May Event Highlights

I had a nice time at event, and I am very glad the weather held out like it did for us.  Even though I arrived late to the event, I still found plenty to do, as many folks were wondering where I disappeared to all the time.  A few things...

1. Big thanks to Tom Senger (Odo/Dorian) for the transportation and for struggling through his drowsiness and other health issues to keep on going and getting me to/from event and back.
2. Great performances by all at feast and the cool ways you all entertained us.
3. To the Staff, I thank you all for your hard work and for adjusting the mods and plots to match what was needed at the times and making sure as much as humanly possible, for there to be something for everyone to do.

Friday Night...
1. The adventurous car ride with Tom and Richard and seeing Tom's various ways of fighting off sleep and hunger as he drove us to event.  The rain didn't help at all.  We survived!    Signing in at 2 am... woohoo!
2. Setting up my bunk in Drega'mire and the OOG hijinks and humour that ensued.  Thanks to my roomies for putting up with the noise and jokes.

Saturday Morning...
1. Waking up early (6 am!) due to still being on working sleep schedule and being able to take my time getting into character.  Yay!
2. Getting compliments on my new leather jerkin ( Ravenswood Leather ).  Many thanks.
3. Listening to everyone's adventure stories about the previous night and what it bodes for the coming hours.
4. Hearing the cries for help and ruinning into a bandit trap.  Kudos to the NPC's for that idea... even though the folks who responded weren't the level of folks you were hoping for.
5. Giant wolves are nasty, and I am very impressed by the folks who fought them... you guys rocked.
6. Being tossed out of the portals due to being just 4 levels below the requirement.  Nutz! 

Saturday Night...
1. Great feast.  Thanks Luis & company.
2. RPing the Orelander the Mage for Matt White and the hilarity that ensued.  I know I looked like a doofus and probably RP'd it worse, but I needed to garner attention for a reason.
3. My huge apologies to Matt White and being unable to locate the tabard, cape, and most important... black felt hat for that role.  I went back that night and on Sunday morning and couldn't re-trace the steps to find those items.  I am so sorry!  :-[
4. To the PC who handled Orelander, great job, don't feel bad, and the paranoia you displayed was optimal for the job.  I just hope the Count doesn't go into that side room and find what happened! 
5. When I agreed to NPC for Alex and Andy, I should've known I be going into a hell-mod.
6. High level mod may have been the most extreme example of "Ow! My spleen!" I have ever gone through.

Sunday Morning...
1. Waking up to a brisk morning!  Wow... a flashback reminder of last event!
2. Walking around and talking with all the people I know... a good lesson in that I am way too quiet and keep to myself.  Which can be a good thing at times... but not always.
3. Cleaning up the Baron's Manor.  1 person takes only 15 minutes.  Get 4 people on it, it takes 3 hours. 
4. Eating at the Mug.  Nice!

Had a fun time and I will see you all again after the Summer is over... or if there is a 1 day festival or non-KR event like paintball, golf, or catcing a baseball game.

Friday Night!
-Meeting the whole caravan of new people that rolled into town. So many Celts!
-Flowers from Celts, they were cute, really.
-Kit/Gypsy/Celt?  Sure, why not, she was adorable.

Friday: NPC
-Lizardkin Scalpers...
-Going to the inn as a bunch of buccaneers specifically to get into a bar fight with the celts.. and they had just gone to sleep. Almost deciding on taking over the inn instead until seeing the big scary guy (Solomon) sitting on the porch and deciding it was time to be going.
-One of the crew punching someone in the face and getting dropped and casually leaving him there so they could do what they wanted with him (after taking his pay from him)

Saturday!
-Narrowly escaping death, twice. Not caused by the usual kinds of monsters either.
-Xanifer coming to town.
-Marketfaire. I didn't realize how many people would like my cake, must bring more next time.
-Night Blade Plot and protecting the lower levels all event. Watching jaws drop as I turn things to ash is fun, the appreciation of others when I bestow Earthen Armor is nice too.
-Just too low a level for high level mod, too high a level for low level mod, oh the limbo I find myself in.
-I notice the more Ilana starts to open up, the angrier she gets... this must be why repression is important. Or, is that the opposite... oh well.
-Beginning lessons on how to fight without magic from Germaine. This is going to hurt, but its going to be worth it, if only I could practice between events... will work on it.
-Getting stoneskin hugs from someone else!

-Finding two bandits off on their own and walking up to them (Mind you, this was at my breaking point):
"Want to see what I can do?"
*confused looks*
"_Boom"
Unfortunately, not realizing behind me were about five of the new people coming to help me out... oops. That really shocked me into realization to be my usual, careful self.

-Two incinerate boom packets in a row.... what is the odds of that, really.
-Following with my RP for fire, I don't think people realized how close they were to me just setting anything on fire... the RP of fear of such thoughts was also fun.

Sunday
-My armor staying above half at the end of the event.
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Lowlight:
Having to write 'Earthen Armor' on SO many character cards... my kindness is painful  
This might be my last event as Ilana for awhile >< Lets all cross our fingers!

Lowlight:
Having to write 'Earthen Armor' on SO many character cards... my kindness is painful  
This might be my last event as Ilana for awhile >< Lets all cross our fingers!

Just buy a stamp and inkpad. Should speed things along.

Well, after 20 hours of driving in two days, making my surprise entrance was certainly worth the effort of both waking up at 5am Sat morning and making the second half of that drive, as well as keeping my arrival a secret from all the good friends I was looking forward to see, at least OOG anyway.

Highlights:
-As it was described by others, my military stomp up the hill to the Inn after sneaking the back way to get changed in our Cabin in Pendarvin, and the subsequent jaw drops from some and hiding of others. 
-Trying to RP a seething rage beneath a cool surface, only letting it bubble to the surface organically when provoked.
-So many good hugs from good friends!
-Awesome new gloves from Diane!  I love them!
-RP with Lethias and Mixolydia especially, as well as the students I taught.
-So many new faces - Jeez it feels like I leave and the whole town is replaced!  Looks like lots of potential since last I was around too.
-The Fairy Storybook is GORGEOUS Emily!
-Being an Economic Hero.
-Tori's lil flower fairies.
-And finally, still not knowing IG that Bellenear is back. Ah hilarity.

First time at KR,
Amazing. I made many new friends and learned the ways of the game. Though admittingly I wasn't truely in character yet because I wanted to get to know a bit of the ropes before hand but next time I attend I should be good

I met alot of enjoyable people such as Afronin, Natre, Max Nimblefoot, Balthier, all the celts and pretty much just about everyone else there!

NPCing was a blast. First time we did Trolls down in NPC land, which was fun to watch all the high levels get the deer in the headlights look as they try to think of a way to counter an attack that you throw at them.

Second was the five wolves. This was my favorite. We got to attack what was mostly lower level people and did pretty good. Then after our respawns were over we had one last bang. NPCs and PCs were all a little exhausted after that one.

Third was the Lizard-Kin. I shouldn't even have to explain what happened there lol

Main Mod: Plus: It was alot of fun and very exciting. Main Mod: Minus: My legs were hurting so bad I couldn't follow it out to the end.

The Jester thing was pretty scary. He ran right by us and we didn't even realize it o.o Not to mention hearing his laugh coming from the direction we had to walk.... 

Favorite quotes:
"I am a romantic, not a whore." Balthier
Max Nimblefoot: *opens door to nearby cabin*GOOD MORNING LADIES!! *In cabin: men grumble*

Omg new peoples!

-walking up to the inn on Friday to be told by Germaine that I knew no one in the inn most likely
-walking into the inn to find out it was true

Ilana after the 100 Magic effect:
"So Apollo just let out a blast of magical energy for no reason? Hes an evil wild mage lets burn him!"
and nearly dying of laughter.

-Eating a good meal that I should have missed.
-Being shown how some ppl view me in the town. You guys were great and I love each and every one of you for not killing me when that took 3 times as long as it should have.
-Finding out that people can in fact keep secrets (I was really shocked but now I know a good group IG that can infact lie to others if asked lol)
-Getting told by several people that they hope I survive. I also didnt expect that. That was also a nice feeling.

-EVERYTIME I TURNED AROUND I GOT A STUDENT
-the above is a major plus. I felt so bad about what happened later lol. Ill have to make it up to you guys somehow.

-Managing to mix some rp in with what was supposed to be just combat and getting props for it
-Getting props from slack (oog of course) over some bardic spells. that made a good part of my day.
-Seeing the look on Jens face when I told her OOG after the event that she was the new main bard in town. That was actually a lil bit of a surprise lol


So, this event saw the end of one chapter....let the next begin!