Uhhh busy day at work and it just keeps keeping up, so I'll try and bullet point along the way this morning...
Linear:
-Bunniculas: The amount of "Oh crap oh crap oh crap" every time they'd show up and I'd hear "I bite 1..." was a lot of fun and panicky as we rushed to deal with them.
-Friday night ambush in Greenwood: Scary difficult at the start with the 4 of us, I wasn't sure what was going to happen, and I was plotting the retreat to the wards right as the calvary from the Tavern showed up. Freakin Jay and his death rogue. Ended that fight with 1hp and 5 armor. Was also awesome tracking down the runner with Osborne, and when I threw the light at it so we could see Alex as the NPC immediately grabbed it to try and mess with us, it was cool.
-Farmer & The Gnolls: Was cool to try and get the Gnolls to disarm and resolve things without death, I'm glad the last one did so, so I could send a message back to them of "Stop it." Blue and Frank chasing down Gnolls was hella fun, poor guy couldnt get away from us.
-Merchant Guild Mod: Finally got to do a Merchant Guild mod! Pretty simple setup but it was super made sense in the world, dealing with bandits who were trying to setup ambushes.
-Mage's Guild Mod: Finally got to do a Mage's Guild mod! Mage's guild gets some really interesting and important to the world mods, and this one was no different. The fight was really good and we got some interesting roleplay outta the captive and interrogation.
-Quick mod helping the farmer with part of the crew from the Mage Guild mod: Having 4 celestial casters with you on a mod makes things very different and blow up/bindy
-6pm reset fight. Holy cow. Like I told the NPCs, all the middle fingers, that was awesome, high five. Definitely challenged us as we had to adapt throughout the fight to the ever changing lines that kept happening. Was fun to ensure we had the tavern as a safe point, and I put the hurt down on Jay cause he was doing TOO much damage twice.
-The Ball! As usual I do my thing with security outside. Really cool crew, had some RP on and off, and the stuff that showed up was fun to fight. This year I noticed a lot of people having some cool outside scenes during it, some good RP from the glimpses I saw or overheard while patrolling. I love being part of hosting the Ball, be it from setup, tear down, bringing donuts, and doing security.
-Grave Robbing Retribution: Oh my wtf awesome. The random people who were enslaved to seek revenge was awesome, it was so random and "SURPRISE!" it kept me on my toes and always trying to figure out what was going on with it. Really great idea and totally cool and created some good RP over it.
-Sunday fight: Very enjoyable fight, I really enjoyed working with my team watching the back opening and getting to work with Mark's PC Fynn.
Non linear:
-The Face-Wiping Plot: No idea where this is going and what the story is, but I wanna know and I want more. The RP it created with the fakes was really interesting, each one had a different reaction and those of us looking into it shared data a lot on how it was happening and what people noticed.
-Chivalry Talks: Talked with one PC interested in possibly Squiring and it had some really good depth and RP into it, something I very much cherish. There was several unrelateds and spin offs about such, talking over the concept of justice and being just in the world, how Chivalry relates, how just being a good person relates, and so forth.
-Random RP: I really enjoy getting to RP with a lot of people, and the depth many have put into their backgrounds from them personally to even talking about their family's stories. Every Gypsy we have in game can RP their butts off I've noticed, just wow you guys.
-Merchant's Guild! This is really coming along well and its so worth it to be a part of the Guild. Both Brian and Keith will also RP with ya too.
-Late night plotting with Fern & a few others. Some scary stuff dropped in an ally's lap, and between that and the Enslavement stuff, Fern was in the Earth Circle while a ton of these two issues got talked out. Fern had some great insight during the discussion, while Porch was not surprised, Frank was like damn...Fern is more on it than people realize.
-Ball Costumes! There was like 4 people I had to watch how they moved or identify by their weapon. NICE! Omg so many people went all out, and the dancing I saw from outside was awesome!
-Cloven Fruit - Hilarity and fun. Two fav quotes: Hannah's Dryad calling Vira Pretty Deer and the whole Frank being uncomfortable with the whole thing, and Lucian's try for the "advanced rules".
-Forcing Vira to be a member of the Merchant's Guild and all of us laughing about it inside when I did it. "Hey Vira, you're now a member of the Merchants Guild, take this..."
-Fought a lot of tough crunchies this weekend, they gave us a damn good run & fight on several occasions.
-Had some good RP with the Barbarian (Freemen!) crew, and saw they got some good RP with Dani's NPC with it, that's seriously awesome.
-While we didn't make much headway into the Winter supplies for people across the mist, we still got IBGAs and next month, so I'm really interested to see what all we can make happen.
-Costumes: From the ball to regular wear, and I know many of us comment on this a lot, I am always impressed by the commitment that people take to making their PCs look good.
-Discovered its a bad idea to let Vira and Blue come up with ideas together. Further discovered that Lagarde is also a bad influence. Must not allow the three too much time together, otherwise Frank will end up with stuff stuck to his face and our enemies in a dark place.
-NPC RP: Every NPC I had a chance to talk to had depth, and was VERY WELL rp'ed by the individuals portraying them. I dunno if this was great prep by NPC camp or great on the fly work by the portrayers or both, but man it was outstanding.
-Kara teaming up with David: Nooooo. Bad David. No teaching Karas bad things to do to PCs.
I'm sure I'm forgetting other things too.
I was never bored this weekend. When I wasn't doing mechanical stuff, I was busy doing social stuff, and when I wasnt doing those, I was busy doing figure it out puzzle stuff. It was constant fun the whole weekend. Like it showed with how omgtired I was by the time the Ball started, and I was so dead on Sunday I didn't even wanna look for mods.
