At my first KR Event...

With the banquet coming up, it's a good time to look back at not only where the game's been, but where we were in the history of the game.

At my first KR event...

Feb. 2001:
Shen was still learning Tao.
Kellindel cast Valence on my NPC (a bear) for giggles.
Lord Altarus Deathbringer was Lord of Drega'Mire.

At my first KR event...

Sept '06

I almost killed Wolf, falling across him while dying IG as a bear. (Appropriate, really.)
I got lost for about an hour Saturday night, walking off the wrong way from main mod, returning to all the NPC's crowded about the fire and greeted with "So the chopper took off and left ya in Nam, eh?"
I had one of the best weekends of my life.

September 06

Fought undead for an hour from a portal, constantly being healed

Freezing night temperatures - being woken for the 4th time and yelling "Next thing through that door is going to have my foot so far up their ass they'll be spitting teeth."  RP marshal comes in and gives me an RP point.  Mike Sera, who was sleeping in the cabin with me, says "He wasn't RPing."

My first event present was September 06 as well. I only got to spend the night NPCing. The thing I remember best was hearing Kristen shriek as a mummy and thinking 'that's awesome' (my dad did not appreciate those very same freezing temperatures and made me leave in the morning)

PCing was October '07. I spent most of the time moping around, hanging out with Dios who was leaving, briefly met Alai before he left, and hung out with pair of goblins who got a nice picture in while I chatted with them.

It was also the first event that the original boom packets stopped coming out but no one was warned about it. Left Ilana thinking 'So... people are scared of us why?' for the next year I think it was until the new ones started.

Oh, also seeing some weird purple girl and thinking 'What the hell did the mages do to her?'

Sept '02 (First event PCing, previous event was a Festival I NPCed)

Made my first and only boffer weapon - a pretty but lead-weighted staff no one ever should have let me weild.

Got an infatuation spell put on me by Judge's demon-child NPC within 15 minutes of creating my character and walking into game (Thank goodness we got rid of that spell).

Really disliked Sam's brand new PC started that event, a wildmage who wanted to be a "warrior-warrior" and talked in this really annoying accent, but asked him to help me find my cabin in the Pendarvin area of Hickory Run anyway when it got dark.

Was called Xena for months by people that didn't know my real name, nominated for best new player after that or the next event (always a nominee, never a winner!), called Elawyn by James at the Awards Banquet soon after.

Kendra was Lady of Pendarvin, Gorn Solcastin was Lord of Kaladonia, Mythrien was Lord of Alisandria, and Geoffry was the most ridiculous peasant NPC ever.

At my first KR event was...

Feb. 2007
I had no idea who any nobles were.  I NPC'd a psycho who job was to get killed after annoying the townsfolk enough.  I was supposed to get dropped in 10 minutes... took over 45 minutes after some very patient people followed me around Camp Sac in snow & mud.

I was made welcome by Birnum Pyre... which didn't help my xenophobic self.  Tried to shoot everyone with my arrows... which was why everyone kept thinking I was an archer or ranger those first 6 months at game.