Oct 2014 - highlights

The emotional rollercoaster that was this event!

Playing Vernax VonUelrog was a grand time.

The deeply personal conversations I had with Arabeth, Tari, and Gideon. So much crying.

Getting to use just about all my Heroic skills this game with great success!

Inverted Tower Mod: How does a nerd beat another nerd? You grab yourself and beat that nerd down. The downside to subdues with no strengths when fighting yourself.

Wielding Bloodtide. I threw myself into this as hard as I could. I hope you guys enjoyed, I certainly did. Special thank you to May, Jason, and Larry!

Taking Gideons advice and his reaction when he realized it led to all the carnage on Sunday.

Oh goshes, I get to post one of these now! Yay! There's way too much I enjoyed to be able to list everything, but here goes:

• The format of the entire weekend was amazing. While I'm new to Knight Realms, the LARP I'd previously attended always stuck to the same format, and so getting to experience something new was a real treat.


• I really enjoyed the new player introduction. Between the welcome packet and its contents, the missive to explore the Inverted Tower, and our new player walkabout, it was both helpful and immediately immersive. Little things, sure, but they totally make a difference. Now I just need to make sure I take an NPC shift that lets me go on the new player mods next event! I need to see what's in that tower!


• Edwin has become my grandpa.


• Food. Kitchen staff, I love you. Thank you for all of your hard work! Waking up the smell of bacon and pancakes on Saturday morning was divine.


• Learning how to play Poker for the first time in my actual life during Market Faire.


• My facepalm-worthy introduction to Jonas Kane.


• Belegchand's triple-lesson; ripe with floating Celts!


• NPC shift and our Cavalier shield-wall during the Alisandria attack. That was one of the best encounter-based mods I've NPCed, with how well everyone tried to work together as a long-standing unit.


• Adventure Time in the woods on Sunday morning!


• Sir Anhil kept assaulting me with bread. .__. It was so delicious and yet so improper.


• The OOC herbalism and foraging talks with Diane have totally helped me out IRL.


• Everyone I met in character. Thank you for the great roleplay, and for letting me stammer and shuffle awkwardly at you! There' were so many of you that I was able to gain first interactions with, and I hope to speak with you all again soon!


• And, of course, finally being able to attend! I sincerely want to thank the New-Player Marshals, Storytellers, James, staff as a whole, and everyone I was able to meet and speak with over the course of the weekend, be it in or out of character. I felt so welcomed by this great big family of a LARP, and I can't wait to be able to come back and continue forging amazing stories with you. Thank you, thank you, thank you for this experience.

In no particular order;

-Finally being given something to be IC conflicted about.
-Final MW lesson. I haven't run like that since high school. The worth-it after sore. Shouts to Sirs Gideon and Anhil, Lorelai, Keavy, Oren, Sigfreid, Grimkjell, Shee, and a few other names I should know by now...
-Just too late to discover a nickname... :lol: Orangie is tough as %&#$.
-Team pretzel pre-mod shenanigans; thankfulness of not taking the short route to the kitchen...
-A last minute miracle feast. Being glad certain shenanigans were witnessed while out of game.
-Immaculate (except for that web) team pretzel mod.
-Highest attendance light mass I've ever seen.
-Saturday night giggle fest in the inn with Shee, then later at the stump with Argyll, Nalick, Dr. Demontfort, Wylla, Swyft, and a couple others I'm embarrassed to not know the names of...
-Chat with Jun, and a rare occasion to show Imrahil isn't serious all the time.
-My first trap keeping safe the inhabitants of the Briny Drake!
-Discovering trip is apparently my signature lesson. Felt totally natural. I hope it felt as good from the students perspective.
-Cloak of the green lesson from Kleiden (and an OOG one from Namit.) Both nailing it. Both bringing to light the same part I would have overlooked.
-Sir Pluvious ninja-ing a couple invisibility potions at Aldric and I's feet just in time.
-Guard meeting's usual "I hear the din of battle" conclusion.
-First ever Saturday 6p to Sunday 6a no tags used.
-Some planning with Dr. Tobias, Sir Pluvious, and Riva (Sorry, I'm not sure which of your characters I was talking with...) on an apparently politically unpopular thing. Gonna be so worth it though!

And last, but certainly not least, the folks! You guys make me want to continue to drive 5 hours and get a similar amount of sleep over three days each month!

Friday night Midnight mass was awesome and beautiful! So many people showed up and spoke! It was great RP! I really love that altar space and I am glad the rain held off untill we were done.

Saturday, market faire was good. I got to make some potions, chat with people and just have fun. Then I got pulled over to the monestary where Labelle greeted me and invited me to run the Light mass. Went back and finished up Market Faire and made some $$ so I could give some money away to folks. I love doing that. Got to chat with Nigel and Meander for a few moments, two of my favorite alchemists.

Light Mass . . . wow! I had not planned on getting emotional but that is where the moment took me. Awesome RP all around. Thalia had me in tears, too. So glad she took my advice and spoke from the heart. More awesome RP!

Then I had some great conversations with Caldor, Birgitta, Albert and a few others. The grief that people expressed over the children was just moving.

Being asked to give the benediction at feast was good. I kept it short and sweet. Feast was delicious!!! I could have eaten a lot more; but I'm glad I didn't. The knightings were great too! Well deserved!

Sunday morning . . . yelling at Duncan who called ME stubborn . . pot - kettle! Getting a lesson from Sir Rudolf, so much squee! Hugs all around!

Thanks to all the staff, marshals, ST's, MM's, LM's, Kirsten and James for making this an interesting and fun event. I really appreciate all the hard work!

Maralas wrote: Sunday morning . . . yelling at Duncan who called ME stubborn . . pot - kettle!

But you are stubborn. far more stubborn than I.

And that is sayin' alot.

A fantastic event for Belegchand as far as getting stuff done. In chronological order:

1. Being told almost immediately to figure out the symbols. Managing to successfully do so with Edwin and Mordra almost immediately thereafter.

2. Inverted Tower Mod and the return of King's Defender. My left shoulder is actually seriously hurting because I haven't used a shield in forever. Getting to fight Steve as Mirror Belegchand was enjoyable and definitely a challenge.

3. Long discussions regarding the last few events with Croi and Sindarion, including a lot of emotion from all parties involved.

4. Triple-lesson!

5. Being asked to attend the Council meeting because I would be useful to have there. Felt exceptionally honored by that.

6. (NPC) Out as the Vekrim Shai, and getting into a screaming match with Arden. Gina, that was an exceptionally fun thing to RP out.

7. Getting to do an announcement at the start of Feast is definitely fun.

8. Chronicler Mass. I hope anyone who attends feels like they learned something new about the main plot.

9. Getting to RP handing out baubles of intercept. I hope everyone liked the flavor of the Elbowguard to help enhance the reflexes.

10. Feeling useful on the Drow Main Mod, getting to clear one of the tunnels with a Quiet Contemplation.

11. Post-Main Mod discussions with Keillor. Drew, that was absolutely fantastic.

12. Balfurous showing up. The portal opened, I saw an imposing blue shape, and immediately dropped all of my possessions and ran towards it mostly knowing what it likely was. Getting forced back towards the building only to be frozen mid-pathway.

13. Immediately portaling out to Hero's Rest, and feeling exceptionally useful once there.

14. Oh man, helping to work on the Gates of Passage was SO MUCH FUN. I loved finally being able to role-play using Master Archeology.

Thank you everyone for the wonderful RP, and I cannot wait to see you all at the ball.