September Highlights

September was really well done. Details were awesome. Mook NPCs seemed to be having fun with the theme of random encounters. Plot NPCs were really into their roles. Very good job everyone involved!

Thanks to the team in the monastery make chocolate covered strawberries!

I wanted to send a quick thanks to my "Brute Squad" for running back and forth from Winter Dark to the Inn or to the Parking Lot. You guys made everything so much easier for us to set up for the Fairy Negotiations.

Also, having an IG Iron Lock made to hide something in plain sight. I do love the logic of "hide it in plain sight."

Fallow.... Just what we needed

For a last second decision, I'm glad I made the event. It wouldn't have happened without a special few who did everything from help me with a ride to providing the costuming for playing the Dark Dwarf. Without them, my weekend would have been spent with my nose buried in a textbook.

While I didn't catch much of the main plot for this month, the player to player rp was top notch. Respect to the people who bravely/foolishly engaged with the dark dwarf- while he was no Xualla, the amount of nose picking, belching, butt scractching, tummy rubbing, general rudeness and belly button hair knitting (yeah, you read that right. Belly. Button. Hair. Knitting.) was enough to make even the staunchest warrior think twice about spending more than 5 minutes in his company; and yet a dedicated few not only engaged with him but did so repeatedly and at great length.

Even watching from the sidelines (and rubbing that ridiculous dark dwarf belly) I was impressed with the quality of rp. Special shout outs the Kait and Haya for their npc gypsy girls, a certain group who was involved in their demise, Albert the healer for his tragic attempts to bring them back from death, a certain someone who paid all of their money collected over the past months for services rendered and a certain dwarf (sorry I didn't catch your character's name) who seemingly made it her goal to do everything in her power to get the dark dwarf killed as she rped her racial hatred.

Rock on guys!

On a personal note, achievement unlocked: barring npc shift, went an entire event without taking damage.

Wow awesome event.
1. Vash vs Billliamm charm war. Billliamm 1 Vash 0. Cy did a great job as arlyn/vash. I felt betrayed when i read his manifesto and when i saw him all blued up after meeting him in human guise. Then after main mod recieving the key. Meant alot to billliamm, it helped him make progress to becoming his old self.

2. Kathleen's plight and song. Billliamm knew so many tales of the tu'anth da'nnon falling in love with mortals. He was happy to be able to make that a reality. Also her song reminding billliamm of his deceased mother he hadnt really thought about in a long time.

3. Ib and all those who got to help me rp my insanity temperamental.

4. Billliamm's decree about dragoons and sith if you can't breath fire you are not important

5. Stand off with the unseelie court for myris. Billliamm waiting for a single provocation. They chose there words perfectly so it didnt come to blows. Those allies standing by his side creating a line

6. Fighting main mod wow do i hurt but man i had a blast

7. Summoning fire elementals save the day. Ib a year and a day we must return to the tomb of the fire elemental. Also athletic feat

8. The water faerie mod late night mishap adventure. Will result in awesome rp for the future month

9. Return of colin

10. Talk about order and chaos

From what I got to experience, it was awesome and exceptionally deadly!

FRIDAY
Got to track the skin thief. Was a lot of fun to REALLY track something with a bunch of trackers.
Druid Ceremony:
We had a blast doing the Druid ceremony or was it that I was blasted? I think I spent more time kissing the ground then I did standing up. I was so very hurt. I also blended in a bit too well in the ground as an NPC stood on me to attack another PC. I bit his head off (sorry) and he really thought I was a tree (I guess that is what I get for being a dryad). But man that ceremony was arduous! It may have been easier if all our healers did not leave us hanging right before we had to leave. OUCH!

SATURDAY
Cooked feast and hung out with the people at the kitchen. Had a relaxing time just sitting in the sun. Thanks to everyone who helped me out, especially Luis who was very attentive and helpful.
Mass was short but sweet. I really liked the proctors at this one. It was beautiful and streamlined.
Main mod was AMAZING!
The only negative thing I have to say is about blue lights. Blue lights are a BEAUTIFUL choice and did a lot for the ambiance. However, at night blue lights are a very bad choice because when eyes are adjusted to dark, blue light stimuli is painful to process because the pupils have adjusted to deal with the other side of the color spectrum. This is why car lights are red and why blue car lights are illegal. They hurt. Having to walk through blue lights was very, very painful and perhaps adjusting them to angle at the ground instead of at eye length may have saved a few of us from getting terrible headaches. That was literally my only complaint. EVerything else was serious and deadly and LOADS of fun!

The aftermath at the inn was wonderful. Listening to Billliam sing and dance was a hoot.
HEaring our camp getting attacked by redcaps and deciding that sleep may be more important than dying at the moment. Aella wonders if we shouldn't have a town meeting to discuss how the red caps work and if we can't find a solution to destroy the caps through some sort of magic item or way to make the caps useless. These jerks have well outstayed their welcome.

Sunday
I learned everything! Okay not everything but I learned a lot. Got my second Marksman lesson. Can't wait for my third. I actually got to teach my first lesson and then I taught my second lesson. Woo! Getting to hang out with players afterwards to socialize was also amazingly fun. :woohoo:

Thanks to everyone who was so very amazing this event. We got to share a tent with Connor and Kevy and it was very nice! I look forward to the next event where I can spend time with such wonderful people. I would like to not thank the bugs that bit the palms of my hands and my fingers. Those guys can go straight to hell. :evil:

Firstly I want to thank Kristen, because even without some people in town telling each other what was happening, I felt included in parts of the plot, and her NPCs did a great job of including others - shoutouts to Brian Hahn, Cy, Kristen herself, JJ, and Kelly. Also to Aaron B's redcap - thanks for starting the weekend off right! I also really liked that the weekend felt themed and streamlined.

That being said, this was one of the first times I've enjoyed the ENTIRE weekend while playing Lorelai in...about a year, I think. Less melancholy and learning to laugh at herself again, but a lot of this was thanks to a few specific people - Augustus, Anhil, Albert (apparently I should be hanging out with A names?), Zellara and Mirwen to mention a few.

Specific highlights!
-Giving Mother Ellie a Valosian box and her heartfelt reaction
-Asking for advice from Mirwen and Zellara only to be incapable of following it, and the following teasing from Zellara that I endured ALL WEEKEND
-Redcaps coming to statehouse- offered to punch us each once in the face and leave us alone, and Anhil refusing to let them hit me. I nearly intercepted the blow that broke his nose, regardless. Nicely done, Aaron and cohort (I didn't know him by name)
-The creepy fairy that was hovering around me on the road to get water for the druid mod - thanks for the fun RP and the eerie smile.
-Getting the water while being asked by a gypsy to save his children...unable to because we were escorting the others back to the Inn. Finding someone in Alisandria to escort them instead because the screaming was louder and Anhil and Lorelai couldn't walk away in good conscience. Getting to the mod and bulling my way to the front only to be waylayed by the gypsies we were trying to save - twice. Albert trying to heal me and being continually frustrated - thanks whoever had the smelling salts!
-Gypsy hex from above mod - thinking or talking about anything related to love means we start gagging, for the whole period. Lorelai and Anhil flirting (badly) while gagging at each other continuously. This literally MADE the night. The roleplay with Sean for this entire period was hilarious and ridiculous and could not have been made better except by: piskie writing an illusionary script heart on Lorelai's chest, causing her to gag for the next 5 minutes until someone could dispel it. I think the piskie was the girl who plays Avelyn (sp?) and it was PERFECTLY TIMED. You had no idea. I was crying from laughing so hard about this, later.
-The RP of the burial of the gypsy girls and Albert having tried to heal them. Lorelai has SO MUCH respect for Albert, and I hope to see them build their awesome teamwork together. Thanks Daniel
-Getting asked to go along and protect the druids during their ritual, despite not being a druid or knowing what it was for. But many of the people were from her new land and Lorelai wouldn't refuse helping someone unless she were truly unable to. During druid mod, the following: -saving both Seamus (the elder) and Anhil from becoming diseased (being a Cavalier is fun), cutting Anhil out of a tree and having Seamus catch him. Jumping down while being afraid of heights because she was more afraid for her friends below. Using somewhere around 50 healing salves between this and the gypsy mod, between Anhil, Dmitri, myself and Seamus. Using Hero's Last Stand for the first time since I learned it a year ago - and having it be the difference between being dead and being almost dead. Then having Anhil go down and fall against me, using a healing salve, then having him killed before he can stand again. Like so: "Healing salve 10, 4 body" "5 decay" "Healing salve one, healing salve..." - 3 times in a row. Going down and before the healers can be reached/notified, going into crit. I was at 2:45, whoever it was with that heal. Thank you! And Anhil - instill confidence This mod was so insane and fun. And insane.
-Alisandrian festival and having so many people give me tickets, spending tons of gold on treats and getting an awesome new sword (thank you Lord Blackthorn!)
-Being charmed by Kristen's fairy and following her around the inn for a little bit.
-Finally learning dissipate undead from Aiden during the Fallow mod - I'd been bugging him since Friday to teach me, and I figured it was perfect timing!
-On main mod, almost dying again, left behind in the bushes. I wasn't that far into my count, but here comes Cy..."Killing blow fi-" and then a spear comes out of the brush and knocks his sword away, brushing my nose. Thank you Ib! (He just happened to be fixing his deer pelt nearby) Then Cy just encased me in ice instead. Less epic, but at least I kept my life tag.
-Spending time in the inn telling stories with Anhil, teasing Augustus about Zellara, and discussing Anhil's purported engagement to Clove (he's the only single dryad in town! sorry Mark, you're stuck with an elf now)

Whew. Thank you for making this month so much fun, guys. See you next month.
P.S. Kristen - I have never been lost in the 'maze' before. Congratulations for making a fairy realm that was disorienting and distracting. I've only just recently begun to figure out where I had been that whole time.

Seeing everyone after being gone for so long, grown up in and out of character.
Watching the rules set in action especially on main mod. Npcing allowed me to really get it!
Going into the low level starting mod with the new players and seeing that it was an important piece of main too.
All the surprised faces IC with Birgittas return and the warm welcomes.
Dragoon mod only my second ever!
Dragoon at the Mages meeting. A great way to get another perspective.
Staying to guard a white sorcery ritual and being brought I to it.
Meeting the various nobles...and knowing them in some instances when they were "younger".
Dirty and amazing little secrets... Old ones and new.
The Baroness. Awesome RP!
Dragoon history confusion shared stories and an elders return at the same time as Birgitta. Finding something and loosing it same time. Poignantly sad. Pokes it with an axe going maybe something.
Lol. A job. Oh another job and one more. Guard position too.
The fact that Travance has changed so much and so little.
On main as NPC thinking holy $hiza there organized! Dying mightily. Getting caught in briars and two PCs stopping to make sure I was ok. Squeal eerily charge impale...die rinse repeat. FYI love the good sportsmanship in game in main mod by players!
Learning smithing basics from Gideon.
Meeting the new Dragoons and finding new family IC.
Proud Mom effect finding out where young PC s have grown into.
Hot shower warm cabin. With the Renaurds this is important!
Guarding the bard ritual...
Night on bald mountain at main mod battle! Another wow moment. Music in battle cinematic.
Investigation into attempted poisoning.
Night jar singing at 4 am. Swans on the lake. Gorgeous scenery and the new buildings as setting.
Watching my SO playing his Celt Duncan and enjoying himself almost as much as I did.
Watching him get attacked at night and being in game. I'm so proud.

Which leads to special thanks to Geoff and James for keeping the faith when I said he was ready.
Kristen for the most well organized main mod I have ever seen.
And to the players with long memories who made me and Birgitta feel at home again. You all rock!

My only lowlights is going home sore and catching old from work, missing my gloves and leaving my pillow behind. Sept single day event. I hope so.