July 2013 Highlights!

-Ilana has Belegchand and Aemorniel back. Scholar adventures commence (we have tons of students to drag on our crazy schemes now too!)
-Lovely NPC role that didn't end till 7:30-8 AM, resulted in me not sleeping, but was worth it.
-"Why are you dressed like that?" A day of compliments and strange looks from a distance. At least Ilana explained to those who asked.
-Seeing Barak/Jason again. His birthday was cool. Seeing Morwenne and others who haven't been around.
-Working with a skald and helping some new alchemists out with an experiment.
-Ilana just wanted to have a good night after beating up Sokatha (Great set-up Gene, btw) But she was turned down at every occasion.
-Ilana thought Mable had called her a boy and she had been so angry at everyone else, she just walked away to avoid saying anything rude. But, later, they had a chat and maybe they're just fine hanging out together.
-Babysitting. Ilana just wanted someone to really talk to her about it. No one did (Jack, you missed your chance! )
-Fighting the Vermin Swarm. Ilana was surprised it remembered her, but was happy to electrocute it into the ground. At least we kind of have a plan now. Sindarion tag teaming it with me was pretty awesome.
-I taught a lot of lessons and treated more than a few insanities. I even got to use doctor skills I haven't been able to in a long time. I liked it a lot. Sorry to the nice bard I nodded off in the middle of the literacy lesson with (Go back to no sleeping) and the physician I could not find Sunday to give lessons to

This event was just amazing, every event lately the rp just increases exponentially. First asking Orion to assist me with something, a person that I'm not sure I've ever interacted with, and then literally spending a large portion of my event with after. This will be happening again.

A friendship that has reached many new levels with Bran and Angeliana. Alice, you're rp was amazing, and you've given me so much to react too.

Starting to see the ig truth of what I know oog related to Seamus....Always having Seamus and Kiellor be stubborn asses who never give up....Thank you That leading to a crazy made up on the fly ritual that sort of went ok. Sorry to anyone that was disappointed about the results, I had reasons for my rp though I promise.

Telling everyone I was better, despite many not knowing there was a problem. Being really surprised at everyone's reactions to what I told them. I told the Baroness and after hearing that she was disappointed in me, finally telling the Baroness that she scares me and I can't talk to her. Somehow I think this conversation may change my whole relationship with her.

All of the controls going on in my head and all of the enfeebles to save me. One of my favorite moments, deciding I wanted to stay with the demon forever, and convincing what I thought was everyone to leave me...but apparently Orion wasn't fooled, and once again Dr. Maxwell saved me and pulled me out of there.

I can't even describe all of the amazing rp that occurred with my ritual. But to all of the amazing and stubborn people involved, IG its amazing to see how much all of you care about Tari, oog its amazing to see how great you guys are at the rp. You all are willing to do anything for a great show.

Pesmerga's return and just everything that goes along with that, I have no words other than I just can't even wait!!!!!!

Getting to see Connor's new pc, and deciding I'm probably just going to get along with every character he plays. Also loved getting to see Danielle again, and yeah...domestic disturbance, kr version

Pre-Game: Thanks to James for giving me the results of my last event commune with nature. Very interesting stuff thats leading to great character interactions and RP.

NPC: (Friday Night)
Skeleton in the woods was a lot of fun. The PCs did a fantastic job of engaging us and defending against us. Augustus cracked me up when he used an ability and was like "Finally its useful!!!"
Lying on the ground in the forrest for like 20 minutes for PCs to arrive should have sucked, but I was with wonderful people, and we had a bunch of fun.
Being a Dark Druid Ritualist was interesting. I really hope we creeped some of the players out.. Sadly, I didn't get to fight back as much as I had hoped, as I had my arms taken off immediately.

PC: Friday-Saturday
Getting Wife's Armor from Gideon, and picking up my Druid's sickle form a dwarven smith.
Whoever thought of spider Capture the Flag type game was brilliant. It was an amazingly fun mod. And one I completely forgot to put on my recap form. Damnit. Caldor is definately helping build the sanctuary between events, if they let him.

Hung out at the inn and talked with friends. There is something so nice about coming into play after the 2am mark that lets you just have some fun socialization.

Discussed my Fates related visions with my Gaian clergy for some spiritual advice.

Finally managed to get set up with Croi to do my phantasm related commune with nature at about 4 am... Watching Croi wander back and forth and rant in front of the tree was so entertaining. Thank you to everyone who came over and just made the scene brilliant. I'm glad Xod even came up in the discussions!!! He's 9, since you were wondering.

After coming out of the tree, going back into the inn to go over the visions. At first it seemed like it was all stuff that everyone already knew, but then some info seemed to be very helpful. I'm so loving that spell. I hope to have more excuses to use it for plot.

Yawn... time to go back to bed... oh no... spear to the chest. Damn Lizard Kin. Finally got to bed at 6 am. The sun should not be coming up before I go to bed.

Saturday:
Woke up at 10... and really don't remember what I did that morning other than getting Ree in her armor.

Tried to join up with a group going off to help someone, but lost them. Ended up wandering around with some new people and some friends and got into some trouble with Lizard-kin. Successfully held them on as we drew them back towards some more powerful people, who took care of them.

Ended up traveling with Baroness, Elawyn, Typhon and some nobles back to the Inn. Was uber thrilled to be offered to become Typhon's disciple. As we passed the Monastery, I offered everyone cookies. The Baroness put her arm out in the "go ahead, twist my arm" position. Caldor did, and then of course came the realization that it was assaulting the Baroness and a very dangerous crime. Thankfully she is considering a pardon because of the quality of the cookies.

Helping a merchant retrieve an artifact, but instead giving the artifact over to the spirit by the door who clearly needed it and pissing off the merchant. The dungeon was really well handled and the Gnolls were RPd very well. I especially loved watching them RP against the wall of thorns. The RP at the end with giving our stories over to the spirit really was moving. I wish I had known other things had been delayed so I didn't have to bail before hearing everyone's story. The Fate of Power was a wonderful reward that was better than any trinket, gold or item that I could have been offered.

Being taken to the Druid's grove for the totem mediation was something I have been waiting for all month. It definitely didn't let me down. I learned so much about the history of the Druids in Travance, and it probably has set things in motion for Caldor that could develop over months to come.

Lots of Druidic Lessons from Typhon. Still not sure how I feel about even HAVING the ability to make alcohol non-alcoholic or make someone drunk become sober.... but I'll use it for better things.

Going back to the inverted tower was a surprise, as Caldor was sure he had seen the last of it. the newly exposed areas were much creepier and more disturbing than the prior levels, and will probably sit with him for a while.

Outdoor tables for feast were wonderful. Caldor was happy to be in open air and to sit with his family and friends.

Evening Vintner Lessons were a blast. I learned a lot in and out of game. I'm excited to be making Ice Wine as a character.

made sure I was in a healer group for Main mod. The tactics were rough... Caldor doesn't like not being able to see Wife during battle. Plus we got trampled a lot. I hate Trample. I also had my staff shattered, which sucked. All in all Caldor was happy to pick people up and make sure nobody died... which made it all the more sad when he learned a friend had died out of his sight.

Caldor spent some time really hurt by Buckle's death, and it really affected him on a deep level. I'm glad I was present when the Focus issue spat him out, and tried to help him with it.

Went out to the Inn for a bit, but was so tired I went back to the Monastery before it was too late.

Sleep, Blessed Sleep

Sunday
It was raining so hard that Caldor stayd in later than planned. We had breakfast inside which was fun, and had to deal with a bunch of wandering minstrels.

Once the rain lifted, I finally got to have the cookie enjoying contest.

There was a fun drinking contest that I had to miss, as I had no coins to put in the pot.

I was having a lesson when the pirates came, so I steered clear of them... until they tried to claim wife for their ship. Fortunately they got distracted by something else before Caldor got himself killed.

All in all an exceptionally fun event.

And this event shall be called "I got my month's worth of cardio exercise in just three days!"

Friday:

Brought up about 5 people to come play KR. I hope they had some fun.

NPC SHIFT
Being undead in the woods is fun, forest, and fantasy for everyone.. Oh wait, no, it’s not.
We laid on the ground for about a half an hour waiting for the mod to start. It was fun to consistently get killed. It was not fun to die on the hard rocks. (so much owies).

Got to be a Corrupted Nature’s herald. I have to say I am not cut out for walking down hill on pebbles at night. I think I almost fell quite a bit of times. We got to the first spot we were going to set up, only to find there was another mod there, so we moved to a much safer spot. Chased (I think) Dimitry all the way down the hill and then he went invisible, so I got to hit new players for a while before getting killed most epically.


Put on make up to go out as Aella. Quick note: Hungry + tired = a very unreasonably crabby Ree. My apologies to Bill for snapping his head off. I just could not get dressed in time and did not have the glow sticks for combat.

Saw that my second favorite low-level druid was back. Yay, I got to see Eric and Walter again. I am very happy!

Saturday:

I finally got to wear my armor!! Wooo!

Went looking for the low level mod. Found trouble instead. Ran into a whole lot of lizardkin. Ran all the way up the hill screaming for help. The lizardkin broke all of our limbs and thankfully we were in the vicinity of Allesandria who heard our yells and helped us fix our limbs. The young woman who helped aid us was perfectly wonderful and nice. It was a joy to interact with her.

Went into a spooky ruin.
Question: How many Gnolls did we fight there?
Answer: All the Gnolls in Travance.

Held off dozens of Gnolls as our “scholars” tried to solve a puzzle. I think it took about 20 or so minutes. Thanks to a mystical force we were able to solve it. There was a beautiful necklace and we used it to help a lost spirit much to the dismay of the man who hired us. We were asked to tell our stories. It was nice to hear so many stories. I love listening to character history. It allows me to understand our fellow players so much better.

What time is it? Druid circle time! Also known as walking up hill time!
Got introduced to the Druid circle. Warned Caldor about flirting with trees. Meditated about what my totem animal is, but got distracted in my quest by all the beautiful celeb… I mean butterflies.

Heard stories about what people’s totems were or might be. Really loved Eric’s totem story.

Inverted tower mob. Again lots of running from random fear. Funny how all the undead spawned exactly where the archers were. Actually I enjoyed it. Buckles and I ran or worked together to not get our butts kicked. So many people ran into traps… It was funny. Kept killing people that got chaotically altered, though Ben had the better, more humane solution, Aella is a bit more heartless in that respect. The entire mod was loads of fun. Tons of people were on it… so many people! I am curious to see how everyone’s night terrors are going to play out. I am sure we will be loved for playing up that. ><

Feast:
Yay got to sit outside for feast. Was still hungry after it, so Kayla and I went off and ordered 8 pizzas. Got tons of crazy looks, so it was worth it. I don’t apologize for doing things I love.

Main mod:

We really need lessons in tactics. I wish I was playing a character that could make suggestions. We should have been in a V or inverted V formation, which would have kept Rampage to a minimum and covered the field way better. Having everyone clump together was craziness. I think before these battles are even assembled, the tacticians should get together have a pow wow about their opponents weaknesses and strengths and terrain and come up with a solid battle plan. I understand commanding us is akin to herding cats, so I completely understand why this is a cluster F. No blame is placed, just simple observations.

Man Ben dying on the battlefield was a bummer. I put an arrow in his quiver, noticed he was not moving ran to get help, Got out “Buckles is…” before I got double cleaved.
Thank Valos I had weapon protection up, because I could have lost my bow during that fight! I actually thought I lost my bow during the fight and played it up until the priestess that cast the protection spell reminded me. I ran away more times than I can count. One guy cleaved me 5 times, which is hilarious because it only takes 1 cleave to kill me. This was definitely an owie event for everyone. SO many broken bones!

After hours was nice. The brother Dwarves made me so many arrows (woo). I owe you guys. Name a dessert and I will make it for you! Pie, cookies, brownies, cake.. whatever! You guys earned it! Thank you so much! Now I have every arrow type save, mythril and holy! Oh yeah!

Hearing that everyone in Allesandria was chaotically altered was scary. People tried to drag Aella away and she just said no. You don’t go alone where angels fear to tread. Wowie!

Sunday:
Woke up thinking it was morning was sadly mistaken. Learned Shield of Nature from Tython, Gift of the Predator from Orion, and Climb from Klyden. I apologize it the names of misspelled. I can never spell proper names correctly. They were all good lessons and I got to have insight from different perspectives.

And of course finding bruises you didn't know you had. I kept trying to wash off a dark spot in the shower until I realized it hurt and was just a rather large bruise.

It was a really fun event. I had a blast this time. I got to play with new people, which is always wonderful. Got an old friend to play with us who used to LARP with us numerous years ago. Brought other friends in as well, so I hope they had fun. I look forward to more events at KR as well as meeting new people and getting to know their characters better. Thanks for being great! If you are still reading this I commend you. I don’t talk a lot but I sure do type a lot. See you either August or September. August depends on whether or not Otakon rips out my soul.

Chris McKenzie wrote: the responses had more "wait, Buckles is dead‽" than I had expected, particularly by people who I've never interacted with.

Yeah, they were all shocked and distraught. Aella was sad you died and was upset no one heard us scream for help...but not surprised considering where we were when you died.

What a lovely weekend! As I said to Bill on the way home: aren't we lucky that all the torrential rain managed to save itself for Sunday afternoon?

One of the most challenging (albeit enjoyable) aspects to playing Goggins is trying to come up with ways to rationally explain away magic in a world where it quite clearly exists. This month brought a whole host of interactions that really taxed not only his in-game understanding of the world, but also my own ability to make up explanations on the fly. These included an extended chat with Arden S about the spell Mage Hand, being forced to work with white sorcerers on main mod, and even being tricked into "seeing" the weave by Carlotta and Jack on Saturday afternoon. It looks like I'll need to go back to the drawing board to think up some fresh explanations - as will Goggins!

Dustin, Matt, and Jason's mini-plot concerning the conservation of a rare species of drake. All the NPC characters you guys played were brilliant, and the final scene in the barn was just awesome (they'd turned off all the lights, and had the "seller" sitting at the far end of a very long table, eerily silhouetted in front of the single window they'd left unshuttered.) Really wish more people had been there to see what you'd put together!

A marvellous evening with Lucius and Verril, looking for Pesmerga as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Scholars. Although we didn't manage to find any "wam-peers," it was quite funny sneaking ineffectually around the forest with you and achieving precisely nothing.

Reese very nearly going full Londwyn.

An absolutely hilarious Rogue mod on Friday night. I had the good fortune of being killed within the first twenty minutes of this mod, and so got to watch all the comings and goings as I bled out on the ground. Probably shouldn't say what actually happened, but essentially, if someone had been trying to script a farce, they couldn't have done a better job: never have more people been in the right place at the wrong time.

Lastly, templar training that same Friday night. Romeo did some pretty hardcore evil-doing as his Galmachian devil, and the assembled PCs actually managed to not kill him, which was kind of cool to see. Splendid acting all round - sorry on my part for forgetting precisely who was there to be tested and who wasn't!