Solstice Festival

The excellent food and RP were surpassed by the formation of "The Church of Haroldson's Perfectly Formed Ass." Included in this delightful farce perpetrated by an unknown psion was Aleister giving an impromptu talk on how to charm a man (me) out of his pants, the bringing of offerings (weapons and attractive and willing women) and much laughter as Quin went around trying to remove the suggestions. All involved rolled with it and had a good time.

Food fun frolics in the snow.
Dinner.... My dog? Really I was only kidding!

Courage with Keevi (sp). I'll leave the quotes to another but I growled at her a number of times after...good times.

Cleave...not so much fun but funny in that odd oh this is going to hurt way!

Find your dragon - spirit of the dragon

Find and seek.

Melody staring at the dark clergy after being polite!

Nyad certification for SAR.

Melody list:
Off lead at a park
Keevi pounce
Clyte find games - salmon treats!
Snow games
Pats loving attention fun games treats who could ask for more...wait the Dr. With the massage hand to lay in slush for!

Quote dog speak:
I don't want to miss anything Mom! Open the door hurry up things are happening whine whine whine...I'm missing stuff!

Role Playing light and not so light…
Clyde McTavish’s(sp?) reaction to the news of the highlands from one who was there before the Final Battle. Reports of some clans being all but wiped out and concerns for his own nearly dropping him in place.

My report to the Count. On a personal level, I have problems around the holidays; the RP place I put Duncan was a bit heavy to manage at that point (I do believe in Stanislavsky method acting- tough to pull off but oh so cool when you do, despite how much it can hurt) and even I did not expect the emotional response I gave.
In retrospect, my reactions in trying to give a report were appropriate due to all the IC events and background of the PC but man… it took a bit to recover. ( I honestly wished I had a scotch at that point >.<)

Surprisingly, quite a bit of things happened relating to RP/events just prior to last event… some of them being:
The very intense interest by the Rom of Travance in that possible Rom caravan master we found in the highlands. A theory he may have been in league with Xualla- far too prosperous in the hell that was the highlands to not be or be given “Professional Courtesy”- was floated and strongly considered by a few very important and knowledgeable people.
While we don’t know if he was in league/helping but it was aawwwwwfully convenient he knew where the Pegasus was. The desire to clip wings was simply icing on cake.
So Yeah, it was a quiet anger only matched by Birgitta’s (during the original journey) at that point and a gift of things to fight hexes while capturing him was given along with the Blessing of the Travance Rom. They want him taken alive and brought back too…

Aleister expressing his wanting in on the trip north but being handcuffed by responsibility to Drega’mire. Price of Command, my friend… and that is only one of the many prices you pay. Duncan gets this all too well. Tobar is paying that price too so you are not alone in this.

The Thieves Guild of Travance taking an interest this too. An Expensive interest but an interest none the less.



Some of the lighter parts involved Gregor the Squire at one point and Arden at another.

Commenting on a person’s companion dog being dinner is a bad way of way of making friends… And your Squire-ship is absolutely no protection for that. Grimjel attempted to defend you and after my response to him, he said he'd deal with it. Dunno if it will stop there, bro but have some fun with it. Remember, Birgitta might forgive you but your Knight might not- your actions/words reflect upon him and he might not be happy with them. Even Haroldson was unamused when he heard about it...


As for Arden- surprise at my agreeing to help you was funny…and the secondary reaction to my response as to why I agreed (“you asked for help, why not?)”) was equally amusing. Hopefully you have gained a bit of insight about this highlander and why he is Black Watch.

I too heard about the Church of Haroldson's Ass. The Lamentations heard about it were funny as hell.

All in all, fun times, good food (despite the sikies off of some of it that developed later ) and I look forward to next month’s events.

I haven't been to KR in awhile, and actually had a blast coming back.

The RP with Emily, Nick, Christine, and many others throughout the festival was awesome.

Unseasonably warm weather allowed about 3 hours of comfort before actually having to wear season-appropriate costuming.

Tearing into the nature of Travance's populace with Aleister and co. is always fun, as is table top drawings, "everyone else was drawing runes of magic, so I drew a doggy and a tree... I don't like feeling left out."

And lastly a big thank you to the various staff and marshals whom I bothered in no small amount while trying to navigate the new rules.

Even though It was only for a few hours, I definitely had a good time especially after a crappy week.

-First of all the FOOOOOOODDDDD was amazing
-Watching Caelvan's Determination lesson was fun yet hard to watch until the end
-Playing with Melody!
-Helping teach Annora Instinct, then teaching Ava resilience and Body Block.
-Absinthe!
-Helping Grim learn repel......using my new master warrior skills!
-Helping with another courage lesson. This time for Brigitta. She was the first one to ever growl back!! Keavy was impressed.
-Listening to our lovely bards.
-Demon Pyre!

Cannot wait for the banquet and the next event!

-Many awesome lessons from both Keavy and Atrus!
-Jack finally standing up to Ava when she horribly insults him. Oops fined 20 gold. As well as being thrown into the snow multiple times.
-Too long conversations on Religion. Not ones that I wanted to have, but ones Ava needed. Ava still stands pretty confused about it all, but at least a little more clarity has been granted to her.
-FINALLY GETTING LETHARGY REMOVED AFTER LIKE 6 EVENTS WITH IT AKSJFASKDF SO HAPPY
-Unusually happy/emotionally insecure Ava. Perhaps living through a lot is something she can even be a bit happy about.
-SO MUCH AMAZING FOOD OMG EVERYONE WHO WASN'T THERE MISSED SOME OF THE BEST FOOD I HAVE EVER HAD... EVER