September 2012 Highlights

Absolutely have to start with brutally honest, insightful non chaotic conversation with Billium
Then the looks I received when I described that to others.

Tari's ridiculous plan to save her friends. I think Lethias may be fed up.

My unbelievable self restraint in demanding respect from the mages.

Watching coopers alchemist and the amount of crazy people just allowed and rolled with.

Seeing peoples faces when I told them I was in charge of the mages guild, and having people listen to me when I came up with a plan and gave orders.

Oh Chris, those death trees on Sunday making me realize why I hate nature so much.

Oh yeah can't forget asking a Yahtzie why he needed a minotour shield, saying we've never even encountered those. I really lived to regret those words.

Finally Tari's amazing construction plans for Kaledonia and the nobles reaction.

Friday

Chaos Orb

Billliamm's less than nice interrogation
Having a necromancer change his ways

My Reprisal of Captain Jared Monk

Great Rp with Tari

Sat
Unique use of Blast
followed by punching a woman into a man

Minotaur Fight

The Mod I ran, I wish to give a huge thank you to all the npc's you were fantastic.

Bottle Mod, and Billliamm's many facets of anger

Sunday

Dame Myxolidia's breakfast, thank you

Taking all the Red Hats.

Taunting the Red Cap only to Meld with earth when he got close

First of all, being able to drop the green headband. While it was nice to experience the freedom of movement that comes with leaving behind all three of my swords, without them I just didn't quite feel like Elawyn. (Technically, one is not my sword. But at this point it may as well be, despite being my most uncomfortable piece of costuming).

Other than that, I had a really great time this weekend. A few highlights include:

- Conversations with Clark as Brinden, and the taking of my very first squire after who knows how long being a noble of one type or another. Subsequently being incredibly proud of him both for his service during the Feast and his courage on the field.

- Teaching fighting to two of my favorite KR ladies, then sparring with all of our vassals (something we all need to do more - you all kept up really well and didn't give up).

- Calling Orias out on his lurking during said session, and all other interactions that happened with or in his presence the rest of the weekend. Highlight of these: "Eight years doesn't mean dead."

- Accidental Mass attendance, and happily finding El hadn't scarred Marika for life. Being teased by both a templar and a paladin for said attendance.

- Skimmaltaur, of course.

- Getting to be angry IG, with no bleed out to OOG, at so many things. Its so cathartic. Aside from my terrible lack of an accent, I love playing up all of my racials.

- Despite his injury, watching Sam being able to actually take part in main mod and fight for real against enemies he could use his card on.

- The sadness upon El realizing Aliester doesn't remember being one of her really good friends, and the horrible realization that he had in fact reverted to a person she never trusted nor liked and who might do terrible things if left unchecked. Resulting nostalgia and chats with him and the multiple people that joined in.

- And finally, getting to run the Faerie module on Sunday, and the positive feedback I received after. I have to give a big thank you to all my NPCs who absolutely listened to my instructions and went above and beyond. All my shift NPCs on Sunday were real troopers in the heat, and I thank you all so much for taking your roles and really embodying them. Specific thank you to Jen F. as the Faun, who looked exactly like how I pictured the character and who did a fabulous job remembering pages of lore and a hefty card, even though I only recruited her a few days before the event. Redcaps are now my all time favorite NPC monster, btw.

Thanks Doug for a great weekend, and everyone else that made it happen. See you next month.

Friday NPC:
All of the RP fun ^____^

Ilana:
-Being able to hang out with everyone again.

-Main mod was the best. Being able to fight an enemy that wasn't just out for blood was great. I spent the near end rescuing the Valerians and making sure they made it back to their sideline.

-Minotaur .__.

-Unexpected Bottle Mod. Interesting final result.

Syl:
-Trying to comfort Keavy about her nightmares. Also, Syl and Tanis may have adopted her.

-Watching 'Niel getting sucked into the ground right in front of Syl. Immediately started tracking after... corpse trees. Crazy fight.

-No one believes Syl she's not an archer X.x Usually can't fathom the fact she is an Alchemist

-Sad I missed out on Faerie mod because I had to leave early At least Tanis can report to Syl about it later.

Making my first knight. Drega'mire is finally starting to rise up!

Totally forgetting the last 6 years of Aleister's life after an encounter with an incredibly evil force.
Nostalgia: The Mod. Best mod ever.

a quick shout out to some of the coolest people I know (you know who you are):
- laying on the docks, bare foot with an autumn wind overhead and sunlight in the dancing tree branches.
- the late night bravery of a totally new player and her stunning performance as a Valarian confronting a very grim situation.
- the subtle and invigorating taste of hibiscus in tea form, ingeniously made and generously shared by my favorite treasure finding partner.
- the quick thinking and generous rulings that made low level mod completable instead of completely dead. You saved a lot of the brand new players a lot of stress with your creative problem solving.

and so many more.