September 2014 Event Hightlights!

So once again another weekend has come and gone. I for one couldn't be happier with how things worked out. This weekend was full of great adventures and meh weather.

Friday: I guess the first thing to go into was Caldor's Mass. It was lovely, absolutely amazing and I loved every second of it. (Yes even the part where I sat on my jewels....) It was a great service, and Moo was a great addition.

Next was the Bloody Stump. It was a pretty cool experience hanging out and jabber jawing until a certain someone got upity. Luckily Jack was there and didn't let that someone beat on a defenseless woman. (Even though the honor combat that ensued ended with an even harder shot to the nards than the one previously mentioned)

Saturday: This was a bittersweet day for me all in all. The heat was horrible, but the rain was even worse...

Jack went through a lot of emotional turmoil from what was going on in order to make Blood Tide. I don't think I've ever portrayed such rage and disgust ever in KR so it was a nice turn away from being silly.

Helping the Guildmistress out with a very rude Bedouin. He saw a lot of himself in the man and decided to step in before things got out of control. Also dealing with Jack Dimms JR. was great. He won't be taking trophies any time soon.

Main mod was okay for me. The rain made it suck a bit though, and the yelling and chanting I did ruined my voice.

After Main Mod, I got to go out as a band of pirates. Dread Pirate June was awesome and so was whoever stole our chest. Great use of slight of hand.

Talking to Lois Maxwell on the issue of intimacy... There have been many moments that I've come close to crying from laughter. This is one of them.

Sunday: This is where the meat of my event was. First we had a confessional with Caldor, our thoughts being put on display on this whole Blood Tide thing. It was a great little moment, even though I couldn't speak.

Finding out about a good friend being a Necromancer... Oh wow, just wow.... Jack felt really betrayed to a major degree, but in the end, moving past the anger, it seems things have a way of working out for themselves.

I have to say, Jack receiving Blood Tide was astounding, and to be honest when I stepped up I thought I was gonna get shut down and told no like most times. This was different though, very special, Jack was granted the "honor" of bearing this great evil weapon. Followed by long talk after long talk. It's funny that less than a year ago Jack was the most hated man in Travance. Now he is the keeper of this great evil.

This was awesome for me guys, I really needed a getaway from average life, KR is so great and I have to thank Rudy, Alicia, Mary Beth, Leslie, John, Dave, Ben, and Ertle for everything they did for me. I love all yalls. Peace!

Friday: I missed Caldor's mass as usual due to the requirements of my IG duties. Someday, brother. Someday. I love that it's our IG joke now.

Friday night was mostly a blur to me, honestly.

Saturday morning traitor hunt was a lot of fun. Saturday afternoon planning meetings with the nobles, finally getting briefed by goggins on Ragnarok, organizing things regarding that, and finding Tobias in town were my highlights.

Organizing the inverted tower was great, even if I didnt' go on it.

War planning with the war council was great.

Conscription for the Travance militia was also great fun, this is going to be a new and hopefully fun thing for the non-vassaled PCs, I hope they enjoy it.

Main mod in the rain was crazy interesting, and one of the no death victories we've had.

Roleplaying with Carlotta generally was amazing.

Goggins is my favorite annoyance! He takes forever to tell grim ANYTHING. They're a lot of fun.

Wonderful roleplay with Father Labell. Wonderful roleplay with bran about confession. Wonderful church of light stuff generally.

The jar between the evil acts the town must commit, grim and the other northmen's personal morality, and the strange alliance of the barbarians and the Londwyns was impressive.

I got a real chance to roleplay with Phillidin for the first time, and I was very happy with it. Tim's pretty awesome guys, Rp with him for realsies.

Carlos' readings are always a highlight. I approve of them so does Grim.

Gene ran a fantastic plot, and my two tense roleplay scenes with Billiam were also amazing. I adore the tension they always have with one another, as Billiam pushes, or Grim pushes, and Billiam -always- walks away triumphant. I love it, I really do. Billiam with minimal exposure to grim has completely captured the essence of both his strength and his flaws in one sentence.

Brief moments of roleplay with Ginginny were great.

I loved sunday NPC shift. Fire Giants then mercenaries, spent most of our time getting killed or being dead. Working with tim and Katie and Matt D was a really good time.

Talks with magnus, talks with Oren, talks with the rest of the guard, all great. We're a fun band of brothers.

Finding the body of the blue heart was wonderful, as was burying him with poor little Rowan, and having a painful encounter with the Castellan.

Feast was very good! Sitting with Gideon was a real pleasure, along with burk and Tobias.

Oh now I remember friday, I got a chance to off the malycite thingy twice, it was crazy fun to fight. Thanks for the fun NPC brawl, tim and gannon!


Roleplaying with Rudy was great.

Brief interactions with Kitt were fun.

So many new guards! I'm gonna have to start getting a new list of names on the board! I'm so proud of you all.

OMG what an interesting time. From Sir Gideon coming to Lori with the Ritual to take notes on hearts and to make the box, was later VERY important on the heart sacrifices to Melody proving that she would step in front of Mom to confront a bear RL and the insane weather that thunder stormed around us at main and the tertiary mod for main.

After the Gideon thing the Dark Elf Branded had to be away from all the heart stealing stuff. Read branded and see why... Lol on the other hand it gave me time to work with Melody and keep her cool... Thank you for the pond. Thank you all for being her aunts and uncles who offered water love attention support and games. She is sacked out.

Melody speaking at the Gaian Mass... Giggles.

Oh I did get to make four drawings by description of some bad guys for the guard. Missed out on some of the merchants time but it was cool to do. Lol 4 drawn freebies I guess. It was cool to do. Lol!

Also I'm hoping my big drawing is in logistics... It slipped out of my pack going down to make those 4 drawings...

NPC main mod as the Agurran Priestess Mom... Awesome! Black hearted thing.... To Germinate! All my children! Crackle boom crash!

Make up at Logistics! Fun times.

And bears... I kept Mel away from game before because of bears but last night when the bear came by the tent my sleeping dog woke stood up in the tent and softly growled watching out the tent door. After about two minutes of this it was... I WILL lay down in this 6 inch space between Mom and the tent door because there was a bear nearby.

I love my dog... This kind of loyalty you can't NOT buy...bar none the most brave thing I've seen a dog do. She continuously amazes me and she loves all you guys.

In fact I heard how she calmed a new player who was unsure of doing this game. She acted without Mom being there. It gave me goosebumps to know she will do a calm therapy without Mom there. Shows how comfy she is with all of you.

Much love!

This was my first event as a PC.

Friday night: highlight of my night making my PC and then getting complimented on the wear by another female Bedouin who I did not see again during the weekend. The First new player mod was great being introduced to the land.

Then I when on NPC shift. This was great got to then turn around and attack my fellow new players as they were on another NPC mod. This was exciting and a good battle.

Saturday: I hung around the Inn and assisted with protecting a group, who I found out later where retrieving a heart, Azrael was more surprised then upset, but chose to stay just to protect the women in the party and others. I even stopped the Ogres for a minute by using avoidance to block the path with one, until he threw his mates to his war chief...that was surprising and unexpected.

Tower mod was exciting, loved the NPC resetting quickly and coming at us from all sides, they worked their butts off out there. Made for an incredible experience.

I also got to meet many new people and Tobias who I was able to write some notes for. This gave Azrael some interest in the areas of learning to help people as a possible physician.

The main mod seemed Epic from me. I ended up providing support to the line, pushing the defenders back with avoidance so the wholes could be refilled when someone went down. The catastrophic surges though I dreaded as I harmed line defenders in the area, thank go healers were there to pick us back up quickly

The rain thunder and lightening I think added to the effect of the entire days events and final battle of making the weapon. There was just something about it that made everything come together. Although after the battle being soaked was horrible.

Sunday: was relaxing I avoided any serious combat, was disappointed that I had to meet a noble, perhaps they wont remember what I am ? ha but Azrael does not want to make a bad impression, for now.

I was saddened by the lay off as Azrael and a new friend of his were about to make a lot of gold, but yet a life was saved and left Azraels with no extra weight.

This was a great event and I look forward to the next one.

In no particular order:

Getting Ilana wings way too early on Saturday morning.

Preached the Church of Moderate Pesmerga on NPC shift.

Did not bubble at the moon.

Curt's alchemy setup in the Inne was awesome.

Had a lot of fun RPing with a lot of people I normally don't talk to often.

Even though it eventually became a safety risk, Main Mod had some great atmosphere with the rain and combat mix

Laying down the framework for Burger Trench

Jenn Fournier's mini Heroic Gambler mod and Ava blowing chaotic madness on Friendship.

First time PC, probably going to be lengthy, probably going to have tons of spelling mistakes on names and places. Apologies in advance!

Friday: Going out on new player mod was super fun. Helping Trent get to town safely was fun. Didn't feel like I did too much though as a newbie healer at first. Once back at the inn, got some coin for our troubles. Sat at the bar with my sister Tessa and had some drinks. Met Quan Liu as he tended bar. A fight breaks out behind me and Tessa pushes me out of the way. Ended up healing/meeting Auggie (I don't remember your full name so sorry!). He bought me a drink in thanks. As we went to leave, tipped Quan Liu a gem and a gold. Apparently that gem earned me a drink later in the night. Grouped up with a few people to go investigate some gargoyles. One almost killed me, but someone was kind enough to intercept it. Role play point? Awesome! Got to sit down a little later and had some of Quan Liu's brew with him. By the time I left the inn, I stumbled to camp with my sister to sleep it off. Stupid wolf spider in our tent with its glinty eyes. Thanks for the help with that Lori!

Saturday morning/afternoon: Got woken up to a fight outside in Kaladonia. By the time cloths were thrown on everything was said and done. Went to the inn for some drinks. Decided to walk down to see the lake. Met a very nice gypsy (We talked and ran into each other a lot of the weekend and i still forgot your name, i'm sorry) and a fellow named Byron (sp?). While we were looking at all the pretty seashells the gypsy fished out of the lake, got to meet Alune. It was very funny watching him fall out of a canoe. Decided to jump in the lake with everyone else. Auggie showed up again and a good time was had swimming and chatting. Biggest cannonball contest! Screams were heard coming from the mages guild. Props to all those that jumped out of the lake wearing only shorts or under wear and took off running up the till branding their weapons. By the time I got up there I found a fellow with a missing arm. WOOO! First time regenerating a limb After the limb was fully back and I inquired about any other injuries. We decided to go along with Auggie and some others on their patrol a bit. Found a couple people on the roof in Kaladonia with a goblin and two more goblins on the ground below. Goblins dispatched. Another limb regenerated.

NPC shift: Three competing merchants selling goods. Mine were best of course.
Got sent out as a greater undead to totem pole hill. Within a few minutes dead. Respawn. Few minutes in, I get my leg hacked off. That's cool. Then the other leg. Psh, whatever I can still army crawl. Then the left arm hacked off. Well. Shoulder/hip shimmy. Then I was made to fight my own kind. Shoulder/hip shimmy all over the place!
Third and final time sent out had to go track down Jed to learn about, ahem, things. Very imposing. We had the power all along!

Feast: Awesome as always. Wait, what was that I just felt? Meh.

Main mod: Was told I was fighting for Ostcliff. Cool beans. Tessa runs back to camp for a cloak. "Don't wake the ogre!" I say. "Wait, what?" says nearby person. "Don't worry about it, it's fine." I say. Met Ser Pluvius (sp?) Wait wait wait...front line healer? Me? Ser Pluvius took me aside and told me that he knew I was having doubts about myself and that I would be fine. Really gave my character the courage she needed for the upcoming battle. Rain, thunder, lighting...awful and awesome all at the same time. Really added that extra feel for the fight. Never got hit, never went down. Think I held up my portion of the line fairly well. Never got breached! Poor triage.

Saturday night: Woooo! Fresh from the fight, let's drink! Got to meet Goggins. Such a nice fellow. Even when accidentally insulting a gypsy haha. Couldn't sleep so I hung around the inn and witnessed those shadowing things i heard so much about. Goggins and a couple others let me join them so I safely got back to camp.

Sunday morning: Attacked by giant...rat...things the moment i left the tent. Ran like hell to Pendarvin for aide. Time for breakfast. Was delicious btw! Walked around again with Auggie, Tessa and Brax (sp?). Met up with Alune along the way. Impromptu first aide lesson. OMG WHY ARE YOU WILLINGLY LETTING HIM CHOP OFF YOUR ARM?!
Went out of game for a bit to pack up/clean and take some pictures.
Back in game, very ominous seeing all those vultures take wing overhead as Jack gets Blood Tide.

All in all it was a spectacular weekend. Sorry it's so long, everything was amazing since it was my first PC!