April 2014 (1214) Event Highlights!

Oops, I forgot one thing: Thank you so very much to the awesome group of people staying at the Baroness' Manor! I could not ask to spend my time with a better group of people! You work hard to make our weekend home clean, safe and fun. Big love to you all!

Awesome weekend! My everything hurts.

Moral of the Weekend: Little rats good. Rat Ogres Bad. Little rats were annoying, so much so I actually resorted to tag skills (of which I have few) to just make particular NPCs go away for a while.



The rest of the weekend:

Friday Night: Bar. Religious conversations at Bar. It started with my reciting the St. Astrid's day Tale, which escalated to, at one point having a four way conversation comparing and contrasting Valos, Galladel, Enax and Andorra. Brother Aldric's office was busy all night.

Saturday: NPC shift in the morning, had fun generally, needed more coffee though. Most memorable was my capture as a merc/deserter following one of the Bounty NPCs. Made me think about doing Swashbucker for a future alt. Loved the hat.

Saturday PM: The events leading up to the main mod found me in a series of discussions, Chaos Vs. Order, then being engaged in an examination of Justice vs. Law in the form of Steve's Templar npc. Then, meeting Kwilldar and getting his take on the Ascension War and our role in it. Finishing that up with a long conversation representing the views of Valosians on Redemption with an Aguarran and Glommite. Apparently, making an impression on one of them.

NAP - and Snoring the Monastery out so much that they sent the 7 year old minion to harass me. Sorry bout that, I was still in my garb and could not roll over.

Main Mod: Interesting variation of a line battle for the main mod. Moving through a maze while trying to maintain a coherent formation, much less coordinating two separate formations that freely mixed throughout the mod proved a bit much for the dozen voices pushing and pulling the groups through the maze (sometimes in different directions). Seems to me the only parts that mattered were the ones being attacked, and I just moved to those locations as needed while the more strategic minded figured out where to go. Saw some awesome examples of bravery and it was heartening to see how often fallen comrades were rescued at great cost.

After Main Mod: 1 Hour of chanting on the cold ground. Ugh. Yeah I know it was what I signed on for as Cleric. On the plus side that makes the second altar of a Dark God I desecrated. Returning to the Inn, the bar was a bit too quiet so I went back to the Monastery and turned in for the night.

Sunday: Trained by Grimm to learn Armor Efficiency and because it was Grimm this required I be beat like a red headed step child. Yeah I knew what I was signing on for. :S Then being hired as an apprentice to work at a Meadery. Friar Tuck lives!

Thanks to all of the staff and especially the Kitchen Crew without which I would starve, wasted away to skin and bones! The Kitchen takes alot of work to maintain and these folks do it because they love the game, more people need to volunteer to help them! For those behind the Bar: Thanks for putting up with Aldric, Shout out to Thallia and Sebastain(sp?) whom deal with me on a regular basis there. Your customer service goes way beyond a game, I do appreciate the heck out of you guys!

Til next month!

Well Sean certainly got the tension ratcheted up pretty well immediately! Hit the dirt more times Friday night than in my last three events combined. From "Psshh, rats" to "Rats, retreat!" in all of a few hours.

Met Rudy, who upon just meeting agreed to set to work for 45 minutes (and finished on the button without actually checking the clock!) to build Imrahil's first exalted weapon.

Mother Maralas led a well thought and poignant mass, Caldor gave the assist! Truly insightful.

Glad to have made it to the cabin for the night without a stop in blue headband land. Thanks especially to Doc DeMontfort, Swyft, Boryev, and Edmund.

Saving Private Honnus (sp?) - or- Karkat's mystery cage.

Wulfgar and Yaya's wedding. Expertly officiated, good times. Gave the bride a wedding gift, and received a gratifyingly hearty laugh in return!

Second article for the Chronicle, and my first compliments from readers! *blush*

Chronicler mod. Crowd source problem solving at it's finest, with some good rp all around. Burkhart and Caldor get my quote of the game on this one.

Training with Quan Liu. Always good! Blind fighting lesson actually had me oog caught in the moment.

Two current Baronial Guard, and two past Baronial Guard effectively quash a jailbreak/prison riot - mostly sans violence. Fist bumps for players and npc's on that one!

My first encounter in Travance where both parties knew who each other were prior to meeting!

A double take at feast; really didn't expect any kind of recognition from the March plot, but I'm humbled.

A+ main mod shift, even with the mother of all toothaches. Would paperwork main mod again. Thanks to Sean, Jeff, Katie, and the rest of the shiftmates!

Awakened by Swyft and Jonas. Confusing after a grand total of 6 hours sleep for the weekend, but much more pleasant than my underslept Sunday wake up the last time ratmen were in the proper!

My first interaction with Keavy - in wolf form. *sniff, sniff* "Hi." *off to snag Kanas' dagger* :lol:

Lizardkin. Why always the trying to negotiate...

My final impression from the weekend: This game isn't just making me question my character's beliefs and positions, but my own as well. While leading me to question others, it reaffirms my belief that rpg's can make you a better person!
To the staff, marshals and players, you have my plaudits!

Friday:

So, Illyrin is interested in going to Coast Haven. Problem is, that takes being able to drink well. And Illyrin is an elf. Cue an impromptu attempt at self-teaching Tolerance at the bar. It didn't end with a whole lot of success, that's for sure. Had fun being drunk as all hell and still trying to conversate. Liddius' pranks were less amusing to him, of course (oog, however, I thought it was pretty amusing), and got the hobbit on his irritated side for the rest of the night. Thalia was great to interact with as well.

Having the previously mentioned conversation with Dimms was excellent. Illyrin went into that expecting just to hear a few stories about familial honor and standard barbarian boasts, but what he got was very different. Pretty harrowing stuff and it just helped cement the idea in Illyrin's mind that Dimms is a man on a journey (albeit a spiritual one) and he very much looks forward to seeing where the Northman's journey will take him. He'll definitely be keeping an eye on the man for some time.

Disarm lesson with Imrahil. A monk teaching a swash how to disarm was very interesting, not gonna lie.

Of course, later at night, outside the cemetary, it occurred to him that perhaps he was a bit too close for his own health. Ran my absolute ass off to get to the inn and grab assistance to save Dimms - too bad it got detoured by crazy horrible Glommite nastiness. Stayed up to see if Dimms would still live, was glad when he did. Pretty sure hardcore Chroniclers would disapprove of the interference in the story that he's observing, but he's always had some disagreements with the church regarding the whole noninterference principle.


Saturday:

PRISON MOD. Being Hannes was an absolute blast. 10/10, would play again. I loved watching the PCs try to figure out what to do with the more or less psychically lobotomised guy, especially the debate between Ava and Grim about whether or not he'd be better off dead. Got a good number of RP points for it, too!

Had a good conversation with Alamat (I probably got that name all wrong) looking for spiritual guidance regarding a Glomite scroll that he recently came into possession of as mod loot, and whether or not he should keep it for his records. It was a great conversation and some good RP.

Cleaning out the rats from the armory was fun as well.

First Aid lesson with Swyft, followed by becoming a provisional Guardsman. Too bad that we were wrong about how much build it costs on Commoner and I ended up having to scratch it off my sheet.. Oh well, we'll have to fix that next month.

Tower mod was great fun, loved encountering a bunch of things I had learned about from the scholar's table and then explaining them to others. Felt like a proper Chronicler! Of course, glowing was a bit of a surprise.


Had lots of fun, looking forward to WitL!

Sébastien was sober this event?! No way!
-What? There's nothing wrong with that!

Let's kick off my Event Highlights for April 1214, shall we?

Friday!
I worked the bar Friday night up until midnight with my bar homies serving the people of Travance their mugs and bottles of sorrow. DRAGON'S BREATH SHOTS EVERYWHERE!
And then midnight festivities with the other homies. YeahWooAwesome.

Sleep!

Saturday!
Wake up! ...Late. I was asked to help behind the bar during breakfast rush. Whoops. I still served a few people before noon, where I then went to go 'fishing'.
During my fishing antics I found a shiny ring! ...And two bodies floating in the water. I don't know why. ;P

NPC duty!
I thoroughly enjoyed my NPC duty this event. My thanks go to Sean M.
For some absurd reason, I was a rat the entire four hours.
I helped semi-murder Keavy/Keevee/Keyvee/FerouciousKnifeEaredWolfThing/Keevie...How the hell do you spell it?! Yeah, anyway...I hope you liked my climb/shadow leap behind you to get in a few 20s on your back.
We dragged her through the underground, dislocating her shoulders in the process. I loved your RP and your fighting strong until the end.
I went out again for tower mod which was very fun. Great fighting for those I fought at the inverted tower.
Attacking the Baronial forge and having my arms sliced off and dragged away by Gideon to be interrogated by...Billiam. I knew nothing! Really! But I answered the best I could.
That plate was lovely.
Attack on the Inn with my (Reese's) pole arm! RUSH EVERY RE-SPAWN!
"Seven damage, seven damage, seven damage...Okay screw this! SLAY!" -Grim

Paperwork over.

I missed Penoia and Wulfgar's wedding...-Insert sad-face-.
FEAST! Yeah! (Thank you for the food, Diane).
AFTER FEAST! Okay...

MAIN MOD!

Why...Did I think it would be an alright idea to go on Main mod? AND WHY DIDN'T WE JUST BURN THE DAMN PLACE FROM THE OUTSIDE!?
I loved being thrown face-first into Gideon's shield. "HOLD! It looked like you smashed your head, are you okay?" "YesCallTheLayOn!"
I found a bunch of gold pieces...Just laying there. Thanks Gods!

Sleep!

Sunday ended quickly and The Rochester crew seemed to enjoy getting home at a decent hour. I know I did.

I'm going to end my highlights with a huge Thank-you to Sean M. for the extremely enjoyable event, both as my PC and NPC. And thank you everyone who came out and had a great time along with me, fighting, Role Playing and Easter egg hunting this weekend. And also a very special "Awesome job!" to all of our Easter egg hunters!

[strike]I will not be seeing you all in May[/strike], I wish you all a great, happy, and safe time/rest before next we meet in Travance!
It turns out that if ride conditions are okay, and I can get the time off from work, I WILL be seeing you all in May. -InsertHappyFace-

I was only there Friday night, but I still had a blast. Some great interactions in the first couple hours, including a very interesting run-in with plot after midnight. You always regret the chances you don't take, and I missed a prime opportunity. Oh well. Then it was off to the Drega'mod, where there were corruptions galore. The only combat was against each other as certain people were hit with Possession or Corrupt Loyalty.

Steve: "Winks, Corrupt Loyalty."
Me: "Uh...Vanish."
Steve: "It's mental, Vanish doesn't defend against it."
Me: "I know. I Vanish."
Steve: "...Oh! Carry on then."
The few people who saw it happen: "Crap..."

Cue a demonstration of why Winks should never turn against the town. Stalking around the modsite while hidden, getting spotted only to disappear again, hitting people REALLY hard and fading away, it was so much fun. Cap the experience off with going toe to toe with Magnus after blowing my promo, and then getting taken down by Magnus and Danny. It was a great time, and I hope everyone enjoyed it.

See everyone next month!