2012 Alt Event Highlights

Oh man, where to even begin. This was my first alt event, and I'm so glad that it was because it was just so amazing! Judge, Marybeth, Steve, Alisia, Wally, James et al, you all completely blew me away this weekend with the continuous high levels of rp from the moment that Thomas was wrangling up the Thralls to the escape at the end. Thank you thank you thank you!

Gamzee:
-"Nobody suspects Gamzee" *shifty looking around*
-TEAM BLUE!
-Pat Hand's Witch Hunter:
"ASSASSINATEASSASSINATEASSASSINATEASSASSINATESLAYSLAYSLAYDISSIPATEUNDEADDISSIPATEUNDEADDISSIPATEUNDEADDISSIPATEUNDEAD!!!!!"
*Pesmerga just stares him down like nothing happened*
Pat's comment about the matter: "Well he was just there and turned his back to me so I thought, 'guess it's time to do 6000 damage to him'"
-Delicious Feast of Om Noms +1
-Getting Emperor Palpatine'd by Dan Gill and James' characters in the Lab. "40 ELECTRICITY!"
-Ogres don't believe in the Tooth Fairy, Jenna

Misaki:
-3 seconds back in Travance, Lucas is fighting an uber being...whelp, time to jump in!
-ALL THE CHATS!: w/ Antrim, Ardin, Tsoli, Antrim, Lethias, Magnus, Angelica, Barak, Ridigan, Na'ar, Quan Liu (kinda) and more!
-So much being possessed
-So much sleep
-So much magic item usage
-What? Another thing that'll potentially lead to death? *shrug* Just another day as Misaki.


See you all sometime!

Hands down, absolutely incredible event. I've been saying it for a while, and I'll say it again: When Knight realms decides to go dark, everything just becomes so absolutely top-notch.
anyways, on to highlights!

Friday:
-Coming in as Nigel, setting up my alchemical accoutrements and immediately having people request things from me.
-All the RP involving Nigel, Feferi, and Steve Oros. So good.
-Bell ringing in the midst of making something? Alchemy on the go!
-"Me Thog, me hit things. What you do?" "Tell you what, mate, you keep me from dying, and I'll make things to help you help me not die better."
-"Try not to die. It's uncomfortable, and it annoys the hunchback."
-The entertainment that comes from making potions explode, sometimes even when you want them to!
-Hobo coat for the win. Not only did it keep me warm and dry even with the rain, but I was able to fit all of my alchemy gear into its pockets.
-Assigning nicknames that stuck. To my mind, Shane and Zach's alt characters will forever be Smitty and Scribbler.

Saturday:
-Ohmahgahd, showers...
-Any piece of Rp that was had while making things by the forge with Shane. From Pesmerga brutalizing Tom, to repeat customers both living and undead, to discussions on the merits of blood-based vs water-based potions, to people actually flinching when a couple of my potions exploded. It all made playing Alchemist so much more fun.
-Moral choice: Save the competent warrior, or that random guy over there. Warrior. "Excuse me, but that one is an Alchemist." Choice instantaneously reversed.
-James C. Kimball. Absolutely brilliant. In every way. Combining a heart-wrenching plight with bravado in the face of danger with a dash of sexual harassment. Does it still count as necrophelia if she's undead?
-Worst. Assassination attempt. Ever. Nigel now views all barbarian women as being dangerously incompetent when it comes to making battle plans.
-Delicious feast. I win cookie mod.
-Jersey Friend Rules with Wally.
-Nigel's introduction to Travance. From vampire lord to demon lord. This should be a cakewalk.
-Londwyn bullshit session with Gus. So what if we were up til 8am? Worth it.
-Setting Na'ar on fire for the benefit of the hicks.
-So an Alchemist sits down at a table full of Scholars, when a Wild Mage and a Healer join them. Hilarity ensues.

Sunday:
-ALL OF THE ALCHEMY.
-Seeing my good friends Erik and Janice having a blast at their very first KR event. Thanks for making them feel welcome, guys.
-So gratifying for people to tell me oog that they want me to make Nigel a PC. I think I had too much fun playing him to not try for it.

Once again, an absolutely phenomenal event. I haven't had this much fun in ages, and I kind of wanted it to keep going. The setting and atmosphere of Alok Malagan was rich and intense, all the NPC's were convincingly menacing, every single person I encountered was on top of their game, RP-wise, and oh yeah, hot vampire chicks. :lol: A plus, top grade larping, would do it again.

More Fun then I've had at a larp in a really long time. Super fun, Awesome role play, awesome costumes, awesome story! I've wanted to play a Goblin for a long time and silly little Toad created as a joke character while watching Robin Hood with John, Rachael and Mal went from a Sadistic-Torturer-Coward to Follower of Galadel on a quest to make up for all the bad she'd done thanks to a 5 foot tall barbarian and a Hobgoblin priest. Only in Alak Malagan. Also special thanks to the weather for being perfect undead weather. Was great that the first time I saw the sun was Sunday and it really did feel like the first time Toad had ever seen the sun.

Highlights:
-Aarons vampire General, never quite sure if i wanted to laugh or pee myself.
-Kania trying to teach me to be a good Goblin while I walked around with a pocket full of "Hobbit" Jerky offering it to people. Sharing is good right?
-Helping the Vampires torture soldiers. My original plan was to bring back all the information I got out of them to the resistance but when it became rape-and-murder-o'clock for no reason other then "We're vampires and we're EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEevil" some of the talk of being a good guy sunk in and she lost her S***. Best described by Angel who heard while her character was in bleed out on the floor *Shank Shank Shank* "FLEE!" Hiding in the woods for several hours part one.

After successfully hiding in the woods for almost 3 hours i finally wandered back to the inn and got killed by Jenna's NPC for totally unrelated reasons. Balls

Getting introduced to Redcloak, bonding over Hobbit jerky, confessing all the bad things I'd done, promising to make up for them and getting baptized to Galidell.

Drinking the Chaotic alteration whiskey and turning evil again for a minute about 10 minutes after deciding she was good. What does a sketchy Goblin do in this situation? Rat out the Galidall Priest to the undead Drow. Balls

EPIC RESCUE OF REDCLOAK!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe that worked! Hiding in the woods for several hours part two...electric boogaloo

All the hiding in the woods banter with Kania
*as undead walk about ten feet from where we're hiding, fail to see us, and then walk away*
Toad: where does Galadell stand on peeing yourself?
Kania: I think he understands

Goodbyes before I left to NPC Main Mod. Doesn't look like Toad will ever see Redcloak again I will tell the tale of how a goblin and a hobgoblin can be friends with the power of Galadell! and Hobbit jerky!

Bringing Toad into Travance was AMAZING. And as I predicted, she managed to get herself arrested within 12 hours of being back in town. Also got the worlds best electrum dagger EVER.

YOu will defiantly be seeing Toad around again. Viva la Resistance!

I couldn't stay the whole time due to medical shenanigans, but I wanted to mention three things.

1. Music in the inn was phenomenal.
2. Lettuce--->James.
3. Pesmerga casually petting my ears. At least one other undead did this too. You are all creepy bastards. Thanks.

First of all, I have to say that just like many others, this event was easily one of the best larping experiences I have ever had. The mood was downright perfect and I was really able to immerse myself into a setting that I knew little of OOG despite my character having been prisoner there for eight years.

Friday Night:
- Being packed into the barn with all of the other Thralls at the beginning of the event and realizing right away that my character was one of the more level headed. While others cowered and muttered, Olian and Nigel began work on alchemy to pass the time.

- Being roused from assisting Nigel by the General bursting into the barn and shouting in true R. Lee Ermy fashion and watching the general panic it caused.

- Returning to the Feeding Hole after the first Thrall mission to begin working at the forge along with an unsettling visit from Pesmerga (Sorry Tom).

- Being summoned by the bell throughout the night as the hail turned to rain and started coming down harder. I actually felt that the frantic hurrying and terrible weather really made the frantic and miserable lives of the Thrall come to life more.

- Coming back from the mission to spend the bulk of the remainder of my night repairing armor for the other Thralls and telling the Undead that I had a line of work to do (so many Thralls having simply left their gear at the forge without need for it to be worked on providing ample bluffing material), followed by SOME sleep.

Saturday
- Waking up to breakfast consisting of an omlette and peanut butter bars while starting my day's work at the forge. JUST managed to fix some Thrall armor and hone a couple weapons before the first summoning bell.

- Being baptized to the light shortly before the ratting out of our priest and the resistance I was quietly part of and worrying that I too would be ratted on. The scene that followed with the Von Ritter was nearly too much for Olian and he almost started attacking the undead as they strung him up.

- Managing to help calm the failed assassination attempt that left Nigel as a statue, then quickly forging a large shield for our Maldavian friend in the woods and disappearing for several hours before Feast.

NPC (Main Mod)

- My first role was that of former knight Sir Robert Mithrix, old friend of General Alman on what we dubbed "Hurt Wally's Feelings Mod". My job? Remind General Thomas Alman of his old life and really speak daggers at him, get under his skin. Hopefully I did well with that. Also, the RP from the undead ripping at my body after I fell and Alman hacking at the headless corpse was really believable, Wally, you sounded almost in tears.

- Second role? Badass mofo of a paladin that was part of the cavalry with Kwildar, a Galladellite Templar and a Master Witch Hunter (played by Vince, go figure). We honestly were not expecting the Thralls to show up at all, though the undead still seemed to be holding their own before we arrived.

Post-Main Mod
- Olian arriving into Travance with Nigel after a couple weeks of travel. No more than thirty minutes in town and a Demon attacks, good times.

- Olian realizing again that there actually are genuinely kind people in the world as the citizens of Travance, at personal cost, provided he and Nigel with drink, odd jobs, employment opportunity AND helped to begin the process of removing their Thrall marks (Thank you Pendarvin).

Sunday
- More of Olian experiencing things for the first time in eight years since his enthrallment (chocolate, wine, working at a REAL forge, sunlight, grass). It was almost as if everything was brand new and shiny to him in a dam near childish yet endearing way.

- Forging what is apparently the greatest Electrum dagger ever for Toad. The design on it is ridiculous and wonderful. Terri, NEVER lose that card.

- Being invited to the great feast in Pendarvin in celebration of the colelctive freedom of all of the Thralls that escaped to Travance. Once again, thank you Pendarvin, as well as Alisandria. (Figures, just escaped Pesmerga and Jed offers food, well played Judge, well played.)


I am definitely looking forward to bringing Olian into game as a full-fledged PC. It just won't be right away, he needs to try to tie up some loose ends before settling in Travance.

Well, originally, I wasn’t going to come to the Alt Event. Then I was going to Full-Time NPC. Then some friends asked me to play a priest, to fill a niche. And now, I am SO happy I chose to play the character I did. Everyone was phenomenal, and, quite honestly, my highlight is the event itself, in its entirety. But, I will still say the following moments that stand out in my mind:

• Seeing the Vampire Lords IG for the first time; trying to balance both pure fear and pure hatred for them was a change to my normal RP, and an interesting one at that.
• Trying to hide my faith while still being a leader of the faith was more fun than I initially expected. The few times I did cast, I tried my best to hide the prayers and just do generics, but my first Smite Undead of the event was definitely one of my favorite moments. No one harasses a member of my faith and gets away with it… Well at least not when the Inn building has nothing but thralls and a single Undead Servant in it…
• Attempts at early morning masses are not always successful… And then not being able to hold an evening mass like intended because Pesmerga fought the gods, and won. Hopefully the few people who did get willpowers used them…
• Secret baptisms, and then one of the newest Galladellians getting Chaotically Altered and spreading the word about me and my faith; Terri, your mini confessions were both adorable and awesome to witness, and Rachel you were so much fun to RP with over this.
• Being found out as a Galladellian Priest, and then promptly being brought before to Pesmerga. Steve, you really made me hate that character so much, it was wonderful. Judge, that was one of the best RP moments for me ever.
• Escaping death, or, more correctly, “Stealing the dying priest from under the Vampires’ noses.” Terri and Rachel, that will likely go down in history as one of the greatest moments in my gaming (LARPing and otherwise) career.
• NPCing as the Dryad, bouncing around, making thralls extremely happy, and then the horrors of the anti-dryad. I do not think a single creature has ever so gleefully bounced around blighting the land. And, of course, everyone’s favorite prayer, Rot Tongue .
• Feast was amusing, partially because I was scared to death to be there, partially because of the set up. Also, sneaking by James's NPC a few times and casting Consecrate Soul, Consecrate, and Lay Hands Minor on him before using First Aid assess. (Speaking of which, it has been said by pretty much everyone, but James, you were spectacular.)
• Shaylee - "Is it wrong that I want to see his [Wally's General] head on a pike staff?"
  Eridan - "His head? The Gods of Light woud approve."
  5 minutes later
  S - "What about HIS [Josh's Undead Servant]?"
  E - "An even bigger one."
• Throwing Smite Undeads at the Abominations, and feeling like I was actually making a difference in a fight… Very different feeling then when I play Belegchand…
• Shaylee – “Flee or Pike Stakes?”
  Eridan, without hesitation – “Pike Stakes.”
  *Run off to join the fight against the PC undead*
• The final battle, and finally getting to call consecrate soul. And, of course, said it in the typical arrogant Hobgoblin style
• After getting killing blowed 5 times during that fight, waiting OOG on the sideline for it to end so I could see it, and, as it ends, going up to Sam M. and telling her how I’m a cut up pile of body parts in the field. So, what do we do? Oh, right, have Kwildar be his normal awesome self and bring me through a focus! I suppose those vampire bite marks in the neck are permanent now.
• Belegchand didn’t have too many really big highlights this event, aside from some amazing conversations with amazing people, but one thing that sticks out more than anything else was the Expert Identification session. Mars, what did you EXPECT to happen when you give the elf wine with medicine that will make him hyperactive and let him play with an evil sword for an hour?

Thank you everyone who made this event as awesome as it was, especially all the Big-League NPCs. You guys poured so much into this game, so again, thank you!