April 2015 Highlights

Cake Realms, 4/15

I promise I'll fill this out this time. Anyway...

Saturday Afternoon:
Showing up and hearing so much about Cake Boss, then realizing that everyone was serious.
Making jokes about fighting the aforementioned Cake for main mod.
Sparring of large quantities...

Travance's Celtic Drinking Song (which I will write, possibly based on some deaths this month.) "And dear old Templar Rayven, who left his mace behind, trapped beyond a portal and Encased with Demon Vines!"

Feast was pretty good, and I had never seen garlic left out before.

Main Mod
Realizing that main mod was the new gank shift, due to poor planning.

Hearing about a Beholder and never seeing it.

I realized at that moment that most of the Nightmares were seen more in tabletop games, which was interesting.

I went near death so many times, but I still had only 4 body, so I stuck with healing slaves.

Sunday
Plot NPC shift that did not take too long to get in costume for.

Finding out that:
Liddius was a necromancer
I am a warrior
It takes a few tries to get hit in the **** with a devastating strike
The teacher who taught him that is able to give semi-verbal lessons.(I was expecting to be devastated in the Staff of Fireballs(again!))

Witnessing an attempt to Dissect the Cake's eye, and wondering if it would be made into a necklace of Courage.

All in all, the event was fun, but deadly.

Also, RIP/Missing in Action: Rayven.
He died for our nightmares.

Wow, so this was an amazing return. After two years it's quite fabulous to be back. I shall be returning to Travance again in the coming months!

Friday:

So really I have to give the biggest shout out to Ben Herman as Verill, dude thank you so much for the opening and making me feel comforatble back again at camp. I couldn't have done this without you!

Coming in as Alicia thougha green-time-portal-thing was AWESOME. I mean Alicia doesn't know how- or why. But YES!

I also had alot of fun uncortolably passing out all weekend! HORRAY FOR SLEEP SICKNESS!

Having to deal with 2 years in nightmare sleep-coma and me/Alicia seeing everyone again was really awesome.
She's not so sweet and squishy anymore..

Saturday:

Waking up and having a grand old time conversing with everyone at the market as well as connecting with old friends!

NPC: ORGERS! GOBBLINS! GRAH!

To meet the cast and crew from cake boss was awesome Buddy is such nice guy! He thought I looked nice! :blush:
The cake was great and this is from a woman who hardly ever eats any!

Feast was fun! Eating and conencting with more people in game

Main Mod:

So, I have to say in all the time I've been Larping now never have I felt like such a bad ass. Alicia chose not to follow any of the lands and went ahead- she met up with the Count on her way past Alensandria. They started talking about how they need to get people better orgainized to fight the right beast. "We must cut the head off the snake"

Suddenly Both Alicia and the Count were attacked by a freaking HUGEEEEEE nightmare army (I'm taling about like 16-24 people yo!) And Alicia fought back to back the the Count and was his support. Alicia even got to fly to safety with him! AHH SO AWESOME! The Count and Alcia both helped everyone to find where the real danger was.
Never have I or Alicia ever felt like such a major badass before.

Thank you so much James that was literally the coolest thing ever.


After mod:

Breaking Biron (and Eddies) heart allllll over again :evil:

Dancing with the Handsome shirtless Gypsy! He even made her blush! hehe!

Cooking with Damian was so much fun!

and bed time talks!

I was out quick on Sunday so I'm sorry if I missed any of you and didnt get a chance to say good bye! Thanks for the warm welcome back, I was so happy to see alot of my old friends! Catch you at the WiTL!

First event out with the new character. Gunnar was apparently well received and I had a blast. I am very happy with how it all worked out and cannot wait to return with him at future events!

So, the start of this event I was going through Ilana's treasure chest which has all her various notes over the course of her time in Travance and also several baubles and things she keeps for people she wishes to see again. I was trying to clean it out before hand and when I even thought I'd never see those people again or 'this would never come up', I kept them in there, just because I wanted to have a bit of hope they'd show up again. I guess Ilana had a birthday wish come true?

Friday Night:
So many new players! So many people I knew too! I was really happy to see everyone again!

-Missed Omni >< But, I heard the reaction was wise (RUN!)
-Alander returning and finally being able to give him a gift.
-Ilana's matchmaker tutting her again about her lack of confidence in being a person
-Insect King really liked Ilana. She did not approve.\
-Tari, the spider cloak, and her fire pony.
-George apparently got cursed with madness awhile ago and he finally dropped and rose up killing everything... Ib and Ilana run away Ib: "Can you meld with earth!?" Ilana: "..Yes? Yes!" Ib: "Then why are we running!" *poof* Ilana: "Oh!" *poof* Proof Ilana rarely runs.
-By the time bed could happen... there wasn't any point. The sun was up and I was slightly miserable.

Saturday:
-But, decided to make the best of it and holed up in the outside altar space. Best idea ever!
-Picnics and understandings
-Maralas' Mass
-Kwildar~ Best uncle!
-Keeping a promise and making someone a bit angry because of it, but it working out because then Chaos Orbs showed up and Ilana remembered how to take care of them. Also demons.
-Cake Boss!
-Explaining how nightmares work. Croi and Ilana teaming up to try and get the town to listen (And losing horribly at the herding cats game in the end. Sorry Croi, we certainly tried )
-Ilana: "This... is the Axe of Uelrog." "o.o What?" Never got old.
-Friend tried killing Ilana like three times this month because of assortment of possessions? All the syringes in your future, I swear *shakes fist* ()
-"...How many insanities do you have now!?" Being friends with Dreadnaughts is slightly stressful to Ilana on a level she can't explain properly. Walking time bombs (is this how people feel about unstable wildmages? Oh chaos, you're a wonderful terrible friend)
-Ilana kind of wants to be friends with the Planeswalker and wishes she had been around for the 'talking' part of the conversation. P.S. The costume for that looked great.
-Almost going on two mods at once. Told to keep the Lantern safe and then almost going through a Pendarvin portal to fight Surtur. "I think.. the Planeswalker'll follow us to Pendarvin if I do this. Also, Vincent will kill me." (I think I was right too. Really bummed about missing out)
-Wildmage Family
-He did what! Why did you let him keep it in the first place!
-Be a hero, not a tool.
-Sleeping!

Sunday:
...Waking up four hours later
Tea and breakfast.
Nature spirit? (Mars knows)
Jaxuarians?!
Xilhinthax!!
Those poor undead.

"So how much do I have to bribe you to get a poison writ?" Dr Alexander Heimdall to the high Surgeon of Travance

Let's start from the beginning:

Holy smokes first thing the nightmare of OMni was great.

Grim throwing aside his very sword to actually good pick up and carry and run at full speed with someone he cares about after that initial shock was great.

Pluvious and Grim doing ninja gangsta stuff. Grim seeing a different side of Sylus Krone.

Dinnerdark and grim telling stories about his life and the ways of the northmen.

Grim dying to a thing that carries off great heroes into the arms of galmachis.

Caldor has the most pestering manner of giving focus walks ever. They had a family argument in the middle of the veils because they're both stubborn jerks.

Grimkjell and Croinmara had a wonderful dynamic this game, their personal and plot based stories crisscrossed in beautiful ways all through the night, culminating in a realization at 6 AM when I woke up that Croi's weeping about carrying the swords of dead friends was a reference to her carrying the sword of not just the Dream Knight but Grimkjell himself.

Wearing lighter clothing and realizing how fast I could move and fight. I was bloodborne dodging and countering.

Stabbing Jen Eff to death in front of Josh Heeder was also magical.

Getting two out of game compliments from Charles SPiegel was also a huge highlight. And another one from Matt M, and getting two 1 v 1 fights vs. him this event was wonderful. Grim vs. The Lord of Nightmares was basically Luke vs. Vader twice over. I even got to yell "I'LL NEVER JOIN YOU." It was pretty glorious stuff,

Steve did a fantastic job, let me re-iterate. Much thanks for the nod to the Heargen Clan with Vignar showing up.

The bards singing beautifully as Grim considered stabbing them all post main mod was great.

All in all, St Astrid's day Massacre was a thing of wonder.

The soundtrack to this game was the protomen act 1 in all its glory, and Grim's death was absolutely played out to Hope Rides alone for reasons that are obvious to anyone who was in the scene and knows the protos. Steven I am looking at you. And grim's revenge at main mod was a thing of brutal beauty.
Jen singing a song as croi to Steve as the Dream Knight, with Grim kneeling, choked by emotion. I'm not a guy who's big into the overtly emotional aspect of roleplay, but the sheer power of the event overall had grim's tin man armor and furnace-like heart of rage shatter, and he actually was a human being instead of a killing machine impelled to do good
Norm making me an offer I can't refuse.
Grim becoming a sword saint. Because Kensai is for people who wear fancy silks, grim's just the tempest of inward focus and rage.
Grim teaching a marauder skill to Tork, and almost getting Annora killed before demonstrating just what level of beatdown he can unleash to calm one of his own down. It might JUST have been revenge for friday night :E.
Oh dear god the auction. I'm probably forgetting stuff, this is only the first wave. Prepare for more.

After my month off and explaining to work that technically KR is a second job, I've negotiated having some weekend time off!! Yay!! (Thank you, Logistics/New Player 'coworkers' )
I loved finally having a month where it was warm. And I got to wear my new costume pieces! It doesn't take much to make me happy, all I need is pretty dresses.

All OOG insanity aside, it was a great weekend. In order, as best as I can remember...

Friday:
New players, lots of them!! I hope you guys all had fun, you all looked amazing and seemed super excited for game! I hope we didn't disappoint.

I was telling someone about the '3-2-1 screaming infected peasants from every door' mod just before the lay-on was called...only for '3-2-1 BEHOLDER!' to happen. Well, now I have two stories for the most eventful start to game.

Running into said Beholder, getting Enslaved, having Albert try to drag me away, having him run after it tried to disintegrate him, and turning to join the beholder only to be dropped...I heard from down the path Albert telling people I needed help, some saying it was hopeless if the beholder had me, and others yelling back that I was their Lady and they weren't going to leave me. Nothing has made me happier than hearing that my vassals care about me My thanks also to the Seneschal for creeping up after the beholder passed and saving me!

Kaladonia Mod, Part 1 behind logistics with Matt Calo's NPC and Keavy. It's not often I get to be childish-creepy, but giggling and swaying and swishing my skirts and making rangers into Hex Blights and doing horrible dark druidic rituals is a lot of fun.

Trying to go to bed.
Trying.
F&$#ing gelatinous cubes.

Saturday:
Kaladonia Mod Part Two: Druidic Boogaloo
Having no less than four people basically calling JFR on me. Whee, close friendships and physical roleplay!!
The Harry Potter reference that could have been.
Turning more rangers into Hex Blights.
Poisoning all the elves.
RP with Caldor as he tried to purify the Corrupted Grove.
Being pounced on by Keavy.
Later, watching Calvin and Cormac actually wrestling.
Well, at least they have plans to go back and restore the land.

Changing into Mirwen, hanging around a bit, and then of course Cake Boss happening.
I still kind of can't believe what they managed to make in three days, out of cake and sugar.

Fighting back to back with Anhil, of all people when the goblins attacked, and having Albert swear to protect me after 'abandoning' me Friday Dan, I always love the way you are so committed to your purpose, and to atoning when you feel you haven't served it properly.

Magical Walls: for stopping even the most bloodthirsty Hobgoblins! It's only in times of stress that you get a true measure of the strength of your shoulder.

Pendarvin has a Knight now, and new vassals! I'm so happy.

Turning Sean into a mummy (again.) I really wish I'd have taken some pictures of my bath tub after I tea-stained a bed sheet to make his wraps.

All of the lessons. Saturday was an evening of learning, and avoiding main mod like the plague.
Out-punning Tsoli during my lessons was a good way to end the night.

Sunday, by contrast, was a day of teaching. All of a sudden everybody wants to be a Warlock. Hmmm....
Meeting some Jaxuarians. Deciding to follow the Jaxuarians. Welp, Mirwen can tick another box off the 'can now go there whenever I please' list, as well as some more lores!
Watching a Bedouin marvel at a jungle, after growing up in a desert and vowing to learn druidics to help things grow in the desert. Simple things, and wonderful rp.

I'm sure there were other wonderful things, but it is late and I am tired. Thanks to everyone for a great event.