December Highlights!

I need to be careful what I wish for.

In the week leading up to the event, there was a post on Facebook asking us what we hoped to accomplish this event. I said "character development."

Oops.

That and several years in, I'm finally getting the hang of immersion and being the character.

...and then there's the possibility that those closing the gate on the Abyss side won't come back... and news about an old friend later that night...

It was horrifying in-game, but being able to experience moments like that, was amazing. Chris and Laura for making it happen (but why god why!?), Stacey and Jason for breaking it to me, and Dara for watching over Nalick into the wee hours of the morning. I feel like there's been a game I was missing the last three years and finally tapped into it.

Alice B., thank you for going OOG for a sec to make sure I was okay up on the staircase. I really appreciate that!

Helping out at Feast was fun, as was seeing Jason's reactions to everyone stepping up and making sure that everybody got fed. Thank you to everyone who volunteered, especially Andy and Lexy for crying over the onions, Robert for lending his prep expertise, and all of the nutty moments in between. Being able to help where needed and still be able to sit and RP when the food was served, was also great.

Thinking back about the town's trip to the gates of the Abyss, just makes me think about Always Sunny episode title screens (thanks, Ben):

"Nalick Goes to Hell."

The shield wall was relatively duty-free, so my mind had time to wander into making every single joke I could.

"I guess hell really did freeze over."
"Man, it really was a cold day in hell when the healers were well-protected."

And so on and so forth.

The Caldor hug. Nalick was about to go storming off somewhere but then Caldor shows up in the doorway (as he occasionally does!) at just the right time.

So many hugs, not least of which Thalia's. Hell did freeze over. How else could we have more than five minutes together?

Finding out that the "higher-ups are watching."

Dominic's return and the difference in how each of my characters reacted.

Swyft's new RP for "Sustain Life" that had me in hysterics and gasping for air. Renee.

Chet on Friday night. I only played him for four hours the whole weekend, but it was concentrated Chet. Walkabout with a brand new player who wanted some information. "Loser is the Winner" with Maeve. Arguing with Lord Silverbow about the Chronicle piece that landed Chet in hot, treasonous water and being all "bring it!" that Silverbow could get the Baron to finally have that private meeting. So many great interactions and ending my Chet time with a soliloquy before getting garbed up as Nalick.

All the cheese (and apples) left over in the GIGANTIC bowl after Feast that I brought out into the main room.

Jason F.'s medicine mod. Hands coming out of places. Belegchand using his tome to cast half of my card made me feel happy about Nalick's skill set. The weirdness of it all.

"Lois, Intensify"
*giggling intensifies*

The hand. The screaming. The weirdness. It was great. Thank you, Matt M. for helping to run it.

Speaking of Jason F., your footwear hurts my sole.

Jonas offering unicorn cookies after Feast, particularly one without any of its legs attached:

"Would anyone like to eat this quadriplegic unicorn?"

The Shrike mods. Ever so descriptive, ever so terrifying. Ben, thanks for continuing to run them and run with everything we try to throw at it. Liz' face at all of my one-liners during the day. The bridge fight at night and all the RP after it exploded. Looking at you, Wolfgar.

Caldor and Bear. How every interaction was more pronounced and involved than the last and how it spread from the world's best inside joke between Caldor and Nalick, to all of their mutual friends.

The only downside is having to wait almost two months for the story to continue.

See you, Space Cowboy.

I was so busy this freaking weekend that barely had time to think. I had a blast, I can't wait for the next round!

Friday Night, Argyles dark past comes back to haunt him, and has a name. How many souls do you have to free to get just one back?

Witch Hunter moral challenges face all of us. Some hunts don't get to have happy endings, just...endings. It's where and what you do next that will define you. I do the best I can to try and teach, help, and asks others to give you their opinions as well as mine to show you perspective, but in the end, you have do to the job yourself, no one else can be YOU. I'm proud of you, you taught me lesson a this time! Thank you. What a night, huh?

Swyft, we're even now. I got a lot of love for the Stonefall Asylum Crew, odd how the "Bad Folks" are all about jokes, having fun, and working together(unless you mess with one of them.) I absolutely busted on Swyft of a YEAR! It's over, but if anyone noticed, Argyle totes murdered any undead that messed with her! Renee we don't get to RP much, but I had a blast with yourself this feast.

Saturday morning I was blur, but I was quickly brought awake from my daze at Jed`s Mass! That was awe inspiring, that spoke to a good deal of those fortunate enough to attend. I've always said Glomms strongest weapon is truth.

Stacey, Romeo, that was a little intense. Thanks Norm, it means alot to all of us, for you to take time to help others Role Play.

Steph, Dave, and all y'all, thanks again, I had a blast and really needed a chance to just relax and rp some silliness.

Feast; Jason was faced with almost endless challenges going into it, and only had more going forward. I don't have to list them all(way too much to type here in an already long highlights post)but a VERY deep thank you to Alisandria, WV, and everyone else who helped Jason. Thank you all so much Jason as well!

Main Mod;
1. Peaches and I attempted to secure the gate (Traps, barriers, posi traps,a few posi poisons, personnel to guard the flanks, arcane items, and some druidic... Michaela Benton shows up as a demon, wrecks our stuff so fast! Peaches and I just look at each other in shock for a few seconds dazed at how little effort it took to shut down our best efforts.

2. Michaela Benton calling,"Annoint" that sudden realization that I not only made a mistake, but I was going to pay it, I go flying forward, I see Goose dressed as a huge demon, I can only wince as he proceeded to beat me to death, a toss what was left of my bloody mithril canned corpse to the gate, dead, dying, a completely worthless. Grim then started tossing the dead out of the gate(thanks Bill)

3. Brogan asked me," Argyle what happened to you in there?" I look right at him," I broke that demons fist with my face!"

4. Blood Spirits, what a night huh?

I am so sad I missed Chance and Bran. The role play that came afterwards was great. "Well shit, I got nothing on that." Was all I could think to say.

Sunday was teaching more and trying to help people.

I have to miss a few things in here, but when that is over, know that it's in my Recap.

And its the first real shot of cold for the area misty and damp. Worst weather for me possible and sick on top. I'm very glad I got to go. Interactions were RP intense. Fighting. Can't touch that with anything I have.

Watched guarding a friend from anything else. Shrugged. I think they got it.

That turned into a great RP session between Maxi and Birgitta. New innoculations and some serious realizations. So seldom we get that kind of time.

Bed sleep sore throat getting better. Breakfast with my spirits a special meeting with some excellent subtle RP there too. Not too surprised the PCs see eye to eye on a lot of things bit amazed how easy it was to find that common ground.

I need the room for a meeting. Get up get out now. And hilarity of getting you all up. 'Kids... You know?' 'Yes I do.'

Labour talks....imp items general info transfer to my crew. Briefs and requested assistances.

No main for me cold damp wet is my bane.

However. As always RP roles with Zipeto are always special. The Orphans Guild. So many wide ranging PCs with actions to take. He figured 30 min tops...2 to 3 hours later... Just amazing how Travance is child centric in so many ways. Still!

To those who defended and danced anyway special kudos to you. Mute means mind talk. I'm a ways surprised to see the top notched head spaced RP. It was a pleasure to watch from behind the NPC.

Those who went with the drift you are awesome. I got to have some carefree fun with you. Thank you.

Lessons with the Count and Mirrormere is deep disturbing and amazing. James thank you for your time.

My Blood Spirits you all get a special thank you. For plays able deniability and for keeping the CO updated and feeling involved even when her player just can't be there.

I wish you woke me for the late night chat but then you wouldn't have all gotten breakfast in bed on Sunday.

Impromptu invitation to Edgefest 1216. Lots of fun.

"Don't worry, he's slipping."

Talks with Bob and Kroh. You guys do a great job of roleplaying your faith even if Zelretch disagrees with it.

Dramatic conversations with big gestures in the glade at 0500. And Lore: Dramatic Poses thanks to Cassie. Ben, Cassie, and Steve, you guys were amazing.

Enemies enter stage left and Karkat possessing a wraith. Hilarity ensued.

Alchemical undead? What'll they think of next?

Carl the Imp was fantastic. Feeding cultists to him was probably not what I was supposed to do, but you know, the order was death... so... there's that.

Being incredibly stubborn and refusing hypnosis from Tobias. Jason and Liz, your reactions were priceless.

"Neener neener neener, you haven't figured it out yet." Figuring out what I was being mocked for but asking to be told the answer was an OOG enjoyable moment. I think I've figured out the rest, but have plenty of time to get it right. That entire scene was amazing, thank you to everybody there for the great RP.

Finding out Father has something that I was about to start working on that I thought he didn't have. It's almost like he's had thousands of years to be better at this than me. A bigger push to try to become more creative with how to use Astral energy.

Srs talks with Grim following a bunch of sudden insights.

Not so serious talks with Tari. That were probably supposed to be serious but I couldn't hold it together.

Main mod in the abyss was both terrifying and awesome. Probably one of the first times I felt like I was holding my own okay while punching out of my weight class.

The sudden and inevitable betrayal. What the heck Carl? I thought we were friends

Shrike mod and all it's terrible/wonderful glory. Thank you so much Ben for running it. It was a rollercoaster from start to finish.

Being owed a favour and finding out some stuff I probably shouldn't know.

Serious conversation with Charles Lively, Swyft, and Hasim. And then watching two people cheat horribly at 5 car draw.

Probably more stuff.

This was probably the most fun/busiest event I've had ever. Just gonna try and list everything I can:

- Managed to go the entire weekend without George unwrapping me, which was nice.

- Friday night was super busy, after the first hour or so of hanging around did a mod for Steve as a sentry undead. Even fancy mages need to know how to be stealthy sometimes or else.

- Getting back to logistics after that to volunteer for Bill's mod where I was just a lowly body guard with Tom and we were expected to defend our employer from a select few individuals who far outclassed us.

- Saturday morning followed Lord Aleister and others to go and fight some demons attacking his lands, got some pretty nice gauntlets off of a demon.

- Volunteered again for Steve, this time as just a body guard in a mod. Used some of the funds from my employer to buy some of Goose's food for lunch (it was amazing).

- Rest of the day Saturday was fairly laid back up until my tarot reading with Carlos which as I'm sure many people can agree is scary accurate. As the cousin of the 5 Tanwyn brothers, getting the "5 brothers" tarot card was unbelievable.

- Main mod seemed to go pretty terribly, stepped through the portal just long enough to nearly take 100 superior fire if not for my single resist, quickly noped out after that.

- Learned the next step in a lesson after main mod, thanks Ven.

- Gank shift 12-4 was the most fun as an NPC I've had, being a crazy tree monster on a bridge was great. Lots of crowd control throws and spider climbing down underneath it made for a fun time. Even more fun was following the group that ventured into the woods afterwards, props to you guys because I would never have wanted to fight all of us.

- After the mod ended we were able to keep up the crazy tree shenanigans which can be summed up as "hide in shadows, shadow leap, subdue +10 strength dirty fighting."

Can't believe it'll be a whole 2 months until the next full event, hopefully I can make it to the banquet!

Even Though I had originally planned on splitting the weekend between Ava and Leliana I wasn’t in a great headspace so I chose to play Leliana the whole weekend and still had the most fun I have had in a while.
In no real particular order:


- Leliana likes parties!!! Let’s have more of those, maybe not right before I have to LM though because I am sad I got to miss out on some fun!!

-Joined the Mage Guild, so that’s a goal I accomplished. Wasn’t planning to get involved in politics but you all know about best laid plans.

-One thing I love about Leliana is that she is helpful in a way other than “What if you murdered them?” way and was glad I could help some people!

-The best part is when you can make your teacher face palm. Multiple times.

-Being able to be social and lighthearted is sometimes what you need to be.

-Getting to meet a lot of new people over the weekend was great! Some I know as other characters but some I never really interacted with at all!

-Aleister may have started Leliana down the path of Scholar after an interesting talk between mostly him and Falia. Add that stuff to the list of things Leliana needs in order to research things that may or may not have consequences she knew about.

-Excited about getting to continue down this character’s path, it’s certain to lead to some interesting places!!!!

Until next time