June 2018 Event Highlights

Ok time for the rest of my highlights now that Dusty is is causing heroic leading resistance dreams with father Ephrem's Valos circlet rather than nightmares. In my dreams she does a decent job leading lol By the way that's hoo I know it's was a great event, here we are Wednesday and I have had a dream about it every night so far.

Friday: Thank you James for choosing me to join Bryan and you for that mini mod. I truly enjoy roleplay verbal and physical. Bryan and I had so much fun! Also kudos to Steve Otis for getting the drop on me. Who knew you could move that fast! When you had your arm around me with a sword to my throat that was truly a real shocked expression! The rest of the npc shift was wonderful! Nice mix of fighting and roleplay. Thank you for letting me be a baker with a stove that came to life! Was great telling the pcs yes that really is a stove and it will try to eat you.

Saturday: I got the chance to really get to know our new people who have joined Alterra. Such good kids. Not going in the woods alone with only two ever again lol. Role-playing what happened to Dusty when she found out she could no longer make bombs that go boom was a good experience. So many listened but it was Mantel who really stood up. Thank you for dropping what you were doing to take Dusty to the well and help her understand it all. Yes we have no answers for the hooded man issue but knowing why she can cast pink meteors and how to control was a godsend. That was a wonderful bit of roleplay.
Thank you to Father Duncan for trusting Dusty enough to assign her a task during the execution. Dusty is so used to not being noticed. Same reason of thanks to Victor for the same thing. Was fun running around by your side. Both things caused a internal quandary that poor Father Ephrem had to drop everything to deal with when Dusty said she felt so lost mentally the look of pure worry mixed with sadness Father Ephrem gave her was amazing. So was the conversation that followed. He brought Dusty back from the edge of something. Sunday I blindsided him with the question of the necropolis guy was so bad the gods came why not now? More convo about that. Love that he suggested I talked to my friends. Still haven't found a way to talk to Val or Vizzy lol
Anyway after the intense bar mass was very happy to get pure fun role Play with Chet and a few others. Sorry guys Dusty isn't a goddess. So needed the sillyness. I already posted what happened sunday.

This event was amazing story and run very well. Thanks to all who made it happen. Dusty was internally changed. Her mindset has been altered.

Special thanks to all who made the feast. So much wonderful good food and plentiful! It was nice leaving the feast with a full belly.

Last but not least thank you to Tyr. You sure didn't know what you were getting into when you became Dusty's bodyguard did you lol I am not an easy one to keep track of and you did a good job. Dusty found it unnerving when she was about to go where she shouldn't alone and out of nowhere you were at her back. At the same time your presence at her back was very comforting. you did well knowing when to let her loose to pour potion down throats and do what was needed and when to stick to her side like glue. Stop saying sorry for not being able to keep up with father Ephrem and i Sunday. we were on a two person crusade. Somehow are flew across the battle field doing what must be done. I think something more powerful was watching over Dusty after all she lived didn't she?

Now (holding Father Ephrems Valos Circlet high) follow me the crusade is not over!

Now that I've mostly recovered from the weekend I'll get these down: first a huge thank you to Hannah and all the other people who I met at Star Wars that hyped this game enough to convince me to give it a try. This was one of my best larping experiences despite the heat (which I somehow managed to survive). Also huge shout-out to safety people for looking out for me despite the horror of my allergies. Now favorites in no particular order:

Friday:
NPCing the goblin witch doctor that may or may not have been taking orders from a dead bat
Getting to come out and going full rogue looking for one specific person, just to walk pass them calmly and suddenly have a knife at their throat
Getting someone alone and the following exchange: "Cool. Now are you going to tell me about XYZ?" "You... you were sitting five feet away!"
Mileof and the didn't think it through throwing a Fae on the roof

Saturday:
Always land sushi and snack time.
Just wandering around and learning the campsite, even after being told that it's a giant loop I still got lost
Jackdaw and George, the snarkiest hang out times
Ostcliff - everyone wanting to take the vassal oath and I'm just sitting there shaking my head
Fall Guy, steal stuff, cover for people, and still not get caught
"If you want to know about that, you want to talk to the pretty elf." "I definitely want to talk to the pretty elf. Goodbye."
Being asked by Reyna and Lord Rudolph to handle an issue as a first event player
Yo. That crazy Saturday night wave battle, I had been super lazy fighting all day because of the heat and it was nice to go crazy for a solid hour or so
Reyna's death and the only time Mileof and Ceren will ever get along
Also shout-out of appreciation to the NPCs that tried to roll up on my cabin after I had gone to bed and took into consideration that I was blind and in a lot of pain and just spooked me real good with chains and shambling outside.

Sunday:
Moose, Jackdaw, Rooster, and Ceren - avatars of Chaos. Trying to ruin Eden's perfect world and instantly regretting everything, kind of.
Sunday wave battle - I'm still not sure how I survived this especially with all the drive-by back attacks I laid into Homunculi that were much bigger than me. Squaring up with one of the Homunculus and asking who he was because I never met any of them only to realize it was Gilgamesh and the one guy I was specifically told not fight. Oops.

I 'm super looking forward to July and having to deal with the worst perfect world.

Oooooh boy... where to begin...

First, I don't usually do well with heat, so I spent a lot of the weekend laying down in the Mage's Guild (thank the gods for cryomantic devices). My highlights, limited as they were in number, were still incredible. First, there was the spur-of-the-moment treasure/clue hunt in the woods with Django Friday night. I got so turned around, and we never did find anything, but it was still a lot of fun. Saturday, my big highlight was actually my NPC shift. After a few standard encounters, the marshalls decided they needed to hydrate everyone. I was sent out as part of a group of shady characters trying to learn new shady skills, and our big mission was to Blackmail everyone into drinking water. First stop was the inn, where we were told that any attempts to learn shady stuff would result in our arrests. So we headed down to Ostcliff, where they very willingly took us in and taught us all sorts of sneaky skills! *evil grin* Even invented a new skill: Stealth Strike, Hydrate! So much fun RPing with the Ostvolk, and really funny to see how many people called defenses to prevent being forced to hydrate! Later, three of us went out as rowdy Ogres. We ran into a group of PC's that threatened us, then killed us all on the spot, necromantically raised our bodies and told us to attack the next people we saw... That was interesting...

I missed both Main Mods, sadly, but feast was phenomenal as always! Sunday morning, I was up bright and early. Chatted briefly with the peaceful spreaders of the "gospel of Eden", chucked some spells at the decidedly-less-peaceful followers of Eden, then joined Father Ephrem for Bar Mass. Oh man, that was the best Bar Mass I've been to yet! Such great RP on all sides, then the calling of a Crusade, then chats with Father Ephrem and Darius at the bar after Mass was over. (Extra Points for seamlessly sneaking a LOTR quote into the conversation). Then Eden showed up.

I wish I could say that we banded together as the scrappy underdogs and won the battle through grit and sheer force of will. Then again, that would be a lie. I ended up with the healers, using my measly little Cure Wounds, heal 10 spell over and over. I must have healed 10 different people in the span of two minutes. I got to Grim just as he died, and couldnt save him. I got to a couple others just as they were disintegrated, again, something out of my power to heal. Then the world ended.

One really interesting thing about the final battle, is that it fundamentally changed the character I was playing, Jonathan Carter. I didn't plan for this, it just sort of happened. So it'll be interesting to see where this whole time skip dilemma takes him as a character!

So im way way late on this and all that
but i was looking at this thread and realizing that I don't think i've done one of these since my first year at game.

And at this point i'm fuzzy on a lot of details, but big thanks to everyone I talked to, everyone who interacted with me because you all reminded me of why I started playing.

(so kudos to being good sports and please ignore my underground resistance forum signature.... xD )

Being late is fine; sharing your highlights is what this thread and tradition are all about.