May 2016 Highlights !!!

Happy Birthdays to all the Pendarvin crew! Much gratitude for everyone who put in effort to make the festivities a huge success!

Congratulations on the most long awaited Knighting of Dame Danae! (Alliteration, I dig it.)
Loudest Knighting ever, confirmed.

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Friday Night NPCs - channeling my inner Madonna Drow.

Embracing the Berserk with Alex and many others. Did it get too real when Geno and I headbutt each other and then headbutt a few more times?
First rule of headbutt fights : Nobody wins.

New vocabulary:
Pigsilver (n): 1. The object you happen to be holding which accomplishes an unrelated task, regardless of it's original purpose; typically of a violent or sexual nature.
"My uncle slew a suspected vampire with a Pigsilver" (ambiguous)

Drinking too much at the party - attempting to be an adventurer - failing ... or was it winning?

Some great RP from new players: The Elves in their very elf costumes - who were you?
The Sewer people. YES. (We must train them) Blank the Goblin - all the things.


Sir Hirgar and Lake learn how to punch each others teeth out.

Pendarvin - literally cosplaying a mountain during main mod, just sitting there, watching things roll off of us.

Sunday I made some really good RP connections with Chet, Lorelai, and a couple of intentionally nameless others.

Cool things are happening! Thanks everyone!

I had a very good (if physically painful game). Here are some highlights.

The Barbarian diplomatic encounter was exactly what I'd hoped for, a ritual battle against many northmen, including Blockus and Craig, who both were fighting their hearts out. I was too, and grim fell, but I felt it was no disgrace really. I gifted Blockus' npc a special rune physrep gifted to Grimkjell during his interactions with the Cheveyo, which shows how seriously he and I both took it.

Grim reacted with a surprising amount of emotion to Starling's demise and return, though it might have seen muted. Grim is more fond of people in the town than sometimes shows, so it was interesting.

Lots of guard administrative things to do, some of them rough IG but really interesting. Grim acting as the commissar and being proud as his sergeants and suboordinates are doing him proud. He is a little sad he doesn't do as much field work, outside of annihilating foes, but he is glad he can trust people to get the job done.

A quiet walk with Red Kestrel and Aiki, and seeing wander and briefly greeting him, and learning a bit of his story. I'm growing quite fond of their RP and personalities, IG and oog. Lending Kestrel a cloak was a nice touch.

I loved all the diplomacy I saw, drinking happily with dwarves, and helping Vis with getting some weird artifact from the rift. Any chance grim gets to fight weird monsters is a good one. Seeing Father arrive with his entourage of perfect homonculi, and realizing how much Grimkjell was inclined to like custom-made beings who knew exactly where their talents lay. He's going to remember and enjoy Gilgamesh especially. Chiseling a bit more out of Father with some casual questioning at the end was very pleasant.

Pendarvin party was a nice party, even counting grim getting his tail kicked in by Peaches in a matched sword tourney (it wasn't his strong suit, and he admitted such).

Some brief talks with Wormwood about things were interesting too, Grim enjoys his insight.

Correctly predicting someone had in fact NOT seen a vampire, based on their reputation and general goofiness.

Seeing a sword made of other swords.

Main mod. WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. Celerity time. Fun with makeup and posing in logistics as a feral vampire lt. Rolling flanks and bashing through the shield wall several time, I felt like I really gave the town a sense of fear and urgency, especially as I rallied entire groups of enemies to hit in waves instead of just respawning piecemeal. I hope you guys enjoyed the somersaults and kip ups I was doing when i really started feeling the combat.

Met some nice new rpers, the elf and naiad? Family. They were great, good players.

Sunday was the day. It was always going to be the day. That moment when I saw all of Kaladonia marching towards me. ME. I knew my year and a half as Plague Drinker was finally gonna end and end awesomely. I won't lie. I super hate latex makeup and always will. But I'll do it for a full makeup role to entertain like a huge ton of my friends, such as I saw marching across Totem Pole towards me. Every fight, every moment, from Caldor half deflating PD's big smack talk, to getting hammered so hard I was making no look parries with my long claws, to Valanye coming after me with Oakenheart's sword, to continually being tricked and forced back by the Trickster and other guardian spirit's, to PD's final spasm of seemingly human determination to make it to the tree, even after he'd lost, was a great thing for me.

Let's not forget the moment with Caelvan when he tried the commune bomb twice. PD's a canny sort, and now Kaladonia will deal with some interesting IG consequences. It was neat to see the entirety of Kaladonia come together over PD for a Killing blow, I definitely felt like I'd done my job of being a hated enemy well. I was deeply flattered Lauren had come to game just to finish out that section of the plot, and that Jason and ree stayed. Everyone had their cool moments with or against PD, and it was great fun. My blight helpers were super excellent, as was my makeup artist, thank you Kayla. And thank you Zach for the opportunity and push. I feel like maybe the biggest contribution i can make at KR is as a Superheel most of the time, just showing up and making PC's lives miserable or more entertaining or both. Now that it's over, I can say the Plague drinker has been a very physically challenging NPC to play, both because of makeup, and because my first showing as him involved me desperately getting over a cold I'd caught the wednesday before game in time to deploy as him friday night. That remaining hacking cough and phlegmy gurgle wasn't acting, that was the last throes of my (Alread noncontagious) illness. The second time was brutal in the fall because it was cold and latex. The third, well, it was very punishing physically, but so rewarding from a level as I saw everyone kinda quail or enjoy fighting me. Everyone just... wanted a piece of him by the end, taunting or insulting him.

I'm sad I didn't get as much time to spend in game as grim because I was busy being a nassssty NPC for you lot, but the truth is, in many ways being a flashy or memorable antagonist is my favorite thing at KR. Grimkjell may not always have or be a spotlight hero, but I can always go to an event and make sure that people are having a fantastic and memorable time as I NPC.



Oh, and don't think I've forgotten Ketryn. Her answers and behavior, and some follow up with Cyndra have opened some really interesting roleplay avenues for Grimkjelll.

It was nice to hear that I was so missed last month. It killed me to be away, but sickly Bill is not good bill to RP with.

Yo, I STILL don't know what that was! I really actually taught itwas a vampire,it sure could.of passed for one!!! I was so out it, just waking up. Maybe a gnome? Sorry to the whole town. It was over so fast, I was done.

Great job this weekend Bill!!! You looked Boss as hell.

OH I ALMOST FORGOT

Impromptu business lessons by papa Gypsy during market faire that actually made me lots of money. Thanks tony! I was very sad when you died

Accidentally potentially taking over Silas Crone's wine business from the Tanwyns.... Sorryyyyyyy

I'm so glad I was able to make part of the event.

The Londwyn meeting was amazing.

GNOMES. VIS. MAGITECH.

Fixing the Gates of Passage on main mod. I don't mind technobabble!

But by far my favorite part of the event was a conversation I had with the Count.

The Count: "I need you to choose the words you use more carefully in public."
Me: "I really can't do that though."
The Count: "Why not?"
Me: "Well you see, for the last ten years, I've been suffering from dementia."
The Count: "So I need you to go see Dr. Maxwell."

I had a lot of highlights this event, but I'm really going to make this short and sweet.


My main highlight of this event was being Knighted. Seriously, I was completely blown away by the response of you guys. I thought Pendarvin was going to break their damn table. And then to hear the second set of shouts of approval from outside. Seriously guys, you know how to make a person feel special. I am lucky to have such great and wonderful friends. Thank you guys for all the encouragement(especially since i ended up needing all of it for my trial by fire during main mod!!)