Week In the Life ~ Highlights!

In no particular order:

1) Roleplay with Seamus and Bishop Chance.
2) Feast was absolutely one of the best overall in my many years of LARP'ing.
3) Getting back in the swing of things a bit more after being away, and meeting many new people, plus reconnecting with some other friends I hadn't seen in years.
4) Being so excited for the Friday night grove mod outcome, despite not even being able to be a part of it.
5) Jen and the rest of the Dwarven NPCs, I was almost crying from laughing so hard.
6) Somehow pulling off two complete meals and a late-night snack with reasonable success. Thank you to everyone for your feedback, it was great to hear.
7) That place with those acquaintances and discretionary planning.
Strike force teams, and helping to coordinate things behind our lines.
9) Circus was fun, though I wanted to enjoy it more IG but couldn't because of how my character feels toward those sorts of things. Something about them being nothing more than "coin shakedowns", or in my case, the person collecting the coin trying to take my necklace as compensation.
10) Telepathy RP with someone after making a joke that had a lot more weight behind it than was intended.
11) Bringing some laughter to some exhausted NPCs on the side of the road after main mod.
12) "Positive Decency" explanation during Sunday morning training lessons, and actually pulling off a reasonable explanation behind my ridiculous theory.
13) Teaching skills. I missed the interaction and the opportunity to provide insight on how a character sees their skills more than I had originally thought.
14) All the cookouts at the various lands, the stories, the songs, and the good times. Week in the Life was something I had wanted to try for years, and now I know why.

EDITS:

15) RP with James about attending mass and eating chips loudly the entire time.
16) (hot sauce + grilled sausage) + (hot sauce + cheesy feast potatoes) = delicious!


I'm sure there are more, but I'll edit after I remember them. Looking forward to next event already!

IG: Therion

In no particular order

-Song Circle
-Food
-More food
-CSI:Travance (YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAH!)
-Feast Portal
-FEAST!!!
-Marauder
-Drow caves part 2
-Food

Soooo... WITL.

The last few months have been becoming more interesting from an RP point. And then this month happened and the RP I experienced with all the different groups and people, some of which I never got to before, was better than anything I have previously experienced ever. The interactions with all the religious factions in town and some very intense and intimate moments with unexpected members completely blew me away. Doing all the makeup and putting this character out there put me way more than outside my comfort zone, but with how so many people responded, it was more than rewarding and actually quite heartwarming, (death glares and all), and lead to the best rp experiences for me to date.

With that said, in no particular order:

Religious Summit and the rp that lead up to it. The people who were with me beforehand have laid such a wonderful foundation.

Everything leading up to the Maiden's Choice dance. Trying to keep a straight face OOG while standing in a line dance, Atrus makeup and all, across from various light clergy, with pink roses in shirt. "I'm pretty sure I'm getting kicked out of the family for this."

Bothering Laura and Sam M's characters, the RP was astounding. "I liked how you used your compassion and acceptance here as a weapon. That was very sneaky... I appreciate that."

"You had me at 'cannibalism'." And the completely out of the blue rp that resulted.

Ceremonies... If you're bloody, mildly grossed out, and a little offended, then it was a success.
PC: "Do I even want to know what's in this?"
Atrus: "Probably not, if you did you wouldn't drink it... I'll tell you afterwards."

Steve on Sunday: "Every time I see you, you look more and more monstrous!"

Catching a glimpse of myself in a mirror OOG, "Why would any one of you go into the woods with this, and listen to me!?!?"

There are so many more that I will possibly post at another time. Either way, thank you all for the rp, both positive and negative IG responses, it was awesome.

Post-event coma almost over, so I wanted to jot some highlights down while still fresh:

Thursday Night:

Going to the religious summit part two at Alisandria. Walking in and facing the dark clergy and light, not knowing who was more eager to shout me down. In the end we quibbled about semantics and I walked away, sorry about that folks.

Winding up in Ostcliff and discussed things with Morewen (sp?) and Sir Jack until well past 4 am. Without this conversation, I think my event would not have gone nearly so well. It gave me a perspective on my own behavior and on others that proved invaluable. Thanks guys!

Friday:

Spent a laid back day visiting lands, brunch in Drega'mire, getting drafted to cook for Pendarvin, getting training done and giving training in turn. Grim's Master Warrior lesson at Drega'brunch was interesting. I had to write a Poem. Interesting perspective on the training, and I hope Bill likes the poem I gave him after.

As the early evening rolled on, I gravitated back to the Monastery, helped with the fire and watched the Maiden's Choice festivities. Had some fine RP with Mother Remy and friend, and picked on Cecilia for a time, successfully making her the focal point of attention.

Weekend:

Friday Night began quietly enough, however an immense burden was lifted from Aldric's shoulders after RP with Arabeth, and new purpose from Bat. So my weekend was pretty much a win for me from there. Some quotes from the weekend:

Thalia: "As I see it, I have three duties; One: To keep the ale flowin', Two: To train the new barkeeps, an' Three: To put up with Brother Aldric."

Brother Aldric: "This pub is my office, I preach here more than anywhere and thee assist me with that."
New Barkeep (Forgive me not remembering the name): So does that make me a Priest?
Brother Aldric: "No lad, that makes thee an Altar Boy."

Excellent Light Mass, thank you to the speakers and those who attended.

I NPCed main mod which underscored the disparity in power levels of the PCs to the NPCs at times. The caves where beautifully lit with sound and fog, I really hope some pictures were taken just of them that night.

Finishing up Master list training with Caelvan. We both were watching Bran fight a NPC in a duel, I remarked to Caelvan, "Bran fights with the exact same style I do, but he is way quicker." Caelvan: (after Bran finished the duel) "Hey Bran come here and help me with a Master Warrior lesson." Me: (in my head) "Damn". Probably the most intense fight of the weekend there. Jersey Friends rules probably are insufficient to explain it. I hope I gave what I got, and Bran certainly made it the most memorable training session so far. The conversation with Caelvan (the trainer) before hand makes it all my fault, however.

Overall, nice change of pace to begin the game, and the usual intensity and adversity throughout the weekend portion. Good job to staff for the set up and a special thank you to Marie Del Rio for the Feast. I saw her up at 4am baking cupcakes and getting the feast ready and that kind of devotion shows. She went through alot for us, give her a hug when you see her next!

Weds- Couldn't make it so sad
Thursday-
• Got to wear my spiffy new outfit that made me look like a freaking pretty, pretty princess.
• Kaladonia games which were fun and then dropped.. so sad because it was fun.
• Caelvin and Keavy's wedding.
• Reception and ...advice for the newlyweds.
• RElaxing at the fire with friends.
• Watching Caldor trying to leave..and failing miserably
Friday
• BEAR! Getting woken up to friendly warnings of a bear. Sleepily informing Chris That I had traps so no worries.. then pausing and saying "Wait a real one?" and Chris saying yes.
Getting up because I know the Bear won't respect the yellow string on my tent.
• Talking to Angeliana about stuff
• Treasure hunting! And failing miserably. This is why I don't do it. All I seem to net are bug bites
• Watching STeve and company freak out about ants.
• Going down to the beach and watching everyone play in the water.. so jealous. Green paint = no dice.
• Thanks to the fishers who were patient with my son who seemed fascinated by watching fishies get killed and gutted.
• Pendarvin cookout!!
• Giving flee and Gift of the predator lessons. The flee lesson was fun. I wish my leg didn't decide to rebel on me.
• Picking up my friend's daughter to try out Knight realms. THANKS to all who made her feel welcome and happy. She was very nervous, but at the end was so grateful to all those who treated her s nicely. Her father wants to come in as a Warrior monk. He teaches Judo and was an alternate on the Olympic team a few times.
• Warlock fight.. I didn't get to see the outcome of.
• Baking cupcakes until 6 am. I regret starting at 1:00 am.
Saturday
• Feast cooking from Noonish on.
• Feast! Thanks to all my servers and prep people. YOu all did a fabulous job. A big thanks to Minnie who was there the entire time with me. ALso thank you for the great feedback. I love hearing that the food was good.
• Main mod. Doing so much damage I made Aliester say.. "Holy crap you are coming with me."
•Bard circle at Kaladonia.
• Cannibals .. Umm wtf?
• Clove's hut tracking. While I netted little answers that were correct, the overall experience was still interesting.
• WHy is the sun out? Also nice conversations with people by the fire I rarely get to talk to.
Sunday
• Yeah I am just going to say it was truly a lazy Sunday for me

Oh man, where do I even start? Legitimately, the best IC moments I have ever had were in this event. So much happened, I'm not entirely sure I can recall all of it.

Wednesday:
Arrived, walked around, spoke to people. Went to Kaladonia's song circle, which was good fun. It was nice and relaxing - a good change of pace from what Illyrin is used to in Travance.

Thursday:
Started with NPC shift, which was fun. Walked around trying to sell stuff and was doing a good job of it. Even managed to sell some stuff for a little bit more than what it was worth (Travance, you need to learn to haggle), and then Silus happened. Ended up trading everything I had for a cursed cup and bronze shovel. Absolutely hilarious, OOG. Later in the evening I had a lesson in tolerance which was loads of fun - enjoyed RPing with everybody involved. And then the NPC I had suggested to logistics came out to pick a fight with me and dear god that was hilarious out of game. Illyrin was NOT expecting a Londwynian to let loose with berserker rage.

Friday:
Got a lesson in First Aid from Birgitta which was neat. Illyrin kept practising tolerance for the rest of the day, and it was lots of fun watching people express their surprise that an elf was starting to manage his drink. Thalia asked him for a dance at the Maiden's Choice Dance and Illyrin accepted, but is absolutely clueless that she was actually asking him out.

Saturday:
NPC shift first up, had fun waking the camp up as a Dire Wolf along with a bunch of goblins. The attack on the armory was surprisingly successful! Also had some fun being said dire wolf when the goblins went to the inn, because druids and sylvans happened. It lead to some good RP, lots of fun. Enjoyed running around as an orc trying to capture people with the ogres and a drow - HOLY HELL, JAVELINS ARE FUN FOR NPCS. Nothing quite like throwing 12s and critting for 24s as a CR10 NPC. Later got back in character as Illyrin, had some RP swordsmanship lessons from Tobar that no build was spent on but were still fun - I'm slowly getting out of the SCA combat mindset! Illyrin was fascinated by seeing Firin and listening to his discussion with the woodsmen, also geeked out about seeing a Lorestri - he may not be a bard, be he's a traveler and seeing a time-traveler was INCREDIBLY AWESOME for him.

Feast was absolutely delicious, but OH MAN, I have got to say that the singing-portal thing was just the best scene I have ever taken part in. Ever. It was absolutely WONDERFUL, every little bit of it. The whole feast hall emptying out to see what had occurred while the song (a beautiful one at that, mind you) kept going - it was a really magical moment. Illyrin was chronicler-ing as hard as he could, writing down what was happening. When he went through the portal to find Firin's grove - such a place of magic and wonder, he had a true religious moment. Being able to witness that whole scene legitimately confirmed his desire to truly devote himself to his faith. It was an amazing scene and I cannot begin to express how wonderful it was both IG and OOG. Just, bravo all around.

Main mod was A Thing. Illyrin was growing irritated that he couldn't make out what was happening so he could record it, and almost lost a life tag (got hit by two 70 poison assails which dropped him into serious with poison - and then was abandoned by the group that he was with at the time. It's really a supreme stroke of luck that the Pendarvin strike team found him when they did). After main mod, went to Kaladonia's bawdy song circle which helped with his mood.

Sunday:
Mostly just did cabin and camp cleanup and then drove home, as per usual.

I know a ton more happened than just that but I'm still trying to recall it all. GREAT event, 11/10 would play WitL again.