October "The Halloween Episode" 2016 Event Highlights!

Will, your jester RP was off the charts. If you did that without coffee, I want to know your secret.

Let the record state that no caffeine was used to play that Jester. My only secrets were a bit of faith from Goose and Romeo and a high school performance of the Wizard of Oz...*shudders* too much footwork, not enough rehearsal.

Woohoo! Totally felt like I was in a slasher movie Friday night! Well done Steve, Ben, & Staff!

Okay, Highlights, in no particular order...

"I Turned Yellow!" - All the "drama" around Midori having "turned yellow" and how much it sucks. I imagine that autumn is a very uncomfortable time for some dryads.

"New Friend Part 1: New Role Model" - Meeting Willow and interacting with a much older, calmer dryad. Though it broke Midori's heart when he liked to play when he was young, but didn't really do it anymore. She hopes to never get that old! Playing is great!

"New Friend Part 2: Londwynian Passive-Aggression" - Meeting and befriending "Miss Adalyn" and the RP with her and Chenjing that resulted.

"Undead Pied Piper" - Playing an undead during NPC shift that was following the "pied piper," and enjoying people's "WTF?!" reactions

"Monster Lore: Greebly" - Playing with Chet and Tris, making them laugh (Or "die" laughing as the case may be), as well as teaching them both (and a few other people) about Greeblies! (Ask Chet what a greebly is. It'll be fun)

"Teach Me Things!" - Learning about gods from their followers is always fun. Even people who worship the same god frequently give you different answers.

"I Can Help!" - Helping Illana reanimate Valanye, and helping Valanye to reunite with Keavy

"Grief Counseling" - Meeting NPC Farmers Anna and Toby, who were angry that they had just lost their loved ones and the heroes of Travance were playing cards, but then talking them through their grief with some help from Aldric

"Never Again" - Mercy Plot

"Naah-Naah-Naah! Can't Get Me!" - Sticking my tongue out at Jeff the Bone-Eater while inside an Astral Sphere. A little act of defiance from the little cherry tree dryad

Sooooooo

Where to start?

Had a hurried squad meeting. Things were said. Other things were shown. Allyce was pretty much primed to anger after that.

An hourish later, Seth comes to me to report that everyone is dying! Well. What is the leader of the investigative/scout squad to do? LETS GO! Which led to....

ALLLL of the walking/running/sprinting/falling/slipping down hills/etc.

Dying. But getting an awesome compliment at the same time. Rezzing and realizing Allyce is tentatively getting over having a soul. Maybe repeated encounters with it will help! (HAHAHAHAHAHA)

Running back into the fray with the creature and running into benches and such. Getting complimented on my maneuvers though so hey!

Finally getting sick of everything and taking Erik and I to bed where......

I am woken up by the cheerfullest Grim I have ever seen asking me about my night. Punches were almost thrown. Or daggers. Or both.

Sat afternoon? I honestly dont remember much except FINALLY teaming up with Caelvan. That was purely awesome. I seriously need to Hunt with you more often. Its a real pleasure to meet someone else IG just as single minded as Allyce is to tracking a threat and bringing it down.

After main mod......

God. The craziest things happen. Getting things done and actually having a sorceress to scry for me. (THANK YOU STACEY- I AM SO SORRY) Said scrying leading to one passing thing which lead to....

Death. But hey. She died doing what she wanted and how she wanted. And surprising things even happened at the phokus as well. And before the phokus I....surprised a lot of people in the inn with my dead corpse/plant/creature ways. I have to say, a lot of the reactions from people made me astonished and warm inside. From realizing people actually do pay attention to the possible threat Allyce can be to the people who just outright refused to engage with her because they were wary at best. I honestly have given very little thought OOG (And patently NONE IG....well, maybe a thought?) as to how people view Allyce. Much less how much of her fighting style they have picked up on. That was a revelation and I loved every minute of that. I hope you all did too! I went from stalking the creatures in the night to becoming one myself and it was purely awesome. Totally worth a tag.

Sunday. I just did not have energy Sunday. I did not want to move. And that is always a mark of a great and entertaining event.

All! I hope you had as much fun as I did!

Omg now I feel sad I blew you off Saturday when I was worried about the jester. I didn't realize later that was you in the plant. I'm sorry

Friday was Hell. I didn't even have to try to RP my lethargy insanity. The struggle was real. By 5am of nonstop running all over creation and heal life-ing all the things, all I could do was stagger wearily from one location to another. Oh my gosh guys, all the criticals! Some commonly said phrases that night:

“Ibn, stop dying.”

“Chet, stop dying.”

“Peaches, can you fix this?”

“Kanas, stop dying.”

“Everyone take a break!!!”

“Spirit Tether.”




Well, that was the first Saturday I slept in at Knight Realms, lol.


Jed died for five minutes. Complete Swyft meltdown status achieved. Steve, you monster.


Complete loss of ability to even in the middle of the inn over the price of Silas Crone's soup with Jed, Jade and Trexler. Think I broke them. (Love you guys so much.)

“It's WAX. Jade.”

Pretty intense moment with Damien. Things revealed, almost PvP... Epic scene, bro.

Managing NOT to square up with Ben's Bone Reaver, though I did get a cat moment when I tried to rend his legs out from under him as he was running somewhere. Leaped out from the shadows and everything! I bet I didn't even startle him.


“He's bastard that took my sword!”
(Matt's skeleton shatters it next.)
“...He BROKE my sword! SLAY!
(whiff)
“Dammit.
(scramble)
SLAY!”
(Hit this time...)
Matt, thank-you for letting Swyft's first use of a skill I never thought I'd buy be epic!

Playing creepy Lanius for Ben and Tristan's sewer crew. Maaaaannn, Tristan. You can be creepy AF.

Wolfgaar and Yaya ran a wonderful festival up at Ostcliff. Big turnout! Even the rain had manners enough to stave off for it.

Chet and his brother... just too perfect!

Matt/Nikolai, you're fun to harass.

Speaking of which, the “I'm the one who knocks” moment on Sunday. Sweet, sweet revenge...

Steve you ran a great event. Ben, I don't know where you got the energy, but damn. You guys rock!

This event was really amazing! It being only my second, I was infinitely more knowledgable, but also still felt like I knew absolutely nothing all things considered.

That said, everyone was so incredible. Helpful, kind, welcoming, fun, and funny!

Friday was different for me, because my first event I NPC'd on Friday, so I was considerably less tired on Saturday morning.

Saturday was incredible. Highlights include, but are not limited to:

- Actually getting to do the lower player mods instead of being stuck in the kitchen (don't get me wrong, helping in the kitchen last time was great, and I'll certainly do it again, but getting experience was great, too!)

- Collecting Ooze at the Count's orders and then having a meeting in his private study...that was unreal. The study was perfection. I will not soon forget how cool it is in there.

- Shortly after that, being at the feast I loved sitting across from the orcs. They were HILARIOUS. I wish I had RP points left at that point, they would've been yours, whoever you were under those masks!

- Post-feast, everything got CRAZY. I had no idea I was going to get thrown into the LITERAL center of the main mod, and it was a really fun, but hilarious experience. Penelope was scared crapless and also felt terrible that people were risking their lives to help save her, but I as a person really enjoyed the RP and hangin' with you all. Glad no one died watching out for her/me. That would've been awful on her psyche.

- Being yelled at when we were running with the lure because Penelope (me) stopped to heal someone. Whoever it was in the dark yelled to keep going and forget the fallen folk for now and she COULDN'T help herself, "I'm a healer, I can't just leave them!" lol It was entertaining for me.

- Having Ben Herman show up to explain what was going to happen next to us when he instilled us with extreme fear and having Penelope and Midori SCREAM bloody murder instantly after he said, "Lay on." I've never screamed like that in my life, but his mask was TERRIFYING (Congrats, Steve, you got your wish).

- Sunday morning's NPC shift might have been my FAVORITE thing in KR so far. To everyone I was with, especially my second mod partner in crime (I'm terrible with names, but you know who you are) you were all perfect, wonderful, entertaining and ...I have no more words, but it was THE most fun. I will always try to do this shift now thanks to you all.

- Being in the second mod of the Sunday morning shift with everyone at the market and meeting Master Crone/Being Charmed/Getting people arrested as a result. Thank you to the marshall who created that Mod. Again--terrible with names, but I'll know you when I see you.

All in all...wonderful. Can't wait to return to KR, it's quickly becoming what I look forward to each month. Much love to all who interacted with me or taught Penelope something this moon.