September 2011 Event Highlights

The Good

-I'd like to express my surprised joy at seeing certain folk, again: Erik/Wolfgar, Gabriel/Alexander, and Elias/Bolton.  It was a pleasure to see many, many of you again, but these three were rather unexpected, so I'm glad you were there.

-It was good to be back in armor and swinging Geheimnis, again.

-It was also good to lead gamers in battle, again.  It's always an interesting challenge to try and get a bunch of self-determined individualists all paying money to come out looking for their own CMOAs* to follow an actual battle plan.  More on that later ...
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-Galen Gast taught me willpower using a sandwich.

-Said sandwich, made by none other than Hammish MacSweeney, was REALLY good when I finally got to eat it.  If I had known there was melted cheese on it during the lesson, I might not have made it.

-It was kind of neat to meet up with a fellow ex-mercenary-commander.  I think it's appropriate that we met on the battlefield.  It was also a lot of fun sitting around and commiserating about how poorly this stupid town treats mercenaries who would be a lot of help if people would quit kicking them around.  Thanks, Emerson.  Looking forward to seeing more of Private Valentine.

-Kudos to the guild-mate with over a hundred confirmed mosquito kills.

-Thank you to the newly-again-weds for the feast.  I don't care what any cranky old man has to say - it was delicious.

-Watching Sorel save the bacon from Gnools - only to have to keep chasing it after he cut it loose and it ran away again.  It was like something out of a cartoon.  I feel like I should have been paying to watch that.

The Bad

-I have not seen bugs this bad since summer in North Carolina.  I'm still swatting at phantom bugs.

-Guard duty seems really pointless when guys like Cinder and Ardentfyre are nearby.

-I clocked some poor NPC in the head with my elbow Friday Night.  Sorry, dude.

The Tactical Perspective: Three up, three down.

UP: On the lowbie-side of Main Mod, the violence of action was admirable.  That's how you pursue an enemy - rapid, focused assaults.

UP: Another lowbie mod - this one in the maze, against a bunch of spiders and a necro ... guy.  The PCs split up and ended up on either side of the boss (said nerco-guy), making that fight pretty much a piece of cake.  I don't think I would have thought of that, but it worked very well, and so I'll remember to try it next time I'm fighting in the maze.

UP: Excellent use of barricades in the Tavern on Saturday night.

DOWN: On the lowbie-side of Main Mod, again, my team and I were given the task of pushing ahead out of the cave.  There was no explanation of the fact that we were providing security for the PC carrying the chest full of mod-critical stuff.  I had to figure that out on my own.  It all worked out in the end, and I realize that the heat of battle makes it hard to give thorough instructions, but a little more detail would have gone a long way towards how I accomplished my mission.

DOWN: Friday night, Father Gideon Weaveforger was doing his best to take command outside the inn while fighting against some undead things.  He gave a very simple command - and I know his voice is loud enough - to not go any further than the road.  There might have been better tactics to use, but this was not a bad one, and it would have been a good base to start using other techniques from.  NO ONE listened.  It is far too typical a thing in Travance.

DOWN: ... Only two "downs" this time, I guess, that I observed and are worth noting.  I'd be very interested to hear about things others saw - stuff that worked, stuff that didn't, things we can improve on, and things we can institute across the board.

Hey everyone, 

Let's keep the Highlights about what was enjoyable for you at Knightrealms and the lowlights in an Event Recap form. Thanks!

....Cherry Ice.....

The good out of this past event.
- First guild meeting seeing people faces when they got seen for doing well
-Learning more about each member
-Feast was amazing!
- Having the Barrons back on more then one issue.....and in come cases literally having his back on a dark side path was a lot of fun.
"Ming your fighting? ......Contrary to popular belief I do know that the pointy end goes into the enemy like thus"
- Politics stress
- The wedding

Remember remember the ninth of September....The Abendroth treason and plot. I see no reason why Abendroth treason, should ever be forgot!


The not so good
- We learned the hard way the old cataclysm "Buyer be ware" from Doug the hard way when dealing with Winterdark Merchants.
- Had his fill of people jumping at the bit to tear down what little we have,
-Politics being used and abused only to think really in the end will this get me and mine anything other then &%$#  on?
- Some one made Kool aid with the water down at the stump...So I got poisoned in real life!! So my Sunday was not at all a good one.

....Cherry Ice.....

^THIS!!!!!!! lol!!

Remember remember the ninth of September....The Abendroth treason and plot. I see no reason why Abendroth treason, should ever be forgot!

^ Also, this.
I would like to say publicly, Thank you Rob for instilling fear in my heart as a character again.  I appreciate it.

-The wedding - beautiful.  AND delicious.
-Courting on Dragon's Breath.  Oh my.
-Spirit Realm + Satyr's Wine = TERRIBLE idea.
-Galamachian Hearald Plot.  Mike, this was awesome.  I loved the interaction with Pete and Tammy.
-Getting up the hill and being stripped of all of my Templar/Cleric abilities... This was actually a highlight.  It was rough trying to figure out how I was to be useful on the battle field without Gaia protecting me.  And then left me full and ready to take on Drow later that night.

Overall, great event.