April 2015 Highlights

I think this accurately covers Friday night www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/nope.gif

Seriously though, this event was STELLAR. I haven't run that terrified since the last time Omni showed up Honestly, that fear is something I miss from my early days - not all the time, of course, but it's good to be really challenged as a town. While we may not have done so well this time around, I know we'll be a lot smarter next time

Seeing old familiar faces around was a blast, and I regret not having more time to spend with our illustrious Mayor during the weekend, and surprise!Frank on Sunday.

Every RP interaction I had this month was golden. I guess the looming spectre of death really brings out the good stuff

Being felt up by oozes inside Zelretch's bubble. Ewwwwwwwwwww.

Talks with Kwildar bringing Lois to tears.

Hanging out with Doctor Sir Maxwell. WE FINALLY GOT A COUCH. 6 YEARS, AND WE HAVE ONE!

Dr. Heimdall! Man, Matt, you really picked the right table to walk up to I may never forgive you for making Lois facepalm so hard, though. "I really don't believe in any of that magic stuff." "DAMMIT, NOT ANOTHER ONE!"

*Gideon walks up to Lois with SRS BZNS face on* "Lois, I need to tell you something very important! ...Hello."

JAX MOD! When I realized that going on this would mean Lois wouldn't be able to do any accounting or Chronicle stuff this month, I had a moment of panic - and then totally relaxed as the weight of responsibility slid off her shoulders Even with evil tyrant kings and hordes of undead, this may actually turn out to be a vacation for Lois.

So, funny story... A few months back, at Dreamation, Geoff was telling the story of one of his failed sorcery rituals & subsequent Phokus walk. I said that the RP surrounding it sounded really awesome, and so has every other resurrection story I'd ever heard, but Lois was too much of a coward to ever really be in danger, and she'd likely still go through a reanimation first. I guess Steve heard my wish, because a reckless and slightly suicidal Lois got ganked by ghouls on her way to bed. First, no one should feel even the least bit bad OOG about this - 6 years without losing a tag is a long time, and I already accepted the possible consequences of walking alone at night on a high-fatality-rate weekend. The NPCs were very polite about the whole thing, too - calling their "Devour Humanoid" loudly and slowly, and allowing me to look up the skill on my phone so we could all be sure it was indeed a killing blow skill. I have no idea who you were, because I couldn't see a damn thing and I'm terrible about recognizing voices, but you guys were great and a perfect example of how to play a KBA NPC for maximum enjoyment of all parties involved.

The RP of dying and coming back was INCREDIBLE. Brother Aldric brought Lois through - and she didn't make his first resurrection easy, what with the clockwork parts, and aforementioned suicidal nature. In the end, he logic'd her into coming back, though there were still complications. "How do you start the heart again once it's fixed?" "You wind it up with the key." "And who has the key?" *spirit Lois shuffles her feet* "...Arthur Goggins..." Fortunately, Jack Cypher was found, and Lois is alive to do paperwork again

tl;dr: Be careful what you wish for because Steve just might grant it

I had a lot of fun this weekend, despite leaving all my medications at home and the challenge that presented me....

FRIDAY:

-Being there for lay on, seeing nightmare omni, knowing exactly what it was because of Stories. Running like a little girl. Trying to stay with George who also was just as mad when we got ahead of everyone then to hear them noisely catch up.
-Dream Knight Steve and Ava don't mix very well. Being told she can't scare the nightmares into submission made her very....scared?
-Being told she was feeding the nightmares when she said she didn't care if Croi Died, then subsequently walking into the group of npcs and trying to grab her away from them. THERE IS A THING CALLED LYING. Also Helping people was a weird theme of this weekend for her. Probably because she had suicidal and helping the people that were in super danger was a good way to try and die.
-Speaking of Dying on that same mod, after feeling like things were going nowhere, walking into a weird passage and getting mcmurdered by Sean's Mummy. Totally caught me by surprise by the fact that nothing attacked me for a while....then all of a sudden did. Not bothering defending because, hey suicidal.
-OOG surprised that two people actually tried to rescue my body. IG assumed that no one tried to rescue her body...again.
-Lesson learned: STAY WITH MY DEAD FREAKING BODY

SATURDAY:
-Being Rez and that RP. I'm running out of Rezes but you know who you are we always have good rp when you rez me.
-General rp with Cyndra and Jack. Gotta do more of that
-being desperate isolationed while waiting for a physician to come look at Ava's brain space. I kinda wanted to keep walking into Billiam because he body blocked me away from the door. Ironically that counts as Ava going to her happy place, even if she dislikes being put there by others
-Picnic with George and Ilana, even learning willpower over not eating grapes.
-Illana: "I thought it was an owl" - In reference to what her wedding ring depicts
-Chaos orb, Chaos orb, love playing chaos orb roulette. This time I got blown up because of a mark of chaos. Way to tease me with Dreadnaught Skills Steve.
-Crazy demons coming from there later, for some reason being real oog terrified of Tim. IG avoiding the battle because she doubly knows she'd mess that battle up real bad. Fought some demons anyway.
-Lesson learned: If you give the count your weapon he will try and kill all the goblins himself. You will walk around a battlefield without a weapon and chase him around trying to get it back so you can fight. Ava arrow gathered for a weird amount of that battle because, what else was she going to do.
- Accidentally trying to fix Lord Silverbow, who actually didn't need to get fixed, which allowed his target to get away causing problems. Oops, I'm ig awaiting retribution from that.
-Getting into an argument with Philidin. IT was very much "I understand where you're coming from but you're wrong" to each other and got pretty heated. All over Ib and a Stick.

SUNDAY:

-More RP with Jack
-Realizing I had a net loss of insanities since I didn't blow chaotic madness this event.

There is just way too much for me to go into detail right now, so I will just post my major highlights.

No. 1 Most impressive thing ever: Tsoli and the flipping sword and wand combo. Holy shit dude, that was some serious skills. Most impressive.

Other Hightlights:

Midnight mass with the return of Tari. So awesome. Plus the sanctuary saved lives!!

Beholder! Bugs! Xod learning to punch things from Clove!! What a night of terror!

Morning Maralas Mass

Cake Boss!!

Kaladonia mod was, as always, amazing. I only got to partake in 2 of 3 parts, but it was so much fun. Thank you Christina for being a great grove to battle. Thank you Zach for letting me run with my of the wall ideas! I especially loved making my rabbit form useful again.

Seeing my dead brother Vignar as an enemy during main mod was completely amazing. Gannon and Steve thank you for this.

Druid Meetings and Jaxuarans

Church lessons.

I will I'm sure think of more as it goes on and I will add more posts when my brain is awake.

Wow.

This event was a wonderfully warm one- a good start to the summer fun. With the Fighter Practice the weekend before, all our local crowd was jazzed for this month, not knowing what was to come.

And even knowing in hindsight, I’d not change a thing were I to go back in time. (Considering what happened to Ben Herman/Verril, I’m glad I can’t…)

On to notes/highlights:

Friday:
-Mad Dash from the Inn when beholder showed. My pulling an actual Hide in Shadows/Cloak of the Green to escape Omni… Epic.
-Encountering Blacktree in a good mood! Holy crap… Finding out later the source of the good mood via a chat in the now safer (for now) Inn… kinda verified a theory where Witch Hunters and their sense of self/emotions are concerned. When shared with her, there was agreement after it being explained.
-Upstairs against the Insect King’s minions. Uthgar being taken over/controlled is going to leave a mark on that one I think…
-Birgitta frozen when taken over…. And the look of horror when I mentioned she was starting to thaw and no answer was had at the time on how to cure/stop her. Just a wow moment.
-A GOOD Conversation with Lorelai. Those have been somewhat rare…

Saturday:
-Volly NPC shift with Zach T’s Kaladonia mod. Bounding Overwatch Archery and master Florentine fighting as a Corrupted Ranger then as a Hexen… too much fun.
-Immediately from that to a trip to Costco for the kitchen that took two+ hours; I kind you not, the lines at that place on a Saturday were longer than Breadlines in the bad old Days of Mother Russia. (I know- it’s not pc but since when am I?  )
-Meeting up with Lord Weaveforger and being told I needed to speak with Sir Danny because it would be better coming from him. I had a feeling what the issue was and the ooc chat on Sunday confirmed it. The RP still to come will be interesting, methinks.
-Cake Boss!! (nuff said)
-Working Feast…. Getting all the food out in a timely manner works when you have a plan. Even with the minor hiccup, no issues.
-Main Mod…. Leslie/Birgitta had a feeling the Phocus would be in danger this night and her idea on guarding it turned out to be spot on….
Whoever thought it was a good idea to not have folks guarding the phocus and barracks area, y’all need to rethink that notion because it was necessary. Arch-Demon Lord of Air got shown the door with a lovely punking and he went looking for something easier to deal with. Blood Spirits and The Black Watch getting it done.
- the sheer number of phocus walks… and the poignant Lois Maxwell return. Clockwork is not what its cracked up to be or so it seems…
-Post Main discussion with Sir Pluvious down in Winterdark. Opinions asked for and answers given. Before I went to bed, I did wonder if I had talked my way into a job without realizing it. >.<

Sunday:
-All the teaching. >.<
-The opportunity to learn about the Jaxuarians…. And maybe learn a language. 
-Completion of Master Warrior path… and discussion on how to submit for authorization to teach the profession to others. For those who asked for lessons from me, cross fingers on a quick resolution. 

Good event, good time and a fun side adventure which is going to result in something neat. Both RP and plot wise, I am sure. 

I know I missed something and when it comes to me, I’ll add it later.

Highlights: THE WHOLE WEEKEND.

I have no idea where to start.

Firstly, thank you, Steve, for running one of the most gut punching events I've ever experienced.
Right up there with May-a-geddon and Feelstober on the chart of "How hard can Jen cry in character".

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Two days of trading hilarious tactical advice and humorously riffing off of one another, leading up to a terribly rushed,touching, and heartbreaking moment of RP with Malyc Weavewarden as I both IG and OOG realized the implications of what had just happened. The image of him walking away is burned into my memory. Jeramy, it is always a pleasure to RP with you. Thank you.

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Kardin. The bard-barian. This kid impressed me so much. He wrote THREE IN GAME SONGS. all his own, all original, all about travance and it's people. it was just ridiculous and heartwarming and I couldn't throw enough role play points at him. He saw croi's distress, wrote her a song, dragged her to the front porch, and sang to her about hope.
He's better at impulse songwriting than croi. I swear. guys. get ready to have your socks knocked off. there's a new bard in town.
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CAAAKKEEEBOSSSSSS
Ralph, you are amazing to RP with and I am just so glad that the people you work with seemed to have had such an awesome time getting to fight on our mini mod.
The cake was gorgeous.
Thank you.
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Carrying around the swords of dead friends.
All of the RP with Grim.

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Being exceptionally rude to the planeswalker and succumbing to the questionable shenanigans of Lord Vincent of Winterdark.

Literally blew raspberries at the planeswalker.

JP,thank you for tolerating me and Grim AND vincent.

P.s. That costume was AMAZING.

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Reading the stories out loud to Jun. asldjfalksdjflkasjdflajsdlkf

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Taking a chance on the lyric of Boy From Black Mountain, trying to sing in the inn but having to scatter, singing on the porch by the kitchen as everyone scattered, singing again on the steps, and finally summoning a hero and almost falling to pieces over his existence....

"It's not every day one gets to walk side by side with a myth"
"You are wrong. There are legends all around you."

....only to watch as people ignored his warnings, doubt the stories, chastise croi, and all around destroy the towns one-and-only chance to defeat the nightmares; Themselves.

War council with Dame Emiline and being incredibly scared when everyone left after feast rather than stay to listen to her.

Panicking as the Dream Knight began to point out towns members whose arrogance or fears were feeding the nightmares.

".....I am going to die."

Sitting on the ground of main mod as the Dream Knight died, singing to him the song that summoned him, Grim holding her lantern, and Caelvan standing guard.

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screaming in Ilyrian(sp?) face as he tried to calm croi down.
HEARING LATER THAT HE WENT TO THE MONESTARY AND PRAYED FOR LIKE TWO HOURS TO CHRONICLR FOR GUIDENCE OH MY GOD

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Finding out THAT THE HAND ON THE DOOR OF THE MAGES GUILD WASN'T TARI'S HAND.

I TOLD YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Not getting to RP nearly as much with stacy as I would have liked, but glad that I got to spend even that moment with Tari.

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Bele being able to shut croi up and calm her down with one truly horrifying sentence.

TRYING TO TALK TO THE VEDRANNE BLADE WIELDERS AND FINDING TIME AT THE LAST POSSIBLE MOMENT AND REALIZING JUST HOW MUCH WAS GOING ON.

time to research party hardcore guys holy god.

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There was a new player who was on sunday NPC shift with us playing a wolf, and watching her get SUPER into fighting and learning her skills was so much fun to watch.
Welcome to the game, whatever your name is, I am so so so glad you seemed to be having a dynamite time. It was AWESOME watching you get comfortable with the game. Hope to see you again soon!

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Cyndra throwing guts EVERYWHERE
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Aesyl(sp?): "I wont be around, I have four hours of immigration papers to complete."

best IG answer for NPCing I've ever heard ever.

SARAH MAE GOT KIDNAPPED TO GAME AND IT WAS WONDERFUL.

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Lord Silverbow: "Have any good news, Croi?"
possibly the only serious nonsassy moment between the two characters in my three years of playing.

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To finish off until I remember more of what I've forgotten:

There are few things I enjoy more than reading the things that Steve Oros writes, so being handed a book of stories written by steve oros in an event ran by steve oros by a character played by steve oros was literally one of the most amazing things I could have ever experienced both as Croi the story loving bard and Jen the person.
just. goddamn.

Three year anniversary of Knight Realms. A++++++++++++RedRiderBBGun.

Croínamara wrote: "It's not every day one gets to walk side by side with a myth"
"You are wrong. There are legends all around you."

....only to watch as people ignored his warnings, doubt the stories, chastise croi, and all around destroy the towns one-and-only chance to defeat the nightmares; Themselves.

".....I am going to die."

I know Ilana wasn't as invested in that specific Knight as Croi was, but damn I think we've added something for Ilana may instantly tear up about every once in awhile.