April 2010 Highlights!

-Learning that F.P.S. is indeed a major seasoning for nearly all cooking.

Oh gawd... let's never bring that up again.

First time back since August. I'm so glad I was able to make it.

Highlights

General:
-Goblins! So many goblins at this event.
-Lots of headscritches for Iz'tel. Happy goblin was happy.
-Whoever told me "It looks like a gypsy threw up on you!", congratulations. I used it many, many times.

Friday:
-Talking and giggling with a Kiterian until Professor Cypher agreed to give us free drinks. Feminine wiles, hooray!
-Hanging out with Utgard and Hugo at the Inn and in Drega'mire. It was especially fun watching Hugo's attitude towards me change over the night.
-Talking with Father Emar about Enax and Father Edwin about the laws of Travance.
-Developing the habit of kissing people on the cheek, usually to thank them or put them off guard. The reactions to that were...amusing.
-"Oh no, it's Wolfgar. I'm too young to be talked to death!"

Saturday:
-The wrestling/cagefighting/whatever it was match between Billiam, Oakroot, Hamish and Cyric. I think Toravisu was involved at some point as well. The sheer hilarity of the thing made up for missing the Goblin mod.
-Some really excellent RP with Father Kwildar regarding Andorra and St. Astrid's Day.
-Oryx's insistence that Iz'tel has the best handshake in Travance.
-More really excellent RP, this time with Magnus. There was an oddly adorable moment where he switched our hats and told me, "Now you're a hero!"
-Smoked bacon cheddar. In Iz'tel's words, "It tastes like campfire and wonderful."
-Charm lessons from Remi and Tobar and teaching Winks how to waylay.
-The letter that was supposedly from Colin. It was great how big a joke "keesing" became later on.
-The GWAR, the Knightly Interceptor Safety Squad and the Tenacious Defenders.
-Main Mod was wonderful at this event. Creepy and hilarious at the same time, and it was nice being effective for about five minutes (thanks to Hugo). Some fun RP stuff came out of that as well.
-The NPC rogues in Kaladonia on Saturday night. Not so much a highlight as a commendation to their screaming skills; I was absolutely terrified and nearly had a panic attack OOG. I'm not being at all sarcastic when I say that it was fantastic.

Sunday:
-Speaking of NPCs, playing Eva (the tiny Wildmage) was one of my absolute favorite things this weekend. I was actually kind of worried about it, but everything turned out beautifully. Being protected by Ilana, Wolfgar and about fifty other townsfolk, hiding in Alisandria, learning to read from Paetros (and later racing him) and just being completely, adorably innocent...that really was an excellent mod.

Lowlights

-Ticks. I found one on my hair and one on my back this morning.
-My right leg got banged up something awful this weekend.
-The weather. Oh, the weather.
-I managed to arrive too late for the feast, which was unfortunate.
-With some of the mods, there was a lot of "hurry up and wait" going on. Didn't affect most of them, but Winks and I managed to miss the Goblin mod on Saturday because of it.
-Sometime during the course of the event, I lost the phys rep of my black leather bracer and the mug I brought with me. Both are pretty generic, so I'm not really hopeful about their return.

First event at this camp...it was amazing. even though the hill to and from Kaldonian sucks it was amazing

Friday:
+ made great time getting to the camp.
+After some minor confusion in Kaldonian about where we were going to sleep we joined the Celts and the gypsy in the Kaldonian state house. which was awesome
+Getting to see everyone again before lay-on was called.
+First NPC shift was awesome. played a Ronin guard first then some other pretty strong creatures. however it could not have ended with anything better...i got to play a brand new creature(at least that's what i was told) a big kick-ass fire drake.
+Making it back to Kaldonia and getting some sleep without being attacked to much.
+Getting some sleep and thinking it wasn't that cold though waking up with a blanket from billiam(thanks gene)

Saturday:
+Woke up and worked at the forge for a while. fixing some armor and making a couple of weapons for people. good times.
+hanging around Kaldonia and exploring the new travance was fun.
+Fighting A LOT of barbarians and other evil, which for some reason always comes to Kaldonia.
+fighting a group of super spider things....Strength +1 crush skull....finally got to do it. lol
+Blood oath with the other members of the new barbarian militia.
+Kaldonia martial training was fantastic and what lord brightstar taught us worked really well on main mod.
+the potluck after that and right before feast was awesome.
+teaching myself ignore pain...with the assistance of Wolfgar...it only hurt for the first 20 minutes.
+Main mod was awesome, KISS vs. GWAR was funny as hell.
+Also working amazing with everyone who marched in the name of travance against the barbarian hoards.
+Winning a yelling match against an NPC on main mod...funny as hell
+After making it back to the Kaldonian state house for the night securing the door with a lock and laughing with Zafron(sorry if its spelled wrong) as whatever was trying to get in couldn't break the lock...that is until it managed to.

Sunday:
+Waking up and not being attacked...at least not right away. fixing some armor and some weapons from the assault the night before.
+going to the in to learn from Gideion...well trying to as many many interruptions came about. but i did learn what i wanted.
+Wolfgar Vs. the wildmage hunter....close but no cigar. no one kills a child wildmage or not.

No low lights this event for me. i had an awesome time and i loved the story plot. cant wait for the next event and what amazing things it could bring.

It was great coming back to the PA campground and I really enjoyed the April Fool's game.

Highlights:

-Getting to camp early on Friday to help set up (Andy in a wizards cloak @ 9 in the sleep deprived morning was awesome)
-The large group of relatively low level characters in the Kaledonia Statehouse. We can definatly hold our own or at least scream really loudly until someone decides to leave their warm beds to tear *ss to our rescue
-Getting attacked in Kaledonia while the Kaledonia combat training was happening in the field up the path, the timing was perfectly planned.
-Jackie's feast was INCREDIBLE and she couldn't have been more accomodating about it. Jackie, you are amazing.
-Teaching Hammish how to be a better Entertainer using a sock puppet and a shiny scarf. I'm glad I used to work at a day care...
-Tarot card readings on Sunday were incredible and I think the characters who I RP'd with can only understand why.
-My favorite RP was with Derek as Camen Warclaw on Sunday, sometimes the moments one on one are better than what you see while gathered in a giant group.

Lowlights
-Missing most of the low level mods because I was doing something else (not a huge lowlight because at least I had tons of stuff to do)
-Needing to use a flashlight when I was traveling to and from Kaledonia because I don't trust my nightvision on those hills, kind of made me a huge target to get attacked

Thank you Steve and Vince, you guys ran a great event!

Finally wearing my Mithril Chainmail!!! WOOT!
Scolding people for not listening to my weather advice.
Getting ganked by a mass of undead friday night, fortunately someone heard the sounds of battle, and saved me from bleeding out.
Awesome foods all around, market faire and feast!
People getting me food when I was late for feast!

lowlights:
reports of anonymous people not properly taking damage, and not being able to discern the truth, though it seemed plausible after seeing several people's cards.

time for a rant:
Scamming your HP hurts the game as a whole, and really hurts those who play fairly.  The rules marshals, plot marshals, and monster marshals work to make encounters challenging, so if you feel the need to be a 'hero' by ignoring damage, what you are really doing is causing others to get trashed because by the next wave of NPCs, which will come out even stronger in order to pose a challenge.  What happens then?  People fudge their HP even more, then the NPCs come out even stronger.  I am not talking about losing count and missing one or two hits in the flurry, I'm talking about poor sportsmanship and outright cheating, which will be dealt with harshly when caught.  The same goes for overusing skills, items and other abilities.

However, I don't want to make it out that this problem is pandemic, but it does happen.  Most of us enjoy the game, most of us realize that the game is about the RP and the combat is just an extention of that RP, and that near death experiences or even death experiences are sometimes even more enjoyable in the long run than pwning, provided they were truly a challenge to overcome (In the short run, they suck, I know, I get grumpy when a character dies too).  I think Gene, Frank, and their band of merry Celts are a perfect example of embracing the RP of battle, as they are often the ones I see going down most often!

First i want to say that should be in the random quotes:

~While in hold:Wolfgarr talking to Npc1 about battling~
Wolfgarr: Well now you know.
Npc2: And knowing is half the battle
Group of Npcs shout: G.I JOOOE!!!!!

(Which was basically the NPC thing to say apparently the entire event)



Friday: Totally excited to be back tp KR from a 2 year break and still didnt get to be a pc  :'( but stil   none the less because i get to chill with awesome people as an NPC. Got to meet some old faces who knew me as "E.G.G" and some new faces who gladly didn't. Went to the cabin and looked at every square inch for tics. (lol last event...tic mania) In a way made me feel like this was a second home and i so wanted to PC.

Saturday: Barbarians GALORE! Chaos warrior etc etc. I soon fell in-love with the fact that i was basically a barbarian. Enjoyed being ego bait for the PC's  . Under domination i was given a second chance to live by the mercy of (omg i forgot your names except for wolfgar lmfao) and i started to think of a history for my future PC that i pray will show in the next event. Being in the high level main mod that night fighting for GWAR was the best. I started the marching battle cry that started to grow was we marched to our DEATH seeing a column formation on top of the hill at least attempting some kind of de-morale with out shouting. (Lost my voice now haha)

Sunday: I took the time to reflect on some things as i did my clean up duty. I decided to make a notebook of tips for newbies being always in the background of NPCing for quite a long time. I thought of a name for my PC character and now im starting a history as we speak. Like i said i really enjoy Knight Realms. And now i think its time to be fully apart of it then just being in the background.
npcing