In no particular order other than the first which is, as always, thank you NPCs, Staff, and other players for keeping the game immersive, entertaining, and enlightening for me! Thank you very much Laura for taking so many wonderful photos!
The entire weekend was really solidly put together and run by plot. It was interactive, and had a clear story, as well as lots of interesting vignettes of the arc storylines. The Kelani visions and elemental/nature magic was really fun to be a part of, and I appreciated how the story was Child of Camulous centric and at the same time could include MWE’s from other chapters.
Amazing wave battle - it felt like a battle campaign and I loved every moment of it!!
Finding a use for nearly all of my craftsman skills. What’s that, need a ship captained? Sailor. Question about a map? Cartographer. Damaged fleet? I got your Boatwright right here. Getting in legal trouble? Bam! Barrister. Sitting down by the water’s edge? Yeah I am a Fisher.
Sunderdragon coming to our aid! It was really awesome to have people drive from VT and CT to help out a probationary member of the team in a very important quest. Touching In and Out of game. Plus, I had a 40+ level character in a golem as a minion.. muh hahahaha
Singing “I bet you all wish Qualin were here right now!” OOG during holds during two “kill the undead” modules. Holy cow, going on 4 modules?? And being down by about 20 gold in materials and coin by the end of the weekend.. hehe.
Less than an hour into game Commander Logan comes in looking for ship captains and Ryban steps up as the first captain of the weekend. Putting together a team and picking Kerrigwen and Katyreena thinking that we’d have plenty of healing, only to find out that they BOTH memorized binding and protective’s over healing! Archers and casters in the back, fighting effectively, and knowing full well that if Qualin (my elf PC) were there that we would have handled another 5 waves.
Hot Spring vision module! It was really neat to come back from one module and get immediately rifted to another module, getting a really cool vision (and adding to it with stuff that ended up being true!!).
Save Katyreena’s family module: “I’m Ryban Weatherlight, I’m here to rescue you!!” I have so wanted a reason to drop that often heard Star Wars line on someone. Loved this setup and execution. The previous night we had received a vision that we would be freeing CoC slaves so we were ready with anything we thought we could use. Our preparations included getting some armor, making sure we had protectives and gas globes, and bringing a bag of food. We rift in and immediately the marshal says “You recognize Kat’s brother and sister.” From there things got real. The NPC talent for Kat’s brother and sister was AMAZING! Especially considering how new to the game you both are – I thank you so much for such a real response to the situation!! Waiting for Kainen to be ready and then walking into the room and gassing everyone down myself, getting eviscerated on “I rift out two..” and falling down in town. Kainen having no idea that the Children we rescued were actually Kat’s family until an hour later.
Super Sneaky module which ended up being “watch the Ash Forest and friends bash undead”. Ryban stayed near the back, helped out a little bit, and mostly just made sure we didn’t get jumped from behind. “How was the quest to rescue the Queen’s sword?” “Expensive.”
Mike Strauss’s Crazy old man, searching for epins. Good gawd, man.. that was epicly entertaining. It was Coggins level amusement. Wild Mongoose chase!
Simon’s playing. I saw Alda had a recorder but didn’t get to hear her play. : ( Music adds so much to the atmosphere of the game, and in this case, hearing Simon’s flute was akin, in my mind at least, to the sounds of the sea. Actually, there was a lot of musical entertainment – the crab luring, we also got to dance a bit, (and I did a victory dance!). Speaking of victory, Victory Wine shared after rescuing Kat’s family.
Getting feebleminded, two events, 4 feeblemind effects! Yes!
The drama surrounding Logan’s torture of the Vacarran pirate. Tackles, honor combat, waylay, arrest, honor combat again.. Spartacous’ victory! Only to find out that Spartacous didn’t even know that Ryban used to be his old little buddy Enko!! Good guy, that Spartacous. Conversations with Queen, er.. Dame Darlassia.. (Whom Ryban now respects immensely.) Rorii getting PISSED at me.
All things Katyreena (Kirsten)!! Kir, you and I play the same game, and that’s always been wonderful about our characters interacting. (though I like combat more than you do) Character depth and clear motivations, history that matters.. these are what makes your character so believable as a person, and so easy to care about. You rock. From painting your toys just prior to the second most epic fight I’ve ever been in, to taking care of your IG brother and sister (who used to take care of you!), to epic level bind-o-mancy spells. ; ) So glad she got to be invested in the First Free Earth Circle of the islands!
Alda (Susie)! And Laura! And Maggie!! Yay for new people who RP!! New people make us old farts remember how amazing and starry eyed we used to be, and it refreshes our ability to RP. Teaching new characters/players about IG history and skills is so much fun. Alda and I had a long and detailed conversation where she got to know the person that Ryban is and has become over the years. I hope we get to hang sometime in Caldaria (CT)!!
Grim!! You are so frickin’ entertaining, thanks for playing your dwarf true to character all the time. I’m actually SAD that I had already gotten another shield when you came up with the one you made for me. And the beard looked GREAT!
Fizz!!! Now here’s a girl that’s got it going on – so entertaining and fun to be around, like hanging out with a rational version of GIR.
Hanging with Delaldur and Anna. I think Anna talks more to Ryban than to Qualin! Anna discovering that the plague seems to have initiated in her estate and grabbing the bull by the horns on the quest for the cure. Glad that the Dryads and Kat were involved in that as well.
Aishling making me feel like the young, but wise, kid that Ryban is.
Avalon snapping at Ryban about her relationship with Kainen.
Having no idea what an un-marriage party is, but wanting no part of it.
Using all of my break commands on 2 fey who didn’t have any actual command effects on them. LOVED that Camulous needed a BUNCH of them and I was at first disappointed, but then really pleased that I didn’t do it all myself. My character is all about inspiring people to do things.
Assaulting a noble and telling half the town they were greedy and dumb… causing trouble just like old times as Enko, only people were behind me on my actions this time! Finding out that Kainen was going to jump in at any moment and start tearing things up!
Failing to find a hood that would not mess up Mike’s makeup, but being rewarded for the attempt with… DARK ELF COOKIES!!
Tavern owner’s daughter for the ultimate WIN! Loved this character!
Duchess: All of those Vacaran ships belong to the Evorrian navy now!
Ryban: Shouldn’t maybe one or two of them be given to the Children of Camulous? (Activate Jedi mind trick)
Duchess: All of those except for two, which will be given to the Children of Camulous, belong to the Evorian navy now!
Duchess throwing bun-bun, Katryeena's toy bunny into the faces of the pirates.
The strength that is Kerrigwen. All of us children have done so much growing up over the course of the past few years, Kerrigwen was really the leader of the Children (Along with Ashling) this weekend. It is so fitting that she became land bonded to the isle of the Dolphin after her consistent efforts over the years.
Being made the Captain of one of the first two ships in the Children of Camulous’ new navy. Not bad for a chimp. ; )
Oh, and certainly not last, but the last one I’ll post here (Sorry, I know I must have missed a BUNCH) – landing a little off balance on the log that is built into the staircase, and rolling down the embankment without getting injured. Whew! I felt myself falling and remembered that there used to be these big nasty rocks on the side of the staircase and waiting for the pain to come.. but Fairplay continues to improve the site constantly, and their last round of improvements included moving those rocks. Yay! Saved my spine, that’s for sure. I heard the deep inhalation of 2 dozen people about to yell “Hold” and flashed the double thumbs up gesture “I’m OK!!!”. What’s great is that I know if I had been hurt that 40 caring friends would have been by my side.
Henry the Mad / Ryban (Enko) Weatherlight
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