August 2015 Highlights

I'm still wiped from this humidity, but I will comment on my main highlight of the event, Kirsten and her merry band of doxies, er pirates. I had a great time interacting with all I saw, particularly when I asked where their anchor tattoo was located. I particularly liked Marie's spiel which was delivered more in a Cockney accent. Most of the pirates were tastefully bawdy, is that is possible. When I responded in kind a concerned townsmen whispered to me "Do not bed them Edwin, for I am certain you will contract a disease that no physician or healer can treat." It is nice to have people concerned for one's well being. :cool:

"Edwin, are you going to watch the tournament?"
"Why would I want to watch a group of mostly second tier fighters?" came immediately to mind, but I am trying to be more tactful, so I merely said "No, I am selling food."

Glad to see my Greek salad was well received. Goose gave me a silent complement, in that he did not pause while eating it to speak. I will bring more to September, and maybe october if real tomatoes are available. Speaking of real tomatoes, TY, Teresa A.

Pendarvin has curtains! Three are up and now I have to put up the hooks for the other two in the SH, then we will hang the ones for the IHOP.

Good RP with Victor Sylus (our meetings are short, but intense). Spent some time with new players, explaining by words and actions how I recommend their staying alive. Given my age, my words had weight. Interesting conversation with Hurgar, along with ones with Amov, which I hope sunk in. As usual, it was a pleasure seeing Swyft, who dressed like an Egyptian, shedding part of her Queen of Hearts/Mad Hatter image as a concession to the humidity.

I think I might have resolved the quarrel that the Bank of Travance has with me and my bank. At least I acted as they were going to follow through on it. Nothing Edwin (or for that matter, Charlie) dislikes more than having a serious chunk of time wasted. H opefully, a few employees of the Bank will be looking for other employment.

Taught the last Arch-Casting lesson to Trent, and opened Warlord for others. I am kind of picky who I teach, and try to tailor the lessons accordingly.

Made breakfast both mornings as Luis was cooking feast. I make it a point to feed everyone, but IF YOU SHOW UP PAST 10, 1015 AT THE LATEST, YOU WILL NOT GET A HOT BREAKFAST. If I can haul my sorry ass out of bed at815 to prep and cook it, you can show up by then to order it. Coming in late gets you yogurt.

Sir Jack owed me a meal, and showed up at the Pendarvin SH around 3 AM Saturday to present it to me. Tasted great.

An addendum - Sunday, Norm sent out a commoner to ask Haroldson for some tips on playing chess. We spoke for 15-20 minutes while I distilled what I knew into something that had nothing to do with moving the pieces. It was a nice gesture on his part to occupy me after cooking breakfast, not to mention Norm knew where to send him, as I was definitely heading to the SH after sweating over a hot grill - goodness, I have just become a stereotypical 50s wife.

I will post more later after I recover.

Two (three) more things:

Jack flirting with Chaos (All the Order vs. Chaos talk in general has a new research project starting)

Veor's brilliant smile when he did not wear his plate mail to main mod

I'm going to reiterate that when Viktor destroyed his mask OOG I felt so bad for that beautiful thing. But, I think my actual shock he broke it helped with my IG shock/joy

(finally had some time to type this up!)

This event is probably my favourite event that I've ever attended since I joined the game a little more than a year ago. I had a bit of a rough adjustment getting into the RP and acting thing due to being a pretty shy, timid, closed-off person who jumps at shadows but over the past year y'all have managed to create a really comfortable environment and draw me out of my shell and man is it FUN!

Where do I even start?

Friday night: I arrived as Pig-Faced Anne, one of Cap'n Charlotte's all-female crew of pirates and had a total blast interacting with y'all! At one point I remember Padma saying "Hey, could you do one of the other songs?" and we just had to belt out "sorryallwememorizedwas...ALL FOR ME GROG, ME JOLLY JOLLY GROG! ALL FOR ME BEER AND TOBACCO!" All of my best NPC experiences have been bardic and this was no exception. Thank you for Kirsten, Garrett for asking me to NPC for you. I loved it.

I was glad I didn't lose my voice, because Saturday Morning...

...being forced to confess to being the Huntress before the entire Tourney as Ketryn was epic! Joe, MB and Goose did an amazing job orchestrating that. I had a blast in quality time RP with them all throughout the weekend. Sam did an amazing job giving me death glares as Godric all day. The icy stares were palpable and chilling. Brooding and being all angsty with Jade afterward was pretty great. I enjoyed the "we all want to kill you" glares from every member of Kaladonia from across the field. Not to mention, Lady Blackthrorne's face when the Knight of the King walked over and asked "Can I borrow your criminal?" was pretty amazing. That night I snuck out of the Alisandrian statehouse around 3 AM and laid down on the dock to look up at the stars. It was amazing to just enjoy the peace and quiet and watch the meteors streak across the sky.

Sunday Morning: The execution. I don't even know how to describe how amazing that was. I was really blown away that the Count himself walked down to haul Ketryn off and an actual noose physrep was put up in Kaladonia. Ketryn had a long and really awesome RP session with Lady Blackthorne about morality. The interrogation was awesome. It was even better that there was a misunderstanding between Kaladonia, the Count and Alisandria that caused a little bit of a "political incident." Gideon was amazing and so dearly morally conflicted about taking a life.

The RP with Dr Darkwood and Dr walker during the surgery was a treat and I can't wait to see where those revelations go. Also, Swyft was a dear bleeding heart whom I never fail to enjoy RP with.

All in all, amazing event. I'm glad I was there.

KatB wrote: I had a bit of a rough adjustment getting into the RP and acting thing due to being a pretty shy, timid, closed-off person who jumps at shadows but over the past year y'all have managed to create a really comfortable environment and draw me out of my shell and man is it FUN!

You're not alone there. I'm still working out some of my kinks, but I've improved a lot.

All of my best NPC experiences have been bardic and this was no exception.

Maybe it's a sign. Just saying.

Holy goodness what an event. So many things to write about. All the roleplay with Silas this event was superb. Leading the adventurers guild and having 72 people looking to me for answers was humbling and really exciting. I need to interact with Victor more but it was great seeing him come out again. All of the interactions and fights I had with Captain Fros. Shout out to Kyrus for having my back during Fros' assassination attempt on me. His men probably would have had me if you hadn't been there.

This was an absolutely amazing event for me to return to. Having been away for two years I was surprised that some people still recognized Valdex. I spent a decent amount of time as an NPC. Nobody seemed to have the fire to deal with trolls on saturday night which was amusing since we kept getting up only to get smacked back down until we were thrown into the Winterdark fireplace.

Saturday I enjoyed helping out with a New Player mod as an imp with infinite respawns until the summoner was downed (Still curious as to whether or not some of those new players looted any of the Gypsy bodies) Valdex also met a new Chaos Warrior which always puts him in a good mood seeing as he is a one himself.

Highlight of my Arrghust event was during Main Mod,
Me:"Body Block!"
Now Dead Pirate: "As I die you see my body go flying into the water and get devoured by a shark"

Sunday: I went with a bunch of new Adventurer's to deal with Greed and Lust. While we simply bought off greed we had more difficulty with the Two embodiments of Lust. After successfully Chaos Blasting one of their weapons I was dominated by the other. This quickly caused some issues for my allies. I chaotically altered one and body blocked the one trying to waylay me. It was then that One of the Gypsies tried to convince me that they were a noble and I should stop fighting my allies. However this did not go so well seeing as I am a Chaos Warrior, as previously stated. Not long after I was Incapacitated and carried off to the side where I fell into critical condition and experienced my second near death moment.

All in all this was a great event to come back to and I can't wait to come back again.