September Highlights

The Good:

*Finally meeting the Yhatzis! I'd heard so much about you, and you all exceeded my expectation in both fun AND awesomeness.
*Feast! (Thank you Yhatzis!!)
*Casmina actually poking her head out of her angst to attempt to connect with some gypsies. I was completely surprised by it, but it made me really happy.
*Being baptized with Mikhail by Father Kwildar. Some seriously beautiful RP.
*In general, REALLY great RP this event, all around- especially over chess matches Saturday evening, including finding out that Amizar is a dirty old man, and discussing the matter thoroughly.
Remi: "But Father Edwin, I expect you to be a dirty old man. It's part of your charm!
(Tobar and Father Edwin in unison)
Tobar: He has charm?
Father Edwin: I have charm?
*The looks people give me when Remi occasionally lets out a bleat- especially Sorrel. Incredibly funny.
*So many people feeling the need to pet Remi's ears or hair. She is seriously in heaven with so much attention!
*Finally having enough money to buy psalms and healing potions! Discovering for the first time that you can spare the gold is a really incredible moment.

The Bad:
* Far too much rain and cold- though I must admit the weather made me quite grateful for Remi's furry legs.
* Low-level mods? They may have been hiding from me, but there didn't seem to be any to be found.

The Ugly:
*Camp Daddy Allen trying to take me out. My ankle, leg, and hand will hopefully be mostly healed by next weekend, but seriously. Raised, uneven cement paths in the dark = FAIL.

In other news, there is finally a single person in Travance that Remi doesn't like. Congratulations Logan! You have achieved the impossible.  

Highlights for me:
NPC stuff
Magnus living because of a cake.
Dinner Mod.

Darius stuff
Bardic lessons from several different people.
Shocking Kate after she dared to say to Darius "What ever you say will not be inappropriate"
Kate getting me back later.

Erdrick stuff
Sunday morning Demons and Erdrick seeing his old self in one of the newer members of town.


Finally to the player who came up to me wishing to learn I'm sorry if I came off totally rude but just know my reaction was all In-game and I've got nothing against you. I was sad to see you not come back and try again.

Well it SOUNDS like there was lots of coolness going on this event, but despite all my attempts at looking for adventure, this event was pretty much a bust for me (there were some cool NPC moments though).

Lowlights:

1. Not being able to leave the Inn at night

2. High-levels, guards, and Knights dominating drow plot (not that it wasn't great to see guards and knights actually doing their jobs )

3. Watching everyone go off for sub-plots (dragoon, Von Ritter, etc etc) while I twidled my thumbs in the Inn

4. Everytime I FOUND a mod, being exactly 30-seconds too late for it

5. The one time I did find an encounter, they were swinging for more than my max body

6. Getting blessed by someone so I could actually participate in said fight... and then being crippled on the first blow.

7. Realizing too late that attempting "fall dress" was pointless and I should have proceeded directly to long-johns under my winter shirt and a fur vest over it.

8. Getting taken out of main mod not by a death but by being a victim of some who will remain nameless's "they're not falling down, I'll hit harder" fighting style. Full feeling has still not quite returned to my hand.

Highlights were mostly some great NPC moments:

1. Brax: "BODY BLOCK". Me a beat later: *Accidentally slips, full out faceplants in the mud*

2. Finally getting to be on the winning side/own someone as an NPC (read: Finally having attacks that WORKED). Paralyzing Touch or Blinding Darkness on someone and having them ACTUALLY be paralyzed or blinded.

3. Reading everyones feedback on being Undead At The Smith and realizing that it was going as awesomely as it seemed

4. "Are you a Drow?" "Yeah..." "19 BANE!"

5. Aleister + ??? versus me at MM:
Me: "BLINDING DARKNESS!"
Aleister: *shrug* "Ok." *looks at companion* "Blindfighting?"
*Both advance*
Aleister: "WINDWALK!"
*Both circle around behind me*
Aleister: "Ok... ready?"
Me: "This is gonna suuuuuuuuuuuuuck...."
Aleister: "3...2...1...."
(it sucked)

6. *upon spotting Draknar at MM* "SEND OUT THE RACE TRAITOR"
*Race traitor charges and lays down a swath of Slays*
"Oops... maybe I'll go this way instead..."

7. Blackjack! Too bad it took me so long to figure out how the scoring worked. I still came out a few silver ahead!

8. WEAPON PROFICIENCY! With my whole card (and plenty of build) now opened up to me, I am finally on my way to not being useless.

From my standpoint the was an exceptional game for us

-Having a large chunk of the Mcbane family there made everything fun and interesting.
-Not once seeing a drow but finding out later that they saw us....creepy but awesome.
-Having just about all the action find us instead of having to always go looking for it.
-Never having my shoes on when all the crazy came to our camp. Someone comparing Rhonna to a crazy old lady standing on the porch shouting "GET OFF MY LAWN".

Friday night specificly
-getting there early, claiming our cabin just before the mad rush of people showed up, and getting to take it easy.
-telling liem about our valley girl so-real impression. ahhhhhhhhhhh sooooorreeeaaallllll....
-making kwildar blush about 30 million times.
-being woken up by creepy music box mod. steve you were super creepy and awesome.

Sat
-mushroom mod was lolz.
-sitting in a field, chanting for an hour and 40 minutes in the rain. *sigh* thats my job...
-collin punching something till it went down. lol.
-super troll mod. actually having there be enough NPC's for it to really be intimidating.
-bread bowls. it was so nice to not actualy starve.
-best feast ever.
-skipping main mod and just resting before our shift.

-sleeping in on Sunday and more get off my lawn antics.

lowlights
the usual stuff but i must say the when your npcing and all the pcs are too afraid to leave the inn but your not supposed to attack the inn and your wandering around in the dark in the rain for hours and finding no one to fight... that really sucks..

Speaking with Thomas and Kwildar along with various others around the smith saturday night. It was effortless being my character around that crowd.  I actually became a little sad imagining npcs as real dead people.

The McBane clan on the Lich Hunt mod saturday. Stuck out till the bitter end, even as it began to rain they kept on desecrating/purifying the evil altar without blinking an eye.

Tori as Angelica was very detailed about describing the focus. I was very impressed as was Julia. She actually made the burden of that responsibility seem real and not just like another power your character can get.

Play of the game goes to Alex. T as a drow assassin on main mod.

I had just seemingly scared away Wally and decided to hide behind a tree. Alex presses a knife to my back and says "Dont move or ill kill you". I begin to grunt and he yells Assassinate! He washes his hands of me and then we both realize that he didnt catch me by suprise after warning me of his presence.

12 seconds later I was dead anyway, but it made me lol.

After that, laying in a puddle for 7 minutes getting rained on, followed by a 10 minute hold. Before someone finally picked me up.

I would like to thank anyone who NPC'd for me friday or saturday. No complaints usually means an excellent job.

And hats off to the entire game, I saw very little breaking character and almost no OOG chatter. Definately kept me in the zone.

Phew!  This past weekend was a beast of one, and there's lots of stuff to cover, so let's get right to it!

Friday:

-initially running into the drow and not being able to see them.  Almost ended up dying right then and there, but luckily others joined in the fight and it went smoothly from there
-meeting a new dragoon brother!  Laif (or is it Leif?  help Cam?) turned out to be so bamf.  Great RP with him and it gave me a chance to feel like a big brother IG
-NPCing under Cam was awesome!  Who else would give me the role of a monster after the bacon pigs of Travance?  Deadly and yummy at the same time!  Mmmm, baconnnnn....

Saturday:

-tea with Ming and company and meeting Ethan Archangel and his wife Morwen.  That was a VERY interesting meeting.  Ended up receiving an invite to be his squire and 4 Valence Spells...
-...which were shortly removed thereafter in a giant surge from my body.  During a small mod fight with some ogres and such, a new W. Mage to town went ka-boom and the rest goes something like this...

*opens ka-boom paper*  "oh this isn't so bad.  any person around you with valence spells on them lose them all and can't be the subject of other valence spells until the next period.  that's nobody here, right?"

Me: ...OH C'MON!!!

After lay-on was called, poor Misaki suffered a massive surge of valence energy leaving his body and just couldn't catch a break after that.  Broken arm, 1 BP left after being wailed on by several ogres, luckily Father Paul was there to fix me up.

-going on a mod with Ardentfyre and others to save a girl from some ogres was pretty cool.  Wishing I had invisibility as well, but oh well.  I'd rather attack an ogre head on anyways    Great RP from the screaming mother, that was some intense stuff and she did an excellent job with it.  Also got to see Phoenix-form Ethan Archangel before passing out (IG) on the battlefield after the scuffle.  So.  Darn.  Cool.
-re-awakening right at the feast which was delicious!
-officially accepting Archangel's squire request!  Woohoo!  Misaki is one step closer to a personal goal

Epic Win Moment:
-Amulet of the Beast.  'Nuff said.

-getting to meet two Sith Lords was crazy.  And they were way powerful.  Unfortunately they showed up at the wrong time because...

Epic Fail Moment:

Yup, it would figure that not soon after returning to Travance I would have a poster up saying that if anybody from Evernight saw me their orders were to slay me on sight.  The only good things that came out of this was the intense RP with a fellow Khitanese about promising I would stay safe and not getting ganked for the rest of the event by the powerful mages sent to kill us.  Close call much?

-fighting Will O Wisps...screw it.  I didn't do a darn thing.  lol
-DRAGOON PLOT FTW!!!!!!!  Fighting Dark Sith while Sorel took his Sith test was hard, but completey rewarding.  Can't wait til I get that chance to become a Sith too 
-Main Mod parts I and II, hearing after the event that I managed to take out two drow generals was a bit of an ego boost.  Sorry to all the people that accidently got hit somewhere they shouldn't have.  Darkness + people wailing on me = me trying to be as careful as I can not to strike back in bad places but rarely failing.

Sunday:

-actually convincing a person to drop their weapon and give themself in willingly!  This has got to be a first for Misaki, because usually it's just "you're not giving in?  really?  sorry, your funeral"  *hack and slash*.  It was nice to actually bring somebody in alive for a change.  On the other hand...
-Liam, you were nothing but trouble for me that Sunday    First, trying to stop him after he attacked Ming Na and trying to catch him alive, but failing so much that I ended up hurting myself in the process (ps. doesn't hurt, i'm good!).  Second, him playing the demon knight was just bamf.  Never fought something that tough before.
-Being on good terms with Erdrick (hopefully) during the fight...

Liam as demon knight: "hold!  Windwalk!"

*voice from behind me*  "Windwalk!"  *something grabbing me by the shirt*

Yup, Erdrick grabbed Misaki and we both got to pursue the demon knight and hack and slash at him as soon as lay-on was called.  That was a pretty meaningful moment for Misaki being able to fight side by side with the Demon Hunter himself.  Which leads to the last highlight of the weekend...

NEW DREAM!!!: that's right, Misaki now wants to become a Demon Hunter.  Awesome.



Thanks everybody so much for an amazing weekend and I can't wait to see what'll happen a few days from now for this next event