Festival Highlights

My son said that he left his trench there so it may be his.

Had a great time on Saturday and my younger had an awesome time.  Thanks to those who volunteered to be healed by him!

Ardin Silverbow

OOC-Norm B

Though it was hell to get to the place being lost for 20 mins, finally arrived at Charlie's house late Friday, the people who live around the place are really nice even if they're a bit lost... The festival was a lot of fun and I interacted a lot more then I anticipated I would. Congrats to everyone who participated in events, it was all very fun to watch.

-Firday night playing Halo, beating the crap out of Matt till Charlie's son decided he wanted to watch T.V. and soundly trounced me
-Amused how my arrival to the house was so much how I was going to RP Ilana showing up anyways. (reality collides!)
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-Waking up about half an hour before anyone else and hanging out with Tucker.
-Morning walk with Tucker and the Seamstress ^^

-Helping out Matt with his 'slave' chores.
-Cooking and cutting. Lots of cutting. Was much fun

-Practically pouncing Orion and Efgale in glee.

-Ilana's protest to tag team matches and how magic is just bad in general. Her brief 'career' in them and deciding she'll just stick with cooking and writing.

-Demonic dog and the deer leg, and him almost giving me the thing >.o

-Learning that all I need to do to obtain my goals is be really patient, no matter what happens or what people say... Sounds like Ilana to me. That's easy enough to keep up... right?

-Mykal and Rodemir (probably spelled wrong) were my longest conversation ever... with anyone. Funny to think a pair like them makes Ilana like humans more. The stories were great, good work guys. Really wish we could have checked out William's Leap.

-Everyone who participated in the singing/story telling I think did a good job, I chickened out of both events myself...

-Galen! You sing very well so stop complaining!

-Hiding from the Bon Fire IG but wanting to check it out so badly OOG... so having Ilana disappear a bit and checking it out myself.

-Galen's storytelling game. A lot of fun and a good way to wind down the night.

-Getting a ride from Zach since complications arose, thank you Zach, even if you don't like my demonic cats

-Knowing in the Knight Realms universe Ilana's enjoying herself cooking up a storm in Mordavia and writing down everything she learns, she needs something good in her life right now.

The Festival was wonderfThere wereul, even viewing it inside the chaos sphere of the OOG host.

Tucker, the demon dog with deer legs, had a wonderful time.  As Paul said of Suzi at their wedding "Too good a time."

I did not clean up our bedroom prior to the Festival and had zero concern about the money I left laying about on my bureau.  It was all there at the end.

Bonfire

Winning the Travance Chess Championship, while expected, was still satisfying.

Having the opportunity to use almost all of our serving platters and tureens, which hardly ever get troted out of the cabinets.

There were around 50 people in attendence.  A few food consumption facts:

Figuring stew at around 10 pounds per gallon (being heavier than water)

25 pounds of chicken stew
75 pounds of Beef Stew
10 loaves bread
The veggies with ranch dressing consisted of:
  5 pounds tomatoes
  4 pounds carrots
  4 pounds sweet peppers
600 ounces of mulled cider
160 ounces of Berry juice
1/4 keg of birch beer

And, of course, all those scrumtious deserts.
To top things off, after we ran out of food!! Diane and crew whipped up a quick 15# or so of stew.

Least I forget - thanks to all who helped clean the place.  Even though it is KR policy to leave sites in the same or better condition as that in which they originated, it was heartening to see so many do so much.  Extra kudos to James, Amber, Theresa, Craig O, and Jackie M, the latter who did an entire sink plus full of very dirty/greasy pots, pans, and serving dishes.

It all translates into being able to do it again, if the situation arises.

Man, fun times all around 

• Having Chris wake me up by kicking me out of my own bed 
• Getting there late . . . only to find out we were early 
• Asking Charlie where the bathroom was and him telling me to man up and use a tree . . . so I did . . . several times  :
• Cider.  Mmmmmmm, always good!
• Learning in the Inexperience ring of combat that the best offense against a shield bearer is not to fight him.
• The 3 Stooges skit that was my fight against Orion (Chris)
• Experiencing what it feels like to be a Yo Yo in the Team ring of combat. "Victors up!  Victors down. . . Victors UP!  Victor's down . . ."
• Being in the final team battle and Orion (Chris) being one of my opponents, running around the 2 heavy hitters each of us hitting them from behind as I chased Chris
• Learning that when faced with multiple high level opponents the best tactic is stay the hell away from them 
• Actually winning 10 mins of conversation with Count Winterdark, and instead of convincing him to pic me asked him to tell me more about Travance and Mordavia then I think I could have ever learned 
• Running in for the singing contest only to have to run out  (I wish I could have see you all perform )
• Gallon's story telling game.  Much Fun!
• Sitting around at the end of the night hearing random funny stories and songs.
• Naked, hairy fight.  Nuff said.
• Eatting, realizing I eat a lot, then helping to make the second stew.  Nothing like ripping the meat off a dead goose with your bare hands 
• As always, good friends and good times.

Any news on pictures from the festival?