KR 10th Anniversary Highlights!

The tale begins on Thursday night for some, but I arrived Friday noonish...

"mrrglrlrlrmgrrr!!!"
"OK, that's enough, guys."
"mrrglrlrlrmgrrr!!!"
"We need to get it out of our systems before Lay-On."
"mrrglrlrlrmgrrr!!!"
"We are NOT Murlocs..."
"mrrglrlrlrmgrrr!!!"

The Javelin Assembly line, and the resulting fun it allowed.

"It's a trap!"  I don't know how many times I saw this repeated in various forms, from various people, over the weekend, and it never got old.

All of the wonderful new combinations of players and PCs that came out, if even for one event.  Sometimes the charm was knowing you would never see such a gem again.

Amber and Jackie: "Wait... did you two just... swap PCs?"

Being told that someone mistook Luis for me under the Jax outfit.

Londwynian Cavaliers.  "Excuse me, do you know what time it is?"

The relatively nice weather.  What was forecast to be sucktacular was not bad, only raining on Sat. night for a few hours, and at a thematic time at that.

Feast was excellent, as usual for a Hill-Produced meal.  Thank you, Liz & Lisa!

Overall, it was a great deal of fun.  Memorable moments:

GROK!!  or however Kendrick spells it.

Jackie and Amber switching roles.  Raveena Talon Indeed!

In the kitchen, OOC, after the main event was over, seeing the face of Alex B after telling him I really enjoyed the understated way he played his character.

BEST MOMENT:  Teresa S as the Goblin crone offering Mike Janus' Hobbit a silver coin that was wrapped in leaves.  Mike opened it, picked it up and Teresa leaned in and whispered "15 poison" in his ear.  Mike falls sideways.  Teresa, without lifting up either foot, appeared to be jumping up and down, fingered her dagger, saw the look I gave her, and said in a low voice "Oh, someone should call a healer, I guess."

Rob, as Sir Terrence, telling me to build a boat since I am the quartermaster.  Told me I had until nightfall.

I'm selling all sorts of potions and armor, not to mention weapons, but no one was buying...

Getting killed around 3 AM Saturday morning because I did not know the verbals to the spells. 

Sonya as the kite lady berserker.  Luis as a Cat.  Malcolm as a Cat.

Wally enamored by spears.  I forcast bad things happening in the future.

Seeing Kwilder and Br Malcolm OOG in the kitchen, and unable to resist saying "Malcolm, Malcolm" and the ensuing laughter.

Excellent feast

Kudos to the staff, all of whom toiled hard and seemed to enjoy themselves.

Geoff screwing up being enfeebled, but to see him run off screaming was worth it.

Sam drooled nicely.

It was cold Saturday night.  Bottom was an insulite, sleeping bag, and doubled flannel sheets.  Then flannel sheets (doubled), two wool blankets, sweatshirt, and a thermal cotton nightshirt and it took a bit to warm up.  Slept with a wool caop on as well as wool socks. 
it wouldn't be a KR event without the rain.

Sunday morning, Thomas Ahlman wondering where the brewery/distillery was that advertised "Really cheap F@$#ing rum" and Fr Edwin suggesting that his ask Br. Malcom where the brewery was located, as he probably know every one in the Barony.  Thomas doing just that and discovering Malcolm was a partner
in the business.  Made the rum from corn, which is not technically rum, and Malcolm suggested that's why they call it really cheap - 8 silver a cask.

Knowing better than to chase after Matt Magnus' gargoyle.

Fr Edwin asking Apollo to teach identify Item.  Him telling me to get a magic item not my own.  I spend fifteen minutes scrounging one up, only to realize he was going to teach me the spell, and I needed to learn the skill...

Quaz - how was Spamalot?

I'll probably think of more later.

This weekend all around was quite awesome.

The friendships, as always was awesome.

The laughter, was quite awesome.

The makeup on everyone, was doubly quite awesome.

The roleplay, comical at times, serious at others, was awesome.

Accidentaly poking people in the lower legs with a stick as I was feeling my way after being blinded by the mercury poison was awesome, though I sincerely apologize to those who were victim to it.

Playing something completely different than Kwildar, but yet, in some ways, oddly similar was quite definitely awesome. (Though I lamented playing 'Yet another pacifist', one must understand that Kwildar is certainly not the pacifist he once was)

Jeramy, the hooka and Larrack's aftermath- Priceless.

Everyone's nicknames for Larrack, wonderful. (Though much of it was to Larrack's chagrin until he hit the hooka)

Theresa S's Goblin (Grushnak, was it?): "Catfish!"
Larrack: "CATFISH!!"

Diane's Hobgoblin, Shinda: "You are a good, strong warrior!"
Larrack: "Whaaaat!?"

Larrack, the cowardly, yet extremely stubborn water mage Kitiaren finding himself in the thick of most every troubling situation.  Amazing.

A slightly off-the-wall concept, that required no bending of any of the new rules (Thank the gods that there's not a word of a fear of water in the new Kitieran rules), a godsend.

Mentally berating the stubborn Cat for not just dropping the large bottle of hydroargentym and taking his antidote when he first could have.... Wonderful.

Larrack picking up a sense of purpose and duty when being pulled through the Focus, after berating Sirax for failing him twice, which led to the above... Amazing.  Zach, the resurrections all weekend were very interesting to watch!

I am very thankful at having Nyads around to be fascinated by at every time Larrack either of them.

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Kwildar forgetting his customary scarf, becoming very self-conscious, and trying to cover his neck at all times.  Thankfully for him, no one appeared to have noticed.

Roleplay with Brother Malcolm McBride.  It's always intense, especially when you throw an Andorran gypsy into the mix.  -- As an aside, seeing Kwildar's first initiated hug literally bring one of the people he looks up to to tears, while Kwildar was praying to be Andorra's vessel of compassion, in a long meditative prayer session to open the Compassion domain, absolutely amazing.  Geoff and JimBob, you two are incredible people.

Kwildar, Carlos and Zahir, as Kwildar cleans the Monastery walls of some half-literate Glommite and Agauran writings.  Kwildar spills a little water as he pours it on his sleeve. Despite the serious situation, Chris stays very true to his racial roleplay and berates Kwildar for the spillage.  Nice!

Sonya, Zach, Kate, I just want to thank all three of you for helping Kwildar do something special in his upkeep of his weekly vigil. It meant so much to him.

Oh, and the Kwildarism of the weekend.  "I am confused.  I see nothing wrong with the gods being... Happy."

Seeing Kwilder and Br Malcolm OOG in the kitchen, and unable to resist saying "Malcolm, Malcolm" and the ensuing laughter.

I just wanted to comment on this one.  I'm always jokingly berating myself for being the third 'Brother Malcolm' in the game, and Charlie just fed right into it in that moment.

Kwildar, Carlos and Zahir, as Kwildar cleans the Monastery walls of some half-literate Glommite and Agauran writings.  Kwildar spills a little water as he pours it on his sleeve. Despite the serious situation, Chris stays very true to his racial roleplay and berates Kwildar for the spillage.  Nice!

Being around Jackie when people leave chalk around the monastery. 

Having 2 days when I didn't have to worry or care about any of the problems that were going on.
Sunday more than making up for my break.

Getting bullied by Alex, Matt, and Chris every time they saw me.

Sam, then me stealing from the Quartermaster everytime Charlie had his head down, or got up and walked away from the table.  Hobbit polearms for the win!

KROG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The players not knowing who we were emerging from the forest Friday night started the chaos and we kept it coming all event.

Giving so much trouble to the Enax clergy, and they deserve credit for taking it so well.

Deciding to destroy the boats and the town never figuring it out was us was a chuckle we got to share with staff.

Being an ogre-bomb, even if it didn't work out the way we wanted.

Discussing the clock shield was fun, as was trying everything, and I do mean everything, to get the crypt door open.

Learning the downside of loud celebrations. It helps the bad guys find you.

The many cringes brought on by my open affection for Agaura

Toss the hobbit is always good sport

Watching Elyse scream and not back down from the whole town while we lay dead.

Alex shivving Zach in the kitchen in front of the lord.

Seeing the reprecussions of Andy's well-placed psionic intensifications

Murder, Death, Kill!, Murder, Death, Kill!

Trying to eat a whole bowl of food at the feast to keep it real as an ogre.

Trashing the monestary and dropping everyone there

Wearing a Ric Flair t-shirt with a soak of 3. It's true. Matt White wrote up the card. I swear. Would I lie?

And finally......KROG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The whole event was an amzingly refreshing experience. It was so much fun to take everything back to that time when nobody had an upper hand and being one profession was just as good as any other one. As I told the guys there, this would be a really great idea to make this an annual event. its like pressing reset but without having to really do it.

Everyone who didn't go missed out on a great time. Its a whole different dynamic but the thrill of the unknown was definately there, and that hasn't been that way for me for a long time.