July Event Highlights

Holy shit. It finally happened. After ten + years of being told about this place, I finally made it. Leslie and John, with support from Erik and Ashley finally dragged my butt there. Costume's still a bit of work in progress, but it was enough to get me through (gorget and pauldrons still haven't arrived yet- they're on backorder, and a few little leatherworking things). I was scrambling to get sheet/cards worked out and get into costume before lay on.

New player walkthrough was a bit of fun. Killing his first bandit, the cry of "OH, THEY"RE GOING TO HAVE TO STITCH YOU BACK TOGETHER...IN HELL!" I am sure made people giggle. I think there that the goat rope at the end was due to one mod starting as another was on its ending loop. It happens. I did get yelled at for the Lantern, but I learned a valuable lesson about not trying to gut things out. Most of us military vets will try to gut things out a bit more than we should at times. That was my moment of dumb.

Saturday was....interesting. I was recruited into the Baronial Guard, and got downed by a flood of undead. Jack Dimms snuck around after the undead were busy and healed Brigitta and myself. I went back into the fight and got reduced to one body. Thankfully Gideon healed me. Between that and the later armor repairs, Donald is forever grateful to him and Jack Dimms.

Inverted tower was...interesting. I think I broke the Marshal's brain when he realized how simple it is to check my card. Later, demon possessed things were attacking and one used freeze limb. Okay, I have a sword and a left hand. whoops, there goes the other three limbs. Thankful for a heavy load of armor- I knew that large plate would be useful. though, there was little of it left after she was done. that taken care of, cue the griping about him never going ice fishing again. cue more possessed people, and another exchange:

"I can't let you do that. he's being put under arrest."
"I'm just going to cut his balls off."
"YE MIGHT AS WELL KILL HIM AT THA' POINT!"

Feast was good, despite the flap. Leathernecks will eat almost anything when hungry. I think when the stove was redone, the "hot" and "cold" spots shifted. no one's fault, just things not known. After feast:

"All the beer will be gone."
"That's a bad thing?"
"THE TOWN WILL DIE OF THIRST! OF COURSE THAT'S BAD! ARE YE DAFT?"
"What's a daft?"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAH!" *shaking spear at sky in frustration*
"I think I broke his brain."

NPC-ing around main mod time. at this point, I'm hurting. I needed to get off my feet a bit, as I haven't hurt that bad since a 12 mile hump in my Marine days (thankfully, I had no blisters this time). so I dressed as a commoner and scoured the empty places for trash and missing things as a truffle hunter.

Sunday started very badly, but a little time spent pounding water and 4 motrin and I was ready to go. Taught Shafted Mastery to Valentine and earned a favor under my tam. Almost got taken down by an orc. Left a little early so someone wasn't driving a long distance alone, and still have to run something by staff as an idea, but we'll see how that goes. My character may be dragged kicking and screaming into the realm of literacy (and the wonders of civilization), but we'll let that play out.

I will end this with a song:

I think that this may have been my best event to date! The quality of RP was top notch! I was so busy; but it was completely awesome!

First: Thank yous! Thank you to all the marshalls and staff who work so unbelievably hard to make sure that we have a safe and amazing time! Thanks also to the kitchen staff who provide delicious meals. Cooking large quantities of food and having it taste good is challenging. Thank you to all the players who work so hard at staying in character and role playing with great skill! Thank you to all the NPCs who entertain us and make the event creepy, scary and crazy! Special thanks to my group of NPCs for this event, you delivered so much! Finally, thanks to all the folks who stay at Winterdark and make our environment such a great and fun place. Love to you all!

Friday: Started off with amazing roleplay by Chris Z. You rock hard core!!!! William Cooper was crying and shaking and twitching and then Caldor shed a tear and then Maralas was crying. William had a great impact on me! Thanks again!
Then it was off to Winterdark to get ready for Mass. I enjoyed mass; but maybe next time we can save discussions for AFTER mass? Still, it was good RP and I loved having you all there! I also got to meet a few new players who were great at RP! Thanks for coming Kitt and the gorgeous Bedouin Lady whose name I have forgotten!
The celebration: I was just getting ready to set out food when Victor came in: "Tell me what happened." he said in an emotion choked voice. Ah, you broke my heart. More tears and consoling. In the middle of that, I get yoinked out to the main room because Gaia came to visit.
Such a wonderful job done by Alice and Ben. Alice looked so beautiful all in green with such a gentle smile. Gaia washed Maralas' feet and kissed and blessed her and then was gone. I'm still reeling a bit from that!
There was no time to reflect because people were coming in to Celebrate Mixolydia. Lots of great stories. I had planned out what I was going to say and it was supposed to be happy; but Victor broke me again and I wept as I delivered my closing thoughts. Thanks to all who spoke and devoured the foodstuffs! Much love to you all!
After that I had some nice time chatting with Aldric whom I love and accept for the Valosian that he is!

Saturday: Gaian Mass number 2! I was so pleased to be at Caldor's mass! It was beautiful and in a beautiful space. I was honored and happy to speak with my friend. After, penance part 2. Leslie and John, you guys were great! I was so completely pleased by the RP amongst you and Caldor! Just amazing!

Then it was off to the inn for a bit. After saying hello to a few folks and chatting with Rudolf, it was pennance part 3! Charlie, you did a great job being angry and then reeling it in some but not completely. Beautiful!
I had some more great RP with Victor, Pluvious, Meander (and some uber crafting!!!) and a few others. Then a quick conversation about Gaia and what it means to be Gaian. Then I was late to mass! I spoke again. After that, it was not long before I got to hang with the Bishop! Much love to you, Laura for a really beautiful walk and conversation!

I was Logistics Marshal in training for main mod; but I got to hear lots of great stuff about the Speeeeider boss! Thank you to Joe, Chris, Steve and Damien for all the hard worrk, cool ablilities and RP! I can't wait to see pictures.

Sunday: My second baptism! It made my heart happy! Then finally, the last part of penance for Caldor. May, you were beautiful and perfect! It was a wonderful end to the penance and I am glad that everything went so well. Thanks again. Then hanging out for the Luncheon, eating watermelon and getting to chat some with Kitt and Meander!

I am sorry that I have written a book; but I just did not want to leave anything out. I had a great time and the RP was amazing!!! Thank you all so very much!

I had a great time NPCing on main mod. The amount of new players and full time NPCs this weekend really made for huge and encompassing mods. Being able to actually show the players a horde of undead is so cool, rather then just 10 guys with 10 respawns a piece.


I was finally getting attached to Gideon too......

I guess I have to warm up to a third High Elf mage though.... Or well, maybe not a mage anymore

Mine and Drew's Mufasa/Scar moment on main mod.

Angelica Tartaros wrote: Mine and Drew's Mufasa/Scar moment on main mod.

...and everyone is staring at me because I burst out laughing at work.

I think this event reminded me that I really love shooting a bow. I get cornered a lot to take up a sword, or some other weapon just in case, but it always comes back to the realization that I love the bow and I am actually...kind of good at it.
This event really surprised me. I will be blunt and say I was not looking forward to this one, but I had so much fun. The amount of people made it so much more immersive.
Main mod was great.. getting yelled at and threatened by a noble for watching everyone's flank to prevent us from being swarmed and being told to front line was interesting . Yelling back at said noble and telling him he was stupid was also interesting. The joy of being a Dryad is the lack of understanding hierarchy.
Thank you Zipeto for stuff. Sorry if I confused you. I think there was a misunderstanding due to the tiredness of both our brains. But I had fun and I am interested to see what happens next.
Watching Gideon flip out at the bar and being concerned.. then realizing that he just gave up a lot to day so maybe people should cut him an immense amount of slack.
That Kraken fight.. lasted FOREVER. I have blisters on my hand from an hour of doing constant steady shots. My biggest complaint is that we did not stop steady shotting sooner. Oh Beardy McFeatherbow.. Thank you for taking a chance and shooting in the water to show me that they do float. After that I was having a ball and getting drowned. That fight.. that fight.. I will say that there was one NPC tentacle that looked like he was having waaay too much fun. I will admit I was kind of envious.
Also a thank you to Owen for flipping me off because I shot through a small hole in a bush to hit a monster and actually killed that monster. It did make my day ego wise.

Thank you to the KR staff for a fantastic job.