2012 Alt Event Highlights

I rarely ever find the time to write down and post my own personal highlights, despite having them each weekend. This weekend however my own personal experience was so overwhelmingly good that I would be remiss not to.

Everyone who attended the alt event did a fabulous job. All the main NPCs brought thier A-game and pulled together to make the weekend thier own specifically crafted experience for the players to enjoy. Many of them ran mods and encounters and scenes/areas that breathed a level of immersion and realism into the event that is hard to achieve. The PCs took the game concept and ran with it hard, really giving thier characters 100% or more. I have been exceptionlly proud of many singular events in the past, and this one easily made the list.

As for my own personal scenes, playing Varren VonRitter, Patron Elder of House VonRitter, as a prized captive, who has been beaten and abused for over a decade, was one of the most rewarding NPC experiences I've ever had. I gave you the tools and or the opportunity to really let me have it and you actually abused me, instead of just saying "My character does this to you". Those of you who did not hold back your actions turned those encounters from what would have been great RP scenes, into the best encounters I have had in fifteen years of Knight Realms. Your willingness to push the envelope in the situation truly made the encounter real, which is something beyond value. Thank You!

First Alt Event. Decided to NPC it because A) I missed full weekend NPCing. Wanted to enjoy watching everyone else at work.

~Best moment was hands down James as Von Ritter. The fact you agreed to letting PCs and NPCs pelt you with rotten tomatoes and cabbage really shows how seriously you take your RP and I respect you greatly for that. The feast RP--taking all the abuse they gave like a badass. Yup. Awesome.
~All the Vampire Lords/Ladies were awesome. Their varying degrees of terror they could cause with one glare was fantastic to witness. Judge and Wally were scary mo-fos that actually scared me enough after "mass", where Matt C's hobgoblin priest was shown off and tormented as an example to the town, I ran the frick out of the building when Wally started counting down till murder time.
~Getting to hang out with a group of people at the Inn I normally don't get to see or talk to as my PC. It was really nice actually to see how much everyone helps and supports each other.
~The two vampire/undead servant brothers--you two were so much fun to watch. Your ambition and drive really brought the RP on a new level--showing even the undead have agendas and aspirations and a willingness to do anything to get there.
~Tooth Fairy--whoever was in charge of that NPC: frickin' brilliant. Amazing surprise for everyone I assume to be awoken in the middle of the night by that, having a tooth taken, and being left a gift of money just like the real one.
~Luis and Jeff serving feast--you two crack me the hell up. It was nice to see Luis not have to play the calm and put together Q.L. and be able to throw people to the back of the line for backtalk.

NPC moments:
~Going out as a NPC wild mage ghost carrying Air Essence who only gave it to those who showed great kindness. Kudos to the 4 barbarians who did their best at being both kind and helpful to her while still doing great at displaying the stand-offish manner of some barbarians with strangers. Whoever you are mysterious ski-mask/chainmail man--you won the cake with getting me resurrected after hearing my story. You earned that air essence. Even if I got burned by a dagger shortly afterwards and given over to the Vampire Lords to become a Thrall...
~Dan Gill--your alt character resurrecting me probably was the coolest/weirdest rp session I ever have taken part of. So much fun with all the details you put into it and use of all your "tools". I always love RPing with you.
~Black oozes early morning wake up call. Hell of a lot of fun. Angel, Mars, Cy, and I rocked that shiz.
~Malcolm as a slaver--I love you as Kwildar but it always is a delight to see you as a complete 180 as an evil character. Selling our faces to Dan G then selling us to two men at the laboratory...mean. lol. I did have fun playing deaf and mute and using real ASL to talk to my new masters.
~Getting my slave NPC resurrecting by Jeff's hunchback. OMG. You are hilarious as this character. I loved any moment I got to RP with you.
~Cleric of Galmachis. Chasing down Cy's ogre was a hell of a lot of fun. The playful banter that pissed him the hell off--who says you need the skill Insult to actually rile someone up?--was so much fun. The complete wipe out I took was almost a face plant onto the ground--actually kind of fun when it happened. Not so much when I realized I had taken out my knee in the process. I can proudly say the swelling has gone down finally and my knee is the color of Belegchand.
~Sunday morning breakfast turning into RPing with Goley as a voice in his head. That was fun! That turning into a whole mini-mod thing for Matt DeFranza. Cuddling the Nexus in my PJs while RPing as Typhoid Mary-esque spirit in the spirit realm--great RP on all the healer's part. I had a lot of fun with that--Matt you are a brilliant, brilliant man. I can't wait to see how this all pans out next event.

I cannot express how pleased with the way this event had gone. Probably one of my top 3 events in the last 5 years. The interactions between everyone was just above and beyond what we expect from players on an event to event basis and it really made getting into the character so much better.

Keep this up and maybe we'll even be able to do better than this weekend!

I dont normally put up event highlights anymore but this is the best event I think I have had in....years. Its rare that I can find myself completely and utterly taken up with an alt and want the event to just last forever. This was it. I went into this event having no expectations plotwise- I played what I thought a thrall would be and it was just fantastic. Even if I couldnt run ><

-Friday night
Meeting up with Laura (ALWAYS in alt events lol )
Deciding to stay low
Right after that.....Hello Pesmerga and company.... (inwards both damnit and fantastic!)
Deciding to roll with it- wanting to show him his attention wasnt wasted- if only to keep from being killed for it.
Spent the rest of the event like that.
Doing such a great job of it even Laura wondered if Id gone over to the Vamps side- until I helped her free peasants and get a dryad to perform a Gaian benediction.
Then....wincing when he just *wouldnt leave* and telling each other we should have either taken a peasant head or killed him himself. Deciding to actually kill him as he was a liability- just to then be nerveracked when he was turned into an antidryad. In my own words
-"Im so scared right now even OOG that I want to hop in my car and never come back to KR....again."
Trying to kill Gus....and having the best reason to do it. Huzzah no death! And...freedom? o.0
Considering booking it before feast but not wanting to give ANY reason for suspicion.
Going to bed early after a shower. Words cannot describe....

Mae-
Not wanting to really go out because of my ankle. So....avoiding my teachers....and actually having a valid reason. o.0
Also....FINALLY doing something really not wise to try to help...getting the consequences....trying to make sure Angelica doesnt get corrupted (again) and having it be blamed on insanity? Ah...irony...

As I told Judge, Marybeth, and Alisia, this event was amazing for me. Its been sooo long since I felt scared, worried, completely caught up in the rp and just....*filling* a role. I love Mae but I loved this char so much. I cant wait to play her again and I can only hope that this feeling with her continues.

I will see you all in a few weeks

To say this weekend was fun would be an understatement. This is by far the most fun I've had at a LARP in almost a decade and a half of LARPing experience for me. Everyone role played and dressed the part so well that I felt like I was in an actual metropolis under the rule of brutal vampire lords. My experience as a Maldavian, running, hiding, fighting, and screaming in fear of my life every second of this event was grade A immersion for me. There was literally no place to hide. This made the game for me. The feeling of being hunted for the entire event truly added a realistic feel to my experience. It was truly a monumental game for me.

Now some highlights!

- Getting to game, and immediately being hunted. (Was late, so missed announcements )

- Hearing all the screams and horrifying sounds all around me in Alok Maligan.

- Meeting up with Matt Magnus as his warrior and running, hiding, and killing our way through the first night of terror, and eventually joining up with some NPCs that helped us lay waste at the Inn.

- Our PC/NPC party spelling "RESIST" with the benches at the Inn, and placing a single skull on each of the thrones before departure.

- Being tortured at the laboratory, then brought back to Steve Oros's character's lab for some torturous healing (Steve's creativity and role playing during this scene was part of what really made my first night.). Then being brought back to the lab to be marked. Then looking around and noticing nobody was paying any attention to me, and slipping out the door unnoticed before giving them a chance to mark me. I had many chuckles about this. (There was another PC present who was an undead torturer. I forget his IG and OOG names, but he equally made this set of scenes amazing for me.)

- Surviving so long without getting marked.

- Casually walking into the Inn and pretending to be a thrall, complete with being able to see the mass, interacting with others who were resisting, and being forced to fight two of the thralls, and dropping one, but being a good aligned character, instantly feeling horrible about it, and pulling my shots thereafter so that I would hopefully be dropped instead, which actually happened.

- Mass over VonRitter. Seeing just how evil Pesmerga and his followers truly are.

- Being caught physically by Pesmerga himself after Dan Gill walked over and ever-so-casually outed me, and I tried to run. I was almost gone if it were not for Pesmerga using celerity to catch me himself. I don't feel bad though. Being caught by the throat by THE master vampire at KR is more of an honor than I can even begin to explain.

- Dan casually exposing me before being caught and ripped into numerous pieces beside VonRitter.

- Main-Mod battle to escape Alok Maligan.

- Meeting Kwildar at the end of game. So awesome!

- The intensity of everyone's RP in general.

- The creepiness and impressiveness of all the special effects and scenery that was expertly placed to give the game the amazing feel that it had.

- Finally getting to see Pesmerga, then realizing that noone else could ever play him as perfectly as Judge. If I didn't know any better, I would swear he was a real vampire lord.

- Being fed so much at feast that I almost exploded.

- Seeing James put himself through hell to make his role believable. It goes to show how truly dedicated he is to making our experience at KR so enjoyable. Getting hit in the face with rotting fruit, and dragged brutally through the mud, then brought back to the Inn for more similar torture, was an experience I'll never forget.

Hearing about everyone's individual experience after game was called.

- Being monumentally impressed with everyone's ability to switch from good, upstanding heroes, to some of the most evil, sadistic characters I have ever seen in almost 15 years of LARPing. You guys truly made me feel like I was trapped in a land full of evil monsters, and made me see just how important it is that we do something to put a stop to them eventually. This was the biggest highlight of the entire game for me.

Thank you EVERYONE for making this event the best LARP experience of my entire life!

After a solid 8 hours of sleep in my own, very comfortable bed, I remember Jackie Gibs uglifying herself (a tough task) and wishing she had Wally's "pregnant prosthesis" to complete the look. Between, the beard, mustache, and horridly applied red lipstick...

Some of the converstions people started with me when I went to Costco with my face and head painted...