August 2010 Highlights

> Post feast dish-washing conversation - Half In Game, Half Out of Game, all amusing.
> Conversations with Rayna watching the rest of the town.
    Rayna: I wonder where all the nobles are?
    Rayven: I'm not entirely sure, they were in a meeting earlier. *twigs snapping* Who goes there?
    Count Winterdark:  It is I, the Count!
    Rayna just stares at me blankly....
> Finally realizing WHY I want to become a Templar, and couldn't think of WHAT I said the entire ride home...
> Steve's Chaos/Coffee Demon
> The looks of half-terror when the dozen or so people looked at each other and realized that we were everyone designated as high level for main mod. And Liam/Sorel's tears.
> Believe it or not, dying to some sort of fireball/inferno/incinerate 29 times in the same fight.  I was up and down so many times, people started catching me before I fell.

Overall, for the 6-8 hours I was there, pretty fun. 

+ Finally found a another dryad  

+ Went on a crazy romp through the forest the first night with the fellow dryad teaching me to meld with a tree, coming into contact with almost every mod on the first night.  One of the biggest and scariest adventures of my character's life so far. (I joked about it later in our group by the tree that it was like a Harold & Kumar adventure).

+ Had a great lesson on utilizing a staff  from a weapon master

+ Post-feast washing, interesting conversation for a long while

+ Splitting off to chat with Teeg, his elf companion, and one of his other friends.(I swear the elven shaman reminded me so much of Vanille from Final Fantasy XIII with the hair)

+ The crazed main mod.  And the relaxing aftermath after everything was done.

+ My NPC Shift as Gibbles, the pet goblin that was a bit dumb....ok maybe really dumb.  At least I didn't get killed haha.

Loved being there, hope that I can go one more time (since I got classes starting up soon) before next year.

I haven't NPCed a Mod Boss since back in 2002.  It was a fun, if exhausting, experience, and true to form, I lost my voice during combat...

* NPCing Daerth - It's fun to play an unabashed villain some times!

* I was planning on playing Garrun until the last moment, when I decided to NPC for Steve.  I show up, and Maria is there - "You gonna play Garurn?"  *sigh*

* I barely saw Diane all weekend.  When we're both so busy we don't see each other, it's a good game!

* More Valence Training!  Each time I learn a new spell, it's a story that peeks into the lore of Knight Realms, and a new adventure!

* New Dra sleeveless shirt.  SO much more comfortable...

* Main Mod - seeing a bazillion PCs lead by Brogan and Janus coming towards us.  Steve, Tim and I had discussed how to encourage the PCs to split into two groups - in the end, we left it up to the PCs to decide, and not force the issue.  When I saw the mob approaching, I thought the entire town had come to roll us, then move on as a whole to roll Steve after we were cleared.

* Dragoon Combat Line!  When I fled Brogan and went for someone smaller to pick on, I chose the other end of combat... and got my ass handed to me by a bunch of under-20th Dragoons.  The new 2H rules are working well!

My apologies to everyone that I wasn't able to do Blacksmithing for - I'll most likely spend the Sept. event at the forge the whole time catching up on tasks for the town.

sooooo! much fun except not eating and sunburn but other than that A++ steve!

Friday
- seeing Amalthea again and catching up on Quinarian fun times! Also Meeting Belegchand (sp?)
-low level mod invisible book stealing lmao and being dominated and told to fight to the best of my ability which meant Invisible, Blind, Invisible, Pin, etc.
-also low level mod doing "the time warp....again" wally i you
-NPCing as merchants with my handsome husband Marco and Gibbles the Vegetable Goblin and the hilarity that ensued
-being trapped in a kitchen with Steve's chaos demon and being forced to make coffee while watching him and Tim put up walls to block others out while Steve was chaotically crazy and trying to lick Sorel's face lmao
-sleep = good

Saturday
-Mages guild meeting needs a coffee pot... just saying
- New business opportunities (IG and OOG)
- Doing some... fun.. things * mischievous smile* giving another Quinarian a heart attack pretty much
- Drow? Tomb? Undead? Lich? those are four dooms... >.<
-sitting at the lake and dunking my feet, all the conversations were hilarious. Especially Ben Tanning and becoming a Nyad
-Ming Na... i you
-didn't get to eat feast, only ate a small sub all weekend >.< kinda sucked, i gotta start eating more at KR
- getting a spell book from Nutmeg!
-learning 2 new languages and being introduced to Master Gideon's version of Ethan Archangel's school of magic lmao... need to improve my spell packet aim on the run
-Misaki after hearing i learned 2 languages "I speak 3 languages; common, Khitanese and MURDER!!!!!!!!" lol
-also Ib: "Victor can you teach me how to be a farmer?"
      Victor: "I can't teach you how to farm, but i can teach you how to plow." *smirk* we all laughed

-being a 2 body mage gurading the healers since i could erect a wall... i am SOOOO not a hero lol
-having an unknown wild mage cast earthen armor on me and being so disgusted that her tainted magic was on me that i ran around asking people to hit me until the unclean was off of me and seriously considering learning a weapon skill in case it happens again and no one agrees to help lol
-Supa Priest!
-the banana farming lesson and the hilarious jokes that followed. Bananarama! Ib's banana imporium! Ib! you're the banana king! etc.
-Brogan saying "Ib you'll make a great farmer! You have green thumbs!"
sleep again = good

Sunday
-waking up to find i still had time to go in game and being shocked lol
-more talks with my Quinerian friends and hilarity with Orophin!
-being the bearer of bad news unknowingly to Brogan about Dorian >.<
-constantly being Brogan's coffee elf made me laugh... a lot!

and how could i possibly forget??? my first event smoking hookah. been going for over 2 years and never got the chance! thanks Christian and randy for that

For my second full event, I could not have asked for anything better.  It honestly was beyond epic for Belegchand. I swear, interacting with Guildmaster Silverbow, Amalthea, Feladryn, and Rainier, as well as various other mages all weekend really brought out the best role play I could have done, and I want to thank you all for making this possible, especially Bob as Julian, who probably made Belegchand the happiest scholar in all of Travance.

Friday
-Catching up with Chroniclerites as to what happened last month.  Fearing for my life is always fun.
-Getting back to the Inn at the perfect moment for a low-level thing.  Yay being a Chroniclerite scholar and actually having a notebook on me!
-Teaching Literacy: Dark Elven as my first time teaching ever. Wound up teaching that 4 times, High Elven once, Ancient Elven once, and Sylvan Elven once, which was EPIC!
-NPCing late shift, playing a True Warlock, getting destroyed, and kidnapping Kwildar (sorry lol)
-Not sleeping so that I could do scholarly things.

Saturday
-Father Emar's lessons on Enax: Lesson One - Don't wake up for breakfast, we wake you up for not listening.
-Mage's Guild Meeting.  Thoroughly enjoying being the scribe.
-Watching a sorcery ritual for the first time.  One of what I consider the 3 biggest magically-related moments in Belegchand's life to this point (all 3 occurred during this event.)

- Doing some... fun.. things * mischievous smile* giving another Quinarian a heart attack pretty much

- I concure
- Tomb Mod.  Getting asked by various things that are being struck by people far more seasoned than me what I hit them with, saying "12 Fire", then the smirks before saying they'll take it.
- Studying with Rainier over a book with Master Julian. SO EPIC!
- "Quick - to the Guild! No, wait, they'll just trap us in there... TO THE INN!"
- Having Valence magic cast on me for the first time.  SUCH a huge thing for Belegchand.
- Main Mod.  Belegchand bragged AT LEAST 20 times about how he took down 3 Wall of Fires singlehandedly
- Small meeting in the Guild.  Learning so much from Janus and Julian that I felt like my head would explode.
- Actually going to sleep at 4 because I am nearly passing out on the book I am copying the text from.

Sunday
- Not waking up until 12 and thinking I missed the entire day.
- Giving startling information to those who would require it.
- Teaching and learning various things, including Lore: Chaos!
    - Marshall on duty - "Why would you learn that?
    - Me - "I'm a scholar, I can't turn down a lore."
    - Marshall - "Wait, aren't you a Chroniclerite too? You seriously can't turn that down!"
- Getting the perfect Minor Insanity for my character.
- Only Low Light - Having to rush leaving in order to get to where I needed to be close to on time.

Aside from the usual "great to see old friends again", this was a great event for me, both as Tiriel and Turin.

Religious plot is getting better every month, and watching plotlines dovetail together seamlessly is an awesome experience.  Much praise to Doug P. and his team for Friday night's Religion mod, it was by turns terrifying, awe-inspiring, brutal, and touching.  The repercussions will echo for months.

Really getting into it with the Baron and his entourage, the Count, and several prominent Chroniclerites.  Actions have consequences, and so does inaction.  Kudos to everyone involved here as well, as the gravity of the situation was maintained without any resulting bloodshed... well, mostly without bloodshed.

Having the Tellinghast crew back in such strength (Sabatheous, Aradiel, Celestine, Barak, Yngvie, Angelica, Halfstaad, Caleb and Orlin, plus a NEW Tellinghast, and hints that Merrin in on his way as well?  Things gonna get a bit hot 'round here).  It really felt like old times, and it was great to see everyone again.

If it's nice to free a great man from bondage and service, it's even nicer to meet him in person, and return his stolen property to him.  Vince was excellent as Sorrow, and I wish I would have had more time to speak to him.  I am sure that the way things are moving, the opportunity will be there in the near future, so here's to hoping.

Once again Turin missed his chance to talk religion with Celestine and Cinder.  Don't worry guys, we'll get our chance soon enough.

There really were too many great moments to mention them all (Mixolydia, Osred, Aldous, Lorna, Siobhan... really too many), but everyone seemed to be spot on this weekend, and I had a great time.  Thanks, and I will see you all in September,

Terry