January 2016 Highlights

The way the players and camp pulled together for a deeply involved and roleplay-heavy event despite the snow. The early fight into camp even as an NPC was fantastic, as I could tell it was hard on the players and they had to seriously earn it, judging from the amoutn of focus walks I heard about.

Hearing that Aguara was deeply interested by Grim, and that his brooding mien, his personal agonies, and his extreme might in battle actually served her, despite his devotion to galladell was incredibly great for launching and extending a character arc.

The return of the homonculus/Alchemist plot, and the unveiling of Number 1, Eden, was truly spectacular, even if it was subtle and in the snow. The parasol was a brilliant touch.

The method of rebuilding the town with donations of CP/and various trade goods was excellent, adn it allowed us to get some of the excess item cards out of the game. Wonderful stuff.

Deeply personal roleplay with bob, Nalick, Danae, Billiam, Fenri, and Fyodor. Flirting with or insulting or teasing Shade. Being close with friends and family like Wulfgar and Beilgor.

Being a badass on main mod then shrieking in horror as I briefly loot a bunch of magic stuff.

Some unexpected and long-awaited roleplay with some of the Alisandrian players, about a subject of mutual interest.

Having a great time as an NPC ragpicker and making off with a ton of the town's gold, while still giving a bunch of PCs a great deal on a number of useful items.

Wonderful interactions with the "dark paladins" led by Divot. That entire scene was hilarious.

This event has given grim a new motivation and interest to move forward with, as well as presented him with some moments of great personal conflict.

The creepy bard made Grim very happy, even though he didn't know the words and didn't want to sing.

The depths of Grimkjell's magic-hatred was explored during main mod, and just how useful spell cleave can be in his hands was also proven. Watching as his brother dunked just as hard on magical spells as he did, using spell cage. It was positively wondrous. The Eirson brothers, each completely shutting down magical demons in different ways.

Seeing justice, even if it was frontier justice, done by Magnus. Discussing promotions and deciding on a very special promotion which is sure to cause some consternation elsewhere.

Hearing about the Count's Focus walk, as well as Paeonis'

Delicious adobo for feast. INcluding the song.

The only highlight that really matters was Paeonis Focus walk Drew and I where both at the point of fighting to not follow that as the descriptions where amazing and extremely detail like bravo.

Fighting the town as a husk was fun. The towns plan worked extremely well.

Learning a bunch of stuff and the overall roleplay while hiding in the Inn from the snow or hiding from sight due to being covered in snow outside made this event have lots of ups and downs.

Wandering on Alchemist mod and completly trolling the npcs with Alexander Silvers best use of skills ever.

Main mod going out as a deamonic wild mage and trying to find wild mages to force surges but only seeing George, Ilana, and Oren and that didn't work very well.

The notes in the snow after main where hilarious and very entertaining to read. The PCs that wrote that well done.

Sunday morning learning a skill from George with out Billium there and all of a sudden I hear him running over going I want to know how this works too and being like damn I missed most of the lesson Sorry Gene.

Overall a great event with lots of moving parts that came together.

And of Course the ADOBO SONG

Being sillied to death by Will and Michaela during Card Creation.

Taking a sweet potato out of my pocket and telling the "sweet potato story" to at least a half-dozen people.

The confusion when someone thought my bedroll was actually a baby. "There are none that I know of."

Freaking out Friday night, sitting alone in the dark, Dimetri and Fyodor consoled me, but not before Nalick acted out some aggression on some fire logs. I planned barely any of that, but I like the way it went.

Coffee and role-played anxiety aren't a great combination if you want to sleep. Fortunately, I wasn't the only one awake and ended up cracking absolutely terrible jokes around a table for about five hours! So many things that I can't repeat here, but everyone at the table died figuratively--two Tanwyn brothers almost did literally.

"He looked like a four-foot tall Starlord."

There was also a dramatic reading of Grimkjell's article in the (handwritten!) Chronicle while Dominic tried to stop me. Eventually he had me outside, but I pressed my face against the glass and continued, shouting.

This turned out to be a pattern when Dominc ran into the main room of the Inn clamoring that he wanted his head examined. Someone, he said, told him he was acting smart, so I decided to do battle with his ego and praise his brilliance, but he wouldn't have any of it.

That the Chronicle was handwritten! Thank you for your devotion, guys!

Being literally pulled aside for some one-on-one time with Grim.

Feast pork. I licked the plate clean.

"...gnomes."

FLOORBOARD WHISKEY WITH THALIA!

Magnus' impassioned speech about Damien.

Breakfast with Bob. Talk about an Odd Couple.

Sunday morning shenanigans with Danae. Making a table-full of people laugh. "That's your knee... right?" Having a meeting of the Church of the Hat in the Center of the Table.

Theological discussions with a newly baptised Andorran(!).

"I walked into the kitchen to look for my staff and I bump into Steve Oros. Mission accomplished?"

Punning with Steve in said kitchen for at least 5 minutes. Magnus walks in and borders on tears about the lack of coffee. I make the mistake of saying that if he cries, other people will start crying and, picking up the bag of Domino Sugar, say, "It'll cause a... Domino effect." What happened after that is a little fuzzy.

Being defeated by "Mama Karen" in a contest of stubbornness.

This was a great event for me, both in and out of character.

Firstly, to the new Pc ranger "snow", brought the entire family huh? Seriously though, fun to play with you, hope to see you again.

The blizzard was so awesome. So much fun to play a barbarian. "finally, we get autumn here. Maybe winter will actually come this year." I'm very grateful to the Kaladonia statehouse pellet stove.

I really liked the lay on at the Romani camp and fighr/walk back. It added such a deep feel and nice follow up to the land system story. Fighting the husks was very interesting. I particularly enjoy fighting ib... The spell cages are so fun.

The "damaged" Inn was a nice touch. I really liked seeing 4-5 of us actively cleaning up during the fight.

The repair plot was fantastic. I loved seeing the town have to pool together. I wish we had more variety of wood, so I could have been more helpful on that front.

Tha k you to anyone who came down and help rp at the Kaladonia altar space. I wish I had thought to do a clean up mass... But it was so cold and blizzardy.

Massive thank you to Steve for letting us design a rp based ritual for a non standard mod situation. Building the ritual symbol out of benches so as to not have to draw on the floor was fun. Typhon and I spent a chunk of time designing the ritual, and performing it with rowan, tris, Clytie, gamblor, rain, Typhon, Billiam and Dimitri (with surprise visit from magnus) was great. You all did such wonderful rp of your parts that it really brought it alive for me.

Feast was magnificent. Thank you Luis. And thank you Diane and the rest of the Kitchen Crew for the quickest dishes clean up in recent memory.

Caldor was really happy to be able to make his specific faith blend of Arawyn and Gaia work for the town.

Jonas v. Jun in a sexy contest.

Once again having people's minds not be able to wrap around a barbarian married to a Dryad.

The Buffalo chicken stuffed biscuits.... Num

Finally have a bottle of Zippeto hot sauce. Can't wait to use it.

I'm sure there is more, but this is it for now.

Oh yeah. Huge shout out too the chosen one., Aldric, for having a mass despite all this weather and repair. Those of us who play light followers can always count on you.

This was only my second event but it was absolutely amazing. Thank you everyone I interacted with for making it so phenomenal.

Some highlights-

The amount of role playing I got to do this game. Seriously. Role playing has been my favorite part so far of larping and getting to spend so much time actually building my character through it this weekend was fantastic. My first game I was a bit afraid to jump right in, but this time i had no hesitations and it was so worth it.

Taking the inn was super cool and very well done. Rook was not sure why exactly she got dragged into helping but once people figured out she was a good look out she took her job seriously. It was definitely an intense start to the game.

Thank you as always to the Crew of the Winged Victory. Seriously; I love you guys.

Okay, Tanwyns- best part of my weekend. I barely got to spend any time with them my first game and ended up spending a third of my game with them this time. Super excited to see where this new partnership will go

Saturday morning before my NPC shift I walked into the kitchen for some coffee and say three of the most exhausted and stressed looking people I've seen in a while, and my OOG inability to walk away from distraught looking people kicked in, so I offered to help with breakfast, which turned into breakfast and dinner set up, dinner cooking, dinner serving, and dinner clean up. So even though from 9am-9pm Saturday I basically was oog (NPC and kitchen), it was so worth it. Thank you to everyone in the kitchen staff for being so welcoming to me, and I'm glad I was able to help. I'll be back in February if you want more help

Crashing the bar mass momentarily IG to ask my crew mate a question and then getting pulled into a super interesting discussing on what rook believes in, which definitely was a fun challenge to me to on the fly figure out what exactly rook would or wouldn't believe in. Thank you for that, it was a lot of fun!

Somehow once again got dragged into main mod, which was super well done (thank you for not making us be outside, you're my favorite). Thank you to the Tanwyns and Vlad!

Sitting down with Calven Tanwyn and figuring out what rook needs to learn and setting up a plan for learning it. Excited for future lessons. Still super amused at how the first lesson went, opportunity presents itself in very funny ways.

Watching Poker at the adventurers guild- phenomenal game. Even though I didn't have the gold for the buy in, it was so worth watching. High stakes, lots of jokes, and a murder at the table when someone cheated at cards. 10/10 would do again.

Sunday morning was short but I did go out IG and I'm glad I did! Thank you to the swashbuckler (I'm so sorry I don't remember your IG name) for the deflect lesson. It was super intense and I've learned I have a lot of OOG work on actually getting better at fighting and blocking. You are an amazing swordsman by the way. I was seriously impressed. (Also you know the role play and then combat is intense when you accidentally pop out your shoulder. Oww. But worth it, and 3 Advil later it's only a bit sore so worth it)

All in all, a really really good weekend. I'm excited for February, especially since most of my normal group won't be there so I'll get to interact and spend time with different people. Thank you all so much for all being amazingly awesome.