~~~April 2016 Event Highlights~~~

EXCELLENT EVENT!
SO MANY PLAYERS!
SUCH GOOD WEATHER!!!

(ahem)
Just wow. I can only say that this was an excellent event and things went fairly smooth for the portion I was there for.
Due to Work and necessary training for it, I could not be on site until about 1800 so my total time at game was only about 18 or so hours long…. But those 18 hours were pretty damn good.

A welcome and needed chat with Gideon and the plans for dealing with Blight. I am very glad the final option was not necessary and I can only imagine what is coming next.

That said, Zac, that name you chose has some history. Glad you get it…

Hearing Choyopa was in Travance… and missing my friend YET again. Damnit…

Feast! Excellent and tasty. Brazen smiled upon your efforts, Kitchen Crew… and you did not disappoint!

A semi-heated discussion with an Archmage… (paraphrased because I don’t remember exact details)
“This is a grand creation… and you don’t have One of Brazen involved? Are you mad?”
“It involves Magic…”
“Magic is a craft… your point?”
“But…
“But nothing. You are going to need his Help. I am one his high priests and Trust me when I tell you that Brazen wants this to work…”


Another conversation “I didn’t know you were a priest…”
“I have never hidden it and yet Everyone seems to forget that fact. For some reason not even the Gods know…”

The walk to the site… the advance and orders to those who know their business to organize the Travance Wall of sword and shield. The Battle Cry invocation and the cheering afterward. All you guys…. Made me cry a bit in prideful joy over it. Thank you!

Aftermath… so many talks on the way to the Inn. Watching Fiona give Karkat the “business” worth going to the Inn. That entire scene needs to be a Quote, y’all…

Hotdogs in the Encampment over a wonderful CONTROLED fire.

Sunday Morning…. Sedate, calm and worth it.
Discussions IC and OOC on various things… and learning of some more things coming for the future.

Cannot wait for Next Event- especially since I can be at the entire one this time…

And before I forget, I was asked about the next Fighter Practice Picnic by many of you. The date is to be June 18th and I will be making a post about it soon.

Until next Month!!

Let's see.
Maer's weekend could best be described as "An Abundance of Luck". Both good and bad. Just... a series of highly unlikely events.
-Great thanks to David M for the armor! ...And making me realize that I am scrawny enough to fit a child-sized breastplate.

-Friday and Saturday nights were mostly spent bartending at the Blackbird and the inevitable adventures that entails. Met a lot of new people, was witness to some... events. Gratitude to Allyce for repeatedly preventing me from asking suicidal questions when I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

-Saturday Lizard mod was an interesting experience. I was nervous about playing an NPC like that, but it seems like everyone had a lot of fun?

-Thanks to some hilarious timing I became a hostage in two separate mods. At the same time. Dominated, knocked out, tied up, dominated again, then finally kidnapped. Things got interesting. Thanks and sorry to all involved (Can't remember everyone, that night was a blur).

Acquisitions:
-One very nice pair of mechanically strange manacles
-One deep-rooted fear of sewers

My third event was wonderful and I am super duper impressed with all of the newcomers who had such a great grasp on roleplaying and the game already. Well done, seriously. I hope I was able to help the new players that I specifically interacted with.

Friday night was rather boring for me and for Ergos. Not much happened except for trying to find Nalick and then running away from one of a null (which was scary for Ergos, but for me it was cold and boring, especially since I didn't see the null at all). Seeing Crane and Jackdaw wasted on Satyr's wine was pretty great though.

Around an hour after I had fallen asleep, I woke up to someone saying "Those two have been Killing Blowed". So Ergos died. I was way too tired to make sure it was actually me though, so I just kinda went back to sleep and switched characters in the morning instead of asking anyone.

Haz Polzin! I started playing the new Romani on Saturday this month as a precursor to my friends arriving in May (they should be playing, anyway). He's a rather RP-oriented character, so it was harder to get into him at first because I'm a tad shy at times but it ended up being great. His first interaction in Travance was with Nalick and Dominick and Chenjing and whoever else was there that I don't remember, who might as well have had Satyr's wine since they were running on no sleep. I apologize to anyone who was sleeping in the inn, because you obviously weren't getting much sleep with all of the commotion.

Afterwards, I set up for Marketfaire, where I sold the Polzin (and Grimes) secret family recipe: Kennelration! There was not as much as I expected, and I'm definitely going to try to find a way to make and bring more for next time, but it was definitely a success! I can't remember who exactly it was that helped me out (Dmitri?) but you have my endless thanks for learning me in the ways of vending. I totally wanted to express my thanks in-game, but it's difficult to do so while playing a Romani (which goes to everyone who helped me out, because it pained me to not be able to do anything in return for you). Anywho, Kennelration turned out to be a success and got the thumbs-up from both Lord Ardin Silverbow and Lord Rudolf Von Kreutzdorf, among many others.

Other fun details about Haz Polzin include making some goblinoids kill themselves and almost dying because of a mod with no healers.

On Sunday, I woke up knowing that Ergos had died, and I donned the blue headband. Swyft gave me an awesome resurrection scene, and at that point I was actually fairly happy that Ergos had gotten to experience something like that, so that he knows what it's like for others when he is performing it for them eventually. On Sunday there was not a dull moment, and Ergos learned quite a few things, as well as helped out with the healing business against some goblins.

Great event overall, I'm super glad that I took the chance to be Haz Polzin for all of Saturday. Special thanks to Magnus for everything that he put into helping out the new players, I really appreciate it. I can't wait to see everyone next event!

I'm old, lzy, and still exhausted from the weekend, but I need to give some feedback.


Knight Realms - the Ritual month.

All the rituals.

Druids working to gather the components for the pigments for the main ritual to build the obilisk. Teamwork, and choosing the right person for each job - worked so well. - Trying to say verbals with a plant, and then a piece of chalk in my mouth, interesting.

Friday - meeting new Witch Hunters - Personally introduced to a new one by Cinder. The suprised look on her face when I welcomed her to town, and offered assistance and a place to stay if needed.

A demon who is h8unting a nastyu type of shadow negitive energy creature. Vetted by Caldor, so not killed immediately.

An elder Lycanthrope healer who assisted our people and is asking to be cured.

If another undead 'good guy' shows, I'll be sure of the side who won the war. (I say another, due to ancient history)

Kaladonia PIE MOD firepit party. We were able to convince a great enemy to visit us, and due to the variety of guests was convinced of our honesty.
We hope to continue this every month, barring torrential downpours.

SUNDAY Ritual Mod x3 to save an ancient grove and Ranger. I am so proud of how well oiled we were. I hope we continue to work so well as a unit.
the teamwork, and roleplay was astounding.
Thank you to all who assisted Kaladonia in our work.

It's been a while since I've been to an event and lemme tell you after a boring winter, the spring is going to turn out to be awesome!!! Such a great event, really felt that there was a need for a good amount of different classes.

I believe the number of players this event was 270? SWEET!

So some of my highlights are...

Talking to Chen,

Talking to Bob

Talking to Brigitta!!

I very much enjoyed alchemy plot, it was nice to see the different techniques other alchemists had. For being new to the profession it gave me a lot of different perspectives on how to go about doing things.

The reaction I got when I explained my secret recipe at the mod was also great.

Selling alchemy.

Telling people I would throw gold at people for essences was fun too.

Jack Cypher walking up at the auction and throwing bars of gold down onto the ground. Hilarious!!


Watching the alchemists fight. It was surprising to see how useful a skilled alchemist is.


Well that's all I got for now. See ya next time.

This was my fourth event, and so far definitely my favorite. Thank you, so much, to everyone who had a hand in making this event a blast, even with the HUGE number of players that showed up.

In no particular order, my highlights reel:

- Puppets. Pirate-freaking-puppets. I had no idea these were actually happening, either IG or OOG, until suddenly there's a puppet Jackdaw. And Magnus. And then I went inside to have tea, and came out to Puppet Starling. That was a HUGE shock (and, OOG, hugely flattering!) and the whole thing provided hours of entertainment. Osprey and Lark (and everyone else) deserve massive props for it. I am sad that I missed the Jackdaw puppet's baptism into the worship of Enax, and the dramatic marriage of Puppet Magnus and Puppet Jackdaw, followed by Puppet Starling's intense disapproval. (It was really a blast to get to bring out some of the dynamics between Starling and Jackdaw that are usually less evident, even if they were directed at a sock puppet--literally.)

- Chenjing, please keep leading the "Jackdaw is an honorable and good man" charge, it provides me no end of amusement. Your dedication to this cause is very important to me.

- Late late night Friday night mod with the Winged Victory and friends was brilliant. It was a really interesting problem to solve, the NPCs were all wonderful, especially the prisoner - very impressed by all your convulsing! Again, it offered opportunities to play sides of my character I don't always get to delve into - two really conflicting sides at once, in fact. And there was actually Healer Stuff to do? That wasn't just spamming heals? I am so grateful for that.

- Of course we got chased by terrifying NPCs on the way to AND from this mod, as characters who are really not equipped to deal with anything that threatening on our own. So there was a lot of running - which was really immersive, because I actually got to run through the woods in the dark getting my dress and cloak stuck on brambles and bushes. Terrifying, but great immersion.

- Tea with the Silverbows was excellent Quinarian roleplay! I hope more of that happens, you were both great and it's always fun being snobs--I mean, being better than everyone. And more tea. And maybe more suspicious autograph seekers.

- Sunday, I really thought, was going to be low key. And then Starling had a healing lesson that particularly left her shaken - and had people keep passing her bottles of wine. (Gee, thanks, Rook and Wili and Jackdaw. THANKS.) Probably don't ply small high elves with lots of alcohol, because then they rally their pirate crew to go fight trolls or goblins or something, and then Magnus gets involved. Starling still really isn't sure how that whole lending her his skills works, but it meant that she used a weapon and fought something for the first time probably ever. And continued getting progressively louder and more opinionated after the goblins kidnapped Jackdaw. So I'm not sure if thanks or apologies are in order to everyone else on the mod. (I'm glad I got to shout "Yes, morality IS determined by my personal opinions alone!", it may have been the single most Quinarian thing I have said in game yet.) I'm pretty sure Starling hideously embarrassed herself in front of Fenri and her new crew members, too, and nearly got into a brawl after certain new crew members besmirched elven wines.

- Main Mod was intense. Not being able to see most of what was going on, having a veritable horde of NPCs charging down the hill over and over, and having to regrow a dizzying number of limbs? Wild. (Also, many kudos to Jun for really playing up the missing leg. I'm pretty sure they heard you back at the inn.)

- Apparently I wanted to be around so much that I literally fell asleep on a table in the Inn after midnight on Saturday, before finally shuffling off to bed.