Festival Highlight and thanks

What a lovely, relaxing day! Nothing in particular to report, just a Nice Day, and I really enjoyed it. Cheers to the Spiegals for their hospitality, to the NPCs who sacrificed their day for our enjoyment (and the marshals too), and of course James for arranging the whole thing.

Only lowlights would be:

1. the tick I found rather firmly cemented to the back of my upper-leg when I got home. Managed to remove it whole (and still squiggly) with only a minor amount of hysterics over the fact that there was A BUG ON ME T_T.

2. A deep-stabbing through the achilles tendon from a large thorn sent off some sort of bizarre chain reaction that led to my entire lower leg seizing up in some sort of swollen, cramping chain-reaction that left me unable to move my right foot for hours after I returned home. That was kinda scary T_T.

Onyx has returned and after I opened the door he deigned to brush my leg, made certain we had not moved his food bowl, and exited the house.  Tucker is back to his usual energetic self having recovered all day Sunday.  I can hear his occasional barks from someplace not on our property.

I would like to extend my thanks to all who helped clean up after.  More tangible than my gratitude, the gods will bless you with SP if you see me at the July Event.

big thanks are due to Doug E.  He woke up at 7 that morning with james to begin set up, worked the booth for sign in, then spent all but two hours serving as a monster marshal.  I was happy to help MM for the afternoon but Doug spent his whole day in "logistics".

thanks buddy

I really had an amazing time at the festival, not the least of which was due to the awesome people I got to spend it with.  Being away so often in Florida, there are so many new(er) players I never get the chance to interact with.  While I know many have been coming for a long time now, it really impresses me when I see how far they have come in their roleplay from those first and early events I witnessed.  Due to the nature of the festival, I really able to spend some casual time just hanging out with these characters, and it really made it some of the best fun I've had at KR in awhile.

Some particularly Highlights:

-Teaching all the Druids (and friends) and watching them teach.  My druids are all grown up!

-Spur of the moment Totem meditation with all those interested.  I haven't done one of those in awhile, and I hope everyone involved had a good time, even if we did get interrupted at the most crucial part. 

-Getting to know people I rarely spend time with!  I had a lot of fun RPing with Winter Sage and Oryx, but it was nice getting to know both Tristan and Paige as well.

-Helping to decorate and keep pretty the Winterdonia Tent!  As always, I loved all my time spent RPing with Mixolydia, Sorel, Janus and everyone else that came through.  Also, we had delicious food.

Just a handful, I'm sure there are more.  Thanks everyone for such a great Saturday!

Doug E was a HUGE help this weekend! Thanks man!

Thanks (in no particular order) also to Adam, Jake, Sean K., Norm, Nick, Kyle, Dianne, Steve O, MB, Pat H., Steve M, Leslie, Paul S. Andy, Mike D, Jon  and obviously Charlie and Tina for hosting!

Thanks to everyone who helped set up and break down, everyone who NPC'd full or part time, and of course everyone who cam to enjoy the day!

The Bounties and the puzzle boxes seemed to go over so well, we might start implementing them a bit more often into the regular events.

The food and the desserts where all fantastic! Thanks to everyone who had a hand in either!

Oh man! I totally forgot some things!

Punctuation jokes!

Dorian- "Hey Tyson, you're with me."
Typhon - "It's Typhon, like 'Hyphen' but with 'Ty' in front of it."
Dorian- *Five second pause* "I will never call you that ever, so, let's try new combinations!"

Typhon is now Tyrenthesis, because it sounds cooler.

Typhon hated this and offered to beat anyone who calls him this into a bloody pulp. But I personally think it does sound cool.
Learned a lot things at this event thanks to all of my teachers, Learning Jump was quite fun.  Wall of Thorns was great.
Druid meditation interrupted by animals awesome. Looking at the wolf in my mind and hearing growling was just great. [After the confused bear walks away from the utterly confused Druids. Typhon: “For a second there I thought it was my totem growling.” Everyone laughs. Sorel:  Congratulations Typhon your spirit has taken form on the Material plane!”]
Explaining to Sage how my character is related to a High Elf. [Sage: Are you adopted or something? Typhon: No Actually it’s sort of the opposite, Abandoned.]
All the druids interfering with the hunting competition. So fun.
Teaching Catlike Grace to Miso.
During the Entertainment Competition getting distracted by Thousands of blinking Fireflies just Spectacular. Also an earlier conversation with Sage and Elawynn about whether Lightning Bugs/Fireflies were filled with Lightning or Fire.