WitL highlights 2017

Amazing event. This will be so long I'm posting it first then editing the rest...

So I got up early grabbing Melody and loading the truck 3 times once to add stuff twice to fix what was missed and thrice to add a Forest to the truck. We got there all in one piece and set up the encampment. Downside we are missing our one carved paving stone set into the ground last year.

The place looked great. Thanks for making that easy guys.

Sleep was still scarce didn't treasure hunt nor did I fish. All the planned stuff that didn't happen. Sleep cooking and RP drinking cider... RP and catch up RP and RP was all to be had. Two and a half days if realizing my role in Travance as Birgitta has radically changed. Radically.

War dog protection team for Master Warrior 3 lesson. For those who did not see. Mel was out there doing it combat wise. Checking the enemy and when she figured out she was the object being protected just had a blast. 6 times we reset the scenario her completely free and loosely goosey running around. Thank you to all those who loved on her watched out for her and were brave enough to be in the lesson. Your excitement in Working with her proving she really is combat ready and capable even with Mom outside scenario...my hat off and bow.

The Plan the chocolate the RP heavy start that seemed so off base in the attempt to reach the Icarus child in the biomass mess. Doc. Your actions reactions and Working with us was amazing. The Spirits stepping up. Finding our physically fastest and suicide mission volunteers for the main did the Old swords heart some serious good. You and your actions are changing a 15 year old veteran of Travance. Something I didn't think possible.

Matt M. And A-team * (tm) you need to be trademarked as master constructionists and mad people. Please take a bow and except my standing O for your hard work dedication and amazing portrayals of characters as complex as any PC out there. Able... You might be something far more than you know...

Wow.

So many in your face interactions that showed a softer side to the double edged sword that is both Birgitta and Travance. You know who you are...all of you.

Making sure it happened. James thank you for always being there when I need you most no matter the PC NPC or being just you.

The call so early to drive home was an emergency. Everything is ok now.

Matt you are MY hero. I am misting up and have to stop as its hard to see my keys so thank you for what I really needed even if the nights put a hurting on me. Someday this weather will change.

Can you believe 5 years ago I was walking into my first game, I was young and stupid, playing a young and stupid character and 5 years later that character has captured the hearts and minds of so many. Meanwhile my oter character has delved deep inside the darkness and has been chewed up and spat out. I have to thank Matt M. I have to thank Forest Dougan, Jeff Balla, Michaela Brenton, the list goes on and on. You all know who you are and you know I love you all!! Now then to highlights!

Wednesday I was so psyched to finally be on my vacation, ready to party and boy howdy it was a party! Everyone had a lot of fun and hopefully no one was too hung over in the morning. Had a few great talks with people and had a blast getting Dunn prepared for his ritual the following night. I mean that was really it. Just a big ass party and I loved every second of it.

Thursday, oh man, had I known what Dunn was getting into. Big shout out to Chris Zipeto for allowing me to do something I have always wanted to do and really push meshing science and faith. I mean the Chain Warden showing up to Dunn's ritual and just tearing his soul apart piece by piece. You have given Dunn a great enemy and one he will face for his God. Shout out to Alisandria for the save. Dunn is too ambtious to stop the ritual, glad you guys came when you did. Another shout out to Nick, Renee, Alisia, Ben, Cassie, and Sharone. I would have not been able to do this without you.

It was honestly a great moment as Midori was just telling Dunn about the Chain Warden, and how it was messing with her lately which reminds me!

Dunn has delivered his first mass. Speaking to a small bunch during Duncan's mass. Man it was great to speak and have the beliefs of Dunn be really accepted.

Friday during the day was pretty boring, a lot of Chain Warden talk, a lot of the empaths moving away from me. Great rp, its awesome that Dunn is now a beacon of suffering.

Now onto the meat! Hey guys Duo came back! Yup! He didn't die and more so, he was accepted. More so I have to say for so many to call him Dimms still, to see past the skin and see the human inside tortured between the family he has in Travance and the family that he has with the brothers. Leslie, you are so amazing. Our morning talk was incredible and really made me feel like a big part of the plot. The fight was awesome and Ostcliff instantly grabbed Duo and made sure to keep him safe. We may have had casulities, but Ostcliff did not suffer even one down as we moved on our patrols.

Saturday like I had mentioned was an awesome morning. Seeing Duncan, Brigitta, Seamus, Danae, Falia, oh man Failia. You make my heart shatter, but for you to come around, even Ardin coming around was a great experience. Main mod was awesome as hell! It felt really natural to be fighting alongside Pendarvin again and I thank you guys so much for having me fight with you. The one funny thing is that out of all the hommunculous freaking out about Father, all Duo could think while standing over him was "You deserve this."

Sunday was kinda eventful. Pushing Rane, getting executed, everything was dope as hell! God I love WITL!!!!!

I'll add more maybe as more comes to mind, but for now, til next time.

My highlight of the event was the shower where I got to finally wash all that fake blood off of me!!

But in seriousness-

My first full witl, definitely a fun but exhausting event.

Thank you to my Wednesday night NPCs. You were all amazing and ran with what I gave you. Party at the end of the world, corpse lights, and instacult! Hope you had as much fun as I did. To the PCs who came to interact with my corpse lights, you were all awesome.

Cara is finally a motherfreakin' sorcerer!!! One year since I learned my first mage spell, and I can't wait to see where this journey continues to take me. Thank you to Alisia, Drew, Steve, and Jason for some great sorcery related talks and lessons. Thank you matt calo for pushing me to follow my sorcery dreams.

Giant ritual was fun, thank you Alisia!

Cara finding out a big huge thing about who and what she is. Thank you steve for that rp, it was one of my top moments. I never thought I'd see Aleister almost in tears.

Amazing RP with starling about some of her history. Alice, A+

Lessons for Cade, Bear, Belegchand, barak, and Staring. Thank you for letting me get to test out what I've learned.



So much yoyo time.

Aka bouncy time

Aka how many different foods can I eat off a rubber rat....

Holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy Sparkles, the Calmest Rat in the Entire World

Thank you Alice for Sisters Time. It was so much fun and I couldn't ask for a better playmate.

Planning on going back to sleep and instead ending up fixing the weave and dealing with a gift from Dominique. Lots learned, lots more to find out.

Drega boat rides with jonas Kane


Biggest highlight- Lore:etiquette lesson!!! Only in Drega'Mire do you have the Lady of the land quick bind the lord of the land and make him and a squire sit and learn etiquette. Which we protested loudly the entire time and tried to escape. Finding out that only Belegchand actually had lore etiquette after all of the guilt we got from Angelica and starling. Amazing amazing time. Best thing!!

The week portion was spent doing a lot of pushing myself in things. I began working towards an OOG phobia (I have a serious thing with lakes/oceans, etc) by actually getting in a canoe with Dirge and Althea to go to the pirate island and treasure hunt. Next event I plan on trying to actually get into the lake! Also worked on fear of heights by climbing and getting into places and working on becoming more confident. So a HUGE HUGE thank you to all of my KR friends who helped me out with a lot of these by being there for me as emotional support.

That being said... a lot of fun in game stuff. Treasure hunting, exploring the camp more, things like that. I enjoyed being able to relax a bit. My NPC shift during the week portion was amusing. Wandering around trying to find a place to settle and proclaiming the tenants of the Triad!!! Although I almost died laughing when Maple approached asking about the difference between a Triad and a Dryad and the response was "Well, one's a three and the other's a tree." Other highlights included Swyft thinking I was a bird when I was laughing at the Djinn and Tonic (yes, I am that weirdo with the squeaking laugh), and making plenty more friends.

During the weekend, I really got involved a lot more. Friday night we went hunting for Icarus Spawn while protecting Eden. Khala also go involved in some other things that are really going to help shape and develop her character more. Saturday I got to do combat drills with the Ostvolk and work more on being able to fight. I got tips and pointers and got to start learning how to be a skirmisher which was A LOT of fun. That evening I got to NPC main mod and just... omg... Matt did an amazing job with that. I really had a blast charging onto the field with a giant 2-hander and just going to town.

All in all, not only did Khala get some growth and development this event, but me as a player did as well. It was amazing and fun and I can't wait for things to develop more!

-Ophelia on Wednesday was an exciting treat! Wasn't expecting what I got but it was great! Thanks to all who interacted with her and listened to her be weird!!!!

- Since I woke up on Thursday and until I left late Saturday Leliana's life was learning how Ritual Magic worked. My first attempt at a Sorcery Drawing lacked several important things and while she was upset (being a child prodigy can make taking criticism very hard) she definitely appreciated learning where she was wrong and how to better construct her rituals.

-Shout out to Steve, Tori, Jason T., Drew and Alisia for giving me feedback on my rituals and ideas! (I guess Tim gets a thank you too but he was far too busy most of the time to actually help me )

-Magic Lesson/Seminar with Lord Tartaros. It was really informative and I really enjoyed it! I hope for more!

-3 Ideas and more than 5 drafts later did I have a Two Part Ritual to try and bind Beholder. Submitting it was probably one of the scariest things I've ever done because I was afraid I'd forget what I meant for things to do so I labeled everything which made my Sorcery look like a mess

-Feels a little weird when your teacher tells a Homonculi that you are also an experiment. Leliana still is like "ehhh...." about that.

-Tense scenes are tense!

-I was on a ever moving somewhat far distance from Icarus the entire main mod. It was terrifying and wonderful to watch just entire swaths of the battle field just hit the ground. Watching all the close combatants do their thing was cool

- I was in the right spot apparently because I got a full view of the Icarus Core rolling out of the biomass and being picked up by Prometheus and ran away with. It was probably one of the most terrifying things I've ever seen. Then when I later went upstairs to get something and when I turned the corner and got a close up look at the costume was even more intense 0.o

-That was so intense that when I invoked the ritual and RP'd my binding that I actually calmed down adrenaline wise

-Indigestion the rest of the night.

-Cennius Senpai returns!!! I wish people would stop being so rude to him! He is very helpful!!! Gotta try and follow up on his request so we can fix more things!

LAST BUT NOT LEAST:

At feast I 'married' Jonas Kane. It was obviously a joke but Leliana was determined to make it 'official' so she could have his Money. Leliana runs into Van at the end of the night:

Leliana: "I married Jonas Kane!"
Van: "No"

There was more to that, but that's the most important and hilarious part. Little sister too young for marriage forever!

PS: I have a cult of Kobolds now....so I guess we'll see if I can fix that... I tried to but they...succeeded???

Holy shit, this definitely topped things for me, undoubtedly my favorite event thusfar. Hats off to Matt and team Homunculus, absolutely no regrets. The RP, the effects, the lore, everything about this plot blows me away and I always look forward to more from you all.

This was Mantel's 1 year anniversary in Travance. Thank you to literally everyone I RP'd with this event and before for making it a blast for me. A lot has happened in a year, but none of it could have been possible without you and the beautiful world staff has created for us to build off of.

MANTEL GOT TO TEACH FOR THE FIRST TIME! And taught four people at that! Thanks to Blue Kestrel, Burkhart, Nikolai, and Paeoniis for giving me the opportunity! I was caught off guard and had to improvise, but I hope you all enjoyed them, as I certainly did. I look forward to more RP with you all. Teaching one of Tari's students off the cuff a spell for a sphere she doesn't have while she was watching was intimidating and enjoyable! Mark off the Mage List, Air sphere, Fireball, Cloak of Wind, and Gust of Wind off of my list of lessons.

RP with Guildmaster Morwenne as usual. Alisia's really stepping up for the sake of Travance and the Guild, and paying for it, she deserves so much thanks from the players and characters IG and OOG, surrounding her work with Mages' and Adventurers' Guilds, Exemplars/Soul Binders, and making sure we're all healthy and okay.

Bummed to have missed out on the experimental rituals but loved every moment of RP that sprung from it.

RP with Snow Blackwater, we should do some more.

RP with Aryia because reasons. Looking forward to seeing where that goes.

Bill Hannings, Liz Reese, and Nick Culberson thank you thank you thank you, that Ogre mod Sunday was fantastic, thank you for giving us the alternative RP-it-out solution. Proud to have avoided more Ogre deaths!

The return of Will Bartlett as former General Gord. Fighting alongside him, speaking with him. All wonderful, I look forward to seeing him again and was very glad IC and OOC to meet him.

Ostcliff strategic drills with Father Arkenian and the Ostvolk. We really are a cohesive unit, and everyone learned very quickly. Amazing coincidences being able to test our mettle for real TWICE during the drills, thank you to all NPCs on the evacuation mod and the two Icarus spawn that came to us.

NPCing Main Mod. Dear gods, it has been forever since I've enjoyed it. I even injured myself, but still felt confident that all players, PC and NPC alike, had respect for one another and eachother's safety in mind. Really thank you all. Loved duels with Gemora, Edwin, a newer Ranger I almost killed, and the one new player who thought they'd be safe if they went invisible.

Lessons from Edwin, Tobias, Mileof, Tari, ohdeargod I learned a lot of things, very sorry, but if you taught me something this event, know that you were all stellar and amazing and I love you and thank you.

New hat for Mantel was bittersweet IC and OOC, but it works for now.

Conversations regarding the Chain Warden.

Ostcliff is always a highlight for me.

Conversation with Reyna of course.

RP with Peaches, Burkhart, Marcus, Moostrav, and the rest of our loose siblinghoods.

Meeting Blacktree and discussing Witch Hunting as a Layman, then later being outed by a good friend as an Aspirant. Looking forward to continuing to explore that path in the future.

TRASH BUILLLLD. Glad to help James with Sam Stassen with a particularly trashy situation.

Lowlight: Wanting to swim and never actually going to do it. xD Plus never seeing Night Harrier island.

Certain there's more but god damn, five days is a lot to remember at a Feast. Love you all, thank you.