November 2015 event

JTinney wrote:

Crowley wrote: Eventually I was evaluated again by both Stacy and J.Tinney, and put in a dark corner and told I apparently had a mild concussion. Slept it off, and ended up having to skip the Adventurer's Guild Mod Sunday afternoon, as I was told I still had to be green headband . I'm sad I couldn't be there to help the other adventurers I had met, but going against J.Tinney's orders seemed worse for my health than the shield to my face!

Nah... not worse for your health. Its more like I'd *reaaaaaaaaaallly* scold you and then possibly send for the Magic Bus as you might be considered delusional from your melon-ringing.

Or send for Norm. I mean, defying medical and all... ya can't be thinking straight, right?

After that, you get on to the "List of Difficult Players Where Health and Safety is Concerned." (a real list, I assure you!). An auspicious list... maybe?

Granted, most of the names on that list are the various medical types on camp (EMT and former medics/corpsman)... as they tend to be the absolute worst patients.

On a serious note- Green Head Band mostly means no fighting for you. You could of went if there was something not-fighting for you to do.

And thank you for being a cool patient!

Hahahaha. Yeah, I could have theoretically shown up for it, but voices were sounding loud and hurty, so I decided to just avoid loud situations and help clean up instead .

I was so happy to see how much everyone, including just other players in general, took safety seriously and always checked if someone seemed legitimate hurt OOG. It's the main thing I witnessed in my brief stay in September that made me want to reroll as a combat character.

I just want to say thank you everyone for a fantastic weekend. This was my first time LARPing ever and I was so worried going in that I was going to be totally over my head, but I had an utterly amazing experience and can't wait to go back

Some highlights that stand out-

A huge thank you to the Crew of the Winged Victory for bringing me in on your shenanigans. Even if Rook spent half the weekend snarking at Jackdaw.

Walking around Travance as a group on Friday night and clearly seeing all the people following us, which saved out asses in what would have been a surprise attack. All of us hiding in the pitch black darkness pretending not to be there as we're listening to people was higher level than us fall outside, and all of us hoping they wouldn't hear or notice us. Having one of the barbarians walk into the room with us, look me straight in the face and go "oh I thought there were people in here" and leave (thank you darkness). (In the future, if you're near rook and she tells you she sees people in the darkness, listen! She's ship's lookout for a reason (and I have super good night vision) )

The amount of people that were super welcoming to me as a new player. In game- Through items, sword and weapons upgrades, gold, potions, everything. Through conversations and new acquaintances for rook. Also thank you to People who kept handing me stuff and I didn't even realize half of what I had until I went through everything after the game ended. Out of game- the amount of marshals and players that stopped me OOG to ask and make sure I was having fun, if I had any questions, etc. it was so amazingly kind and very appreciated.

Asking Nalick and someone else (I'm not 100% on names yet; sorry!!) about gods, listening to the very very long cliffnotes version, deciding that none of those gods appealed to us because none of them covered crime; and deciding we were starting our own religion and I was going to become the goddess of crime.

Going to the inn to avoid main mod and realizing once we got inside for a drink we'd made a horrible horrible mistake.

Also middle of the main mod Nalick getting Rook coffee for their coffee date. Rook is super confused and thinks people from Travance are way too relaxed about invading wild mages.

"Puppetry and chill", glomybears, snuffling, mind protection, "this is the least relaxing theater ever", the sheer amount of innuendos.

Getting gold thrown at me to get my attention. Fun fact, if you do that Rook will pay attention to you.

Ib becoming my primary source of gold this game.

The most hilarious first NPC shift. Saturday graveyard shift is now my go to shift.
-Getting to make some creepy rattling screeching sounds while being greater undead and hearing someone inside a building go "nope" and refuse to come out.
- undead pirates. Best thing.
- getting to be the very very low level goblins that didn't get the memo that the goblins weren't attacking, just to die and have our bodies dragged out but angry corpsemen
- Orc chaos chess. My new favorite game, and definitely the rules I'll be playing by in the future.

Adventure's guild mod on Sunday morning. Being the first person to go to the dream realm and being there alone and being like "shit I was not prepared for this". Volunteering to go back in there to back up people once we realized everything was happening over there that people needed help with.

Jackdaw showing up and trying to talk to the father of sin only to be forced silent. Rook was super excited and may have yelled "finally! Thank you" to the confusion of everyone in that group. jackdaw was not amused.

And so many other things I can't remember before I've had coffee

Just overall this was an amazing weekend and I'm incredibly thrilled to be involved. I won't be there in December (I don't think any of the winged victory will be) but I'll see you all again in January!!

EDIT- OH and Magnus(I think that's who it was. Again, names and I were not friends this weekend) calling Jackdaw a good man and inviting him to join he guard. Jackdaw grumbling about it all weekend was hilarious.

-So many new players and a few returning ones too! (It was good seeing so many Friday night. After her mother's death, seeing Leon and Nym alive were just about as great as Ilana could feel at the time)

-Waiting impatiently at the 'Noble's Meeting' trying to warn them about an army, only to hear the army from Winterdark and head back to the inn. Finding out Ilana's mother had been murdered for a blight ritual. Just. Great.

-People quickly learning about Ilana's part in things and the questions from people. So many questions.

-George

-The Loez fashion 'experts' and Papa's prank on them.

-The odd 'waiting game' of Saturday tensely waiting for the inevitable. Very much similar to my Bloodtide event experience.

-Surging willingly with a packet I've been holding onto for months for this event.

-Ulrich being very kind and letting Ilana have the chance to save her father and succeeding.

-The more Torin fought like Balfurous, the more tense the battle got. People were dropping like flies around him, including me X.x (Got to use Mind over Matter effectively at least!)

-It's going to be science time with alchemists and physicians in the future. Need to figure out the mystery Ilana's father left behind.

-Ketryn

-A numb little funeral pyre.

-One issue down, two others to go.

-Dr. Walker

-Not immediately recoiling from a Decay druidic being cast on her.

-Kaladonia 'mobile shells' game. The Trickster unexpectedly saying some very kind words for Ilana's parents.

-A bundle of emerald gems

-Some reflection down by the lake.

Alex wrote: Seeing friends. I miss you guys!

Orias has proved once again that he is the living definition of the perfect V.AS.S.AL (Violence, Adult Situations, Sex, Adult Language)

Walking in to the barn and wondering why the heck there were so many bunks in there, learning how the winter time works......AKA Shanty Town.
Having multiple issues with my character sheet and knowing that James is going take care of it personally is a good feeling.
Getting to see some of my old friends, making many new ones, this statement seems to stand for every gathering.

Getting attuned to the Phokus and making sure another Healer friend came with me. During the ceremony, a large battle broke out outside of the Phokus but we were ultimately uninterrupted.

Going out of game for a short second to compliment an NPC's nail color choices, later finding out it was the same person that Fenri was being flirty with (something that I am terrible at OOG)

Making a comment that people really have a hard time making sure their Healers are tipped. Argyle telling Fenri that he make sure that his healers are well paid and, having watched Argyle in action, decides to stick around with Argyle as long as possible in the hope that he would need some healing deperately, until I saw him get serious, then Fenri realized that Argyle, tipper or not, would be one of the best people to spend time with to make sure I stay alive.

(I got a nice Blue cloak to go with my...mostly blue ensamble)
Nalick, "Why so Blue Fenri?"
Fenri, "Ah, there's an old Quinarian saying about this fashion... ahhbo dee aboo dai"
*I am not sorry at all for that awful joke*

Not sure if Henry or Nalick would be better to challenge to a special competition with wordplay, Fenri still
needs to educate Henry why being a High Elf is synonomous with being a High Race...."nothing personal but we're just ... BETTER"

Meeting up with my friends from Pendarvin, which resulted in an invite to a Pendarvin meeting and meeting Lord and Lady Silverbow.
It was a good meeting, Fenri likes the people of Pendarvin and thinks they have EXCELLENT taste in color. Although perhaps Fenri's eyewear could have a color change away from green...

I believe that my first ever interaction with Clytie (at an earlier event) was telling her how beautiful a shade of blue she was...finding out from someone that she has recieved MANY marriage proposals, not quite beliving that until having a casual conversation with her about other things and Clytie told me about all her marriage proposals. Fenri doesn't just want to be a statistic but ALL THAT BLUE!!!

Best feast I have ever had the pleasure of attending at KR. Should any Vampires have been around me they surely would have been forced away by the combined garlic breath of Travance.

MAIN MOD
Someone: "Where are all our healers?!"
Fenri: "We are all here....all three of us....and I think I am the strongest Healer here....which isn't saying much."
Ser Hurgar (spelling probably wrong) looking at the three of us with a sense of dread on his face and I think he said something about everyone being in deep trouble and FIND MORE HEALERS!

At the triage after most of the carnage...
"Did we win?"
"I think it's over..."
"I HOPE it's over..."

"THE INN IS UNDER ATTACK AGAIN!"

"It's not over...."

Fenri, completely exhausted at this point, couldn't even heal anyone at this point and couldn't find any potions of refreshment so he decided to rest a bit.

Adventurers Guild mod was great, healer triage kicked ass...or...saved asses? Also, Fenri felt like dancing and began to freak out thinking Pride was still around somewhere....

The rest of Sunday afternoon was more or less discovering what things can be done to completely incapacitate Fenri in good ways.
Then I blew up a frog.

Also, Cuddle Puddle with Clytie, featuring Magnus

My second event, so much more fun (now that I know where things are, who people are, and a few of the rules). Main highlights in no particular order:

- Brought my friend Phil, was his first event and he was a barbarian which led to everyone and their mother asking if he was Venier. He loved it as well.

- Meeting more people throughout the weekend and enjoying the consistent, "ANOTHER Tanwyn?"

- Buying most if not all of Dunn Ironwill's supply of potions of true heroism to hand out to fellow Adventurer's Guild members before our mod Sunday.

- Speaking of Sunday, awesome mod with AG, lots of people turned up and we definitely needed them.

- It was a pleasure accompanying Argyle and others to hunt bad guys Saturday (even if they shouldn't have been killed).

- Listening to many characters asking Nesterin if he'd learned Germinate yet (he did eventually).

- Main mod was absolute chaos despite trying to hold a line and I enjoyed it thoroughly (despite multiple downs and being turned to stone).

- Speaking of those downs, a big thank you again to Magnus for healing me via empathy (I think that was the skill) at the cost of his own health.

- Volunteered with Nesterin to be runners prior to main mod for Ulric and then volunteered to scout with Argyle and Lorelai. I may volunteer for things too much...

- NPC shift was entertaining to say the least (the shift after main mod). I got to first be a Ghast that was the target of dissipate undead in every fight I was in. THEN we got to be ghost pirates and visit Kaladonia and the Inn. Both occurrences lead to us being destroyed by Magnus. Capturing Kairus (spelling?) and making him our captain was one of the most entertaining mods I've seen so far.

- Sunday was fairly laid back besides AG mod, which was a relief.

I'm sure I've missed things, but a huge thank you to everyone who I met and saw again this weekend for making it so awesome!

Editing to add that Lorelai and myself were walking past Pendarvin only to be outnumbered and downed by Venier. Luckily they brought us back, unluckily they broke all of our limbs and blinded us and deafened us...