May 2018 Event Highlights

Went into this event knowing it was going to be an interesting one for Cara- the Arcane Sons are in her backstory and legitimately the reason her life went to shit. Didn’t expect how personal it was going to get for her.

Friday night was super rough (but that’s what feedback is for) and I almost didn’t come back into game as Cara, but I’m glad I did.

The Saturday arcane sons encounters (besides main mod) were really well done with the limitations of the new rules in mind.

Getting to fight Karen as her book burner, and then getting to help find her secret library! Epic library adventure times. Can’t wait to go back and get that book Elysra wanted me to see.

I had no idea walking on to the 4th arcane son encounter that it was going to get so personal. Neither did Steve. I was so caught off guard when drew walked up to me and just whipsered in my ear “that was the slaver that captured you when you were a child”. Cara already being stressed about being in a slaver camp, turning and seeing Ben’s npc and panicking and having a breakdown and collapsing to the side crying. Getting over her fear, having her Phoenix tell her “this is your fight”, taking him on. Screaming at him that he was a coward after he went invisible and I couldn’t find him, screaming that he ruined my life, and that he was the reason my brother was dead and that I wouldn’t let him do that to anyone else, that it was ending here for the innocent people, for Cato. My heart legitimately stopped when Ben came out of concealment and went “I thought I recognized you”. Unloading my spells into him, becoming more and more emotional as I was screaming at him until my annihilate took him out. Collapsing onto the ground sobbing as I watched Aleister execute him. Drew and Ben pulled no punches and holy shit. Amazing emotional closure to Cara’s Backstory I never expected to get.

Being tired of pcing for a while after main mod and deciding to go take a short npc shift instead of sitting around. Had a lot of fun being rats looking for food and a zombie meat shield. Renee, phenomenal rp and awesome use of pounce. We had fun fighting you and your group.

Looking forward to Alisia’s plot next event !!! See you at witl.

For anyone doubting their larping skills, this past weekend marked my five-year anniversary and attending almost every single event in that span. That said, this event I learned a couple things about my personal style and found ways to improve my performance. It's a process and we're all working toward bettering ourselves together.

Props
"Props" to Anna C. for setting a great lakefront scene and the ensuing RP. Josh, Blaze, it's always a treat role-playing with you.

"Now That She's Back In the Atmosphere..."
Diegetic (live) music is amazing and so is Sydney M. who made it happen Friday night in the Djinn & Tonic at their new piano.

Getting A Little Board
Say it with me: BOUNTY BOARD! I'm glad it's here. It's a fun concept that already has me scheming...

Choked Up
Hitting the floor with laughter behind the bar at the Dragon's Claw and Django tossing crackers at Chet to see if he could land one in his mouth; acting like he died when one did until Dusty saved the day. Chet repaid her with crude jokes. I'm now taking bets for what toddler Chet's first words were.

Choked Up Part Deux, Figurative Edition
Nalick bumping into Grim on the back porch of the kitchen. Bill, the vibes were pulsing off of Grim. It was a short bonding moment, but a memorable one. "I've been there."

Cutting Off
Triple entendre here. Chet tries to have a conversation with Ninnyhammer only to have interruption after interruption. There was one in particular that was doubly troublesome, both in the moment and in a furious, breathless attempt at resolving it. All of that led to fascinating philosophical discussion with Moriki. So much for "Stupid O'Clock"!

The Tower Underhill
Dominic's criticism sent Nalick back to the drawing board, which shifted the plan entirely--you could say it inverted it. Krystoff helped set the finishing touches. The rest is history--with any luck.

Impenetrable Fortress
When Jonas Kane invites you on an adventure, it's hard to say no. When he invites an eighth of the town, it gets even harder. Watching Reginald and Oakley play out their scene was great. Even better was what came after we emerged from the woods. What I thought was part of a script was really just Steve going hard in the paint. Sweeney, thanks for keeping all of us in stitches.

Don't Know Much About Geography
After the battle with the cultists, when commoners came en masse into the Inn to praise the "heroes of Travance," Chet tried to convince them that no one was a hero by geography and that they were actually the heroes. Then he got to autograph someone's hand--and then do it again. It was a weird night. But then I had an adorable one-on-one moment with one of them off to the side that ended with the comment "Go be a hero." It was one of my favorite moments with an NPC in at least a long time. Thanks, Nova!

last event Dusty learned gods do exist and they are just people too this event she learned a much harder lesson. This event made her cry . getting ahead of myself.

For the first time Dusty made kills with her sword ( she has no enhanced fighting skills) usually she swings the monster doesn't even notice and she goes to bombs. This time Moriki was distracting and she hit from behind(again no backstab either) and they were able to kill it. Later a rat bit attacked and when the rat and Dusty realized they were the same squishy, grinning ear to ear, they had a duel. Dusty earned dissecting that rat. So novel to be able to affect monsters and not have them just ignore lesser damage.

Later Dusty listened two to things were going on and had the choice kill sharks or try to save Lillith. Of course she wanted to help someone. Grabbing poor anoile who didn't even have a way to defend herself they were off on an adventure. Luckily Maria noticed unsupervised Dusty and moved in to protect. The three quickly found they really shouldn't have been there. those homunculi hit hard. That"s when Dusty noticed the really white man in black robes next to her. Introducing herself like always does she made friends with the King who was kind enough to protect the three. Such a nice man. Later when it came time to sacrifice themselves for the ritual to save a soul Dusty felt terrible convincing anoile to help and watched poor Anoile experience true pain. After dusty sacrificed herself 7 times she too felted drained and an emotion she didn't quite understand yet.

Feast brought back fun and laughter and oh my was that pulled pork good!

Had some of her usual shenanigans including avoiding people who proposed, compromising healing positions behind bars, and infiltrating goblins to the point she had a new name and everything.

One of the shenanigans Dusty ran off with Chet and Khristoff for all of five mins when they returned Dusty and Chet had Just discussed do you think Moriki will be mad when the guard came in and dropped moriki almost at their feet and said he was about to be executed immediately. Dusty watched in horror as Selphatos tried but was not able to stop them from dragging moriki outside to be killed. That's when Dusty lost it. She ran outside and confronted the guard not caring there were nobles amongst them. pointed out Morikis character and why it all made no sense. demanded to know if he had even been checked to see if he was controlled by something. The guard hadn't even thought to do so, it turned out he was. Dusty was moved to the side and watched as they took moriki for treatment. She found herself in front of Chet who noticed Dusty wasn't right. what followed was one of the most wonderful bit of roleplay I have had in the past 20 years. Dusty thought it was all her fault. Its the first time her running off had a consequence. in tears, she explained that. Chet explained how wrong she was. Even used her own word from the past against her. Sneaky. I just can't put into words what was said and went down. it really impacted me as well as Dusty. Anyway on to the last highlight for me

Bllack ooze was attacking. Dusty couldn't find Tsula or moriki but wanted to help. Found Father Ephriam so with proper supervision went to help. Someone called for a surgeon now Dusty hasn't learned that part of Physician yet but wants to someday so she went over to assist. found out she had the tools and the others didn't. They were nice enough to let her take lead in the brain operation while they told her what to do. yes, brain operation in the middle of a battle. Thankfully Father Ephriam did some magical wall thingy so the surgery went very well. dusty even found three people who liked exploding things as much as she did. They had a ball destroying the removed tumor slimes. Fire in the hole!

All in all was an emotion rollercoaster which is something happy go lucky, let's go on adventure, everyone has good inside, Dusty didn't expect. Has she learned? Probably not. time will tell

This event was by far the most fun I've had at kr in a long while. Some highlights:

-the bounty board. This approach to "adventure" let the event be full of action without requiring plot to be world ending. I cant stress enough how fun this felt, and how refreshing it was to get paid! Down with body looting, up with bounties!

- the rules: while there is still a lot of work to be done, the core concepts of the new rules set are starting to shine. It really felt like more people felt useful, and I loved having the opportunity to play alongside so many more characters without either being bored, crushing low level content, or having them be liabilities on high level content. Just such a huge, huge, huge improvement. Looking forward to the system getting even better.

-leading a battle: it's been a minute. I had a blast, I hope you guys did too! Mars, crystal, Tim, tori, jeremy, and the rest who helped create a plan, and then helped keep it simple: thanks so much! I had a blast role playing with you.

- meeting new people: too many to mention, but it's been a pleasure getting to know so many new faces.

- fantastic combat role play: from Brian Hahn as gilgamesh, to the "clone" I tossed around, to owen piper, to Duncan,to grass, to Damian on main mod, to the slaver women on Saturday, to grim fighting through all those feelings, to the snarling ball of horns and teeth I think was tris... you guys rocked my world.

-good times at the bar: while I certainly appreciate the normal bartenders, hilda was a more than adequate replacement. Victoria your voice is amazing, and your commitment to role play while also juggling the very real workload at the bar was commendable. You helped make my weekend great.

-sea monsters: apparently lure in "smaller, stupider fish" with bioluminescence, then wash it all down with a drink of beans.

All in all, "what a day".

Thank you everyone for showing up this weekend and giving your all.

I really need to thank 2 people.

Tori and Kevin, thank you two for rocking the bounty system. Tori thank you for managing and juggling those encounters. And Kevin thank you for bringing in a masterful adventurer to run beside Tori as Abigail and working together to get fun encounters out for the player base.


To everyuone else, again really truly thank you for being you and for being at the event and joining in on the fun.


I will see you all at Week in the Life!