I had an absolute blast. The events were a ton of fun, the NPC's were amazing, and seeing the new players getting involved with the games and teams was great.
Highlights:
Saturday night, Dodger and Third were sitting at the fire, looking out through the gap in the trees over monster camp. watching the fire, watching the moon over the mountains, chatting, watching the fire, watching the moon.....Dodger pauses, looks at the moon. "****." I glance up. "Nice and round tonight, isn't it?.......Ah, could be rounder."
The chant of "Third! Third! Third!" then I was fighting Ryan in the Heroe's battle was seriously heartening.
The colors presentations for all three teams were amazing. I know how much work went into the Brotherhood's colors (A shitload), and I was still amazed at the other team's colors.
Troll ball was an absolute blast. I'll be disappointed if we don't play more back at the Breach. Watching people getting hit for 1 sleep, and just collapsing and tumbling because they went limp while at a full run was awesome. I gotta agree with what Cory said at sushi - I'd pay to watch that. As frustrated as I got with the undead playing troll ball (to the point of walking away until I could get myself under control), I almost, ALMOST wish they'd beaten us, because if they had, the Brotherhood was withdrawing from the festival and wiping them out.
The manticore fight was a lot of fun, also, even if it was just thrown together as an afterthought.
When the chancellor was making his closing speech, all the PC's were inching forward, slowly drawing weapons, waiting for him to officially end the festival, because those undead were going DOWN.
I liked the after-game wrap up chat, as things get mentioned there that are fresh in people's minds that would get forgotten a day or two later when we write our reviews.
It was good to actually see the King again, however briefly. After all the time and work we've put into rescuing and curing him, it's nice to finally see some results.
Low points:
I already mentioned my frustration with playing troll ball against the undead, but other than that, I honestly can't think of anything. I didn't even notice the lack of instamods and lairs until the endgame wrap-up.
The brotherhood's entertainment thing. *shakes fist at Dayna* That wasn't what we were going to do. Kerza and Croxsus were supposed to just straight-up fight blindfolded, at full or near-full speed. Oh well, I'm not too concerned. the Brotherhood won the events we really should have won - though the events we lost, we lost hard.