July Event Highlights

Hey friends,

Lucien/Craig here. I just want to say that I had such a blast this weekend. Thanks to James for playing host to my handicapped butt since Thursday. I was glad to make myself as useful as I could.

I felt like there wasn't a moment of down time for me and I could tell that so many people were putting their best foot forward in regard to their RP.

Friday: Infinite amounts of excellent RP coming from my fellow clergy. Brother Aldric and Templar Cooper. Angeliana providing Lucien with constant reasons to be a hairs breath from eradicating everything that smells like evil had me wound about as tight as I've ever been as a character.

Combat roleplay with the NPCs and the Agorran Templar was a blast.

Gwenydd healing Lucien of his ailment was just wonderful, I felt like I was confiding in real family, even watered up a little. Great stuff Susan!

Saturday: Almost too much to name. Juggling the status of the hurch with the safety of the populace at large.
"Combat" with Atrus, was thrilling, and probably more dramatic than I could have imagined when it began. Great job John.

Mass of Light inside the monastery was a lot of fun, and my thanks to everyone who was present or involved.

Drama abounds concerning the different groups (Light, Dark, Naughty, Nice) all vying for different places around the proverbial table. The air was thick with the power vacuum left by the Baroness and the others. Cool!

Lucien and Danae talking about their humble origins and goals, then meeting up with Bat Cooper and talking about the state of the church, among other things. Always a good time.

Meander and the "Curses and Promises" , great stuff, very moving.

Main mod: Felt like we were really going off to war, and it was a war.

Thanks to Drew, Damien and every other NPC who nearly fell over fighting in that long and epic battle. I couldn't wait to tear my armor off after that one. I hope all those NPCs come back. I know on Friday night you guys were shaky on how to act/what to do, but WOW did you really kick ass in no time flat. Seeing guys shamble and click around as skeletons, staying in character, even when I knew they were sucking wind through those masks. THAT is what makes an event!

Ultimately: Friends, and the cool things they do to entertain me.

Oh,golly, such an amazing event. by far my favorite to date.

General notes before game started and OOG Highlights:
-My dad coming up with me to drop off things like a cauldron!
-Seeing everyone again after being away for quite a while.
-Many other things I can't remember right now.

Lay-On and IG Highlights:

-Friday:
--The now Kargyraa Namit Patr Chand'ramohan has returned to Travance, and this time, wearing clothes!
--Ditched the clothes because I have a leather harness that holds what I need it to hold, so that's awesome.
--Helping a young girl find her sight after she was tossed around from person to person searching for answers.
--Ostcliff meeting and Stump shenanigans. Oh, gods, I love my fellow lands members! (Blacktree for Ostcliff!)
--Being asked to help with a bounty job.

Saturday:
--Braiding Sergei's hair and headwrap together
--a wonderful lesson from Keavy!
--Going out on aforesaid bounty, only to be ambushed by Chaos Demons, and subsequently being cleaved clear across the chest. That said, the triage and aid Namit recieved from Sebastien, Birgitta, and Boriev incredible. And then came the surgeries and literally getting patched up. By far this was some of the best RP ever. Namit cried. Chase cried. It was amazing.
--Searching for Perdition.
--Protective custody as per order of the Guard and relinquishing Ripper to Birgitta and Duncan.
--Gaian Mass with Caldor making Namit and Chase break down in tears.
--Finding Perdition and swearing vengeance.
--Realizing that saying, "Searching for Perdition," sounds kind of bad.
--Getting the patch cleaned and sewn back on.
--Meeting with people and fortifying PC relationships.

Sunday:
--Chilling out and relaxing.
--Sleep is nice.
HEARTS FOR EVERYONE BECAUSE ALL Y'ALL ARE AMAZING & I LOVE YOU.

In service to Ostcliff and Barony of Travance, Kargyraa Namit Patr Chand'ramohan, War Chief to the Sheiks of Amon Zhad

"May the Flames of Amon Zhad brun forever within your heart."

MY GOODNESS IT IS AMAZING TO BE COMBAT SAFE AGAIN
First time in over a year I believe
It was utterly heart warming how many people came up to ask me how my event was going.
Thank you guys. I've said it before, I'll say it again, I love this game.

I full time NPC'd and had the absolute time of my life.

In no particular order:

-Getting to play executioner for new player zone and toe to toeing with Imrahil. Brendan Barrett, you are one A+ RP fighter. Probably one of the most fun fight scenes i've had at KR in a long time.

- Wolves arguing with Caldor and Typhon. Let me say, I had no idea where this was going to end up going, and was absolutely surprised and in for a treat with the druids. Jason, David, you two are such steller RPers and I wish I got to spend more time with you both in game as Croi, because you're dynamite.

- Shaking down Birgitta bahhahahahah Leslie, you handled that swimmingly. Really fun RP there for me.

- Pissing off Gideon and Grim as a sidekick to an Aguaran. Oh my GOD I had NOOO IDEAAAA how much trouble we were about to get into. Holy poop, those buttons i didn't know I was pressing got the greatest results I could have hoped for. Geoff, Will, You are amazing, oh my god.

- Namit (sp?) and Nalick, let me tell you how much you made my night with how you treated Callie the blind girl. I have never been treated so much as a true character on an NPC shift. It felt less like an encounter and more like I was an actual player trying to find my way in the game. Thank you both for some of the most organic and heartwarming RP i've had in a long time.
Same to Morowenne. Her kind hearted behavior to both Callie the blind girl and the crazed Agurana side kick I had while facing the count were so heart warming. A+ everywhere.

-And of course,
Laura and Drew

Oh. My. Butts. Make up. The planning and last minute panic and doing three hours worth of make up in forty minutes. you guiz. you guiz that was so freaking cool. I had so much fun with you both. gahhh best ever. WARM FUZZIES AND HOT GLUE ON YOUR FACE.

There's probably more, i'll add later.


EVERYONE GO FILL OUT YOUR EVENT RECAPS, JOE HINES IS HOLDING A CONTEST.

Ok... time for real thoughts.

Thaddeus got to come out and play most of this event. Everyone seems to have adjusted to his crazy hair enough that I was able to stay in character most of the time. Did some research and finally met Lois Maxwell after having exchanged a few letters with her. Got my Baronial Guard braid for my rank of private and generally tried to be research and guard information useful. I had purchased a nice, smallish, sword from LARP Exchange and had it on me so I went ahead and had Goggins make me a sword. Never had to use it though.

Stepped into Valentine right before bedtime so that I could attend Mixolydia's celebration. Fantastic RP was had there... some of the best completely silent RP facial expressions I have ever seen was had. You know who you were.

Saturday, back in Thaddeus, had a great time RPing with all kinds of folks. Accidentally sat in on the small council meeting but nobody asked me to leave either. More RP with Lois and Rudolf and participated in some discussions about the rearrangement of the Barony now that Baroness is gone. It felt a bit weird to not do market faire but it was also good.

Saturday night, main mod. Spider... I have been working on this costume for a solid 2 months. It was so big I couldn't fit it in the van on the way up without it being apart so I didn't even get to see if fully together until right before main mod. When the NPCs showed up and Steve showed up and we turned the lights on for the first time in front of people the reaction was amazing. I'm still on a super geek out high over this and will likely be for a long time. Steve, thank you for asking me to do this!

Then THUD... sleep.

Sunday morning as Valentine, finally for a longer than cameo appearance. Fantastic RP when Valentine asked Gideon for a lesson in magic... nobody had told Valentine what had happened .... then follow on RP with Maralas and Sir Victor and others... then Kaladonia for second breakfast, fighting trolls, then over to the armory for undead, then more undead and then another round of trolls... this last round we only killed half of them and convinced the rest of them to go home. Valentine was in the front, toe to toe with a Troll and stared him down. .... frankly even I didn't know Valentine had that in him until that moment.

Best event ever.

It was great to be back after a few months off! Here are my highlights:

Crawling through bees to help find James' cat. I remember thinking to myself while doing it "At least it's better than NPCing main mod"

Getting to RP with Geoff as Gideon. He's always a delight to RP with...it's a shame that as soon as he lost his magic and became TOTALLY acceptable to be my lord he up and moves on me.

Getting to teach some people I don't normally hang out with some new skills.

Feast! Between the excellent food and the violinist (sorry, don't know your name!) it was a fantastic experience

NPCing on main mod. I remember thinking to myself while doing it "I'd rather be crawling through ****** bees right now" Joking aside, it was very well run and the PC's and NPC's both did a great job.

Fighting wolves and getting into an argument with Keavy. It was pretty funny, because it was the dwarf who could care less about nature versus the sylvan elf who was literally raised by wolves. Let's just say there was a lot of yelling.

Finally, I want to thank all the people who play "Evil" PC's who put up with me giving them a hard time all weekend long. I will be the first one to admit that I didn't make your IG lives easy, but everyone put up with it very well and showed a humongous amount of maturity by keeping it all IG. Thanks guys!

-Aaron

Croínamara wrote: Oh. My. Butts. Make up. The planning and last minute panic and doing three hours worth of make up in forty minutes. you guiz. you guiz that was so freaking cool. I had so much fun with you both. gahhh best ever. WARM FUZZIES AND HOT GLUE ON YOUR FACE.

For anyone curious, the scales that were on my face was from Jen doing hot glue onto a piece of glass, painting them a bit, and then smushing them into my face with spirit gum. Her and Laura came up with the idea and made it work. They also did the protrusion on my right cheek out of paper towels, enough liquid latex to make me cringe while ripping it off, and some cotton balls for size. They looked amazingly cool and gave the exact needed effect to make Steve giggle like a little kid.