Week In the Life Hilights

There were so many wonderful things happening this event and many of them completely blew my mind.

~The great vassal debate. 4 lands expressing interest in me--all needing a court scholar and I consider all of them good friends now and respect each of them...GAH. It's nice to feel wanted but Aemorniel really doesn't think she deserves all of this respect.
~Becoming good pals with Jed over our similar pasts and finding a friend to turn to who actually understands the scars that slavery leave behind are not always visible. While Kwildar does share that as well, something about Jed is of a like mind about his time like Aemorniel.
~My Wanted Poster becoming invalid according to a letter that appeared in my bag when visiting and playing games with Lord and Lady Blackthorne and their vassals outside of their statehouse. Edwin insists on checking its validity but if it is true...the idea of freedom is still too big a shock to set in. If it is true, whoever is my angel deserves a hug and my super chocolately brownies
~Learning probably close to 25 skills over the whole event.
~Drunken Elven celebrations. Those who had to deal with me--I hope I at least was entertaining.
~All the courting attempts--you gentlemen know who you are and I find it so amusing.
~Ben's face during feast when I turned to him nonchalantly and said "So Doctor Maxwell, when are we getting married?" and all the jokes about that throughout the event. Dementia is a bitch and occasionally makes me say ridiculous things. I love hanging out with you and all your lessons are so fun. WORMS ARE GROSS!!!!!
~Getting mostly cured of my insanities but Sorel and Ridigan not letting me go on Bottle Mod because of how last time I came back more crazy.
~The mod where we found the pearl after many of the others literally had to go digging in the stream for oysters. That was so much fun!
~KWILDAR RETURNED! So much happiness and tackle hugging and then making what I call the Codex of Love.
~Carlos' card reading for me. Blew my mind so much I had to curl up in a ball at the couch for a moment before begging Maxwell to distract me by fixing my brain. You have no idea how much that reading had been haunting her the entire event.
~All the research projects! Actually getting answers is kind of an accomplishment in my mind. Bolton, you're okay. You just have to rise to the occasion. I'll be watching to see your progress.
~Hanging out with good friends and missing those faces who couldn't be there.
~Falling asleep on a couch in the Inn waiting for Main mod to spurt out the Lord of Ice. 3 people trying to make a point about falling asleep on the couch is bad being met with a grumpy "Sleeping Sanctuary and Lightning Storms up the ass" as my response, usually followed by a "Touche".
~Aemorniel finally letting go of the thing she was holding back for so long it seemed--just as the cards said--and not being rejected when she returned to the place she is starting to call home. Her trip might become all the more exciting now. Also probably one of my best nights ever too.

Such a fantastic week, with so much happening and so much more to think about.

-Card reading and more with Carlos. Winks had been very wary of getting this done, but I'm glad he finally did.
-Learning my first Air spells from Ethan and Morwenne. Very intense RP there, and I'm very grateful to them for it.
-PIEDAY!
-Talking with more knights about nobility, namely Dougal, Colin, and Sorel. I fully intend to finish, regardless of the following...
-The reassignment of Ilservian to Loez. Once again, Winks' world comes crashing down around him, only in a very different way and for different reasons. He is again a squire without a knight, but he's going to keep working and making the best of it. Thank you to Angelica, Arabeth, and Kwildar for talking him through it.
-Mage's Guild meeting, and the entire guild fighting together very effectively when we were interrupted by a large group of elementals.
-Drega'Mire talks.
-Fire Mod. So very intense.
-Stupid o'clock ramblings with Rose.
-Starting my Master Warrior training with Tobar and Barak. Been looking forward to this.
-Sunday relaxations at the beach, and teaching so many lessons. Hooray for old students, new students, and potential students.

Despite my event being cut short due to my body failing me once more

I had a great time for the day I was there, from partaking in Blacktree's forest cookout and chilling session, to smacking around some undead, and some great RP where the old grouch tried to keep two of his former apprentices from making him bury them.

I hope the sausages made it out again despite my not being there. Many thanks to Luis for taking over for me in cooking them in my less than stellar state.

And I had a ball during my MM shift on Thursday. You guys that NPCed for me were awesome and real troopers. I look forward to indulging you in my particular brand of madness again sometime soon. I'm really loving the way the Logistics Marshall position freed me up to focus my evil on NPCs. A+ to that.

Downside: Shortly after the high of my MM shift on Thursday, my body caught up with me and I had to leave the camp. I'm still a little loopy on medications, but don't worry, I should be back to normal soon. To the wonderful lady who took pity on me and helped me gather my things, I apologize but my own terrible memory and the copious amount of medications I was on prevented me from remember your name, but I would like to thank you again.

I truly had a great time and I really wish I could have stayed, and a high as a kite Galen would have been hilarious, but I suspect it would have ended in disaster. I hope everyone else had a blast and I'll see you all next month.

I'm exhausted, my everything is sore, and I was late to work because of this. So worth it.

-Setting up the big tent in the caravans as a gypsy bazzar/massage parlor was great. Thanks to everyone who complimented us on it. We all thought it looked great.
-Thanks to everyone on my very first official Monster Marshal shift. You all did great, even though you werre exhausted and cold.
-Werewolves, Tribbles, and Rocco the Smut Peddler. Shenanigans!
-Hookah with Ostcliff in the caravans. Stories, jokes, massages, lessons, and a great sense of comradeship.
-You cast Decay on a Galmachian's pants and a paladin calls Intercept and Retribution, what do you do? Call Retribution right back of course.
-Glad people liked the hot oil massages. They shall return!
-Stupid o'clock Pesmerga imitations. He has a pool boy named Raoul who wears booty shorts. Who knew?
-Accidentally happening upon a master warrior lesson involving a Greater Phantasm and becoming part of it. Hands down, the coolest MW lession I've witnessed yet.
-All of the teaching and learning things!
-Jingling Fists Of a Thousand Horse Thieves!
-Chicken soaking in marinade for 4 days? OM NOM NOM NOM!
-6 offers for the Allegiance system. Gonna make this hard on me, aren't you guys?
-Every bit of RP I had involving Gypsy things this event was great. It'll be fun seeing where it all goes.
-Cannibal mod. My throat hated me after that, but the resulting insanity of it was worth it.
-Dream catchers and Native American medicine man npc. It was refreshing to play a calm, wise sort of role instead of the usual combat and insanity I get tapped for.
-Why is the mage the backup healer? Who is the main healer? A Chroniclerite bard? And we lived and succeeded?! How in hell does that happ- oooh, a trinket!
-Trapped boxes, goblin fights, fire drakes, and Sergei and Bolton finding that they tag team well.
-I have likely forgotten things, but suffice to say, everything was awesome. See y'all next event.

I want to thank everybody for their concern over Zach's and my own health this weekend. We're both fine

Poker on friday night was good times. I bought a mug of wine for 7 gold, and let me tell you, it was worth every silver. It restored twenty career points, and I was told by the NPCs that it was "to satyrs wine as satyrs wine is to regular alcohol." That was loads of fun to rp.

I had my cards read by Carlos (along with about half the town), and it was stunningly accurate. It also suggested to Carlotta that the fix she's in is at least partially her own damn fault. Sigh.

Saturday:

The adventurer's guild was as fun as it ever was, though I couldn't help but feel the monster we fought had been created by Glomites with exceptional knowledge of photoshop. Our reward for destroying this monster included a bouquet of roses from the people it had been terrorizing. Oh, and I got promoted to Scout. Woohoo! Here's to hoping that the adventurer's guild stays strong!

Being invited to join the Springtide celebration was loads of fun. I was going to be polite and only have a little to eat, but everything looked so good! I ended up stuffing myself. Kleiden and Keavy both made some wonderful treats. I'm sure a lot of others did too, but I didn't catch who made everything I ate

I learned my first earth spells this month. It will be interesting to see how this new sphere affects me.

I'm sure there's plenty I'm leaving out, but that's all I've got time to post today.

I'm going to keep these to a few bullet points, I have a hard time reading them if they're more then a few sentances long

- Laser Tag
- "For 4 gold a day, you can support a starving child in Coast Haven, along with his disfigured kitten". Laugh all you want, I got a total of 36 gold from this.
- Baked Brie ended up being fantastic, will baked brie again
- First Montgomery of the season, Garett, you're fantastic on the grill
- Best looking main mod I've seen at this camp site since James bought it.