March 2014 (1214) Event Highlights!

What a great weekend. First and foremost Congratulations to John and Leslie. It was great getting to know the two of you over the weekend and an honor getting to witness such a truly touching moment in your lives.

This was a big weekend for Jorik. He is really starting to come into his own in Travance. Friday night was relatively uneventful. Drank at the bar, kept some dwarves and Dark dwarves from being at each others throats. Also keeping Kanas from killing a captive Drow. After that it was a relatively early bed time at 1am. Saturday Morning Jorik was up early and to the inn. Got some breakfast, and managed to aqcuire a full set of commodity cards for the event. It was the first time Jorik had been able to do so. Resilience lesson with Grim. What a great lesson. Basically involved grim and Imrahil beating the crap out of him, and Grim telling him to suck it up and shrug it off. Then off to fight some frost trolls with the other new players. Finally got to use beserker rage. It was quite fun to bellow like a maniac during the battle. Unfortunately for Lidious he got too close to Jorik while he was raging and got thrown out of the way. Great Role play on all sides. After that it was back to the armory for what was an unintended long nap. Feast, then NPC shift

NPC shift. Drilling with the other NPC to learn how to march. Got promoted to an NPC Sergeant when it was revealed that I knew how to march and call cadence. Started to get really pumped up for marching on Travance, but was disappointed that the PCs were all holed up in the inn and didn't hear the approach of the dark dwarven army. Main Mod was pretty beast. Tons of shield wall fighting and trying to push our way in, but the PC's on the front lines were way to powerful for anything that we had up our sleeves.

After NPC shift I ran back to the cabin and got changed so i could head back up to the inn. Got chased by some Trolls, nearly made it inside the inn, but one of them caught up to me and broke my leg before I was able to make it just as I was diving inside the doors. Let the other characters take control of the situation while I got my leg healed and then headed to the bar to get a drink. Sharing a drink with a Celt who had recently come to town, when all of a suddent :NAUSEA POISONING. Running out the side door of the inn and retching violently, luckily Galen came along and cured me, then told me that I had been poisoned. Jorik's Wrath was immeasurable. When he confronted the Celt poisoner, he ran, only to be nearly cut in half by a cleave from Joriks Longsword. A couple of good stompings before letting the healers heal him made Jorik feel better, even though it brought a stern word from Grim regarding the treatment of prisoners. Jorik's mood was soon immediately improved when Grim gifted him with a new sword that he had arranged to have made for him. Grim's generosity truly touched him. After that it was some more drinking... and a walk back to the armory alone. You would think he would have learned his lesson from the trolls, but this time he was a bit more carefull. After hearing a group of NPC's on the road ahead, Jorik made for the woodline and skirted around them without their noticing. Thank God the snow wasn't as deep as last month. Sunday morning Jorik made some more acquaintances. Arranged for some more income which is always good, and fought demonic fire elementals. Then it was stage III leprosy from some infected Rats. WORST THING EVER. All in all it was a great event. This being my third one, I must say it is getting easier and more natural for me to stay in character. Kinda like breaking in a new pair of boots. Slipping into Jorik's skin is getting more and more enjoyable.

I have to say the folks who went on the lowbie mods were absolutely awesome! I was one of those times when the outcome went in a completely different direction than I had planned/expected it to go and was pleasently surprised with the outcome. Both the PC's and the NPC's really stepped up their game, and role-played the hell out of it! It was really great to watch it unfold and fun to cook up something in response to what you guys were doing!

Kudos to all on those mods! Keep it up! I promise to continue that story....stay tuned!

-JR

This was definitely one of those amazing Knight REalms games. It started immediately wonderful as we all got to witness John Tinney proposing to Leslie. Congrats you two especially to John for landing such a magnificent woman. I know you will be exceptionally happy.

Friday:
Getting to share the desserts I made.
Witnessing a Dwarf pull off his beard and become a demon. This prompted Aella to pull every beard she saw on a dwarf.
Finding out that female dwarves could have beards made Aella realize she could never tell gender on a person again.. gaah!
Walking to mass and getting attacked by everything along the way.
Hitting Clove's cookout. next time I shall bring skewers.

Saturday:
Kaladonia land meeting
Ranger mod.. OH MY GOODNESS! It was SO MUCH FUN! THat evil EMerald Hunstman was a bastard to fight and a bitch to get to. But seriously...just wow! ANd the list is sooo amazing!
Feast!
Scouting and Setting up Alarm Traps so we knew where the Dwarves would strike. Sad that the mod started so quickly so they didn't get much use. It was still fun to do.
Main mod..so many killer dwarves and then thingies.
Lecturing Angeliana about her constant need to disparage herself.

Sunday
LESSONS.. I love being part of instinct lessons. Shooting at people is so much fun!

Had lots of fun this weekend. It was my second time playing Illyrin and I felt like I was really starting to get in his head much better.

Friday: Walked around the inn, mostly. Was interested in the dwarven issues, but Illyrian mostly made them out as a dwarven matter and thus not something he had a right to involve himself in. Got awestruck by Gideon's shield and hammer (dude, those physreps are the coolest things). Later ended up running with a bunch of people to fight an invisible creature - Illyrin needs to find Amizar and thank him for the scroll of Divine Sanctuary from last event - it really saved his ass. Looking over the area where the beast had allegedly fallen and finding that it was made out of the weave was definitely a shock to him, and he really wants to find out more about that.

Saturday: Had fun checking out the Andorran baptism, later went to be inducted in the Mage's Guild. While there, learned about the existence of the Lorestri - and I gotta say, it's a concept that Illyrin has really latched on to. He wants to now find out as much as he can about them - traveling through time would essentially be heaven for him. Then ran with Liddius back towards the inn to see if we could get in Tower Mod, and ended up seeing a mod going down in the tower area. Joined it but then shortly thereafter realized that WHOOPS, this definitely wasn't Tower. Got laid low by Drow, was a hostage for a bit, hated the drow for being disgusting, vile creatures every step of the way. Just waiting to see how much making a deal with the drow is going to have bitten Travancians in the ass, even for something like a hostage exchange. Still got to be on Tower after that, which was fun. Illyrin isn't at all sure about the scroll of Lay Hands Minor that he got for compensation, considering that it's a prayer to Glomm.

Hanging out with the song circle was fun, and I absolutely HAD to sing along to March of Cambreadth. After that came feast and the poor decision of trying to strike up conversation with Karkat, who was sitting across me. Illyrin found it to be interesting, but not necessarily pleasant.

Heroic swash mod was LOADS of fun. Illyrin had Satyr Wine for the first time, and it was... interesting. That gave him some fun RP with other characters. Really looking forward to Dashing Swordsman, it's awesome.
Also throughout the day enjoyed meeting more Quinarians and especially Chroniclerite priests. He was feeling kinda lonely in his faith last event.

NPC shift was a bit of a snafu, but fun was had. Sorry to the people on the cabin we attacked, I was unaware that we weren't allowed to do that. Definitely won't happen again.

Sunday, I mostly slept through. Got outside, was planning on fighting the rats I saw, but when I saw that they were infecting people. Illyrin nope-d the hell out of there. Not a great place for a Quinarian.

But yeah, had loads of fun, made some connections, was glad I went.

It's a preference of mine to get my NPC shift out of the way as soon as possible, so that I can roleplay the rest of the weekend without interruption and having to plan around the shift. Friday afternoon, I picked up some friends of mine early enough that we arrived at camp before any of the shift positions were taken. This meant I had my choice and I picked the very first shift. I wanted to be in Logistics on-time, but I overheard Norm telling someone else that it was okay to stay for the opening announcements, and I am so glad I did. Congratulations to John and Leslie.

This event was about a renewed focus. Nalick had been pursuing a certain scholar and attempted unsuccessfully a second and final time for her heart. They're friends. It could be much worse. To that effect, Galen gave some greatly appreciated advice. Now I've turned my attention back to my profession as a Bard. That's where a lot of fun was this past weekend, because on Saturday afternoon, the bards of Travance -- with a lot of help from Croi -- organized a song circle at the gully in front of the Inn.

At the song circle, I witnessed something similar to what I saw at the Moresca Ball, that Travance has more talented singers than you would realize. However, there wasn't only singing going on at the circle; there were stories too, and yours truly told a story of his own. That story was of a scholar who felt useless. I won't spoil the fun by posting it here, but there ought to be moments in events to come for me to re-tell it. The Baroness participated in the song circle! I cannot even repeat some of the things that she said there. Gosh!

Tobar taught me one of the songs that he's famous for, Fanfare of the Turning Tide. Now all I need is the ability to sing a quarter as loud as he can.

On Sunday afternoon, I was fortunate enough to receive not one, but two bardic lessons from the Baroness herself. Her Excellency's singing voice is beautiful. I heard it for a brief moment during the fight with Xualla, but up-close it is something else entirely. Also, she complimented me on my story! It doesn't get better than that. Specifically for it including a moral and that I didn't ramble.

Landris became an Andorran in her own ceremony early on Saturday and I was delighted to work with Mother Remi to organize the festivities. Later that night, though, I didn't hear the bell for Mass and didn't instinctively head over to the Monastery. Next event, I get to see how merciful an Andorran priestess would be to a fellow Andorran. Wish me luck.

Overall, I had plenty of one-on-one interactions, something I hadn't gotten to do in previous events, and these included moments with people I wanted to get to know better.

I finally got my bracers (Thank you, Tori!). That was an interesting moment, being approached by someone who looked evil but acting on faith and assuming her intentions were good when she beckoned me to follow her. "You need to come with me." We went up to the Drega room and she gave them to me, which was a relief. I even blurted out, "I really thought something bad was about to happen." Konkubar (?)/The Useless Smith assembled the bracers for me and then I was all set, having had them crafted at a previous game out of Tamaril Hide.

Making people smile and laugh countless times without having to go out of my way to do so.

Saturday afternoon, I was important in a mod! Dark Dwarves had murdered a family of Frost Giants in their cave and claimed it as their own, and it was our job to clear out the cave. One of the Dark Dwarves had a scroll in his pocket, and on that scroll was a message written in Dark Elven. No one in our party knew how to read the scroll, so I got to use Lyric of Translation for the first time!

Feast started earlier than I thought it would, and I was late. But one thing that I can count on is being friends with half of the table no matter where I sit, and then becoming friends if not friendly with the other half during the meal.

I'm looking forward to the events to come, especially St. Astrid's Day, and not only for the obvious reasons.

Awesome weekend was awesome!

Friday:
-Clove Cookout! While our visit was short it was fun!
-Getting mollywomped by Invisible stalkers with Annora on the way back from said cookout.
-Dark elves going to attack some Dwarves- Not! Getting in some Sylvan VS dark elf racism in and sitting in on an interrogation with two and Edwin.

Saturday:
-Logistics shift in the morning was a nice change of pace.
-Kaladonia meeting with the Baroness. Then, Kaladonia serious/shenanigan talk.
-Heroic ranger mod! Finally on another heroic list mod! It was tough but a lot of fun. While the list may not be what I had in mind for Keavy it's still a great list!
-Short nap and boot drying at the armory.
-Helping with setting up traps before the big battle.

Main mod:
Dwaaaaaaaarrrrvvveeeessssss and friends
-Holding up a wall for the front door of the inn for a good long time while Goggins made a trap around the doorframe. Probably one of the first times they have ever cooperated with one another haha
Also:
Keavy: What are you doing to the door?
Goggins: Well, you see, I'm setting up this bit here, and then when this gets hit it will cause that to shift and turn those gears to-
Keavy: Short answer please!
Goggins: An incapacitating trap!
Keavy: Thank you!
-Seeing super crazy Karkat snarling at one of the Dwarves while Jed pulled him away
-All the fighting caused my boots to be soaked AGAIN so I went straight back to the cabin and had a great time hanging out with Sean, Christine and Chris
-drawing up Conor's new Alt- "By the way guys, don't ask why I'm drawing a Galamachian Priest."
Also, get outta da way!

Sunday:
-Breakfast on Daniel!
-Teaching Kanas Bear Strength
-Feeling bad about having to kill some dire wolves. Scorning Ava for defiling one of them in order to "dissect".
-Finally-FINALLY!- having a lesson for Transmute Form!! Wolf Keavy is now a thing, be prepared friends!
-Then lastly, fire drakes and elementals and all that stuff that otherwise was on fire. Final beat down for the day!

See you guys at Alt event (most likely haha)!