Event Highlights June 2016

Honestly didn't accomplish much IG this event, but still have some glimmering moments and back-pats to throw around.

I really enjoy the community RP point cards, and enjoyed reverse pick-pocketing people with them. Undiscovered 2/2.

I've had a few instances so far of combining two lessons into one session, and really enjoy the mental gymnastics of finding ways to tie them together. Hope this most recent attempt was good for you too, Rob!

Kitchen crew is really coming together. Had a bit of a rough show of it with three people trying to get feast done, but service, and from what I heard cleanup had their acts together. I'm proud of you guys. You know who you are.

Main mod tent puttering and the glowstick creation/destruction cycle.

The Jay's (Marin and Feldman) really outdid themselves this weekend. Particularly love the Londwyn physician doing not one, but two rituals. The prison creation was well done by all involved, and well orchestrated.

Got to play the alt I've been noodling for over a year now Friday night, and he seemed to be well received. Got to interact with some more newer players than I regularly do, attend one of Caldor's masses as a faithful for once, secured himself a steady gig and opened the door for a few other options. Most of all, I enjoyed being able to play more of a hair-let-down character. I can't wait to see where he goes!

Lake time on Saturday and Sunday post lay-off. Angry sun: 0; Lake goer's: 1.

Even feeling as though I accomplished little if anything with my main this weekend, I'll always be able to find the good in seeing the enjoyment of my adoptive nerd family.

Til next month folks!

-Almost forgot; Line of the event!

Marcus' character to Lark with puppet Andorra; "What is your take on mercy killing?"
*sing song response *"Cut the cancer from society!" *walks away*.

~ Bartending at the bird, always a highlight until someone blood hexes D right before an important meeting. Mark my words, you will beg to die.

~ Have to be Angry when near Rook, well she is D's sis so we're close during the meeting so Demeanor is livid. Huffing and puffing like a bull and randomly shoving Jack the gambler (dude sorry! you took it like a champ ) out of the way / into walls. I like him a lot too he provides entertainment so it was out of character but no one noticed lol.

~ A Private audience of extreme importance. A Permission granted.

~ Therion getting blamed because Demeanor doesn't understand healing and magic much. Holy balls Brian T. you are damn hilarious. I couldn't breathe from laughing and was definitely snorting...

~ Rook figuring it out finally because of her familiarity with D and her experiences. Thank you Rachael I didn't wanna totally lose my voice.

~ The endless chase and search and arguments to find a master teacher. Alas, I found my heroes or err villians? Lol. Therion's refusal tho... broke my heart... if D had one.

~ Edmund, thanks for all the good work

~ Atrus's berserker lesson. Holy. Shit. The phyiscal, mental, emotional brutality of this lesson was nothing short of amazing. You are amazing John, your dedication to RP is unreal.

~ The mod where a few heads turned... Ya, that one. Uh, Rook is here. "WTF is she here for? It's... uh... 'past her bedtime' " Thanks for bringing my sister along headfirst into danger. There shall be repercussions.

~ Calling Drew Ventato Mate to his face without laughing. Took effort, worth it.

~ Marketfaire as Angeliana selling my products. Always good times, thank you to all customers! I really appreciate your business.

~ Justis thank you for watching my table so I could go on the Artificer tomb mod since they needed a soul warden. The tomb mod was very cool. Hitting an NPC with a spacket after the NPC I was aiming for dodged it for luminescent beam was funny especially since he pouted. (Sorry!)

~ The puzzles were awesome, helping the artificers re-build the tomb also was cool. Huzzah for assistant. Also refusing to let Tsoli leave last because Angeliana doesn't leave people behind. Agreeing to jump into the gate holding arms together.

~ Light mass, getting to use the censer with frenkinsense and Myrr (thank you Randy for the coal). Pleased with the atmosphere effect. All up until the noises and emotions of battle made Angeliana bolt outside.

~ Brigitta stopping Angeliana from interfering. Trusting her and his Grace. Helplessly watching and feeling the pain of her charge getting beaten up right in front of her. As the souls hovered and crashed back down, feeling one lost, running in with sheer panic and skidding into the Count. Holding his hand and pouring like EVERY healing thing into him until he opened his eyes and told me "I'm fine"

~ The order to prevent Barak from dying at all costs. "Yes, your Grace." He is boss after all. Pushing through the pain of yet another torn soul and guiding Tobias's hands to stitch it back together. Teamwork! A+ RP btw Jasons (Turqman and Feldman)

~ Billiam's roaring rage and attack on the Count. Getting in between them. Him telling Angeliana he would attack her too if she interfered and not budging, not blinking as I stood in front of the Count with arms stretched to my sides. Then not leaving the Count's side until feast. Also, the exchanged looks between the Count and Brigitta when a question was asked. Goosebumbs...

~ Feast was yummy! Cooks thank you for all the hard work! Servers also super thank you for not forgetting us folks eating outside! Super appreciated.

~ After feast dividing the healers then the Baron telling Angeliana "I want you by my side at ALL times". Ok then. Alice isn't in shape enough for this FYI. Damien you're super fit man.

~ Buffing the whole town is always a hoot, even tho my voice is mad at me afterwards. Being a part of the riddle team because they needed light was a nice surprise. The fireflies made things so magical.

~ The warlord's concerns about Angeliana. Telling her she'd be the first the warlord would suspect to attempt to stop this. Angeliana telling the warlord how much she trusts Fiona and above all, Baron Victor, then hugging him for like 5 minutes was touching, as was holding onto him when she was scared.

~ The artifact that would have stopped people running beyond the line on the Baron's orders. Cost me a ton but soooo worth it.

~ The constructs... madness and chaos everywhere. Angeliana overwhelmed due to chasing the Baron around, trying to make sure everyone was ok and feeling Miranda's presence so close.

~ Atrus's eyes are bright blue? WTF. Brigitta kindly explain please? "Sure, you got like 15 hours?", "... Nevermind"

~ Making sure the battle field was empty before leaving through the gate as it was closing, Atrus pulling her to leave.

~ Miranda and Fiona. Miranda: "No one insults my sister in front of me. If ANYONE is going to be a BITCH at this table, it's ME!" A++++

~Being comforted by the Baron that everything WILL be ok.

I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch. Was a great event. Thank you everyone for your hard work. Can't wait to see you again KR family!

Wow, where did the time go? It felt like this even flew by super fast!

I apparently no longer get winded walking up the hill from the Baron's manor to the Barracks. An unexpected joy! Next goal: *running* up the hill without getting winded.

*Ben Herman gets water out of the cooler in logistics.*
Me: How are you doing that?!? There's no water jug in there!
Ben: Praise Aguara!

Thanks to Laura for doing that weird split shift LM thing with me, so I could actually get some sleep.

Caldor's ritual. Aside from the obvious highlight of seeing such a large group of people come together to do something like this, and hearing everyone's explanations of such high-level concepts... Well. Thank you for giving Lois a chance to move on.

8 am accidental Baronial Council meeting, with peanut gallery. to you all! The Endless To-Do List has been significantly shortened.

COSMIC. BAD. LUCK. Strikes again!

Billliamm and talks about shields and swords

Discovering Sunday morning that Lois does not, in fact, *enjoy* wielding the power she has, unless it's for totally silly things. I did not know that about her until that incident with the NPC bounty hunters, so thank you for that.

Lois and Kanas have a lot in common and it's weeeeeeeeirrrrdddd.

Post-game diner run with... the guard and the rogue's guild? What an odd, but fun combination! It really is a testament to the community spirit of the game that silly things like which side of the IG law you're on doesn't really matter when it comes to being friends /sappiness

Looking forward to seeing everyone in July!

So wow, this event was awesome. Just. Wow.

Important chats with Shaemus about important faith stuff. Like three of them, along with us walking around stomping undead on Saturday.
Bloody roar + Berserker Rage is one hell of a drug.
NPCing for Matt Magnus.
Waking up to Billiam telling me that there were mortal hunters about, then doing what any sane person does and go to fight some mortal hunters.
This just in, Kanas can't riddle. At all. That stuff is confusing. However, he can play on obstacle courses like a monkey. Team Soul Gauntlet for the win.
Made Lois promise that no magic was going to happen for the entire day. Promise successful.
Baronial peanut gallery, and "ordered" to test science.
Turns out Lois and Kanas have a lot in common. Weird.
Galladellian baptism, complete with copious amounts of floorboard whisky.
Three hours of practice on the practice gauntlet. So much fun to just run around and do obstacle course stuff.
Feast was great.
The Soul Gauntlet at main mod, also known as Travancian Ninja Warrior. 10 out of 10 would obstacle course again.
Operation potato.
Encountering the lord of tears, and really having a hankering to punch him in the face.
Magnus's spree of silly.
Hobo Guild is the best guild.

Friday night research as Ridigan. Asking seemingly silly questions that have a huge bearing on not just what we were doing Saturday, but what we would do with the eggs.

The look on James's face when we asked if baby dragons imprint like chicks and ducklings.

Saying goodbye Friday night as Ridigan, confident team dragon eggs had things well in hand.

Saturday morning as Dirge, ordering two breakfasts, somehow knowing Olivia would wake up and make it to the Inn by the time the second breakfast was served. The look on Olivia's face when she sat down, and Dirge handed her breakfast. It's the little things in life.

Null Trap Ritual, and the resulting awesomeness. That moment when the scrolls, and the shard of Mercy, meant to be a sacrifice to the concept of peace, burnt into the shape of a rose.

Relaxing for a bit, then on to NPC shift.
Some combat, more combat, then the best merchant assignment ever. We came in as merchants selling various wares. Including a bar of mithril, and two bars of "black mithril". Except it wasn't really black mithril. It was silver that had been painted black. Grim, the murder in your eyes was palpable.

Back in PC, we went to the lake to cool off, and then change. Mercy plot update, had feast, gave a lesson on lesser telekinesis, then got into our battle groups. Ended up relaxing for a while as the danger rooms were handled. Finally got down to the field to deal with the golems. Team Ostcliff quickly potatoed their golem, giving us some breathing room. Got back to Travance, and got to meet Miranda from afar. Was apparently far more exhausted than I realized, and turned in for the night. Apparently woke up at some point, and was adorable, or so I was told.

Sunday morning was a blur of a lesson or two, breakfast, and lots of packing. Had a blast.