ALT EVENT "Isle of Mercy"

Hey friends! Gollenus (Drow) here!

Great event!

I loved getting into full makeup, as it was my first time doing it as a PC. Many thanks to everyone in logistics who helped me cover myself/put on my costume.

I really appreciated how everyone in Il'umar played the fact that many of us had known each other for years. That is not easy to do.

Octavia! Scholar BFF You're a very giving actress! It's incredibly easy to stay in character when you are around! Thank you!

All the Valosian "Lightbringers". Not just comic relief, but that whole squad really played out the idea of the "strangers in a strange land" very well. Great RP as always fellas!

Jason M. as Sage; My character was an unsavory one to be sure, though after decades of being friends it was plain that you knew deep down that I would always answer the call to help. Generations of people have come and gone on Mercy, and Sage and Gollenus have played a kind of Ying and Yang role for most of them in my mind. Woo! (When we figured out that Telligrim stole my Tome - I was actually shocked!)

NPCing at the Graveyard. Spider! (surprise motherf____ers)

Rat NPCs! Best rats ever.

Hilarious Earth elemental team and the "Crash scene" Go home earth elementals, you're drunk.

Steven A. as the lion king. Excellent chase scene! Mighty leap!

Roleplaying with the outcast crew. Incredible set-up by the way. Everyone down there really had awesome character concepts. Thanks for the food!

How many times am I going to be accused of being a traitor!? #drowproblems

May as her Satyr! Very tense as we role-played what were essentially polar opposites.
The concepts of life and death and the concept of the spirit. It's a pleasure playing with real intelligence.

Telligrim! Whuuuut. The scene offered at the Lake front cabin was really premium stuff. The body language alone was enough to put me deeper into my character than I could have possibly reached on my own. I look forward to many more interactions with you on any character.
PS: Sending me to go and butcher the town was good old fashioned fun and sweaty work!


I am looking forward to playing Gollenus again , though probably not for a couple of months haha.

Hats off to everyone!

Amazing alt event, in my opinion second only to the legendary Vis-Exodus year.

Alt Portion, as a gnoll archer:
-The House of Illumination…and Beer Hall. Team Illumar was best team.

-Jason Marin and Steve’s NPCs (Old Fart and Shorty the Dwarf).
Both were awesome in their own ways. Jason was great about sticking up for the gnoll pack and being someone we respected enough to listen to his orders. He knew well how to motivate us (yay for helping people in exchange for an extra serving of dessert!).
And well, Fletcher was fun to harass

-Deciding that Fletcher was a dwarf after he used a secret passage.
“he dwarf?"
“I’m not a dwarf!"
“hmm. short, have beard, dig tunnel. is dwarf."

-At Feast:
*Conor trick shots Steve's hat*,*yado*
"don't shoot arrows at the table!"
"not shoot at table. shoot at hat!"
And Steve attempting (unsuccessfully) to enforce table manners.
Plus the stream of thinly veiled Hobbit jokes.

-Making goblin stew after goblins exploded in the Beer Hall.

-No one expects the Valosian Inquisition!
All the bow v. gun debates, and general interactions with the inquisitors.

-Standing guard as Ben H’s PC was branded an outcast, and keeping an arrow aimed at him the whole time it took him to saunter across the wall.

-Cave mod, Part 1: Poke all the runes!
-Cave mod, Part 2: The gnoll is doing math...

-Volcano mod

-All the interactions with Steven’s Jaxuarian.

-Exchanging recipies with the outcasts and getting invited down to their camp.
“Going scouting”…aka, visiting and befriending the outcasts. And sampling the delicacies they had to offer.
Getting branded. If Outcasts fight Sanctuary, pack wins either way!

-Out of everyone in Mercy, the gnoll pack being among the first to go out to fight Telligrim.
Wondering what dragon would taste like.

-Being a snarky bastard without having to be nice or polite.
When meeting Mercy:
“do you stand with Mercy?"
(me sitting at the table) “no. I sit."
*entire room turns around and looks at me, tries not to laugh*

-Pack win. Pack kill demon.
Delivering the two final blows to Matt’s demon with Conor.

Main Portion:
-Explaining basic economics to the Mercians

-Conversation with Billiam, Danny, and Caelvan about Celtic culture and the McKreagar family

-Sunday shenanigans, random sparring, and a wildmage learning enchantment magic.

-Defeating the allegedly magical hairbrush.

Now that I have time this week...

I've never played a non-combat PC at KR before. I admit, it was fun to actually be nervous during fighting. Seeing enemies turn on me and just feeling terrified because I couldn't do anything to some of them...I missed that.

The accent was tough to maintain sometimes. Thank you to Samantha M for giving me suggestions and a few phrases to use!

I had so many great interactions with folks. Some that stand out:
Craig as Gollenus. I may have been one of the only people on Mercy to give you much of a chance!
Raya's worry over Aneirin and the Lightbringers. Those guys were her bedrock in an unfamiliar place. She still really has no idea about what Valos is, but she's baptized to him!
My interactions with Medusa/Meduselah. "You shouldn't trust anyone." "Not even you, miss?" *laughter* "Especially not me." That was perfection.
Offering EVERYONE alchemy. "Here. For to help with the healings. Is ointment."
Haze and Mary as their Witch Hunter/Handmaiden. Raya was so curious, and so frustrated that she couldn't understand your friendship.
Phenomenal breakfast with the Il'umar. Thank you for hosting your friendly neighborhood Skylari.
Chats with the Stranger. Raya was heartbroken to know he wasn't going to help them. I stood in the inn going "No, no, dragon is not stranger. Stranger wants to help. No. How? No."

I'm certain there were more. It was a blast to be someone so different. I LOVED every instance of "Wait, that was -you- under the scarf?" Goal: achieved.