~~~April 2016 Event Highlights~~~

Well, it's great to be back, for starters!

To be perfectly honest, if I could describe this event in one word, that word would have to be 'smooth.' Everywhere I walked, everything seemed to be going smoothly, especially for some of the new players.

Saturday

As soon as my friends and I found each other IG, we went on 3 consecutive quests, with the first one being personally for us! In my three years here, that many consecutive 'New Player' Mods has never happened to me before!
The first quest was a classic: Cross the troll bridge for loots and stuff! After paying the troll in gold brownies and killing the skeletons for wytchwood, we turned around and walked back across the bridge....with a suspiciously familiar box of pastries. To anyone who went back on that bridge, the troll was floating in the river when we got there!
(To the person who played the troll, the person who Waylaid the troll and to my healer friend who Killing Blow-ed the troll while no one was looking, you guys are awesome.)
PLANTS VS. PCs! Very fun, very difficult to keep the plants from dying.
Somewhere between there, there was a battle with a demon who hemorrhaged imps, and a surprise hostage. All of us got into formation and mowed the imps down whilst the demon was taken care of.

Because of that mod and that mod alone, I firmly recommend that any Mage who uses Water spells picks up Freeze Ground and Freeze Limb.

FEAST!
From what I could tell, the chicken and rice was fantastic, and the serving team (myself included) appeared to be moving quickly.

Main Mod!
That mod was very simple, and it appeared as if every single player was useful. The fact that some of the more powerful casters were involved in the ritual may have been the reason why this worked, but that's just a guess on my part.

This was also the first event where I had ever heard the Creepy Bard. Twas a beautiful thing, a beautiful thing indeed.

Gank Shift!
Can't remember exactly what happened here, but I do remember that Burkhart was a boss, yet still worked well with his group and that I should have RPed a bit more.
My favorite encounter was a group of Husks that was formerly a theater troupe. I did not expect the marshal to OK that idea, but four applications of makeup later, and there we are!

Sunday!
My friends and I woke up, had breakfast, and went walking around.
All of a sudden, we see a group of something walk up. Two of them walk up to me. I was fast enough to hurl an inferno at one of them, but I was cleaved and dropped by the second.

They then picked me up and used me as a dead hostage/snack. After about 7 minutes into my death count, Rowan shows up! Eventually, I'm brought back without losing a tag, and I 'find' some ogre skin for my troubles. (It's for making armor, I swear!)

It's a bit troubling to realize that I, the player, was OK with losing a life tag to an ogre.

All in all, this event was fun, dangerous and welcoming at the same time!

All I have to say is....

I am finally no longer broke as hell.

I was only at game for 22 hours and it was 22 of the best hours of game yet. Seriously intense non-stop role play and amazing times had

Thank you to James, Kirsten, and the KR storytelling team and staff for another amazing event.

rook-

I showed up around 4pm on Saturday so I missed most of the game plot, but I spent the first hour doing some following up on things from last event. Very nice RP with aleister, well done bringing out that side of Rook, it's not something that usually happens.

Rook got a job! Excited to be bartending at the blackbird, she's only wanted to do that since, like, she got to Travance her first month ;P

Late night mod that got hijacked by another mod that was Oog AMAZING and IG INSANE and terrifying. Well done Damian, Ben and all of those NPCs, rook is now having nightmares about what she saw. Well crafted on the fly storytelling and a prime example of how anything can happen in Travance, especially at 3am. Don't expect one quest to be safe from interference by another!

Once again staying up all night with friends, but worth it.

Fun morning mods with some awesome RP and fantastic NPCs

Teaching some skills and learning some others, enjoying the role play from those!


Fiona-

I was only Fiona for about two hours, but those two hours were AMAZING. I was so honored to be back and be able to bring her to life again, and it was so much fun. Thank you all for interacting with her and asking her your questions. I had a lot of very memorable interactions that, even though she's not my PC, were the highlight of my weekend.

Karkat(kind of sarcastically): "I'll be respectful and move out of your way"
Fiona(in the most pleasant Disney princess way ever): "see, I knew there was goodness in you"
Everyone around us: "OOHHHHHHHH DAAAAMMMMNNNN"

(probably the best thing I've ever said IG ever.)

CLYTIE OMFG I LOVE YOU. I was trying not to laugh Oog so hard and Fiona is somewhere between highly bemused and totally concerned. Well done.

Making Midori nearly break down in happy tears after I walked over to her, put my hand on the bag with the Heart of Mercy in it and looking at her and going "She is Proud of You". I thought you were going to cry on the spot. Amazing RPing.

Thank you to Utgard, the Baron, Cypher, Annora, Wander, and to every other person who came over to talk to me as Fiona. There were so many of you that I feel so bad that I can't thank you all by name, but every single one of you made that experience so incredibly rewarding to me, and I'm so honored and touched to be able to be a part of your characters lives like that.

Haven't done one of these for a while, still going to be brief.

Friday Night:

-Marshaled Ward for the hook for the next morning to tell everyone about the mod
Gamblor speaking with Swift, everyone, and I mean everyone involved had to step OOG because we were laughing at a time that IG laughing shouldn't have happened.

-Blight Hunt with Hugh. There have only been two and I loved them both, I hope they keep happening because every time they do they further Caelvan's conviction on fighting blight

Saturday:

My morning was all sword plot mod all the time. From start to finish PC's continue to impress me, both in good and bad ways. I hope everyone had a good time.

After that mod I was out for most of the afternoon, except for the pigment mod for Druids
-Proved again how well Aella and Caelvan work together. What's that? Protect a butterfly? Ok. Archer in a tree, Warrior in front of it and it was great

Main mod was fun when I realized I only had 4 Kaladonians to work with. Made my battlefield commands so easy.

Hearing the news Fiona gave about Meranda.....
Yelling at Annora for her beliefs on faith in her
Telling Oren and Danny some pretty horrible news because of what he heard

Sunday:
OH MY GOD MATT AND ZACH YOU GUYS CAN SURE RUN A MOD
Cormac was a great fight, all THREE rituals were great
The memories of Cormac were awesomely done, and the way that Zach and Matt gave my Unique ability to come in game was great.

Overall, it was a great event!

OMG I hurt! So much walking hauling and prep prior to game had me tired before we began. A proud kind of tired. Thank you for those who came down to see the encampment. Zach your expression told the tale...

Where to begin... From lay on out til the end just wow. The organization of this event was great! The multiple mods all interrelated was fantastic. The main was awesome. In fact NPCing main was amazing this go. Mid to high level card run was nice...the Leslie you do this go do this comment at logistics was a feather in my cap. Teaching the new NPCs and having time to do so fighter practice style outside logistics was awesome. When they came back and said how much that helped warm fuzzy. Yes the old silver hair can move...

Breaking the line going down among the pcs twice and getting a Leslie are you ok made me giggle. Yes you did great Im fine thank you...excuse me I need out. Did she just say thank you. Yep she did. Now THATS the kind of good sportmanship I love!

Clergy on many sides of the board helping with a issue brought on by James in his response on in between game actions was special.

My Spirits Im so proud of you all! The commanding calls at main i heard up on the hill. The oresence of you on the field I Saw you. The everywhere doing the things we needed was awesome. The encampment practices fighting sparing lessons and hotdogs!

So much great RP and Oog talks too. Gina a plan...we has one. More to come.

Garrett was a pleasure to work with you running marshal work at main. I still want deep down inside to do...just once what you and I discussed. Kirstin you amaze me at every turn. I wish we had more time together at game IC and OOC.

Kardin being bought for Birgitta without her knowing it... And the hilarity that's followed. 75 gold out of someones hide...

Matt C. I loved your response to your make up. Zach...you got me anyway.

So much more too... But i have to get ready for work... Ugh.

As Ava
- It was literally Ava appreciation week as I had like at least 3 people tell me they like what I'm doing, even though they don't agree necessarily.

-Good Ol' times with Jack Cypher.

-Dreadnaught Lesson with George:
"You have to find those few last strongholds where chaos is being resisted"
"But I have to feel emotions willingly to do that"
"Yup"
-George checks up on Ava a little later-
"How are you doing?"
"I have learned something valuable today. That all my strongholds are located within my feelings.,..."
Then Ava pulled a GLADOS from portal 2 but less successfully tried to delete her emotions.

-First ever interaction with Mistress Jade is definitely asking her a million times if she is actually talking to Orias Wormwood or if she is Hallucinating it.

-Speaking of Orias Wormwood, I was certain Ava would never get flustered at that man again...but I'm wrong. AT least one kinda productive conversation happened.

As Leliana

-Many "We're sisters!" and lots of "ohhhh I see the resemblance" -points at clothing"

-Swyft saying that Leliana could maybe beat her out if the fashionistas came to judge our clothes!

-Fields of Fallow mod. Minus Tim's concussion, I had a lot of fun on that mod. Even though I didn't do anything Leliana was definitely excited new things she saw there.

-Telling Dr. Walker that he had a nice "behind" and watching him be concerned that his clothing was amiss.

-Cypher deciding that I was okay after casting a shadowstep on myself. Also getting an allowance Was she weirdly adopted?

Had some A+ rp this event. Would RP again. See you all next month!