July 2012 Highlights

This even was great!!!

Started it off with some great RP and Combat.

Taught a lot more than i usually do

Main highlight has to be being part of clan Brockels and getting to march with, and deceive the Goblin Army

Seeing the look on Emerson's face when the Brockels unleashed on him.
Having so many people look confused when we were yelling CINNAMON!!! at them when they started to attack us for being goblins.

My second master warrior lesson and my favorite exchange

Zathir Sever limb, sever limb
Tobar: parry parry
Tobar: feint disarm, Follow through, Feint disarm
Zathir:parry, parry, parry, parry
Zathir. crit 16, 8 dmg
Tobar:feint disarm, Follow through, Feint disarm
Zathir: parry parry parry (drop dagger)
Tobar: Rend limb
I look at him like uhh
Tobar:"you cant block it"
Me : BRILLIANT DEFLECT!!!!!!
Tobar: Rend limb, rend limb
Zathir: loses both arms and falls to the ground in pain.

Thank you Zach for the epic fight, well slaughter.....

Gank shift and watching 20+ harvest your souls get thrown.

Sunday: sleep, bacon, training good morning..

My highlights this event come mostly from some very timely enemy routs, compliments of Team Death Wish. Lots of new additions to my highlight reel, including, but not limited to:

Annoying Matt's General most of the way back to his camp. Him being unable to decide which side of the "No way am I letting you follow me all the way back to the encampment"/"Screw it, I don't care if you follow me back to the encampment" fence he was on. The 4-5 duels that ensued in the pitch black.

Waiting in Pendarven for Wally's column to pass, only to hit them from the rear once they started fighting the inn.

Everything from the planning to the post-battle-still-green-time of the Return of Clan Brockles.
-After failing to find anything but my old leather armor in my car to wear for my disguise:
--Orias Wormwood "You look ridiculous, like some kind of Bondage Baker"
--Uncle Yossini:"Haha, yes! The safe word is cinnamon!"
-Despairing the Goblinoid Army, negating their Waaagh
-The initial charge, which led to us jumping Emerson's Hob.
-- Zafrin:"OH NO! I've been shot! Brockles, Retreat"
--Emerson: "What, retreat, seriously!? Get back in there and fight!"
--Zafrin: "Ok. Death Wish!" *Cuisinart ensues*
-Convincing the Avatar that the General had deserted, and her ordering the goblin army to slay him
-Kill stealing, but not ninja looting, Matt's general while he was having a standoff with Lord Brightstar.
--Dick Brockles:"General, the Avatar has ordered you slain as a deserter. What should we do!?"
--Matt: Feint disarm, feint disarm.
--Dick Brockles: retain, retain, positive energy concentration, cripple, cripple, rend limb.
--Matt: "I remember you..." *thud*
-Convincing the goblins to go home after the general and the avatar had fallen.
-Convincing the goblins to turn on and kill the ogres and trolls who did not want to let us go home.
-In the aftermath of the battle, doing a time-check and realizing "Oh, snap, we still have another hour of Brockles Hijinks to ensue."
-In recapping the battle with Zafrin, us having a sudden realization and exclaiming: "Wait... we can do this all the damn time!"
Special thanks to Dick, Flick, Slick, Tick, Mick, and Broke Brockles for an epic win, and to Zafrin Yahtzee for making it all possible.

Great times with the witch hunters, good to see Keillor and Shamus back. Hearing Kwildar got Templar felt so good, it was almost like I got the list myself. Lessons with the younger hunters, especially Dominic, who is coming a long way.

Steve and Judge, A+ war, would war again. Props to Matt for his portrayal of the General.

This was a CRAAAAZY event, but well worth it

Friday:
-Within 5 minutes of entering the Inn, having Sannyiah come up to me saying "So, right now it's you and me and Leandra..." No pressure...
-Well, the fact that I almost passed out from heat exhaustion isn't exactly a highlight, but the fact that my nap kept getting interrupted because I was needed was a nice feeling.
-Return of both Mothers Jarren and Rosa. Gaians EVERYWHERE!!!

Saturday:
-Light clergy breakfast/meeting! Laura, the french toast was delicious
-Light clergy shower!!! This, everyone, is the new light clergy hazing ritual. You are not initiated until you have showered with us in a rainstorm
-Firetruck...Chris Z I hate you...
-I can't even describe the relief that flooded over Marika when she saw Lucas and Ilana during Main Mod

NPC:
-Return of Martha, the bubbliest bard
-Drow then a necromancer, both of which are things I've never NPC's before, so it was a cool change

Sunday:
-High School of the gods. Drew...this is happening
-Witchhunter school on the monastary porch. ALL the lessons

REALLY awesome event. Can't wait for August

- Pre-event, everyone freaking out on Facebook that there would only be 3 healers in attendance. And then rubbing that in everyone's faces at check-in.
- Last-minute deciding to NPC all weekend as the High Priestess of Enax. Then getting captured around 6AM Saturday morning, because while everyone thought I could absolute power majesty, I had battlecasting... and then being held prisoner for 4 hours, being asked the same pointless questions that I didn't know the answers to (and Steve just shrugging his shoulders when I asked him what I knew. "You're the tyrannical High Priestess of the war" was the only info I got ._.) And I was only asked about the alliances we had made very briefly.
- Steve giving the order to kill me and then telling me to go PC. .___. Instead, I played a high level hobgoblin torturer.
- Dread surgery on somebody from Ostcliff, severing his foot and putting it in his stomach.. Never met him IG or OOG, so I don't actually know who it was. But the RP was fantastic - especially when he ran into some friends on the way back to town and cut his own stomach open to remove the foot and have it reattached.
- All of the torturing. I just wish I had remembered I had red makeup pencils in the tent to actually draw the Enax fist on their faces before the rain started and we stopped taking prisoners.
- Hiding in a tent from the rain, Matt M and I telling horror stories about KR to a bunch of first-time players. "And then there was that time we were hiding in a tent during the worst rain storm ever." "And there was thunder and lightning--" and lightning hits the tree next to the tent.... Immediate running down to logistics.
- Marching on the inn while playing the General's swords, every time we stopped to dress the lines i would turn around and mouth "DRESS RIGHT, DRESS!" and doing the arm movements for the command at Matt C. Which of course made him laugh and almost brought down the wrath of the general and commander on him... hehe. I was at band camp until Friday of the event, I couldn't help it.
- Keeping up with Matt M being chased down to the lake. Ridiculous.
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- Every interaction between Terezi and Karkat was priceless.
- Licking the water panther. It felt like licking a wet cat and a fish at the same time. "KARKLES HE TASTES LIKE LICORICE >:]" And snagging all those scales was the best idea ever...
- Teaching intercept to Belegchand. Karkat freaking out when we told him Tari was going to throw fire at me.
- Sniffing/licking all the things. I think some people might have been genuinely freaked out by that... hehehe....

Lowlight: discovering two quater-sized spiders and what we believed to be an earwig on my sleeping bag. Never camping in the woods again, especially since I ended up not sleeping there at all. Fortunately, my phone survived the rain.

Overall really great event, thanks Steve

Highlights for me were crafting parties with Gideon and others, getting hit with a spell during the 1st assault on the inn, forcing me to fight for the goblins, regardless of the fact that I had no weapons at all, and offering my services during the war meeting. Also it was a lot of fun learning so many skills, and I can't wait to test them all out next event!

wait... a foot on the chest? GAH WHY DIDN'T VIKTOR SEE THAT?