March 2016 -- Island Realms -- Event Highlights

I came, I saw my friends, I RP'd with some fun people, and I got to remember a little bit of why I do this. I spend about 3 hours trying to get to event and 3 hours getting back home. Sometimes it's worth it, sometimes it's not.

This event... was worth it. I wanna thank Alice, Joe, MB, Diane, Kat, and Maria for the interactions I got to have with you all, & for reminding me how to try to be a social human being and not such an asshole all the time.

How to get a group of paladins to completely break down in happy tears: wake up Fiona and have her tell them she's proud of them.
A+++

All the teaching, and to a multitude of different backgrounds.

Making plans to undertake some serious research - and lining up a group to help. Its going to be a long trip.

Main mod - the army we fought could not have been better designed for Edwin to fight.

Between Saturday and Sunday breakfasts the kitchen set a record, both for total made and for NPCs served.

I found three people to both help and eventually take over my lunch business. Two were there (the third told me her next event will be April). One was new (Beria) and the other was Heimriel). The were both excellent. Beria could sell sand to a Beduin. I feel confident I will now have some extra time to do other things, people will continue to be fed as usual for lunch, and some relative newcomers will be able to earn coin as well as meet a wide variety of PCs.

Deciding to name two "signature" breakfasts. The von Kreutzdorf, sadly, could not be given to Rudolf, but rather had to be delivered to Larry, as he was Marshaling Sunday AM. As Christine had to leave early, the "Mirwin" will have to be introduced next month. I may decide to call it "The Jewel of Pendarvin," but that is a little pretentious, even for Edwin.

Interesting developments vis a vis my relationship with Pendarvin's vassals. Soon comes the Chinese curse.

Finding a happy medium for the Statehouse temperature is proving difficult. Wonder how the hot, humid weather will play.

People think Edwin's swords are worth stealing because, well, they belong to Edwin. Did I mention that since Mithril can now be broken, I use steel swords?

Getting kicked in the head during first NPC shift, ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Someone making a snarky comment about it too. Seriously??!

Seven panic attacks over the weekend.....I had a bad time.

I did have one of my friends come to game though so I get some sweet referral build

There were good things that happened.....awesome RP with Cypher and Crowley, then more RP with Crowley which prompted people to ask OOG if we were having OOG problems, nope, we are just that good
Being able to RP being happy about EVERYTHING because of all the positive energy on the island....do something bad? FEEL GREAT ABOUT IT!

Eli doing psychic suggestion on Fenri to be pissed off at the Baron, I run out of the not-Inn and am about to swing at him before I see Thalia and she is able to help me....I then find out later what exactly it means to be vassaled to a land....I brought up that I might have a problem with someone and before I knew it, Pendarvin was marching to the not-Inn to question/take care of it....IG I got miffed that MANY people came up to me and said "Are you sure it wasn't just your empathy that made you want to assault the Baron??" - I have an IG family that has done more for me than my OOG family does...
(also finding out that I have friends IG that would have NO PROBLEMS killing him for me)
I then found out things that Fenri can relate to in regards to Eli....which can lead to some FANTASTIC RP in the future.

RP'ing with Zinna, who was drunk on the boat to the island, that she tried to kiss Fenri. "You came up to me and said "Fenri, you not so bad Elf, only a jerk sometimes but still handsome. You then leaned in to kiss me but missed me and fell down." - having everyone else there call BS on it saying she was just passed out drunk, Fenri not buying any of their BS though and offering Zinnia the opportunity to try again anytime.

LATE Saturday night Empathy training with Amalthea (and then Eli walking in on us while my arm was on the floor, blood everywhere, I look at him dead in the eyes and say "It's been a very interesting day for us, eh?" A bit later, wandering with Hurgar while nothing else was really going on.....(at least nothing that I could find)

Having Lillith under my cloak and Duncan making us BOTh get *VERY* red in the face, then looking up and seeing Kyle had been snapping photos the entire time.....oh boy, those will be fun pictures if they ever see the light of day

Sunday staff fighting with Fyodor, getting ACTUAL combat training was great!


Honestly that kick in the head really made Friday night and most of Saturday impossible to enjoy......plus there's large portions of that time frame that are fuzzy.

Friday night I helped rescue my buddy Tanwyn. Perks of no one noticing you're there is that when people get sent away, they forget to tell you to leave, too. I popped over Alyce's shoulder while finding our way through the 'tunnels' and she was like "WILI?!? How long have you been here?". STEALTH +100000

Afterwards was pretty crummy due to some OOG ish, but Liz is awesome and made me feel better.

Saturday morning was paperwork time, and it was lots of fun! I got to be a wolf and eat people. So satisfying. Also, watching the transformation of Mr. Jones to Alejandro the flamboyant priest of Andorra was a delight. Only bad thing about Saturday morning NPC shifting is missing market faire. I NEED MORE TREE SOAP DAMMIT!

My dissection lesson was the best thing ever. Nesterin was all like "let's get an animal to practice on", and Wili, if you know her at all, was like "HELL NO let's get a person!". Cue five minutes trying to convince Cael the salad Tanwyn to let me chop him open, only to be ended by Maer volunteering himself. I really REALLY love that mindset of "don't inflict anything on someone else until you have personally experienced it" thing you've got going on, Max. Anyway, so I chopped up Max several times, got threatened by a lot of people and responded "he volunteered!!!". Afterwards, Wili was chopping up everything she could get her knives on, including Bill the NPC on Sunday. I was trying to stabby-mcstaberson every prisoner, to which many people were like "WILI NO", and finally got away with one thanks to my new barbarian buddy Wolfgar! He totally covered for me when questioned by some guard members about why their prisoner was a pile of decomposed mush.

Super sad I got stuck in the back of the main mod hoard because I'm not useful, and missed seeing Rachel as Fiona I hear she was amazing, though!

DEAR GOD GET ME OFF THIS ISLAND I MISS MY BLACKBIRD! OH also I'm the new manager of the BB because husbando joined the Onyx guard. HAHAHAH.

I took first shift this month for NPC duty, so we start there.
I was sent out as a nature's herald guarding a, something, with a bunch of light-blessed island animals. The PCs went in, found absolutely nothing, and stormed out very mad-like. Whereas the NPC were great on both an IG and OOG standpoint. As NPCs, when we are OOG (Walking to/waiting at a MOD site) being quiet in an effort to not disturb the IG atmosphere of our friends should be considered law. We want to show as much respect to them as they do to us. The NPC team I was with this event was very good about understanding, and following this. Thank you guys!

I also played as a poison ooze in an effort to piss off the druids, as well as a shade to piss of everyone else.

Afterwards, I get my happy ass into character for a couple of hours. I spent that time with Wili, as well as other friends before Wili and I decided to call it a night.

I spent the first three hours of Saturday morning wandering the woods alone. The wife was doing her paperwork, so I decided to get some quiet time, away from the town. I ended up stumbling upon a group who was headed to a cave. Their mission was to clear it out, so I decided to tag along. Watching Wormwood in battle is quite a show. I need to learn how to properly fight alongside that man.

Afterwards, out of the blue, (No pun intended, seriously) Clytie recruited me to the Onyx Guard, telling me to speak with Ser Pluvious. The knight and I discussed the position, what I would be doing, and all that, before letting me have time to consider it. After going over it with my wife, I made my way to The Baron's encampment to officially accept the honor of being on the Onyx Guard. The rest of my Saturday was at the Baron's side along with Clytie and Pluvious.

Thank you, Goose for wonderful feast!

Main MOD was spent guarding the Baron as we made our way through the tower to Fiona. I'm very proud for Rachael's portrayal of Fiona! A++

I tried to spend as much of my time after that with my Wife, whom missed me a lot.

This was a wonderful event! Thank-yous go out to Drew and his team for bringing it to life! I hope to see everyone again in April!