Taking to heart the advice of others to concentrate more on RP and PC interaction this weekend, I was swamped and exhausted all weekend with deal making, Rit Casting, knowledge gathering, barding, and mod after chewy delicious mod. There was plot weaved into plot, sprinkled with light crispy plot and I had a blast. I had heard rumors of people complaining about this gaseous form "downtime" but where ever it was floating around, I was unable to see it.
Khorwyn’s Return! I got him a funny but useful present so hopefully it made up for all the terrible songs we made up about him.
Leona’s return! How awkward to RP with your g/f, not be dating IG, but still flirt and wonder if it’s going anywhere with her character haha.
Mages’ Guild. There wasn’t really specific mages’ guild plot going on this weekend…. Except the entire event ended up being dominated by the plot we made up on the fly. Elemental essences, vansir talks, guild meetings, tasks, teachings, rituals. This event was a great example of what a group can do to keep itself busy and having fun regardless of what else is going on. Oh yeah… and Gub! Michelle and Onitt threw me for a loop with this one. I was trying not to metagame the whole time he was following me around.. but I just kept thinking “oh god, what does this mean, what are they trying to do to me! It was great!”
Tom and Sheila - i love to hate you guys (i jest, nathan certainly doesn't hate you both... well.. not Ulthoc
...I always feel on guard when you guys are around though, and making sure to check in with Ulthoc regularly during a highly celestial weekend to gauge his mood and make sure my golem doesn't go missing was uncomfortably fun
Magic Storms! I got multiple chances to get into some really good line fights with the town defending my magic storms. Huge props to Iggy and Lupy for defending me, Lanna and the other packet gatherers for keeping my aura coming, and just the overall good work by the town during those fights. Very strategic and well fought.
RUSTY LIVES!!! thanks to chazz, amelia, and scott (for marshaling) for making this happen for me. The actual rit casting was awesome. HUGE thunderstorm overhead, really got me in the mood. Amelia was miming along with me during the casting, and I felt like the three of us really were building him this time. HUGE thanks to Chazz for supplying the reps (coming up with the idea int he first place) and overall making Joaquinn so fun to RP with as a colleague, mentor, and apprentice. I walked out after the casting was successful and made mention to my friends that the ritual had worked. Tom was sitting near by and goes "of coarse Nathan cast a ritual, why do you think it storming!"
RUSTY FIGHTS!!! apparently after I had gone to bed Saturday night the other guildies came in and grabbed rusty for a midnight test run on some creatures swinging death and drain and other ridiculous things that don’t hurt Ironmen. He performed wonderfully and we received many compliments. Then on Sunday a slew of Lightning Elementals poured out of the MeeWee fountains and my first thought at seeing this was Yipee! I can get them with my Stone wand!. My second thought as Joquinn was running towards me yelling for us to get to the circle was… Oh wait… hahahahaha these things are toast. And sure enough… they were.
Mods Mods Mods… I went on 3 and none of those were the big 4 fountain mods of the weekend. I had to decline to go on those because I was too busy.
The wizard flame elemental mod was a pleasant surprise, and the puzzle was difficult to solve. The fight inside was fun, and we fought very effectively as a team. The reward for me was great, and this little side story ended up bleeding into a number of plot lines throughout the weekend that just kept me guessing.
The Life Elemental mod was scary and fun. Being rifted out by Toddo in my wizard PJs while casting a ward was soooooo unexpected. The strange rag tag group that was collected was awesome. We had 1 healer and it was Balls!!! Awesome fighting by our team, awesome spooky lighting and atmosphere by the NPCs on the first floor of the tower. And the reward at the end of the mod…forget coins, I want favors from magisterium elementals as treasure from now on…
The reagent/howlbear elemental was fun and unexpected. Brining gub with me, onitt pulls out his stat card and goes “yeah….. I need to look at this, I didn’t expect to get into combat this soon). Khorwyn, and the guys did a good job keeping the howlbears off us and then we managed to get some prisons going and all was well. Good thing Gub can smell Penna though!
BARDING! Amanda and I were hanging in the tavern and trying to think of medieval songs we could play (unsuccessfully) but when the tavern filled back up and everyone wanted to hear songs, I just copied Scott’s hilarious song idea with the Dramatic chord and tried to make everyone laugh with whatever I could think of on the spot. Most of it was ridiculous, and I wish I had written some of the liens down for later renditions. The dramatic chord song MUST be written and sung at future events!!
Overall an amazingly positive feeling weekend. So much to do, so little time to sleep. Thanks to everyone, NPC and PCs alike for such a good time.
