June 2011 Week in Life

Highlights:

* FINALLY being able to evaluate gems
* Cow Mod.
* Getting to help out at the Bloody Stump and seeing the highs and lows of tavern ownership firsthand.
* The private party at the Bloody Stump tavern after we closed.  Such decadence has not been seen on this side of the Rift since before the Great Sundering!
* Getting to attend my first really big Baronial Council meeting.  Wow, the waters are lot muddier than Rudolf originally thought.
* Showers.
* The snarkiest conversation with Father Haroldson that Rudolf has ever experienced.
* Entering all the attending merchant names into the new Guild registry.
* Getting to see so many familiar faces and some new ones.
* Working out the details for a possible future School of Alchemy in Travance.
* "Rudolf, can you teach me..." "Rudolf, do you have some time to teach me this recipe..." "Rudolf, when you have a free moment, I'd love to learn about..."  Where did all these alchemists come from?
* Winterdark breakfast on Sunday.
* The amazing weather.  I need to offer up prayers to Gaia for keeping the weather nice for the event.

I might come back later and post a large series of highlights from this amazing weekend but for now i'll post a quick reminder and ask that everyone please take the time to fill out the event recap form. We go over the submissions every staff meeting and it would benefit everyone to hear your constructive criticisms. Thank you.

www.knightrealms.com/event-recap-form.html

I have to say that the "Week in the Life", was truly a worthwhile experience.  Michelle and I had such a great time.  I would like to thank all of the players and staff that came out for it for making it all a truly enjoyable experience. 

Friday was great. Especially when people with Lore: Chaos met 'Rel. My favorite was JimBob, because I wasn't there for the extended portion.

"Oy. Are you Dorian?"
"Yes I am."
"Good, because your friend as been yammering in my head for the last three days!"
"..Yeah, he can get a bit chaty sometimes."

Finding the Esper's Chamber again, and the chicanery that followed. Being mopey after 'Rel disappeared and people just sort of 'dropped it'.

Saturday!
-Odo vs Rudolf. Odo wins by gentlemenly appology and shaking hands.
-Cain RP. I enjoyed this, and I hope I didn't come off as some babbling kook.
-Squire Interviews were interesting. Seeing the honest worry and stress on those that were waiting was interesting and delightful to see.

Monster Marshal Shift
Goblin Squad- "So we now own a Bananna Farm"
Me- "That's awesome. What else?"
GS- "We drank"
Me- "Cool. Did you have fun?"
GS- "TOTALLY!"

My favorite response to sending out mods that go from fighting to roleplaying.

Sunday
-Being a pompous illusionist and a total ham to Ilana about it. Thanks Mars!
-"If only we had a marshal." I had a handful of people say that right near me. I wave, and they look flabbergasted by not remembering I'm one.

I had a blast! Missing May was a good way to recharge my batteries for this event!

i've been trying to remember everything but it's all such a blur.

so here goes.

becoming an investor in the bloody stump, and really getting to sink my teeth into the politics.

conceiving, organizing and getting approval for the Arcanian Alchemical Academy (as well as setting up future business dealings) if all goes well, i plan on blossoming it into a full blown University of Travance.

learning gift of the predator Saturday night was incredibly... they took me out into the darkest part of the camp, middle of the forest at three AM and then had a drow hunt me. that was just amazingly incredible.

NPCing the insane farmers, which is pretty much all the NPC work i did. Yosifarian (making all the nobles so incredibly frustrated, and confused with us) the shell shocked farmer who killed his best friend/were-boar (you have to understand, i didn't know!) and the incredibly forgetful farmer with a phobia of dwarven beards.

getting ambushed by seven strangler vines and poisonous spores was horribly fun, i saw the NPCs standing there and i had to just keep walking into it... it was awful! i got poisoned and couldn't heal so i ended up just drinking potions of iron skin repeatedly instead of healing. they'd hit me again, and I'd retreat and drink another.

my lessons with Orin (i hope i'm getting his name remotely right) learning traps, and how to wield a sword, and ranger bits.

my lesson knife with silence (which consisted of him explaining to me how i always hat to take advantage of every situation, followed by my hitting him with a grasp with roots, walking into the stump and offering to pay anyone five gold to beat the fellow into unconsciousness. i think we both learned something)

my various lessons with the various druids, none of whom know what quite to make of me... a druid who approaches it like science? preposterous!

the Barron calling me brilliant.

the midnight escort missions i went on literally every night (messages and people need to make it across camp a lot)

and the conversations i had with the chroniclers... going scholar is really tempting now, but we'll see what happens.



and suddenly remembering  halfway home that i did indeed own a real bed.

This was a remarkable experience and I am glad to have had the opportunity to take part in a very unique and different type of event.  Thank you to all the players who came out to the Week in the Life event, as well as my fellow Marshals for donating their time in Logistics and around the Event, and especially to James and Liam for writing up such fun main weekend plot.

Now, on to the Highlights.
- Learning.  The lessons I was given were top notch and every single one aids to the advancement of my character development, the role-play involved in being given these lessons often leads to something about my character that was different and unknown even to me.  This is the best type of development.

- The Roleplay with many of the Healers in town.  This was fantastic all week and weekend long.  The conversations I had with Angelica as well as helping to attune many healers to the focus.  The tricksters problems involving Corsair moving the Focus from one place to another and finally to a third place.  It was really a motivational scene having all the healers help to both re-connect me to the Focus as well as attune themselves was fantastic.

- Finding out something new about myself IG.  This may seem cryptic and that is intended but having a unique circumstance bring about a unqiue ability in my character which lead to one of the best things that has ever happened to me in a LARP to date.

- Teaching.  I hope that everybody who has ever taken a lesson from me on a subject has enjoyed the roleplay as much as I have enjoyed giving the lesson.  From the verbal to the hands-on approaches I take when giving lessons, each student I have ever had has given wonderful attention as well as remarking roleplay.  It is these moments that truly make me feel like a part of something real.  Thank you to all those who come to me to seek learning.

- Vassaling to Pendarvin.  It was a long thought on choice and a hard one to turn down offers to other lands but in the end the decision to become a Vassal to Pendarvin was a wonderful experience.  Especially my talks with Elizar and Antrim.  All in all, I am excited to see what comes from them.

- Main Mod.  The terrain challenge was a breathe of fresh air to the meat-grinding.  It painted a very real image of the dangers of the world and made for a wonderful RP experience.  The actual battle at the top of the Mountain was full of confusion and chaos.  From being unsure why Billiam was beating my head in to hearing that the Antrim we were staring at wasn't our own lead to some very interesting RP.

- The long-term interactions with many of my friends both IG and OOG were fantastic.  From the emotional and at-time confusing conversations with Ilana to the talks of growth and the future with Colin.  The long walks and conversations with Angelica, even down to the small conversations with Germaine throughout the weekend.  They all helped to further shape and create a very real environment.

- The Patented Baron William Montgomery Two-Handed Shield Bash Technique.  Sorel "Catching Air" and teaching an understanding about how anything can be your shield if you are Masterful enough.  It was a fantastic way to end the Week-Long Event.

To close, it is these kinds of events and the very real emotions of the players that make Knight Realms great.  A community that lends itself to greater roleplay will in-turn be great.  Thank you one and all for the wonderful roleplay experience that Knight Realms is.  I look forward to entertaining you all in July as your Weekend Storyteller.