2025 Nationals Event Favorites!

[Roff]

Thank you all so much for joining us at the castle of the reverie.

There was clearly so much going on at event that I can only scratch the surface of knowing all the incredible things that took place.

As you travel relax and unwind please share your favorites of this event so we can see all the antics, shenanigans, and heroic moments that shined out in this event!

I know my list is long and I will continue to build it out to share but wanted to make sure we can start hearing these stories.

Thank you all again for joining us and I hope to see you all again soon. Whether that be back up in Minnesota or across Fortannis.

 

[Layla/sliver]

My favorites were:
Reading the pages we found (shout out to Claire for writing it. It was definitely worth the many times I was downed)
Fishing and catching fish
Talking with the fae at the get together and after during the fight at the silvinborn village learning what the fae were during was interesting
Seeing and participating in the echo tribunal's judgment
Seeing all the different characters claire became was really cool
The gala was interesting and I had a lot of fun dancing and talking with someone but I'm not sure if I can remember their name
Meeting all the different adventurers and hearing the storys they and the other npcs I asked told
The secret exchange
Getting to use my archery more and the bow I made passing the safety check
Finding out the grand master's spell store is their pants (very hilarious)
Getting a ritual scroll as loot more than once
Watching the fights
Being with Blackstone and seeing the big final fight (I heard someone tried to sneak up and murder me Blackstone helped prevent that from happening as well I really liked how you were able to get make these supposedly powerful creatures get reputations to be feared good job)
Buying the fae queen's wings
Seeing all the shenanigans
Impromptu songs
Being consistently called tinkerer by acorn
Watching dragon ball and seeing the goblins decide to work together instead of fighting each other
Hating the forge of horns
Helping break the forge of horns
Getting to yell umbra fae quee
The fun noises all the npcs made when playing monsters especially the beatle
Silver slowly getting stronger and surprising everyone when they bid 25 gold and being asked how I had that much
Getting too much gold and silver for the box to hold and having to exchange a good amount of it to make spac
Seeing all the interesting things we fought (pixies are very annoying in fights)
Underestimating the spice of a drink (lesson learned)
Seeing Dane and his cool look
The show of unity and its stories
Getting hit with intoxicate and hallucinate and deciding what silver would see if they were hallucinating
The outlanders getting enough votes and now having a home
All in all it was pretty darn awesome as both me and silver do not regret answering at all!

 

[Sswanson]

Team Sketchy Potion making with Alexander.

We amnesiad ourselves so hard we saw the future.

Getting to work with that group and build a potion in a "cauldron", watching it change colors, bubble, fizz, and crackle was so much fun. I genuinely have never had a mod where the Brewers got to do something so interesting and fun in all my time playing.

 

[Tuli]

Thank you!!

I think this may be my favorite Larp event ever. From start to finish I was having a great time! I know a lot of people were working really hard at making this event go as smooth as possible - this game is such a marvel and only possible because so many of you donate so much of your time and energy! Thank you!

Thank you so much for inviting me to be the frog archon and for everyone that engaged with her. Alexander did a great job writing her and when I was reading the character knew she would be perfect for me! Thank you so much!!

Kyle- I have never been so surprised as an NPC before and I LOVED it with getting the Adze caterpillar taking over Boss Gullawullah at the party night. The rescue was so much fun to rp!!

Derek- telling you I would not do all the things the archon was supposed to do at the party was pretty funny because I don’t think k you caught on immediately why

During the rescue “I’ve been awake this whole time!” When I forgot sleep was a command … Also at the very end the mini exchange …

Krem “That was a rouge operation, I knew nothing about it.”
Gullahwullah “I believe you! And forgive you!” slightly contradictory

So much fun RP as that frog! Dune! You were so fun to rp with and did a great job paying attention to how to get her to vote. Finch did too!!

Tony- omg I want to kidnap you and make you move to Chicago so we could play together more. I love how you were going along with the increasing unhinged ideas of the Adze to make Outlanders all a part of experiments.

“10 poison” too many people tried to lick Gullawullah!

Ana, Andrea and the other on our manic romantacy reading mod that got dialed up to a thousand. “We hate Regina! We want Obscura!”

Claire passing out cards and asking if I wanted the “obvious choice”- being a manic pixie monster was a lot of fun!

One of Claire’s rp instructions to the group of manic pixies being “well… just be Sarah..” lol - I think she regretted that …hahaha

The fishing game as a selkie had no business being as fun as it was

Sam telling me I can’t hurt the circle when I was kicking the air was funny

Erica- thank you for your help with makeup!!

It was great playing with everyone I have so many more but

 

[Heinricht]

As the honorary mayor I'd like to welcome you to Friendship town. . . .

 

[Mahir]

SO many from this weekend- I'll probably post more later as I remember them.

- The sheer amount of story and hooks that went out. Every time I felt like I had a good pulse on everything, I'd hear about some other plotline that had been going on all weekend that I didn't even know existed.
- Tent city! It was so fun having a couple different communities going on at the same event, and the Yurtlings killed it with decor.
- DRAGON DUEL (Totally Not Censerball). I have been ACHING for this- and what a damn good game it was too. The Rathfall Vikings stand victorious!
- Raising my leg baby. The construct archon 'first lesson' was such a fun idea from plot, and I entertained myself for *hours* talking to my own legs. Not to mention "We vote no. Ha ha. That was a joke. If the outlanders taught me anything, it is that you can always have a little fun"
- The props! From the gorgeous art for the banners to the many, many reps that dropped or were used for NPCs, the repping this weekend was phenomenal.
- THE SUNDAY NIGHT TOWN MOD. Legitimately top 5 experiences in my entire time LARPing between multiple games- and most definitely the single most fraught situation/fight I've ever been in. Leading #TheLucky7 as we got hit again. and again. and again. and again. by group after group was intense and terrifying- and then the sheer horror of getting hit by 3 of the archons at the same time and watching the group absolutely shatter. Not to mention the enslavement that followed- "Do you accept my physical roleplay?" IYKYK
- Waltrich P Tinger (probably misremembering the name, but I think it's close). I wasn't able to go on those mods (and I'm always very glad when there's something specifically for newer players) but every interaction with Ian's puppet-rabbit was phenomenal.
- The gala! Bada's learned to enjoy fancy parties. Begrudgingly. The favor from the dragons was such a nice touch, too.
- Ontario. Goddamn. Jones. I just can't stay mad at you, frog buddy. Even if you accidentally enslaved Aiden.
- The combat this weekend overall- some truly phenomenal fighters on the NPC side, statting that felt threatening without being unfair. Really hit that sweet spot.
- The Draught of Insight. Very cool to see an actual brewing 'mod' even if I only caught the tail end of it, and the vision was very, very cool.
- Judging the spirits in the silver garden. There was WAY more compassion out of the adventurers than I expected. There was so much gravitas in that scene.
- How clean the play was! Sometimes at an event like this you can see some "shenanigans" but it really seemed like everyone was committed to a fair, honest game.
- The pale lady storyline- I really bit into it even if Bada had to struggle with questioning whether or not these spirit guys really counted as undead or not.

 

[Marcus of Passwall.]

SO many from this weekend- I'll probably post more later as I remember them.

- The sheer amount of story and hooks that went out. Every time I felt like I had a good pulse on everything, I'd hear about some other plotline that had been going on all weekend that I didn't even know existed.
- Tent city! It was so fun having a couple different communities going on at the same event, and the Yurtlings killed it with decor.
- DRAGON DUEL (Totally Not Censerball). I have been ACHING for this- and what a damn good game it was too. The Rathfall Vikings stand victorious!
- Raising my leg baby. The construct archon 'first lesson' was such a fun idea from plot, and I entertained myself for *hours* talking to my own legs. Not to mention "We vote no. Ha ha. That was a joke. If the outlanders taught me anything, it is that you can always have a little fun"
- The props! From the gorgeous art for the banners to the many, many reps that dropped or were used for NPCs, the repping this weekend was phenomenal.
- THE SUNDAY NIGHT TOWN MOD. Legitimately top 5 experiences in my entire time LARPing between multiple games- and most definitely the single most fraught situation/fight I've ever been in. Leading #TheLucky7 as we got hit again. and again. and again. and again. by group after group was intense and terrifying- and then the sheer horror of getting hit by 3 of the archons at the same time and watching the group absolutely shatter. Not to mention the enslavement that followed- "Do you accept my physical roleplay?" IYKYK
- Waltrich P Tinger (probably misremembering the name, but I think it's close). I wasn't able to go on those mods (and I'm always very glad when there's something specifically for newer players) but every interaction with Ian's puppet-rabbit was phenomenal.
- The gala! Bada's learned to enjoy fancy parties. Begrudgingly. The favor from the dragons was such a nice touch, too.
- Ontario. Goddamn. Jones. I just can't stay mad at you, frog buddy. Even if you accidentally enslaved Aiden.
- The combat this weekend overall- some truly phenomenal fighters on the NPC side, statting that felt threatening without being unfair. Really hit that sweet spot.
- The Draught of Insight. Very cool to see an actual brewing 'mod' even if I only caught the tail end of it, and the vision was very, very cool.
- Judging the spirits in the silver garden. There was WAY more compassion out of the adventurers than I expected. There was so much gravitas in that scene.
- How clean the play was! Sometimes at an event like this you can see some "shenanigans" but it really seemed like everyone was committed to a fair, honest game.
- The pale lady storyline- I really bit into it even if Bada had to struggle with questioning whether or not these spirit guys really counted as undead or not.