Wow, I have a feeling it will take me three days to recover from such a mentally and physically exhausting weekend! I had an amazing time this event. Thanks to all of the dedicated NPCs that managed to run me ragged and to keep me to only 8ish hours of sleep for the weekend.
I wanted to mention a couple of specific things--
I really enjoyed the tense roleplay by Justin and Christine as the elves on Friday night. Thanks to Keo for taking the bullet and hastily claiming responsibility as mayor pro tem to deal with that! Suckeeerrr!! Also, Justin, I completely dug how well you played the dwarf on Friday as well. Well done!
The elven testing was very cool. Those puzzles wracked our brains for hours, and were very satisfying to finally decipher. I liked how we had to figure out how to get the notes to drop (at least I think we finally figured it out), and how they all played into the final note that warned us of our task for Saturday night. Speaking of which... The pin shun spirits were brutal for the escort task, and really did challenge us to work together. The message was cool, both on an in-game and an out-of-game level--if we are going to survive and prosper, we have to work together. Mission accomplished, I'd say!
I really enjoyed the vine-covered-door module as well. Special thanks to Josh and Matt for implementing that in such a cool way. I can't wait to see what happens in the coming events with respect to our vine-tainted friends.
Finally, and more generally, I wanted to compliment all of the staff for enabling proactive players to accomplish tasks and move plot forward. I saw it several times this weekend. PC had idea about some thing--inevitably a curve-ball--that they wanted to do. PC went to plot with their idea. Plot rolled with the punch, so to speak, and allowed the PC to push their idea forward in some way, shape, or form. PC was entertained and gets personal plot attention. This goes to show you that there really is never an excuse to be bored in your game.
All in all, a fantastic event. Way to open the season with a real bang!
Joe
aka Stremthi Wayfound, Lost Wonders Trading Company