Oct 2014 - highlights

I had a tremendous amount of fun, as always! 3rd event!

-Ketryn getting up to general shenanigans as per usual
-Electing for some pretty gruesome surgery, then suffering the consequences. RPing the insanities I rolled was a total blast! Godric, Cyndra and Uhtred did a great job of reassuring me that the world would not actually end if we didn't get the fire lit immediately. (Wow, it was cold though. Sure felt like the world would end!)
-Walking into trees and people and rocks and shooting arrows every which way (including at friends) while my eyes were still healing
-The mini-mainmod attack on Alisandria was a total blast and it was really fun to face that impressive wall of shields and fighters! We work wonderfully together as a fantastic team and I was so impressed with how well everyone fought. The NPCs did an amazing job!
-Making some coin at maket faire with those ink drawings. It was fun to sell things even if it was raining and the ink was running. Cajoling PCs into checking out wares is always satisfying.
-Fell down a flight of stairs this event but landed on my feet and was totally fine. Whoops. Yay? Time to open Acrobat list?
-Being repeatedly asked if I'd also suffered a hyperactivity insanity but nope, that's just my OOG self
-A huge thankyou to Edmund and his student for choosing to teach armorcrafting by crafting me some armor. It's fabulous!
-Massive thanks to everyone who tolerated me being a mischievous little snot! I can't wait for the next event! I appreciate all of the hard work that went into this fantastic game!

CRYING WITH SINDARION AND BELEGCHAND BECAUSE NO ONE WOULD TELL CROI THAT MIXOLYDIA WAS GONE AND IT WAS HEARTBREAKING AND EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURT.

Ox came out this event to play and that gave me the excuse to go on a mod and nearly die! Yay! Nothing like lying on your back in the rain with 4 broken limbs hoping someone will come to get you. But thankfully I was saved... a couple of times.

Saturday Valentine arrived in Travance and proceeded to set up for Market Faire. Business was good, steady and the RP with the customers enjoyable as always. I especially enjoyed allowing Meander to peruse the scroll collection the Purple Thistle has built up as I have yet to find a suitable way to really display them and I think I like that technique. I'll have to do more of that in the future.

Gideon, as always your work is impeccable.

Teaching BOTH of my Trade skills!

Then I hung around for a while after just milling about the Inn having random conversations with anyone.

Feast was excellent! I nearly had thirds. Yummy! Thank you to the chefs!

Then it was time to hang out with the Alchemists in the Black Bird and get punch drunk of alchemical fumes. Meander, Nigel, Shan and Clytie ... we were all in stitches for a very long time. Teaching little lessons to Shan and so many bad jokes.

Bed -- woken up by frantic persons saying that Balfurious was coming to kill us all and we need to run.

Sunday morning lessons of all kinds, given and learned. You know who you are. But a special shout out to some excellent RP of lessons by others I saw. Sword fighting in one case and in another... a Mage teaching a Dragon to blow bubbles....

Friday night NPC duty, including working in a brute squad sent out to get information, and maybe make a few coins from the odd lonely traveller on the road.

As an Ooze getting dissected: "Oh... oh no, is that a squirrel?" Seeing the PC process that before bursting out laughing.

Saturdays Guard Meeting, especially promotion and the entirety of the guard rushing off to reinforce a fight (again, as usual).

Getting to wear my full kit of armor was wonderful, the knitted chain shirt was perfect for the weather, and the cloak was perfect for keeping the warm in and the cold out.

Usual Guard duties resulting in the most embarrassing moment of my young guarding career, which was helping convince a confused berserk NPC that we're friends, and that I would put these friendship bracelets on him and take him to a safe place full of new friends. Of course he would break the manacles, bear hug me, throw me across the bar, then drag me to prison and put himself in.

Inverted Tower, all the traps. All of them. Argyl we need to work on your avoidance of them in the future.

Preperation for main mod at the barracks and being tasked to go get some reinforcements from the Monastery and Inn, which was accomplished by running to both places. Sorry if I surprised anyone bursting into the Inn like that.

The main mod fight was a hectic and confusing time, and an absolute blast.

Sunday morning lesson time.

Overall a great weekend for me. Got a lot done and learned a lot more as well. Hope to make the next one!

HEROIC BRUTE MOD. The Fop may be making return appearances. Ladies. Also gentlemen. he doesn't mind either way. Also, as an FYI, that entire character was basically me channeling Chris Zipeto.

After that it was time for High Level inverted tower, where grim got to kill mirrogrim by fighting hard instead of smart. Because grim does not fight smart. He is brutality unleashed. Zach knowing grim well enough to predict my first throw of a tag skill was incredible. Well done, well fought, and what a joy that was from a roleplaying and fightin perspective. Getting congratulated by a bunch of NPCs about how well I fought against them after the mod was over was pretty cool too, I give all the credit to the amazing sword Geoff Schaller sold me.

Waking up to roleplay with Caldor, getting clunked and dragged into an orphanage of heretical demon worshippers, hearing Chris Zipeto's bond villain speech was golden. Even better was managing to kill my torturer while fully chained up and bound and unable to strike.

Well done on Onca for being exceptionally creepy as a monstrous child.

The moral fallout of that mod will haunt grim for a while.

Guard meeting was interesting, grim doesn't even remember his mistake, but another thing for the Atoner to atone for. He recognizes his failing, and will correct it. "I'm trying to be a better man." Is his new catchphrase.

Frenzied prep to find Ragnarok as we found out the absence of a player had caused our plans to completely change, and 2 hours of roleplay and logistics to set up again. Well done, everyone who set that up.

Afternoon was awesome, primarily because I got to effectively second in command a force of NPCs led by John Higgins into alisandria to give them the first of the distributed main mod. I could tell they were loving it, and I asked around afterwards. I looove organized and entertaining combat and seeing your faces as we all wheeled right and drew swords as a unit was worth the price of admission.

Feast was good. I actually didn't hate potatoes for once. Well done. I was supremely happy to learn my final list from Knight Protector Silverbow over dinner, and to explain to him my reasons for doing so weren't practical ones but philosophical ones.

Chroniclerite mass was always great, grim appreciated tactical advice from Fira on fighting psions.

Realizing Duncan was messed up in the head, and having Dr. Tobias help him out.

Barony main mod was a wonderful crush fight, Arcing blow slaying a front line of npcs including one of the illithid was gloriously rewarding from a "hey I'm really quite badass" standpoint. Realizing that half of kaladonia and all of winterdark had been mind controlled also amused me, and then grim Berserked and stopped caring about anything except winning.

post main mod I had a wonderful talk with Kit as I escorted her to Alisandria, as she revealed a secret about herself, and she guessed what grim is hiding behind his stern mask. It was a wonderfully emotional moment, which was spoiled entirely by all of the Alisandrians showing up and joking around with us (I love you guys I'm not mad at all, it was great interacting with you)

Grim agreeing with Silas krone about something was great, and then it was back up the hill to the inn to find out Balfurious had just stolen the gem, and onyl later having found out that the Ratkin had finally found the goal, and regretting retrospectively his own dismissal of it for the duty of finding Ragnarok.

Watching Fira and Tobias converse and learn from each other as he taught her some things was fantastic. I could tell Teresa and Jason, both friends of ine, were having a great time and I was so proud of Jason. It's been a year now, bro, and people are really recognizing what a cool doctor you play.

The pain of telling poepl there were only 9 slots, and having to make decisions with Belegchand about who could and could not go. Grim loves his friends, and despises disappointing them.

Being shoved through a portal by the only elf who could persuade heargens to use a portal, Tsoli Silverbow. (He probably enjoyed it)

Ragnarok mod in its entirety. I can't talk much about it for IG and OOG reasons, but I will say everyoen involved was fantastic.

A late night fight (and loss) against an undead kensai, and watching Silverbow win once help had arrived. Arguments with Duncan.

Sunday was all lessons, all the time, gave a bunch

all of the roleplay with Aldorsons, including that wonderful master warrior lesson.

brute circle. 3 ogres in one place. priceless
my ogre buddy doorlick was thar with his burlap sack
orangie was tough as f***, iz rainin muhf****'s
pocket bread (just in case)
pocket spine (just in case)
pocket candle(just in case)
sharing at least 2 loaves of pocket bread.... you people are too trusting of what comes out of an ogres pocket...
inappropriate ogre times
shee is having a litter of oglet(s) with namit!
namit not killing shee on site when shee -with a lack of emotions-told namit of his drunken afternoon debauchery IN THE MONASTERY and instead hugged shee
alisandria taking in shee
new goblins oh watch this me gonna make them my b****
*farts* katies goblin npc- nooooo it smells like hoooome
ULTIMATE OGRE SHOWDOWN
bawdy bard circle
no you mine b**** DESPAIIIIIRRRR
you just wait. me gonna kick you ass. me getting me boots on *promptly kicks ass while princess utred sleeps*
spear and magic hellllmet -.- just nooooo
great event guys. i cant wait till the next jackass the LARP- ogre edition on halloween