January Event Highlights

This has to have been one of the best events ever  

Friday:
-Treading through 3ft deep snow and NOT getting my feet wet. Yay Journey's boots!
-Always excited when I get to bring in a new costume piece. Apparently my new color is pink
-About to leave Toravisu to follow Paetros for recon. As I'm tying scarves to cover my ring belts
Toravisu "Wait, are you de-jingling?"
Me "Dah, I am"
"...wait...you can do that?"

Saturday:
-OMG BEST NPC SHIFT EVER!!!
-Getting to play a rift. Just an actual rift, that was so usubstantial that nothing could hit me. And...200 Mortal Bane
-Playing brigands of the Sons of Saints with Nadi
-Insulting Lucian to the point where he almost broke peace to cast at us...I wish we HAD Insult
Me "Oh my, he has a hoop earring."
Nadi laughs "I don't even wears hoops!"
Me to Lucian "Hey! Are you a guy or a girl?"
Nadi "I don't know if he is. He's not wearing a very manly color."
Me "Yeah, it's pink..."
-Even though I didn't get to see the Hydra face-to-face (duh, healer's in back) I saw the epic silhouette of epicness
-I just love all around being useful. So when everyone got silvered and we had to wait for them to fall into crit so me, Angelica and Mother Moonshadow could heal them, I felt pretty damn good about myself
-My masseuse business is booming  
-Late night conversations in Logistics barracks...they will never be forgotton

Sunday:
-Having Jonas Kane flirt with me to teach Charm...tried SO hard not to crack up
-Barfight almost broke out during the Charm lesson...you just HAD to Insult, didn't you Mike
-"There no fish!"
-The official gypsy game of "Hide Sir Sorel's Breakfast...and everything else he owns..."
-Everyone wanted to kill the town crier...I just thought he was amusing

Lowlights:
-Losing my item pouch
-Only other lowlight really was the cold of course. But it made for great RP, so it worked

It's been a while since I've come and stayed for a full event.  Here goes...
1. It was great seeing everyone again, and meeting all the new people.  The social aspect of this game is one of the reasons I come to this.
2. Many thanks to Jason Turqman for being available for a Dover pick-up.  It's okay it didn't actually happen, but you got to see East Rutherford.  
3. Witch Hunter conversations and hilarity that always ensues.
4. Seeing Kiellor perform a ritual to cure lycanthropy and being reminded I should learn to Detect Lycanthropy sometime soon.  
5. Fighting Ice Trolls that "just happened" to appear right after a gypsy good-luck dance. Hmm...
6. Saturday morning patrols and its amazing how quiet it is outside of town.
7. Playing "Yojimbo" for Lucius... asking a Ronin to play bodyguard?  That's like asking Mike Smith to help sample bacon.
8. Learning 1-handed Blunt with Seamus, Rannith, and Corteccia.  Snow hijinks, fighting and more With Hunter hilarity ensues.  I sense a pattern here.
9. Going to Homestead with Tom Senger.  Prime rib dinner?  Hells yes...
10. Prepping and discussion to fight the dread reapers.  Witch Hunter Plan A... I'm the bait.  Of course... it never goes off as plan.
11. Fighting along side Quan Liu and being a part of the shield wall.
12. Seeing the Hydra pop-out... HOLY $%&*!!!!111
13. Trying to hit the Hydra and keep pace with it through 2 foot snow banks... sadness.
14.  My final attempt at Hero-mode and putting up a Wall of Ice, would've succeeded if I didn't get dominated.  Damnit!
15. For those that saw it, I pulled the Godzilla lip-synch moment.  I hope you all enjoyed that.  
16. Playing the Khitanese fisherman and how that entire RP scene played out... I used every Asian stereotype there was and a few I made up.  I also loved how it was handled by Liam, Steve Oros, and the trickled down theory of responsibility.  When in doubt or annoyed by crying peasantry... hand it off to someone down the totem pole.  
17. Coming back from my RP role to becoming a tank/mook cultist.  Too many damn respawns and going through a Jeff McLean meat-grinder of a mod.  No wonder I got overheated and nearly collapsed.
18. Cleaning up, going to the diner, and finally getting home never felt so good.  Dry, warm clothes are heavenly.

Many thanks again to the Staff, Players, my old friends, and new friends.

Had an awesome, if truncated, time in Travance this Saturday!

Highlights:
-teaching Rione how to read
-finally using those magic points all high elves get to help move the portals
-seeing the dungeon
-fighting the hydra- most awesome monster ever!
-general running around in the snow and having a good ol' time (not as cold as I thought it would be!)

Lowlights:
-arriving just after the sword plot
-not being able to stay the whole event (darn it real life)
-Suzie's trip to the ER- soooo glad you're ok!!!

It was so awesome to be back.  Only 3 more weeks till we do it again!!!

Lowlights:
Lack of Adventuring.  I need to go adventure more.

Highlights:

Amazing RP with Gideon at the forge just about all day saturday.
Emar's Pep Talk
Teaching Corvin a language.  Steve your awesome >.<
Really early mornng Hooka.
Talking with Kalem about Chaos vs. Order
Sorel helping me out.
I'm sure i'm forgetting alot but it was all fantastic!

Forgot the best one of all:  Glommite Priests dominating me and commanding me to attack the citizens of Travance. 
Glommite: What can you do?
Me: I've a razor wit.
Glommite: Seriously that's it? Then just go bother the nobles or something.

Friday into Saturday
-Trying to tend bar Friday night and constantly being pulled away for A,B, or C.
Ilana: "I'm sorry Destiel. It's just people keep calling me away."
Destiel: "Yea, well... stop using the excuse 'I need to save the world' every thirty minutes to get out of your work!"  
Ilana: *sigh*

-Ilana being constantly advanced by Simon and her being TOTALLY creeped out. I couldn't stop giggling however, Simon, you're pretty fun to listen to.

-Lord Pyre hugs! That made Ilana's night.

-After talking with Janus, Ilana's decided white sorcerers are not allowed to die. Her thinking 'This will probably result in her being killed', but that's OK.

Saturday:
-Getting rushed upstairs by Ethan because Ilana decided Artimus at least deserved breakfast to give said drow his breakfast.

-Trying to sell things at market faire and eat only to be pulled away for A, B, or C.
Then Sorel using his title as squire to order her to sit down and eat. That was pretty hilarious.

-Traveling with Avalon to his encampment.... only to get ambushed and run to the town later. Surprised by how quick everyone acted when I spoke (guess Dark Sorcerer is the keyword to getting things done). After that mess, returning to the inn to reanimate Avalon. Told later by some the reason they did everything so fast is because they never saw Ilana like that before and she's not allowed to be like that again.

-The uniqueness of the reanimation procedure, thanks to those who helped with the RP. As a result of this success, Ilana has made friends with a White Sorcerer and a tribe of mages. *thumbs up*

-Wait, that was the Dread Reaper...? That wasn't so difficult.... OMGHYDRA Ilana was not informed about Cecil showing up Friday or anything to do with the Reliquary, so... Mr. Hydra was a surprise.

-Maybe kinda sorta almost getting my face ripped off by a Chimera... but that's OK. (See above)

Sunday:
Togashi! Yay!

Glommites.... bleh

Though, there was one moment where my left arm was withered, and I'm trying to clumsily fight with my right hand *is left-handed* and I run into Drew who had his right arm withered *he's right-handed*. We bump into each others withered sides, look at each other, start laughing, and press together so we start 'florentining' one of the cultists.

My first Event in over a year when I did not suffer from a Mummy's Curse.  this allowed me to be vey active, and to re-learn the Greek adage "There is many a slip, Twixt the cup and the lip."  To wit:

25 of us are trudging to the Mnastery.  Pretty strong group, marching along a cleared path.  Why bother to change into serious boots.  Half way through the Mass when we are asked to go save Avalon.  Hey, we're a pretty strong group, what're the chances I will be off the path up to my pipek in snow?

After feast, enjoying a post-prandial cheroot in front of the Inn, a truly fine cigar.  About five minutes into it, someone comes to the door and tells me I am needed inside, but only for "a minute or two."  Right.

Seeing the Glommite struggle Sunday and deciding to deal with it before using the bathroom.  It takes 30 minutes to desecrate a R 2 alar and that is after fighting and RPing one's way to it.  ::SIGH::

Hearing from two individuals about things that I did that I never even knew about.  Really?

Asking a simple question and by not getting an answer opening an entire can of worms.

Speaking with Cecil who lives time differently from most people.

Jeff M as an Avatar of Glomm.  Tyecasting was vey good.

Steve M as a dark spirit, tempting me beyond my ability to resist.  Eternal good looks, youth, wealth, women beyond my imagination and a new profession of my choosing fully accomplished if only I.....  After invoking a Divine Willpower and Resist, the spirit left, sadly disappointed.  I am really glad I celebrated Mass the day before.

Desecrating an altar in the basement, doing the "dance" all the while.  Interesting company, With Victor, Octavious, and Zandar.  Watching various possessions, and dodging blows while either working on dismantling the altar and droping said possessee.

Interesting paths opening as a result of RP with the least likely individuals.

Interesting paths opening as a result of RP with the most likely individuals

All in all, another typical atypical month in Travance.

My thanks to those who froze their butts off as marshalls and weekend NPCs.  

Almost forgot - at said Mass I gave a decent sermon, Goose gave a more impassioned one, but Judge - we have us a faith healer!  All that was lacking was his palming someone's forehead and seeing their sins leave. , My hat is off to yuou.