December Highlights!

-George's 'Writ of Weird Demon Stuff' after acquiring horns for obliterating a demon legionnaire

-All my 'do not use these trinkets. Making pacts with succubi is dumb' posts and the imp thinking he got them all (more than I expected survived the day)

-Actually getting to add to the scholars tome. I did all the research throughout the night and then was able to add notes from last year to try and expand on it.

-Taking the New Players on a not new player mod. It was a shotgun decision and they ran with it so well. I was fortunately called the 'fun new player marshal' by a returning player/friend. Ilana rewarded her brave new adventurers for their efforts.

Pssst, New Players
If you're interested in random 'field trip' mods with the reward I gave you, fill out your event recaps and let staff know/let me know. Ilana is an explorer, I am more than fine taking people to places we should probably not be going (aka vote for Ilana/Mars to be Ms. Frizzle. You'll make my new year. It'll be fiiiiine.)

-Dirge noticing Oros on the mod and going 'Wait, is this not a new player mod? I can take the gloves off?' *Me looking at the NPCs* "Yes, please Dirge. Take them off" and Tom's ' :lol: ' face.

-George's birthday party mostly a success (and briefly attempting to drag Boarzhu up the Ostcliff hill to the party for George to 'eat'. Too many people in crit to play that game though)

-Becoming a Master of the Mage's Guild and trying super hard to be 'official' and not my usual snark about mages:
"We need to be the governing force on magic here. Our word is law. Are we all in agreement?"
"Um, well, past experiences are causing flags, but I will get used to this eventually."

To George outside: *shouting* "They're in here talking about mage stuff! Just give me a minute."
To everyone inside: *quietly* "Er, right, eventually get used to this."

-The 'betrayal' of Karl. I think we just wanted to 'root' for the little guy ("...she can dominate imps. Are we really surprised?")

-Arabeth I won't be super detailed, not my place, but the usual vindictive Ilana decided to give up her vendetta against Mother as a result and to enjoy what gifts she has been given. Has the river finally settled into a lake? (or at least a stream?) We'll see.

I got 10 people to play "Loser is the Winner" Friday night. It was only two rounds, but I had fun trying to talk people into participating. Some people even bought the loser candies separately just to try them and see what all the fuss was about!

Maeve got a reading from Carlos. It hasn't started to make much sense yet outside of the near past part, but I am sure it will. Carlos also gave her a tarot deck, which was very special to Maeve. Maeve has spent a lot of time around Sergei and his kin and she knows the importance of the gesture. I am looking forward to learning more about the art of tarot reading so I can do things with it IG as Maeve.

Yelling, "George! Welcome back to the family!" across the inn after seeing he had horns again on Saturday morning, but also having some great 'you sure you got this?' style RP about it over tasty garlic bread and telling him he probably owed Ilana something pretty for causing her so much worry.

Lovely chats with Leliana at George's birthday party, which was interrupted by demons attacking Ostcliff.

Tris: Morwenne, can I knit you a cocoon?

White headbanding to witness Bran's steep descent into crystallized madness. To everyone who brought their A game with that scene - you have my utmost respect as roleplayers.

I didn't do a whole ton this game, but I didn't pressure myself either, which I think was very important. I had the best time I have had at KR in a very long time. Thank you to everyone who interacted with Maeve, no matter how big or small the interaction.

Maeve Hesperus wrote: Yelling, "George! Welcome back to the family!" across the inn after seeing he had horns again on Saturday morning, but also having some great 'you sure you got this?' style RP about it over tasty garlic bread and telling him he probably owed Ilana something pretty for causing her so much worry.

^^^^^ (My inner Ilana thanks Maeve )

GJSchaller wrote: Running into combat as Carlos, then realizing I wasn't playing Gideon any more... RUN AWAY!

HAH! Best!

My plan - Play heimdell and run a new player mod

What actually happened - run 3 new player mods, mm boss for gene, marshal hours of research, team up with Ben Herman to entertain players till 6 in the morning... Spend 75% of my game in various headbands running mods...

In essence "everything went better then expected "

In no particular order...

- Reminding a good few people of the actual status of Jackdaw and Starling's relationship and getting to watch the awkward. (I think Caldor wins for best reaction this weekend.)

- Running upon the Apezhu fight down by Alisandria on Friday night involved a lot of really timely healing. Exciting fights to heal in are my favorites.

- Sunday morning circumstances allowing for Alexei to conveniently do a series of healing lessons on the same very unfortunate target. Sorry, Nightingale....

- Staff lessons with Aiki, consultation and encouragement provided by Red Kestrel... which included actual lessons, because I'm monstrously awkward with any weapon.

- Saturday Brunch, healers and physicians meeting, everyone there was stellar. .

- Starling really enjoyed getting to know the Heargens a bit more, and learning more about their family and their culture. It made being up early(ish) on Saturday totally worthwhile.

- Late night Research lesson with Belegchand that veered in directions Starling was absolutely not anticipating, it was a really incredible, quiet, but meaningful moment--and involved questions nobody's ever thought to ask her before.

- Winged Victory CIVIL WAAA--I mean, internal strife. Magpie, Nightingale, Peacock, Albatross, you all make me so proud OOG and so completely frustrated and angry IG. Starling actually had to put on her Starmom hat and scold the children.

- The lead up to main mod and Starling telling people they weren't allowed to die. Sorry, nope, not permitted, you'll be grounded if you don't come back from the Abyss. (the feeeeeeeelllls). Extra points for emotional moments to both Kestrels, Jackdaw, Amalthea, Thalia, Rook. Starling stepped into a role in the Not In The Abyss fight that she'd never tried before (thanks Amalthea) and it went surprisingly well!

- Continued strife with Jackdaw. Clarification of marital status and an awful lot of "Stop doing that, I'm not delicate."

- Winged Victory goes back to alliance with Drega and promptly has Such Great interactions! Negotiations, meetings, more negotiations, surprise! vassalships, actual ships, various he said/she said/wait what moments. Good stuff, Drega'mire.

- Late Saturday night: I'd already gone to bed when HomuncuLanius showed up.... in the sweet spot of acoustics where the fight actually sounds like it's happening IN the attic. Thought about it for a while. Decided I couldn't sleep and probably someone might need to get healed, so came downstairs in my pajamas and found Ergos by the door. "Are they dying out there? Do they need healing?" ".... they seem fine, but it's really cold." "Why don't we just... stay here and see if they need us." That lead to a very interesting very sleepy conversation. Healing buddies! Starling now believes homunculus are probably real. Probably.