* My favorite moment was literally every time I interacted with one of our supportive, creative, tremendous community! You People made my event!
* FIREHAWK!1111!!1111!!!!
* I am part of 2 great teams: Rivervale, and O.G. Plot, and getting ready for, and participating in an event with each of them is a great honor! I can’t share publicly some of the fun moments of writing backstage, but I want to thank Mike Messmer, Darrin Myers, Derek Reed, Dan Begnoche, and Ian Moriarty for their support and collaboration. Thank you for the opportunity to return onstage to play Nogra of the Gnarltusk Clan, and to collaborate on other projects. I love both my teams!
* OOG: By chance being present in Monster Camp when a PC wanted to spread certain rumors. SO EXCITED to help with this, and such a clever and light-hearted move. Props to you, Cool PC!
* Paul: Not able to be present, but not forgotten. Loved your additions to the rumor sheets!
* Rivervale’s focus on Squire Connor! Thank you, everybody, who recognized that taking time our of your event and away from adventure to attend a Knight’s Trial is a gift of your attention and respect to the character, and also the player. Public speaking is scary for most people. I’m so grateful IC and OOC to each of you who attended, and spoke! Thank you also to those for whom that wasn’t your thing, but who attended the Knight’s Vigil on Friday night to give Connor some special moments. Mike took a bunch of photos from Connor’s knighting ceremony, and it was such an honor to put together recognition for years of character effort. Very well deserved honors for Connor! And I loved seeing him cry a few times while so moved by emotion of his character journey. All of this inclusively is what LARP is super about for me.
* Inducting Aneira into the Court of Rivervale as an official team member!
* Ryan’s cooking!!!! 4/5! Lots of great talks with either Ryan and/or Vandathron through the weekend in our cabin – Also: special mention to Vandathron’s kimono
* Speaking of Corinthus brothers, Squire Demvarien – “What do you mean ‘you people’??” with special guests from Warchester: Cynder, Finn, Ember (Got some good Cynder moments this weekend that were very refreshing)
* Jeff’s honeyed voice, and an incredible song he wrote about the lore of our game, character histories, and love for Baron Pike whom we never even met while living (and a distant shout-out to Porch in thanks for spending time with us in the early game developing those histories and lore)
* Getting to play Nogra of the Gnarltusk Clan once more on Friday night. So much good roleplay and depth of character out there among the PCs! I love the ongoing interactions with some of you who’ve met with Nogra many times, and also among some first introductions this past weekend (Arlen, new extended interaction with Demvarien and others). I value the privacy of NPC encounters, so let me just offer the public blanket that you were entertaining me with the depth of your characterization and interaction throughout the event (you know who you are!), and thank you all.
* So many moments of silent communication between Mac & me, or Darius & Kate! We were in sync!
* Winter: Prison down!
* Cassie 4 Gnasher Queen 4Life… srs, love the gnashers! Tiny glass cannons with great roleplay and cute atmosphere.
* SPARROW. Interacting with Sparrow. Witnessing the glory that is her art and creativity. Such a delight! Welcome to our game, and I hope you had a pleasurable visit, and please let us know how we can help make it smooth for you to return!
* All the new players! All the awesome new players most of whose names I have forgotten except for Dimas, America, and Raven, because they made it easy! Pretty high orc lady, Nice braids woman, Cool blonde braids guy, Sparrow, Constantine here for his first full weekend, Enthusiastic Glasses Guy, NPC With Awesome Handshake, and NPC Who May Be Named After A Gem! (And any others I am too tired to even attempt at identifying.) I was happy to make your acquaintance, and I hope you had an entertaining visit, and let us know how to involve you more!
* Good Squire Moments with Squire Demvarien and Squire Rory, and some conversations with both and each
* Finally getting to express my joy to Lumi about her upcoming marriage to Sir Kendrick, and the start of talks of taking a Lady’s title in Rivervale, and giving her the cool key I picked up at DragonCon just for this.
Good closure to Dame Kate's season, and I look forward to reuniting with all of Lola's friends next event!
Trace Moriarty