October highlights

Man, I haven't formally done one of these in a long while.

Friday Night
As Kroh, I got asked to interrogate the Artist while having to juggle the arrival of the small Veiner warrior band. Steve, you and your NPCs killed it with some really fun roleplay and further confirmation that some of the Northman are even holier than Bob. I eventually got to the Barracks for one hell of a scene (everyone there fucking killed it) that ended up with Kroh getting destroyed by Fear and nearly bleed out before Sorrow dropped by. I finally get the fuck out of there and ends up running into Suffering just as I am talking shit about him. Called him a heritic to his face, made a funny (but terrified) Aguaran quip and then proceeded to start off a 2 hour long crazy spiritual torture scene. Hats off to Liz and Sean for one of the BEST RPs I have had as Kroh. I then proceeded to spend the rest of the night going absolutely nuts with 5 major insanities and nearly getting murdered by a certain elf in war paint.

Saturday
As Arradir, I hosted the tournament at the Harvest Festival and enjoyed the fantastic amount of combat and RP that surrounded it. A big shout out to everyone who fought and an even larger one to the wonderful people who put the Festival together. I can't wait to help do this crazy thing again come December! Following the Festival, I went on the Rage mod, completing my personal goal of "Meet the Harbingers." That mod was absolutely fantastic and opened some amazing RP doors that I wouldn't have thought of otherwise. That moment where Arradir called out Rage from like 20 feet away and blew a Courage just for the RP of it felt amazing. Shout out to Dave and Matt for that hell of a final fight!

As Kroh, I spent the night as a gibbering mess on the final two mods. While I wasn't able to nab the noose as a keep sake, I did get to have a fantastic final scene with Sean as he went down next to a psychotic and broken foxy grandpa. A bit of that Harbinger might be with Aguara now, but who knows! After the mods finished, I was super surprised that so many people came together to fix the utter mess that Kroh was. From amazing drugs from a Lord, a huge spiritual cleansing ritual, and a therapy session on a very comfy couch. He's only got one major insanity left and a bunch of drugs stockpiled for the Ball, so let's see how that goes.

PS: The old man antics that Chris Z's new satyr and Kroh got to have made my fucking night. I swear to Aguara I'm gunna get some rocking chairs for us so we can yell at the young wipper snappers to get those monsters off of our lawns.

Ahoy all!

New player here. This was only my second event, and my first event playing my character as a physician (in September I was a buccaneer, but didn't feel terribly useful; oh boy was I useful as a physician).

Friday highlights:
Getting attacked by the Harbinger of Fear and given nightmares for the entire event made me really think about what my character feared the most. This also took my character in a completely new direction, because until the attack she'd been trying to conceal her gender by hiding her hair in her hat, but her hat was knocked askew during the attack, and thus her hair was down through the subsequent rescue. So not only did she have to face her fears every time she fell asleep or was knocked unconscious, she had to face her fears while awake, and found the people of Travance to be much more accepting and welcoming than expected.
Last event, I went to bed early Friday and got plenty of sleep. This event, I felt my services as physician were too necessary to abandon my friends, and only got about an hour of sleep, after all the excitement was over.

Saturday highlights:
NPC shift. Those who saw me last event know that my NPC shift experience wasn't ideal. This game, though, it was amazing. It started with a role-play heavy mod (at least for me) where I got to play a bard who controlled undead coming back for revenge after being jailed for trying to help the town. I love to sing, and the costume I got to wear was awesome.
Main mod was great as well. I was on the first main mod, as one of the Mirror Children of the Harbinger of Sorrow. At least three people were wearing costumes that I'd donated, and having character cards short enough to memorize rather than actually being handed cards made everything so much simpler. It was warm, and bright out, so I felt like I knew what was going on, and wasn't miserably trying not to freeze. I feel that dealing base damage just made the experience better. The players weren't too worried about how much damage we could deal, so they weren't being overly aggressive. I actually only died twice. With the mod being out in a field, where there was plenty of room for fighting, I was able to get in several hits. Having Chaotic Alteration was great; it let me feel like I was actually accomplishing something, especially when I got through to players who either didn't have defenses or had run out of defenses.
The nighttime main mods were great as well. Last event I was on NPC shift main mod and didn't get to participate--not that I would have done much good as a buccaneer. As a physician, I was immensely useful. I patched up so many broken limbs, often with the battle raging nearby, and healed so many people of insanity afterwards. OOG my dad is a psychologist, so I got to put the knowledge I've learned from him to good use playing therapist. I got dropped to Serious once, got OOG trampled, and then got rescued into a sticker bush. I was picking those stickers out of my clothes for the rest of the event. Luckily I was uninjured, and it makes an amusing anecdote. After going on two main mods--and running on only two hours of sleep (I got a short nap after my NPC shift)--I was OOG exhausted.

Sunday highlights:
Sleep. I got about eight hours of it, which was extremely necessary. I then participated in a follow-up mod from last month's event involving alchemical lycanthropes. Myself and my fellow physician Victor were essential to the success of the mod, since together we were able to drain the lycanthrope of blood and then heal it back to full health, restoring its humanity. Once it transformed back into a human, we got to role-play talking this poor human out of shock and re-teaching him how to speak.

All in all, it was a great event. I had a lot of fun, and felt like I was contributing to the story, both as a PC and as an NPC. I can't wait to see what the November event brings!

Ash Stormwind
OOG: Kali R.

I really just want to make a call out to everyone for doing such an awesome job RPing this event. To Chris Z for running such an amazing event and to all of his NPCs for tormenting us without making it a "YOU ALL DIE" circumstance. It actually seems to let the fear, rage, pain, and sorrow sink in that much more.

Joey- I loved that scene- I would have never thought it would happen, but it did and it was fantastic. Brian T, our RP is always on point and I love our interactions as either character. Shane- you were the perfect adversary and I loved our encounters!

This event made Mae into the person she has been becoming for years and as her player, I couldn't be happier! There are far too many people to thank- like the people who saw me come at them and be like "HELP ME FIX SOULS!" and the other people who saw me crying in front of the inn and really everyone.

See you next time!

I had such a fantastic time this event. Thank-you so much, Chris Z, for running spooptober!

Ah, sweet, sweet catharsis. I cannot tell you how much it meant to Swyft to finally, FINALLY, help destroy something that had hurt her for so long. It was almost two years ago to the day that the Lord of Tears attached itself to her and heralded the downward spiral of misfortune. This event helped my character (and me too, quite frankly) to gain a sense of much needed confidence. After spending so long getting bullied by circumstance and sentients, it was a wonderful change of pace to turn the tables and feel empowered instead of afraid. An extra thank-you to Ben Oakley, for allowing a cat to pounce and tear at his face.

A shoutout to Matt for playing Rage and being the madman he is with (somehow) boundless energy. I know when I engage Matt in any role, I better bring my A game. Learned the hard way two months ago not to try running from him.

Loved the seance scene. Such intensity! And a few of us who didn't really know each other too well got to hear some deep secrets...

I'm sorry I didn't get to engage much with the other Harbingers, but Swyft was pretty focused on the Lord of Tears. (It was fun being so growly and snarly!) I heard nothing but good things about y'all, though!

The scene late Saturday night with Tristan's really poorly executed "Spy" and the table of weirdos that he got glued at... (Thanks, Zelretch, you bully.) What a good sport. Was extra fun chasing him out of the inn and, uh... making sure he wasn't lying... about stuff... NOBODY DIED, IT'S FINE.
(Ben's mods are always so good.)

Watching Chet harass Zelretch at Feast... totally beautiful.