January 2015 Event Highlights

Didn't get to do everything I wanted to this event, but it was still excellent!

Friday:
Annora's first trip to the Abyss, going on the rescue mod.
Drew: "upheaval!"
Everyone circling around him: "Catlike grace/earth anchor/etc"
later...
Drew: "upheaval upheaval upheaval upheaval!"
Everyone: "How many was that?"
Drew: "However many it takes to get you people back!"
New goal: learn better ways to insult the jailer. Teach me your ways, Arden! (what could possibly go wrong?)

NPC:
-Troublesome Veneir are troublesome, mwahaha
-Getting to play a true warlock for Tim. PCs, thanks for putting up with me.

Saturday:
Learning my first warrior mastery, helping teach weapon skills, and some fun sparring.

Meeting with Calo!elk on the path Saturday morning.
Is that elk flying?!

Main mod:
I only include this because Tim didn't get hurt, but Philidin had the best arcing blow slay ever. It may have involved a charge, slide on ice, tumble, and roll right in front of the mass of charging NPCs. We're just going to pretend that was on purpose, because it looked freakin cool.

Ib, and later Tsoli, using their sorcery wands to pewpewpew their respective favorite spells at the Veneir.
Bill: "So, since he's shooting incinerates and I'm throwing tsunamis, does that make us the Song of Ice and Fire?"
Me: "Well, considering the death toll in those books, you're not far off..."

Post main mod, I go upstairs to dump my gear/cloak in preparation for going to the bathroom. But before I can, the distinctive sounds of combat ensue. That annoying sense of responsibility kicks in, and I put aside my bladder to go fight.
Proceed to beat the metaphorical stuffing out of skeletons, all while ranting "I JUST WANTED TO GO TO THE BATHROOM!"

In the center of Drega'room, there stands a life-sized statue of Nalick Underhill, striking a heroic pose, forged entirely from 100 bars of solid copper.
-worth 10 gold.

Aleister: "that's the secret to sorcery!"
Annora: "What, shenanigans?"
Aleister: "You have to go CRAZY!"

Awkward turtle squires of Drega'mire.

Sullenoff Weavebreaker.

Deciding not to go to bed, and ending up at stupid o'clock with Ven, Arabeth, Arden, Danny, and Sindarion at various points. Including a whole bunch of crazy goblins and kobolds demanding the end of winter.

Sunday:
Glitter ceremonies.

Maul lesson with Gideon and Typhon. Channeling our totems was totally the best way to learn that lesson.

Cheesecake, courtesy of Alisia.

-Being glad that my being terrible with verbals didn't totally break the mod Zach, Kayla, and Matt worked their butts off on.
-Dave M's additions to the Barracks = Best altar I've seen yet!
-Discovering what I thought was just a good rp chat was my teaching a lesson.
-Lessons w/Luis are always good! Glad to have you back brother!
-Overseeing Market Faire; Now with less pick pockets! We've got ourselves some eager new Privates in the Baronial Guard!
-Main mod on team Drega'mire + Rowan = wow, we're pretty well balanced here! Even with two battle commands, and two beastiary lectures still taking every cripple and slay to come my way. Thankfully, our healers, priests, bards, druids and of course Quan Liu are on their toes! Veneir finally giving me a reason to use my promo.
-Dr. Darkwood discovering how to make Imrahil purr.
-Some good character defining rp with Tobias in the bar kitchen.
-Travance seekers of truth induction with Amizar, Gwynedd, and Nalick.
-Late night solo flight back to the barracks with all the combat efficacy burnt off my card. Cloak of the green saving my hide. Zathir - "Uh, detect life." "Life detected, now if only you could figure out where..."
-Creepiest healer (sorry, never learned your name) being a little too into the idea of Karkat turning his skull inside out. o.o
-As usual, the things I meant to, but didn't get done... And the delightful little diversions that led to it.
-Making sure all the cars stuck past Pendarvin got on their way home with Cameron, Abby, Josh, Michaela, Jeff, and a few other single shot Str +1's.

Great event folks, let's do it again soon! Staying out of the doghouse means I'll miss y'all next month, but I'll see you in March!

Hmmmm…. Light event for me in terms of participating in mods. Somewhat by choice for some of it, passed over for other stuff…. But I did get the benefit of watching others try to deal with/solve some of what was happening. And some excellent PC development came of it....

If I forgot someone here, it is soooooooooo not intentional.

Friday night-
Walking and exploring places near the Inn. Ambush on the road to ostcliff was a fun fight and let me know I am better with small weapon than I thought- having been disarmed of my bastard sword at the very start of the fight. 4 on 1 odds sucked but I’m happy I made you npc’s work hard to bring me down. My thanks to Buckles and the Alisandrians who showed up to chase off the barbarians before they killed me.
The subsequent hunt for the barbarians who stole my sword…. Became rather epic as no less than 14 others in five groups joined in the hunt for Balance. The poor barb that was finally caught with it by Billingham… I almost felt sorry for that one.

Almost.


Argyle’s Confession to Duncan on the stress of leadership…. Made Duncan proud of his fellow blackwatch for admitting his limitations… A wise man knows them and knows when to ask for advice/help. The growing of Forest’s very cocky Celt continues…

The Oops on something Wylla did not know. Duncan’s reply to asking how he could drop that bomb: “I thought she knew…. Being around each other all the time, ye think she would have…”

A talk with Lorelai at 2am… a heartfelt, meaningful and hopefully a morale-boosting one for her in the trials she is to face.


Saturday….
Many attempts to talk with Gideon about a number of things… and being interrupted every time. I swear, I don’t know how folks know when he is talking to someone 1 on 1- twice, there was absolutely no one around and ten seconds into a talk, bam. I wonder if he were to go out to the Slab for a talk if this would still happen.

Small Council/Lords Meeting… Watching the collection of wide or narrowed eyes at words spoken- then the level of surprise and shock at the final bombshell. Everyone in that room got a lesson as to how much some persons know because they watch and listen. The information is out there and has been…

Talk with Wylla that afternoon about what she did not know- and explaining that she needed to be the one to watch for a slide to darkness and try to stop it from happening. I know the promise to help end the slide if she couldn’t stop it didn’t sit well with the healer but its nae a nice universe.

Valenye and the Grasp With Roots Lesson. My thanks to Keavy for her assistance with this…. And now knowing the good Captain Hayes doesn’t approve of me teaching her crewwoman appeals to my darker sense of humor. Morgan, you are warned…. *wink*

Main Mod was Safety Marshalling for me… and glad for it.

“Ghetto Combat Medicine”… The look on Stacy’s face with that term said meant an explanation was needed… and the mad giggling from Kate made that explanation both fun and difficult to do. Thankfully, very little was necessary.
Between head shots, concussions and one coldweather injury case, we Safety Marshalls were kept mad busy… and GCM was not necessary.

My very heartfelt thanks to every one of you who stepped up when someone went down and kept watch yourselves with the treacherous terrain. Your efforts made Safety's jobs that much easier and I cannot thank you guys enough.

Post Main- Walking the road back to Winterdark meant going by the Barracks and the numerous fights that sprung up at that crossroads. Made for a hectic time of it.

Sunday-
up and at em… and catching Gideon for our conversation about Brazen. Interruptions AGAIN happened as the inn all of a sudden got busy as soon as we started talking… but the conversation did happen…. And as a result, a new priest is in town, brazen help us all.

More lessons- this time with swords. Glad to give them glad to have students willing to be taught by me and glad players appreciate the stories that go with the lessons. Part of the teaching is Roleplay and for me, it’s a big part of teaching/learning skills for my PC.

Sparring is always fun too…. Which reminds me- Annora and Duncan need to do that again. The little bit we did when she was teaching another was fun and needs to happen more- if only for the banter alone.

The brief talk with Caldor on the failure of Travance to prevent the Elk’s death. That event, despite the rebirth, is going to bite Travance and the Northmen in the ass this year… perhaps like no other event short of the creation of Bloodtide. I know where I’d go with it were it one of my D&D campaigns and the story marshals here are far more creative than I am. This is gonna get far worse before it gets better. My opinion on the mpg of this- your mileage will vary.

Good event, cold event and so many possible repercussions as a result of successful and failed acts… I look forward to the future events to see what comes next.

Brendan Barrett wrote: -Making sure all the cars stuck past Pendarvin got on their way home with Cameron, Abby, Josh, Michaela, Jeff, and a few other single shot Str +1's.

Thank you thank you thank you! How did I forget to write that? Y'all were wonderful

Also a thing I forgot... While sitting at the Small Council meeting on Saturday morning....
Rudolph: On to this matter of treason...
Grim: *appears out of nowhere* Did someone say treason?

I had to leave mid Saturday because I wasn't feeling well but I had a great time for the time I was there.

Friday As Ciel:

-Introducing myself to peeps, this was really my main goal with Ciel that weekend so I accomplished it but I also definitely accidentally ignored presenting myself to one of the cardinals. Oops.
-Not being mistaken for Ava.

As Ava:

-Very very short time with Orophin but that is the RP of that. Somehow being told that both of them were KOS when she first got there with him and Ava being like "Okay are you going to attack me then?" Followed by laughter.

-Talks with Zelretch. Zelretch threats. Ava laughs. More Zelretch threats. Ava threats. Zelretch adding Ava's threats to the list of his threats.

-Detached angry talk at Rudolph about Orophin. Angry Ava is Angry. But of course nothing changed.

-Ava learning a LOT from Illana this event. A LOT. Really changes her perception of the town.

-Talk with Nalick

Nalick:"You got to be pulling my leg."
Ava:"What?"
N: "You know it's a-"
A: "An idiom I know. But why would I be joking"
N: "Because I can't believe you would do that."

-That same talk where Ava discussed both murdering people AND making people wear scarves so they don't get sick in the same sentence.

I can't wait for next month! Always love rp drama while Ava is in the midst of changing.

I am going to miss out on some awesome role plays and I am so sorry for that. It was intense and by far my best event.

Pre Event Game Night: I got to sit down and talk with so many of you and ask questions and learn how to Role Play certain things properly. Luis, Charlie, Tinney, and Lez all talking about the history of KR and just where I belong with my PC.

Friday Night: I was tasked with coordinating the Baronial Guard movements and investigations. To ALL of you that helped me, thank you. Tobias has become Argyle McCoy`s ally and partner in fighting crime in Travance. I'm use to follow ups, heading field investigations, apprehensions, patrols, and rescues, but leading and running it all from a fixed point, forget about it! I have a new found respect for Nobles and Officers in the Guard. You HAVE to trust your people to do the right thing when no one is watching, and sometimes they will really go above and beyond. Larry...Thank you for letting us work through that mess.

My first time in Frederick Mod, wow can you say bogged down. Great role play, and the loss of Erik was felt by so many. Alex, brother if I could have saved you, know that I would have. It kept me on my toes the whole time, from fighting, to healing, to trying to find a way to save an Angel. Maveith (Golilith to the new heroes of Travance) we finally got our Team Up!!! You go hard. Matt thanks for running such a Bad Ass Mod for us, glad to be a part of it.

Then the Night Watch Patrols...I think I hugged the life out of Will(VC Oren) Mavieth and Syft joined us for the patrol and fun insured. It was great running with you all and seeing the other side of the Guard, even if more toned down.

Saturday: The Clergy Meeting went really well. Solid Role Play at times, it was the first time I really got to interact with more seasoned clerics, Templars and Priest. Other than LT Cooper, Brother Aldric, and the Bash Bros of Seamus and Bran.
We did a ton of patrols...more shenanigans with Mother Remi.
TOWER MOD FOR THE LAST TIME!!!!
I was going to set it off and help heal...but of course Matt Defranza had the perfect bait, and I fell for it, way to make me remember my verbals and rules! Low and behold, I see Katie and Cooper( the bane of my PC as an NPC) with so many of my friends as they the get their Aguaran on and proceed to use real torture techniques on me. Katie your a Vet sister...but you and Cooper did your home work. Since the cat in out of the bag, I graduated from S.E.R.T. School, save for killing me and stuff we can't do at KR, you pulled out the stops. I needed a minute or two after that. GREAT JOB TO ALL IN TOWER! I came into my own as a PC, you jumped me in, and I will always remember it. Oh, Mary Rose you screams are just bone chilling girl.

Camp and Kitchen clean up...I don't want to talk about it. I saw more of what the Marshalls have to deal with and I am sooo not going complain about certain things EVER AGAIN, took shower and went off into the night as Main Mod was finishing up. Grim was a beast all weekend. The Tessa and Wylla showdown, Thanks Duncan! I have a silver tongue at times, however Wylla just shut me up so fast I didn't know what to do.

Speaking with The Knights of Ostcliff...

I taught Jed a lesson,before that, the last time I saw Jed was him saving my bacon from demons. I am not a perfect role player, but know that I gave that my all Judge. I work on it between and at game, I'm getting better.

Letting go of my pride and watching Vice Cpt Oren and Head Mistress Tari just decimate foes.

Louis Maxwell and I finally got to sit down and talk.

Sunday: saw Brother Aldric`s Barracks Altar work, if you haven't seen it, you may want to or just talk about Valos(shameless plug)

My second master warrior lesson, Will and Dianna, WOW. That was so deep that was the perfect lesson for where my PC is.

Talks with Lorelai, it was nice to discuss with another fellow hunter what just it means to be one. It gave me a lot to reflect on, it seems Agrgyle has a new ally in the endless fight.

Mavieth`s Master Warrior training...a poem? From the Lt Grim. BEST SECRET LESSON PLAN EVER, no one saw that coming, the RP was great.

As always, trying to receive Master Cypher`s council on matters of State.

Looking out a window and watching Arkelian get Mollywomped by 1/5 of the town....30 minutes later still watching it from the porch...then again from the Monastery.

Thanks to ALL the staff, best event of mine yet. That's it, I'm done...I had a blast and wanted to share it with y'all.