November 2016 Event Highlights!

Wow. I've been coming to KR for long time now, and this was by far my favorite event. What a warm welcome back! To everyone who made it clear just how much they missed having me around: thank you. You've done my spirits a world of good. Really, if I could just make this whole event a highlight I would.

Also, it was a real delight to meet so many new faces. I'm looking forward to getting to know our more recently joined players!

Friday night: Josephine found her long lost Uncle Gideon a lot more easily than she expected. Bear hugs ensued! From that moment on, the remainder of the event was a whirlwind of introductions.

Saturday:

New Player mod was hysterical. Thank you so much Matt and Kate. We were invited to fight the imaginary friends of a strange woman in exchange for prizes. Dirge and I went first! Pleasure to meet you Dirge! Let's show the kids how its done! Ow, there go both my legs! Cue me brandishing my sword and shield at Dustin, Black Knight style, while he looks down at me with amusement. My next round I fought beside a delightful young soul (a coasthavener?) named Wolfram. Pleasure to meet you! The best part of this mod however was when the final fight againt 'the big pookie' began. Matt emerged wearing a true warlock mask and Dirge literally yelled "Nope!" and tried to skedaddle. However he found himself physically restrained by myself and another. That was when he got ashed by an incinerate. And then the fight was on! Thanks again to our new player marshals for such a blast!

Missing light mass and winding up at enaxian mass instead. Close enough???

Having the bards entertain us before feast was completely brilliant.

Alexi and I sat across from Utgard and Amalthea at feast, but somehow I wound up sitting between Trent and Creepy Bard. Poor Josephine just doesn't know what to do with those two. I, however, loved it.

Hanging out with Trent after feast

Main mod: standing in a proper line and fighting. Somehow finding myself with the Bloody Spirits Thoroughly impressed with their fighting. I even got a kiss from their commander!

Pie mod!

Sunday:

Tris and I letting Gideon know what was the what.

Demon fight!

Friday got a little scary right off the bat (see what I did there?) with the demon and his hungry crew jumping our party of roustabouts. Amalthea and I did some bonding and when things got too crazy, we had to book in opposite directions.

Swyft learned how to pretend to be a rock that night. It worked, but there was an awful moment where I thought they saw that I was, indeed, not a rock.

Saw Kendrick again. Swyft did her best to avoid him because she was worried about the confrontation, since he'd believed in her and all. When he finally caught up with her. It was a sad, sad story. I felt terrible to have disappointed him, but at least he wasn't angry. It was a very heartfelt talk that never devolved into anger.

Getting to see Mary and Chris again was wonderful. I very much enjoyed Josephine, her new character and it was nice to see Alexis, the Romani healer.

Well, that trial was something. A little sad I had to miss a chunk of it, but it was nice to help out the guard, again.

Much fun in main mod with Drega'group. I really enjoyed that everyone listened to Aleister and Angelican and kept a pretty tight formation for the most part. Even when we got scattered here and there, we were able to regroup in pretty decent time.

Aleister is the king of intercept.

Storytime with Karkat! Again!!! Murder kicked into high gear! Oh, the hilarity. We actually got to continue from the first time. Chapter Two was amazing. I'm so glad Karkat thinks solely of all of our delicate ears when he changes and censors things in the sentences. Also, dialogue delivery: A+ I think Nalick actually almost died.

Late night vengeance achievement unlocked.

Wonderful role play conversation with some unorthodox folks on Sunday afternoon. Can't wait to see where that goes!!!

Was great to see everyone as usual and we were so lucky that we actually had one event with GOOD WEATHER. I forgot what that felt like... Thanks to players and staff!

New Player mod was also a blast! Thanks Matt and Kate for coming up with something so fun can't wait to work with you more in the future Kate you were awesome as the crazy summoner! 10/10 would be one of your pookies again lol. Even though it was an accidental mod collision, I loved your npc sending her pookies to fight off the other attacking monsters coming up the path. That was a perfect ig solution!

Calven: 2
Barony: 0
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So it's been awhile, this was my 2nd event back since I stopped my hiatus. Yay having a job that lets me larp.

Anyway, I definitely enjoyed this event quite a bit and of course A+ to the staff, npcs and pcs who made this event enjoyable. Please no offense intended if I leave someone out or forget something, I'm still recovering.

Friday Night
-Woo! got to the camp early, nice and comfy settling in period after a 4 and a half hour drive.
-Got the shift I wanted to npc +1 awesome.
-I get to play an assassin? And not just an assassin but a ninja? Sweet. Running around and blending and catching people off guard was a blast for me, even if the only thing that worked was Waylay. Deflect....*clenches fist* why you able block backstab attacks? oh well.
-The npc roleplay as part of Apezu's group was solid once we really got into it, and later going out with both Apezu and Boarzu for the remainder of the shift was great trying to come up with hairbrained schemes to draw people out of their cabins.
-During that second outing, I don't know your name bro, but you seemed newer and wore a tricorne cap. A+ courage man, and very sneaky hide in shadows, was fun RPing looking for you and witnessing your little escape. *claps*
-Also, Kaladonia, *snickers* you people are awful, letting an innocent man get brutalized right outside the door and you won't even help him? *heehee*

---Pass Out---


Saturday it's Willow Time!

*spends requisite hour and a half getting costuming and makeup on*

-Wandering around being legit INC and OOC tired, roleplaying a lethargic dryad. Taking a nap underneath hussy tree while I was listening to Mass. Then being woken up by a Valos Cookie, which were spectacularly delicious, just soft enough, my favorite batch so far. Thanks Aldric/Dave!

-Carrot Puns and inappropriate jokes with Nalick and Renee's Satyr (I really wish I'd gotten your INC name)

-Interactions with Leafka and Penelope, I loved you two, very fun to RP and I'm super glad some excellent new blood has made it into this game! Leafka's accent was on point, pro job for maintaining it the whole time you were INC.

-Teaching people how to heal? WTF? I never expected to have pupils...like....ever. Sweet!

-Treasure Hunt Mod, getting enslaved and exposing some of Willow's offensive abilities he never uses. Also, BUFF ALL THE PEOPLE WITH THORN STRIKE MUAHAHAHA! *runs out of DP* Damn...

-God so many bards actually performing at this event. I loved it. Music really improves the atmosphere tenfold. The little Bard Concert prior to feast was definitely a massive high point of my event. It solidified my escape from the real world. Because for at least an hour, I really forgot where I was, because I truly believed I was in a fantasy world, enjoying a simple pleasure, the laughter, the entertainment, then feasting like a boss. I can honestly say it was in my top 3 highlights for the event. Seeing everyone laughing and stamping their feet and clapping their hands. I laughed so hard I cried and my makeup ran. The romani who did the kalinka, you were brave and it was awesome. *starts singing chicken song*

-Main Mod after feast was such a blindside. And it was awesome. I was honestly taxed to the limit on my healing capabilities and actually having to triage was a hoot. Staff and NPCs did an amazing job setting the scene for an epic encounter with a horde of possessed and higher circle demons. When I saw the red glow in the distance, it did seem as if the forest ahead was on fire. And when we took the field, hearing the hooting and hollering and cackling of the demons really strapped me into the hotseat.

-NPCs on main mod, I saw you getting beat on, I know it hurts and sometimes folks don't pull their blows, but being able to scream and make that much noise, scared the kindling out of Willow. So many broken limbs(see what I did there?). But you guys did an amazing job, especially when things would get quiet, and you'd then all Death Charge the frontline, I watched our battle line take a few steps back when you rushed forward, and that's powerful stuff.

-One possessed breached the line, unloading a flurry of skills on everyone they could hit as they charged the triage, I got clocked with an incinerate, and having single digit body points and no defense, yeah...IN THAT SAME 3 seconds...Sir Pluvious picking me up and getting me healed. It was definitely one of those Willow coming to and being like "What happened? Oh Hi Pluvious!" I was legitimately happy to see him there.

-Seeing how hard Triage was working through the piles of bodies being brought back to us, and me helping with what I could. It was fun seeing the healers having to work. I know I had fun feeling important, and the INC graciousness of most of the people I healed before they stormed into battle again really made me feel needed and appreciated. I just wish I wasn't so damn squishy.

-The roleplay afterwards to help us all wind down after one hell of a (see what I did there too?) main mod. The Stones and Fishers cracked me up, I'm glad the NPC's had the opportunity to relax a little and have some comical RP after the combat heavy.

-His Highness Aluisious Barnabas III your RP was slaying me, it was almost literally everything I had to keep a straight face and not break character to laugh. You reminded me of a walking Monty Python skit.

-Late night chats with folks by the fireside and story sharing outside the Manor. Good times.

-My brush with death so to speak. Walking down the path towards Winterdark, seeing three silhouettes moving in the brush to my right, asking "Are you bears?" not getting a response and realizing they were not rabbits, and backing away slowly and taking the OTHER way back to the Manor. Subsequently being told later that there are coyotes in the camp, and while sitting fireside hearing the entire pack howling and yipping after I presume catching some prey...Yeah..........

All in all, super fun event in lots of respects. I'll definitely be back in December! I'm so...sore.....but it hurts so good! *falls over*

Bringing a Tribe member to Travance.

Vampire hunting, finding nothing, and deciding she needs to separate herself from her brother's control so she can grow.

Her brother finally letting her go and telling her, "I'm proud of you, I love you, and you better make it home tonight."

Mentally preparing for Witch Hunter trials and getting support from all of her friends. So much emotional weight behind everything everyone was doing in the hours before.

Waking up her chaplain to tell him she passed.

Legacy.

This was probably the most emotionally taxing event thus far for Reyna, and it only gets harder from here. Thank you to everyone who helped her and advised her. She will carry this month with her forever.