March 2016 -- Island Realms -- Event Highlights

-Having 200+ people sing me happy birthday. Embarrassed as I'm not good at being the center of attention but still one of the coolest things ever.

-Surviving my bday
-playing messenger on my npc shift
-Having a crisis of faith with realizing how much slaughter was going on and who was doing it, versus dark pcs using restraint I'm not sure how this will effect Tari in the future
-The baron having much better faith in me then I do myself....also failing up
-being so angry all event, and having to figure out what it looks like when chimera wants to come out
-thank you to Syllus and Keavy for keeping me from murdering everyone
-being so excited to meet Fiona, end of a dream but then being salty when she loves her paladins.....but what about the rest of us!!!
-reminiscing with Philidin then realizing I couldn't remember half the memories as that was my other pc
-hanging with kaledonia Saturday and realizing it's the little things of why I love them
-having a pc bring her personal issues to my building and getting involved in the fall out Sunday
-watching a spine breaker backfire
-watching Aliestar feel like he had to justify his privateer business
-zipeto, all zipeto Sunday

Holy buttsnacks, Batman. This was certainly a bit of a rollercoaster event.

Boat Realms chat. Everything was A+ rp. Seriously. It swung from over the top hilarious to dead serious and back again. Huge personal revelations, recreational medicine use, serious religious debates, wrasslin' matches, breaking Grim and Magnus with talk about man-love, and breaking Swyft with nightmares.

Friday:

Shenanigans in Logistics. Exchanging insults via scrolls. HAIL HYDRATE.

The mental chaos begins.

Bran: "Now that I'm a Templar, they're going to try to give me responsibilities, aren't they?"
Elric: "Don't worry, we won't hold it against you."
Bran: "That answer does not exactly fill me with confidence."

Saturday:

Bran goes on early morning drunken walkabout. Accidentally finds ruins.
The resulting mod led to some phenomenal revelations, and some serious rumor-mongering asshattery. Bran is now fully convinced every time he does something right, it will be immediately followed by something going horribly wrong.

Coffee is Valosian holy water, whiskey is Galladellian.

The whole scene in Kaladonia with Tobias trying to fix Rudy's little... problem. Nothing about that scene was bad. A+ roleplay and player creativity. It is exactly moments like that that make being a Monster Marshal and/or Storyteller worth it. Easily one of my favorite things that happened all event.

A stick of butter and a running start.

Late-night satyr's wine shenanigans with Maeve.

"Your beard makes you look like a woman. Very effeminate. Have you considered bedazzaling it?"

Musical Chaos Blast

Sowing the seeds of budding new Chaos Warriors by telling people they can rip someone's arm off through the leg socket.

Sunday:

The Templar of 5 gods. I think despite their differences, Bran and Aldric have a lot in common and could be a formidable force for good.

Bran and Seamus beating knowledge into Nalick. Any time you want actual oog fighting practice or tips, let us know, Jeff! We love teaching oog fighting skills.

The most ridiculous Secret Pocket lessons ever. This just in: Maeve is sweet and innocent, and Annora is a terrible pervert. Just like all the other Paladins. Bjorn's virginity and Fenri's pants are safe for another day.

Let's see,

Lets not fight realms. the first time I actually swung a PC attack was Sunday morning. Does that mean I won avoid pissing things off on the good island?

Crafting things, repairing things, selling things, more sockets!

Maybe an assistant soon?

Laying broken in the waterfront cabin after a surprise Renee visit. I laughed soooo good.

Helping with yet another surgery.

Being called to help tear down a wall and getting there just in time to miss being needed.

Seeing Fiona.

Get all diseased up to only make it 100 feet before i was found out and then fixed.

The internal struggle of what to do

After a long break, it sure was nice seeing friends I had missed. Special thank you to Joe and Rebecca, Forest and Larry for making it possible for me to be there. Even though I went and injured myself in style, it was well worth it all the same.

Some highlights:
~ Being found by a few "adventurers" near the shore. Swyft recognizing Angeliana 2.0

~ All of the RP that followed. Swyft and company taking Angeliana to Jed... for some reason. Swyft and Angeliana beating each other around for a while. Throws and shield bashes left and right. One beard comment later, Jed axed Angeliana down. Sorry Swyft, he proved my point, not yours.

~ Getting healed in the middle of the base camp (inn) and dealing with all of her crazies and emotions at once. The following amazing RP with Gunnar, Maralas, Rudolf and Nalick. Gunnar the tea... nom, the soul retrieval... win! Maralas, a true friend. Rudolf; family who loves her. Then Nalick, a perfectly timed prayer of her Goddess followed by a slam dunk hug and Kwildar's holy symbol. I couldn't have scripted that better myself if I tried. Finally, no more Glomm in her head.

~ RP with Orias and Brigitta, you two always rock.

~ Banishing things after seeing them with pure sight. Also the following pure sight lesson for Aldric. His confession, also great RP.

~ Sincere talk with Lord Aleister. Oh empathy will never abandon Angeliana, and even crazy, she mustered some for a Lord in need. I hope she helped.

~ All of the reactions to Angeliana's make up, changes in her character and the LEDs in her staff made me really happy. Thank you all for the compliments, especially the folks who thought the scars were real, it was my first time doing scar make up so it meant the world to me.

Saturday:
~ Miss Demeanor had to learn 2 million things and found people who were willing to oblige and in oh so very entertaining ways. Radley was a great sport and D enjoyed your lessons a lot.

~ Ketrin, thank you for your lesson, I think I made it look super real. I did end up with a very sprained left ankle and had to take off right before feast BUT we made it look good at least :silly:

~ Aldric's courage lesson was good too, remember you're bound by confession for what you pried out of D!

~ Jun, man you're a hoot. We should most definitely RP more pirate shenanighans.

~ All of the shooting. I clearly need a better loading mechanism, I already asked Sir Cypher to come up with a mcjiggy to autoreload type of thing so I don't have to sit there struggling with it mid battle while I get demolished.

~ "Tattooing" in the middle of the camp next to the noble / baron table? Ooops? "He be willin' tho? He asked me fer it!" Making talking duck hands at the warlord. I totally half expected D to get executed for that as I kept saying it's maritime or it's an island there are no laws.

~ Rook speaking a name at D which she thought she had killed all who knew of it. Pinning Rook to a door with her dagger at Rook's throat only to have Magnus's sword at her own. Fun times. I guess you never know when you'll run into someone you grew up with and thought was dead.

~ First threat ever which legitimately freaked Demeanor out. Magnus... you are one crafty s.o.b. And pretty much the only reason IB still has his man bits.

~ Ib pulling Rook's gun on her and getting D's gun in his face before he could lift it all the way. Then Rook trying to show him how to cock it properly as D face palmed. Jun walking in an pulling his gun to join the gun party. You guys are too much.

~ A very fun and creative conversation with my partner in "not so approved activities", resulting in one fantastic plan and one hilarious dread surgery.

Sadly, I had to leave right before feast as it became very obvious that I wasn't going to be able to walk on my left ankle much longer. It was very nice to see all of you and to be able to RP with all of you again. Until next time KR family. Take care.

How could I forget. I taught senpai for once!

And the moment of dread thinking,"did I just introduce the wild man to higher grade weapons" after a short weapon swap and evaluating the axe James carried. Primitive axe vs. standard steel sword. still might aswell be flintlock vs repeater carbine.

Nikoli felt humbled by the wild man's sacrifice as we gathered around.

Fantastic second event, I had so much fun!

While I barely remember Friday night due to extreme exhaustion, I do remember that before I went to sleep at 4am I was already out of healing points, so that must have been interesting. Oh I also tended to the fire, so I felt rather useful! Especially since Ergos loves helping and tends not to say no when a request is made.

Saturday consisted of almost being exploded by magical healy creatures giving me too much of the healy heals, getting forced into buying amazing Tanwyn chili, a very generous smith crafting a socket for me that I must still repay him for, scrambling about worrying that I wouldn't get a teacher for healing, lots and lots of fun RP in the general store, npcing for main mod and making Marcus fall down twice, crazy hallucinogens combined with a psionicist, and the wonderful, hilarious, open-mouth kissing, glowy-spirit-calming, guitar-playing NPC bard and the adventures that came along with that.

Sunday I made the decision to sit down by Nalick and friends, and almost immediately regretted it as soon as the puns started hitting the table (just kidding, they were hilarious). I figured Nalick must've gotten drunk or something considering how much he was laughing, but I then realized that it was just Jeff Balla being Jeff Balls when my neutralize poison had no effect. Great times. Then I was oh-so generously taught a few abilities which was quite nice. After that, pirate mod was a great time, filled with whacking pirates for a whopping two damage, getting yelled at by Hazel for not having an adequate fighter to guard me, and then an interesting healing lesson in which my teacher fell down super hard and I had to run around trying to find a healer for him. Afterwards, I got to heal some burning people and some people who were missing limbs during some teaching.

All around I had a really great time and I can't wait to come back for April! Thank you everyone for being nice to the newbie, I hope to make it worth your while when I can effectively be helpful in Travance!