March Highlights (Spiderpeople everywhere!)

Feast was so good. The veggie option was out-of-this-world delicious. Diane, recipe, please, so I can make it before Lent is over! Many thanks for always doing a great service to many hungry people with such a well prepared and tasty meal.

Matt spending so much time helping people with their items AND keeping his composure and patience. Kudos to you for the hours and hours for each and every one of us who needed aid. You're the best!

We went ahead and did Mass anyway. Woohoo! Special thanks to Duncan setting it up, Caldor who was able to do a "make up sermon" after being delayed into the Proper, and all who participated. Somehow we'll figure this out.

Great plot for our first trial run with the new rules; thank you Drew and Tori and all those NPC special spiders who added so much to the weekend.

I was so impressed with all the players and the patience each one had with fellow players. Nothing is perfect, but some things go smoothly because of the people involved. The great highlight of the weekend was that the game went on not as if the rules never changed, but as if everyone was prepared to have a good time with the changes.

Sunday morning sparring lessons from Selphatos and friend (my memory needs jarring with regard to names, always). I truly appreciated the IG and OOG knowledge and experience that you guys shared with me.

I always enjoy seeing what kind of trouble....no, mischief....that Dusty seems to get herself into. So good to see the Grumpy Dwarf and the little ones were there too - spiders beware!

Sunday morning lessons with Sindarion. Proud OOG papà.

Majestic Beard

The problem child of cards

A big thank you to everyone who came out on Lilith Field Trip Mod - I was high high levels of nervous about that fight and you were all super positive. And, frankly, seeing the looks of surprise after the quick change is a memory that's going to stick with me for a long time. Special thanks to Rachael for being my necessary assitant and Matt M for running with my weird "WHAT IF I CHANGED APPEARANCE MID MOD???" need to be high key theatrical.

Also eternal thanks to Matt C pre-event and everyone in logistics for reviewing new Psionicist skills with me like seventy times.

Yamaira, you were marvelous as Queen Ariska. I was thoroughly prepared to be scared and standoffish, but the first few minutes of interacting with you were so affecting and hit Starling under her skin. So, uh, she went #TeamRebelSpiders

Tori, you ran a heck of an event and thank you for continually putting up with my questions as I figure out wtf new scholar even does.

Big highlight moments:
- the quiet realization that Starling had, that she believes Ariska is genuinely a better person than her
- "I TOLD YOU THEIR NAMES HAD APOSTROPHES" after insisting the ixarachne had Quinarian-esque spelling conventions
- Spider Queen protection detail on main mod. Y'all were a great team and made what can be a pretty boring thing OOG into a blast
- that time Starling had a quiet breakdown like two feet away from Corsair because EVERYTHING IS THE WORST - it produced some marvelous interaction and like, woah friends
- accidentally joining the blights mod and finally, finally, FINALLY getting to use Telemancy. Starling has been obsessed with it for a year and that was a great time to actually break it out.

Great event!

Was a ton of fun to be one of the main bosses! Lots of fun playing around with the new rules.

Matt, obviously the final fight with Magnus was very cinematic and very fun! One of the most fun fights I've had at KR! Thanks for roleplaying damage not just swinging wildly to try and win. It was great!

Had a lot of fun beating up James and Steve on Sunday when they came out as brigands! And pulling that final attack on Steve by thrusting my sword under his arm while he was monologueing was pretty hilarious!

Thanks to Tori for letting me try out the new big bad rules, and thanks for everyone who was fighting me I had a blast!

Thanks Drew for being there to make sure things actually worked out.

Thanks to Rachel, Rebekah, Yamaira, Tori, Kelley, and everyone else who did make-up and costumes for the Ixarachne! It was a lot of effort but it definitely paid off! Those tabards and thorax pieces looked stellar!

I don't remember all of the people who went on the assassination mission. Zelrech, Red, Sindarion (I think) and some others, but that was a lot of fun! You guys definitely gave me a run for my money when you all turned invisible and were hitting me from the shadows. Great roleplay!

Overall, good event! Lots of fun to be had, and a great chance to try out the new rules. Can't wait until next month! See you all there!

Oh god I've never done one of these before so I guess I'll give my highlights (Spoiler Alert: It's the entire event). Well lets see...

Friday:
I spent Friday getting weird looks and being asked a lot of questions such as "You're a Gnome right?" and "I thought your people were extinct?". Typical questions anyone going to Travance gets I assume.

Saturday:
I started getting used to being a dead race walking. Some friends and me attended the All Faiths Mass and I actually learned a thing or two about faith in this game (and according to one of the people there, all the goddesses are really hot). Then I had a really nice conversation with a cat lady and her friends about the last time they had seen a Gnome. He then helped the non-psycho spider queen (props to whoever did that costume because it looked amazing). I also scared Chet out of his seat at some point because a Gnome was walking around (Sorry Chet).

NPC Shift:
Was a Spiderperson and put up webs. Watched some Ostfolk "burn" the webs. It was awesome. The only bad thing I have to say shift is it was freezing out just before feast.

Saturday (cont.):
Nearly missed feast. Ran around on main mod with Ostcliff trying to slay the spider queen of hearts. Finished off far too many infected humans. Nearly went into Critical. After main mod I became a vassal to Ostcliff and went off to bed.

"Nudist Sanctuary":
I promise you there is no actual nudity involved. This is just what my friends call this story. I was originally going to leave this off of my highlights but after enough pestering I gave in to peer pressure. While I was trying to go to sleep Saturday night and the barn was attacked by some undead. I tried to ignore it and hide in my sleeping bag so I could get some well earned sleep. After my dwarf friend bugs me for like a minute, I get up while still in my sleeping bag, walk over to the door, and block the doorway using Sanctuary. About 5 seconds into the sanctuary the sleeping bag drops and everyone comes to the realization that I'm in my unmentionables. After a quick hold to allow me to pull up my sleeping bag, we finish off the undead and we all go to sleep.

Sunday:
Learned some more Psionics and was told that I'm much better at brown nosing than being angry. I then totally didn't participate in a shady and quickly set up Elemental Fight Club just outside of the inn. I killed James while he was an NPC and then the event sadly had to end.

Thank you Tori for allowing me to have the opportunity to spend 2 weeks crying over making spider abdomen costumes and letting me making absurd butt jokes....

By the buttload