Solstice Festival

-The Nyad hunt, Mel is quite talented to find a creature of water in a landscape of frozen water
-Hearing two words assembled and presented in such a way that the words will never grace anyone's ears again. "Yield, Aleister."
-Halfassed snowball fights
-Sitting back and watching an absinthe-affected Gwynned try to convey to Goggins the difference between death and permadeath
-Sober conversations with Razael about the status of the dark clergy and the hypocrisies and such
-An absolutely gorgeous Absinthe ceremony! Clyties still wants that in perfume form.
-wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more say no more~
-Finally agreeing to go up and help in the highlands
-Drunk conversations with Razael about the status of his mental cows and making pasture angels
-Food. Food food food foodfoodfood. Food food.
-Leaving the tavern for a minute or so and coming back to discover that people now worship Edwin's ass. Welp.

Walking into the inn seeing Aleistar and him going "we doing this now?"
The determination lesson that was the "now" he was referring to.
To which the following phrase was uttered by me after a few tries..... Yield Aleistar.
Food was awesome
Getting a cool ability from Absinth
Kaladonia talks and discussion on trying to find Tirsen

Can't wait for January.

Pre-festival setup with Karen, james, Sebastian and Teresa. Even the bits where a camera was temporarily was lost. A few brief moments of natural beauty snatched in a busy night.

Cards against humanity, because we're all awful.

A chance-meeting in the night, roaring the names of friends I didn't expect to see.

The festival itself:

Distributing Rune stones to family and friends, and giving explanations fo what they meant (And what the secret meanings of certain ones were).

Hearing about administrative changes in various lands, getting a chance to chat with Aleister about tactics, leadership, and how to rescue someone who is very important to the town.

Sitting down with Annora to discuss tactics, and the ensuing argument over training. Annora won.

Getting beaten about the face by Annora and Keavy for the repel lesson.

Teaching cleave in the most brutal way possible, just like ol' Bran used to.

Substituting myself for a mithril chain and a tree for courage lessons, and getting Keavy to help like always.

Scaring Hobbits, then confusing them as I recognized her song.

Eating all the things.

Seeing Leif is a highlight of KR in general.

Getting equipped for the mission to save someone (got all the gear I needed, well, except for the scrolls)

Talking with bat cooper.

A few shared smiles with Keavy about secrets.

Panicking as Caelvan threatens grim with one of the few things that actually scares him.

The fire, and the songs that followed.

Watching the Guildmaster do sorcery to find someoen very important to Grim, his own hesitance as the maleficarum, who he quoted to keep going, and mentally comparing his reaction to that of Annora's to the very same ritual. It was educational and gave me insight into the characters!

Taking one for the team and being the one to examine haroldson's ass, then deeming it far less attractive than many others grim has seen in the proper.

Maja and Calliope! I can't tell you two how awesome it was that both of you played those NPCs for most of the festival. Rowan was so excited, like a when-your-favorite-band-comes-into-town-and-you-actually-meet-them-and-feel-like-you-could-die-happy kind of excited.

My friend and colleague-in-song, Clyde, back from the dead! That was a happy reunion and much needed good news in our dark time.

I really enjoyed listening to everyone's rumors and having the Count listen to our reports. I didn't know that there was so much going on in the world. I don't want to give away anything, but I learned that a detail was missed and now I'm all like alkjglakhclahfblaelhuhalerhglkaerhglkerhngahergaegahrguhfgiuaerhgbaebgubviwaiubeab!!!11!!!!!

Ooh! I can't forget to mention Friday! We did a lot of work setting up the camp and frolicking in the snow, but we had so much fun when everyone was hanging out in the bar room. I love hanging out with y'all out of game.

Geez, this festival was just a LOT of fun for me. It is an absolute joy to perform in front of you all and to entertain my friends. Music is food for the soul.

As per usual, THE FOOD WAS SO GOOD! Thank you, my favorite chefs, for all of your yummy work!

It's been a while since I went to an all RP 1 day festival. I was glad I did. Despite nearly taking 3 to 4 hours of travel time to get to the event, once I saw the faces of all my friends, I was glad I made it.

Seeing Aleister giving a harsh lesson in commitment, even in the face of failure was a true lesson more need to learn.
Helping introduce some new townsfolk was fun.
The usual fun, hijinks, horrendous abuse & ribbing that is Alisandria... My worst enemies don't treat me as bad, but they never hug me afterwards.
Helping in the kitchen was a huge highlight for me. It honestly was... there's a reason why the hearth (aka fireplace) was key to every home. The people, the stories, the fun, it all revolves around the place that has warmth and food.
The car ride to the train station with Megan... Learning more about people is always good. Many thanks for the ride once again and I can't wait to see if I can make the trip to Delaware for that gaming event.

First, kudos to everyone who helped set up the Inn, which looked beautiful, and who cooked - the food was delicious. It was nice to slow down and have a chance to RP with some people I haven't been able to spend time with before.

- Absinthe induced giggles with Trisana over a certain character's eyewear! Thanks for the RP, Jen, it was very fun to laugh with you.
-Terrific RP getting healed from my consumption and the good doctor's happy reaction when I gave him a bottle of Culpepper Cider.
- The singing and performances!
-The absinthe experience was lovely!
-I always like hanging out with and learning from the other smiths, and it was particularly fun to do it in the Inn (music and crafting all at once!). Edmund, thank you for the terrific lessons and Faila's new sword!
-Some good RP around where Faila was over the last few months with a couple unexpected people.

Thanks again to everyone who worked so hard to make this event happen.