Week In The Life 2015 Highlights!

~ Miss Demeanor left in charge of unconscious folk... buwahahahaha
~ Getting a task, getting it done the comment after: "Finally, someone competent!" (fun during that task )
~ "Helloooooo Sweetheart! Mind if I have your leftovers?" Gin Yuki: "I want the weapons and armor, she can have the rest." "EXCELLENT HE GAVE ME PERMISSION!"
~ Responding to the question: "What do you do?" with "I'm an artist"
~ Poker lesson for a gambler who was about to cheat. See if they wanna play too? /shuffle deck. :whistle:
~ Disturbing Chuck's PC as he held Demeanor's intestines to her during a lesson:

"Oh how interesting, so that's what that feels like."
"You are NOT supposed to enjoy this. What the f. is wrong with you"
"Do you want the short list or the long?"

~ Papa Gypsy. You are glorious. Leo, you're pretty fun too.
~ Mister Tartar and Misses Tartar at the bar. Jun and Swyft along for the fun. Sorry for disgusting you Renee Did I get pseudo landed? I think I did. Your colors matched her hair, and the colors of her blood and her soul. :silly:

~ Omg that intimidate lesson with Korr "I changed me mind I'm sorry I'm sorry EEEEEEE" A+
~ Tower shenanigans, see why Demeanor hangs back? /waylay "whew, it was giving me a headache"
~ Tipping my healer who scraped my ass off the floor, then torturing a demon, then flaying it and wearing his face as a pauldron.
~ Sharing MVP with Pox, turning to the folks who stood beside Demeanor "Oh ok good, so I know who not to kill"

~ FEAST WAS DELICIOUS!!! Also, the fairy who sang, holy shit nice pipes seriously. Thanks for sharing your talent.
~ Berzerking Atrus, we probably should have just stayed out of his way... or let Aleister deal with him.
~ Confronting Magnus. Top notch RP. Like shit, went from shaking with anger to tears and breaking down.

~ Watching John take a beating and watching the reactions to the black goo we covered him with.

As Ciel:

"I work twice as hard as a normal person" Is the best and easiest way to get accepted into a land.
So many religious conversations -sweats-
Started a "To Burn" List
Order! Law!
Vices!Shortcomings!

As Ava
Killed some things
Vials of blooodddd
Argued with people
Awkward hand holding and hand swinging with Jack
Town getting on Ava nerves
Count threatening the commodore....through Ava? It's always good to know who wants to kill you.
Chaos! Law Breaking!
CHAOS ACTUALLY WORKING ON GOBLINS OMG

Overall a wonderful event! I haven't had this much fun at one for a long time, even with medical problems I am glad I stayed

Setup with the gang is always fun. I got a great compliment about Grimkjell's roleplay and how he faces things ethically from Diane.

The low-key week long barbecue of the extended portion.

An unexpected lesson from Dr. Maxwell.

Roleplaying with Amalthea, Sir Danny, and Annora by the pond. All at various times.

Me realizing how much people trust Grim after some talks with Gideon about going into evernight.

The seneschal bustin up the theological discussion like a boss.

Lots of laughs with the guard.

The entirety of the date with Shade, and the many spies and snarkers that we had show up. Also, the food. Oh god. Laaaamb.

A long talk with Croi, and grim showing some actual emotions, while stepping away from others, or just generally holding back.

Later on finding out the origin of the word Grimpotence from Anhil.

Teaching several members of the town Ronin lessons. Apparently Grim is something of the go-to guy if you want to be the philosophical swordsman type.

Anhil was just particularly hilarious, and also very wise and merciful this game. Grim gained a great deal of respect for Sir Shadesar, and is glad to be his teacher in some aspects.

Hanging out with the extended Heargen Clan, all of whom made appearances at various points. Xod was a special favorite of mine, and I was glad to see he got some combat time that he was craving.

Grim was welcome in all the lands, it seemed, though he spent no time in Ostcliff due to time limitations, though I was through there as an NPC a couple of times.

Realizing I have no self control as I ate two cheeseburgers at about midnight on Thursday.

The mission to evernight was spectacular, from the boat simulation to the environmental effects to Shadow Danny and Ardin. The ending was incredibly emotional, though grim's usual stilted emotions had him just sort of vaguely hugging both Amalthea and Croi as they cried in each other's arms, unable to say what he wanted to, outside of a fight.

Hearing assassins GOT Jack Dimms, and reacting to it by hunting the assassins with Korr and his Orcs.

Arranging for a proper honor combat between Goard and Korr, and Korr winning an ally for the town like a boss. Korr and Pox were freakin on point.

Pendarvin plot is quite possibly one of my favorite ongoing plots at KR. Super kudos to Matt Defranza, all the marshals and NPCs. I loved throwing barbarians into lava as Grim, if only because using my crowd control tags to actually kill NPcs is deeply satisfying.

Weg the ogre, candy, and the peace delegation is one of my favorite things in Ever. Matt was cracking up as he ST'ed it, and Xod was top notch, so was Billiam and everyone else.

Rowan and the mages guild during the Weg procession to the beach.

Alisandria's reaction to weg. Edmund Patterson giving me the sleepytime marshmallow. Rowan EATING the sleepytime marshmallow.

Grim being made one of two acting warlords for the battle. A long talk with Owen piper, and an unexpected compliment.

Feast was superb, ree I'm still drooling.

The battle itself was amazing, Matt took into account our preparations and tactics and adjusted the NPCs accordingly for all the traps we threw their way before they even showed up. It was a great fight, and Revik went down like an honorable boss.

Sunday NPC shift was fun as heck, I finally found a card game I can play successfully when they send me out as a Gambler. (war) Also I got to be a big old troll and menace people until they ran away. Until Gideon and Winks happened to me.

I had a lot of generalized brotimes with the guard. Overall, this was just a haze of good feelings.

I made some great deductions as Grim after main mod, and they were confirmed by Magnus once they talked. Magnus and Croi's speculation that grim could be one of the 15 songs surprised him, as Grim considers himself unimportant.

An angry lecture from Brogan turns into a talk about being a soldier instead of a hero. To grim, Heros die. And soldiers live, and wonder why. (Points if you get the paraphrase)

Every interaction with Chris Zipeto, especially all the firstlaw paraphrasing and jokes. Sergei's long explanation that Grimkjell is in fact a Quinarian sorceried into being a barbarian, then all the Quinarians from Lords Silverbow and Weaveforger agreeing to it and explaining it was in fact a tremendous compliment.

People finally realizing Grim wears his helmet just so he can throw it to the side at a dramatic moment halfway through the battle cause it looks cooler that way

Making a reference to a bridge too far during main mod during Revik smack talk time.


Clean up.

Maveith coming through with a really critical bit of a data during the afternoon of saturday.

Other stuff I forgotted,.

Oh, and learning some very special skills from Goard after the battle.

I'd like to both congratulate Matt M. for a great first event and thank him for tapping me to be a plot NPC. Going in, I was excited if a little nervous, and didn't realize how much fun I would have. Everyone I role-played with as Gleck or "Edward" was fantastic, especially Xod's encouraging words, his spellsong (Fanfare of Bravery), and his in-depth chess lesson.

Keavy giving orders when I joined her and the newcomers
Everyone who stopped Gleck from trying to eat the fake grapes at the Scholar's Table and Caldor bringing over real ones
Thalia, Heather, and everyone who made sure Gleck knew he was in good hands and generally trying to comfort him.
Newcomers who owned a tailoring business and offered to make Gleck a new shirt after getting his measurements.
Running for my life with Galen and Feodor when General Ravik himself stormed the Inn
Tsoli's brilliant plan when we got back, the ritual scene, and running back to Logistics to make that a reality. This included, I think, four people in Logistics who dropped what they were doing to get me cleaned up. You guys rock!
Feodor coming up with Gleck's new identity as a cobbler named Edward from Kormyre
"Making" Edmund Patterson a pair of shoes (that were actually the shoes he had been wearing). Talk about giving someone the shirt off your back.
Trisana handing out pineapple to everyone, eating it like a savage, and Peonies(?) scolding me for my snacking etiquette and for trying to eat the rind. After getting dragged to the kitchen, I used Flee to run off. Antone, you were a good sport.
Sir Hurgar and Billiam hooking Edward up with a job at Billiam's "Blood and Beer" bar.

FRIDAY NIGHT. WHOA.Seriously, what in the world? The Evernight crew returns, dead bodies on the Inn tables. Goblins explode in the bar room. An enraged Caldor chases down Radu and defends his wife's honor. Croi is sitting at the head table bawling her eyes out. All that drama, perfectly role-played, and I'm sitting in the corner, taking it all in as an NPC who didn't know any of you.


PC Highlights:
INNUENDO. Everywhere I turned, but it was mostly my fault. It started right after getting in-game and bumping into Croi in the Inn.

Song circle!
Hearing and joining in during songs and then getting up to sing myself. Trent and I sang The Parting Glass as tribute to Tobar.
Rowan's "We're All Mad Here" song. Wonderful.

I forget which day, but Rowan teaching me Nocturne of Undisturbed Dreams and our conversation afterward, where I let her in on Nalick's plans for late this year. Ahem.

There were "Andorrans" at the Inn pushing Satyr's Wine on the resting heroes, but I think the real Andorran mod was sent out a little later. After the battle with General Ravik, Ostcliff decided to head to the Bloody Stump to get sloppy drunk. When we arrived, though, there was a whole lot of sloppy and not much of the latter. We started cleaning up. At one point, Orion showed up and wanted something to drink, except all the glasses were in varying stages of unclean, so I grabbed one off the bar and took it to the spigot in the field. On my way back to the statehouse, I hear Rane chatting with Aryia in her tent next door. A couple minutes later, a woman collapses in front of the tent and I run over to see if she's okay. Before I can assess anything, though, I see a figure out of the corner of my eye coming toward me, so I start running and call for help. I got hit with a Waylay and after realizing I didn't have any defenses, fell down and counted to almost 9 and a half minutes before anyone came over to check on me. Lidius was the first, and I scared him, thinking I was dead. Sorry, man!

Nalick heads into the Stump, fills the glass with a drink, and plops it down on the table in front of Orion.

Orion: "Wait... did you go out before to clean a glass to get me a drink?"
Nalick: "Yep."
Orion chuckles.

Then I grabbed my satchel and shield and head for the door, but Orion stops me and grants me a Displacement. I get to the Inn and I'm almost immediately pulled into bard plot by Dimetri. Obviously it was fate.

The Pit Fight between Billiam and Lord Tartaros in an actual ring of fire. You guys put on a hell of a show, but wow, I felt like an empath watching that.

Scaring the bejeezus out of Kanas, Jack Thorn, and a half-dozen other people. I was on the path between Pendarvin and the Monastery, carrying my shield. Kanas asks where my weapon is and before I can tell him that I have a sword in my "caravan," he offers me his axe.

Jack says, "Wait, Nalick, don't! He's trying to corrupt you!"

I take the axe anyway and look it over, grinning wider and wider and adopt a creepy sounding voice. Deciding it's not funny anymore, Kanas grabs the axe and tries to take it away. "Don't worry about it, Kanas. It'll all be over soon."

He pulls on the axe and I jokingly call Expert Disarm. Suddenly everyone thinks I'm both a Master Warrior AND evil, and I turn around, muttering more things. Banging the axe against my shield, I walk slowly toward the Monastery and I can hear them freaking out. Eventually, I turned around and headed back. A larger crowd had gathered. I smiled and tossed Kanas the axe, thanking him for letting me borrow it. Facepalms galore, people telling me they were about to sever my mind control, high-fives, and a couple "gimme a hug, you son of a bitch!"

It was too good an opportunity to pass up.

Hanging out with Matt Magnus and some of the plot crew on Saturday afternoon. Good group of folks.

Coming back in-game late Saturday and Dr. Squire DeMontfort lecturing Nalick on being a politician in Travance. Ergh. Thank Andorra we had that discussion in a bar. Seriously though, I enjoyed the scene.

Getting wasted Thursday night with Wylla, stargazing, having silly chats, and goading Baneon/Beardy to doing shots with us at the Dragon's Claw. Unfortunately, he passed out behind the bar. Clumsily we carried him to Kaladonia and propped him up on a stump by the fire pit. The next day, he told me he somehow arrived in his bed.

Baaaaaad sheep puns with Brother Aldric at Zelretch's expense.
Breakfast at the Barracks. That was delicious.
Treasure hunting with Wylla and Oren, complete with a surprise cameo by the incredibly sneaky Imrahil!

The reading of Sir Jack Dimms' will. "Sorry, Haroldson, you're never getting your sword back."
Getting up on the table after the will was read and reading Jack's poem in the Chronicle. Rest in peace, Jack.

The fae who sang at Feast. Astounding. I love when the whole room goes quiet and people even stop eating to listen to a song.

Magnus and Sir Rudolf's shouting match in the Inn on Sunday afternoon.
Interactions with Rudolf all throughout the week. They were hilarious and seemed to go smoothly.

Making one of my first orders as acting head of Ostcliff and, when asked by Rose whether there was anything I needed of her, I ordered her to relax.

On Sunday, John H. walking toward the Inn after being a mod boss covered in what looked like tar, holding a bottle of dish soap and stopping to crack jokes. Funny stuff.

Utgard and Amalthea/Aaron and Lauren. Wow. I have so much to learn from you both. You two were something else. Keep up the great work!

I had an amazing week, but guys, check your calendar. We're two weeks from the next one. I am psyched.

Good times with good people right at arrival!

Squire buddy time with Anorra! Interesting chats with the Lord and Lady.

(Swyft jumps up to admire Peonaise's rainbow scarf.)
Aleister; You chose that.
Angelica: Well, you chose THAT.
(Anorra waves.)

Ben's RIDICULOUS salesman, omg.

Drega'party in the Bloody Stump, complete with inappropriate comments and cake!

Wonderful RP with Croinimara and Amalthea for most of the week. Oh my gosh, you guys are fabulous. I was blown away when you asked me if I would try and wield Maelstrom!

When I saw Amalthea lose her mind at Arkelian when she thought he asked Thalia to sacrifice herself to save Jack Dimms... Wow, girl. Though you be little, you be fierce!

Root beer floats with Ilana!

Bob is the best!

Carlotta's amazing card reading and advice...

Mary's demon possessed woman... ASTOUNDING roleplay!

A horrific encounter with Sylas Crone in Jed's shack... Throwing that SHADE, gurl.

“Karkat is right behind you.” Implant suggestion, paranoia, intensify.... Really? So mean, lol.

Ring of fire fight... geez, boys. What a show!

The engagement of Kit and Billiam! How lovely!

I can't believe that A'zeem (Oh I can't remember the full name, but the Galamachian high priest who came for a visit, again) got escorted out of the proper for not having a writ. And the storm that followed. Oh boy! Larry, you're awesome.

Ludwig, you were so hilarious. Anytime you spoke I couldn't help but laugh. I can't believe you found catnip... LOL! Please tell me that character will be around a while!

Alissandria talks usually devolving into something hilariously inappropriate.

Being parasol buddies with Terezi.

I got to witness Karkat perform an act of kindness! THERE IS HOPE!

Lady chat in Pendarvin!

Papa Gypsy's acceptance of Swyft's apology.

Horrendous conversation with Miss Demeanor in the Blackbird. Sorry but I had to leave because I started to feel my morals slipping away...

Serious chats with Artorious and Magnus about Glomm coming to town and whether or not I could do anything to save Jed. You guys were AMAZING. I will remember that conversation forever. Fate took Swyft Evernight instead, though, and even that is probably safer than giving Glomm a hug.

An interesting change in Jack Sypher...

A heartfelt goodbye to Jed, who planned on going with his god Friday night and had no interest in being saved from it. Ugh. FEELS. So many of them.

Evernight, oh my goodness... What a mod. I didn't even suspect that I might have to fight a duel for Maelstrom... Against a black dragoon! What a nerve wracking experience that was. But it worked out in the end, and how exciting it is to be a weilder! Thank-you for bringing me!

Atrus's ongoing recovery from the uber darkness. He actually smiles and laughs now, and not always sarcastically!

Getting to know the folks in the upstairs inn room. Loved our conversations!!! Hope you feel better, Justin!

Aleister's armor fixing ritual. Really the best ever...

Accidentally healing berserking people three times. Whoops.

The ogre child mod was amazing. Everyone on that mod did so impressively. NO COMBAT AT ALL. We solved it with candy, toys, kind words and laughter. It was a dream come true for Swyft to see Travancians using this tactic first. Grim, you were so impressive. Swyft has even more respect for ou now. NPC's, you guys were amazing.

Main Mod was really well organized. I rather liked being in the field team of “Find Those Damn Assassins.” Things got a little crazy though, when we got out a little too far. Can't say I enjoyed fighing the general, he was much too tall and scary, lol.

Magnus going crazy on Rudolph!

Talking to Artorious and Kenneth. And Atrus, I can't believe what you said.... It was heartwarming and kind of disturbing all at once...

Having a mod on Sunday! Yes, yes a thousand times yes! Thank-you for doing all that crazy stuff in the roaring humidity, John. It was awesome!

These five days were a wonderful experience for my soul. I constantly had places to be, people to see, things to do, it was awesome! I'm not sure if I was ever in one place for more than half an hour at a time, hehe.

Thank-you, all. Players, staff, everyone, for making it such an enjoyable time! I'm sure I forgot some things, but I enjoyed every moment with y'all.