Week in the Life (WiTL) 2016 Highlights!

I had a blast this WITL!

Hanging out with everyone from Ostcliff was great, and we even added a few new friends to our land.

"Oh you need some originally minted copper coins? Well there just happens to be a pile of them in the lake thanks to a Mummy, it's guarded by a Hydra though. Sure, Ostcliff will take you, Zelretch mix up some water breathing potions!" - and the resulting zanyness that followed.

Eteve Srwin's monster hunt; resulting in frozen monster-cicles and a new gargoyle pal for the Ostcliff State House.

Main mod battle group, Wren/Dirge/Olivia fighting together the whole time while making jokes and eating cupcakes.

Treasure Mod and canoeing across the lake with Nick H, who had never been out on a canoe before.

Learning Druidics from Tris, the Rp was top notch.

The Scourge Dolls Keavy made for Wren, they are so awesome. I didn't know she was going to make physreps for them so when I woke up on Sunday to them being presented to me I was blown away by how great they were, and super honored that she took the time to hand craft them for me.

Getting Squired; was an honor, I hope that I do well!

So after lurking around KR since I was 14 years old WiTL was my first event.

I had a blast and spent alot of time searching the camp alone and introducing myself to the various factions and scouting things out!

Seeing Midori's costume and makeup quality as I first arrived in the parking lot and realizing KR is serious business. (Seriously awesome business.)

Voo taking the time to walk me around the camp in the pitch black helping me look for my in game friend who hadn't arrived out of game yet.

My first experience with one of the landed camps: Alisandria: "Have you seen my friend Nashgoth?" "Nashgoth? No. What race is he?" "A hobgoblin." <Angry grunting, the grabbing of weapons, and the tell tale sounds of preparation for murder.> "I'll take my leave." Hastily said as I Zoidburg shuffle my way the heck out of there.

Mega early wandering alone, through the long path to the weed garden and finding so many items I couldn't fit them into my pouch. The cursing of the angry people behind me in the woods as they were not finding anything. (Sorry Ogre dude.)


My First NPC duty: Highly annoying magician worshiping Kobolds pawned off from one magic user to another until someone was clever enough to send us of in search of evil creatures to fight and rabbit for rabbit stew. Naturally the search for "EVIL rabbits" began in haste and with much excitement. The highly annoying kobolds met their explosive deaths via Oacenth Nestrin (And friends) I'd never been so excited to get so expertly killed in the woods before. My reward? Two fresh new roleplaying points! I guess it pays to be annoying.

Second NPC duty: THE BEST BARDS! So Highly annoying we were kicked out of the Alisandria via huge axe threats. So highly annoying that when I offered to give a one man show to a PC walking in the distance they casually put on a yellow headband and kept on walking. I nearly laughed my butt off.

Na'ar introducing me to everyone he possibly could while simultaneously explaining the weave in depth. The "Murder face" I received from one of those said introductions.

Weekend portion

Meeting Pox. Just everything about the character rocked! Pox's tour of the town where much to our surprise people were excited to see him. Some even wanted to hug him despite the lice.

Trying to remember everyone in and out of games and getting them wrong over and over and over.

Meeting giant orc brawler dude. (Aforementioned forgotten character name. Player Matt!)
Pretty fearsome quasi-ally to have, but big huge greenskins are always welcome at our camp!
Fight with a bunch of NPC racists out in the field the whole group was on point. The fight was lots of fun and finally got to test drive my staff.

Watching in horror as an unknowing and overly excited orc fist bumped and then hugged an avatar.

"What kind of boom do you make?" Said the inquisitive celt.
"Boom. You know, Boom... Boom is Boom."
"No argument there."

"Ere we go! Ere we go! Ere we go!!!!!!"
"Here we go!"
"You're doing it wrong PINK SKIN!!!"
<Grumbling>
"He make us look bad..."

Giving super hard looks to everyone trying to eavesdrop on the conversation between the emissary and the count.

The 101 questions about why I'm traveling with greenskins and the silence after I asked "Why wouldn't I travel with goblinoids."

Getting asked "What is your profession." from every. single. person. I met.
What are black cloaks suspicious or something?

After two hours of intense roleplay with a Enaxian priest.
"Out of game real quick. You're all new so my guess is your NPC shift is over. This was really awesome thanks so much."
"We're PCs."
"What!!!?!?!?"
<additional sounds of player losing his mind with happiness.>

"What do I see?"
"An orc"
"Are you NPCs"
"No I O.R.K."

Joining main mod NPC shift to beat up my friends only to find out they also all joined main mod to NPC.

Sarcastically complaining about my nipple possibly being torn off by an overzealous barbarian and the non-stop laughter it brought to the NPCs during main mod.

Getting a whole pole arm in my butt as I went down.
"Oh my god! Are you ok! I'm so sorry!"
"I didn't think it was THAT kind of larp!!"

Thanking someone out of game for finally killing me after being ping ponged across the field 12 times in a row by wield faith.

Someone asks me if we should keep spawning. My answer is the chittering sound of a skeleton's jaw.

Spawning 57 times during main mod. (My everything still hurts.)

Spot on history lesson/moral/religious debate from an about to pass out Kanas Whisperwood.

So happy leaving I have to get one more joke in before I leave the parking lot. "Man, I can't wait to get this costume crap off and get home to play some Cubicles and Managers."

The general helpfulness of everyone both in and out of game. Smiths showed up to hone our weapons and gave us some great goods. Players dipped into their own SP to get us better equipped! Crazy inviting and helpful and friendly I couldn't believe it. So thanks to those who offered us better goods It was so helpful!!

And everyone else who helped me out and answered my insufferable newby questions with a helpful tone and big smiles. There are a number of you so thanks so much!

Oh!

I almost forgot- I conducted TWO weddings this month.
One between NPC Elf and Dwarf with Dwarf family none too pleased with the choice of their kin...

... and the other between two Blood Spirits with a traditional Celt Bride-Raiding leading into that one along with a very traditional Hand-fasting.

Had a great event! so much to talk about and in no particular order.

extended tea with Meander, Sebastian, Ivan, The Creepy Bard, Sigfreid, Harrison and a few other brief guests was a blast. Getting drunk on potent stuff, drinking more tea than should be aloud, and laughing a lot at Sebastian's rapid fire quips.

Swimming and canoeing the lake! very relaxing watching fish in the boat by the shoreline, talking fishing with Cindra, being thrown in the lake by Dorwick, getting some nice sun.

A late night conversation with Walter about murder and spiders and fishies. Had a hard time not breaking character to laugh.

Being tricked into drinking Satyr's wine by the weird satyr man and doing some slightly grim dark roleplay, great character development, great RP from all involved!

Long treasure hunt with Dorwick, learning the paths and a few Travancian racial jokes along the way.

bubbles and backstory with Midori! Also green tea!

annoying the living crap out of Pearl by constantly trying to touch her horns!

sunday "pet the kitty" mob, followed by the snake oil salesman and Voo's attempt to swindle her.

also the poncy luxury salesman! So funny!

long journey to find Gwenid's sister with Val and Mr. Redleaf, lit by candlelight lantern!

Learning the story of Valos and the lords of light as a seeker of Valos from Aldrich. Actually helped Dan to learn a little bit of the god's lore, great preaching on Aldrich's part

loosing horribly in the grand melee and watching the shenanigans from the sidelines! It was a close fight!

The endless undead campaign that was main mod paperwork! Laughing at "Nick the Nipple Guy" and his hilarious nipple ripping related complaints. laughing and joking to get through the 50000000000 respawns and rain and pain.

Going on patrol with Wolfgar, Ya Ya, Swyft and others on friday night! great fights in the pitch black!

Overall, my favorite part was meeting so many new people and getting to know them, both IG and OOG! Great RP from everyone I interacted with (too many to mention!), you guys made this event something special!

That chili, tho...

I can't even begin to list everything in detail so...

Yeah.

Kaladonia cooking
Guard Auction Lunch
Fixing Caelvan
Midnight Mass
Teaching Priest... 2x
Learning stuff
Spirit Realm of the Immortals
Saving the Farm
Delving into Burk's mind

NPC shift!!!
NPCing as an old man and his sons, with Jeff Bala Narrating
Dueling merchants
Married couple with a halfling con artist posing as their son.

One thing In particular I want to call out:
Giving up main mod to pursue an alternate plan against the nulls. Amazing RP from everyone who came and participated, and those who actively chose not to, or to fight against it. People gave 110%. I can't wait for the follow up.