December Highlights!

Came in just for Saturday, which was really nice given the cold and that the statehouse was going to be packed. I had just enough of a good time.

Pics, finally, since I (also finally) got to wear my new armor. Thanks to everyone for their compliments and such

Was nearly killed shortly thereafter (stupid Boarzhu). I may have kicked someone when I was laying on the ground flailing and armless before being fed to stupid Boarzhu, sorry about that. Many thanks to Ilana and Tris for patching me up and keeping me safe, and to whomever it was that grew my arms back.

Learned Dissect from Lady Kleidin and Intercept from Cyrik. Small but important skills which I feel will help round out my gameplay quite nicely for the time being.

Tarot reading from Carlos... I kept trying to process it IG but dammit, it was too close to my OOG job sitch. Perspective all the same.

Feast was great. Major props to the kitchen folks for making the best of a bad situation. You can't even say they did well with what they had to work with, they did well, period.

Abbreviated Kaladonia Pie Mod because drive home, but still a nice time. Went to QuickChek on the way home and forgot I still had woad on my face. Oops.

Good times, everyone. Until next time!

It's been nearly 3 years, I suspect, when the last time I played Odo. Maybe less, but it certainly feels that way. All the new faces, old but new faces, old but older faces! Goodness me, it was a shock.

My one out of game highlight came when I played Shane's imps. Seems someone tried to stuff too many elementals in the heating unit and exploded. Heading back to logistics, beaten, ball-tapped, and sore. I stumble past Brian Hahn doing make up. His retort to me bleating out my woes;

"Hey Tom, welcome back to Knight Realms." Indeed, Brian. Indeed.

Saturday, I came back as Odo. Stepping onto the porch of Kaladonia, I am besieged by Imps. Several in fact. My mind revved, my muscles twitched, and before long, I was sprinting down hill, only for the lot to chase after me. Dispatching most of them, a group of new folk came down to clean up as I roared and swiped and bashed and fought.

After I caught my breath and performed 2 Blood Fury moves, a healer comes over and asks "Excuse me, are you okay?" I, not realizing her request was of healing and not well-being simply grunt "I'm fine, how are you?" to a titter by some others realizing the joke before I did. Much hand shaking and hugs by others as I wandered to the Inn for market faire.

To whomever was selling that blanket and the blanket seller's boss, it's SO refreshing to see goblins as shifty cheats than as savage fodder.

The feast was simply amazing. The pre-feast snack was such a nice surprise. I did not have the dessert, but by then, I was full and tired.

The rust on this meat machine is being flaked off and I will be more eager, polished, and interactive next time!

I await more Enax fun as well!

I may have been at the event for only like 20 hours but it was amazing. So much rp. Thank you to storytellers and James for the great game

Starting out with a quick scene NPCing a character I hoped I'd get to play again one day. 20 minute scene but SO worth the time to get in and out of makeup and costume. Excited to get to play her again.

Jump into game as rook and immediately get pulled into portal jumping planning meetings. Rook out loud having to say "I understand I will not be returning from the abyss and am willing to take that risk" was kind of a terrifying moment for her. But set up for some fantastic rp.

Making it out of the abyss alive and them being asked to step down as squire. Somehow end up interviewing for the commissioner position (Belegchand is good at twisting words and intentions ). That entire interview. Probably the most emotionally trying rp I've done. Rook revealing her real name. A tiny bit of her backstory. The super super awkward silence after she revealed that. You could have heard a pin drop downstairs in that silence.

Stepping out so they could discuss if she got the commissioner job. Coming back in and becoming Barak's squire instead. So excited for what this holds for the future!

Lessons. All the lessons. Giving lessons. Teaching climb is my favorite lesson hands down. Learning lessons.... 6 lessons in all! finally started my master warrior lessons! Woo!

The fact that my master warrior lesson turned into "You need to hit me on the butt before I'll pass you" rook and annora are too funny together. I enjoyed our romp in the dirt.

Hat shenanigans.


Again, short weekend but so much fun. Can't wait to see you all at the banquet!

"Grim. Break the staff!"

Grim shakes his head and says, "I can't."

That was fun. So was NPCing being the incompetent mage who blow'd up a hole into the plane of fire. Massive props to Justin for being my pardner on that one, he was really selling it while I was off causing various kinds of havoc. While getting fired, even IG can be a cringey subject, we somehow made it work.

A talk with Lord Silverbow, and a kind offer.

Throwing dead bodies through a gate.

Realizing afterwards just how many people grim will talk to and work with to do his job, and pursue his goals.

Making real friends with Zelretch.

Learning about what snogging meant. Seeing Matt's face when grim said, "I REFUSE TO BELIEVE" since I know he knows the quote.


Being proud that my idea to help Bear was a big hit on newbie mod and helped kill the demon.

Feast, of course. I took a one month break from serving, and instead hung out with my family and had a very raucous and fun dinner. It was worth the break.

Being a secret sneakybeak teacher to a secret sneakybeak.

Being thanked for doing torches along the path.





Watchin Tobias win at being Pioneer surgeon forever. What a farewell event. What conversations we had. Grim is shook.

The aftermath of everything with Arabeth and Bran. Grim was already burdened because of various revelations. Now he's almost broken.

Fighting demons is always fun, particularly if Chris Zipeto is playing them. I feel like it was bad form to fall back to the battle line, and a little bit of dishonor on Grim's part for doing so, but the goal in the Abyss wasn't to die gloriously, but to win. He won't ever stop feeling less bad about it though.

Goose was a kickass mod boss, and Michaela was quite hardcore on the front lines too. I was suitably impressed.

Shrike mod was of course excellent, making a stand on the bridge, then charging into the woods after Arradir, and confronting the entire group of the weird bushes alone while snarling MIIIINE over Arradir's slumped body was great. Don't touch Grim's people.

Lois and Grim had some great roleplay, from bonding and talking of dreams, to a really nasty verbal confrontation where she apparently shoved him, to a little hand squeeze of reassurance before her brain surgery.

Various awkward talks with Bob about various things, while everyone else is off doing psychic surgery.

Seeing Belegchand at full math elf power, with his scroll for every situation.

Grim seeing Keillor again was interesting. A transcendent being is a worrisome thing to the northman.

Finding out a way to save one of the homonculi, and the possible cost to himself and everyone else made for some excellent moral conflict for Grim.

Having an interesting conversation with Coran about Homonculi and the future of travance, and feeling extremely upset by it. The roleplay was excellent!

Chasing Gene's stupid imp around the inn until being told that sadly, he couldn't just kill the Maleficarum.

Actually going berserk at Karen's boss thing.

Getting wrecked in the face by a horrible combination of plant monster that ate a homonculi. I never minded getting hit by assassinate less.

Realizing grim was in the absolute front of the column as travance marched off to war, and realizing that this was very fitting.

Various rps with jackdaw, Starling, and interactions in passing with the winged Victory. Grim is now more openly fond of them.

The brief interaction with the dealer of the maker's mark runes was also nice.

Waking up to a possible murder investigation, which ended in clearing a towns member and arresting a cultist. Arresting another cultist who ended up dead at Grim's hands after it was clear he was an iredeemable monster. (And had no info we needed).

Finding out and snarling when informed the Mother was behind the Abyssal spear.

Being actually worried coz barak was briefly dead.



Dara being there and instantly picking up on and embracing Bear's role in the family.

Working well with all the other guard officers. Getting to actually fight with Erik, and realizing grim's attitude towards the Lance Squad is rather like of that of Alexander and his companions. They all drink and boast and drive each other to acts of more and more reckless bravery.

Seeing Caldor drunk and sad.

Running around teaching people about dangerous creatures on Sunday.

training shift was great, it was a joy to learn to be a football coach of sorts for my mans, and the undead rush at night on the INn against the witch hunters was a fun battle to watch and direct while white headbanded. I'm glad nobody was severely injured, and people seemed to love the fight.

A thoughtful talk with Swyft.

Hearing Aleister give a warning about the abyss, responding as though it were directedto me, then being told it wasn't.This realization was actually flattering. He knew I knew the risks, and wasn't going to be afraid.

Making a joke with Aleister about whether eating a second cookie was treasonous, and having barak be the one to explain it to him.

Wren and Erik try to fix a possesed man. They mean well but I dont think the man, or the good doctor, appreciated their methods.

Friday 5am, Wren and Dirge are chatting in Ostcliff room. A nosferatu bursts in and is swiftly dealt with. We go back to chatting and think nothing of it, until we hear the whole Inn fighting. Shirtless and shoeless Wren and Dirge shamble downstairs to fight the undead; no shoes, no shirt, no problem.

Saturday parties and relaxing, nap, then mainmod npc shift leading up to the AWESOME Shrike mod. A bit of intense Rp after with a few involved, some much needed decompression snack time with Nesterin and then to bed.

Sunday morning and waking up to enact plan "Yule Faeries". Olivia and Wren dress up as Yule Faeries and drink greater invisibility potions so they can galavant around like bell twinkling idiots and hand out candy and gifts to all. Sky and I had the idea a few days before the event and set about making all the candy packets while we chatted via texts, definately put us in the Yule spirit. We had so much fun and we're glad everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.

Riverbane wrote: The biggest highlight for me involved a sad tale of a down and out peanut farmer and a dead beloved pet. Everyone's reaction was priceless, from people running out of the inn because they were laughing to hard to keep character to Zach's epic face palm when I returned to Logistics with a mug full of money.

Poor Stampy.