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.

 

[Atradimas]

- The Gala! Atradimas' preferred battlefield through-and-through and it was so full of absolutely wonderful drama, mystery, gossip, and intrigue! My shoulders were absolutely dying by the time I got the shoulder piece off me but we must all make sacrifices in the name of fashion! Plus, I think I made DeSylvia smile and Glenn sigh, so, I consider the outfit a complete success!
- Team. Lucky. Seven. My good lords we should NEVER have called ourselves "lucky". I'm not quite sure if we were actively being hunted or just had terrible luck (yeah...) but we there was essentially a single moment we got any rest and it was exactly two minutes plus ten seconds. We had a well-oiled machine of a unit till the three Archons shattered us. But even then? We got our pillar to the finish line! Major kudos to Bada for her amazing leadership, major love to my fellow supports for keeping us up, major thanks to Marcus for hanging back to deploy WoFs, and an absolutely major hoorah to our fighters for their kill sh*t attitude.
- The Pale Lady! Her storyline hooked me waaaay harder than I thought it would. I'm very sad I missed the first hook but I was on the mod that followed up on that hook, we were led by the Crimson Wyrm to learn answers and after finding out that the C.Wyrm and Pale Lady were in love? UGH amazing. The mod to get the Pale Lady back, to purify her? Absolutely phenomenal. Then coming full circle to be part of the Jury of the Dead? PHENOMENAL. Atradimas wants to be her lol!
- That line fight against one of Shane's NPCs. He kept taunting, I kept throwing Disarms. At one point he goaded me so good I messed up the Disarm incant and fizzled. I love you so much man but UGH. xD You know I'm already bad at aiming, you don't gotta make it worse!
- Getting Prisoned by one of the Fae in a big combat only for O'ot to Dispel it and the Fae Queen to double-tap sleep me. Then I got Awoken... Then had to Reflexive Prison myself like thirty seconds after waking up because I got hit to like 12 then hit again. xD I couldn't see which NPC said it but there was one who commented 'ah they're Prisoned, this one likes to do that' xP In my defense, only one of them was my own! So friggin funny to me!
- Dragon Duel! Censerball is easily one of my favorite downtime activities in Rathfall so to play another version of it/an update to it was phenomenal. Skol to the Rathfall Vikings for bringing home the trophy once more, and a very good game to the opposing team of Rengar, Ourodai, and Zagreus! (I couldn't quite catch your team name! I know it's land-something DX)
- TENT. CITY! This went WAY better than I expected and we only got attacked once! Thank you to Astyral for being Celestial Civic Engineer Extraordinaire and doing zoning work for all of us, thank you to everyone who respected the zoning ordinance, for cleaning up your tenting footprint, and for all the folk who came by for the bonfire!
- Ontario Joooones. The best frogbud an elf could ever ask for! A good combat-frog who will hopefully get to enjoy being a retirement-frog. It's ok bud, you didn't mean to try to Enslave me; if I had a cloak I would have used that but I only had the Bane, srry bud! xP
- I got to see Bada do the zebra stomp in combat for the first time! It's such a good mannerism.
- MEETING SO MANY NEW FRIENDS OMG. There are so many amazing people across the country who I am so terribly sad I likely won't see again for a long while and that rips me up inside but it was such an honor to meet you all.
- Co-casting rits with Frey/Soren! YOU'RE A STAFF. DEFINITELY A STAFF. NOT A CROOK, JUST A STAFF. if you know, ya know ... That it's a staff.
A big thing Dramthin has been teaching me is that rit casting is not just "ok cool make an item for someone" but it can be a gateway to some immense roleplay where you uplift those involved and invest them into the thing being made and each other, thus, bringing not only imbuing the item with ritual magic but the magic of our emotion. The item creation for Prelude will forever be cemented in my mind and I hope that the geas woven into it comes to pass; that it will be the tool of a shepherd, a weapon, a shield, and a guide for all those under Morley's care.
- Rhyming with Soren because of the rit casting. Frey is such a goof, thank you to Cadenza and Saoirse for helping me with my rhymes, because lord knows I suck at them ahaha.
- Stun Locking the Fae Queen! Claire had run out of mettles and I unloaded every last drop of Solidify I had as soon as I saw people were going for the circle beat. It felt so satisfying to help take her down after all the pain and sadness she had caused to the Sylvanborn, Elves, and Selunari. And! To be part of the jury that sentenced her to eternity as a spirit token! A token that I got to keep!

Will update with more when my brain is no longer mush! <3

 

[Manflesh]

- The Gala! Atradimas' preferred battlefield through-and-through and it was so full of absolutely wonderful drama, mystery, gossip, and intrigue! My shoulders were absolutely dying by the time I got the shoulder piece off me but we must all make sacrifices in the name of fashion! Plus, I think I made DeSylvia smile and Glenn sigh, so, I consider the outfit a complete success!
- Team. Lucky. Seven. My good lords we should NEVER have called ourselves "lucky". I'm not quite sure if we were actively being hunted or just had terrible luck (yeah...) but we there was essentially a single moment we got any rest and it was exactly two minutes plus ten seconds. We had a well-oiled machine of a unit till the three Archons shattered us. But even then? We got our pillar to the finish line! Major kudos to Bada for her amazing leadership, major love to my fellow supports for keeping us up, major thanks to Marcus for hanging back to deploy WoFs, and an absolutely major hoorah to our fighters for their kill sh*t attitude.
- The Pale Lady! Her storyline hooked me waaaay harder than I thought it would. I'm very sad I missed the first hook but I was on the mod that followed up on that hook, we were led by the Crimson Wyrm to learn answers and after finding out that the C.Wyrm and Pale Lady were in love? UGH amazing. The mod to get the Pale Lady back, to purify her? Absolutely phenomenal. Then coming full circle to be part of the Jury of the Dead? PHENOMENAL. Atradimas wants to be her lol!
- That line fight against one of Shane's NPCs. He kept taunting, I kept throwing Disarms. At one point he goaded me so good I messed up the Disarm incant and fizzled. I love you so much man but UGH. xD You know I'm already bad at aiming, you don't gotta make it worse!
- Getting Prisoned by one of the Fae in a big combat only for O'ot to Dispel it and the Fae Queen to double-tap sleep me. Then I got Awoken... Then had to Reflexive Prison myself like thirty seconds after waking up because I got hit to like 12 then hit again. xD I couldn't see which NPC said it but there was one who commented 'ah they're Prisoned, this one likes to do that' xP In my defense, only one of them was my own! So friggin funny to me!
- Dragon Duel! Censerball is easily one of my favorite downtime activities in Rathfall so to play another version of it/an update to it was phenomenal. Skol to the Rathfall Vikings for bringing home the trophy once more, and a very good game to the opposing team of Rengar, Ourodai, and Zagreus! (I couldn't quite catch your team name! I know it's land-something DX)
- TENT. CITY! This went WAY better than I expected and we only got attacked once! Thank you to Astyral for being Celestial Civic Engineer Extraordinaire and doing zoning work for all of us, thank you to everyone who respected the zoning ordinance, for cleaning up your tenting footprint, and for all the folk who came by for the bonfire!
- Ontario Joooones. The best frogbud an elf could ever ask for! A good combat-frog who will hopefully get to enjoy being a retirement-frog. It's ok bud, you didn't mean to try to Enslave me; if I had a cloak I would have used that but I only had the Bane, srry bud! xP
- I got to see Bada do the zebra stomp in combat for the first time! It's such a good mannerism.
- MEETING SO MANY NEW FRIENDS OMG. There are so many amazing people across the country who I am so terribly sad I likely won't see again for a long while and that rips me up inside but it was such an honor to meet you all.
- Co-casting rits with Frey/Soren! YOU'RE A STAFF. DEFINITELY A STAFF. NOT A CROOK, JUST A STAFF. if you know, ya know ... That it's a staff.
A big thing Dramthin has been teaching me is that rit casting is not just "ok cool make an item for someone" but it can be a gateway to some immense roleplay where you uplift those involved and invest them into the thing being made and each other, thus, bringing not only imbuing the item with ritual magic but the magic of our emotion. The item creation for Prelude will forever be cemented in my mind and I hope that the geas woven into it comes to pass; that it will be the tool of a shepherd, a weapon, a shield, and a guide for all those under Morley's care.
- Rhyming with Soren because of the rit casting. Frey is such a goof, thank you to Cadenza and Saoirse for helping me with my rhymes, because lord knows I suck at them ahaha.
- Stun Locking the Fae Queen! Claire had run out of mettles and I unloaded every last drop of Solidify I had as soon as I saw people were going for the circle beat. It felt so satisfying to help take her down after all the pain and sadness she had caused to the Sylvanborn, Elves, and Selunari. And! To be part of the jury that sentenced her to eternity as a spirit token! A token that I got to keep!

Will update with more when my brain is no longer mush! <3

Backstory insight: you all were able to locate the Pale Lady's manor because Bada offhandedly brought the problem up to the Marquis during the Gala and got the location from him. He knew the location because he went to her manor and was the one to ask to her to take on the burden, forgoing all attachments that fateful day many years ago.

 

[Xanian]

Great event. Really enjoyed getting to meet new people, adventure more closely with some people I had only met in passing, and spend some more time among a couple of my favorite groups of people. Thank you to everyone who took the time and resources to travel and come together for this.

Plot Staff: You guys did a great job. As someone with some experience of running larp in the past, I saw some telltale signs of things being done 'the right way'. I went on a handful of modules and I don't recall any two of them being run by the same plot person. That tells me you guys did a great job of using your resources and working together. The results showed to us, for sure. Thank you for your time, effort, and expertise in making this a success.

- Lava Scorpions/Oni Golem: Thanks, Alexander. This was a fun concept to play and required us to do one of the hardest things for adventurers (controlling a threat without killing it). The mod was well designed and fun to run. Still shaking my fist at whoever enchanted the golem to bane subjugates though, that's just rude.

- World Tree 2.0/Reforestation for Civilization: Thanks to Kyle on this one. This was a fun spin on the 'escort' style mods I've seen in the past. Statting seemed appropriate to what we were doing and who was there. Just an overall solid mod run well.

-Fighting tournament night 2 - Thanks for running this, Ryan. I had the extreme pleasure to peanut gallery these fights. As an orc, I was trying to play up being the heel commentator a bit without being too mean spirited. It was fun to watch. Also fun to yell at the cyclops through the veil of death after the big fight that he had no honor. I had such high hopes for the honor of him and his kind, but they let me down. Oh well.

-Red Herring - Thanks for marshalling this one, Carly. I was walking the line of trying to be a serious orc and giving in to the fish puns. It was a nice break from the tone of many of the other adventures and stories that were going on. Having some silly mods thrown in is the key to a well balanced event. Well done.

-Mines/Kringle/Faewild/Eureka! - Derek, Kudos to you! There was a ton going on with this one and it could have easily turned into a mindless meat grinder without the proper care you took to run this the way you did. I appreciate the variance in the enemies we were seeing and the pace the of the mod overall. Going to the Faewild was fun (despite Binar's...reluctance?) and finally finding a creature of Fae that Binar doesn't hate was nice. It was a smart decision on the main golem card to have one person delegated to defenses to make the fight go a bit smoother overall. It's not something that can be used all the time, but it was very appropriate in this case.

I didn't have the pleasure of going on any of Claire's mods, but I heard good things.

Ben B. / Binar