Dec 2014 Highlights

OH man. so I forgot the B. E. S. T. highlight.

Which was when Kev as Orion was splayed out in the graveyard taking a nap and giggling or whatever and Croí stood over him and started shaking him and screaming that he was insane and looked like a dead body.

First and foremost - Feast. Oh gods. Preparing it was something incredible to watch, and eating it was better. Ree you and your crew did an amazing job.

Wonderful Midnight mass. I truly enjoy doing that every event, and was so glad so many people showed up.

I had so much fun putting Season's Blessing (Spring) there and having people have to RP being in the spring, despite the cold.

Season's WRATH ended up being the most fun ritual I have done yet... I hope everyone enjoyed it.

Wonderful fun learning Ceremonialist from the Bishop. I really enjoy watching her do her rituals as well.

Had a very, very serene moment walking with Typhon (and Xod) to the Lake on Sunday. I really just enjoy talking Druid stuff with him.

Xod got some lessons this event that were more exciting than my own.

Got to work with the Warlord ... a very odd feeling for Caldor.

Was very proud of Travance's preparation/teamwork/support in the main fight. I was stunned nobody died.

I'm sure there is more, but hell if I can remember at this point.

The biggest highlight, bittersweet though it was, was watching Illyrian with the Balfurometer. Super Job, Galen. I know Coryan will be glad to know it was used well.

The oath on Oathmaker with Danny, Grim, Keavy and Torc

Grim being forced to cut down Magnus during the fight with Balfurous, having realized something the rest of the Town didn't, and unleashing his most potent fury as he did so. Then promptly being shot down by his own sister, thanking her as he fell, then stumbling out of the healer's circle still in a rage, to be shot down again, then properly calmed and slapped around for a good 3 minutes. Great physical RP, Ree.

The entirety of the war council regarding the Balfurous fight was great to stand in on. here's hoping I can continue to show up for Council meetings as grim in some capacity.

Grim sharing a song with Croi and Sindarion, and Croi realizing something about them both.

The guard meeting out on the porch. Grim didn't say much, but he didn't really have to. Magnus told him at the end, "You are their hope."

He still doesn't know what that means.

Being chosen to be the tip of the spear to deliver Keavy and Bloodtide to Balfurous. Grim didn't hesitate even for a moment.

All the legal rp around being a guard, taking in prisoners, capturing prisoners, and interrogating prisoners was great.

Playing with Rudolf and everyone else.

Making sure Imrahil got promoted.

Once again, being the man who held down the condemned during executions.

How well the Galladellian clergy reacted when Duncan suggested desecrating or not burying the executed properly. A+.

Post main mod madness with Chris Zipeto as we basically get Pendarvin all walking around in the snow for 3 hours due to well-roleplayed insanity and his incredible Flim Flam skills.

Going on patrol with the Alisandrians.

The mentor/student roleplay with Bat cooper, and the revelations that resulted from it. Family roleplay was top-notch, as always, even if Burk and grim only ever see each other occasionally.

A moment's peace at the end of main mod, when grim realizes where they are before anyone else can talk, and welcomes the entire town to Heroes' rest.

Oh man this event. This freakin' event. I went through the whole range of emotions with Illyrin on this one - it was quite the ride.

Friday:

• Seeing Almat again after a long time. She was the first of his church's clergy that he met in Travance and a lot of his decision to become ordained was caused by having great discussions with her. He was really glad to have her back.
• Der Krampus was really interesting to Illyrin and was a great encounter. Points to Zipeto for his rp with that NPC.
• Frederick mod was excellent. I often feel like it's very difficult for lowbies to feel like they're contributing something, so mods geared to low-to-midbies are great. Illyrin felt great having been able to really make a difference there.
• Cursed items! Cursed items everywhere! Got to o the chroniclerite thing and detect a man was lying about not planting the trinkets on people and got six of them placed on me for my troubles, it was hilarious. Ended up succumbing to them in the middle of an interrogation of another suspect. The look on Grim and Imrahil's faces when Illyrin started wailing on the psion - priceless.

Saturday:

• Checking out the monastery's issues. Feeling very intrigued and also very territorial - Illyrin does not like having entities so closely related to corruption close to altars to his god. Wish I could have heard more, but what I gleaned was really interesting.
• Being told about Thalia's travails last month - he was really pretty concerned and pissed off at Pendarvin for what he heard.
• Going off to see about a piece of Aodra. Holy hell that was neato. From a well described ceremony, to witnessing a piece of heaven, to seeing Weaveforger in full Brazenite glory, to Belegchand being Belegchand and getting knocked the hell out for it - the whole thing was great and made up for missing the Dragoon Cairn.
• Gearing up for main mod - at feast, Lois Maxwell asked if he would take the Balfuriometer into the battle and he accepted. Going from having no major part in the battle to a part that people's lives would rely upon made him (and me in a great bit of bleed) incredibly nervous. Again, found that Illyrin relies a lot on his faith to get him through tough moments - good thing the role he had was essentially the obtaining and spreading of information, meaning that it didn't conflict with Chronicler's fourth tenet.
• NPC shift was fun. Being a ghoul started pretty slow but became fun. Got killed really fast a lot, but had fun doing it.

Sunday:

• Per usual, didn't do much on Sunday. Spoke with a couple people about the recent abundance of crazy people and will likely be looking into that.

I have no doubt that there's a LOT more to talk about but I am in a larp coma. Suffice it to say that I'm emotionally exhausted because I went through feeling so many emotions.

Great game, 10/10, would do again.

Highlights

Friday night as Daniel,
-church mission, got to do some stealthy recon
-easy money all thanks to a "hey, anyone gonna disect that?"
-shiv ally and all the hasseling that ensued because of it. Shivtastic shivnanagins are sure to happen again
-that's right little mister no shiv, walk away!

Saturday as clove
-Grapes!
-training xod!
-making all the scourge dolls

Sunday as clove
-great rp with swyft
-gregory smuggly stating he does not get hurt
-minutes later gregory having broken legs amd psionicly holding himself up by his cape like a baby the stork would bring
-teaching a new healer about the incurable disease of dumb, demonstrated using gregory as a visual aid
-snowball fight!

Lowlights
Every encounter except the church mission being blown to bits in 2 seconds, even had to resort to using skills against players with unique weapons just to get a piece of the action

Coming back from my mm shift to find out no one implemented the mantle idea

In rereading my highlights, I can't believe I didn't include my Nalick trinket. Best item ever.