Event Highlights June 2016

Let me just start this off by saying thank you to everyone at KR. I have been dealing with alot of bad things in my life as of late, even if I dont appear that way when you see me. I thought that these things were going to ruin my mood entirely and downcast my spirits about heading towards this event, but you all helped me in some kind of way even if you hadn't realized it, so thank you so much~ Despite the rare troubles that may occur, I love you all so much and am proud to be a member of KR.

Anywhozzle, this event has by far been the most exhilarating one that I have ever attended! I know that I have only gone to about 4-5 events in total so that may not mean much but like holy cow!

Within this one event, I managed to fight off various monstrosities, learn things that helped build my personality both as a character for KR and as a person IRL, made plenty of new friends and experiences, and had managed to bring a friend so that they could enjoy all of this wonderfulness as well~

Last event, I had felt as though I had been a bad Witch Hunter and that I was going to let everyone down sooner or later, but this event had changed that for me. With the aid of other Travancians, both Witch Hunters and the others alike, I had managed to fight against a Mortal Hunter and a True Warlock along with their lackeys and managed to come out on top. These were feats that I feel as though had honestly built William's confidence.

I had also met people from various lands that would help out with Ostcliff and the other lands at the end of the mod when we had been sent into the portal to release Miranda from Myrinod. Best thing about Main Mod was that Ostcliff had simply potatoed our golem and got to basically sit on it for the remainder of the mod xD

I know that I am leaving out alot but time is short for me right now so im just going to say this last thing. One of the most enjoyable times for me was when I was able to just have some down time at the lake and spend time with Forrest and Sarah (Lilith) and a couple of others. It helped show me that I can still enjoy myself despite the troubled times that seem to occur lately. Sooo yeah ... Thanks for everything KR and I can't wait to see yall at the July event!~ (=w=)7

SERIOUSLY THOUGH, MORE IRL OBSTACLES!!! That was the most fun mod EVER because I actually got to BE Wili. KR needs a ropes course. OR Travancian ninja warrior.

Really sad I missed Miranda's bar crawl for NPC duty Y'all come back now, y'hear?

NPCing spider monkey acrobat assassin ninja for Damian... a glimpse into Wili's future, and I like it.

LAKE!!!! OH so refreshing after practicing the gauntlet a million times and getting all sweaty and gross. Remind me to bring my floaties in August.

This was our first time coming. I was Dustiria the alchemist part of the trio that included Gauis the smith and Selphatos the north man. I have to say thank you to all the kind marshals and players who were so very kind to us from the moment we arrived and helped us find a great place to sleep with power for my husbands cpap, didn't mind all of our many questions, and checked on us so often. To all who ran this amazing even thank you for all your hard work!

As to highlights. It was nice having a new player mod so we could get our feet wet. NPCing was a blast! Especially our goblins. Loved the look on our Marshall's face when we said look we even brought back a human. Best thing all the nice people who made us welcome. It's been a while since we have been able to role play so in depth. So much fun!

My first highlight isnt going to sound like the usual but it needs to be here.

This is the first time in recent memory i can recall Travance ALL of Travance working like a team and even if not in total agreement doing the plans still doing the plans and...really coming across as heros even to Birgitta.

Thats not a game highing but a Game highlight.

Now for a few others...

A Blood Spirit clling out Commander running at high speed coming around the corner of the Inn. NPC in hot pursuit. ITurn look up and say what as he comes to a sliding stop beside me. NPC coming around comes to a stop as he points and I bring up Dragon Fang... NPC immediately turns tail and runs away. I look at him. You ok? Yes he replies. Now. Good problem solved.

Mirrormere in the Encampment prowling around. Hey theres the Count. I turn take one look. Nope... Your Grace are you ok? I get the expected no response . I started to circle him as hes looking around in through everything. Your Grace?

Duncan calls out. I think you might need to spirit to talk to him. Yes Duncan I know i need to catch his... James finally focuses on me. Spirit of the Dragon. I call and immediately growl out low who are you looking for?

Ummm yeah... New Contract. Make sure no one interferes. This MUST be done. When the Dragon and His Grace agree and you find yourself sadly nodding... Its gonna be an emotional upheaval.

Berak and the Count. Sitting at the table knowing the signs moving while having to tell a guard...no one stops this. Trust me it needs to go like this. Please do nothing no matter what happens. We got this. Dunns smelling salts coming asap for use.

It was.

Making a net with hyper speed assist to a master smith for 2500 Jack. Yeah spells alchemy and otger and six hours becomes 10 grueling minutes of arm agonizing pain OOG.

Getting to watch everything in your plan shape and reshap then go off as planned down to the make a hole and slide left and rights the entire town pulled off. Gods i was impressed! Travance might actually be able to fight with Full Military Precision some day.

Birgitta is thrilled!!!!

Ancient Dryad watching the Encampment and the game of Charades. This was shortly after the Counts visit too... Not our Mod but...yes we can be plot hooks... Thanking Mirallas and Caldor for teaching the old sword how to open hands but stay defensive while doing so.

Tellinghast Group Battle Cry Spirit of the Dragon Call of the Blood Spirits.... Angiliana Birgitta why is Atrus' eyes glowing blue. Grin.

And getting to RP use a Breath Weapon... Freeze the box please...indeed.

Knowing where the eggs were going how they were going and being a part of their gathering.

Finding out the meeting with His Excellency that didnt happen didn't need to happen because we somehow naturally know hat he needs us to do. I kid you not. Truth.

Caldors ritual and knowing we would have to defend it. Yes kiddies I said both ends of the field...here they come as stated...no not all of you they will try here too...8 on 2! Gods damn it.

Others filter back. Better. Lets do this.

Enter at end of ritual behind accertain beloved Enaxian Priest.

Angry Dragoon.... Walk past Karkat. The first step to her is anger! My reply. Its also very Dragon! I heard Miranda giggle. Oh shit and its nice to meet you Maam. Lol

Good lord tgeres more but soeep calls after the 10+ hour shift.

Loved this weekend. Massive thanks to everyone for consistently raising the bar in my KR expectations, each and every event I attend.

- Friday night I ended up spending a lot more time in the Inn than I expected, but I had a few really interesting conversations that pushed character for Starling - a really interesting talk with Coran Tanwyn, watching Jackdaw interact with (and nearly get stabbed by) the Baron, Starling's continued horror at the idea that Magnus just sleeps on the side of the road. After heading out of the Inn during one of the attacks on Friday night (and mostly hanging back healing a few people, waiting to see how seriously she was needed), having Therion tell Starling she's not one of the lazy healers? THAT spurred a moment of self-reflection for the character, and it was great.

- I had an absolute blast doing a quick role as an NPC up at the caravans, and getting to surprise the PCs with a maniacal laugh out of the darkness. (Apparently, nobody was paying attention to me up on the top of one of the wagons. I am very, very proud of doing that role in 6" heels, and making up an evil monologue mostly on the spot.)

- Waking up Saturday morning some time around 7:30 to strangers walking into our camp, which was alarming. Poked my head out of my tent long enough to see them start to share a drink with Jun, think, "Okay, things are fine, going to crawl back into bed for another hour or so," and then I hear someone shout "Mortal Hunters!" Nope. Not fine. Not bed. Lots of gunfire. That was certainly a frightening way to begin Saturday!

- Morning camping down in Drega was really exceptionally fun - everyone who we camped with, or who turned up for coffee and breakfast, thank you, you were all great!

- I knew there were more puppets coming. I did not expect Count Sebastian Puppetdark. (Or that Puppet Cade and Real Cade would accidentally be wearing the same shirt.) Lark is a genius at puppetmaking and I can't wait to see what she makes next!

- Everyone who took part in or came to watch the Mock Trials: AMAZING. A+. It was really hard not to laugh the whole time ("That testimony was true! Thus it is wholly inadmissible!" and Clytie using some seriously convoluted logic to get the information she wanted recognized by the puppet judge. Loon The Completely Unpredictable. Kardin brought himself up on charges. Osprey was convicted of being a giant spiderperson. Magnus v Jackdaw was glorious. This mock trial was good times.)

- Also, you are all on notice re: swearing during unofficial "official" functions. Starling will be bringing the swear jar back if needed.

- I LOVED the Hobbit Cheese mod. It was an incredible way to engage both combat-oriented and less combat-oriented PCs, thank you everyone involved in coming up with and executing that! The extended chase sequence with the .... trolls, I guess? and the small, screaming bag of "cheese" was actually a bit suspenseful, and then going from feeling pleasantly heroic and successful to "oh crap the cheese is poison" in about two minutes was great whiplash.

- Saturday saw some really interesting conversation with blue Kestrel, which put both of us onto a path I'm really excited to follow in the long term! Starling rarely expresses her actual feelings about the crew, and this was a really touching opportunity.

- The new player Mortal Hunter mod was also great - I dove into the fight more than usual to try and get people up off the ground, (which sadly meant I couldn't just stand back with Zinnia's parasol, much as I wanted to), and at one point screamed at one of the monsters who was attacking a crew member. That is not, strategically, sound practice when one is an unarmed Healer whose only defense is to run the hell away.

- I went onto NPC shift for Main Mod, and ended up with something really unexpected: playing the statue for the Statue and the Waterfall Riddle, and the ghost for the obstacle course part of the rooms. Both teams seriously rocked their parts, so kudos y'all. (And I really loved the number of townspeople that walked past the statue and had to stop and stare at me. I less loved the waiting around alone in the woods before/after, but I was not, in fact, eaten by a bear, so that is a plus.)

- Post-NPC: Whoops we accidentally got chased by the vampire. Because everyone in Winged Victory/Drega Camp except five of us were up at the Inn/doing paperwork/had to leave after Main Mod, and we decided to stick around camp. .... So smart. I discovered I can apparently project screams all the way from Drega to Alisandria, and then I ran face first into dead tree branches. Ow. Thanks to Nalick and Seiko and all the folks who I didn't see/identify in the dark for coming to our rescue when we couldn't effectively run away, and thanks to the NPCs and the Nosferatu for creating a rad situation to run with! And causing us to actually lose Crane in the woods for a while.

- Sunday morning's wakeup was best NPCs. Rat people running around with a watermelon (where did you guys even get the watermelon?) Props to Osprey for solving the problem by cutting it open for them, it earned us half a watermelon. Yummm.

- Had a lesson with Hazel that turned into a much longer, very interesting conversation about healing and Travancian tactics. Which was interrupted as I turned to see Oren across the field, lifting up a picnic table while teaching Jackdaw things. "Jackdaw, if you try to pick up a table, and you hurt yourself, you are on your own..."

I'm not sure where to start In no particular order:

To the other Katinese man. (Sorry that I can't remember your name). I loved the interaction that our two characters shared. You made me and Shino feel truly welcome when I felt rather out of place and wondering what I should do or where to go.

Was in Travance for two seconds before Shino's sword was taken without any warning and broken down and reforged. Freaked out, and was told by two to three other players ICily that 'this happens to new people all the time. Don't worry about it..'

Being surprised near the tavern. Was trying to catch where the shooting stars were and then was attacked by a drow. I could only see the black face, white hair, and the gleeming white teeth as I was layed out flat. Someone came over and then healed me before I died. Had a couple characters come up to shino, including Ardin Silverbow to remind him politely yet firmly remind him that she was just as new and trying to find her place in the world as he was.

The unnamed perfect warlock our group ran into in the woods near Alisandra. I was near the back and heard "enough of this.. take them!" Or something along the lines in a large booming voice. And then the screaming began. Being only a level five, and knowing a perfect warlock was way way above my level, had a moment of real panic and ran. (Brave sir robin ran away away, sir robin ran away.) Ended up being lost in the woods and winding up in the parking lot before figuring out where I was, and then making it back to the tavern where I panted out what had happened.

Was shocked to find out that people already knew about it, and really didn't give a shit at first.

Saturday was spent inquiring on what others did, where they went.

Thank you so much to the two girls who helped me by getting me a bunch of water/Gatorade and a brownie to snack on. I am grateful both IC/OOC.

I had a hard time trying to figure out what was IC and what was ooc as I felt that I was being talked to by two seprate people by one person at once. That's confusing, but I hope you guys know what I mean.

Being part of the short lived search party! Happy ending as both groups found each other.

Random woman who tapped out 'shave and a hair cut' on the breast of Shino's armor. It was sudden and unexpected. 'Huh?' Was the only thing he was able to get out. Loved the huge beaming smile that you gave my character but inside I just couldn't say anything, was rather surprised and taken off guard. And before I had a chance to ask your name and talk (and gather my wits), you were gone.

To the guard allowing Shino to shadow them for the afternoon on one of their patrols around Travance. Laughed at the antics of the rat people looking for food and shinies, and the gathered guards slight annoyance, before Ketryn volunteered to help the rats learn how to hunt. That didn't end up so well, and they ended up chasing the rats off after they all jumped her.

The feast and the speech afterwords. The warning that if anyone tried to go where they shouldn't be, or try to stop the town from releasing the ultimate evil, they'd be cut down instantly. That sent chills down my spine.

Being asked what I could do, and truthfully responding with 'I can fight' and getting some laughter from the rest of the group. At the moment, that's all my character knows in terms of skill. Now that I think of it.. I should of added that I was well educated and could read,write,do math,ect. But that's all in hindsight. Not really sure if that was a statue or a ghost we passed on the way to the battle. Was a bit afraid that it would come to life and attack us.

A shout out to Fyodor for taking me under his wing during main mod. His constant reassurance and praise that we were doing such a good job made the tension of standing there waiting bearable because-

Totally thought that we were going to be jumped by a huge mob from behind and to the sides waiting to go through the gate.

The mass chaos that was the golem fight, and fighting the lesser elemental golems that attacked us from time to time. Forming a large ring of protection of blades, axes and shields around the healers.

From pure chaos to stunned silence in seconds with everyone else as the prison walls tumbled down. The sudden flood of relief as I realized that I made it through without dying.

I was part of the NPC crew that caused Starling to run into the tree. Went over to check if she was okay before going back with the skele-bros and vampires. We hit everywhere, (My shock as the lord of tears turn around and imploded one vampires head and told the rest of us to scram.) possessed two people, and hit the tavern. Which brings me to my next post.

Being killed as a NPC and then looking over to see Fiona- like a calm in the middle of a ranging storm. That movie effect when shits flying everywhere and the person is just walking through everything unfazed? That was what I saw play out.

PS. Thank you for those who asked if I was okay after I tripped going up the side tavern entrance twice.