September 2017 highlights

Hmm....

After the abbreviated event last month, a very intense Renfaire as staff then a pair of tough weeks, I was hoping for cooperative weather and a reasonable event...

I got most of them former and a bit of the latter.

Friday fights.... and invaluable invokeable Inviolate Form. The fact I dropped like a bad habit six times not so fun; just told me I needed to shake off that rust and get good.

Sat Morning- over the fire Hashbrowns and sausage... Whoever nailed the plate of left overs for Brazen Mass I set down in the inn, I hope you enjoyed them.... and may Brazen let you ruin your next cooked meal.

Speaking of Brazen... DUUUUUUUUUUUUDE!!!!!!!! Kala and Ostcliff at Mass before wargames. You guys have officially given this poor hard working priest his BIGGEST Attendance ever at 60+. And I thought the Mother Days Mass/Sermon was big. I do my damnedest to do it right and Inspire y'all... And thank you for being willing to listen to me sermonize... It means alot to me. It really and truly does.

The following wargames....
- Raxas Air Drop.
- Seamus' impersonation of a goddamn mountain. (much thanks for the physical RP bro... damn are you a pain to knock over)

Sat Day. Highlight off a horrible thing.... To those of you who responded quickly when Luis got injured then initial treated until I got there, Thank you so very much.... and to those assisting me with the stopgap treatment ONCE I got there, so much additional thanks. The folks at KR do and will step up when needed.... and you guys did.

Sat Afternoon- Deflect Lesson and Critiquing of Others in Constructive Fashion. This Old Man knows what he's doing usually and thanks to you guys for the interaction. Kinda needed it.

Sat Evening- Feast. The Crew of Hat's Mom and Magnus' Mom were spectacular.

Main Mod... the waiting. The thougts of "Did they guard the Bar entrance...." being answered with "Of Course they did't"
- The subsequent street fight to keep more out of the building.... and the desperate holding action that entailed. Swyft being a far bigger hero in this fight than 75% of those who call themselves heroes. (Renee, you were friggin' epic.)
- Divine Wing Flyby Rescues.... are the best rescues.
- Devastating Strike is dope when it hits....
By the end, I had very little combat tags left... and pretty much was existing on sheer skill.

Post Main Mod adventure.... Seal of Defiance is awesome for distraction, even if my arms wound up being tenderized.... Nuff said.

And perhaps the best highlight of all (one shared with Steve by the Inn....) For the first time in months, a dry Sunday to pack up the encampment!!!


Overall, a decent event and here's to next month then Moresca!

Oh boy, about to do highlights! This don't happen often.

Fulltiming! Was anxious leading up to this event, but thanks to everyone for assuaging that. Sorry for the couple issues that did arise, taking steps to make sure shit like that doesn't happen again in the future.

Matt Magnus, some great shit this event. Everything's really coming together and starting to make sense, and as always, your mentality of "for the players, by the players" has seriously paid off. Great event, always looking forward to more from this plot.

Kelley C, you're a lifesaver, didn't get to thank you in person for a thing.

Sleepers, y'all are the best kind of crazy. Rest your voices, for the love of god, and get some rest.

Forest, go to bed. Ben H, go to bed. Matt Magnus, go to bed.

Lauren F, thank YOU for coming out, and I'm glad you felt comfortable doing so, hope you had a good time.

Homunculus team: Thank you. You've collectively and individually given so much to this game and world, most of which we players never even get to see. You put your heart and soul into this work, you've put aside so much for the game to come out and give us a story to tell together. Thank you all. It's going to be a weird world when this all finally wraps up.

Matt C, Zack N, Hannah S, Cody B, Jacob F, thanks so much for helping me out after the thing.

Low-level Ostcliff is really budding recently. Oh my god, so proud of Marcus/Cody B. Kaiva/India J's really becoming someone to watch IG, great Andorran priest role-play throughout the event. S/o to all the Ostvolk elsewhere in this posting.

*eyes Zipeto* Really looking forward to next month with those teasers, bud. Hope I can make it. And thanks for being the good people you are, dude.

Had some interesting roles this event! I'm starting to get to the point where I can mentally handle a combat card. Just really gotta work up my combat RP and skill. Swash Buccaneer is disgusting, and throwing Flawed Homunculus' regenerates on top of it was just too much fun.

Me: *On Karkat* Subdue!
Karkat: Uhh, I'll take it, *declares strength profs*
Me: *declares Strength plus a lot more*
Karkat: Oh, well in that case I'll deflect, lol!

Tim P and everyone in that Kaladonia encounter with the infected, Friday night, good fight, sorry we had to interrupt it for my glasses.

Jason F, welcome back, was great to see you. Sorry I had to dip out early.

What happens in the Barn stays in the Barn. But those sets and scenes, though. Great stuff.

God, I changed sides as NPCs so many times this event, it's like half of us got cured, litany of doomed, dominate, or otherwise messed into throwing ourselves into the diseased hordes to become infected again.

1v1 me, Mileof. > : P Thanks for being down to clown, smokers' porch.

Nightmares mod was great for the heart strings, great storytelling there.

Main mod a highlight for once? Nice. Going around as an infected Acrobat was pretty damn sweet. Climb for days, devoured Yaya on the roof, climbed/athletic feated past so many shield walls, got to play with Barak and Karkat inside the Inn and barely survived, NatResisted so many Slams, and even got Brogan to blow a Seal of Vengeance and Expert Disarm to give me a solid old school beatdown. Y'all hated me, it was great, love you too.

Thank you all for coming out and playing, I had fun with y'all this weekend, but I have to mention the real MVPs of this event: y'all who stayed home due to plague. We love you, thank you for taking care of yourselves, rest up, and come back when you can. I have suspicion that Faire plague is still filtering through our ranks again, so everyone take care (go to the doctor, it developed into high fevers and/or pneumonia for several people. Mucinex DM is your friend, stock up on Motrin and Tylenol if you can take both, and any anti-allergy meds if you take 'em. The mucus and congestion will be sticking around for a couple weeks.)

Logistics Part II: Homuncu-boogaloo was quite the interesting concept and I appreciated being able to walk out the barn door and around the corner when it was Brother time.

Ricky showing up and me being ridiculously excited.

It's a great feeling being in the make-up room and seeing everyone file in and start getting ready, cracking jokes. We really did become a family over the last... wow, it's been literally years, hasn't it? Not a single one where the town zagged when we thought they were going to zig.

Interestingly enough, some of my favorite moments were putting on a white headband not to Marshal an encounter, but just to be there for a friend. It put things into perspective when I went back in-game and I'm weirdly thankful.

Friday night, I had a mod all set for a fellow NPM to run on my behalf, but it couldn't be sent out for the best problem--there was too much going on everywhere.

Wolfgar at the battle outside the Inn. Bandying about the helm after being victorious. Shoving the helm onto his own head and charging into battle. Erik, you were even more amazing to watch than you usually are.

Forest and Dane. It was a mood and spirit lift every time I saw either of you chuckleheads.

Sunday, planning to PC after running a mod in the morning, but still feeling mentally wiped (makes sense) from the rest of the weekend and deciding to tease some friends of mine (Sam, Cody, and Evan) who have been great sports about the things I've been throwing at each of them.

Thank you to Lance and Jill for helping me Saturday night. Despite the initial hiccup (roughly 50 people hopping through a portal a minute after we entered the Inn), that was a lot of fun and we're only getting started!

Thanks to my NPC crew Sunday morning for your eagerness to help out and your creativity. Everyone seemed all smiles when the mod ended and in the aftermath, I made a couple OOG friends (and only one of them doesn't like puns!). As well, having Argyle and Blacktree going with the new players on the mod to have high-level, established characters to meet, RP with, and learn from, was priceless.

That Ben Herman guy.
I was outside the Ostcliff statehouse and heard the screaming coming from the mod site, for what felt like an hour. Everyone around the fire agreed that it sounded horrible. Then when I walked a friend to the Guard Barracks, I saw an almost conga-line of people popping out of the Focus.

Feast. That tasted like a home-cooked meal, at a gathering of 200 people. I can see where Matt got his magic from.

Definitely the busiest event for Ergos ever, and it would take quite a bit to top it.

Friday Night:
-Short but good talk with Zelretch
-Short trip to Eden's lab
-Being really, really glad I put that last Spell Prof into Heal All Afflictions and drank a Flask of Efficiency
-Getting to bed at a half decent hour after healing all night

Saturday:
-NPC shift was fun with a couple great roles
-Slow afternoon with Ergos, but topping it off with Yoyo's Mind mod was amazing. Honestly one of the best mods I've ever been on, even if I didn't do a whole bunch, it was so well put together that I got hit OOG in the feels and was OOG scared of the nightmares.
-Feast was amazing, one of the best in a while for me
-Calm before the storm of main mod was tense and full of drama
-Main mod was hectic, fast-paced, and absolutely terrifying, but I wouldn't have had it any other way
-Me: "I'm gonna go to bed by midnight!" Dead people and Ben Herman's mod: "lol no"
-Resurrecting Zelretch in what was probably the funniest (for me) and most uncomfortable (for Ergos) manner possible
-Walking back to the inn and being immediately greeted by another spirit, walking them over, and having someone else res them
-Walking back to the inn to find another spirit, walking them back and resurrecting Jackdaw in some of the deepest and most meaningful RP I've had in a while
-Pendarvin plot
-Getting dragged into a nightmare abyss by Ergos' need to save people
-Monstrous NPCs beating the crap out of us while we tried to solve a ritual, then finally completing it while several people are on the ground
-Getting back to the inn and waiting for the spirits to hopefully arrive, then walking 5 souls over to the Phokus and resurrecting Finn
-Sleep. Sweet, sweet sleep.

Sunday:
-Fire elemental mod
-Talks with Jackdaw
-Alchemical Werewolf mod ft. Undead ("Heal Wounds 300!.. hehehe")
-Lesson and great conversation with Blue Kestrel!

Overall this weekend was wild... I used Heal All Afflictions upward of 100 times. Can't wait for October, y'all.

Lips are busted, ribs annihilated, ankle is beyond hope, eyes are blurry, head is pounding, copper taste is still in my mouth.

Let's do it again!

This event was super fun. I don't think I have used Veska's skills as much in the past year as I did this event.

Some highlights:

- The barkeeps were back!
- "Hey you wanna go find pumpkins?" Yaya: "What pumpkins?" "This pumpkin." (Holds up pumpkin) Yaya "I don't see a pumpkin." "YAY HALLUCINATIONS!"
- Campfires and massages.
- Feast was amazing!
- Getting infected and not having a weapon. Just spam cast stumble from the roof until someone throws a table at your face.
- Climbing on the roof for safety and then having your infected dying body thrown off.
- Running through/over the inn to communicate with the multiple groups during main mod.
- Running to the door to see a dead body slam against it, open it a crack, loot the body and close the door again.
- Just your friendly neighborhood skunk who won't gtfo your tent when all you wanna do is sleep.
- Squeak squeak for foods and candy

Can't wait to see you guys next month