January 2017 WENDIGYOLO REALMS Highlights

Firstly, I'd like to thank everyone who came out on a cold January weekend just to run around in the woods being spooked and chased by cannibalistic monsters and my own weird brainchildren.

#Wendigyolo, and all the hype you guys created. You were so jazzed for the event that I could barely sleep the night before, I was so excited to run it for you all.

Man, what an event. It all seems to be a bit of a blur for me, but maybe that's just because I didn't sleep until well after main mod. Totally worth it.

Friday night nerd mod: I'll be honest, folks. I didn't actually write any solution for the blizzards, the spooky stick fetishes, or fixing the PCs that were slowly turning into wendigo. Not a bit. That was all you guys. You came up with solutions. You INVENTED cross-disciplinary rituals and worked together to fix stuff. And man, that was so cool to see. I love outside the box thinking and player-created solutions to plot problems. And you guys blew it out of the water.

"Young miss."

Hiding blight fetishes all around camp by yourself in the pitch dark is an interesting and surreal experience. But the looks on people's faces when they saw them was completely worth it. Thanks again to Crystal for the fantastic job on them.

My afflicted PCs. Eric, Crystal, Walter, Zach, and Tom. You guys did such a great job really helping to bring out the subtle horror that is watching a friend turn slowly into something horrifying. A++ job.

Late night spoopery with Stacey. Not everything is cannibalism and jump scares. Psychological horror and atmospheric creepery are some of my absolute favorite things to do. The roleplay you folks bring to the table is A+. Just when you thought you were safe, they come back to remind you that the world is vast, and does not operate on a one villain a month policy.

Real talk with Forest and company at ass o'clock Friday/Saturday. The reminders of the kind of community this game is are always timely and always rewarding.

Hiding more blight fetishes, this time with light! I always enjoy early morning walks around camp. It's quiet and really quite restful, even with the cold.

Seeing the jello heart in the mold for the first time filled me with glee, and Tommy's excitement over the whole scenario was really infectious. Hi, newer players! Welcome to my stories! Let's make things WEIRD.

Skinwalker battle at the attempted Blighted Grove, and Geoff/Gideon Reinhardting the Blight ritual. The teamwork and creativity was awesome to see, with some truly badass moments sprinkled about as well.

You guys brought a new meaning to the phrase "Feed the STs." Be it steak, chocolate, mac n cheese, soup, or any number of things, thanks for reminding me or sometimes forcing me to take time to sit down and eat something. It's nice to see that you guys care, even when I'm trying to get you eaten by monsters.

Kevin's Gother-Than-Thou mac 'n cheese was pretty damn baller.

Main mod: There are few things more gratifying than seeing a concept you've been developing for moths come to life. Hoards of Wendigo, Shane as the Ancient Wendigo, and the by now half Wendigo themselves PCs howling and growling as they rushed the line of players, forcing the fight into a swirling mosh pit of chaos was a sight to see. Kudos to Rachael, Alisia, and Renee for combining your costume and makeup skills to visually bring my vision to life.

Things that happen in the dark that shall not be spoken of but will surely develop into something interesting.

Glamour Grove! "Hey Zach? I'mma try a thing." *everyone groans*

Sassy shenanigans with Clytie and Kestrel. Warlockery is best magic sphere. It is known.


Thank you all so much again for coming out and playing in the stories I write. You really take them and make them your own, which is the most rewarding thing. See you all next month!

So, things

Corvus coming into game after his land action, Austin you know what you're doing

Darius sticking up for Corvus, a lot, what!!!

Reactions to a Northman with a gun and hooks for a new character

Sebastian being Sebastian

Darius solved all his outstanding issues!! Thank you Duncan, Argyle, Reyna, Corvus and Milof! love all y'all

DIVINE INTERVENTION

Witnessing Reyna's negative energy fortitude lesson. Magnus changes everyone for the better

Darius finding peace with the loss of his wife, which for those of you in the know is funny

Liighkaa fucking with me repeatedly, especially the romani curse, Josh LaBar had way to much fun with that

Seeing a friend's true face

Jed's secret mass and my first real interactions with that character, I'm looking forward to the lesson. Also, getting to fight Jed for a good five-ten minutes as an NPC #krgoals

Thank you to everyone I interacted with and everyone who helped set up this event. Of all the events I have been to, this was the best!

Wonderful and fairly terrifying event. You know it's good when I'm dreading returning to real life throughout most of the game.

Friday Night:
Playing Ergos on a Friday was a nice change of pace. Random walks around the camp and finding Wendigo made for an interesting first fight. What I thought was gonna be a massacre turned into a good fight since I hadn't realized some of the company we kept.

Felt good roleplaying Ergos in general that night, the long break did him and me some good. Talks with newer townsmembers was good. Everything was just generally good.

Saturday:
Woke up and got ready for NPC shift. Got my ass handed to me as a wendigo-possessed but I felt like we certainly scared some people. Then got to be the bodyguard of Captain Morgan. Dave, you impress me.

Played Haz for a while, not actually doing all too much outside of roleplay and Mac n Cheese. Mac n Cheese competition was splendid. After a while, the ordeal of the stolen hat was an interesting one. Justin, you made that a pain in the ass, but it was very fun nonetheless.

Feast was delicious as always.

Getting ready for main mod as Ergos. Going out with Spirit Det. The group did very well for itself in a slippery, scattered battlefield. Peaches and Ergos is essentially a mithril ambulance covered in chainsaws at this point, and I'm a fan. Casualties minimalized makes Ergos happy.

Mid-level mod was great. Thanks to everyone who put that together. Would not have gone quite as well if not for our wonderful rangers and druids, so thank you. Talks with Lilith and Ester afterwards was interesting and fun as always. Abel and Ergos still need to have their food-eating party.

Murdering a ton of nosferatu was fun and funny. I don't think they were expecting 15 of Travance's best. Eventually settling down and watching the fights between Heimdell and a group of us. Absolutely hilarious. In case anyone was wondering: 1. Don't spit at Heimdell 2. Copper plates do copper damage.

Sunday:
Just some relaxing roleplay with Haz. Talks with Karkat and Cy and Maeve and Swyft and Nemuth were fantastic. Taking part in the newcomer battle royale and having my ass handed to me. Oops. Fun anyway.

Can't wait to see everyone in two weeks!

(#1 highlight of the event) Argyll: "Strength +1 and I have a bigger dick."

What an incredible time. First event and had a blast. I arrived in Travance as Jeanne Vierre Desmos, youngest brother of the Desmos family (of the three of us at least). Travelling with my wife (Tage), brothers (Arkev and Relius) and Arkev's two recruits, we sought new lands to call home. And boy did we choose and interesting place as our first attempt at doing so.

We set up in a room next to the bar to discuss our course of action. Relius began conjuring some of his interesting tea recipes. You see, we were supposed to meet up with Arkev's old comrade from his military days back in Kormyria. Conveniently the man we were looking for named Kerrick and his pointy eared friend Alia walk in to greet us. We talk business and split up accordingly. Relius has something he needed to attend, never told us what. Arkev and his recruits are off with Kerrick to talk merc business. Alia wondered off as she couldn't be bothered to be near my Romani self. So Tage and I wander into the inn to gauge the environment.

Summary of the rest of the weekend because I can go on for PAGES:

• Attack at the inn. Wendigos, defended successfully
• Wife made a ton of gold playing her viola
• Relius went off to be a apart of a major plot point in defending against the blizzards and what not. Time explosions, interesting stuff.
• While everyone was fighting a small childs sister-turned-Wendigo-thing, I found a portion of a scroll that could be used to cleanse the area, as well as many essence to conjure said scroll. No one asked. They seemed fine without them though
• Met another new traveler named Chimera. We all got along!
• Chimera, Alia, Tage, Arkev and I decided to go exploring
• After splitting the group to cover ground, I found an interesting stick fetish wedged conveniently in a tree. I went berserk, tried to eat anyone in sight. Ran into Chimera's sword in blood lust. A warlord tried to kill me to end it all, but everyone fought for my life. I love them . Was cured after not one, not two, but THREE clarity bombs. Regained consciousness to a broken tooth after trying to eat someones plate-mail covered leg.
• Carried on trying to forget what happened.
• Tage made a TON more gold playing
• Got stuck in the middle of a 100-person battle. I don't fight. Not a good idea to be there.
• The next day watched Kerrick break his sword mid battle. Then get stuck in a Mexican standoff chasing after said person who destroyed his sword. I giggled.
• Met fellow Psionics who taught me much and put me on the much needed path to succession.

Thanks all for the amazing weekend.

All in all, it was a very busy event for Gras and Taylor is sufficiently exhausted.

-Some highlights-

Wendigos…..need I say more? Never before have I been so cautious when facing new opponents. The constant cripples throughout the weekend meant plenty of broken limbs, close calls, and fun times. Also, I am forever grateful for having at least three mental defenses available to me haha

Friday night Druid Mod was excellent as usual. I love seeing all the new blighted creatures and things that Zack is bringing to Life. Plus, getting to destroy blights is its own reward IG. Plus, doing more and more with fellow protectors of Arawyn has done a lot to ground Gras in his heritage and chosen profession.

Gras beginning preparations to follow the path of the Huntsman….Getting excited.

Dealing with conflicts and problems into the early hours of the morning…..Finally sleep.
Wake up and go about my morning business and encounter a pack of Wendigo outside the manor with nothing but the swords in my hand haha. Thankfully, Brazenite mass was there to fight and eventually destroy the lone pack. Good way to wake up and a taste of what was to come throughout the following day.

Tending to business and getting things taken care of.

Notified that Lois was walking off into the woods alone to search for Bob. SO MUCH NOPE. Proceeded to tail Lois and eventually take a nice walk with her along the fringes of the proper. Gras admires the tenacity of Lois and thoroughly enjoys the moments when they have time to interact one on one. Also, he doesn’t want her to die….like ever.

Arriving to the manor and seeing it being consumed from the inside by a blight blizzard. Even worse, finding out that a blight grove was forming just outside the maze. OH HELL NO. Gras B-lined it from the manor straight to the Gazebo. It was at this moment that Taylor discovered that he can OOG Woodland Stride. Running up the hill and jumping out of the tree line only to plunge straight into combat.

O-“Where the fuck did Gras come from? Did he just randomly jump out of the woods?”
W-“Gras always comes whenever I need him most”
One of my new favorite IG moments

Combat was fun for this. Reece, you did a great job as that Coyote, especially with all those damn leaps haha. Also, Skin Walker…. I don’t like that.

Fighting Demons. Always a good time and relief. If there are two things that Gras hates, it’s demons and blights.

Feast was excellent as usual. Thank you to all the kitchen staff.

Serious RP after feast in regards to one’s chosen possessions. I’m still trying to fully get a hang of it, but I’m getting there.

Main mod……. Lost my dagger somewhere in the snow while chasing a possessed through the woods. Also, got thoroughly rocked by a 40 ft tall Wendigo. Thank the stars for woodland alacrity natural transposition.
Going back through time or was it out of time? Either way, it’s the second time Gras has been outside of a timeline. James and Norm did a great job of running the encounter, so I look forward to more….Also, there is much that has to be researched

Mars and her mid level mod was a fun encounter. Shout out to all the NPCs on that, you were great.

Sleep.

Followed by a pleasant and rewarding NPC shift. Once again, I have seen first hand how cruel some PCs can be when an NPC is not really doing much of anything wrong
“Chet, this is your shoulder Gras….use the force chet, trust in your feelings”
Chet looks around in alarm and concern

All in all, it was a great event! Shout out to Zipeto and everyone that made it all possible. See y’all soon!

Justé wrote:
Under most circumstances, I'd inform you both to keep your asses out of the Black Bird if it's "Empty" for multiple reasons, aside from the fact that it could be trespassing...But I must remember exactly whose post I'm quoting here and the other name mentioned in it...

You guys are good.

Don't worry, we didn't touch any of your stuff

It's actually kind of funny... we were looking for someone, went into the Blackbird, and thought we heard people in oubliette. Rather than interrupting, we figured we'd be polite and wait, and enjoy the looks on people's faces when they came out to find us there... And eventually realized our directional hearing is awful and we were actually hearing people from upstairs Use that knowledge how you will

I remembered a thing! Thank you very much to Matt C. and Rachael for the lovely book Lois has already started filling it!