May 2016 Highlights !!!

First One, sweet.
So...THAT all happened!

Due to my own mess up, this was a stressful weekend for OOG issues, so if my Role Play wasn't top tier, I apologize. I'm waiting to see if that art tube was found, but that's another post.

Role Played a complete 180° from what was perceived by Forest, some good, some bad. Sir Pluvious and Tari, killed it, I was shown up in the best way. Finding out there is trouble afoot that I don't know IG yet....where is that gold going anyway?

Who said bringing Auggie wouldn't help with the Venier? I didn't kill a single one folks...I know, I'm scared too. Sorry Lord Gideon. That whole time he wanted to wreck bodies too.

Late night fun with some new faces and some old friends! That was, by far one of the funniest parties of characters I've been a part of in some time. Castrol, Rooke, Chet, Sorrel, and a few others late into the next morning. I had a blast, but my body was wrecked.

Shit that will haunt me forever...
Seeing an old friend, that was emotional and intense. Thanks for doing that for us, really it meant alot to me as a player.

Speaking of Wrecked, what the heck did stomp me into the ground? Gnome, vampire, fairy Godmother, maybe the wife of a necromancer??? I really want to know now. I'm walking back from the Big Celts Room and POW, I'm laying down and bleeding out. Everyone was asking me questions, and all I could say was,"I was fast, and wasn't very diplomatic."

Duncan having his day too, good job bro

Feast was excellent, thank you to every who helped set up, prepare, serve, and clean up. Good Job! Abby and I couldn't recall the last time we could sit down at a Feast. I think it was the first time I met the Venier, they seem to be a Good Luck Feast Charm. To whomever cleaned the plates off first, you deserve a medal.

Main Mod experience of a life time! I give you all consent, that if I EVER again ASK STs to send out Witch Hunter stuff...punch me in the gut, and remind me of this weekend. Main Mod was epic, it lived up to the hype. Good Job witch hunters!

Godric, and Angel thanks you healing me up so many times. I stopped counting after the 7th time I was dropped. Shout Out Cpt Jackdaw, that freed me up to bail some folks out and it made a difference. Ashby that helped me out until the end, your effort counted.

Did Lorelei just do that???

My card was toast, alchemy gone, armour history, I was loving every bit of it. Who waylayed me through the portal? I was going to keep fighting, but that ship sailed. I broke fists with my face, I killed, I got dropped, healed up, kill a bit, drop, healed. Then, after a card check and tearing up a heap of cards, Alice and I walked straight to Logistics to get covered in Blood. Great Main Mod and TO, really EVERYONE, that was awesome. Dykeman, your a jerk, but great work out there.

"We need another Argyle, this one's broken." -Cestrol, I fell off my chair when they told me that.

Sir Pluvious, broke my IG professionalism in a second people, I was laughing so hard in a serious moment that I had to walk away.

A great scene with a Mother Necromancer and her Necrophage son. Too many to tag in here, but awesome role play, and I learned an unforgettable lesson that won't soon be forgotten.

A huge bag of demon limbs,WTH was that about??? JACKDAW, BRAH your crew...gets me into some odd places and that, says something.

As I type this, 3 Witch Hunter players, THAT WEREN'T ABLE TO COME, are asking a million questions. You missed a great event gang, straight up. Yeah...damn right this is making highlights; Austin, Logan, and Sara. Y'all are missed, but we get it. Now get back here and join the fight kill undead!!! Told all to wait until I posted this.

There is more, folks I was so busy I couldn't find time to sleep for but maybe a few hours. I saw my fiancee for all of about 10 minutes this weekend! OH, Garret Fuller thanks for helping me breathe easier, your like my twisted but awesome Fairy Godfather, I'll sleep better tonight because of you. See you all I hope for week in the life, bring friends. I saw some faces I haven't seen in a while to, come back, you won't regret it!

My favorite event I've done yet. Also finally 6 events in and I finally have grasped some of the combat and stuff Oog which made ALL the difference Oog for me being able to enjoy the fighting IG instead of just feeling panicked about rushing into stuff with no idea what I'm doing.


Friday night was packed. Important meetings, working a long shift at the blackbird. Did a super fun mod that basically ended up being an awesome mental exercise of my skills and how to solve a problem without being able to attack anything. Me foiling the marshal's plans to have the mod have a part two because mistress Jade terrifies rook and rook had no intention of upsetting her, so rook for the first time in her life of being alone in a room full of super valuable stuff probably worth s TON of gold, didn't touch a thing except for the one paper she had to get.

Me around 3am- I should probably sleep
Argyle -"let me tell you about undead"
Me around 7am- "okay so sleeping isn't happening now"

Seriously, story time with argyle was awesome.

Sparring with people Saturday morning, and then getting voluntold by Duncan that I'm part of someone's masterful warrior lesson. And then winning that fight. Maybe rook is cut out for master warrior then, because Oog I never thought I'd be able to fight well enough to go for it.

Overhearing Aleister say the name Vasco and then being like "wait I have a book with his name in it." Aleister's face was beautiful and I'm so glad I finally got to use that prop .

Coast Haven mod. Favorite. Mod. Ever. Highlight of the weekend: rook having a SUPER AWESOME character development moment aka the first time she ever willingly RAN into a fight to save someone and beating the hell out of some husks because 55% of the people who went to coast haven with her were bleeding out on the ground around her and the rest were too far away to help.

Rook learned magic woo!

LORE:SEA WAS ACTUALLY USEFUL FOR ONCE OMFG

Serving feast went so well, I'm thrilled. Thank you to Abby and Diane and Forrest and all the servers. we were a fantastic team

Having a throwing fork face off with Jonas Kane. "I see you have trained in the art of throwing forks. I too have trained in the art of throwing forks"

Omfg main mod. I enjoy that when they found out they needed to get stuff behind the enemies lines they yell "GET THE ROGUES", who got shit done yo. All of those glow sticks were collected in like 1 minute and the pieces were found super fast. Aka rogues get shit done.

GENE AND THE BEST MOST HERIOC SAVE EVER. Rook got downed by an undead in the far corner of the field because Rachael was super tired and hesitated on calling a defense and was like "screw it I'll eat the damage" and dropped and then was like "well damn I'm nearly half a football field away from the nearest person, in the pitch black darkness, and I'm in serious. This is what rook gets for trying to help find things for the town" and suddenly billiamm is there singing and carrying rook back to the town. I have no idea how the heck you found me in until 2 minutes (I was at 1:20 in my serious count, it was FAST) but you are my hero sir.

Rook making super super poor decisions to go *back* out in the field into the hordes of the vampires to look for her sword. Rolled my ankle and busted my knee doing it but so worth the reaction people had.

TOM. YOUR NPC AND THE CREEPIEST WINDOW STARE AND GRIN AND WAVE EVER. Like rook normally would have been like "meh okay weird guy just said something weird to me whatever lemme drink my coffee and just go back to talking" but she happened to look behind her and you were just staring and grinning and she was like "okay maybe I *should* go find out what he said to me.

Rook walks over to door, opens it- "come again?"
tom: "the psion sends his regards" more grinning
Rook slams the door in his face and bolts.

So much undead. Rook at this rate needs to become a witch hunter or something but she keeps getting cornered by undead.

Not getting to bed until after 6am, which made over 49 hours straight of Rachael being up.

Getting woken up by Jonas Kane walking into Drega'room and his lovely song about who knows what (I heard him singing about us all still being lazy and asleep at 10am, singing about the curtains, singing about annora's giant pepper on her nightstand, about raptors, and who knows what else.) BEST ALARM CLOCK EVER.

Thank you to everyone rook interacted with. I got to meet some new people, got to interact a lot with people I haven't before, and lots of shenanigans were had with existing friends too.

This event was nonstop and amazing. Thank you so much to James, Matt, and everyone else that helped to make it happen.

Well where to start? Might as well be from the beginning. Got the first NPC shift it was awesome. Got to be a slave just making my way downtown faces past and I'm home bound taken up by my fellow slave making a very stern lobotomized slave chuckle. Got choked by a tree before the town's folk got there. The fighting was so fun good job slaves we held strong for awhile with some awesome roll play. Then we had to be barbarians and my costume was on point Raven breast plate, chain , fur mantel, sword and shield (so hard to find a lefty one in logistics just saying) the fight that followed amazing our two berserkers great work out there.

Then into the main event! Got to play myself Karl karlson had a great time fighting in the name day turny made it to the second round lost to a veteran fighter I'll take it. The mage who has not picked up a sword once and won her bout great job to her I see a warrior mage in the future!

The hunting game was awesome! 1oclock exactly took out my first target then had a great conversation with alamazar (sp) "I had someone I do not know, you just won the game Karl karlson because I have your name now no one is hunting you you may hunt anyone!" It was awesome. Total of six names under my belt not including my own tied with max no hard feelings. Had to make a split second decision on the prize and glad we did.

The adventurers guild mission I got to see a goblin lift a grown man and take him to safety you go mean green! Crazy waves of doom.
The witch wood hunt was fun role playing then we hear tale about a vampire turns out it was a gnome.
Feast made me feel terrible but I kept strong pushed through the headache and got to be right in front of the column through the portal right next to wormwood. Right in front of the standard. Made it through formed line portal explodes we need to get some portal insurance for the next one but great job getting those things we needed to build it back up! Also to the guy with the staff great job watching our backs in the wall also keeping things at bay with that staff found myself in between to great fighters, max and new pendarven (sp) knight. The yelling match between our wall and the spear wielding undead so much fun also blocking blows to max when she got conked on the head and to new knight who's name escapes me. The two handed ax to my head that had awesome power which was blocked was so awesome. Then getting knocked back into the portal ring and knocking one side down then getting pulled through. Man I just wanted to fight! So much fun also hearing the Sunday morning chatter "wormwood ha-ha sounds like wood with worms popping out of it" nameless "you shouldn't let him hear that might not be good for you" nameless laughter halts abruptly. Oh good times.
Also got complimented on my armor really appreciate it!

Once again, thank you guys for putting up with my shenanigans. :>

By far the best part of my weekend was someone telling me that something I put in motion brought them some fun and joy during what was otherwise a serious event for them.

Also, thank you certain STs for crafting wonderfully twisted tales that are like beautifully knotted balls of string with all sorts of delicious twists, turns and hidden layers within layers. Y'all are awesome.

Take me out to the ball game! Knocked this out out of the park...

From lay on announcements until I couldno longer function this was an e ticket ride.

I chose a few mods but only actually made two ran into a third and it was a fantasticevent sans be oning sick. Yes folks I caught the cold from hell at event. James sent me to bed. Lol even LARP Mom accepts the Directors instruction.

Drunk Birgitta is odd RP. The Blackbird crew was awesome. You know who you are...

The Ostvolk crew are too.

RP system thumbs up. Loved it! Loved getting and giving and wanted more of it too. So much outstanding RP performances.

I was so proud of my Blood Spirits from those recruited under strange circumstances to those performing their tasks well. Bravo.

Show and tell document in RP with a certain person made my event special. No Birgitta does not have the sight. Though I wish such could be put in game.

Lore Travancian History ... Without an ST needed. Names from the past cropping up.

This is the game the players wrote. We gave you what you asked for. Matt M. My darling you and your crew made that amazing.

Really great event. Packed through and through. Loved the envelopes and the multiple mods for multiple kinds of people.

Friday night midnight mass. Thank you all who showed up, and everyone who spoke. It was great.

Speaking of religion, I'm really sorry i never made it down to Alisandria for the Springtide blessing, I think I got everywhere else.

Pollup and Stool were hilarious and awesome fun. Wonderful RP with them all night, and again the next day. Especially fun at the mass. I have to say I wish I had had more than one Community RP point to give, as choosing between them was hard. Know that if I could, it would have been both of you.

Barbarian mod was awesome. Very well designed, great work by the NPCs. Really cool to see another Heargen - extra glad it wasn't an 'immediate family' member, as it opened up some really fun RP. Aftermath of Caldor telling Kardin that he may have just inadvertently proposed to a Venir high priestess - or at the very least inadvertantly asked to sleep with her was hilarious. NO way I'm letting that go.

Stayed up WAY to late Friday night. Never made it to Ostcliff party, which upset me, but otherwise good. I will also never EVER piss of or forget to invite Selendrias again, as that ONE elf was so damn loud it kept me up an exra hour. Imagine if they all came. (Great NPC).

Baptism of Kardin was fun - I put him through the wringer, and he stood every challenge I gave him. Answered every question, and showed me his conviction. Props on you for not backing down.

Pirate Chest (or whatever the bluff game was called) was a lot of fun.

Saturday morning was rough and about. So tired, i couldn't remember everything. Got in a lesson or two.

market fair was great. Sold some Ziti, Ate some ziti.

Pendarvin Party was AWESOME. Thank you guys for doing that. Some fun RP had at the party too. I love that kind of IG non-story stuff. SOOOO Awesome to see Alandar again. Man Caldor misses him. The two of them have the exact same dirty minds.

Spent the day trying to get plans ready for the Count. Caldor doesn't do well on 'details' and Answers. But he tried.

Diane did a fantastic job with feast. Thank you so much.

Also thank you to our brave volunteers who scraped the pans clean before they went to the sinks. "Nothing says love like cleaning congealed pork fat"

Caldor was extremely nervous about main mod. Had a bad feeling going into it... turned out he was right. LOVED the main mod set up. Big fighting for the people who like to fight. Rogue searching/scouting for those who like that. Undead for those who do that stuff, Crafting for builders, Figuring out stuff for smartypants, and power stuff for casters. Add in an amazing prop and the most excellent of "creative RP seems to do good stuff", and it was a great mod for me.

Post main mod stress was real. I think I was a little tired OOG and may have stressed more because of it, but I was trying to mostly keep it IG stress. I hope Annora will forgive Caldor - He's only lost it on a good friend like that once or twice in his 3 years in travance. Planning with Belegchand, Almat, Thalia, Caelvan and Tris was awesome. 30 freaking questions? I couldn't come up with 5, and I'm the one who wanted the research. Couldn't have don it without you guys. Thanks to everyone who showed support and/or helped in game. INCLUDING those opposed to the ideas who threw out flaws or counter arguments, even if I was short with you.

Meeting with the count was fun. Sad we had to do a few "oog" side bars but otherwise it was amazing. Who knows what will happen, but at least now the group has stepped up and put an option in, rather than just objecting to other plans.

Had some great takes on the Fiona Miranda discussion and history, and Caldor now has his own view. Shared it with a few IG to interesting responses. Interested to see where this goes.

For a moment, it almost seemed like there would be storytime with Karkat. Sad it didn't happen (and/or i missed it).

Key Lime pie. yum.

Sunday morning Kaladonia Plot Finale. MAN O MAN. I could do a whole post just on that. Zach's year+ story (much delays kept it longer than intended, I know) was really fun to behold and be a part of. Between James' Hugh doing a really cool ritual (which I may or may not be now trying to crib elements of for other plans), the teamwork of kaladonia, The AMAZING Canvas work Kayla did, the uber makeup job on Bill, Bill's Jojo moments, and the appearances of almost all of our amazing recurring NPCs was just perfect. The battle was dangerous and great. The story was amazing, and the resolution just perfect. Sadly I had to bail instantly after it, so I couldn't rp the aftermath. Thank you Matt D. also for taking the time to come down and Marshal it for us.

Event once again reaffirmed why I love LARP and KR. Please keep up the great work everyone, ST, Staff and Player alike.

Side note: So glad the aliegance system is back up - i do enjoy it.

EDIT: I think I blew some Minds when I had caldor actually using a weapon and/or delivering a few Thorn Strikes and/or Blades of Victory and when he was Dire Bunny on the offense. I only wish someone had a spare 2 handed sword, and I really could have broken people's minds.