankle.

-Restricting my healing. I actually yelled at someone that I wasnt going to heal his friends leg bc getting people off the ground is the same cost and more important. I felt so bad, but its true.

One  low point for me this game was , I lost an Assassins knife

www.swordsofhonor.com/mrl887007.html.

Somewhere on the path from the Dragons' Claw Inn out to Camping area #4
Lost it Friday night late.  Hopefully someone will turn it into to the Lost and found or the "Sorted" box

If anyone has it please forward to Fr Edwin

  Just wanted to say that for the first event at a LARP I wasn't in charge of I had a lot of fun!

  Lows:  Rain- those of you that have arthritis know what this can do to you. This lead to my second low...
              Missing main mod and feast.  My back and hips were killing me so I figured I would go lay down just before feast and stretch out to relieve the pain.  The next thing I knew it was 4 am; and my back still hurt.  Thank god for Aleve.
            Fighting at night - I have never enjoyed fighting in the dark. Just a personal preference though.

Highs:
    Being able to come out and finally see what all the hype was about. The 12 hour drive was worth it!
      Waking up saturday and heading out as Brap the troll. I am hoping to start the worlds first Goblin-ball league at some point in the future.  We just need to collect enough (willing)goblins to use as balls.
      Getting back to logistics and going right back out as a slightly smaller troll. I am not sure how a fight with the Yahtzi's would have turned out if they hadn't tricked us; but I am betting "Yahtzi under Glass" would be a true delicacy.
        Sunday morning as an air elemental during the Demon Knight  mod. When Liam left me to act as a rearguard against Gideon, and about 8 other people, all I could say was "Huh" before I was dead...again.


    All in all, I had a great time. If the trip wasn't so long I would come back soon. As it is, I am not sure when I will return, but I do know I will remember the event for a long time.  Thanks again Geoff for taking Dave and I under your wing Friday night; and James, congrats to you and all your marshals and officers on running a terrific LARP!

This was my first time LARPing and I was so afraid I wasn't going to like it.  But trust me, I did.

Highlights-
-Getting teased by the other NPC monsters because I was the only girl and someone else screamed like a girl to draw attention
-Being a lizardkin and watching the Yahtzi's delegate a situation with the Trolls and getting our captives back, then trying to not get killed getting water at the inn.
-BEING THE HYSTERICAL MOTHER!!! it was my favorite role ever, and being able to just be crazy, and making myself cry my eyes out was really awesome, even though i was upset i didn't get to see most of the action because i was so far away.

Lows
-rain
-i am sore...everywhere lol
-they were right...as an NPC i did die....a lot!




OOG : Gina M

highlights:  the rain and cold.. made my garb ALMOST bearable and ALMOST kept me from getting exhaunsted and dehydrated. geting to converse with judge in and out of game.  feast.. just wish there was more of it. gave my first mass. jenna's faceplant in the mud. my arse over Tea Kettle tumble over one of the other people i was NPCing with sunday morning. everyone thought i had hurt myself and her but nope we were both a-ok!

lowlights: had nothing to do all event.. other than a WHOLE MESS of "hurry up and wait" . boredom

I wanted to thank Wally and the STs for the Treant Mod
I was feeling really bored and sore after the Mushroom Mod and was glad to use my Druid skills for something other than combat. I dont know how fast you had to scramble together that was but it was concise and fit the amount of people we grabbed. Great work from the NPCs and James was awesome as The Treant.
I was so glad I was useful finally.

- Good food from the Yahtzees, I really enjoyed the salad and the Cornbread
- So Sad I had to leave the event Sat. I had to pack and transport all my stuff in the rain
- Druids need to hang more.. Now where did Elawyn leave that Grove....
- My arm still hurts from throwing packets every 5 seconds for an hour and a half but big props to the other Mushrooms and whomever threw that first Germinate. Also the Celt rope trick.

Highlights:

  Friday Night was very interesting.
  Saturday morning Rules Marshalling watching the Celts in action... awesomeness
  Saturday Afternoon was uplifting, interesting, and renewed my faith some.
  Yhatzis awesome scroll casethingy of awesomeness was awesome... order some! I'm going to get more!
  Saturday Late Afternoon was the begining of interesting prospects.
  Feast was ohmygodelicious
  Post feast, more interesting prospects.
  Post Post main mod, a sleep deprived Mike Smith, playing Osred who must have been in a good mood as we came up with ways to get the Dark Elves out of the Barons manor... after going through making it a snow globe, a giant slide, popping the sphere of protection out of the ground and rolling it like a hampster ball into the rift, and a few others, I think we settled on the one sure fire way to get the Dark Elves to leave:
Tell them that since they are in the Baron's manor, they are now in charge, and they have to come to the Lord's meeting... three hours into the Lord's meeting, they will be high tailing it out of Travance!!

Lowlights:  Lowlights.. literally darkness.  I couldn't see anything at all.  I'm usually pretty bad in the dark.. Saturday night was just crazy dark... if the person wasn't within 10 feet of me, I couldn't see them.

Best line of the weekend: Get your face down here now!


 

Highlights-

-Being a lizardkin and watching the Yahtzi's delegate a situation with the Trolls and getting our captives back, then trying to not get killed getting water at the inn.

OOG : Gina M

That improved delegation gig I pulled was one of my favorite RPs of the weekend, since we had three races that did not speak a common language together.  Grunting and making gestures to get points across to the Ogres and Trolls was fantastic, and assigning names to the lizardkin as Ka-Hiss and Ss-Sssss the candle maker had me laughing for an hour.

And in response, if it went to fighting without a doubt it would have been Paetros under glass. :)