December 2011 Highlights

First and foremost I want to thank the marshals for being such good sports about being a non-combat weekend NPC with the busted finger. New Logistics by the way is fantastic. Don't ever think of going back.  

My top few moments
*  Alex's anti-paladin "changing plans" and telling me to find out where Lord Ardentfyre was and saying calmly he meant no harm to him but if I failed he would cut off my "pretty little hand" all in the same breath. You were truly convincing as a terrifying bad ass.
*  having storytellers come up to me and ask me if I would be interested to help with their mods. I really am honored to be considered specifically.
*  Frank demanding when he heard I was doing a full weekend NPC again: "When are you going to start PCing?!" in this indignant 'goddamnit' tone. It was touching that people are intrigued to see what I will toss together.
*  Running around as the infamous Midnight Merchants Anne and Fredrick Wright with Norm and having people not only remember us but clamor for our goods. Always a pleasure working with you Norm. Frank--have fun with your snake oil.
*  Being Jenny with her Uncle Arty, a priest of Galladell. I got a hug from the Arch Bishop and blessed by the Ascended Malcolm all within 5 minutes. Cheesecake for breakfast really is the best idea ever.  
*  Seeing my boyfriend, Damian, really rock it as the King of Madness at the Inn and starting a cult following. It made me so proud to see him having so much fun doing what he loves.
*  Witnessing the "sorcery accident" that killed Gideon and Ardin. Then the hilarity afterwards when Lathiel and Quan Liu were locked in and their hijinks to get out.
*  Making so many new friends and spending more time with those I'm already close with.
*  The passwords for the Mage Guild's Gabriel's Door for the past month have really touched my heart. Ardin really is a big ol' softy on the inside.
*  Preparing my PC and all the insanity that will go along with it. Sorry folks, she's not coming till February. Derrick--I can't wait to make this a reality. Thanks for all your help.

Let's see. Where to start.
Well, might I say that this was one of the best events I have attended. Not only was there lots of combat, but some of the best role-playing I"ve ever seen ensued.
Friday Night
NPC Shift
I didn't really do much besides just be an Ogre Warlord. The best part was when we needed answers and we saw Jonas(James), Lucas(Goley), and Tori's Sylph[Tori(good costuming as a Sylph)]. Goley decided to go invisible or climb. James "Climb"ed up a tree and Tori used Levitate. Us Ogres decided to get answers from James, so we shaked the tree with +6 Strength and James' roleplaying of struggling. We asked him who the ruler of these lands were and he said, "Well, he's black" We said "A Dark Elf?" He said, "No, ummm." It was really a funny role-playing experience.
The Ogres and Orcs with me had some sort of "understanding" with the Dark Elves and we decided to help out.
Most of NPCs I was with this shift were NPCs for the whole event.
Saturday
Early, Early Morning
Don't really remember much besides the fact that I wanted nothing else but sleep.
Nap time!
Being woken up by battle and being too tired to get out of bed to actually help people, so I decided to stay in bed and healed Quan Liu from there. I was really tired.
Went back to sleep.
I woke up around 11AM so thats good enough for me.

Saturday Afternoon
I was hungry so thankfully when I entered the inn, the first thing I did when I woke up, Market Faire was happening, so I bought gingerbread from Bran(they were really good). I had some tea from T'soli.
I had to switch over to another 1-2 hour NPC shift because people needed me.
Then, what I was finally waiting for the whole time, combat.
That mod that ensued by the maze was a really fun experience for me with elementals everywhere I looked.
Coming back and the really long wait for feast to occur.
Finally it did, but I forgot how much I was hungry when the pork came out. Luis you always do good for feast.

Saturday Night
After Feast, I headed to the Mages' Guild to watch some sorcery with Ardin and Gideon.
And.....they both died. What a turn of events!
Thankfully they were resurrected.
I missed most of what I thought was the main battle.
An hour later, I found out that that battle was just the beginning.
We were doing good for the first half an hour or so, but then the goblinoids fighting the main force and the dark elves fighting those who moved away, Travance was starting to fall back.
Eventually we went back to the Monastery with the little out-of-game accident of the deck partially collapsing.
Then I fought in the area between the Monastery and the Inn.
I went back in the Inn and then the Dark Elves came in and asked for 1000 gold worth of magic items.
I went to sleep.
Sunday Morning
Being woken up on the occasion of elementals or something. they didn't stand a chance when Antrim decided to Perfect Aim Incinerate them.
I finally got up and there were ogres that attcked Dante. Then the goblins. Jenna, you did a good job role-plaing a goblin with a sword too big. Cy, you did a good as a goblin that was finally going to be like a real goblin. then I had to leave.
Lowlights
It was cold
It was muddy
And I hated leaving

I hope all of the events can be as fun of an experience as rhis one.

In 5+ years at KR, I have never seen, let alone participated in as intense and gratifiying (both IC and OOC) as the hour and a half inquest roughly 0130-0300 Sunday.  Present were Mothers Darkheart (Angel) and Chance (Laura W.), Guildmaster Ardin Silverbow (Norm) and myself.  Brief, but phenominal walk -ons were contributed by Br. Brogan Mysthammer (Chris De.) and Billium (Gene Stern).  It was both a pleasure and an honor to participate.

I am not going to even begin to write of what occurred.  There were no bit parts, nothing was left inside any of us - well maybe Gene, as his was a very brief appearance, but totally great.  The repurcussions from this scene will reverberate throughout Travance on several levels for some time.  My thanks to all who were there.

I will mention one other point as it is involved periperally.  There was an compelling scene going on for about 15 minutes of the inquest in front of the Altar outside our small room.  The noise was interrupting us and upsetting Mother. Darkheart, as there was no doubt someone was being killed.  I opened the door and saw two paladins with the Archbishop keenly observing, killing someone. with a large group of people behind the Archbishop also observing.  I closed the door, and went back to what we were doing. 

I will post other highlights later but this one is in a class of its own. 

PC:
-Meeting Carlos for the first time. It was not what Carlotta expected. But the tarot reading she got was by far the most irritating she had ever received. Irritating because it was completely right! It was also downright spooky when something predicted came true just hours later, and in a much more concrete form that I had ever imagined it would.
- Singing (more like screaming) at the top of my lungs with Tsoli while holding off drow with divine sanctuary scrolls. It helped keep the fear down, and also seemed to thoroughly irritate the dark elves. Double plus!
- Assisting with a Sorcery ritual. Brenden did an amazing job marshaling, and made it a very unique and humbling experience for a young mage.
- Adventurer's Guild! I felt like such a big girl, playing ball with many higher level PCs. JJ, you did a great job playing an absent minded scholar. It was hard not to break character and laugh. 
- Receiving a rose from a certain gypsy man.
- Accidentally knocking Gideon unconscious during a Wyvern Watch lesson. How embarrassing....
- The mage's guild meeting was wonderful. We had such an awesome turn out, and so completely wrecked a group of NPCs that wandered by. Except for the Umber Hulk played by Vince. That took some real work. Either way it was a very good fight.
- Feast was amazing! I could rave about that pork for hours. Thank you, Louis.
- I gave my very first lesson. And it was to someone who was OOG much more knowledgable on the subject than myself. But they were such a good sport.
- You'll notice none of these highlights include Main Mod. Carlotta heard there was an army coming and promptly decided to rabbit. What a coward.


NPC:
-New logistics! I love it. So toasty warm and organized! I think the water cooler with the hot water option is my new best friend. I shall call him Bubbles.
- Larry and Chris, you were both great marshals. Thank you for being so understanding, and for coming up with great little roles for me.
- I finally got to wear that creepy/bad-ass armor when I went out as a dark dwarf. I've always wanted to!
- Lydia the mysterious glowing elf may have been the most fun I've had NPCing yet. For a minute there, I thought Tom and I were going to get arrested!
- "Surge-cast Chimney Portal." That was really on my card, folks.

- Adventurer's Guild! I felt like such a big girl, playing ball with many higher level PCs. JJ, you did a great job playing an absent minded scholar. It was hard not to break character and laugh. 

I had waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much fun running around and picking up random stuff off the ground and declaring: "Fascinating!" I decided to name my new plant Flora Pendarvis in honor of Lord Ardentfyre's generosity towards my studies. lol

Friday:
-Coming back to town and landing on the porch via Flight on Angel's Wings and the WTF reactions from clergy.
-After seeing the red cross on my tabard, finally being recognized as a real Templar by a select few individuals, then the resulting jokes that ensued.

Saturday:
-Malcolm McBride.  I've been looking forward to this day since the day he ascended.  And then not too long after McBride left, Shalok shows up.  So two Templars for the price of one.
-Light Mass.  It's nice having a lighthearted mass again for once.
-"Almighty Galladel Hear my prayer... BENCH!" as Brother Lighthammer (Walter) walks into the room bench in hand.
-Some VERY serious RP and the IG reprecussions that are going to follow.
-Seeing Goley and Jason's NPC's come up to me and say they need healing, thinking to myself this is a terrible idea, but definately what I'd do IG, only to be told not ten minutes later that they were assassins and to be killed on sight.
-Main mod and finally getting to summon an Angel.

Sunday:
-Order mod NPC shift
-Dumb ogre NPC's