June 2017 Highlights.

Lay-On fight scene with Forest along with the RP with Sam (Merikah[sp?]) and RJ (Peaches) as we brought Leon Belfast back into existence.

"Wait...That's NOT a plot NPC?"

Skepticism...Skepticism...Oh? Someone's in trouble? Sprinting to help in the pouring rain.

Having that thick accent and dark voice. "Where are you from?" "I'm frum Kormyrr." -Puzzled look on his face-
"Okay...And how old are you?" "Nineteen." -Puzzled look on their face-

Watching with a crescent brow the barony of Travance, the antics, the shenanigans, the crazy, the bold, the flat-out weird...etc...

"A grand get-together of powerful figures from across Arawyn is coming? I guess I'm not eating or drinking anything that I haven't prepared myself then." And boy was I right about the tug-o-war poisoning.

OOG teaching swordsmanship, learning that I'm actually good with a bo staff.

My school of "nope" was on point. Parrying everything (except for AoEs) and regressive sliding away from frontal assaults. Also, Jeff...I love every other time that you're up behind me, but not when I'm scooting away from bitches. -Scooting intensifies-

I swing 5s..I get possessed, I take down a PC...My assault game was on point, too. Remember, guys...20 5s is 100, and that's something, right?

Goblin Reece blowing up the pathways. "Okay, the goal is to get the area, unseen, plant the chest, and leave unseen...Can you do that?" "Dude, it's Reece...You already know that he is going to be successful." And yes...Yes I was.

Apparently I'm sexy in leather pants. Enough so to make someone who is in heavy combat get distracted long enough to get molly-whomped. Side note; Leather pants are bad for hot days...1/10 would not recommend, unless I hate you.

Naps are good for you.

More later! Maybe...Probably not.

This event, was exactly what I needed. Goose and his team did a wonderful job. It was a treat to really get to see some of the cultures in a roleplay fashion rather than combat. I greatly appreciated the work that went into it, I felt like I was more than an undead killing stick jock.

The Great Diddling of The Housed Mortal Hunters!!! Look, I love this. Tim and Christine have delivered on a scary, fun, and unifying mod/encounter that was rich. Christine, you nailed it, we loved every battle, ever last drop of detail we got. We railed around the tables and every Torturer, Psion, and Bounty Hunter we could find to get information, then the attacks REALLY began. Blue Kes, Bob, Moostrav, and of course Marika(my pc of the btw) all of those whom stood with us as the sun finally rose up that morning...That hunters vigil, I have no words. Beautiful scene. Jake and Hannah, GREAT roleplay. That slap and yelling scared the crap out of players.

So ya wanna be KR rp star? Rebecca, We tossed you at every last thing we could. I had a blast running all around with you, and really hope you did too. Took down a waaaay bigger foe. That was impressive, you can feel free to be proud. When I don't have to fight, hell I could have lit up a smoke, that fighting at Main Mod was theocratic and thematic, good job.

Billiams woad; the sweat running it of my face at the end of the battle, was perfect. Thank you Gene, I got to show a side of Argyle through that prop and skill. When we took the manor and I screamed,"WE HAVE TAKEN THE MANOR, BATTLE CRY!!!" I really felt like a Celt taking back his home. (Yes, Faydeith was with me for that too.)

I love my darker friends, proving that dark CAN have honour.

Swyft being knighted, I sat down JUST to watch and to stand up....

Speaking of which, that damn assassin, my BEST tomahawk toss yet.

Dark Avenger; Scalping that gobbo for Lois Maxwell, said I would, and damn it I did!!!

I was going to ask Goose to write a few cards up for me, but took one look at him after Main Mod, and just said it could wait. If ANYONE gets it, Cassie I know that you do.

(Also taught dissect that following it that night AND morning.)

Rudy, you're my boy!

ALL the rp I could get with the Dwarves and MY ppl! I loved it.
(Nick you're my NPC of the month, what you brought out on that role, and what you gave the players and the story. Take a bow, you really did kill it.)

Jason Marion, killing as so many great roles, that I wish there were two NPCs we could pick for a month. I got my first Roleplaying Point from that man. 3 years, I about cried, and went to brood of and smoke, I felt so proud. Thank you Jason. Just so y'all know, I am NOT turning that card in. It's on my dresser... I might frame it.

Main Mod; I was ordered to kill the General battling my Goblin Bro Wynks. Sir Danny and Argyle squares up folks! Honor verse loyalties, and BAM, The Count orders me to stand down. That scene, was GREAT! Folks backed up, looking around at each other, had you not seen me...honestly, that roleplay was worth it to the story. It's something we can build on, and I absolutely will remember it for years to come. It counts in Argyles mind as failure, but he is super proud of Wynks. Had you dropped him, the storm of death I'd of rained down on Zach made we glad we are cool oog. If nothing else, I had your back Walter. EVERYONE who was at Main, PCs and npcs alike, it was rough but I thank you all, I had loved every second. Yes, even when Steve and Matt helped me up a hill face in all my armor.

Starling is going to make Argyle a civilized Celt yet, kicking and screaming maybe but she is on it. Classing up the down is her mission, and she is killing it. Alice I had a blast, thanks.

That moment when Argyle doesn't have 4 gold on him.(oog that was funny to roleplay.)

Reece, good show. I'm sad I missed more rp with you, but we WILL continue the story. WE ARE GOING TO THE GRAVEYARD NEXT EVENT IF YOU HAVE TO DRAG MY DEAD BODY!!!

Renee, Alex, Nick, Kevin, and ALL those who helped us in the kitchen, thanks.

Padma, WE love you. I can't wait!!!

The late night Saturday Crew, y'all are family, thanks for letting me be me. Looks like we have a new member too.

Rob Ira, that encounter, was a work of art. I rarely get to PC on a Sunday morning, so I really got into it. When the Magistrate lets Argyle publicly execute someone to prove a point...I am so sorry/not sorry about all the land actions pointed at you from that.

Renee Grace, thank you for feeding me! Argyle won't stop, but Forest is in fact a human animal and should consume food. It meant the world to me, and I owe you one.

See all the old faces and meeting some new ones, it really mattered to me that y'all came out to play and hope to see every one of y'all return.

I'm so pumped up for July, always forward. Drew Benton is a ST that fear. There is so much going on folks. There is so much going on, come back to see what happens next. Until next time, be well to each other.

So many thiiiiiings happened this event. Maeve has her little fingers in so many different stories right now and is even learning more about her own! It has been a long and slow journey, but her circle keeps expanding. All the love to anyone who dragged me on adventures. You're my own personal heroes.

Personal Highlight: Yelling at Grim for making Nemuth hold his sword during battle, which made Nemuth a sitting duck that ended up with his limbs broken 6 times. Nemuth is a cinnamon bun made with activated charcoal. I know he looks a little wrong, but he is a sweet bean and will probably purify you from the inside.

Here are some of my favorite interactions with PCs this weekend. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

Sergei: *trills on ocarina* A mourning dove!
Maeve: I don't blame it. I am listening to this awful noise and mourning too.
Sergei: *pets Maeve's shoulder* Shhh, my little dove.

Maeve: This is a tolerable amount of rain. It actually feels quite nice.
Swyft: I agree. It isn't enough to ruin my feathers.
Maeve: But if it was... would that ruffle your feathers?

Sindarion: I have not been able to do that since the incident.
Maeve: *perks up with curiosity* Oh? What incident?
Sindarion: The one I do not talk about because it never happened.
Maeve: That sounds a lot like liar talk to me, but since it is you, is it harp and lyre talk?

Dark Arani: I know everything.
Lady Angelica Tartaros: But do you know why kids love tiny cinnamon toasts?

Some shout-outs:
*Sarah Brand and Ashley Firstbrook (is that your OoG name? Sweet). While working at Logistics, they had the patience to write out one hundred essence cards after I cashed in my Survey Maps. I helped a little.
*To the players of the Selendrian (?) Wilinde, the alchemist Bacon, and the Romani Esteban Cortez. All of them are Pretty Cool Folks™, and I hope to continue to role play with them.
*The player of Moonstrav the Romani Psion, who seems to be playing a challenging character. Hoo boy. Here's hoping it gets as wild as I think it will.
*Andrew Randolph, for organizing the intervention with a cousin gone astray. I don't typically go to main mods, so these late night dramas are what keep me hanging around.
*Nic White, for trying to conduct his ceremony to his "Goddess". Sorry it didn't go as planned, but I hope you enjoyed our talk about symbols and rituals.
*Chris Zipeto, for being there and being cool. And to Sergei, for caring so much.
*Will Bartlett, for giving me my second Archcaster lesson, and for being subjected to another one of my Viktor's spirited rants.

Lots of laughs and chatting with people and introducing one of my oldest friends and first-time LARPer to my KR friends was heartwarming and enjoyable.

Discussion on Quinarian philosophy with Gideon was enjoyable.

Discussion/debate on religious beliefs with Father Ephram was especially fun. Always nice to be given food for thought, but also able to give such an intelligent and well versed man of faith something to chew on as well. Remember the pie, Father.

Must really be turning into a Travancian, because as I walked with my companions out into the woods, we were warned of multiple Dark Elf assassin sightings and dangers lurking. To which I shrugged and figured if its my time, its my time... So we kept walking and enjoyed ourselves .

Taking a solid 10 steps down the road talking with Clytie before her old Pod decided to hulk out angler style and go deep ones on us was interesting, unexpected, and pretty fun, considering.

Saturday New Player mod was quite the ride- more players than I'd seen on NPMs before. RIP slaves- better luck next time? Walked...hobbled out of that mine/cave half High Elf, half crystal porcupine. Also, lanterns make for terrible footing.
Great job to everyone who ran that mod - would do again!

Meeting, then re-meeting, then re-re-meeting, etc. a small, heavily accented barbarian girl throughout the weekend and discussing life and death got both deep and oddly infuriating haha.

Educating on an "Old, but longstanding Quinarian tradition" to the guy who decided to give me many /hearty/ pats on the back, followed by a heat object on one of the crystals still there from the mineshaft mod. THAT was quite enjoyable... I say with both sincerity and sarcasm. I'll let you figure which is how much.

Spending almost 4 hours seeking various tomes, scouring libraries, tables and people for information- special thanks to my companions for both helping and tolerating my lust for knowledge.

Sharing my imported Quinarian wine and teas seemed to go over quite well with lots of folks and I enjoyed being able to add that little flair to the evenings. Even getting to have the barkeeps come out and do a sampling as we discussed the ingredients, brewing methods and flavors. A+

Sunday morning NPC shift was one of if not possibly the best NPC shift I've done since I started KR. Rob did a fantastic job and the people I was with made it all go so smoothly and beautifully. 1st mod doing wakeup call as Goblins scavenging for supplies to make the trip back home after main mods whooping of us- we were met with skepticism yet odd amounts of compassion and kindness. People from all camps we hit up, especially Ostcliff, just THROWING goods and supplies at us. Hell Ostcliff insisted we gobbos become honorary members of their land.
I wish I could have seen the faces of/read the minds of the players sitting in the tavern as a crew of goblins marches into and through the inn chanting "po-ta-toe...po-ta-toe..."
Being asked about what we're doing by one of the guardsmen and nudging him on the arm saying "well we had a hell of a time takin that manor last night, y'know what I mean?" then saying we needed supplies to leave. Like essentially walking up to a cop and goin "committed a B&E followed by some murder, now we're looking to loot and pillage before bookin it. Awesome right?"
Argyle taking us outside the tavern to 'talk' and telling us to scram or die. We goblins shared an uncomfortable laugh and as I leave I mention "Oh- yes- of course- right away good hoomie. You and your people are so nice and generous. We'll /definitely/ tell everyone back home about it and I'm sure they'll wanna come back in even greater numbers!" ... ... we're walking away to their mixed laughter, confusion and talking before we hear "WAIT WHAT?!"
And that parting sentence led to mod #2 being my first time LARPing as a zit- cause man did I get POPPED.

Those mod 1 goblins were taking the supplies to a supply running goblin crew down by the caravan.. well one of the goblins defected, told the people i nthe inn and I think 85% of the active PCs on Sunday morning showed up? Gideon yells "Whats going on here?!" to which someone else in the mob stated "Does it matter?!" aaaaaand I was dealt over 1,000 damage before I could move a foot. Respawned back in the woods and they finished the job promptly. I guess some dumb gobbo mentioned word getting back , so they couldnt let this supply line leave? Whoops.
I had a blast even though I got utterly slaughtered though!

Finally, mod 3 - Poke'mod. Elemental Cockfighting Ring.
People seemed way more interested in how they could rig the fight/screw with the bookie than actually powering up one of the three elementals to win the pot for them.
The real fun came in the actual fight- since we three elementals are RL friends we agreed to fight harder than LARP fighting so the mixture of cheering and horror at the things we were doing was stellar. BARELY came out on top. Shout out to my friends Air and Fire elementals for putting up a fight and giving their A-game.

NPC:

-> Got to play a Ronin Undead Kansai from the Empire of Night on search for the Khitan dignitary we were told was the Empress. Had some amazing RP with Brigitta and Mae and Oren and am learning I definitely love RP NPCing than just being an enemy. I would've loved to have some Honor Combat but it didn't hit me to do that until afterwards.

-> Got to Devour Chet Hardwick's left arm as an Undead Ogre. Delicious! Also got an RP Point for dying straight into a mud puddle and taking it like a champ xD

PC: Jurian Blackfarrow

-> Watching Winx and others torture the two Goblin Generals at Main Mod really taught Jurian something about torture, and how he may not be ready for it despite hopes of becoming an Inquisitor. One of them was fed his own kneecap, and I tried to convince the other General to give us information with the promise of a quick death. Nonetheless, Jurian's going to do some research on Travance's history and the "horrors the Baron and the Count have spread amongst the people".

-> Fought in the Ostcliff Fighting Tournament and lasted much longer than I expected. I beat the Dwarven Prince Dignitary in the first around but lost to Fenris in the second round with us coming down to three tie breakers. Great fights!

-> Actually DID my job as a Guard and managed to wrangle two assassins in manacles and get them back to prison for future interrogation. One got away because he sweet-talked a Swashbuckler into letting him go and I almost pursued him but he got away. So angry about that xD

-> Basically played Crow in the Main Mod and was dragging bodies left and right back for the healers to fix up. I also mistook Count Everest for Jonas due to my OOG tiredness, and ran once I realized my mistake.

Overall I had a great time and some really good development for Jurian! Thanks to James and everyone who makes these moments come alive