September 2017 highlights

Matt M. par the course, ran a fantastic event. Never a dull moment, was there-- it was so crazy on Friday that I missed something pretty important, just because I was trying to keep myself and others alive…


Dynamic interactions with Eden: Lauren is an A+ actress. (Obviously, lol.) And she knew how to press everyone’s buttons. Appearing as Heimdall to taunt Swyft? Damn, that’s cold. I did enjoy hearing all of Swyft’s empty threats come out of my mouth and Eden’s nonchalant reaction to them.
Yo, I wasn’t even sure how to handle finding out that we ate Caldor in a stew. Words couldn’t justify it, so Swyft just kind of sat there in shock. Being as she had promised she would beat the hell out of anyone who hurt Caldor, she wasn’t quite sure how to handle herself in this one. Damn.


The Reappearance (kinda’) of the Lord of Tears: Ohhhh, honey. Hoooooneeeey. Swyft, honey, she saw red, honey, she was all growls and teeth and claws, honey.
It was pretty fun to play Swyft as completely feral and out of her mind with rage, and to completely lock onto the Lord of Tears and repeatedly try to murder him… without success, since he was incorporeal. Stacey, I’m so sorry to have ignored the lady of Sorrow. You looked wonderful! But Swyft was rage-locked onto the creature that heralded her downward spiral of madness.



Front Line Healing: Yikes! Most of Drega’mire was on NPC shift for main mod, and there wasn’t much of Kaladonia, so it was a little scary being forced to fight on the front line. While it was overwhelming at times, I appreciated the challenge, and the fact that I (with the help of our group and a timely assist from Team Sassmouth) was able to manage and survive it really helped to build combat confidence.



Also, I really enjoyed bopping Indigo on the head with a weapon-cast heal and the look on his face; whereupon Alex (who was fighting him) and I couldn’t keep a straight face anymore and had to take a minute to laugh it out.



Tinney, Duncan was a HUGE asset. I don’t know what we’d have done with you. Swyft is still a little salty about Caelven and Annorra leaving the group to fight Yoyo and the presence of Duncan and Team Sassmouth helped us not get completely rolled. But honestly, everyone who fought with us was amazing and awesome, and I am super grateful that we worked so well together, despite how crazy it got sometimes!


Duncan, that Throw intercept heal, tho.

“Go get ‘em, Haircut!” - Indigo to a newly shorn Zelretch.


Short but incredibly deep and emotionally stirring RP with Judge, Hannah and Padma. I can always count on those guys to remind Swyft to remember how and why she is Faithful.



Ben’s Lovecraftian mod. Oooooooooooof. That. Was. ROUGH! But oh, man… so fun! Tristan was fantastic as the overwhelming gigantic corrupted monstrosity. Swyft was in an angry feral panic when Nesterin and Peaches took turns trying to land a killing blow on Zelretch after they were Dark Whispered to betray their friends. As soon as I would fight one off, the other would be trying to kill him. All I could do was snarl about it, because there was no time for words! Nesterin was quite the sh*t-talker…


It was a deadly mod, however. We lost quite a few people to the depths of the ocean. A timely heal on Swyft’s part to Aldric right before the ocean rushed in saved her life in turn, because he sprouted Valosian wings to fly us the hell out of there. Truly epic moment! And Swyft was hanging there like, “I should hate this, but also it’s saving my life, so I can’t hate this, so now I’m just going to enjoy the scenery.”
That was awesome, Dave.


Luis: I’m just glad you’re okay. You’re a trooper, and I can’t believe you were on your feet so soon after your accident! Tsk tsk! We love you though. Don’t scare us like that again!


A lot of things happened this game that have affected Swyft’s character development in a powerful way. I’m so excited continue on this journey and I can’t wait for what comes next!


I came home from this event absolutely exhausted and I couldn’t walk right for two days… lol…
THAT’S THE SIGN OF A GREAT EVENT! THANK-YOU!!!

I gotta shout out to the kid who played Merl this weekend.
It might have been short, but getting to just hang out and walk around camp looking for trouble was the coolest.

Biggest highlights:

2 hours hiding in the woods from NPCs hunting. Then more hiding from allies who had been infected.
Mileof calling up a Divine Sanctuary around himself and an infected Reyna just so we could smoke while being attacked.
Burkhart calling out Eden and being instantly dropped to crit. She ignored or just spoke to the rest of us, but I thought we were all gonna die. Glad we didn't and were able to save them.
Abel's psionic message to Reyna when he died. I cried OOG when Aaron told me as I was gearing up to NPC main mod, and then when it hit her IG, she held it together JUST long enough to walk away from the people she was around with a friend to cry. Full on tears, the player had to stop and ask me if I was ok OOG. It was great to see her emotion come out like that.

Also, getting to be infected 5 year old twins during main mod with Alex who dropped at the same time. That was awesome, 10/10 would do something like that again! Thanks for letting us do that, Matt!!!