May 2016 Highlights !!!

But Wait! There's more!

Reece, after over a year, we finally got to role play, we refused to metagame. That was some of the role play one on one I've had to date. I can't say enough about that scene. I told staff all about it in my Recap. Your Role Play and set up was epic, that line with the rose and beauty of life and death...right that down, man. I'll remember that for years to come. Thanks Romeo, for setting that whole thing up, WITHOUT TRYING, like a Boss! YOUR my PC of the Month this time, take a bow brother.

Romeo, the amount of RP you set off was epic. You didn't glory hog, you really killed it this time around. If you haven't met Sir Pluvious as a new player, you might want to.

Do Event Recaps Please. I can't stress these enough. (SHAMELESS PLUG FOR MARY BETH and Co.)

The Warlord, I can't believe you were still standing OOG, that was Hardcore!

Stacy...I can't get get on your level. Note that I won't stop trying.

Caldor, wow... just wow.

Quantum Liu, that bit about vampires...That scene is great. I really love what you bring to the game. In Game, behind the scenes. Yours is a face I hope to see each and every event.

Charlie, in game and out. Thanks for being Merlin. That work with the scholars table, that was brilliant!

Kardin, so I won't put the WHOLE story on blast. But...THIS GUY sleep walks out of a dream, once finally awaken(dude I hope your okay, we all really were worried about you) "What are you all doing here?" Woke up from a KR dream, at KR, in the Inn, half naked. That has to be hard to top.

Alice!!! We finally got to get some deep and organic role play. Loved your ideas and how wild it got.

Teaching was fun. I had to ask some Rules Marshals a ton of questions about how to do some of it. Sorry Jackdaw, know we put a serious amount of effort into trying for you.

Drew, folks if he ever gets a hemroid, I swear he is gunna name it after me... sorry man.

Great RP with Gina, Tori, Renee, and Steve. I was FREAKING out,(still am a bit, but we have a plan) thank you all for working with me through it. I love you all. That was a great time. I needed that after the night I was having. I promise, my Role Play will be on point next time.

Cameron Hayden, good job.

Tori, wow. Just wow. Steve you, are wild.

Goose scared the crap out of me on and off all event. He was seriously right behind all the time. I had to look just now. Nope, goose isn't there.

Tim...I can't even, as Renee says. You about made ME cry. The things said and not said. Bravo sir, bravo.

Witch Hunters getting things done. Onca, good job. Really, years from now, this will all be talked about. Thank you James, Gus, Matt and everyone else.

Sorry and sad I couldn't NPC for AG Mods. I really couldn't even find the Defranzas until Sunday. Tommy, you crack me up. We love you lil bro.(please tell him he made my highlights) Tommy helped Argyle work out a trade deal as Ben folks, he out smarted three grown men.

Bill Hannings, Derek, Alex S, Josh Dykeman...You ppl are lethal when working together. Shout out to y'all. Thanks for NPCing on the next level.

Derek, loved the halfing healer. I hope we see more.

Crystal Reed: you owned that role as the Venier Priestess. You gave PCs so much story development... I'm glad I listened to Caldor, it worked bro! You were simply flawless out there Crystal. What was this, like your third event??? Way to kill a role. You added so much to Argyles and other PCs history in a few minutes of Role Play, that is a story I'll tell as my PC for a long time to come.

Matt Magnus: I might have killed a "Bad Guy" (Steve I'm dying over that you have no idea) but you killed off a whole Country! You aren't messing around. Matt your event was great, by now I'm sure the feedback is rolling in. Great job to you and everyone on Staff. This event will be talked about for YEARS to come as one of the all time greats. Your scene with me as Magnus at the Barracks, that helped FOREST grow as a human being. You dragged my PC through Hell this weekend. I faced so many critical choices and made some EXTREME calls, I can't wait to see where this goes next. I'll say this, Argyle isn't the same man he was when he walked into the Proper and now as he leaves it....

Alex B, as Wormwood, the phone game of KR painted my PC is some crappy light, you called me on it. You want more from me, and I'll vet there or die trying. You make Argyle look like Dudley Doright. You scare the crap out him, he'll never say it, I do however try to rp showing the respect of your PC. I wanted to be at that tourney with you so bad, but I was being stomped and smashed by something.

(Seriously people, the wth was that???)

Final works on this weekend, " Vampire...Big..."

Three years ago this month I started coming and this was the first event that I didn't play Nalick. It was also the first event that I felt like I had actually become the character outside of rare occasions. Not only was I thinking as Chet, but I was feeling the things that he should've been feeling. May may have made me more addicted to KR than I already was.

Whoa.

Friday night, Chet drank a mug of water with some ale in it at the Dragon's Claw, made hay about the taste, found out the "barn" doesn't have hay--or animals, for that matter. Although it did have a comfortable couch...

Foot, meet mouth.

So, late Friday night, Chet's helping Amilia start the bonfire out back behind the Adventurer's Guild. We're waiting for Dirge to bring this "extremely flammable liquid" to help us get it going. A girl walks up to Chet and nonchalantly steals his hat. Only when she put it on, it covered nearly half of her face and Chet/Jeff realized just how big his head was.

Throughout the weekend, there were a series of intensely awkward moments for Chet, but one of them stands out by far.

Chet's at the Norwuz celebration at Pendarvin, scarfing down food and asking advice. Someone tells him to pick some flowers, so he wanders off into the woods and stumbles upon some pretty white ones (rather, Jeff rolled a 3 and mistook weeds for flowers).

Taking the bunch back to the party, he walks up to Olivia, who's chatting with a couple people, and presents them thusly:

Chet: "I brought you some flowers!"
Someone: "Chet... those are weeds..."
Chet: "...shit."

Dejected, he throws them on the ground, takes off/crumples his hat, and storms off to a chorus of "awwww!"

Sunday. Taking a piece of cake and rather than add more work to the kitchen staff, plopped it onto his hand and ate it without silverware. And then a wedding started happening. Meanwhile, Chet is standing roughly five feet behind the bride and groom, munching away on a hunk of chocolate cake. I looked around and noticed Peaches losing it.

Breakfast in the Adventurer's Guild. Chet learns another reason he should stay on Dirge's good side.

Angry at himself and mumbling about things, Chet came upon a whole bed of the white weeds from before and turned into Kylo Ren for a moment. Then he was catching his breath and heard people shouting about undead at the Inn, so Chet went to let out some of his anger on them instead.

It happened a second time but I was stopped by a few higher-ups in Kaladonia asking why I was attacking nature. Sean, the look on your face was priceless. "Jus' a couple weeds," Chet snarled and stormed off down the path.

Special thanks to Zach for running the Kaladonia mod finale. Chet really didn't have a reason to be there aside from curiosity and wanting to help out his new friends, but it was something.

All of the blight NPCs looked great and fought really hard, especially Bill. I tried to pull my blows and the only time I definitely fudged up was when my wrist turned the wrong way and I uppercut Bill in the chin with my axe. I watched it happen in slow motion--his face went all wobbly like he was experiencing g-force and then suddenly everything was happening in normal time again. It was like he didn't even feel it, but I still felt bad. Thanks for being a good sport afterward, bud.

Chet had a rough time Saturday night, so he hung around alone in the Inn all night, neatening and rearranging the main hall to try to distract himself. Slowly the table he was banging his head into filled up with people and we all started chatting. Jonas even joined us, which was great, because I made some of my best/worst jokes with him there.

Meeting the Count and having a one-on-one was fun. I'm pleasantly surprised that Chet's head didn't end up in a basket, especially since I caught him right as he was escaping to bed for the night. Our talk was tame, though, and cleared up some of what troubled Chet.

...I need more Chet in my life.

Rook wrote: 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.

I GOT A SONG ABOUT ME AND I MISSED IT BECAUSE I WAS STILL ASLEEP??!!

PS. that pepper was delicious.

Winning the raffle and the subsequent announcment that came with it... Really, James??? lol!

Jaded Swyft is jaded. Too much madness all around, Lord of Tears still doing his thing, folks arguing with each other over absolutes and convoluted aspects of morality... It makes things a little crazy for someone empathic. Thus she spent a good hour or two sitting with the "bad kids," and having more lighthearted discussions and giggling over the "See it, Hear it? Report it!" slogan for the Guard in this month's Chronicle. We elected to report everything from the way someone's hair looked to the placement of candles, and even to citizens being extorted for the duration of the weekend. Poor Bob. He was a good sport, though!

Meeting some more of Psi and Karkat's sisters. They have such delightful hair and fabulous attire! Hilariously unafraid to say whatever was going through their heads at any time... But never really impolite...


The furious Selendrian that Matt played. I could hardly breathe for laughing. Dude, you're the best.

Barbarian/Veneer mod wasn't quite what we expected, but rather fun. Remind me never to fight anything Blockus plays. Haha. Wulfgaar was a beast in that, um, tournament of sorts. He and Bob later had an excellent parlay with the leader of the Venieer.

Matt M's face: "REALLY?!"

It was good to see Indigo again! "Henchman" Trexler came, too, a sight for sore eyes! We had a few fun walks, though somehow we managed to miss every single emissary mod... But I had an especially fun time being with Yaya, Trent, Vince, Indigo and Trex for some fun chats.


Sitting in on the witch hunter's meeting was interesting. Thank-you for the invitation!

Two disturbing marriage proposals....
What...

The fright of seeing Pappa Gypsy in a blue headband...


Will, I love you for getting my Rugrats reference!!!

Oren: Swyft, why are you smoking a cigar?
Swyft: Because I've lost control of my life.



FEAST WAS DELICIOUS. That MEAT tho!

Poor Godrick! I'm glad we were able to get him back. What a sad ending to that ordeal.


Not sure what the heck happened and why there was so much yelling and anger in at main mod in Valandria. You get an order from one knight and yelled at by another, then yelled at by some other people for doing what you just got yelled at to do. I just didn't want people to die... Sadly we lost one. Poor Hamlish.


Fighting with Alander was great! And oh man, when he lost his axe... WOW. The volume...


A memorable NPC role as Flahara, the distraught mother who learned necromancy to keep her son under control. Her son had been turned into a vampire and then became "feral" and a Necrophage. Honestly, we had expected not to last even twenty minutes and it turned into almost two hours of incredible RP from everyone involved. Kaladonia had more patience with us than expected. I had a whole handful of spell packets, ready to go and then I didn't even have the heart to start slinging spells because no one was being a jerk! Clyden had tears in her eyes, she really 'got it'. They sent us to the Phokus to try and get him back. Aldric, Rudy, Angrin, Argyle, Gwynedd, Magnus, Pluvius, and Thalia, who was right at my side, bringing words of wisdom an comfort. Aldric found a way to baptize the spirit and get him untethered from me so that he could pass on. Later on, Ben sent out Vengeance, who was playing my son, Roland, as an angel to reward those involved.
GREAT job, everyone!!! Seriously, that was my best NPC experience, ever!

Going out as the chess playing ogres was hilarious. CUPS! MUGS! Rupert and Vince set us up with a "chess" board of cups and mugs on one of the inn tables and goaded us on into fighting one another. Such miscreants.


Ashe killed Peaches as "Twirl" her ogre with a ponytail on the top of her head that she headbanged-twirled in such a frantic crazy matter that he almost dropped his plate of food from laughing so hard!


Sunday was fairly quiet for me. Found Mae and got to see her for a whopping ten minutes... but at least it was something! Evrat played his usual tricks, but surprised me by carrying me across a huge puddle of water since I didn't have my boots on.

Watched Evrat draw Oren a... picture. Had a Strength lesson via an arm wrestling match with Argyle and Evrat....

This was a crazy weekend, and Swyft actually got to be of decent cheer for most of it. It's nice change of pace not to have something devastating happen to her.
Love you guys and sorry if I missed anyone I had fun times with. Matt, you ran a great event!

Gras will not surely forget Chet, especially his euphoric and enlightening conversations

(OOG) Taylor M

This event…. Was great.

Considering how it started for me on Thursday with a broken Serpentine Belt on my car, I wasn’t terribly positive I could manage to be in character.

But manage I did… and for which I am happy I was able to, for reasons. 

Highlights:
- Walking the lands with Tessa on Friday, checking on various places and seeing to the welfare of others. A throwback on old duties, to be sure, but one that helped get me going for things to come.
- Late night conversations on matters Travance, Various Entities and Blood Spirit. Thos in the conversations know who they are…
- Brazen Mass. Oh man…. When Thalia told Duncan the Dwarves were coming and part of their price to work together was a Mass to Brazen, I had my work cut out for me.

Up until literally when the Dwarves walked into the Inn (where Mass had been moved due to weather), I had not figured out what I would be speaking of. Seeing the two sides squabble over who was sitting where and the importance of making them see why they needed to work together… was the inspiration for the Mass.

Even now, a full 48 hours later, I don’t recall all of what I said. But I do know I gave my best as Brazen would demand I do. I had additional incentive- my RL mom was off to the side and watching/listening and who wants to flub in front of their mom?

I learned later it was the power of my words, of the Sermon, that cemented the alliance between the two Dwarven Nations…. And that they would be looking to try and settle things without axes/hammers into each other.

I guess they both agreed that if failure came against the Null, it would not be them saying to Brazen that it was because of half-assed efforts on their part. I’d call that a win…

Now if the rest of the factions within and without Travance could get on the same damn page…

- The Knighting of Sister Danae. Bravo, Sister!!
- Feast…. Tasty. And the potatoes…. I want more!
- The Planning for the Passage… and the Blood Spirits volunteering to be First Through. When asked why, the answer was simple- “If it’s a shit show on the other side, you want someone who can identify it and immediately come up with something to mitigate it, don’t ye think?”

We got no argument on that… Wound up not having to plan on the fly but still, was ready to do so.
- Pre Passage speech. I tried to inspire some confidence and rally folks. Its RP and Brazen *is* a God of War (war is a craft, after all…). Dunno if it worked but hey, every little bit helps.
- Post passage, the battle and The Gate Repair. Oh man…. That was some crazy stuff. Kudos to the Knights in charge for sending the right teams to grab and gather what was needed… and kudos to the Line for holding against the repeated charges.
- Goose… your secret is safe.
- Post Main food… As is now our tradition, Blood Spirit Cook-fire and after action discussion (aka What the hell just happened?) with Guests (and a knight-delivered RSVP too.)
- Sunday Breakfast and solid conversation with a Paladin of like mind on many things that Duncan calls Friend.


All too soon, it was time to clean up and get stuff ready to go. Thankfully, I could send my gear back with Leslie so I had less to worry about this morning.

Three weeks to Week in the Life, five to Potluck Picnic/Fighter Practice and six to June Event.

Gonna be a busy time soon… look forward to seeing people at all three and remember- get them recaps in!