Event Highlights June 2016

Gilgok thanks Arken, friend of fellow green skins with big shining boom juice bottle, for his kind words.
Gilgok also request Arken stop spreading such foul rumors about Gilgok and his companions, as we are not nice, hilarious, or savvy- I don't even like potatoes...

-But seriously, thanks for the kind words and thanks to everyone. I was Selphatos the Barbarian Ronin, along with Gaius Gravelsmither the Dwarf Smith, and Dustiria, the Human Alchemist. All three of us had a resoundingly fun time and are eager to go again whenever funding allows.

Special thanks to the marshals for being so understanding and outgoing to help all of us newbies this weekend!

Oh man, using all of my escape skills to somehow not die when a group of shadowy figures surrounded me and my friend Alene and put a sword through my back. Staggering into the inn and rousing a huge search party to go to Perndarvin to help find her only to run into her own (smaller) search party looking for me!

Finally completing a very important mission from Allesandria and delivering Ludwig his frog!

Rescuing a traumatized halfling from a troll sack and learning a harsh lesson about eating reward cheese before checking it for disease.

Enjoying the shenanigans of the mock-trials as a member of the jury.

Watching my friend Tobias enact a very glowy and sciency ritual and being alternately horrified and then relieved as it was completed.

Continuing to meet awesome people and slowly slowly starting to remember some names (apologies to those of you who I have to keep re-introducing myself to; I'll get your names right someday)!

Friday- the counts introduction and secret witch hunting stuff, seeing a whole bunch of physreps drop. Then hearing about hostages in pendarvin and running down, then getting ganked and almost passing up near kaladonia, then dying in Alexandria and having Aldrich pass me thru the phocus. Still annoyed that I didn't get the full experience. going to bed after seeing the dawn.

Saturday - breakfast was delicious, and then went on npc shift, first as a bunch of undead and made three new players flee for their lives. Then the bodies mod, rped as a mutilated body and had a bunch of players cringing, then changed to cultists to get caught and arrested.

Came off npc shift to mortal hunter new player mod, and then high level witch hunter true warlock fun. Feast and so on was fun, main mod was excellent, and Sara, you shone as Miranda. The confrontation between the count and Barak was terrifying, as was the Rp that came out of it.

Sunday, got a discount bottle from the blackbird, and a very evil thing which I disposed of. Then, getting attacked, paralysed and abducted. Sorry for those who didn't witness it. Tried to make my exit as cinematic as possible

Also, retroactively getting a hunter name. Very moving moment for Brunner, and something I will treasure.

Onca - I love interacting with you, and your experiences are very poignant to Brunner. I'm Going to miss rping with you, and if you do pass when I'm gone, I would try to see your shade.
Marcus - woooow, I hop you become a better hunter, and learn well. You are an excellent brother and I will miss you.
Peaches - loved the Rp after the true warlock.
Everyone- thank you veeeeery much for the game. I love you all, and I am going to miss you for the time I am gone.
Forest - you are the best, literally one of the reasons I love coming to kr, your Rp, your methods and your hilarity both in and out of game.
James - thank you so much for helping me out with Brunner, and having such an open end to him. We've got a lot to do when I come back.

To start this was the first LARP event I have ever attended. I had no idea what to expect as I drove to rural NJ Friday afternoon. I love fantasy, I love costumes and practical effects so. . . why the hell not right? All I can say is i am literally amazed by how amazed I am by the weekend I just had. My spirit, no jest, feels lifted.

My first compliment goes to all the people I met who run this game, sadly Matt and James are the only names I can recall. I do not know how all of you pull off managing a camp containing 150+ players, conduct a story, weave yourselves into the game, yet still care about my friends missing staff, but I am very thankful.

Obviously Friday night involved a lot of rushing about between finding, and setting up my camp, rallying my friends, who all arrived different times, and attempting to arrive at new player training in a timely fashion.

In game my comrades and I had a rough start. Our low level did not deter our desire to see the campsite so we decided to explore. This was despite the fact that it was dark out, and against this better advice of the guards we passed. At first all we passed were fellow travelers. This provided me with a false sense of security. I learned this the hard way when I said 'hello' to an approaching group that did not respond. "Inferno! 200+ damage" Next thing I know is I am being carried off, and in the end was tortured, altered, and left out in the road with a brand on my shoulder.

I loved every second of it.

Having more clarity Saturday went a bit more swimmingly. The mods I encountered were well above my expectations. One that sticks out specifically was when I joined up with a pack that was off to slay something called a "mortal hunter". The line was led by a limping man who asked for my help in getting revenge against the being who injured him. "High risk, yet high reward" He said. The battle itself was fantastic. I absolutely loved the strategy involved. Setting the healers aside, the shield wall, it was all very exciting. I cannot compliment the npcs enough. The demon's grin was sinister, the skeletons attacked without fear; good show guys. I was especially impressed with the sword abilities of the mortal hunter himself. I must say you were a real boss battle. We succeeded and I received some gold for my contribution, this delighted me being my coin pouch had been raided earlier.

The main mod was very exciting, being new and unfamiliar with the lore added a "fear of the unknown" element that amplified it all. Who, or what is Miranda? Why is everyone so afraid? So divided? These were my questions as I marched alongside my comrades in the dark. The heavily armored soldier ahead of me panicked at everyone sound; while the elven women to my side offered me a sip of her water. All of it amplified my feelings of tension and comradery. I loved how all of the built tension led to a somewhat ironic outcome in that Miranda only wanted to speak to her sister. It all exceeded any of my expectations by miles.

After the main mod I joined my friends in the inn before we decided to head back to our camp. I had one foot in the tent when I heard someone running, and a women screaming "Vampire!". I turned to my best friend (brother in game) and despite our lack of sleep and extreme fatigue we set out into the night to join the hunt. Who could resist that 2 am on a foggy night?

I'm going to stop, I could write pages about the fun I had this weekend. I truly appreciate what all of you have come together to create, and cannot wait until the next event I can attend.

Another month and there are so many highlights!

Friday night being called upon as part of the research teams was a lot of fun. I never really had the chance to RP with Raxas before and I am SO GLAD that I did. Seriously man, that was a lot of fun! Spending time with Ben, Geoff, Chris L. and the others formulating questions and working out next steps was fantastic. Drew, thank you for running! Between that and the tomb where we figured out the order of things, this was great!

Kitchen shift and falling asleep in the inn after making the determination that if I went back to Winterdark I’d never get up in time for Caldor’s ritual. I had various PCs check in with Thalia both when she was asleep in the kitchen and when she was asleep in a chair in the dining room to make sure she was okay. It was appreciated.

Gus and the NPC Mortal Hunters, thank you for letting me sleep an extra hour before attempting to kill me. I needed the sleep! And really, what’s another hour if you’re the only one in the inn anyway, right?

Early morning (7am) Seneschal’s Office meetings, and actually getting a LOT of stuff done. Lois and her 43 item to-do list and the peanut gallery who commented the entire time. You know who you are!

CALDOR’S RITUAL! Over the last few months, the Jasons Marin and Feldman have but an enormous amount of time and energy into this plot. This was phase 2 and wound up involving upwards of 20 people! I know that this plan is very controversial in game, but from an OOG perspective, this mod was one of the best I’ve been on in recent months. Everyone gathered to teach the Warden Stone what power, knowledge, life, death, etc really were so it would be able to use this knowledge to imprison the nulls. Thank you to everyone who participated! Jason, Feldman, Cassie, Tom, Stacey, can’t wait for phase 3!

The Tomb of Glastamore. Elric may have a new role model. We had a great group with us including Voo who is a FANTASTIC artist. (Thankfully my book was found by Chase which means I’ll be able to scan that sketch in to share with the site later!) Figuring out the order we needed to take down the sigils in. Being the scholarly-est of scholars.

I got sick halfway through Saturday and was so out of it when I woke up from my nap I didn’t know where I was. Because of this, I didn’t do feast coordination and I want to give a HUGE thank you to Rachell/Rook for taking over in my absence. I cannot tell you what a comfort it is to know that if something happens you are there to help and take over if necessary. So thank you! Another HUGE thank you to the Jackdaw crew and all the servers. If any of you didn’t get paid for your work, please come see me in July!

Thalia’s day off! Or as Jackdaw put it: “We’re not going to listen to you, so you might as well not even try.” Honestly, she didn’t know what to do with herself, she’s so not used to not working on Feast. However, the Warlord made it special, asking her to sit at the head table with the nobles for Feast. Which was weird but very much appreciated. Because for once, she actually got to take part instead of working. Everyone needs a day off every now and again.

Helping coordinate the Sigil Room. Didn’t raise a sword intentionally, but did what she had to to make sure that we weren’t trapped in there… which unfortunately meant helping free Miranda. (Sara I hear you did a phenomenal job, sorry I couldn’t be there but I had to set up another mod!) All the NPCs were fantastic! Got there a bit early with permission for medical reasons and it honestly looked like "Main Mod the Rave"

Talking with Anora and Gust on the way back. Wait did I say talking? I meant arguing. Didn’t really get to finish it because Thalia kinda had a mini-crash bc the town has been so divided lately. Karen, you’ll be getting a missive in the next few days.

Talking with Marika right after the meltdown. I always adore talking with her. Sam, you are a pleasure to RP against!

And of course splitting off and missing Miranda (Sad that I missed it OOG) to set up… TOBIAS’ RITUAL! Second ritual of the event for me and the one that me and Feldman and Alicia spent upwards of 10 hours working on props for! And it looked really good! Thanks to Ben and Matt and Katie for marshaling. Thalia proves once again that without her emotions she’s a bitch. Rudy, Swift, Kyras and Tobias get brought down to Serious and can’t be healed until they get to crit.

Thalia: Just slit their throats. It’ll make it go faster.

Cue horror and “NO”s from everyone gathered. I think I heard someone say “Well the empath just told us to slit their throats… so….” Walking around with Caldor and literally backtalking the Lord of Tears! Feldman, you are to be commended, every bit of that was brilliant.

Shoutout to Ben for the Lord of Tears making the heads of the Nosferatu literally blow up like balloons and explode.

Sadly I had to leave early Sunday so I didn’t really have the chance to say bye to anyone. Cannot wait for next month!

This event, as per usual, was amazing. Thank you to everyone who made this event as wonderful as ever.

Friday night was interesting. Not all too much happened except for some fun roleplay, including the Blood Hexing of Chet by Haz so that he would make whale noises whenever he tried talking to a girl. It got even funnier when two other players went out of game to demonstrate what whale noises actually sounded like. (Don't hate me Jeff )

Saturday started off with delicious breakfast and an amazing ritual with Ergos. Seriously, one of the greatest RP moments ever for me. Idk how you guys did it, but thank you all so much for how great that was. I can't believe that I got to be a part of it, and it amazes me even more that I was picked to switch from Life to Pacifism last minute and still pulled it off. I apologize to everyone for my rambling and repeating myself and whatnot, I was much more prepared to talk about life than to talk about pacifism, but it was still a great experience for me and I was getting goosebumps at a couple points. Not to mention that the contents in the bowl behind me BURNED INTO THE SHAPE OF A ROSE! I can't even describe those feels.

It only gets better during the main new player mod, where I was sprinting around the outskirts of the fight healing everything I could. Tapping into my Storage Rite and being on my last 7 Healing Points was definitely nerve wracking but awesome.

Main Mod was worth the wait, and sticking by Aryia and disappointing the NPCs because we were in a Divine Sanctuary was humorous. It was a pretty great time being able to heal for Pendarvin.

Sunday was pretty great as well, it was slow but the RP was fun, including (but not limited to): Marcus putting on a socketed False Mustache and changing into a Nyad, Magnus and the Hobo's Guild, Intimidate lesson from Kanas, and talks with Jackdaw. Beach time after the event was super fun as well.

Thanks to everyone for such a wonderful event, I can't wait for July!