2013 Alt Event Highlights..

"I thought you were a deer!" - James C. Kimball

Dryad Achievement Unlocked.

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Young Elawyn and Orias and a glimpse at the progression to the characters they are now...

Kristen and Alex..
You are both such talented actors.
Years of organic RP has created this dynamic between the two of your characters that consistently floors me event after event - This event absolutely takes the cake.
Besides the glaring contrasts between each of your characters due to the passage of time, the thing that truly caught me was the honest reality and feeling embedded in their growth.
You can SEE the remains of gung ho, lighthearted young El in the stoic Lady Elawyn of today and you can SEE the depraved and destructive Wormwood of present in the promising - if arrogant - young fighter Orias, sitting puppy eyed across the table from her.

The interaction I witnessed was hopeful, brimming with youthful naivety, and utterly, utterly heart wrenching to experience.

It was - and always is - a privilege to RP with the two of you.

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Double thumbs up to the Passenger PC and Bleed concepts for allowing RP like this to occur and carry over into regular game, for it's ability to enable new player interactions with not only the pasts of so many previous or still existing and familiar NPCS's and PCs (seriously, some of these characters are almost lore like in their naturally progressing ingame mythology), but for offering so many opportunities for role play between the Alt character and the PC character, before, during, and after the Bleeds and the Dream.
This was an incredibly unique and well executed idea.
Bravo, and hat tip.

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You know it's a good event when you're privy to an emotional wreckfest between Elawyn and Aleister.
There are never enough shoulders to lean on in this town, let alone dry ones.

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Thank you to every one who RP'd with my Dryad. I ran out of bracelets (they took forever to make, so I only had a handful), but those of you who got them, Thank you for some truly excellent RP, notably David, Jeramy, and Cory.

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Liam is my favorite lizard.
Tori is my favorite goat.
Steve is my favorite jackass.

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Getting to watch Steve and Jason pee themselves over Sam's doomed draw from the Deck.

Being the NPC to wreck Gannon's Alt for summoning a mephit (sp?) from the Deck.

Someone's "I HAVE THE URGE TO PROTECT YOU" hero summoned from the deck.

Bless that Deck of Many things. BLESS IT.

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To Judge and everyone else who scribbled such glorious works of art with my colored tree pencils....as someone aptly put it:
"This is what you get for introducing them to paper"
Yes. Just yes.

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Druid RP with Elawyn to save the spider.
A+ character camaraderie. Would camaraderize again.

Elawyn's accent.
Elawyn singing.

Pardon me, just sweeping up the shards of Croí's exploded heart.

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"You see a sandwich run by?" - Orias Wormwood.

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"Orias wormwood is a cat; He presents you with dead gifts and lets you pet his hair."

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Feeding the wolves donuts through the Kaladonia window.
Saving the wolves!!
RUNNING TO SAVE ANGEL'S NORTHERNER
Angel's northerner proceeding to gank Danielle's drow.
*facepalm*

On that note:
The whole northerner tribe and wolf pack.
You were all amazing.

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Geoff, that was the best tea I have ever had ever. Everyone's reactions to it was hilarious. Even Liam's Troglodyte was enamored.

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Me: "I have to roll a disease"
All of Logistics: "THE DICE IS LOADED, EVERYONE HAS POX OR KURO."

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Gina's Northerner getting pox and refusing to walk while scratching.
My Dryad trying to carry her to a physician, only to walk five feet before blacking out from Kuro.
Slapstick is best stick.

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Gina's Northerner decking Cory's Arrogant Old Man Celt in my Dryad's honor.

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*southern accent*
"I'm Able, this is Sable, and we grow radishes!"

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Kev's Dwarf at feast: "Urgh.. this is going to be difficult...don't tell my sister." *removes beard*

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"The punishment for Piracy = Death OR 1/2 lunch money."

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Cardigan Kane, maker of fine sweaters.

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Thank you guys. This was excellent.

What a great event!  I haven’t had this much fun in quite a while!  It was really fun to try to get into a character I haven’t played for almost 10 years.

 

-Being able to try to remember how to play a guy who was totally out for profit.  That was the toughest thing about trying to play Inajira again…being a scumbag is tough lol

-Being paid to try to off someone…then being paid more to not kill that same person.  Being paid to do nothing is fantastic.

-Pulling from the deck of many things with all the money I made.  All told I lost 5 build, got 3 build back, got a giant cup of money, a natural resist and a warrior buddy to follow me around. 

-The forced bleed during feast.  I actually almost choked myself when I was pretending to freak out as Angus stuck in a skinny persons body.  Who would’ve thought that trying to eat a quarter chicken in one bite was a terrible idea?

-The insanity that was the brawl that erupted after feast.  That natural resist suuuuuure came in handy.

-I totally loved the bizarre quasi-lawful Sleafus and Malyc.  I felt like it was crazy day when I was being hunted by those two, mainly because whenever I would do something shady back in the day those two were ALWAYS the ones I went to for help first.

-Being forced to hide in the woods all Saturday night.  I haven’t had to do that in a long time.  Unfortunately, the cold and aches I now have is just a reminder that I used to hide in the woods all night when I was ten years younger. 

-Inadvertently being a hero and saving Karen and Mary from the drow/Bedouin that had captured them.  Honestly, I was just going in there because I was offered money for every drow ear I came back with J

-Finally, my best highlight was this: After I had saved Karen I walked her back to town.  On the way back, I explained to her that I really didn’t mean to save her, and it was just her lucky day that I was offered money for the drow.  Even after I had explained to her that I was essentially a scumbag who would have left her there if I couldn’t have profited off the drow, after I brought her back to town she still turned around and gave me a hug.  For all the time I played Inajira, nobody ever really offered that kind of affection.  I had a fun time imagining that if that scenario had happened when I was still playing Inajira, he would have turned out wildly different then he did.

What a fun weekend! Undoubtedly one to be remembered for a long time to come. Some of the fun things that happened:

Trying to teach Haya's heavily-accented bedouin how to speak kormyrian, through an equally-thick celtic accent (What's a "Luzzerd?" What do you mean when you say I'm "Thugh?")

Joke time on the steps to the inn... Because it's always possible to crowbar modern jokes into a 12th century fantasy setting. "How do you know when four elephants are in ice box? Empty carriage, it is parked outside your house!"

Fun with the Box of Heroes, and subsequently trying to get people to play Limb Lotto. "Open the right box? Win your weight in copper! Open the wrong box? Lose all your limbs!"

Walking into Logistics at midnight on Saturday to find it totally empty save for Chuck and Mark, and the slow realisation that we were going to have to portray an entire army of undead with just two people. However, what could have been an incredibly monotonous evening turned out to be kind of amazing, with some brilliant combat RP from Drew and Justin (and in fact from everyone who made it down to the mod!) Really made my night - thanks guys.

A wonderful interrogation session with Cappy on Sunday morning. You did a great job mate - well done for not corpsing! It's kind of amazing how mods which start off as little more than wandering punchbags can end up producing moments like that.

And of course, the Malycite Meat Marionette Mod. James really seems to put a lot of thought into making his mods entertaining and engaging, and this one was no different. Playing Malyc - and then getting played BY Malyc - were both a lot of fun, and I think the madness that ensued down by the Manor/Monastery was certainly worthy of any god of chaos.

Playing someone as obnoxious and ignorant as my celt was kind of a stretch (it turns out that trying to be rude to everyone all the time is surprisingly tiring) but seemed to make for lots of entertaining interactions as people slowly lost their patience with him. Thanks to everyone for being a sport and playing along; particularly those of you who were able to step up your RP and call him names, lose your temper, barge him out of the way, and - yes - punch him in the face. The whole dynamic of "I hate you but I also kind of need you to heal me" was excellent.

Just all round an ace weekend - it's sad that we'll never get to see many of those characters again!

I am never going to remember all of the awesome things that happened this month.

Right out the gate: Able, Sable, and Richard... I had a bit planned out for myself with Jenny, Kenny, Lenny, and Jill... could not have planned this better. Also, Granger dedicated part of his first crop to Mable, the sibling they lost to the Spitters: a dedicated crop of radishes he promised to give to the poor every year.

Lots of fun RP with Drian (seriously... Gaelic.), from being protective to joking about marriage to being the only PCs really into the whole farming scene more than the conquering...

Real appreciation for the Baron being so down-to-earth and actually having time for my farming silliness... and the interaction between him and Klarington was totally cool to watch.

Getting to make all of the silly references, corny jokes (*ahem*), and farming puns.

Accompanying Kristen's rendition of Home Again. I didn't mean to mess up the moment with hick voice, but I love the band and the song and it's not something to be sung alone, so... ^////^

Drow. I wish I could have had the opportunity to get revenge... but time is as it is. Still... I wish I'd gotten to turn that into a straight fight.

Potato farmers. Spider noms. Scaregoblin. Slime beast. KR Family. Getting my healing back. Many lost wolves. Barbarian peace. Necronyad.... all of the things!

Also: further props to the rapid-growth design. I loved the sense of urgency it brought to Friday night, and the continuity we had through Saturday and into modern day.

I'm trying to scrape together the cash to join you all in April... but otherwise, I'll see you for the Week. Cheers!

~ Riva

P.S.: today at work, I saw a penny on the ground, and thought, <Oh! Copper>

I had to leave early because family and easter and whatnot, but i still had a BLAST at this event. i don't even know where to start.

How about with '3-2-1 lay on!' 'KILL THEM THEY'RE DARK ELVES'? Up until that point, I wasn't really sure how exactly I was going to play Lyrexia, but I have to say, hearing that suddenly snapped me into a very sarcastic and haughty Drow indeed. Great way to start the event, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you whoever started it!!

I also have to thank Sean for putting up with playing a Drow too, tolerating being my 'pet', and for applying about half of my makeup for me. On the same token, the event wouldn't have been the same without Danielle playing my sister and Conor playing her 'pet'. Our little group had a lot of fun scheming.
One of my favorite fringe benefits: getting a 'good' reputation because Sean/Istolil was a healer. Also great: 'Yes, but who on earth would want to heal empathically?' -conspicuous silence- '...Of course you would.'

Furmorn, Ragnar, and Maliq (am I spelling that right?) were great friends to have around. So entertaining. I like being a sneaky bastard.

Bleeding with Dani when Elawyn started to sing at the bar, and freaking out as Mirwen and Keavy realized what they were and that they had to act like they were in charge.

Kelly, John, and whoever else was in the group of Quinarians: the not-yet-Kaladonia stakeout was great. Absolutely fantastic. Guess we weren't going anywhere that night.

Apparently it's a long-standing tradition of the Kanes to go around camp waking people up by coming into their cabins and being loud and obnoxious. It wasn't even roleplay that had me hunched over in a corner being grumpy at the Inn.

Sleep and the NPC shift. Highlight of that: flying waylay, trip for real, roll and hop back up. '...be careful with that one, it might be an acrobat!'

Slapping makeup on and running to feast. 'the evil table is laughing, I'm scared.'
Taking Sean's food away at feast. That's what you get for asking where the 'paradise' of a patriarchal society was.
Force bleed: Anhil jumps off the bench and starts screaming 'WHAT ARE YOU' at me as I'm panicking, trying to tell him it's Mirwen...finding Arden and trying not to cry as I panicked even more and started freaking out because I was a Drow.

Having Diane's alt put some necromancy protections on Lyrexia, bleeding into mirwen, freaking out and trying to dispel magic, failing because i was a swashbuckler, and quietly panicking for five minutes while my 'sister' was asking why I was acting so strange and my 'pet' had his head in my lap.

Main mod. It never fails to impress. I will totally admit to booking it out of the room the minute the water balloons came out. I was not finding out what they did.
I went down one of the holes later. Nasty place.
Got knocked back into the hole later when the building was coming down. Was down there for a bit, then Sean and Gina apparently dove in after me. Once it was obvious that no one was coming to rescue any of us, we all went into bleed and cried as we all died together. It was very touching and very sad. Fantastic roleplay, both of you. The level of RP in this event was outstanding, but those moments take the cake.

I had to run after that, but I had such a great time at this event. I wish I could have hung around to play out the aftermath, but alas. Thanks to everyone who helped out planning/running/making the event so incredibly awesome. I'm sure I forgot a ton of awesome things that happened, but oh well. I can't wait to see everyone at the next event!!

Mirwen wrote: Kelly, John, and whoever else was in the group of Quinarians: the not-yet-Kaladonia stakeout was great. Absolutely fantastic. Guess we weren't going anywhere that night.

Menacing you guys was the highlight of my event. Thank you for being such good sports about it My memories from the event will always flash to Jon, Sonya and me giggling uncontrollably because we were having such a good time getting yelled at for being the good guys, watching the bad guys who were pretending to be the good guys, making us look like the bad guys.