Firstly, THANK YOU STAFF AND NPCs!!!
I loved the main theme with the Caller feeding off our memories, all the fights that were actually historical events, and just the general chaos and confusion! Ket actually despaired of ever returning home, good job plot team!
My favs:
- I met SO MANY new people and characters!
- As far as combat, the two fights this weekend that stand out in my mind are the bookend color-coded wave battles. I think what made these the most fun was just the scale of it all; having nearly everyone on the field all at once was awesome. The Friday night PvP was INTENSE and really fun. *pours a forty* Sorry Dave. The last fight on Sunday was cool too trying to stay alive long enough for the green portal to open and then making a mad dash for it when it did.
- Finding my first Magic Item on the battlefield late late Friday night – sorry, random player from SoMn, but your (1/day Spell Shield and 1/day Reflect Magic) pendant is now mine *evil grin*
- In these last two events, Ket’s actually starting to have to worry about Bad Things happening to him (Black Ichor, figuring out and escaping the Caller’s realm) and he can’t just always be the happy-go-lucky elf of his first events. While this makes for really fun and interesting RP, I’ve found hopping fence is a great way to clear my mind and make sure that I’m OOG ok and good to go. I particularly liked being the Prince of Mercatos in the Ice Elemental wave battle. It was interesting balancing fearing for my life with my racist confusion about why non-humans were saving me.
- Lowbie mod: “Grab the scroll and run? Nah, we’ll be fine, we’ve been able to take these mist-things out really easily so far…” Then they start swinging for Body and I go down, everyone else flees through the portal, and so I ask the marshal, “So… earth circle?” and he’s like, “You’re actually gonna rift back into the tavern with a minute left on your death count.” Sweet! Thanks Zat for lifing me!
- Successfully buying out that scroll, getting all the components, getting psyched to finally enchant my bow and see some ritual magic, aaaaand the marshal rolls a 0. Miles, you should have seen the look on your face. Ren’s reaction was touching and felt really genuine. Don’t beat yourself up, Ren, nobody was hurt and you didn’t break my bow.
- Frank and Cole, Ket would be dead multiple times over if not for Huleen and Ruis, thanks once again for putting up with his naivete. Best friends an elf could ask for; you guys rock!
- Getting to see my Rom friends and meeting some new ones too. Kevin, you gotta play Dmitri more often so we can confuse more people! “Morning, Ket!” “Oh hi Ket, are you well?” Bystander: “Wait, what?”
- Drak’s antics returning Broomis his crown and providing sign language for Sevaria's speech. Scott, you are one hilarious dude!
- Zombie crypt mod WOAH. Between getting rifted there against my will, and then hearing that it’s unscaled, and then all the special technical effects, this was crazy good times. Thankfully I was on the upper end of the stat scale for once:
“I rise from the ground one!”
“Six normal!”
“I rise from the ground two!”
“Six normal!”
“I crumble to dust…”
And once we actually found the right path, we come across the treasure chest and the four or five people near me start yelling not to touch it, so of course I grab it and the marshal yells “HOLD!” I’m thinking “Dammit, I knew it. Well, I have a strong spirit.” But the marshal continues, “All the undead burst into dust, you feel the mists rising and you’re all rifted back to the tavern!”
- Good times with Ashbury friends in the tavern, if there weren’t any familiar faces I think Ket would have lost it.
- Chilling with the lowbies and explaining how to make oneself useful on the battlefield even if one can’t do or take much damage.
Sorry for the novel, WHAT A WEEKEND!!!