August 2014 Highlights!

I will officially post on this later. For now, go to town!

Okay..? I guess I'll start things off then.

Well done this weekend, folks. Well done.
Not a whole lot of 'interesting' happened this weekend for me, but that's fine because I wasn't going for that. I wanted your money, and I got it.
I served six different brews at the Black Bird Tavern this month, all of which were the best drinks that I could import around Arawyn. If you want to run a good business, you need to impress, especially on your first few days. It's also helpful to have only the best of the best employees working for you, too. Just sayin'. And absolutely no disrespect to The Dragon's claw inn, but I hope word gets around so that we can get some more people to stop by and say hello, have a drink and enjoy the new little establishment.
I guess you could say that I got some fighting in this event, but not a whole lot. That's fine though, I still got plenty of people saying that they like my fighting style, and for that, I say thank you. I aim to please.
Sunday was a nice day. Perfect enough for me to down two bottles of the mead I brought in and stumble around with that "I hate all of you" face that I always seem to wear for no reason whatsoever. That drunken stupor ended very quickly when my uhh...When um...Surprise circumcision. Yeah. Someone had to rub that for me...

I want to thank Damien (Vaux) for the help and support he's given to Sébastien. It's nice to be in a place where people actually know your name and enjoy your work and company. Thank you everyone who made my first nights running the Black Bird very enjoyable and something that I will definitely be doing more often.
A big thank you also goes to our Kitchen staff for an awesome feast. Thank you guys for all of your hard work.
Thank you to our full-time NPCs, too.
I hope everyone had a great time, and I can't wait to read up about everybody's weekend. I won't be seeing you guys in September, so with that being said, take care until next we meet!

-The first interaction with the Morlen and realizing quickly the situation was far more complicated than originally thought.

-Lori (Leslie's Dark Elf) basically being my hero and researching at the scholar's table with the snippits of information I offered as I passed while I went around trying to keep the new visitors alive/collecting blood samples.

-I kind of murdered the hell out of that Illithid (I remembered all of my skills for a change! It was fantastic! So many mind defenses!)

-Bagels and Druids.

-Impromptu Wildmage hangout at the scholar's table. It seriously was the absolute best having everyone meet for a bit. We should try it again some time! Entertaining George and Zinia (sp?) with my sleep deprivation.

-George's Final Arch Caster Lesson. It went from secluded and safe to 'why are so many people here?!' At least the surge wasn't too serious and Ilana got him out in time.

-Speaking of mind defenses. The group of Morlens who eventually gave up on Dominating me and just started swinging and then after defeating them, healing them all up and sending them on their way with a 'I've proved I'm strong, ttyl.' and it working.

-"Ilana, they're after you now." "What?" Thinking it was a misunderstanding and then catching a bit of insight after game.

-Oh the Willow Misunderstanding X.x

-Puzzle mod!

-Lois has such a lovely heart.

-P.S. I love just hanging out with Tobias.

-Visigalis things!

-Hearing Balfurous and the destruction of the Kula's hurting the town in its own way.

-Ripping up some paper and panicking with Belegchand.

-Trying to explain sea animals to people pretending they don't understand sea animals or the ocean. The best/worst.

-I really need to learn how to stop things with wings. Demons with wings.. dragoons with wings.. ugh.

-Lois' comfort. Cypher and Morwenne's help. Especially Morwenne's understanding.

-The half-joke Ilana accidentally made it rain (even though it was perfectly timed)

-George broke the ice that was Ilana on Sunday. Then I attacked poor Nalick and got enough information out of him to find out what I wanted (The best kind of torture!)

-Though, seriously, Ilana so wanted to use a surge Sunday and nothing showed up. She was disappoint. (Ilana *wanted* to. RPing angry is tiring X.x)

-And now, she waits.


I feel like I'm missing more, I'll add as I remember.

My highlights aren't really in any order just kinda as I remember them.

I would like to title my event as: "Save Ava's Immortal Soul: The Event"

- So many people expressing concern over Ava's current "state". Including Keavy's talk. Sorry Dani, by the time Keavy had her talk to Ava she has pretty much been talking about this the WHOLE WEEKEND. She was pretty much ready to just explode everywhere and possibly divulged too much of her personal life

- Ancient buried papers mod. What happens when you take a Chaos warrior, A cleric, a mage and then a bunch of scholarly/less combaty types? A Very tired and hurt Chaos warrior, Cleric and Mage. Ava and Lucien, and as well as the rest of the group would have been a lot more screwed without Clytie's fire walls. Ava not hearing much of the talks being very confused about Modra saying she was a worm and Bolton's unique way of dealing with the leader. Lois being in a tree a good portion of this. Lucien carrying a very injured Ava and a limping Clytie so they could move faster and then collapsing as soon as we were mostly safe.

-Speaking of Clytie this convo was HILARIOUS:

Clytie: So I've seen you been spending a lot of time with Lucien. Is he going to be your third?
Ava: Third what?
Clytie: Husband.
-Ava's face contorts showing a conflicted Ava.-
(Clytie gets to the point fast. Thankfully, Ava is done with 'political' marriages. Even normal Ava wants to marry for 'love'...or at least what she believes is 'love'. But who could love a monster )

- Spent most of the weekend with Lucien. It's not everyday that a Chaos Warrior bonds with a Cleric of Valos, but Ava can see they are similar, just with different sources and Ava feels the need to both understand where he comes from but also make sure his path is correct.

- Being convinced to go to Light Mass, Ava agree for the giggles, but instead of laughing and later questioning every light clergy's opinion like she had planned to, she instead ended up on her knees in front of the Valosion Altar with almost every one of her insanities triggering right after another. Light mass: too stressful for Ava's brain. OOG I was prepared to sit there for a very very long time. Finding it amusing oog that later Lucien suggested perhaps Ava was praying to Valos. Ava being disgusted at the idea but also really confused since she's not sure what she was doing.

-Having to explain the collar to some of the same people AGAIN as well as defending and assuring people that it was with good intentions.....some people insisting it really didn't.

- This Convo: ( This was a very common model for most of their convos too..)

Lucien: Give me the collar.
Ava: Why?
Lucien: I wish to crush it.
Ava: Jack would be very upset if this is destroyed....
Lucien: -Heavy Sigh-

-Angeliana dropping the mic on Zelretch when he was saying it was very unlike her to be friends with a valosian.

-Talks with Angeliana about jealousy and emotions. And the little interaction at feast was WONDERFUL

Angeliana: Ava
Ava: What?
Angeliana: I love you.
Ava:.....I feel emotions for you too.
Angeliana: I am very proud of you!
Ava: -turns to Lucien- I also feel emotions for you too.

-Illana making Ava sane....for an hour. A lot happened in that hour, Ava found out why Zelretch divorced her and even that he indeed loved her. Ava pleading to Lucien that her current state was not acceptable, even stating that she would probably not remember the request she made. Lucien deciding to follow the requests of sane Ava, even if insane Ava says something totally different. People also being unsettled by Ava's sanity during that time.

- Talks at the lake with Godrick, Mordra and Lucien. At one point it kinda became 2 v 1 but you know, it's cool, Ava can handle that. This was also a gem that I couldn't stop cracking up about later at home:

Lucien: (paraphrased) We will fix you of your illness.
Ava: Are you saying that the profession I follow is an illness?
Lucien: Yes
Ava: That is very insulting you know. If I was holding my weapon I'd have a very hard time not trying to run you through with it.

-In the end of everything, Ava spent a lot of time being introspective, thinking about herself, having to talk about everything so much really has started to give her a conflict of person. It wasn't helpful that Lucien, who at first, Ava was trying to incite, had much more mental fortitude than she expected and has seemed to personally take it upon himself to "help" her. However, he is one of the only people to make more than the average attempt to help Ava when she needed it. I'm excited to see where this RP goes as it could have unforeseen consequences/outcomes, both if he continues to help her, and even more so if he ends up losing faith in her ability to be "saved"....and that's without adding in Jack and some others lol

-Morwenne joking that even Balfurious wouldn't want to go into Ava's mind and then Ava joking that she should be the distraction in the Balfurious fight.

I can't wait for next event! I look forward to seeing ALL OF YOU

Soooooo much awesome this weekend. So tired. Very excited for my old buddy Jeff to be playing at last.

I know I did things before Andorran mass, but seriously I have to jump right to that. Alice set up the most beautiful and wonderful shrine and ran such an original and Unique mass. So wonderful. Everyone there had such a great time. I'd also like to tip my hat to those who were acting in a more guard like capacity. It really was a wonderful dynamic.

Back to Lay on- Tobias did such a fantastic job RPing out examining me for insanity and then curing it. Highly recommend him. Would go insane again just to have him cure it. Having said that, it was really fun seeing the moment where he realized that only 1/2 of what I was talking about was delusions, and half was real, and he had to back peddle from trying to "cure" me of believing the real parts.

Gaian Mass was really fun this moon too. I had a large crowd and I thank all who came to it. I got to baptize two people to Gaia, and the small RP scene between the three of us leading up to it was so much fun. I was so proud of them later on during the event, when each of them at one point came to me to get help trying to further Gaia's tenants while pursuing the plot. I even had to bring one to the Seneshal and it lead to even more great RP.

Ok. So I'm going to bed early right? Because of the Druid morning thing... why is it 2:30 am already? Ah well, off to bed. In my sleeping garb in the Kaladonian tent. settling in.... hearing Goggins yell for help from the Armory. And a second time. Oh gods nobody else is going out. A level 5 Warrior Monk and I bolted to the armory, and found skeletons holding Goggins in a Tree while Lois was on the ground. Somehow we managd to save them... though I went back to my tent with less than 10 total Casting Points and only 3 body...

Woke up late for the druid meeting. I thought SOMEONE would come get me. Fortunately got there before it was over. Druids grove filled with that many people was wonderful. I really hope we can somehow get that many to come out at once when we have druid buisiness to discuss that isn't a challenge between ourselves. Katie was brilliant in how she attended.

Learning about Hellock and Elder (sp?). Sad about one, excited about the other.

Tired all morning. Did Stuff. Don't remember what.

The "trial" on saturday was fun for me for an unusual reason. Caldor has so few buttons that make him angry, that I rarely get to play him seething with rage. I probably would be in uber jail right now if it wasn't for Grim and Gideon's calming hands and words (excellent timing on that Instill Confidence Geoff)

Storming around afterwards. Wife is rightfully happy and calm. I'm being a northman idiot. Caldor was really moved by so many things said to him that I won't repeat here. His friends really rule. Since none of that would calm him, he went to the only person he knew really would be able to - Angel @ mass. Fortunately, she noticed his state and used both social interaction calming and prayers before his turn to speak at mass. Caldors words would have been very different if she had not.

Wife's between game action gave us an excuse to go down to alisandria and while she was talking with them, I got some time to really talke to Sindra, and discuss druidic theories and what not. Much fun.

All ready for to have a relaxing cook out with just my wife and a few friends at Kaladonia, when I hear CALDOR yelled from the Inn.... sound travels well in travance. I go running, and find out 2 minutes before feast that I'm doing the Benediction. OOG It meant a lot to me that he was asked/trusted to do this, as many of the people he has great respect for have done it before him (Angel, Typhon, Maralas for example). The poisoned wine thing was really exciting and unexpected, and working with Carlotta, Tobias, and others to try and fix the wine and find out what happened was a lot of fun.

Fortunately I made it back in time for my steak.

LOVE Leslie's new elf. Her choice of display paintings was amazing, and I hope to interact with her more. I do plan to rabbit model still!

To my favorite part of this event: Caldor always tries to resolve battles without violence, or at the very least to have the battles resolved without death. It was so nice to see this way of thinking actually take hold this event with many of the Morlens? that were searching for Gems. We saved some (at least physically) and spent time figuring out how to help them. Some we protected, some we couldn't. After the main mod ending, seeing Lucien and Haroldson using their prayer of "grant hope" (I think that was it) on those who had lost their families really moved me.

Main mod was beautiful, if confusing. Got to bring back Augustus, which was very personal for Caldor given that he had only just returned to the proper.

Loved interacting with Father Lazarus, Michael and... I forgot the third one's name. I like were our relationships have ended, with some level of respect for eachothers devotion. Surprised to see which of my friends have become Visigalin.

ORder of the new Dawn NPCs are interesting. Wish I had the time to interact with them more, as I really don't know ANYTHING about them. Caldor is taking the colors he was told about to heart, though he still doesn't know why.

Taking the Dentist to the Enaxian Shrine and chatting with him was fun. I'm hoping its presence will draw him to Kaladonia for some cookouts or what not.

Went to bed early on Saturday becaus eof lack of sleep the night before. Had so much fun when undead tried to get into our tent. One actually managed to slip past all of our traps... only to have me sit up and weild faith him right back into them.

I always enjoy Sunday. Much teaching. Much learning. Got to teach willow Cal like Grace, which is my favorite lesson to give, and help with Shamus' shield lesson, which I adore.

Druid Heirophant duel was good, though the fight was a bit of a let down. I was hoping for more druidics, less combat skills. However, it went in ways I had OOG kind of expected, and I'm hoping our Conclave will be better for it going forward.

I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot, but I always do.

All in all a wonderful event. I had such a blast and really look forward to coming again.

Truly an awesome start for the dark elf Lorien Blackstone "Lori".

Waylay... Riddle of confusion... You do know I'm on your side right? Yep new to Travance people confusion. Too funny... Distracted kidnappers freeing the held. "I cut you free". "What?" I snap around second blade other side of the Tree. "I cut you free!"

Sharing loot.

I got yo go on Tower Mod. When I had Birgitta started the Inverted a Tower was a hell hole in Travance that was mostly rumor. When I come back... You can't go! So going on Tower Mod and learning how it goes who runs it how it's run and what kind of things can happen. Wow, cool and yes I got to go on Tower Mod!

During which I get my own sneak on... And search the entire floor to find nothing of what we are looking for. Enax! Protections and blade help...and a story for the scholar later.

Research books. Hours of sitting at the table doing research uncovering information in the deep of the night. Watching combat happening from the outside. Lol inside staring dark elf outside. They... They don't see me? "There has to be a spell on the table somewhere." Goes back to researching.

Elves... Certain ones. If I don't look at her I can listen. Others the fifty yard stare. One bold soon to be Lord "what is your house! House? House, what house are you from. I'm sorry I don't understand what you are asking.

Inside giggling. I love you Geoff!

Then on Sunday Kleiden getting Kanas to ask a certain Dark Elf to find out about another...horrid one raiding and killing... Yeah she really wants to find that guy too!

Treasure... Turned in to the Monastery. Dark elf at light church mass... Hmmm. That was pure luck walking in.

Art in the Inn at Market Fair! Caldor you rocked you made her 'day' in so many ways.

Enax story.
Showing art.
Getting to make illustrations.
The Travancian teaching the Dark Elf her native tongue. Only in Travance!

Finding out about a forest that is carnivorous... Wanting to draw And study it.

Finding out the Scholar has a lot of philosophy in common with the Northmen... Something about living in mountain valleys I guess.

So many cool RP things!

Lorien "Lori" Blackstone
Kormarian Dark Elf
Travancian

Lowlight was missing out on feast. Being gut sick... Sucks. Not contagious for those who were in contact either me!

I'm missing stuff. I know I am.

Hugs all!