Festival Highlight and thanks

Thank you to those who went out of their way to make M elody and Calb welcome at teh festival.  The scared Keeshond left with a curled tail and sat at Jame's feet just before we left.

He had shut 'off' about late afternoon which is why we didn't stay over but he did really well because a lot of you went th extra mile to make him really get to feel comfy with you.

And Melody... I think I may have yet another LARPing dog in a few years with that one.  She started to follow good guys and bad guys at the end.  I watched her track the masked NPCV's without aggression but with a playful lets get them look.  For those who recall Tempus and Jazzy my two Shelties they learned Hold as Down and Lay On as Go Get and could actually interact with the game on a semi limited basis.

Both are exhausted along with the Mom.

Just wanted to get their Highlights out there before I sacked out.

A HUGE thank-you to Charlie and Tina for letting us use their home!

Even with the heat & humidity, it was a good time - the ability to just relax and chill with people In-Game was nice.

Many, many thanks to the Alisandrian & Winterdark Picnic Committees for bringing delicious food!

Kabobs - YUM!

"Gideon, I think this is the first time ever I've seen you without your armor on."
5 seconds later, someone else walks up.
"Gideon, I think this is the first time ever I've seen you without your armor on."

Thanks to the Spiegels for letting everyone take over for a day... It was an absolute blast!

Ok, so, highlights:

-Entering the Entertainment competition and telling my first Elven History story (for those who liked it, there will be more in the future as my character "uncovers" them)

- NPCing for 7 straight hours... personal favorites were
      (1) being a Lion and running into the woods...  right into a massive group of Druids who were discussing things... They tried to calm me down, I tried to maul them... Hmmm... Maybe should have went for the calming down thing...
      (2) Playing the bounty spider, "You have eight eyes, you should be able to see behind you." "No, I have 7." "Wait, what... OH MY GOD WE GOTTA GET THIS THING!
      (3) The group of hunters that lured the Travancians into chasing a regular boar in an attempt to steal their trophies... Minor flaw in plan: only one person that stayed back after the boar was killed had any trophies... But problem solved (yay Insult!)

- Sitting around after 10 chatting with Father Edwin about the Scholar profession... Definitely made me see things differently, and changed my plans a bit IG because he brought up some good points...

Lowlight:
- Driving home with a GPS that decided not to work and no printed reverse of the directions... Yay guessing games!

obviously, thank you for the hospitality and welcoming us all into your home for a day or so, charlie.

I had some really good RP time with some people I don't really get to hang around with often, and a few minutes with other that I do.

For all of the druids and rangers that went on the totem meditation, thank you all for the talks we had during and after that  entire exercise.  It was funny that we were attacked  by a bear and then a lion when we had all gotten to the point where the meditation had gotten to seeing our totems.

As for those of you who went on the small treasure hunting trips into the forest with me, sorry we always came up with nothing, but at least with what talking we did do, I would consider it all pretty quality RP for everyone involved.

For the conversations with Shamus, you are always fun to talk to about the questions I have been posing you.  Just for that reason I enjoyed hearing you talk about both the ranger path, and the witch hunter path.

Wolfgar, even as you were dressing down your camping spot, and were half out of costume, you still made the RP conversation we had feel very true to life, and I am quite happy with the results of that little talk.

Sam, I will keep bugging you in game until we get that talk done, but the little distractions you come up with are still fun and amusing.

The only downside i had this entire time, was consistently overheating in that armor and not getting to a drink fast enough.

Thanks Charlie and Tina!

Kabobs were wonderful, thanks for standing over the fire Jake!

-Getting everything worked out with Sam A+

-Beating Shalok in the combat tourney

-Winning second place in the combat tourney, then having multiple people ask to spar with me.

-Shamus and I dueling in the tall grass. For that moment, I didn't think I was at a festival anymore.

It was a good festival. The sneezing on the drive home wasn't so fun.

GREAT JOB TO BOTH GUYS HAD SUCH A GOOD TIME
I enjoyerd this Festival to the most extreme degree
-Watching everyone enjoy the atmosphere of all the townsfolk having a grand old time'

-Doing what I enjoy and that is TEACH I think I taught more at this one day festival than in any other event

-Having the chance to discuss totems, before being interrupted by my totem T.T

-Being closer to my Druid master and actually getting around to learning something awesome

-Bonding with friends and family

-Having Toravisu sit in on my teaching of Jump for Typhon and Cure Minor Wounds with Miso amusing to see him try to comprehend

-Making Geoff laugh durring my Instill Confidence Training when he asked me to do it on a celt/my brother lol

-Last but not least LEARNING BATTLE CASTING

(special thanks to Kristen, Sam, Travis, Geoff, and Typhon)