2013 Alt Event Highlights..

Wow. Just... mind-blowing, to see so many old faces, old memories, old costumes, even on people I've known for 11+ years.

In no particular order:

• Some original costuming dug out of storage by everyone.
• The Feast Tables arranged like "they always were."
• The leveling mechanic was genius. It gave the sense of advancement of a campaign, while maintaining the originality of the Alt event.
• Getting to serve tea and rice again.
• The "pre-recorded" scenes with Jonathan and Klarington were great.
• Seeing even new players get into the spirit of the Alt event was amazing!
• The overall simplicity of the event gave it a unique charm. No councils, no long-term politicking to worry about, even cleanup was a breeze, since the town as "sparse" and just settled. It was a nice change of pace from going nuts over all the little details.
• Various "Bleed" moments. The snippets were fantastic, especially the forced one at Dinner.
• The aftereffects of the dream on present-day Travance will be fun for a long, long time.

Hats off to Mike and James for a wonderful sequence of events - already jonesing for April!

I was only there for a couple of hours as an NPC on Saturday, but had a blast! Wandering around as a goblin on equal footing with the players was a refreshing change of pace.

My favorite moment was being drawn from the deck to protect a random PC and the awkward bar conversations once I arrived.

Oh my goodness. This was my first alt event and I found it amazing. Let me just put some of the things here

*knowing that I could kill Wormwood...
*3,2,1...kill the dark elves
*the various RP sessions I got with all the other elves as a Drow and pulling Sylvans through the focus
*Main mod was amazing with the effects and what not
*Dying in the fire and having bleed with some good friends while burning to death
*All the evil that was there that people didn't know about
*Giving my Drow ears as trophies.

I can't wait for Anhîl to come back and deal with the effects

GJSchaller wrote: The aftereffects of the dream on present-day Travance will be fun for a long, long time.

This!!!

Holy cow. Shortly after we woke, I found myself holding an inconsolable Tobar and telling him that it was all just a bad dream. I looked up to see equally emotional reunions unfolding all over the inn. You are such a stellar group of role-players. I am really privileged to be able to game with you guys.

I'm totally tuckered, so I'll post my highlights tomorrow. Thanks to all the staff!

Chris McKenzie wrote: My favorite moment was being drawn from the deck to protect a random PC and the awkward bar conversations once I arrived.

That good sir was one of my favorite things that happened to me. only because it was at like the most mundane time ever and I was actually expecting something to come out and kill me and I get "I FEEL THE URGE TO PROTECT YOU." but it was great that you were there once the mage hunters came around. I probably would have died.

Busy as I've been, it has been a long time since I've had call to post anything on these boards, or to actually log onto them. (I'm actually somewhat surprised to find that I am still technically a Rules Marshal)

The awesomely awesome of this past event gave me reason to pop in and say my thanks.

- The opportunity to play an alternate dream world version of Malyc has lead me to think there is still room to grow for a character who has been around since the dawn of time.

- Courting a dark elf, a secret engagement, a failure to keep her safe, the dark but hopeful conclusion, and the return to realize that a part of her existed beyond the dream realm.

- Being a healer kinda rocks.

- Sleafus and Duncan/Malyc as the idealized versions of ourselves, and the question of how much we would have to drink to forget the last 24 hours of our lives.

- Conversations with Jonathan Travance. Mike Smith, you have not displeased me.

- Railing against the Deck of Many Things.

- Several minutes of knowing laughter with Sleafus after the boar hunt was announced.

- No ghost pirates or pirate ghosts.

- Sitting at the high table for the first time in 8 years.

- Not being willfully useless for once.

- Trying to find a way to sabotage plot to stop the dream world from ending.

Thanks everyone for making this one of the best KR events I've ever been to. Hopefully I'll be able to get back, even if it is only for an afternoon, more often.

P.S. Geoff, could you change my avatar to something a bit more recent. I don't want anyone to have unreasonable expectations based off of the 22 year old version of myself back when I still regularly shaved my eyebrows.