April 2017 '#KRnival' Event Highlights

I would like to preface by saying that Steve was right, from lay-on to the finale most certainly was showtime, and damn, was it a good one.

Highlights as I remember them atm include:

The ritual and the difficulties of the devotion.

Terzak's questioning himself after running into at least 3 or 4 things that could kill him by glancing in his direction Friday night, only to be guided out of the slump by Nalick.

The number of people who told me to sleep was really appreciated, there were a few points where I did not understand how or why I was still awake.

Getting tapped on the head by Emilia for being stupid.

Burkhart missing with an Incinerate, leading Terzak to say 'let me show you how it's done' only to miss by at least a foot.

Zach's bad upbringing jester (Depresster?), Nocturne and Mercutio are the three performers I spoke to at length, and they were all played excellently

Celebrating St. Astrid's Day by delivering cookies for free across the inn, then giving one to Brazen.

Sneaking low level healers into a mod with sorcerers...only for Maple to kill an undead Xorn with healing rocks.

SCRUNGUS!

Running like hell upon meeting a homunculus as a goblin warrior of SCRUNGUS!, then dropping what I was holding when I learned that it was the Father.

"Crit 22...daaaaaaamn" as Seamus blocked an attack from behind with his shield without looking.

Carnival goes without saying, the amount of time you all practiced more than showed, all of the acts were amazing.

Feast was good as always.

Finally being able to put into words exactly what Terzak wants and has wanted for 3 years now and exactly what he's willing to do for it. Learning about the basics of Sorcery from Orophin and copying it all into his spellbook as soon as possible. He really ended up facepalming when he realized how many (albiet stupidly risky) oppurtunites he had to stop feeling powerless.

Might have forgotten a few but really the roleplay with a bunch of people alongside what I saw was just fantastic all around.

"I tend to keep my promises."

To all the NPCs and performers, storytellers and staff, you went above and beyond. Thank you

A late night Bar chat with Kartigus Kane. Some new things Cara is going to do lots of research on. Much to discover.

My first real monster marshal shift! Thank you to all my NPCs and all the PCs that got involved with the encounters I sent out, and thank you to Brian for co-running the shift with me. It was a pleasure working with you. I look forward to writing many many more encounters for everyone!!

About to go to bed at midnight and ending up getting dragged out the door because Bran was back.... now you're thinking with portals!

God 5 for God bingo! Hello Andorra!

Late night beach rituals. Thank you to Stacey, Alisia, Jason, and drew for letting me get involved with your rituals! So much weaving. Need to work on my footwork

Heading back about to go to bed again and ending up going downstairs to work on studying the contracts.... and asking the Ma'khet how to void them....

2 hours of trying to figure out how to void a very very well written contract...

A fight with Belegchand, and doing the noble and stupid thing before he did...

And proceeding to take the first death better than I ever dreamed!

Thank you Alice, Matt, Connor, Cassie, and everyone else involved in both the legal talks and my reanimation. Thank you matt for the amazing rp as you dragged me out of the inn and threw me down the ramp to yell at me. Nerd Rage!

Seriously, thank you everyone. It was a great weekend.

Months of planning. 24 hours of performance.
I have unending amounts of love and appreciation for my performers. They made my wish come true!
The entire circus was a highlight. Every time I walked onto the site, there were people milling about, waiting to get fortunes told, art done, or simply watching the performers.
I wish everyone could have seen the finale from my perspective. Standing in front of the crowd all sitting and waiting, it was a sight to behold.

For those who came out and saw the show, I'm eternally grateful to you for partaking in this story!

That event was incredible fun, from every IG interaction from MORTAL KOMBAT the encounter to SWAT TEAM RAID to a really tense face off with Eden and Shade and then going face to face with Father then Eden again and also trying to help and tell some things to Abel and ohhhh my gosh.

Now, the KRarnival proper. It was glorious, all the acts were great, I'm sad I missed Carlos' fortunetelling but to be honest I was really excited about going to Christine's NPC and it gave me some interesting insights into Grim's future.

The fire show was great, the strongman was great, the Menagerist was awesome as usual, though i'm sad I didn't get to fight his weirdo things.

ALso, grim/Me setting the record for Pillar squats with 60 was pretty good.

My NPCs were all great, and many of the encounters I sent out went emergent in great and enjoyable ways, with no real loose ends.

I had some great 1v1s with the Pawn, fought the knight, and had some intense roleplay with the new players who I taught a bunch of bounty hunter skills to.

Losing Bran secondhand was hard, seeing Seamus knighted was great, and Rudolf and Cyndra coming through huge for the special ingredients grim was looking for was also really special.

I had a great time working with Alice B and Walt. Had a nice talk with Chris M about 40k during some slow times during the day, and it was super great to see Lord and Lady Blackthorne at an event, as well as the Baron.

Got a chance to get the Alchemists together and working on a thing. It was nice to seem them doing experimental alchemy and working with stuff.

I really loved Steve's NPC and I hope we see him again, and the Master of Games and Jester plot is some old-school stuff coming back in, so that's just great.


Roleplaying with Morwenne and Sir Barak was a pleasure as always. For someone who hates magic as much as grim, he sure does spend a lot of time asking white sorcerers for ideas/history lessons/direction on how to deal with problems creatively.

Hearing that Sir Doctor Maxwell showed up and solved a major problem with the homonculi in like... a very short time. It was incredible. And completely IG for him. He's just always firing on all cylinders.

-Getting to be awkwardly blind at the beginning of the event. I couldn't read *any* IG postings on the boards for the entire month and I was going crazy. Thanks to everyone who helped and no worries new healer, I remember I still owe you a favor!
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Wax fortune telling! Something completely different

Fire dancer!
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Having to hate Northmen most of the event! Poor Danae got the worst of it (especially since she was the first/last I saw in combat while I was cursed...) It was so great to RP though! The shock on people's faces while I just casually bad mouthed all the Northmen once people noticed was great. Curses suck
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"Psst, Zelretch, it's Cinnamon."
"Oh god! You really do look different all the time!"
"Well, yeah, that's the point. Anyways, any advice on collecting a lich's phylactery?"
(I am apparently causing Zelretch to develop a small paranoia towards new folk who know his name right away.)

P.S. Sorry that mod was a bit rushed. I thought it up Friday night and spent Saturday morning writing up the little packets/making the symbols. Thanks to everyone who helped set things up and the new players for executing the plan so well!
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P.S. Thank you for the circus finale. Everyone was amazing all weekend and that topped it off!
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"I'm just wondering how Hand got the fortune teller."
"What?"
"I mean, I thought maybe Hand was a Djinn that got bored and people weren't reading what they were signing. Now it's a curiosity because, apparently, it was her." (I made a mistake and kept using the word genie during the event. Also, I really hoped other people were listening to the circus storyline because it was really neat even before Main Mod.)

I'm also really happy the Djinn didn't hate us and that there was a completely different enemy I'm super curious about that showed up that I try and figure out how they're related to each other (or maybe Hand just crossed the wrong path and got noticed by the wroooong Jester)
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*Shortly after Bran is murdered*
"Oh, good, I didn't have to ask Seamus and Bjorn to do it. I'll have to thank people for killing him later."
*gets stared at*
"What, it was going to be my suggestion. I just hope Bran remembers to apologize to Arabeth."

^I think Ilana just wanted to pretend being sliced through the middle so suddenly was as painless as it could have been.
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I got hugged by Andorra
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Ilana talking to a bunch of Venir like it's totally chill because she knows literally all of them in Vindholm and knows how to talk to them. Danae getting to throw her title around like a boss
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Very last thing in Travance:
*after dealing with Ilana's local Venir, she passes by an argument between two friends*
Friend: "It's Aguaran Stuff!"
Ilana: "Oh, um, good luck with that!"
*thirty seconds later, at about the inn, heading to leave for game*
"...Wow. George, I just realized how utterly upset that just made me. I'm so disappointed she never accepted my help."
"I know Ilana. Let's just go."

^That's how she left Travance. Heartbroken over a friend. Feels.