October 2012 Highlights!

Friday:
New Player Mod. Always fun, and come on New Players learn more about the world before coming across something you've never heard of
Coming back from NPM to find Keavy all angry, Caelvan decided it would be best to stay away
Following the necromancer mod, and not be seen by anyone other than anhil and chris(OOG) IG I was in a tree. Chris, you were awesome
Bagwell coming into Kaladonia saying "I'm sorry I have to kill you" I love my traps

Saturday:
Wake up to find pancakes reserved for me, thank you diane
Druid's and Ranger's closing a portal in kaladonia
had to deal with a lot of things I can't even remember
Feast!! serving feast was actually not that bad....might do it more often

Sunday:
Knolls....so little, cameron next time you need more NPC's
Tracking 2 knolls down and soloing both of them. I think Colin would be proud of his squire.
First Master Warrior lesson with Danny, got beat on to all hell, but was so much fun

Very good return to game for me after being gone for two months (I don't count the fact that I was there on Friday in August).

-Roleplaying depression is hard! Being around friends definitely helped Winks throughout the weekend.
-No matter how mopey Winks is, he'll always make time for his students. Even to the point of seeking them out because he promised.
-Learning my first new spell in months. Very nice lesson with Quan Liu for Cloak of Wind.
-Incredibly emotional discussion with Aleister Saturday night. Winks still isn't quite sure how to feel about it.
-Delicious feast! Great job, Sam!
-Liam's vampire calling Celerity right in front of me, thinking I was going to turn into paste, and him ignoring me for the higher level characters that were also nearby...talk about nerve wracking
-Watching Shamus/Cooper going at it with not one but two True Warlocks over the course of the night. Pretty epic.
-Reset Button mod, very cool concept Matt.
-Watching Gideon's MW lesson, and helping with Galen's. Good times had by all.
-Separate discussion with Aleister and others about something that will affect EVERYONE. Can't wait to see how that all pans out.

See everyone next month!

I had a great time this weekend both PCing and NPCing.

NPC:
- Seeing both Quinn and Kwildar freak out over a Saint of their god showing up on their doorstep was hilarious. It was great trying to watch Kwildar blow mental defenses to keep from walking into the Eodra for good.
- Bolton trying to dissect heaven and then having religious debates with the ghostly templars guarding the gates. "But how can I have faith without empirical evidence?" "It is impossible to have faith once you do."
- Having to use only one tag skill and using it to keep Belechand from casting "know age" on the Eodra, for your own good!
- All the priests I met did a brilliant job interacting with this character and I'm glad I got to play her

PCing
- Staring into the Howling Void, the last place Rosa took a death, for 30 minutes while trying to close a portal using ceremonies
- A long walk/ talk with Arlington was very nostalgic
- Had a great late night walk/ heart-wrenching talk turned yelling fight in the woods. Have to love when someone pushes you in your RP

~ No rain! Yay
~ Chaos portal in the inn, people kept looking into the abyss despite my pleas and attempts to stop them, then I had to take away their pain while I ran around looking for someone who could cure their blindness since I couldn't yet.
~ Weapons flying across the inn... amongst all this chaos and turmoil people were willingly fighting each other, had to break it up despite Angeliana's fear of weapons. Loosing her patience and finally yelling to break it up, then feeling terrible about said yelling. Giving stern looks to Jed and Gregor for the rest of the event.
~ Wine? what's that? oh the room is spinning...
~ Heart to heart conversation with Dame Myxolidia, Angeliana was still drunk or she would have been more timid, but Dame listened, and considered what I had to say! (shedding real tears during this... actually surprised myself)
~ Massages (I got healing hands!)
~ Getting asked to "help" with a lesson in willpower by pretending to be charming and seductive to Balthazar... Zafrin you're mean the man was sweating by the end of it. Gypsies...
~ Declining a multitude of offers Angeliana isn't interested in, since she doesn't think there is any time for "courting and such" when people are dying and wars are being fought and there are people to be helped. The gypsies haggling my "price" with my uncle. Then the gypsies arguing with others over who "Owns" Angeliana. Getting fed up enough by the end of the event to tell S.S.B. that I owned myself and no one else did.
~ Dr. Maxwell's coat. Totally pimpin style! Having him worry about his patients potentially getting blood on it... Sigh.
~ Getting attuned to the focus, then being called to help weaving positive energy inside the spirit realm to shut a portal... cool!
~ Disagreeing that insulting a necromancer to lure him in is a good idea, begging Balthazar not to go. Lozinni's explanation, turning around to find Balthazar bolting back into the inn screaming "IT WORKED!!!" Gypsies...
~ Healing lessons by Galen, you are beyond a master at what you do, truly, I'm lucky to be your student.
~ Many different NPC roles with a bum knee including a seven legged spider, limping earth elemental and a bee that stung for... "potion of greater antidote" the confused looks were priceless.
~ Getting my brain violated by Quan Liu. Yes, you're a master at logic and it hurt my head. No, I'm not drinking your swill.
~ Cloaks for a freezing Angeliana, you all know who you are, and you are all amazing. Thank you!
~ Getting thanked by Bagwell for asking about his well being every time I see him. Angeliana does this to everyone, this is the first time someone thanked her for it.
~ Trying to help Lord Aleister, feeling his pain and shaking the whole time researching and finding out about VIM, coming up with ideas and feeling the hopeless sadness he felt. Ouch.
~ Jonas offering to escort me and Maralas, finding out he would run or hide if conflict was to actually arise, telling him to do it, I would buy them time by letting the enemy kill me first and that I would gladly die to save his life. He thought it was an excellent plan but looked confused.
~ After showing respect to him all weekend, being ordered by Lord Brightstar to never bow my head again in his presence... I don't know how not to! Hate you Sam.
~ Achieving a goal by invoking someone's favor for someone else. Angeliana felt terrible about this but you were her last hope Syn.

Excellent event overall, a lot of great rp, can't wait for the next time I can make it

Quite an interesting event.

Pre-game, panicking about where to stay, and deciding to just grab a bed in the inn. Run into Goley and Conor, who invites me to stay in Kaladonia. Okay!
Kaladonia tent party time.

Kitten! Getting to watch as a little black ball of fur turns the entire camp to mush with its powers of cute.

Moving all the rocks and wood by the trenches Alisandria. Girls are stronger and Quinarians are prissy.

NPC SHIFT:Took first shift for a change.
Doing new player mod with Sean and Jen C. It's nice to be the first monsters for new people.

Going out as a greater imp repeatedly, and apparently decimating Ostcliff. Sorry guys!

Entering game as Annora, enjoy a fairly uneventful evening.

Around 5am, deciding to go to bed. Head down to tent with Keavy and Caelvan, and start prepping for sleep. Just get the boots off when ambushed by a dominated Bagwell. Saved by Caelvan's epic trap of waylaying epicness. Annora has gained a new appreciation for traps, and will be looking further into their utility at some point.

Being cheerily informed by Lord Brightstar that he was going to attune my pillow and bedding to the Kaladonia tent so I would always have to stay there.

Interesting discussion with the Yhatzi family at the marriage. IG, Annora was confused and annoyed. OOG, Karen found the whole thing hilarious. Deals with gypsies...

Earth elemental mod. Maze fights....
A big thank you to Anhil who worked hard to keep everyone together in some semblance of order.

Eating feast surrounded by Kaladonians. Satyrs wine. I say no more.

Main mod: Got to talk with Sir Cinder, as well as finding out more about "elven politics" than I ever wanted to know.

Hanging out in the inn until the early hours of Sunday morning and being witness to the aforementioned Aleister/Elawyn "all our friends are dead!" breakdowns.
And then Baba Yaga mod...the best part of that was the ethical/moral discussions that arose. And continued as the sun started to rise.

Lazy Sunday with fun RP.

Even with my knee giving out on me Saturday and Sunday, all in all, a fun event. Got to talk with a lot of people both IG and OOG that I haven't really interacted with before, which was nice. In most cases

There was a lot this event that was quite amazing (Chris, it was spectacular), but the thing that stole the event for me was post-Main Mod research.

The fact that I managed to actually use the skills from being a Scholar to make the veteran players THAT animated about something is probably one of my biggest highlights ever from an event. I look forward to the continuation of all of this, and can only see it getting better and better as the time goes by.