May Event Highlights

Bladesworn wrote: Seeing Sir Lathiel give an OK to a new townsmember to use Color Spray on someone else "just for kicks".

To be absolutely fair, Lydius was around for at least a year, probably closer to a year and a half. They looked like at least comrades.

Anyway, my highlights:
Though I was only there from around 10 in the morning to right after main mod, it was still a fun-filled event.
Thank you James for running an awesome event that went more in-depth with such a nefarious race. Always good for diversity.
Conversing with friends waiting for some long overdue trouble.
Walked with Billliamm and Godric and happened to find some trouble in the form of goblinoids.
"The Wedding" as it's going to be referred to as for the future. Wow, the role play was amazing and had me awestruck. The guts and intestines was a great addition (from a role playing perspective). Don't know who you were, but a good job to the Dark Lorestri for singing. I'm sure it inspired fear into some of the unexpected PCs.
Feast was amazing. I had about 3 or 4 servings of the chicken (I know, protein) and the mashed potatoes were good along with the jello.
Main Mod
Being part of the strongest group to fight off the insanely strong 5 Drow. It was a mess what with all the poison bombs and Assails.
With most of that taken care of, I helped sweep up any residual Drow and then was heading back to the Inn. But then...
Lorelei expresses the importance of checking out the power nodes for the Matron. There was nothing there, so we headed back.
Unfortunately having to leave. It was a major upset, but the fun I had in that one day overpowered leaving early.
It was a great event. I will be at the WITL, but only for the weekend portion. I'll do my best to pester my dad for going up on Thursday, but we'll see.

- Chasing Dark elves through the woods friday night with Keavy and Blacktree.

- Having to withdraw from a potential battle with Dark elves because of Seamus and Duncan's advice. All of the dwarf anger.

- Drinking and singing until the wee hours of the morning Friday night and meeting fantastic new people.

- Trading drinks and stories for having my beard braided, brilliant!

- Spreading the notion that Dwarves should be druids because rocks are nature too! I will become a rock druid one day!

- Going out as a goblin mod on my NPC shift and not seeing a single one after that. Every damn time I want to kill greenskins I am on NPC duty #dwarfproblems

- Honor fights during NPC shift was tons of fun.

- Talking with Ilana about flowers and feelings.

- Inverted tower mod was super fun and the demons being smart about taking me out of the fight when I went all rage crazy.

- Main mod was absolutely fantastic. Fighting off hoards of drow and spiders while protecting my friends. Battle raging with barbarians always fun. Having the magical wall go up trapping some of us behind and watching Keavy hold over a dozen dark elves at bay. Stories will be told of your ferocity. Then the magic people not knowing how to fix the magic problem and people telling me that I was a liability. Then going on to dumb dwarf my way through the problem and drag the essence with grit and muscles into the anti magic field. I may start a service for the mages guild... Thank you Jeff for that absolutely epic scene and the voice that spoke to me afterward.

- Billliamm vs. Aliester, holy crap what a great fight guys, very well done.

- Drunkenly arguing with Angelianna about who is and is not my girlfriend, so much fun. Having Croi, Arden and Angelianna gang up on me and mess with me was hilarious. Damn you Croi for out shouting me! For the record Arden flying is not fun!

- Getting drunk with Billiam, Cyric, and Kit was ridiculous fun.

- Teaching Cannas the true meaning of rage and wrasslin. You will be a real berserker one day.

- Interesting talks with Jed about tools.

- Im sure I am forgetting a few but all in all an absolutely fantastic event!

This event was amazing for me. I had so much fun and so many interesting conversations. I can't say how fitting it was that I became a white sorcerer this event. One certain white sorcerer clearly on my mind...so with his bday it seemed appropriate to do it now. Love you MD

Steve did such an amazing job to of testing me to see if I was ready for white sorcery. I really had to push myself.. Amazing
conversations with a certain glommite that I learned so much from. Great conversation about Taris magical prowess and leadership abilities. Learned a lot.

Best lesson ever of fire strike. Thank you to everyone who made it the hardest ever.

Hey I'm bored...... Thank you to those of you in Alisandria who saved Tari once again.

Really getting to interact with PCs in Kaledonia whom I haven't before... Perhaps building fragile bridges...the one barbarian knows who he is

Can't wait till wtl when Tari has to learn to meld into a tree, and till I get to have a kimara

I don't think Aella has actually lost her temper before this weekend so much Rage cookie!

Friday
Trying to look into different options for Caelvin's unique problem. Yelling at Keavy for not stepping up when Caelvin was suffering. Apparently nightmares are not a good enough reason for being tired and antsy.
Going to Midnight mass and having an honest talk about the state of the church with the clergy. Sir Pluvius's song was just pure awesome.
Getting sucked into going into a cave to look for a husband and then watching Ruindell foolishly endanger everyone to the point that Aella left.
Meeting new people of Travance including Kit, who seemed so nice. Being uncomfortable watching the news of Xualla being broken to her and watching her cry as I glared at the person who gave her the news.
Snapping at Ruindal when she came back to apologize.


Saturday
Having a nice chat with Ruindal about patience, not being so selfish and working with others. Telling her that she has to step it up and prove herself before she can trust her again. Talking about how the town needs her to be better for the towns people to like her.
Had a good talk to Typhon about his hierophant nature.
Worst wedding ever.. but it was so damn cool to witness. Watching so many people cry at the scenario was actually very powerful. Props to the jester...just wow!
Relaxo time at Kalodonia! CHEESE = AWESOME
Trying to fix the glade and not thinking to use flee as invisible hands were chasing her. Watching Kleiden being awesome as an eagle!
Getting boxed in between a no exit zone and a pack of Assassins. Aella deciding that the best route is the Scylla method.. Let the higher seasoned people be on the outer edge with the lower people protected in between. Then when the assassins drop one of us, just pick him up and keep going until we are safely away.
More hanging out with Kalodonia and playing with colored fire... just because.

Sunday
Getting woken up to traps in our tent incapacitating all the monsters.
Getting to be a part of the Annora lesson. IT was a lot of fun sitting in a tree pelting arrows at one target.

Looking forward to week in the life. Doing Feast and bringing all the cookies.

Hmmm…. Where to begin.

Oh yes. Safety speech. I am very sorry if I came across as a bit gruff. To my own mental review of my words afterwards, they seemed that way and for that I apologize profusely. KR is where I am supposed to leave outside problems in the parking lot. To let them color my delivery in ANY fashion of important stuff…. Is unacceptable.

Anyways…
Friday pre-layon: Helped the kitchen crew and gave a class on how the industrial Manual Can-opener worked. :cool:

After layon….

Boy was it damp… and I blame the weather witches for getting their timing wrong on when it was gonna stop. The one thing that the weather did do though… was making Ranger Tracking of Invisible Drow sooooooooooooooo easy.
Me (to sneaking drow after I placed my sword to block him): Hey there slick…. Not so fast.
Drow: What?
Me: Invisible works against everything but tracking when its muddy, Lad. Why don’t you relax and lets talk about this mess, aye?
Drow: No (vanishes)
Me: Damnit! Sneaky git, this is nae the way to win friends…

This became important later as I am making way back to the inn when the same Drow reappears and tries to waylay me. Gin-uki showed him why that was a mistake when a Legionaire is within arm’s reach.

A very angry Duncan delivering the still alive Drow to the inn and throwing him on the floor through the door was rather cool RP thing. Good Intel was gained…

The gorgeous moonlight after the rains stopped and clouds cleared was awesome… as was some awesome RP hunting Drow with Alander and some of the new players.

Seeing that Duncan’s dwarven friend had learned some lessons from previous (mis)adventures they had, brought a huge smile to my face. Dude… you have no idea how much finding out that lesson about caution stuck with you made the PC happy. Well… maybe now you do. *grin*


Saturday morning…

Even tho I only went to bed at 3am, I was still up on my normal time of 07-ish. It meant I had the showers to my-self… At least until Marylas showed up. :evil: :blink: Ah well.

Up to the inn and get into a discussion about religion… and of course caused a ruckus that pulled in more than a few trying to defend the (in)action of the Church as a whole. Told there was to be a Mass at 4… and I promised those in the conversation I would be there.

When Birgitta was busy with lessons, I was given responsibility for her War Dog, Melody. So I decided to take her and some brand new residents of Travance on a tour (they hadn’t seen much the night before due to time and weather) so off we went.

Good thing I had the wardog too… Surprise explosive gift from a group of (later learned to be tainted) Ogres and Goblins over by Alisandria took out over half the new residents, leaving myself, Melody and the new Ranger with me to fight stuff out of our weight class.
As we are fighting for our lives, Melody starts barking at the Goblins, scaring them…. And bringing Cavalry in the form of Godric and another Alisandrian from up the road aways.

Incidentally, as a good Wardog should, Melody was about to “eat” one of the remaining ogres still up but was pulled off before it was “ravaged”.

(A special thankyou to the NPC’s here for being awesomely cool with your interaction with the dog. Belive me when I say that she was proud of herself afterwards. Talk about a strutting Collie.)

Got to that wedding… and all I can say is that there is a Jester who has earned the Ire of a Celt. I want his head on a Pike… and his hat for a cleaning rag. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr….

Get back and attend that mass with an open mind, having been told that it would be an Important Mass. Trust me… with what was said, nothing remotely countered the perception of what my PC believes the church of Kormye/Travance is about.
After Mass was ended, everything became all about the folks baptized and their benefits from mass. The Unwashed Masses who weren’t Recognized by a Greater Power need not be there…. And YES, that is how it was presented.
If I had stayed silent as I was leaving, I think I would have been absolutely ignored completely by the self-absorbed in there and not missed a bit until someone went to ask me a question and discovered an empty seat.

So because I am not baptized, I am nothing to the Church (or so it was presented) and therefore no reason for me to remain- especially since it was repeated twice that Mass was over and there wasn’t to be anything important coming next. Way to win Converts and correct the perception no one Official cares.

So this member of the unwashed, unbaptized masses departed for no reason to remain. Turns out I missed some spirited old-fashioned ass-chewing of the Clergy from a very unlikely source.

Which is fine- this will make for some fun debate/RP later I am certain.

Got in some teaching time before Feast, teaching Florentine to one person and then Critical Strike to another. For anyone who wishes to learn from me, be prepared for a more philosophical session- mixed with humor as appropriate.

Feast was tasty…. Kudos to the Feast Crew. There was plenty to eat, at least at my table and it *was* eaten.

Main Mod…. NPC time for me and fought over in the side area where the glamour collection was… A comment was made that I am no longer allowed to attack the inn during Main was floated and met with laughter from all those who knew of last feast’s carnage. And while funny, it would be a bummer if its true.
Kudos to Steelson and Kanas with their responses to insult being used on them. Falia, your response was priceless- and I thought you were actually gonna REALLY kill me….


While I thought the use of the smoke-pots was about right in our area, I was told their use was over the top in the caves and some folks were ill. Hopefully, those with the issues there put it in their Re-cap forms. I appreciate being told about it though and will strongly encourage a lighter hand with them for future events.

Post main, it was back in character…. And more teaching was done- a long promised lesson on Battle-cry over in Kalidona

Not long after, it was bedtime for me.

Sunday morning… Early Breakfast stuff, more talks about religion and another walk with the War dog… Nothing happened this time, though.

Too soon it was time to pack and go home. All too awesome a weekend, despite the Steampunk Fair and the weather keeping many away.

Until next month folks…. See you all then!

Friday night - Drinking and Singing.

Saturday - Paling around with Hurgar, Cyric, Alander, Lathiel, and many others.

Pit fight went well, I was very happy with how it turned out. No one try that. Also there will be a rematch, it could involve a great johnny cash song.

Conversation with Don'Kallard went well.

Hanging around with Kit and crew, helping a bunch of new people with lifestyle improvement

Tavern grand opening between games. Go Blood and Beer

All the interrogate sessions

Pendarvin eating and hanging out.

I am excited may be bringing lots of McKraegars for a June invasion