July 2015 Event Highlights!

I guess as the big bad of the weekend I get to kick this one off

First and foremost, thank you all very much from the bottom of my heart for all the help, support, love and care you gave to John, to run his event with a possibly fractured wrist. He is a stubborn trooper and he worked hard day and night to deliver a weekend full of fun for everyone for months and it showed.
I am so very proud of you John, you kicked ass. It was an awesome event.
The entire July crew from NPCs to RMs who helped out, you guys all rocked too, thank you!

Personal highlights:
~ Despite the pain and tediousness it took to accomplish, I think Ry’lahk’s make up and costuming ended up having the desired effect I wanted it to have. But damn those scelras for the first 15 minutes they are in man…

~ Being trusted with a boss card all weekend not just main mod was scary as hell, not wanting to disappoint John and the other STs and James made me very nervous but I still enjoyed being a big bad and loved adding my own RP flavor instead of just playing the card I was given.

~ The animalistic face off during the rituals Friday night with Keavy. The moment she realized I was an animal, she started making growls etc. as well, and we had this moment of circling around one another weighing each others worth in an entirely primal way (no skills called pure RP) before we ripped into each other. Danny this was totally awesome.

~ Getting fed up with my chieftains’ testosterone match with the battle line front, going around to the back, as rogues do and opening up a can of silent whoop ass. What battle line? So glad I did that. Made me feel like a cool boss.

~ All the drums and rituals. I actually felt like an animal shaman the musical effects and nature helped completely submerge us in our roles. I hope it carried over to the PCs as well.

~ Fighting one on one with Annora until Gor started hitting me, me: “WHAT ARE YOU DOING! TIME TO GO!” lol Bill thanks for the friendly fire, you were the only person who actually hurt me. The eye of the storm screaming face to face with Karen. Awesome! People trying to figure out wtf Ry’lahk was before she vanished.

~ Saturday morning nest business. “I smell someone”, me: “Eagle eye, GET IT!” Gregory gets away, comes back with the entire flipping town. Oh, ok fine let’s have an impromptu main mod prequel.

~ Bran getting so mad at Ry’lahk that he told everyone she was his. Ry’lahk was tickled, which is why she proceeded to possess Sheamus to beat on Bran then possessed Bran when he fell as Naysowee was dragging him away. LOL, ty for playing along Joe.

~ All of the armor of horrors holy shit I love that skill. I was waiting for people to throw me horrible shit like Slays so I could re-direct them at their allies

~ Going after people Ry’lahk observed as strong to turn. I only managed to get a few. But not for a lack of trying! Right Damien? Got Torc failed to get Jed, Dimitri, Lord Blackthorne, the Count, Lord Sylus, Aleister, Warlord Barrack. Again, I totally tried.

~ Whoever had the genius idea to hit Alisandria when they were serving steak and had all lords + count + high lvls there… GRRR blew 90% of my defenses and was tapped for that period. Good thing it was right before feast.

~ I’m just going to say, DEATH WHISTLE. I love that thing. Made me feel like a part of a horrible tribe which helped all the rp and getting pumped for main mod chaos.

~ All of the chaos. Sentinels… I hate you in the best way possible. Magnus, Barrak, Aleister, Winks, Cealven, Orion, and friggin Lord Sylus… OW. And that dude who kept hitting me for 50 crits? Holy shit yo. Had to escape from him every time. (Sorry forgot your name).

~ Giggle highlight was turning a few non combat folks (pacified, peaceful etc.) and when they asked me what to do, telling them to drag their allies bodies to me to turn. Dang that was brilliant hehe.

~ Sorry for reincarnating right when you all finally got me! But I RPed a 20min ritual for that specific purpose And since I bailed, you will likely see Ry’lahk again in the future.

It was an absolute pleasure to play a main NPC for a full weekend. I hope you all had a good time, we really did our best to provide a good time for everyone! And as always KR family take care until the next time.

Alice

Well, I was in the process of starting this off, but...

I'm gonna copy paste a little of what I had already written because typing is rather annoying currently...

Thank you all for coming out and beating on my NPCs for the weekend! I wanted to give a special thanks to: Alex, Bill, Tinney, Forest, Gene, Ben, Alice, Josh, Justis, Rebecca, and everyone else who jumped in to help out or lend a helping hand, (pun intended).

Gus worked his ass off and was all over the place either marshaling or getting stuff together and was absolutely crucial in helping plan and coordinate. Thank you so much and I'm sorry I got things mixed up Saturday night- you were 100% on point this event and leading up to it!

Honors to my Drummers and NPCs: Leslie and the ever musical Jenn Eff!

Hope you all had as much fun playing as my NPCs did and my Marshals did running!

Additionally, if there are item cards or various other things anyone out there still needs me to sign off on ie their character cards please drop me a line so I can make a list of you guys and make sure everyone gets what they need. So far I know there are a few people who NPCed I owe some stuff to and a few PCs that are due some cards.

I will write more highlights at some point but, I wanted to mention a few now while they're still fresh.

Tobias and Co.: Thinking outside the box, that was awesome guys.

Orion: Trapping and tracking, your traps did have an effect, on the NPCs quite significantly A+ Bounty Hunting.

"Burn it all the Mod," Thanks JP

"Burn it all the Mod Part 2, Sunday edition"

Sleeper agents FTW.

Will post more.

Special thanks to the marshals who were either with me during mods or checked in on me periodically. No Stacey, my arm has not fallen off

-Getting to play my Sylph for a bit! Thanks to everyone being okay with my parents around. They greatly appreciated the atmosphere of KR vs. 8-10 years ago (I have been going to/visiting this game forever)

-Nigel/Keola talking. It’s terribly fun and going nowhere. At least Sylphs are patient. Still no Terezi though *siiigh*

-Ilana coming back to town: "Gideon told Kleiden and me to burn down the jail" "...Okay then." (This mod had started just as my parents had shown up and I made a very wise decision to play my sylph and just not care)

-Chasing down Tinney by accidentally running into a combat. Apparently succeeding (Also, 'Invoke Windwalker' pretty much helped me win at life this event. And here I was thinking of getting rid of the dang runes. Never going to have that thought again.)

-Ardin trying to explain to... someone how Ilana/him have actually been pretty good friends since they've known each other (except that hiccup when he was a Guildmaster. But, we can glaze over that now)

-Tari pretending she was really mad about the idea of a Wild Mage's Guild but actually being mad at the idea that people might try murdering us and then she couldn't yell at me for being dead.

-Manifestation of a sphere of magic? …Cool. Also someone totally dropping the ball on fixing the actual problem.

-I heard rumor of a new wildmage in town, but I never got to meet the guy. Hope one of us met him/he had fun.

-Wildmage Family. Eva and Wren spurring the Mom/Dad conversations and Ilana trying to quiet them down. Never going to live down 7/12’s though.

-Losing all her bite because she had a chance to talk things out.

-Meeting so many NPC wildmages! Ilana happily invited them to join their new establishment. Eva, Wren, and Vanya being a great help to teaching them things. (If you guys don’t mind sending me their names in the future, that’d be great! The New Player’s NPC is really the one I’m not sure how to spell. Your story of static hugs was great!)

-The null is scary. That’s all. So much magic and pain X.x

-Ilana trying her best at not being mad about a student’s life choices and failing horribly. If she befalls a similar fate to what Ilana’s afraid of, she’ll just never forgive her teacher on the subject.

Crazy event, could not have been better. It was extremely RP heavy for me, and those are my favorite weekends. One of the best events I can ever remember.

Friday:
-Meeting the whole family for the first time, and seeing old OOG friends that I haven't seen in years.

-Running all across camp repeatedly trying to find stolen goods.

Saturday:
-Repeatedly getting sent out with Michaela as RP-heavy NPCs. From the "Finest prices this side of the rift!" to Ogres that just wanted to eat some halfling, it was awesome.

-NPC'ing Rogue's Mod. I was sad I missed it, but it was great seeing how everyone handled the situation. And so the legend of Jebediah the (Part-Time) Fisherman was born.

-Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I would be able to sit down to a 3-hour picnic without getting killed by Six-Armed Ogre Demons. I'd call out those that yelled at us, but... that would be everyone.

-Singing at the feast. Hope I can do it every event I attend. Always remember to keep it in your pantry.

-Being literally the only person (PC or NPC) without Stealth on a sneaky mod is rough. But never underestimate a dark cloak and natural sneaking ability. The mod running it had NO IDEA I was there until about halfway through.

-I didn't get to eat an undead worm, but I DID get to have the highest stakes blackjack game ever. And I put all the doubters in their place.

-"Croí, I don't think I'm a major player in this. I think I'm just an extra." ...And then getting my song. And boy do I love that song.

-I cannot thank everyone involved in the 1am dinner enough. Seriously, it might be my KR all-time highlight. Jen, you win.

Sunday:
-The whole Maelstrom mod. I may not have contributed in ability, but I was there for moral support and to take all the credit.

-Singing the song. And only THEN did I find out there could be serious repercussions.

Thanks to John and Gus for running the event and the amazing work and dedication of everyone involved. Those makeup jobs for the chieftains were incredible. Alice, those EYES! Beautiful costuming!

Friday night, I got to spend some quality time with Tork. He is one entertaining dude! Our visit with Jed bordered on something between amusing and just plain disturbing. Jed was in a particularly foul mood and did a lot of shouting for very minor infractions... (Rumor is they heard him all the way down at the lake!)

Gus, thanks for the opportunity when blighted to call Jed out to come out and fight me like a man because I was sick of his crap. LOL!
Good thing Angelica was able to calm me down... (Aleister's face was priceless.)

Got to see Karkat and Terez-Psy briefly on Saturday morning. To Swyft's utter delight, Karkat was still wearing the rainbow scarf.

Escorting a happily drunk Nalick to Alisandria was a hoot. I only neutralize drunkenness if wanted or needed!

Ran into Evrat, who I think scared a passing Rowan with all his blustering to me. Your face, Teresa, it was so hard not to crack up! I truly appreciated your concern... aaand the fact that was able to point out to him that you were a witness in case he got any stupid ideas...

Meeting Chop-Chop for his birthday larp weekend! What a cute kid and good little roleplayer! I hope he had a good time!

Papa Gypsy's lesson in a completely legal method of obtaining pure profit.

Swyft and Jun's very confusing relationship. Is this a thing? (Dustin, thank-you, it's all so awkwardly hilarious, I love it!)

Lovely talks with Trent and Edwin!

The awful “conversation” with Evrat at the lake. Oof. That boy ain't right.

Thank-you, Pip! (I hope I remembered your name right) for the lovely rainbow bracelet you made right there on the steps!

Two orcs thought they might try eating a hobbit. (I was so nervous to take on two!) Thankfully I had some backup when Nasowee and the sassy hobbit from Alisandria showed up. Though... I lost an orc when he ran away with my mithril manacles! (You're so darn squirrely, Chris!) Magnus took over for the one that we got to the inn and bribed him with food into joining our side. (It was a fantastic scene!)

The copycat Jack Wyllard shenanigans with his “victim.” the Aguarran worshiper. Things got kind of rough over there. Thank-you, Edmund, for escorting me away for that bit to have a drink at the stone bar stone bar bar...bar? Things got a little intense when Bob began questioning him.

Special ops for Magnus. Spending quality time chatting with the (hopefully now former) Aguarran NPC named Gadim and explaining a different perspective. Thank-you to Brother Aldric and his bar mass for happening just as Gadim and I arrived at the inn! Lucky opportunity! (Also, Light gods bring hope and cookies.)

Bovine eyes...

Anorra interrupting Swyft's sword lesson with Evrat. You little devil!

Takari got knighted for the barony! Congratulations1

Pox gave Swyft a stuffed spacket cupcake! Oh my goodness, that was such a cute freakin' moment, I really almost exploded! Thank-you!!! Swyft shall treasure it. Even though Magnus tried to eat it.

Thrills and chills at main mod! That death whistle was unnerving! Great drum playing by Leslie and Jenn! Both of these things created a very specific ambiance. Even though we were in the familiar field outside of the guard barracks, it felt like we were in a different place, entirely. NPCs you fought as a really functional unit!

Lord Aleister has a lizard tribe, now? Maybe? He at least has a very fabulous necklace...

Drega'mod – The saga continues:: Drega'mire meets the Sassy Sea Witch.
Oh Gamblor. You and your soul stakes Blackjack, you daredevil. You're an inspiration to us all.

More special ops for Magnus... but of a less official kind. It really was a pleasure getting to be part of that. What a nice gesture for the two involved! The looks on their faces when they saw the candlelit table... Aaahh!

It also allowed for a very awesome discussion with Magnus. I didn't realize how little Swyft knew about him. Truly inspiring tales. Plus, he gave some much needed reassurance during a particularly confusing time.

Tork's scarily accurate Jed impressions Saturday night had many of us in stitches. And Nalick, too, over Oren's faux fart sounds... (You're adorable.)

Witnessing Magnus giving his new squire some strength lessons, (he carried a pillar out of the barn, haha!) Ending with piggyback rides. For Magnus. Not Croi.
Also, there many fabulous opportunities for lewd comments that had Magnus on the ground at some point...

Vedrane blade things! Maelstrom mod! Eee! Thank-you for running that! I loved how some of the lower level folks who just happened to be around Swyft as the sword was going off just got shanghaied into it. How fun! Good thing we got clever ones, what with the puzzle and all! Danielle you looked AMAZING! I actually had to stop myself from just gazing at the whole ensemble to fight you.
Got to use Vendetta!
ALL of the intercepts!
Forgot to use the one special attack...
Everyone worked together so well! Amalthea, thanks for healing me repeatedly!


I know there are some I am forgetting, but know that I treasured every moment with you, KR fam!

SO this event was kind of insane....

-First having a terrifying real life nightmare leading into Friday morning, for Tim to assure me he was fine and would continue to be so
-Feeling kind of ill Friday, thank you to Gene for being so kind to me, and really calming me down and taking care of me
-My absolute failure Friday night, feeling like such a loser, thank you to all of the people who helped me feel better oog, thanks Tim for being so good with my RL crazy. Realizing that as mad as I was at myself, no one seemed to really follow suit ig, thankfully
- Drinking contest!!!!!!!
- "Guys, pirates aren't polite" You guys definitely got better as it went

-Being nervous about the nobles meeting, as there were things that I didn't want to reveal, of course they asked all the right questions, and being surprised they actually weren't as mad at me as I thought they would be.
-Subsequently getting bodyguards who were actually really good at staying with me....which gave me great opportunity to hang out with people that I normally don't get the chance to spend time with, hopefully I get more time with these people again, regardless of whether I need bodyguards or not
-Having a plan of murder, and being so hard on myself.....Gideon destroying both illusions in mere seconds, frustrating on the first, so thankful on the second.
-Telling Lathiel that he was supposed to be my bodyguard and that he let me just eat poison, the complete and udder freezing for a moment of fear that took place.
-Loving the feeling of being powerful enough to be immune to crazy things that are happening to the town lately
-Making members of Kaledonia explain what their interesting language means to a poor little girl, riding in my pocket
-Godrick I need to talk...."what did you do now Tari" Maybe my favorite quote ever...guess you're now comfortable enough with me to understand my craziness
-Brian H literally spending over an hour helping me learn to fight before I finally had to say I'm so sorry are you Garrett or Brian. I can now tell them apart but was so embarrassed Also when you know you have a good costume
-Late night super secret meeting we don't talk about...thanks to everyone part of that......emotions yea......

-Hating wild mages, Sounds like Illana saw through me mostly
-All of the shenanigans with Angelica
-I'm being traded to Dregamire....I feel like a baseball card
-Waking up terrified that John had not taken his arm out of his sling all weekend, cause we forgot to tell him too, and terrified he'd have a new problem
-Just relaxing for once and really getting to laugh and hang out with people
-Brainstorming with James, something I never get the chance to do, and being really excited about the potential results