September Highlights

Aria wrote:

Best was during main mod, mocking and maniacally giggling while levitating above...and the fantastic conversation with Tari and Goggins.

You are still the worst hide and seeker ever

Seriously, best conversation ever. You guys were awesome.

Big Highlight:

Feast food. You have now experienced the cooking I've experienced periodically throughout my visits to Jason and Ree's. Totally awesome. 6 hour pork is the BEST.

Friday night/Saturday morning

This was actually my most involved rp the whole event because of OOG reasons involving some lost keys and a trip to Philly

But anyway! Meeting the Redcaps and Unseelie was cool until they provoked Grim into a fight, then Grim found out about negotiations AND apologized to the baroness for losing his temper. And then the redcaps hunted him as he tried to lure them off Aella's trail (successfully!)

Getting his life saved by Orrin! Very nice work Vice captain. Sadly, it was only spared for a darker fate...

First part of the druid ritual mod involved a scramble down to the lake to pick up water. We ran into a gypsy weeping over his lost children but they could do nothing about it, and we went on our way, sending a few warriors like Anhil, Danae, and someone else who I can't remember as well off to help.

We come back up to the Inn, and make our final preparations, only to lose our tactical coordinator and EVERY healer we had lined up well before we took our long walk into the woods. Zach and Chris mad this incredibly creepy and atmospheric, and having helped with some parts of the mod setup I was really pleased with how well it turned out.

People start dropping, Keavy gets her limbs cut off, the entire ritual is going to heck, so grim unleashes his Berserker rage and tears into the dire wolves and natures' guardians with the blood red vengeance of a berserker born.

And then, he dies, his legs cut out from him, leaning against a tree. The rite goes off, and I get to listen in at all the very wonderful mourning RP as various characters react to the brother of Caldor (one of the druids who was doing the ritual) dying as a sacrifice for it to work. Some stuff that Augustus and Typhon said I particularly remember, though Grim was dead at the time. Bran also said some cool stuff.

The reanimation itself was amazing, I've been wanting to take part in a reanimation ever since I saw Moira get reanimated back in July, and it was even cooler to have it done on myself. Dr. Maxwell, Augustus, and Caldor, as well as Typhon did an amazing job of anticipating eactly how he'd react on waking up and safely restrained him from destroying an entire room in winterdark manor (which he would have done had it not been for their super smart roleplay)

After that I didn't do a whole lot until I checked on my insanities at logistics and got a major one, and once again Dr Maxwell saves the day! I think that's his job or something

I also had some great roleplay with Orrin and Magnus and a few of the other guard members during this time because we were dealing with Magnus' return and the aftermath of all that, as well as Grim's thoughts about the completion of his wyrd, or destiny, since he was to be a Slayer (which he accomplished by using the Hammer of Light to fell the Shadow King), and a Sacrifice, which he achieved in the lonely, dark woods before dawn.

Getting my first Master warrior lesson courtesy of Jun and Angelica Tellinghast was great, particularly with Magnus going out of his way to make sure grim found a teacher like that.

Main mod was fun, chaotic, atmospheric and scary, particularly when Grim took a wrong turn and went with the strong guys up against the Redcaps instead of down the left-hand path with the low seasons. Thanks to the grumbleguts and a few other powerhouses for busting him out and letting him show up and startle Orrin and Augustus by coming out of literally nowwhere during the mass battle and greeting them cheerfully.

NPC shift, well, I was asked to do some Rogue Mod stuff and had a great time NPCing for it. Playing a guard, an Iron Golem, and then a Ghost in quick succession was great.

Sunday was pretty chill, I got to actually sleep, had some bacon with Typhon, was there for about a half of an Ostcliff land meeting before I got pulled off to go break up a warlock ritual. Grim tried super hard to arrest and talk it through but it ended up in a mess as he got chaotically altered and super violence happened.

Props to Goggs for deceiving grimkjell like that. I had great fun throwing Sean's NPC back into the midst of the PCs for a further beatdown with a well-timed use of the Throw ability.

The pit fighter mod was AMAZING and I was glad to be able to learn stunning blow as Grim from the NPCs. I love entertainment-style combat mods such as that, rather than just murder-hoboland. It was great to just roleplay and posture and stuff.

The game was pretty fun overall, I'm sad I couldn't get hooked by the main plot due to my being dead or absnet for a good deal of it. Grim only ever ran into faeries being jerks or annoyances.

a particular person highlight was Orrin explaining to Grim what he in fact WAS and then he and grim talking about the symbology of Grim's armor, and that he should get a rune simply dedicated to the wyrd of being a "Good person." I fully intend to do this as soon as I find a proper quasi-nordic rune in order to do so.

This event was awesome though odd for me.

Wasn't involved with plot in the slightest rest of the event just seems to whirl together in a blend of sleeplessness and awesomeness.

Gypsy Children Mod. Oh gods. When the group started marching off and doing a head count realizing we were screwed. If it weren't for Anhil and company arriving when they did life tags would have been lost. Albert putting in a crazy amount of work and saving everybody. Not being able to save them in the end and being the only person to witness the other Galledelite perform basic funeral rites. Taking the time to take them to the graveyard and bury them with some others.

Gypsy mod curse. Hey he was there! *gets hugged* start retching because of curse hilarity.

Dominic and his apprentice? late that night. My involvment being blown waaaaaaaaaaaay out of proportion and being accused at laughing at the death's of the gypsy children. Didn't let it really show but my character was pissed at hearing that. Like Red Lantern Corp. internal rage.

Saturday was mostly damage control from the previous night due to the Dominic thing and a slight disagreement on duty with a Barabrian. Also still need to talk to Ms. Darkwood in game and straighten everything out. James actually kind of looks up to her as she introduced him to Doctor Maxwell (don't think she remembers lol) and she is the only other physician besides Doctor Maxwell who can reanimate. Again misinformation and misinterpretation led to me running around trying to make people not hate me.

Npc'ed Main mod as an ice drake. It was interesting to say the least. There was a point where everyone was scattered and it seemed like they'd have to retreat. Then a couple people showed up followed by Lord Ardentfire. Turned it around quite nicely for them.

Vermin Lords at Pendarvin. Going into crit getting picked back up then treating all the poison and like 4 broken limbs. SOmeone comes running from the mages guild saying Mirwen was down. Immediately bolt that direction with only Verril Lebastion with me. Get there find out she's in crit and a healer appears. Everyone leaves I end up being late and walk alone. Tried to hide from the Red Caps. Doesn't work and they took me hostage. Eventually get to the mages guild. End up using a Divine Sanctuary scroll to save myself and Mirwen until the cavalry arrive. Some amazing RP by the Guildmaster. Tried to think of so many things to say but it would've just ruined it.

Sunday warlock mod. Chaotic alteration on Grimjkell for the second time this event. Dominic stops it then bam Chaotic alteration on Danae and I'm floored. Get back up rush over to Byron and bam hit by an ego whip in the back.


All in all good event even if it was an extremely stressful and taxing one

I had such a great event! I really want to put out a huge thank you to Danny, without his help, I'd have never made the event.

Friday night:

Quick run to the monastery after layon for awesome clergy fun times. Being part of the wall of clergy standing ready to protect Cooper from anything that could happen.

Trying to help someone get to the armory, only to run into a couple redcaps who decided to verbally abuse us. Ran to the town to find Bat Cooper, who nicely said to deal with it. Ran back to the armory to find a pack of lower levels hiding in there.

Getting asked to come help collect water, and having this become an incredibly difficult task, as we faced piskies, wolves, redcaps(who were mad at Grim and decided to attack him). Had to carry Grim towards the town to try and find him a healer, but luckily we ran into one before we got too far.

Abandoning the water quest to help save the gypsy children because Valos. It was an awesome fight, and even though we didn't save the children, great role play happened.

The walk back to town with Loralei and Anhil.

Getting recruited to help a Druid thing, and being one of the many that ran off to fight the redcaps. Danae's feelings of guilt when she found out Grim died during this.

Saturday:
Morning porch talks with Kanas. This is starting to become a regular thing. Having to pause the conversation to receive the most delicious coffee, because nobody likes an undercoffeed barbarian.

Handing out tomatoes to people, made some coins off it, but Danae really just does it for the love of good food.

The best conversation about magic with the faerie prince. Danae, however, was completely clueless as to whom she was speaking. Luckily, she remembered her manners. The hilarity that ensued as the barbarian and faerie prince could not see eye to eye over magic.

Npc shift! Played a piskie for about 5 seconds before being recalled for rogue plot. Getting to watch rogue mod was awesome!

Getting to go out for the last 30 minutes of my NPC shift as a redcap was so much fun. Looking for someone who wanted to play a game, with the wager being blood. Getting fed by Alisandria, and unknowingly receiving a poisoned drink. Thankfully natural resist saved me for my first few sips, but unfortunately took a few too many. The confusion that came after I suddenly collapsed.

Going to feast in my "night clothes" without war paint, because Danae took a nap and slept too late.

Sleepy barbarian is sleepy.

Mass was amazing as always.

Angry papa Kwildar! Eek!

Main mod was awesome. Trying to keep the low levels in line while there was a whole lot of standing and waiting. Watching the path in case anything attacked.

Near the end of the fight, getting blinked behind the line of faeries, and having just enough time to turn around and swear before being roflpwned.

My only complaint would be the blue lights, because migraines make me sad.

Sunday:

Getting to punch magic in the face with Dominic. Getting chaotically altered(sorry guys!) and having no one attack me to prevent my rampage.

Learning my second part of my master list training from Billiamm. May have been one of my favorite lessons ever.

All and all, I had an amazing event, and I can't wait until October.

Simply a wonderful event. Although I didn't get to engage much with what I hear was a very well-written plot, the attention to detail that had been put into planning the weekend was nonetheless impossible to overlook. Beautiful costuming and thoughtfully assembled roving encounters - along with a host of splendid NPCs charged with carrying the story forwards - characterised the event, and I know that I certainly won't be forgetting it for a long time to come! Kristen, JJ, thankyou - it was ace.

Going out with Cy, Angel and Josh on Saturday to hunt for the Mortalis was a definite personal highlight. Had a blast trotting around watching Arlyn screwing with the PCs and attempting to charm/threaten/buy them off - Cy, you sort of reminded me of a deranged Bond villain, and although I was meant to be playing a cold, unfeeling character, it was difficult to hold back a smile whilst watching you do your thing. Just excellent. Josh and Angel were ttly bestest minions evar, and the torturing was awesome in a sort of "this absolutely probably shouldn't be awesome" kind of way (Dani you rockstar :lol: )

Say it with me now: SALLY GOGGINS!! I... er, have a daughter now? Or something? WHAT? Gina, I sincerely hope you're bringing her back at some point, because this is going to be incredible. Travance, you better be ready for Mini-Londwyns.

Elias' Dark Dwarf, whose name I still don't know (I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that, as funny as it is, you haven't actually named him Mister Friendly...) Every interaction with this guy was well-executed and entertaining without being cheesy. Absolutely loved it - and am OOG hoping that it wasn't just Bolton in a disguise!

CHRIS F'ING ZIPETO you little legend you. THOROUGHLY enjoyed all your Willard-related lol (yes, even the bit when Orion was ready to kill me.) I know I can't be alone in being stoked to see what you've got in store for us next month... JUST TAKE OUR LIFETAGS NOW WHY DON'T YOU. Seriously, thankyou for going out of your way to run all the things that you did this weekend; was as entertained as I was impressed (which is to say a lot.) It goes without saying that Nigel was dishing out generous portions of awesome as per usual, and seeing you and Meander teaming up on Tower Mod was truly a joy.

Basically EVERYTHING on Saturday night. From the cheery-yet-lethal redcap duellists, to Biron's late-night dragon stories, to sneaking around in the forest with Teresa... just so many awesome things went down around then. And getting to go on Main Mod! Only the third time I've got to do this as my PC, and a really rather trippy experience at that. All the lights and flares and glowsticks and smoke and fairies giggling like maniacs made for a thoroughly surreal experience.

Oh yeah, and that awkward moment when you accidentally KO Lord Ardentfyre... oops. You looked very monster-like in the dark!

Nadi breaking Goggins on Friday night. "Lyric of Suggestion: Fairies are real." Nothing like a little existential dilemma to throw a spanner in the works (ha) - all I'll say is that it certainly made my weekend more interesting, and allowed for some much more involved dialogue with the Piskies that kept popping up all over the place. And yes, Sharone, you're terrible at hide-and-seek :lol:

Late-night lessons with Elric - Ben managed to hold together a really watertight lesson despite being clearly very sleep-deprived. I'm looking forward to future lessons with you buddy!

Similarly interesting chats with Gideon about magic. I think it's going to take a little while before Goggins will believe you, but this is certainly progress. Thanks for being patient and RPing it out with me.

Gypsy children mod. Getting to see this from the perspective of an NPC was really rather amusing. I don't think it could have gone more wrong! On the plus side, I can now append "imaginary evil gypsy girl child clone thing" to the list of characters I've played. That one sure was weird.

Goggs wrote: Similarly interesting chats with Gideon about magic. I think it's going to take a little while before Goggins will believe you, but this is certainly progress. .

I was the creepy npc sitting at the end of the bar during that discussion. This was easily one of the top 3 best moments from this event for me. You sir, are one awesome character.