Actually lastly, Dolan and Mo adorning Astrophel’s beard with flowers and using it as part of my wreath lesson
Tobias getting spellsinging advice: “So, it seems like your choices for firmament patron are Noren or the Copper Queen. … Go with Noren.”
The beet mocktail at the casino was amazing.
Also please more blacklight mods where I can make jokes about my actually fluorescent hair dye being a reault of Erris being so soaked in Reveeie she glows now.
Sigurd laughed so loud the entire tavern went silent. The reason for laugh Lee told me she thought her mom would try to marry her to Kellis in their tea time.
Sigurd response to Kellis before tea “Enjoy meeting the in-laws” his response “Just get the fucking drinks” lol
Sigurd’s death charge to get elanora out of treasure murder circle. Successful was able to give her to someone when I was rooted. I tried to fight off two drakes before getting overwhelmed.
Trying to repeat rescue mission to get Kellis in treasure metal head fight to for all the npcs to be like not this time lol.
Fighting a drake in treasure fight with Kellis. He see me using my Greek style for single combat so he turns around and says “well Sigurds got this”
Gheist coming backed cursed and my response “that seems about right for chasing things in the dark”.
Being part of yorrick sword of legend mission.
Absolutely Spencers reaction to Zevvi umbradick comment and the his look of " I just don’t want to know".
Realizing Mo with spear and me with shield combo is amazing. That was fun as hell.
Coming back from death in a full-on downpour to a sobbing Viket was the most intense roleplay and my favorite experience in my six years playing this game. Thank you. A great example that the best times at a LARP aren’t always about the big win. Also, the staff member who played Shassira did an amazing job of being authoritative, paternal, and menacing all at once—Chef’s kiss.
Also, when Durand showed me his tiny chair that he won at the casino, and then having a drunken conversation about how chairs are basically people because they have legs, arms, and backs.
You are an absolute BEAST with that shield fr. Having a person at your back with a long stick is so clutch.
Game on Golden Acorn mod was a fun moment do the players know what they got into to yep no they fully know what they are getting into and properly prepared. Great job on pulling that off.
Kobold party services pitch got to deliver in the tavern. Shades and I put that together in staff center last event and were looking forward to seeing it this event.
A dumb behind the scene conversation where Ash was bemoaning how bad some pages on the wiki used to be:
Ash: One of the few notes on fae was that people could have sex with them.
Me (Thinking back to when I was a PC and a few of the players I knew at the time): That was weirdly important to some people.
Forgot one of my favorite moments! Playing the opposite game while getting to Mycordia
Kael: Yorrick
Tobias: Erris
Let’s not forget going around the corner in the back of the tavern to see Lee’s assassination out a window. Going wtf did I see?
I had a blast being a horrible menace. the Feldgeist fight was probably my favorite, getting to the point of walking over to the tavern to peek in the windows and be creepy.
Being a bandit with opinions about plays and shooting wysteria in the back and then wysteria blaming a different bandit, shortly followed by wysteria coming over to scold me and then immediately subduing them when they turned around.
stealing faelan’s entire bag because i couldnt detach the wreath. going to the tavern with it, running into Velikah and Jasper who did not notice, then getting a drink and having a conversation with Kellis, who also didnt notice. shoving some other random stuff into the bag before leaving the tavern. walk over to the pop up by the flagpole and im finally found by faelan, then i got subdued by dolan who searches me and i hand over faelan’s bag full of random stuff and Dolan promptly books it for no apparent reason and is chased but wipes out in the grass. eventually wake up from my nap, cause some more chaos before its just me and george and i make the choice to just fully abandon George and get chased into staff center by kellis.
Being a Horrible menace with my crossbow during the treasure fight. I enjoyed getting into bow duels with a number of people, and also just generally shooting at my friends.
having a lot of really nice chats with people as Enki was also a highlight.
I almost forgot:
A bunch of us are discussing our “Await Midnight, await love, await fall” letters and I cannot for the life of me remember who it was but they said:
“Thankfully no one was STUPID enough to pick “I WANT TO SWAP ORGANS””
and the person they were talking to was like
“Yeah, I mean no kidding why would anyone pick that?”
and I had to say
“TWO people have actually for sure picked that.”
This absolutely delighted me in and out of game. The fact that our teasing banter is now a meme is the best.
He got his revenge in the end, but tucking my staff under one arm to hit the David shaped elemental with a silence packet in the Charlotte rescue felt real good.
Also forgot:
Nem finding my constable badge I lost about 2-3 gathers ago, on the only path I haven’t been on in 2-3 gathers and returning it to me just in time for me to need it was so very clutch, I had been too embarrassed about losing it to tell anyone so now I can laugh about it, its in good shape too!
Lee and Zevvi. You were talking to Lee and Zevvi. And also, wtf, even for you Oak Harbor
I had SOOOO many memorable moments this gather, sorry for how long this may be
Even pre-game-on, I really enjoyed distributing the hedgehogs, and was absolutely delighted to see so many people around town incorporating them into their kits or props or spaces <3
Velikah asking Thokas "what’s you favorite color?"and his impressionable answer of “A strong brown.” that had all of us marveling.
Spira (I think it was you?) pretty much single-handedly keeping me alive during the Charlotte rescue mod while I was sitting rooted to the floor until Gheist and Amos could make their way over to attempt to assist. I owe you big time, that was incredible.
Honorably offering up my Bonk Stick to Puff to use when Puff needed a weapon, so that Puff could then beat up enemies and learn almost every martial skill the group could teach.
Ren shaped Rabbit cultist appearing closer and closer and just gleefully holding out their hand with an eerie giggle and “want to play a game?” which I then spoiled with agreeing to play but “if you trick me, I’ll eat you” and just another nervous giggle. Which the entire scene eventually devolved into killing them, only for them to reappear, and then get maimed into a potato and interrogated while I held them up by the back of their shirt. After worming their way out and making a break for it again, they were rooted and surrounded again, and subjected to another interrogation before making a break for it and Gheist chasing them down like a rabid dog, only for him to get cursed. Fáelán got to kill the rabbit this time, only then realizing it wasn’t a rabbit-man, but just a human in a rabbit mask (first humanoid kill! oops).
Every chat with Amos was an experience (positive), especially our late night ambiguously IG/OOG chat about finding joy in what you do, even if it’s not the path others wanted for you(and how similar our characters are to our OOG selves) <3
Silly chats with Kellis that have me throwing Dad accusations everywhere, including:
Kellis: “My dad is a famous Velliar lecturer.”
Fáelán: “oh, Leopold is your dad?”
with another the following day that got hilariously interrupted by Enki subduing him
Trying to teach Velikah letters and Kellis convincing her that “A is for Tent, and V is for Fangs” much to Fáelán’s exasperation
Any time anyone asked Fáelán about their Lyra affinity, especially followed up by tavern convo with a sleep-deprived Yorick sitting down across from me with a giddy grin and just “so, has anyone asked you about your affinity yet?”
The absolute honor of getting the Marrok acorn directly handed to me from Zelai, it made me feel so suddenly important
Having lunch and singing along to Tobias when he played “Leave Her Johnny” was so fun and magical to me, please more
The absurdity of the Umbral vultures, especially the Elliot shaped vulture refusing my offerings, coughing at me, then physically munching my forearm and bonk stick XD
Babysitting Little Lorenzo for Amos
The entire play rehearsal bandits shenannigans. Nothing like looking up from my script while waiting for my scene to lock eyes with David-shaped bandit stealing components from Shambrin’s pouch and him just grinning as he silently slips out the Arts and Crafts hall, to then discover that my entire shoulder bag (plus Wreath) is missing. I think it was Maestra Niln I was talking with where it was like
“do you want to go get your bag?”
“Hmmm, nah, its just some papers, minor components, and my Wreath”
“wait, isnt that important? dont you need that to do your magics and healing?”
Me: shrugs “nah, it can wait. I mean, what are they gonna do with it? It’s not like I need it for this rehearsal.” and Niln visibly disconcerted about my nonchalance around my stolen Wreath.
it was even funnier to go out looking for it and see Killian-shaped bandit walking around with it, and going "hey, can I have my bag back? or at least my wreath?"and them going "No?"and me going “fine, ok, you can have it for now.” and beginning to walk away until Dolan pulled his heroic epic Sprint and Slide
Spotting the almost perfectly camouflaged Rabbit Cultists in the dark behind a tree behind the tavern. Incredible dedication to whomever that crunchy was.
The Umbra Safari was all-around incredible. Our fighting coordination all syncing well with the most minimal of communication was impressive, and the Spencer vs Mar duel was awe-inspiring to witness.
Treasure fight archer duels with Killian and Elliot, especially my unintended trick-shot to hit Elliot behind another crunchy in front of them.
And big pats on the back to Treasure Fight Tree-àge, we made our skeleton crew of healers (and tenders!) go a long way and I’m still so impressed.