June 2013 Highlights

Ahem.... is this thing on? What a great event!

First I would like to say thank you to everyone for the great feedback we got on the new card system. Thank you.

Secondly, if you had an issue with your card this event please send me an email at to remind me to check into it. Exception ... if I reprinted your card then your issue was already taken care of and you should be fine. Other issues I'd like a chance to double check on before the next event.

I will likely post more later but that is all for now.

NPC:
The 'Dust Devil'.
Goggins, the longest legs in Travance (His Windwalker was impressive)
Magnus eating her essence finally finishing her. (Literally. Matt ate the card)
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-My scroll shield was very helpful. Also all the compliments I got on my scrolls
-Cypher&Ilana: SVU (Zach/Gus are able to explain it much better)
-Felnarox, a coward to the end in Ilana's opinion. Over a year of grief's over at least. Now just need to figure out how to destroy these swords (that isn't a scry. Gods, not a scry)
-Two chaos demons (Geoff/Tim) just wanted to flat out murder me. It was kind of fun at first and then it was disconcerting. I've never been hit with so many mental attacks combined in my 6ish years at KR. I had to finally take one (several). I haven't had to do that in years.
-James' 'utility' demon. I just didn’t know what to do about him. Marcella found him amusing.
-Watching Antrim, with the one spell packet I had for him, chase Kessia around the field and her fleeing for her life.
-Ilana's decided Erdrick can hate her forever for whatever. As long as they can work together, they do awesome stuff.
-Abyss mod. Sitting in a circle.
-Eating a possession because it made sense RP-wise. Tried kidnapping Sindarion, but that didn't work. Fought Erdrick and Misaki ("Wait- are you saying 20 *posi?*" "Yep" "Oh, okay" *drops*)
-Listening to everyone as a sustained corpse. It was interesting.
-As soon as the rite was finished, Ilana was too happy about something, she didn't take the time to feel bad. She starts getting to work right away. Poor Gideon. Then feeling a little bad after.
-Never get on Moirya's bad side. Damn.
-Drega'birthday cake 4(5?) AM in the morning. Was the best time for it.

Sunday:
-Arden/Ilana.

"Sam, you're always there first when Ilana gets 'corrupted'"
(One time he wasn't on the camp. I don't count the weird night I was Desperate Isolated years ago)
"Erdrick has radar that lets him know when he has a chance to beat up on Ilana"

As always, I had a great time! I really appreciate all the hard work that goes into making an event a fun time for everyone, so Thanks!!

Friday: giving the stoles for the clergy to the Bishop was great!!! I'm so pleased that they turned out nice. (Malcom - thank you for the generous donation for the cost!) I spent the rest of the evening hanging out with Rudolph and chatting with various people who stopped by, including Ox . . . who hugged Maralas in a big way just because she gave him a few coins.

Saturday: I got to hang out some at market faire . . . started a conversation about Valos, then I went and attended the Baroness. It was nice to spend some time with her just chatting. Hung out at Pendarvin while they cooked chicken. I got to chat with Lady Elawyn and witness a really great conversation between her and Albert. She's so thoughtful and she asks great questions. Later I went and made arrangements for the creation of an Altar to Gaia!

Feast was good. I sat with Kaladonians, thank you Lord Brightstar! Good conversation and good food. What more could I want.

NPC Main Mod: I was non-combat for the weekend, so I got to creep a player out (Sorry Angeliana . . . really, I am). Then I got to be the Hook! I never knew hooking could be so fun. Then I grabbed some bottles of water and found Sir Dr. Maxwell so we could help the players stay hydrated. OH MY GOODNESS!!! The NPCs were awesome! I was heading toward the portal with Sir Dr. Maxwell and I could hear when the PCs arrived. I swear that it sounded like a true hoard of demons. Well done to all who fought and respawned and never lost enthusiasm. I was impressed.

Sunday: Getting an alchemy lesson and chatting about Gods and Religion with Nigel were great times! I also got to finish my conversation about Valos.

I had a wonderful time and can't wait until I am able to be in Travance again! Thanks for making it such a great game!

--Ox's first impression of Travance was the bar at the Dragon Claw which, when we arrived, was completely filled with women. What a great first impression.
--Finding work including burying a dead sheep.
--Some people mistakenly call me "Rocks", "Box" and something else. ... but its just Ox
--Getting 5 gold from Mother Maralas ... hug worthy!
--Getting a great deal on a used mace!!

--I was beset by ravenous shoppers at Market Faire who wanted to buy my stuff before I had even finished unpacking! In fact I made half of my sales for the day before market even officially started!
--Making a deal with someone (sorry, forgot your name) to buy some "bread and sausages" which I thought meant consumable commodity cards. When he showed up with actual bread and sausages I was floored. When I actually managed to RESELL the same food and make a profit I was even more amazed!
--The fans I had for sale were quite a hit. Next time more of the higher quality fans will be on hand.
--Finally finding someone who had Durable Goods for sale
--I got to teach three people how to do my Trade and all while actually selling things to people. Best, lesson, ever.

--I shut the box. (and it only took me one use of Second Chance)

--Tons of lessons, including combat lessons that included the phrase "don't actually do this in the LARP" as a caveat so that the training could be more "realistic" even though the techniques employed would not be safe for boffer combat.

Great event everyone!

Hi There!!

Okay, let's see ... what was awesome about this last session?

SO MUCH!

First of all, just seeing all of these cool people again was amazing. I know that I'm still a n00b, but it's just great knowing all of you. :blush:

This was my first time at the Inverted Tower, but it was Caldor's LAST time. So ... he threw a party to celebrate. The sight of 20 or so people in brightly colored party hats heading towards certain doom was beautiful and surreal. [see attachment]

Staying at the "Murder Tent" in Alisandria was a unique experience. I kept waking up during the night, fearing that our sleeping area would be set upon by monsters. There WAS a monster sighting early the next morning, but the less said about that, the better.

Both nights, we were hanging out with a Demons. Not sure how I felt about the whole: "Consorting with Demons" thing, but it made for an extremely bizarre experience. GinGinny dedicated a song to one of them.

NPCing the Main Mod was the most fun I've had in a very long time. First of all, when Kessia began her casting, and started shouting in some dark foreign tongue? Just ... just ... [fans self] ... is it warm in here?

Unfortunately, I had a really really tough time recognizing people in the darkness, so I have NO CLUE who did what. But a few PCs were just awesome:

1) Someone knocked me down to zero. I was flat on my back, and just about to get up to respawn, when I saw his face enter from the top of my field of vision. With his face directly above mine, he made a throat grabbing motion, and started with: "Killing Blow One, Killing Blow TWO, etc etc ..." in the most intimidating voice I've ever heard. At the end of his count, he .... RIPPED OFF MY HEAD WITH HIS BARE HANDS. (Are demons allowed to be scared??)

2) Someone else took me out, but rather than start the killing blow count, he instead used Strength to lift me to my feet. He told me to duck when he told me to. Then he "held" my head, and started counting down. When he got to Killing Blow Five, he hissed "duck", and made a "Chopping Off the Demon's Head while Letting Its Body Fall to The Ground" move. It must've looked awesome.

3) A great moment that could have been a terrible moment: Someone came at me at a full tilt, swing aggressively and actually knocking my head back and forth really hard. I think I heard bells ringing. As I hit the ground, I was actually kind of pissed. It was just WAY too hard for a boffer hit. But just as I was shaking it off, the original PC came back to me and: "I hit you pretty hard, didn't I?". I said: "Yeah, you really did!". Whoever it was gave me a completely sincere apology, and changed my mood from pissed-off to completely okay. The reason that I'm mentioning this as a highlight, is because it really made the difference between a negative event and a positive one. I could have walked away from that Mod with a negative experience, but since someone took the time to check on me, and to apologize for that hard hit, it completely changed my experience. It's one of the little things that makes KR players the best I've ever played with.

Sorry to get so sentimental on that last point. But I really did have a marvelous time. A big part of the fun is that I'm just NOT AS YOUNG AS I USED TO BE, so the whole running-around-and-beating-people-with-foam-sticks thing really gives me a good workout. I know that I'll be sore tomorrow, but it's a GOOD kind of sore.

Thanks again for all the good times. I can't wait until the next event (that I can show up to)