Before the Dad-est Dad Hexathlon
Snaer: I’ve worked hard being a dad. I spent a whole year hauling around a bucket of slime. I wonder how there are six different events about hauling slime.
Others: Maybe consider focusing on how your dad raised you, rather than your job as a dad.
Snaer: I assume I was in a bucket of slime for most of my childhood. Weren’t the rest of you?
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kellis: i will turn this carriage around RIGHT NOW
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Gate opens to Reverie, Spencer as Strigford narrates that smokes pours out of the gate, squares up and says, “HOLY SHIT!”
Acquiring Acceptance- George did an amazing job putting the whole plot together and it was epic. We did it and we survived. Serious Type 2 fun.
There was too much fun to list, but Enki and Faelon hunting Kellis for sport was a bright spot ans getting to win the Dad Heptathlon with help from Jasper was a favorite!
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Friday night, several of us staffers are out by blueberry, trying to figure out if game on has been called yet. Eventually we decide, eh, we probably missed the bell when we were walking over so we can send the poor little townsfolk to run down the steps screaming from the monster. Literally as Jenna and Sam start going down the stairs, we hear the bell go, and those two start screaming just as the bell stops ringing. Movie magic moment truly.
I’m fairly certain every person in staff center made at least one clown related joke Saturday afternoon as I was trapped in that costume for three hours XD
Similarly, telling Steve how clown plot was going, and they point out “I have a break coming up and I did bring this npc’s costume…” I love my fellow enablers and bit-commiters 
Going out as a fae during lunch and just shit-talking Felicitoro naming conventions with Nem.
Getting to go out as Caligo again. Enki’s roleplay was too good for me to name a single moment but it was just fantastic all around.
1am, I go out as a ghast that Gheist quickly knocks unconscious. I get dragged to the mod hook, as Gheist checks that I’m not anyone important.
Hook: Do what you want.
Gheist: Alright, I’m gonna take her head and smash it into the ground.
Gheist proceeds to pantomime doing this as I ragdoll with him
Me: yeah, that’s close enough to a death strike. eidolins away
Later that same fight, Yorick would notice me trying to creep in from different hiding places and dropped his iconic turning chant for such gems as “go on, get,” “no, fuck off,” and “I can see you, GO AWAY.”
Flynn: I might need you to gather up some people who don’t ask questions really soon.
Vai: This will be the easiest thing ever, no problem.
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Waiting for dino training to begin, I thought it would be really cute to open the top doors on big mod and let the dinos peek out. A few staffers saw, but more importantly, a few players saw, and they played fetch with us 
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Despite the heat trying to kill us all I had a fantastic weekend staffing for you guys! My brain is mush so here’s some random stuff and I’m sure I’ll be back with more:
- Wandering Trader time! Got several groups this go around which was nice, and I’m glad that folks are intrigued by my strange wares and fine potions!
- Spending the remainder of Friday night stalking a player through the woods.
- If I were a restless spirit, Watching Velikah and Jasper guide each other through an obstacle course would send me to the great beyond for my business here is finished.
- Zevvi unwittingly escalating conflict with Wisteria bahahaha.
- Dying as Wisteria once again, but this time on the correct side of the fight.
- Everyone catching Clover up on what sort of Cheese Shenanigans her wife has been up to!
- Poppy capturing and tying up Celebration was incredible luck and a stroke of genius from Ash.
- People tell the Mime about Hedgehogs >> Pantomime being hungry/lip smacking >> “No you can’t eat them.” >> More pantomiming >> “Who has hedgehogs? Yorick.” >> Thumbs up walk away >> Lavernica: “Oh. Please don’t kill him!” >> Waves dismissively as I leave the Tavern >> Cartoonish look around, point to Yorick at Staff Center >> Thumbs up to him, thumbs up to onlookers, thumb across neck “kill” gesture >> big grin and big steps towards staff center.
- NFL juking Gheist out of his shoes while escaping the wrath of the local Hurzicht.
- Being an insane [REDACTED] and getting to act all broken and bonkers in the comfort of my own cabin. <3
- Midnight shitposting in Staff Center becoming a full blown mod in 2 minutes flat, Grandma Sweetums is born.
- Wisteria getting locked in Jerome’s closet and having to spend the night there because he can only lockpick in his sleep but he can’t sleep standing up (even though he sleep walks).
- The baller performance that Vicky and Vee gave as just the two of them in upper dance. Only Cordelia and Myself got to enjoy most of it but it was absolutely delightful.
- So many new crunchy friends! Staff center was PACKED on Saturday, which was such a relief with how oppressive the weather was being. Being able to cycle out and let people rest as much as needed while still feeling fully staffed was HUGE.
- I love love love teleporting into the back lines just to be absolutely murdered immediately
- “Let’s do a fun one. Everyone become the wind this time.” Absolute chaos.
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Related to this- when I went to crunch and I overhead some of what staff was telling the new faces about Kellis’ (mis)adventures made me smile because that made me think I was doing at least something right.
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Me seeing Logan in staff center: “Oh man, we got Kellis? What’s up, we fighting babies?”
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I wish I had heard that! Lol
Entrusted with a baby caterpillar. Does not survive in my custody for more than an hour. The power of story is against Kellis.
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You’re lucky you’re a dwarf and not a human my guy
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- Me, to @Praseodymium650 “Clarify; Go Kick Rocks” (we spent the entire weekend occasionally saying that to each other in jest)
- Enki, to Amos “I feel like Murderin Steve wouldve been a better name. Stabby Bitey Man is just kinda wordy.”
- Faelan, unprompted: “Want to go hunt Kellis for sport?”
- [Redacted] @NotAbida you know what you did.
- Meeting Caligo face to face for the first time was such a cool moment given our history. The Ambiance was great, even if the beetles were being menaces.
- People discovering that Enki forgot Yorick.
- Velikah explaining Enki’s history with Yorick to him and referring to Enki deciding to leave Yorick’s employment as “The Divorce”. Cue Enki confusion.
- Commiserating with Taliesin about memory problems.
- Going to the library! Its really cool!
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- “But Raaachel, I want to go to the tavern.” “We have tavern at home. (man I should have signed up for the dadliest dad competition.)”
- Flipping a tenner to Tobias after he played at Rachel Hour, just before he could make a joke about how his services cost 10L.
- Rat secret pockets! TY everyone who interacted with rat commerce.
- Wisteria: “I was trapped in a closet all night! I only just got out this morning!”
Gouache: “Congratulations on coming out of the cloooooset” - All of Rachel Hour was just very nice; thank you to folks who stopped by. I will feed you veggies again in Fall 1!
- TY to everyone who “yes-and”-ed my possum goo and my possum hot chips! There will continually be weird food and gross textures for you!
- Play rehearsal was SO good. Huge props to @shadowdasher09 , you’re putting in more effort than I physically thought possible with this.
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Alright this is going to be a bit of a long one:
So Poppy walks out, looking for Zevvi because they found saw Lavrinica walk into a house and needed some people to go find her. We are told that everyone going has to be good at emotions.
Zevvi: Yorick is good at emotions that aren’t his own
Poppy: Thats ok. Excellent.
Yorick: Drinks
Vennick: Oh Drunk Yorick is great at emotions.
So with that having been said, I hand the Heart of Fire over to Poppy so it doesn’t sober me up and because Yorick trusts Poppy… for some reason. I don’t fully get it either.
We walk up to the House and find out that it is super haunted and at this point actively malevolent due to the feuding spirits trapped inside. If we die in their our death timer doesn’t start and we can’t go to death. There is no escaping the house and to move from room to room you need to complete them.
The First challenge is to set up a tarot reading, changing it from a rather grim one to a more positive one. To do this there are a series of challenges to complete. Yorick finds the one that requires him to adress a problem with someone in the group to open the hint.
So Yorick decides to confront Zevvi about how close she is to death, how he is worried she might die in the merging of Mycordia and Discordia, and how she is the closest thing he has to family anymore. There is a tense conversation that follows.
The next room was much easier as we search for some keys and had to be positive! or take air darts. Zevvi, unfortunately was unable to remain positive. Maeb left to use the restroom and was never seen or heard from again 
Yorick made a deal with Vennick to at somepoint in the future sing a duet together.
The next room was an acid pit and a lava pit and we could only use monosyllabic words. Vennick was beaten by the wind.
We reached a room where we had to yell or project our voice. Yorick got to have a somewhat wholesome conversation with Poppy about the differences between projecting and yelling, showing off some stage whipsering. Infuriately, this was also the room of the first road block, and likely the room Yorick and Zevvi never would have left if Vennick were not there. to leave the room we had to talk about our greatest flaw, or the thing we disliked most about ourselves.
Vennick went first
Poppy went next
Yorick and Zevvi started to fight about who was going next, with Yorick saying there were too many options and Zevvi not wanting to answer. Yorick stepped on a popper trap and Vennick refused to tend him until he said his greatest flaw.
Yorick: I hate how everyone in town has come to care about me and I don’t know why
Zevvi gets pressured into saying hers and she went with “I have started to care about people and thats bad” or something along those lines.
Queue Poppy: “Oh, you two are so similar”
Yorick & Zevvi in Unison: “Fuck off Poppy”
Then the two turned and stared at eachother for a second before yelling at thew same time
Yorick: Hey! Stop it!
Zevvi: Don’t say the same thing as me!
The next room was another easy room. We just had to break an object in the room. All of the options were quite frankly terrible. But the best option was leaving that trapped room blind and having one person in the next room be blind until they fully left it. The person of choice there was Vennick.
Its more keys this time, but with an added benefit of MOAR EVIL EMOTIONS. Vennick has to come up with a Poem, Zevvi deals some emotional damage to Vennick and Yorick talks about a time where he felt hopeful.
So I talk about Yorick going to collect the Heart of Fire and being told that he needed to pick someone who could be his keystone to personhood. And how he hads feared he had messed up by bringing a bunch of very competent people who did not understand him until he remembered Zevvi was there.
The whole time he is telling this story, Zevvi is going: Shut up Yorick. Shut UP Yorick.
And when it ended we all were treated to the brilliant: “I was supposed to be the one doing emotional damage here”
in a quite voice.
So, new challenge: Get a blindfolded Vennick onto the safe part of an Acid pit. Thankfully, due to the alcohol bottle Yorick was carrying we found a solution called “Vennick when you kick the bottle it is safe to put your foot down. So we get through there safely.
The Final room is sealed. There are two glasses on a table and a bunch of strange alchemy. A note descrives how every spirit is trapped here because of two feuding spirits. And that if those spirits could possess hosts and hash things out the spirits might be set at peace. Yorick steps on a popper trap as this is being read so he goes down. As its finished being read and Vennick is working on Yoricks leg, Yorick and Zevvi look at eachother, not and both grab a glass and immediately chug it.
SO NOW YORICK AND ZEVVI ARE POSSESSED. And by complete coindicence they are possessed by the spirits of two lovers, who are **really very much like themselves.**Leaving Vennick and Poppy to try and solve the spirits differences. At some point during this, Vennick convinces both spirits that they are infact dead. The two question how they are dead before I softball the idea that we died in the Lava pit. Then without missing a beat both Melissa and I commit to the bit of “lets walk into the lava pit”
Thankfully Vennick stopped us before we both died and Zevvi potentially finaled. For a bit I came up with about these spirts deaths, and our decision to stick to it immediately.
After about 15 minutes of the comedy of repeatedly BMV tripping and rooting both Vennick and Poppy and a lot of talking eventually the spirits are set to rest and Yorick and Zevvi collapse, unable to recall anything after drinking the glasses. Despite both of them deciding to chug the glass because they had been arguing already and this could have atleast been Cathartic.
The ONLY thing Vennick and Poppy said about this whole affair was that “nothing really changed after you got possessed”.
Anyway this dispelled the curse on the house and we find Lavrinica. Lavrinica and poppy make up and we are able to escape. With Zevvi and Yorick both very mad about having gone into that house and having to share emotions. Vennick seemed absolutely cheesed at the adventure they had.
Later Zevvi and Yorick came to the conclusion that had Vennick not been there, they would probably still be the the house waiting for rescue. Both were sure that Poppy could have gotten out to find someone… probably.
Oh yeah other moments:
- Strike Team Discordia (Kellis, Mar, Vai, Vandriel, and Yorick) in both the Discordia part of the HUGE mod and during the final fight of the gather being on lock.
- Jumping across a Chasm to face a David shaped crunchy in the Merging mod because they had taken Kellis down, only to be left alone with the David shaped crunchy. Vai saw this, decided to LEAP across the chasm aswell, landed perfectly and delivered a sleep that droped the tendril.
- Watching Mar sneak up on a casting Feldgiester who hadn’t circled and just dropping them with a Fireball.
- Finding out Kellis could just assassinate the Tendrils.
- Fighting back to back with Mar and between out spellstriking creating a small wall of Fire.
- Trading with the Carbunclo
- Convincing Chaos Kith to enjoy a nice Vacation of Punching Fascism in the face.
- Talking to Ravena about our respective theories of the realms
- “Think of the realms like stacked pancakes. The space between the pancakes is the space between the realms” - Drunk Yorick wisdom that was immediately accepted.
- Last round of Bandit mod, a Snaer shaped crunchy points at my bottle on our crates and yells “give me that booze!” I grab it, pop the top off and start chugging as they rush me.
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That fucking house. 
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First batch
I was gonna do the house, but Dylan already did an excellent job of that so here are some funny ones
Zevvi: “death strike one, death strike two, death strike three; I consume you. Death strike one, death strike two, death strike three; I consume you”
Corpse 1: “What the fuck?”
Corpse 2: “Yeah, what the fuck?”
Drinn: “You are one fucked up lyra"
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George shaped void spriggan playing baseball with my throwing knives
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Grandma Sweetums and the bit of riffing that led to her having x ray vision when she doesn’t have her glasses on
Durand: “a lot of people in this town aren’t as bad as people outside of here think they are”
Zevvi: “Oh? What about me?”
Durand: “Uhhhhhh”
Zevvi, skipping backwards with her hands folded behind her back to face Durand as they walk: “This is a trick question. All the answers will piss me off. But I expect you to answer, anyway”
Durand: “You do some good stuff, and nothing that I know you’re up to is that bad… but I know you’re up to a bunch I don’t know about and I have a feeling that stuff is worse, so on balance you’re probably a bit evil”
Zevvi, pausing to consider: “awwww”
Yorick, impressed: “I think that was probably the best answer it was possible to give”
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Beth B yes-anding my shit posting so hard. Assignment accepted
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Mystery trader!
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Accidentally provoking Wisteria. It should be on purpose when she does that, damn it.
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Being part of the absolute worst arson team ever and still somehow managing to succeed at our goals
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The part where Yorick tried to warn Zevvi that there was a voidic entity on the bridge and gestured but a) it was a dark costume in a dark area and b) the monster had moved and was no longer standing near where the gesture pointed to so the gesture ended up pointing to a Birdwhistle (I think Jasper?) holding a tray of cupcakes resulted in some awesome momentary confusion before I spotted the monster: “Cupcake?” “… are they voidic?” “No? Why would they be voidic?”
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Trying to help Velikah and absolutely 100% only making it worse
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Zevvi: “Next time there’s a feelings hell house I’m not going. We should send Kael.”
Yorick: “Same. And Vai.”
Zevvi: “And Dolan. Wait this is a bad idea”
Yorick: “Why?”
Zevvi: “they’ll never come back out. They need a babysitter who can do feelings shit”
Yorick: “… Enki?”
Zevvi: “are you trying to permanently get rid of them all?”
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They were peeping! It was adorable
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Wait, is this when I was sitting on the stone wall and got told “oh yeah Ravenna could probably do emotions”? With full context that is excellent
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Aight, let me see here…
Ravenna was cursed this event to take a trip effect in response to loud and sudden noises. Cue the tavern, friday night, absolutely wrecking me because of those doors. At some point late night I was preoccupied and went through without thinking and tripped very visibly in front of a bunch of people when the door slammed behind me.
Zelai (I think?): “Ravenna. Are you alri—“
Ravenna: “I’m FINE. It’s not even A THING.”
Z: “Yes but you stumbled—“
R: “IT’S NOT EVEN A THING.” (The other door slams, Ravenna stumbles again) “MOTHER MANTLES OF FUCK!”
I spent the rest of the event letting people in and out of the tavern so I could close the door gently after them. Whoever decided to prop the doors open— Ravenna appreciates you.
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At the fire circle, next to Lee. Other people are there. They are discussing Lee’s suitors. Ravenna is toasting a marshmallow, minding her own business.
Vicky shaped NPC: “Yeah, the Leepers! That’s what they call themselves. And of course your fans are the Eepers…” points at Ravenna “And yours would be called Reapers!”
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Ravenna, teaching a nightstalking lesson:
Ravenna: “Right so, choose a friend of yours who is not a weaver, and ask if they’d consent to you practicing on them. Consider using someone you know pretty well, so—“
Them, excited, with no hesitation whatsoever: “Kellis. It’s gotta be Kellis.”
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Caldune, being friendly asking after Ravenna early Friday night, only to get a rant about how great Evren is, with its poison ivy and swarms of bugs and distances, none of which anybody can do anything about!
(I had a looong Friday leading up to game and managed to really over do it. The snark was real those first couple hours.)
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Talking with Talisen:
R: “Have any weavers tried to [do a thing]?”
T: “Yeah, but I guess they went insane too.”
R: “Oooooooh! Now that sounds like a challenge!”
So many more.
- Velikah having feelings & watching the birdwhistles be supportive
- Singing with Tobias at lunch
- Fun with Alchemists
- Green fire
- Late night sanctum mod, iykyk
- Seeing how epic the library has become, having no time to read anything.
- Catching up with Drinn
- Vigor sit-reps with Yorick
- Marshbracken.
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Yes, it was! Ravenna was Yorick’s next (and much better) suggestion
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