June Event Highlights

Digging out my phylactery in the dead of black night, only to have the sun start coming up by the time we got back.

Not much happened Saturday afternoon, so I made up for it with an excellent lawn nap.

Mostly coping with my bum knee throughout the weekend, only had minimal stress to it, and not letting that ruin my weekend.

Getting to use many of my heroic legionnaire abilities on main mod that I've never been able to use before.

Okay, adding more to my highlights!

-Smithing lessons from Kun. He is a great teacher and now with a lot more smithing skills, It's time for Jack to help more around the town.

-Getting yelled at by Haroldson at every corner.

-Drinking competition with Ariya.

-Good guy Cory turning Jack into a vampire\

-NPCing Main mod was fun once the battle started. It was great to see that the NPC's can win a bit. One thing I would like to throw in here though is mind your strength people. Yes they are foam weapons, but I was getting seriously hurt out there.

-Sitting at the bar and telling Bar to send a message to Nalick.

-Checking on Byron every 20 minutes or so to as how his charisma was going.

And I think that is all. Til next month guys.

I'll keep it simple so I don't write a book:

Music and musicians.

Best most sincere " what does it mean to be a noble" conversation ever.

Finally getting to perform that song and only realizing afterward that it fit even better than I had initially realized.

Being able to keep the secret from so many, and getting to see the organic reactions.

Letters.

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Playing the kind of character Mixolydia was meant to be.

Running into the right people from the start.-- I know the guy with the key to the private stock and seem to have befriended the lady behind the bar. What more could a girl need?

Oh, right . . .STELLAR drinking companions.

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Goose, thank you. Just thank you. I couldn't have asked for a better sendoff!

I'm never going to forget Saturday night as that one time I got to have Goggins walk around doing Kung Fu and swinging Holy Strikes and Cripples.

Sorting out basic inventory for the guard. It feels really good to get to provide kit and essentials, and was a lovely opportunity to meet a few new faces too!

Excellent nocturnal chats with Grimkjell, Brigitta, and Magnus.

Making a pretty cool commission for Cecilia, after a good bit of prodding on her part.

Rowena performing a forced mind expansion on me, you sly Lorestri you.

The whole of Saturday evening was just excellent. Mixolydia's choice of song was really quite poignant, drawing up memories of late-night chats about her past - and, when she eventually took the scroll from Maja, I was able to stand there and quietly feel nothing but happiness for her while the room exploded in shouting around me. It was the perfect ending to this chapter of her story, and wonderful that she got to share it with so many of us.

Then, what followed. Getting to head out with a squad of pretty amazing characters, headed by Magnus - the first time I've ever had a chance to do that sort of thing. Here's hoping your knee held out Tim!

The whole business with getting removed from history, then whisked up to the beautiful Temporis Keep to get fused with the memories of a past hero. I didn't realise you had such a gorgeous voice MaryBeth! Whoever it was who put all those drapes and candles in the pavilion: damn it looked good.

Subsequently getting ejected back out into the world. Grimkjell walking up stony-faced, giving me a massive Strength + a Gazillion hug, then collecting himself and announcing "let us never speak of this again." Equal parts sweet and hilarious.

A pretty amazing Sunday morning NPC shift. We ended up with a ton of people on shift, so got to do some really awesome stuff: our team of Knoll slavers actually took prisoners before getting distracted by Swyft (CAT! CAT! WOOF!) we sold stacks of goblin face cream and fried rat as a troupe of goblin merchants, stormed the inn as a platoon of ogres, tried to eat Roach as a legion of undead, and pissed everyone off as a bunch of obnoxious Agauran/Malycite peasants. It was a riot.

Just an all-round brilliant event. Every part of it seemed well thought out, and was rich with depth and flavour - all presented in a way that allowed a great many people to get involved and enjoy its many subtly interwoven threads. I can't help but draw parallels between the landscape of the weekend's events and the incredible cuisine for which Goose is so well known; both have proven beautiful, lovingly prepared, and deliciously satisfying to the last morsel. Thankyou.

Baroness Hartwoode wrote: I'll keep it simple so I don't write a book:

This is a temptation I'll need to resist in the future.

This event held a lot of milestones for me. More personal to the character than anything else. I saw an edge to her, a determination that I'd only seen previously during March when her kin were in trouble, and her determination to remain where she would do the most good and protect the Phocus shows me just how much she is starting to grow.

Highlights:
-Thalia yelling "I quit!"behind the bar on Friday night after hearing about Saint Haroldson from the members of the Church of the Excommunicatus (sp?) and the collectively horrified/shocked cries of "WHAT?!" from everyone in the bar and Angeliana telling her she couldn't, that it was illegal. Duncan stopping her and sending her back in to do her job.

-Tobias' example of belief accidentally spinning off the joke of The Church of the Hat at the Center of the Table (formerly the Church of the Table at the Center of the Inn), and their two sub-sects: the Drunken Hat Knights and the alcohol free sect: The Shirley Templars. And then going over the books on the Scholar's Table.

-Lessons with Almat, Albert and Tobias.

-Searching high and low for that magical tarot card and still not having found it by Sunday... It has to be here somewhere!

-ALL THE SINGING EVER! Hearing the bards in full form was absolutely amazing.

-Coming back from kitchen duty during feast, and coming back into character JUST a everyone else had gotten out and coming face to face with the invading Hollow Song. Literally standing right in front of Cymoril, a moment where you look at someone and they look at you. And Thalia realizing that she needed to move. Now. Or she wasn't getting out of there. And then realizing once she was out that Gwynned was still inside and there wasn't a thing she could do to help her!

-Staying to protect the Phocus during main mod to make sure that anyone who came through could be pulled through quickly and sent back to help. Discussions with Kunkelhorn and Brigitta. Pulling my first two people through the phocus on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon.

-Meeting Jen W.'s new character. I think they're going to get along GREAT! Learning who has the key to the basement stash of liquor (always good to know!), the bards singing and dancing in the bar after Main Mod.

-Finding out in game and out about the Baroness and making plans to go to the Highlands with Seamus to assist.

-Sunday morning information extraction and such from the Dark Clergy which happened in Pendarvin. That was great and I want to give props to all the NPCs!!!

OOG:
The usual Kitchen shenanigans of singing Wicked during cleanup.
Sunday, in the car on the way back figuring out what else I want her to learn.

This was a great event! And while I won't be in game next month, I cannot WAIT to get back in August and maybe do a cookout for everyone for celebration purposes!
-Abby