2013 Alt Event Highlights..

Before I forget!

This event was really amazing. Finally getting to play a whole new character is one thing, but to have the RP turn out as well as it did was something else. I was so nervous that I wouldn't be able to be the kind of person Cidia was, but it all turned out great and I'm so happy with everyone I interacted with as her.

Friday:
3-2-1-LAY ON "DARK ELVES, GET THEM!!" Scared the crap out of me. My feelings were similar to Christine's in that I figured out how my character acted as soon as that happened.
Having our healer pet find the focus. The overall involvement our elves had this event went better than expected.
Meeting some people who became our allies (Mark, Chuck, Zach, I love you guys)
Meeting the brash young Orias, of course. "I'm Orias, I kill things, and I've probably F***ed your sister."
Having Conor be my pet drow when he finally arrived.
Bleeding to Elawyn singing at the bar. (Seriously, Kristen, you have a lovely voice. I had to bleed haha) Proceeding to freak out with Mirwen after.
Trying not to fight is haaaard! Undead attacking, being saved by Jeramy's healer Duncan AKA "Mr. Andorran"
Actually going to sleep relatively early (especially for a Dark Elf.)

Saturday:
Before LM shift, Sitting around waiting for breakfast. Being questioned by Duncan and others around the fire. "Do your people eat souls?" "Do your people have multiple limbs?"
Then breakfast and a quick bleed with Mike as his Sylvan into Ming Ru. Scribbling a note for Elawyn to find before I returned to Cidia.
LM shift! Sitting outside enjoying the nice warm daylight and talking to those NPCing at the time. Kevin and Dustin are always entertaining.
Coming back in without my posse (they were NPCing) but meeting with our allies for a mod. Trying to help, though not being trusted.
Going back to the side cabin in Alisandria with Chuck and Mark's characters Furmourn and Ragnar for some evil plotting and OOG hilarity.
Heading back to the inn, bored, then hearing some battle near Kaladonia and deciding to investigate. Being attacked by wolves, brought back up by Jen's Dryad, then slain by Angel's Barbarian, dragged off to the side and killing blowed! Angel, you were the last person on my mind to kill until then!
Being taken by Duncan through the focus. Wanting revenge!!!
Feast!!
"The evil table is laughing, I'm scared!"
Talking torturer things with Zach.
Mass bleed. I LOVED all the chaos that ensued. And of course: "SHUT UUUUP!"
Judge: -points- "THAT ONE MUST BE KEAVY!"
Evil Plotting again with Chuck Mark and Zach.
Being courted by the now Magistrate Duncan. More subtle plotting.

Main Mod:
Following the town split but following through with our evil plots. Zach nabs Mary's alt, Nate's farmer thinking we're suspicious. Conor waylay's him and we head out to do our bidding, but Cidia was unsatisfied with the catch. Sorry Nate, but it was fun giving you the killing blow.
Tricking Karen's Sylvan into helping the other side, Conor waylaying her and dragging her to the Alisandrian cabin for a good old fashioned torturing. Little did we know the plan was foiled all along.
Once we manacle Karen's alt, I cut out her tongue, and she wakes up......SURPRISE WALLY TO THE RESCUE! Cidia didn't stand a chance and was dead on the spot. Sooooo clooose!!! Fun RP though.

Post main mod, Cidia wanders as a furious, creepy spirit to be found by Duncan. After some deliberation about the events that took place, it was deemed that Cidia would be better off dead. Duncan sneaks away to the focus to resurrect Cidia. Jeramy, the RP we had throughout this whole event was one of the best moments of RP I've ever had, and that last bit topped it. "Five days time..."

Finally waking up as Keavy, crying in Caelvan's arms.
Trying to console Lady Elawyn, and failing horribly.
Mark's many bad god plot with endless undead.

Sunday:
Keavy's got a pack now!
Jim Jones' Malyc mod. Good to get back into the fighting!

Loved every bit of it! Can't wait for the next!!

Keavy Lylas Kennyreplith wrote: 3-2-1-LAY ON "DARK ELVES, GET THEM!!" Scared the crap out of me. My feelings were similar to Christine's in that I figured out how my character acted as soon as that happened.

You're welcome. It was my pleasure to dial Kendrick back 15 years to what a good surface elf should be like. Kill the dark elves!

This was one of the best RP weekends I have ever been at and it was a pleasure to part of it.

Watching my son play the hobgoblin haughtiness and arrogance

Judge as Heygor Borowitz and the naughty picture drawings was ridiculous.

Bleeding as Kendrick to young Orion and Elawyn and having them look at me like I'm nuts was well worth it.

Feeling that real new player fear of being alone was a nice change of pace too.

Mike Smith making everyone feel important at all times was a great touch.

Tending bar like the old days was a lot of fun. I forgot how much you get to interact with everyone and how many people want to be your friend as the guy pouring the drinks.

Tori as a feinting goat satyr was hysterical.

Spay painting the salt and pepper away for the brown locks and beard was well worth the people goofing on me for it.

And of course the biggest bully in Travance, Thog, making everyone uncomfortable was a hoot.

This was my first alt event, and wow, holy crap was it amazing. Seeing everyone playing radically different characters, and having the entirety of the game world shaken up and changed around was quite an experience. Crowning moments:

Archery! So much fun to mix up my fighting style, and bring in some RL skills. It was a relief to find out that I could actually hit things fairly well with a bow, too. And I had all my arrows at the end of event!

Anything and everything involving Liam's troglodyte. Kidnapping an irritating Kartagnus Kane, forcibly pulling him onto the top bunk and trussing him up in a blanket (nothing but the flailing boots sticking out!), and then going back to sleep was one of the funniest ways to start a day at KR that I've seen. His epic reactions to the advances of Jen's dryad and nearly killing someone with poison spit, all while making unintelligible lizard noises the whole time, were sheer hilarity to behold. Trog is best reptile.

Jen's dryad. D'awwww. Just, d'awww.

Tori's satyr. A+ goat, should goat again. I loved the moment when we both started fluffing the other's fur and giggling. Adorable fainting bleating noises ftw.

Steve Oros makes an excellent James C. Kimball.

DECK OF MANY THINGS.

Best NPC shift in a while: Walking into logistics to find it empty, save for Mary. Then learning that Steve was running this shift. Incredibly bloody ghoul minions of Alexander, go! Actually being able to hurt Wormwood in a battle by Kaladonia. Waking up and creeping out Geoff and Diane, but leaving without a fight. Later asploded in the middle of a room in the inn, learning much later that life tags were taken in the process...sorry!
And Steve is the saddest little lich. Who makes baby duck noises.


TEA AND RICE. OM NOM NOM. Geoff, I would love to see that tea make a repeat appearance.

Using these strange copper coins as currency...

Dream logic.

Playing the most fearful and timid little sylvan. Such a departure from my usual mentality!
Running, hiding, and fleeing from the drow whenever they showed up (not that it helped in the end, lol)
Hiding behind people, relying on others, whimpering, and fleeing in terror were all fun and new.

During forced bleed at feast, consoling Keavy, as well as finding out who was who in these strange bodies. Getting to be loud and angry for a couple minutes.

During main mod, being waylaid and dragged off by Conor and Dani's drow, and then starting to get tortured before Wally bursts through the window and kills them. I was looking forward to awesome torture scene, too.

After being rescued from the drow, being brought up to speak to the Baron about what happened, and crying and stammering to get all the words out. But getting to tell everyone that "I told you so!"

Interactions with the group of Quinarians led by Kelly and Jon, especially once the town had turned against the dark elves.

Bonding with Mary's alt as fellow torture victim.

Elawyn and Orias. Jen said it more beautifully and completely than I ever could, but it is simply amazing to watch Kristen and Alex RP...seeing how these characters have lived and evolved over time, and being able to observe them both at 16 and a decade later is a joy to watch. Getting to see the early days, the very beginnings of these two characters, and knowing the paths that lay ahead for them sends shivers down my spine.

And yes, Orias is a cat. He brings you dead bloody things and expects praise.

After the switch to our main PCs, the church mod. I have to applaud the 3 or so NPCs, including Zach, Cory, and Chuck, for going through endless respawns and making the barrage of mauls and attacks thrown at them highly entertaining to watch. At the same time, Keillor ripping into undead with all the dedication one would expect from a master witch hunter, and lecturing Augustus to stop playing with his food.

Kiss of Malyc. Ewww.
A nice cathartic beat-stuff-up mod from Jim Jones was lovely way to round off the weekend. Just the sort of sensible violence to wrap things up.

Learning my first druid spells on Sunday. I iz real drooid naow?

Seeing Keavy skip off joyfully in the direction of logistics, calling "I have a wolf pack now!"

Now, to turn our attention to April...

<<-Tea so good I turned down chocolate cake.>>

HERESY -= BURN HER

Spent most of the event either making a meal or fetching stuff for it. Had some good times with Oros, Kane and Tori at the bar. Loved explaining that while horses like being curried, not so much with goats.

However, something I think I will incorporate into my feasts (it was easy with the smaller turnout) was going to every table and asking if everyone had "a sufficiency of food." The instant feedback was nice.

I preferred the Post Alt Event as I could play something that mattered to me, as opposed to being general NPC help. Teaching a rank one spell to Rowan using a dagger, to have Gideon present his sword (which is longer than she is tall - come to think of it, it is longer than I am tall) saying that with this spell, size does not matter. Teresa really gets into the Halfling thing.

Scrapple for Rowan. Good thing it was on a fork, as I might have lost a finger otherwise.

Teaching Carlotta to be more proficient with fire. Really, coming up with one's own calculus for this stuff is fun. Trying to convince her that there are other spheres besides fire. Ever feel like you are speaking to a wall? There is still time.

I have to say, in general I love the Alt Events because it's an incredible chance to just let loose and concentrate on the RP instead of the politics that follow us from month to month.

Alt Portion:
Having practiced my terrible thick Gaelic accent for a week straight, I finally got to bring Dreon to life.

Bonding with Farmer Dan about...well...farming. I mean, I was a housewife Druid. I made plants grow...but seriously, the RP with Nate over this event about our insane families, raising children and how we were solely responsible for the excellent potatoes at feast (the growing not the cooking) was really fun. And trying to teach him proper grammar...

Getting the Rank I Druid skill Extinguish for the first period. Thanks Kristen!

Being on equal grounds with Elawyn...and being approached by multiple people saying that as a fellow Celt and Druid, I should be able to talk her away from Orias.

Dream Logic.

I have to say, though I normally help with feast, it was very different doing so as Dreon as opposed to Marika.

Handing out breakfast during the meeting Saturday morning. "Oi! You've got two legs! Bring yerself ovar here an' get yer own damned food!"

Quan Liu bleeding through Luis's Sylvan.
"Lady Elawyn, you have had coffee before."
"Um...I'm not a lady..."
"Yes you are. You are Lady of Kaledonia and Keeper of the Grove."
"Wait...we have a grove?!"

Seeing everyone's OOG face when I told them my surname was Del Dragon. And the apologies that ensued after the switch for having to have been married to Shamis.

During the forced bleed, having Marika almost burst into tears at her inability to heal whoever it was passed out on the table and having Ethan/Father Orion steady my hand in my freak out.

During main mod, Mauling the crap out of the NPCs. Now I know why Diane likes it so much, it's fun! Also, the one time I used Wall of Thorns. I liked being a Druid.

Switch!

Talking with Gideon and then being hijacked for the Dark Church mod. "Look, we have too many people. But Marika's a Gaian Priestess AND a Witchhunter. She gets precedence." I felt special.

"Augustus! Stop playing with your food and kill it!"- Kiellor

With the help of Angelica and Kiellor, desecrating 2 Rank II altars...wait...I'm the ranking Priest in town at the moment? Whaaaaa?!

Master Warrior lesson with Danny MacKraegor. We kept getting interrupted by Malycites so it turned into, "Um...how about we just see how you fare in combat. And go."

Seriously, such a good event filled with amazing RP with people I rarely get to RP with. It was a lovely change of pace and I kinda wanna bring a Celt in to PC just cuz of how fun it was

geezer wrote: Trying to convince her that there are other spheres besides fire. Ever feel like you are speaking to a wall?

I know there are other spheres! I just don't care...