Week in the Life 2013 Highlights

Oh, I completely forgot!! I really wanted to compliment Bat and Gwenyth (sp?) on a wonderfully handled outdoor Mass. Well thought out, great topics and well presented.

Despite lots of real life stress this past week, I'd been looking forward to WITL weekend, both for the Kaladonia Games Sam had put so much work into and for the two NPCs roles I'd been working on for months. My highlights pretty much all revolve around these three things.

Demons and Steve Plot: Kessia, whose entire personality is based on the stereotypical highschool "mean girl", made for an interesting evening. My main goal Friday night was to create a reason, aside from simply being demonic evil, for characters to hate this upcoming major villain. I think pissing off all the scholars and specifically Travance's sweetheart Aemornial accomplished this feat...I you JJ! Don't worry, Kessia will return for you to get out all your aggression on.

Faeries and the Undine Counselor Morgana: When I write plots, I rarely write roles specifically for myself - I come up with the storyline, then figure out what role would be best for me as the Storyteller to play regardless of my preferences. This is usually a role with the most info or plot to give out and make clear (the leader of the Laurent-Belmonts was originally written as a male role, for instance, adapted so I could play her as the most logical part for me to take). After having a number of wonderful people (Kelly, Emily, Jen Eff, Alex, Dave, etc) play so many of the fun faerie roles so well and in such great costume and makeup, I was honestly starting to feel a little jealous. Then I found the inspiration for the next leg of the Mortalis plotline - a negotiation with an extraplanar expert who was also an ambiguous entity for Travance to deal with. Finally, a heavy makeup/RP role that made the most sense for me as ST to play. Huge thank you to Sam Dio for her help with makeup, to Jen W. for diving right in as Mix, to Augustus for being so absolutely excited to use Sea Lore and have it work, and to everyone that seemed to get really into the encounter. I came in expecting at least something of a fight, and was honestly surprised to find just a lot of excellent roleplay. I hope you all had fun, and that you are looking forward to the next legs of this long-term story.

Kaladonia: I adore all the Kaladonian Vassals. You are spectacular. Typhon and Orion were awesome, both even sang which I didn't know they could do. Typhon made a quiche over the fire. Anhil made an amazing steak. Almat participated in everything despite real life injuries. Corteccia took charge. Caelvan lost all his ribbons. We had a Colin! Billliamm was uncontrollable as always. And then I got a surprise Keavy for main mod. If you didn't get a mention, I still think you are great, I just can't mention it all. I hope everyone enjoyed my lore quiz!

And finally Klarington. Poor Elawyn and her issues with the men in her life. Thanks James for an emotional RP encounter and thanks Matt White for running the other half so Steve and I could play for a bit. Also Alice you are way too into doing everything you can to creep me out as Livia.

See you all in a few weeks.

EDIT: Don't let me forget Alice also working out the knot in my shoulder blade thats been bothering me for the last two weeks, and the reward of hidden banana bread for her. Your reaction to me pulling that out of my bag was hilarious.

Jotting down my highlights so I don't forget them! May be jumbled order, haha.

-Getting to Camp Tuesday night!
Wednesday:
-Treasure Hunting hike! Found nothing..
-Start of the Kaladonia games! Stealing all of Caelvan's ribbons.
-Unintentional Kaladonia feast
-Sending out my first Mod! A hunter and his dogs bit by a bear.
-Not being able to sleep, restart the fire at Kaladonia and have interesting conversations with June.
Thursday:
-Martial challenges for the Games.
-Going for a walk with Clove and Gregory
-Helping Bran teach an Ogre how to be a Chaos Warrior. Hilarious!
-Drawing Ilana and Gregory.
-SWIMMING. BEST IDEA EVER. Seriously fun times.
-Stealing a green ribbon right from under Danny McKreager's nose as he went for pie.
-While heat exhaustion and general exhaustion are not good things, sleeping in a nice cool Armory is. Also, kitten.
-Song Circle! I broke out of my shell a bit and sang a song by myself in front of people for the first time... It was a lot of fun and I'm glad people liked it! Now I shouldn't feel so nervous when I make a bard one day haha.
-Helping with Vampire mod. Jen Fiore, You are seriously hilarious.
-Finally seeing Silverbow and getting a gift request done.
Friday:
-Teaching Orion Fear. Using Caldor and his brother as test subjects haha!
-HeeHee the dryad playing tag with a farmer. Having her get sent back by playing tag and nearly getting Poison Ivy'd!
-Archery and Quick Shot competitions! Super fun.
--Work. NOT FUN.--
Saturday Evening:
-All the hugs for coming back, and head butts from Trisana.
-Getting the gift done by Silverbow and spending Keavy's life savings (which wasn't a lot) for it, then giving it to Caelvan.
-Mutiny!
-A quick chat with Rowan and Orias about Wode.
-Surprise Keavy for Elawyn for main mod! While I wasn't completely sure about what was going on, I still liked that Kaladonia was a good solid unit. And skirmishing with Elawyn, FINALLY!, was super fun!
-Relaxing in the cabin with Kaladonians.
-Entertainment Competition. Great job, guys! Loving Orion's song. And my joke "A Sylvan Druid and a Londwyn go on a Magical adventure!"
-Piggy mod. Ms. Piggy, I hate you! haha Fun, scary, ironic OOG, and great chance at RP for Keavy. I like when I get to play Keavy super angry.
Sunday:
-Not sleeping again, arguing with Verril, and random rickshaw ride to the lake with Gregory haha
-Shambling back to the tent and managing to sleep for a bit before things came to attack the tent. All the body blocks!
-Giving some gifts to Elawyn and having a very brief Master Prof lesson with her.
-Teaching Caldor Cat-like grace.
-WATERMELON. BASICALLY THIS.
-And finally.... "If you can dodge a sword, you can dodge a shroom!" Mushroom Dodgeball! Awesome! Will ShroomBall again. Keavy also feels proud or Orion for winning the games. Buddyyyyy!
Post game dinering was fun as well!

I'm going to Japan in 10 days! I'm going to miss you guys a lot but when I'm back we'll have lots to share! Love you guys!

Spent most of my event in the lake. Too bad I'm running June. Whole event is taking place in the lake!

Sprinkle Shack is the most important part of Knight Realms.

Failing Exemplar? Nah. Screw waiting. Get some rest and do it again successfully. It's the only way to handle it.

Shogun of Pendarvin.

Judge and I fighting so hard over a soccer ball he ragequit the event.
Damn right. That happened for real folks. Trust the rumors!

Angelica's Special Snowflake Song is the best song ever.

Aleister wrote: Spent most of my event in the lake. Too bad I'm running June. Whole event is taking place in the lake!

I approve!