Good morning!
It’s been about two weeks now since the National event and there’s been a lot of changes to both Alliance Nationals and Alliance Denver in the past six months. I would be lying if I didn’t say that there was a lot of stress leading into this event, but luckily we put together a team that made this event as stress-free as possible. It was a pretty amazing event from start to finish and hopefully someday we will have the honor of hosting this event again.
Our plot team worked very hard this year on creating a different flavor for the national event from past events. A huge shout out to Ian Moriarty, our head of plot who somehow fit in captaining this ship in the middle of a regular Denver plot season. Taylor Kaiman, our assistant head of plot who decided to not attend his college graduation so that he could attend this event. Trace Moriarty, who wrote all the fabulous blue and orange cards you saw. John Siadak who wrote and marshaled mod after mod for the players. Darrin Myers who is our mechanics master of writing interesting field battles (huzzah for no holds called in the final battle). Jenn Beach who worked on several high production physical mods for the weekend including the amazing cave exploration up by the archery field as well as the great escape room in the tavern on Friday night. Doug Dexter who couldn’t attend the event because he was graduating from college but spent most of the weeks leading up to finals writing a lot of the dryad content for the weekend.
If you didn’t know, we had four fabulous guest writers that stepped up and helped out our plot staff by writing various pieces of content. Thank you to Dia Campbell who wrote and produced most of the wonderful fae party you might have attended on Friday night. Jack Reed, who debuted as a writer for Alliance, writing the dominus mod and field battle on Friday night. Mike Messmer, who was always present backstage coming up with solutions for the various requests that players would have. And also to Paul Mosher Sr. who portrayed the Emperor of Vordium and is now joining the Denver plot team for this year.
Next up I’d like to thank our tireless logistics team: Mac Fawkes, Bria Roberts, John Fawkes and Bobby. Working with this team is nothing short of working with professionals. They were there for any request I had; ready to help out and make the event run smoothly for our players.
Eric Steinkamp, while he couldn’t be at the event, helped me organize and prepare many of the props ahead of time. William Haddon for making and donating the four cool magic item weapons that you might have been lucky to find and wield throughout the weekend.
I’d like to thank our head Rules Marshal, Taylor Kaiman, for ensuring we had a very smooth running event from a rule perspective. Trace Moriarty, our safety marshal who ensured that we all stayed safe throughout the event. Bria Roberts, for marshalling literally hours and hours of rituals throughout the weekend. The rest of our safety marshals: Jim Galford, William Haddon, Izzy Veldhuis for making sure our weapons stayed safe.
Huge shoutout to the tireless tavern staff, led by Josh Lee and Karlee Nasalroad, who did an amazing job with the logistics of cooking and smoking pounds and pounds of food for us this weekend as well as everyone who helped out backstage in the kitchen.
Jay Torres and Derek Reed for the thankless job of getting our NPC camp up and running and making sure that we had enough portrayers backstage and that they were warm, fed, watered, and happy. I’d like to thank all of our full time NPCs that helped us out for the weekend, Shane P, Mike M, Derek R, John Fawkes, Amy S, Bria R, Charlotte P, Cian K, Dan B, David P, Derek R, David P, Derek R, Emily P, Ethan N, Garion D, Jeremy D, Josh A, Kat S, Nathan K, Paul M Sr, Ronica R, Sean O, Sierra G, Steven M, Bethany W, Charity W, John B, Beth S, Bri B, Britanny R, John S, Joshua R and Laura B.
Not only did we have 33 full time NPCs, we also had 45 PCs that crossed over and either helped with an NPC shift or they helped in the kitchen. Thank you to Adam P, Alana A, Amber F, Billy D, Bobby C, Brandon L, Buddy S, Candance W, Casey Y, Cassie C, Chris F, Chris G, Dane F, Devorah M, Dia C, Elizabeth N, Emily R, Izzy V, Jack R, James H, Jeremiah J, John C, John J, Joseph B, Katie C, Laura B, John A, Mandi M, Marc T, Marcea C, Mark C, Megan P, Nickolas S, Nissa O, Padme M, Paola G, Paul I, Paul M Jr, Ruth B, Ryan M, WIlliam H, Zach R, and Zander W. I can tell you that it’s super appreciated when you step out of the game you are playing to help us out backstage, thank you!
Lastly, I’d like to thank the owner of Alliance Denver, Jesse Grabowski, for trusting me enough to run this event and for being there and present before, during and after the event for anything I needed. Also Devorah Mack, my girlfriend for supporting me through my stress and madness leading up to the event and making sure I stayed sane.
If you haven't had a chance, please fill out our feedback form so that we can figure out what to improve for next time! https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B1iWPxL6zkysM1gwX3kxN2pzdDA
Thank you!
Mike
It’s been about two weeks now since the National event and there’s been a lot of changes to both Alliance Nationals and Alliance Denver in the past six months. I would be lying if I didn’t say that there was a lot of stress leading into this event, but luckily we put together a team that made this event as stress-free as possible. It was a pretty amazing event from start to finish and hopefully someday we will have the honor of hosting this event again.
Our plot team worked very hard this year on creating a different flavor for the national event from past events. A huge shout out to Ian Moriarty, our head of plot who somehow fit in captaining this ship in the middle of a regular Denver plot season. Taylor Kaiman, our assistant head of plot who decided to not attend his college graduation so that he could attend this event. Trace Moriarty, who wrote all the fabulous blue and orange cards you saw. John Siadak who wrote and marshaled mod after mod for the players. Darrin Myers who is our mechanics master of writing interesting field battles (huzzah for no holds called in the final battle). Jenn Beach who worked on several high production physical mods for the weekend including the amazing cave exploration up by the archery field as well as the great escape room in the tavern on Friday night. Doug Dexter who couldn’t attend the event because he was graduating from college but spent most of the weeks leading up to finals writing a lot of the dryad content for the weekend.
If you didn’t know, we had four fabulous guest writers that stepped up and helped out our plot staff by writing various pieces of content. Thank you to Dia Campbell who wrote and produced most of the wonderful fae party you might have attended on Friday night. Jack Reed, who debuted as a writer for Alliance, writing the dominus mod and field battle on Friday night. Mike Messmer, who was always present backstage coming up with solutions for the various requests that players would have. And also to Paul Mosher Sr. who portrayed the Emperor of Vordium and is now joining the Denver plot team for this year.
Next up I’d like to thank our tireless logistics team: Mac Fawkes, Bria Roberts, John Fawkes and Bobby. Working with this team is nothing short of working with professionals. They were there for any request I had; ready to help out and make the event run smoothly for our players.
Eric Steinkamp, while he couldn’t be at the event, helped me organize and prepare many of the props ahead of time. William Haddon for making and donating the four cool magic item weapons that you might have been lucky to find and wield throughout the weekend.
I’d like to thank our head Rules Marshal, Taylor Kaiman, for ensuring we had a very smooth running event from a rule perspective. Trace Moriarty, our safety marshal who ensured that we all stayed safe throughout the event. Bria Roberts, for marshalling literally hours and hours of rituals throughout the weekend. The rest of our safety marshals: Jim Galford, William Haddon, Izzy Veldhuis for making sure our weapons stayed safe.
Huge shoutout to the tireless tavern staff, led by Josh Lee and Karlee Nasalroad, who did an amazing job with the logistics of cooking and smoking pounds and pounds of food for us this weekend as well as everyone who helped out backstage in the kitchen.
Jay Torres and Derek Reed for the thankless job of getting our NPC camp up and running and making sure that we had enough portrayers backstage and that they were warm, fed, watered, and happy. I’d like to thank all of our full time NPCs that helped us out for the weekend, Shane P, Mike M, Derek R, John Fawkes, Amy S, Bria R, Charlotte P, Cian K, Dan B, David P, Derek R, David P, Derek R, Emily P, Ethan N, Garion D, Jeremy D, Josh A, Kat S, Nathan K, Paul M Sr, Ronica R, Sean O, Sierra G, Steven M, Bethany W, Charity W, John B, Beth S, Bri B, Britanny R, John S, Joshua R and Laura B.
Not only did we have 33 full time NPCs, we also had 45 PCs that crossed over and either helped with an NPC shift or they helped in the kitchen. Thank you to Adam P, Alana A, Amber F, Billy D, Bobby C, Brandon L, Buddy S, Candance W, Casey Y, Cassie C, Chris F, Chris G, Dane F, Devorah M, Dia C, Elizabeth N, Emily R, Izzy V, Jack R, James H, Jeremiah J, John C, John J, Joseph B, Katie C, Laura B, John A, Mandi M, Marc T, Marcea C, Mark C, Megan P, Nickolas S, Nissa O, Padme M, Paola G, Paul I, Paul M Jr, Ruth B, Ryan M, WIlliam H, Zach R, and Zander W. I can tell you that it’s super appreciated when you step out of the game you are playing to help us out backstage, thank you!
Lastly, I’d like to thank the owner of Alliance Denver, Jesse Grabowski, for trusting me enough to run this event and for being there and present before, during and after the event for anything I needed. Also Devorah Mack, my girlfriend for supporting me through my stress and madness leading up to the event and making sure I stayed sane.
If you haven't had a chance, please fill out our feedback form so that we can figure out what to improve for next time! https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B1iWPxL6zkysM1gwX3kxN2pzdDA
Thank you!
Mike
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