November 2013 Highlights

I had a lot of anxiety going into this event. Mainly because work last week had me getting home at the earliest 8PM every night and somehow Jenn and I got the bright idea that cooking and planning feast would be fun. So Anxiety.

Friday Night:
*Tending Bar at Layon was fun. Its always fun to interact with new players, make them cut deals "I'll give you a discount but you have to buy someone a drink later on."
*Pie Feast! Making pies with Sam, Jenn and Crystal was a lot of fun. From Cheater Pies to Pumpkin Pies. The kitchen was SO warm. I didn't notice that it had gotten cold until we left the kitchen at 2 or 3 am.
*Valarian RP with Will and Sam

Ekat: MERIKA!
M: Yeah
E: I have a horrible idea. I need you to bring him back.
M: Ok.

This is what best friends do. They don't ask questions when you ask them to revive someone who's in crit, just walloped on you and your friends and potentially about to kill you. Everyone involved in this scene (Will, Sam, Cameron, NPC who i didn't see the face of) You all did awesome!

Saturday:
Pancakes! Mary I love you!
Feast Cooking! Getting the turkeys in early and just having side dishes to work on. Everything went super smoothly. I was happy with how Juicy the piece of turkey I got was. Feast tasted great. Thank you to everyone who told me they enjoyed it. And Thank you to Everyone that stopped in and helped us out with chopping veggies, washing dishes, lifting heavy things, cutting turkey. And of course Thank you to everyone who helped serve the feast

Challenging the bloke to honor combat post main mod. I'm actually disappointed you didn't do it. But I was just informed people on the steps heard the challenge... I didn't think I was being that loud.

Sunday:
Learning the things!
Sweeping the camp for "stragglers" on the way to Queen Mod
Post Queen Mod RP. Including leaving the Queens Dust on the Valosian Alter in a pot.

Jack_Dimms wrote: Oh god.... I can't remember exactly how it was led into, but Jack announced he could beat any woman in honor combat which got him a beating from Arden. After taking such a beating, Jack found himself infatuated with Arden and proceeded to chase her around whenever he saw her, yelling out his love for her and how he wished her to be his wife. Just oh man, it was so hard to do this, I really almost broke a few times doing this.

I don't even know how to react to this situation anymore, I'm carrying around brawlers all game now because of you.

I think I cried the most this weekend than ever before at KR.

Friday:
-Trying to help Zach's Voice of Selendrias then hearing the awful news about Caelvan's family (which is practically Keavy's as well) and bawling in Annora's lap.
-Feeling empty, realizing that I would have to tell Caelvan at some point. Then standing by as they asked Zach's NPC for details.
-Valerians!
-Being present for the weave mending.

LM Shift at 2!

After getting off shift, seeing Caelvan and wanting to tell him what happened.

Saturday:
Elawyn: If Typhon went and got bagel sandwiches for us, that would guarantee his spot as squire.
Erdrick: He would surely hop on his shield and fly out the door.
DANI: I have to draw this. -proceeds to draw Typhon flying on shield.-

Finally telling Caelvan what happened. Seeing him tough it out was sad and cool at the same time.

Learning Jump and Eagle Eyes from Kleidin

Heroic Druid mod AKA The Malorn Tree mod. I believe at one point I was biting at someone's leg as a last resort.

HEROIC DRUID IS SO COOL

Learning we are going to war, and being assigned Oakroot to be my battle partner. -"I'm watching you" gesture-

Getting a moment with the Voice of Selendrias to hear the details about Caelvan's family (and other clan member's) deaths.

Orias talking about the battle plan. Alex, my heart literally dropped and fluttered when you said "Keavy is my partner." Once I realized it was an example, I regained composure, but damn, haha

More valerians!

Mages send out Arcanite! It uses eat magic! It's Super effective!
Travance sends out Billiam McKreager! Billiam uses Punch-the-crap-out-of-Arcanite! It's super effective!
Arcanite faints!
Repeat steps 1-3.

Feast. Found out abruptly that Keavy wasn't chosen as squire.

Finding out diplomacy worked in Travance?

Emotional conversations with Caelvan and then with Elawyn. This crying bout with Kristen helped me figure out Keavy's character a lot OOG. Then we proceeded to battle the undead haha

Dwarven mine! It was like an Indiana Jones movie, only everything when horribly wrong! But we still had a near death escape!

Sunday:
Valerians! For the last time!! Gannon scared me and made my battle by jumping out the end of a caravan as I came to fight him when I found him through Gift of the Predator. He didn't hesitate at all, and I had tried to grab him last second. It was pretty epic.

Learn ALL THE THINGS.
Crushing Blow from Lathiel
I enjoyed the relaxing wall of thorns lesson from Caelvan under a tree.
and bought myself some more tag skills and Druid points!

Can't wait for the ball! I know exactly what I'm learning. Something I've been wanting to learn for the longest time now >: D
I also can't wait for the next Heroic lists! I'm dying to see the Ranger, Chaos Warrior, and Berserker lists!

I think the Voice might be my favorite NPC role in 6 years.

Conor, Dave, it was a pleasure working with the both of you. By our powers combined...

My #1 highlight was the compliment Katie Moyer gave me on Friday night after my mod.

i had fun. thanks to ben theis for running a solid weekend, and thanks also to doug evans and the rest of the team that dreamed up the valerian plot originally. fighting people is always more fun and dynamic than nameless demons and monsters. i point to the drama and excitement of this event, and the similar emotion surrounding mr devoe's late spring revolution. more of this, please!

some highlights:

keath g and alex t's consistent and satisfying combat roleplay. i was on both ends of their combat performance this weekend, being given a stylistic thrashing at the hands of their dwarves, and later returning the favor by slaughtering alex's psion and duking it out with keath's knight. always a pleasure.

i had several conversations with newer players that i enjoyed immensely. meeting folks first as a character is always a blast. avi the buccaneer, owen the squire, eolian the lady in armor, and the cleric of valos whose name escapes me all provided fresh and enjoyable exchanges.

morwenne. there are few characters that have existed as long as alicia's pc, and virtually none that have remained so faithful to their concept without becoming stale. friday/sunday conversations were awesome!

from the same old school is brian hahn's cinder. i had a blast sparring and learning. we archetypes and old men need to stick together!

watching jed bat cleanup saturday afternoon by the alisandrian camp.

zafron, moirya, and the battle no one realized they won. rogues

louis understanding that calling damage and counting out killing blows can be cumbersome. the wordless gurgles after having his throat cut did wonders for the scene. that poor archer will have nightmares.

jen W. as the baroness. my foremost frenemy, she was awesome as usual. the relationship between our pcs ranks high on the list of reasons i show up to these things.

Wow, that was a great event. I loved the Valerian plot, where morals came into play, and tensions rose as everyone conflicted with the decision to kill or not.
The new people were great. They were able to immerse themselves into the land very well. Can't wait to see more of them!

Highlights:

Friday discussion of theology and religious warfare with Duncan. Nothing starts an event better than finding out about a bunch of religious zealots planning to slaughter us.
Seeing the Valerians, and the talk with Gwynith about what to do.
NPCing for Bill's rogue mod. Being a thief stealing from the same safehouse as the rogues guild was twice as interesting as I thought it was going to be. Props to Nutmeg and her plan to "scarecrow" me.
The first arcanite.
More Valerians!!!
Bandits and the "fun-time baronial resort".
Getting my ear cut off and my insides messed with by a goblin physician. Strangely ticklish
The scene with the templar and Orias Wormwood. Alex, you are giving me nightmares.
The final arcanite. Still not scarier than Orias Wormwood.
NPCing for the adventurer's guild mod as one of the golems.
Sunday's capturing of the queen. I was useful for once!!!
Overall, amazing event. Can't wait for next time!