April 2015 Highlights

Wow.... So many emotions...

-Getting there and seeing everyone
-The slight IG/OOG vibe for the Cake!!!
-The. Cake. Just that.
-Mod before feast- getting my own goblin! (Sharing with Leslie of course)
-Feast- soooooo good. God so good.
-Hearing about everything going on and going..... Mmmmmmmkay. This should be interesting.
-Main Mod. I was literally in tears at the end of it. Having to suppress everything in trying to save as much and as many people as I could. Having people constantly bring dead bodies to me asking for help killed me. Being the most frustrated, angry, hurt, devastated, and determined I think Mae has ever been in.
-Seeing Swyft go down and begin to get killing blowed and becoming absolutely frantic. I literally COULD NOT let her die in front of me. Seeing Tim there, daring me to go towards him and trying everything I could think of to get her out. After that, being emotionally spent and tired as hell.
-Standing in the middle of the field afterwards with the bodies to halt death counts as people came forward to heal. Then... just standing there, trying to digest everything that had just happened. Thanks to all who rp'd with me then- I dont think Mae could have stood to be touched, but to have been alone would have been sooo much worse.
-Going into the inn and having Ilana ask me to go into the spirit realm and ask two friends to literally choose who got reanimated and who took a death. One of the most painful things Ive ever had to. Afterwards, talking with the one to be rezzed and having, I think, one of the best/most moving resurrections Ive ever gone through. Mae meant every single word, and knowing you decided to come back helped erase some of the horror of the night.
-Saying some things that likely would have gotten me arrested (maybe, Im not really sure honestly) in private with trusted friends after the battle.
-At the end of it, going to the focus and being slightly bewildered that we didnt even interrogate the planewalker as to his needs/intentions. Then basically accepting it as a lost cause for that moment and going up to the inn.

Renee- I know exactly how you felt. It absolutely killed me, but I know EXACTLY how you felt.

-It was crazy, it was horrible in some instances, it was extremely intense. I wont be there for the May event, but I *should* be (note the should there) for the WITL. We will see!

A good portion of the event for me was ~13 or so hours in the kitchen between Friday and Saturday. Thank you so much to everyone who helped me get feast out right on time! I got some huge compliments on it (some of which I've been sworn to secrecy on), and the responses I got made it all worth it.

That said, I still had a fantastic event, and plenty of time outside the kitchen.

First of, NPCing an old gypsy fortune teller....just to spend most of that NPCing running from a beholder. Surprisingly fun!

This event as a whole made a huge impression on my new alt. Both the plot, main mod, and her lesson on Sunday (I look forward to when she actually remembers it). I have NO idea who Alcina's going to become, I can already see the multiple ways she will be pulled and I am SO excited about that fact. All I know is that I don't think any of the paths were actually ones I expected.

20 minute stasis, with a good portion of the main mod bosses and NPCs either taunting me OOG (since technically IG they couldn't detect me) or just ending up having a respawn point exactly where I was. Can't remember the last time I've been that terrified in main mod.

And then later, the 5 minutes where it didn't matter if I was conscious or unconscious, between Tori and Ben I was fighting for the nightmares either way....quickly running out of ability to do anything but 0 damage attacks. Seriously, I lost count of how many times I went into my serious count and then got healed out of it, only to get knocked out again just a few minutes later.

Late Saturday night, little scene with me, Josh, Josh, and James...I'm excited to find out where that plot goes.

Next, watching Maja chew out Kaladonia, and then being pulled into the very end of that mod to save the day. Being told about what had happened as Almat while in tons of pain, realizing I have to travel back in time because I did it already, and finding out what happened to Verril (I don't think I've ever laughed that loud as her before).

Finally, Sunday lesson as Alcina again. That whole situation...

I know there was more. All in all, I had a blast.

TheBardAbides wrote: Something I forgot:

Gin Yuki walking into the Inn Saturday afternoon, announcing that he'd bought all of Caldor's chili, and that anyone who wanted a bowl could have some.

It should be clear it was wife's chili... Caldor just sells it.

Very Good Weekend.

Highlight- Jonas Kane Presents: "The Jod Mountain Inn and Spa" of Alomialande

And the many new (and old) Pendarvinites!

How could I forget! Seeing very old friends and meeting some new ones. I fell in love your Nyad May. You enveloping me in a hug while saving me made me more grateful and relieved then I've ever been as this character. You have officially won a friend for life

More stuff...

I forgot to mention how happy I was at the large, Druid meeting turn out that had all lands represented in some way... I really want that community to continue to grow.

I especially loved the conversation between me, cypher, Cyndra, Kleiden, and others about Blight druidics.