While I was out as Morpho, on my way to s date with Gheist;
Kael: So tell us, do you plan to take any of his blood?
Me: On a first date? Of course not.
Kael: Okay. We wanted to know because there’s a betting pool going.
Later:
Enki: Zevvi told me not to start a hive mind. I said, “Even if I were starting a hive mind, I wouldn’t invite you.”
Me: "Hmm. Yeah, as much as I appreciate Zevvi’s creativity and cleverness, I wouldn’t invite her to my hive mind either.’
In staff center, before I went out as Gabrielle to talk to Durand about his funding proposal, for which I wanted to bring two boxes with locks:
Of the three lockable boxes in the Big Bin 'o Boxes, two were locked without keys, with stuff already inside.
Steve and I both failed to pick them because my torque bar was too big for the teeny locks. When I finally dig through the whole bin and found the right key, what was inside the box?
An unsolved puzzle from Herman the Wasp Lyra plot, that had been in there FOR 12 YEARS.
Watching koris masterfully bat a poison out of the air with bare hand and immediately proudly announce" “resist”
Being wildly uncomfortable at they fey dinner, while also having an absolutely lovely time.
Giving kellis a bird whistle for him to announce “I am the worst person you could have given this to” before immediately blowing into it with no water and making a horrible noise, which he continued to do.
Lots of favorite moments that remind me why the community is so fantastic.
Kellis getting a bird whistle. Hands down, bar none, the best.
Drinn pulls out a rabbit he caught in a snare and we all have a piece. (I will not elaborate and best to be seen. Just ask Drinn about rabbit hunting.)
Great Possum Spirit had us tearing mold off a feldgeister and the staffer crunching made it hysterical.
The crew of the Little Victory diving into the excavation mod without even being asked. That made me feel pretty great.
Yorick challenges Tryweth (kobold chief) to a one-on-one fight and we all watch the earth strikes and flame darts clash.
“I curse your spirit 1. I curse your spirit 2…” What a magnificent SOB to quote Patton. Given all the grief Kellis gave Gheist about being in the Family, this was karma.
Lastly, all the new players jumping in and blending right in. Huge props to Nyra and Gustav for being excellent with the feldgeister effigies. They had arguably the most important job and they did it well. Windstorm is an awesome druid in the making and was clutch in some big fights, and Pedro stepping into mods and being pretty fearless on the front lines.
Getting to be a dino was a ton of fun! But I think future dino treats for Annihilator will be…less sweet >.< I gave myself an upset stomach with the amount of treats I ate.
The Big Boy ←→ Annihilator spectrum.
Chatting, and ultimately dueling, with Yorick as Trwyth, the kobold chief of chiefs. Yorick really inflated Trwyth’s ego XD and also did a great job distracting Trwyth during a few important moments.
During the duel with Yorick, getting slept 2x only for Yorick to wake me up to continue the duel properly.
Sunday morning, I’m walking back to staff center and I see Yorick waiting for Death. I’m confused and slightly concerned, as I was pretty sure no deadly plots were out. Then Yorick turns to the side and I see he’s covered in blood. I instantly stop being concerned, thinking, “Oh, right. Deadly Zevvi was out.”
I enjoyed being repelled by the kobolds while at 1 vit and hust being a pain in the ass with my spear, only to return to stab one guy one time, and watch roderago cheerfully death everything in the room. That mod was top comedy. Sneaking all the way over to the modhall turned out to be great practice for the final fight.
Lyra plot is unhinged. Humans were all super wigged out by how hard that is going.
Mycordia warning us that kale must not be hungered 3 times. Shrub grandmother looking me dead in the eyes and saying NOT YOU when we were discussing getting more hunger. I must be bad at making good decisions. Caldune saving us from an appocalypse too casually and getting only heat for it. Loved sheaking over to retrieve the crystal and everyone actually holding the attention of the monsters while we did so. Then also got the best puzzle helpers to solve that puzzle and collect the pieces, good job town!
Zevvi when i asked her how she got so respectable: oh thats easy i modified my runic signature to change my essential self to be more respectable
So, after losing six spirit over one year last year, Yorick entered the gather far more bitter than he was before. He was a bit snappier, and more impulsive to try and prove that his dying embers have value. When we were told by Conundrum that we could chose to fight the Grindleking Simulacrum to the Death, to Unconsciousness, or to 10 hits I jumped on Death even before being told to Impress clan Orsgul.
Watching others fight I quickly realized how outclassed I was when compared to a Grindleking and started looking through my dwindling supplies to find anything that could give me an edge. When I said I was ready, I was immediately pulled aside by Vennick, Vai and Nem who all started going over what they could do to help Yorick out. Whether it was elixirs, or scrolls or anything.
Connor’s Kalmak approached and pointed out that this had to be an “exhibition of what Yorick brings to the clan. This could cheapen it.”
Which I think was a test for Yorick’s reaction but when the three of them started talking about how much they think Yorick does to help out where he can out of combat and that this was the communities way of paying Yorick back it was so hard to not just cry at that. Yall are amazing, and made me seriously rethink how I am approaching this midlife crisis all game.
Its why Yorick took up drinking as he realized how much this town means to him. Even if he won’t say it
and even if that only happened because of how convenient carrying that bottle around to drink water from was
Walking up the stairs in the dark following Alataana (spelling) to see a glowing red crown across a table was a really cool way to walk into Fae mod. Jenna as the Queen of Copper and Fire was a delight. That whole mod was wild. Loved the pie while it was frozen, but boy did that just not last. Watching the Birdwhistles consume circus penuts, and Vel try to alter Rattling Bog on the spot was really fun, but man did staff really show off just how different the fae were, and hearing the Queen of Copper and Fire thank Jasper was honestly one of the most terrifying things that gather,
Followed up of course by walking back up those stairs not an hour later to hear Connor in the corner chanting “Don’t go crazy” as all the most stoic people in town (Vai, Zevvi, Nem, Vennick and Fealan) start freaking the fuck out with those Lyra tags leaving me with a horrifying realization that there is some dark shit afoot and myself and the Heart of Fire cannot bring the comfort of the Hearth in anyway enough to combat this. Zevvi burning the building down as I left it for the last time was also just the perfect ending to it.
And of course, the duel with Trywth. I’ll admit I thought it was a gamble but figured that Trwyth and I had a good enough rapport from the chatting that it was worth it. A duel between the Kobold of Legend and a Sword of legend to distract Trwyth from doing anything about losing the final book. Getting healed by Trwyth when the other Kobolds bonked me AND Shades catching on to me just throwing Flame darts into their weapons and respond in kind with Earth Strikes made the whole fight feel Cinematic as I tried to hold out as long as possible for the town to change the book. I’ll miss Trwyth. I did not know them for long but leaving the field after losing that fight genuinely felt like Yorick was losing a friend.
And I am gonna blame Vai, Vennick and Nem for stopping Yorick from being Bitter and Jaded causing that feeling.
Seeing kobolds trapping various cabins, clearing the contact poison from the outside of my cabin door, clearing the pop traps from the outer step and the inside of the cabin, and then after doing all that, on the way out, getting contact poisoned from the inside of the door that I had missed
Wandering in the woods alone, then being chased back into town and knocked out by fire wombats (read: I didn’t know how much damage a tag did until I got back to town and it put me at 0vit )
As the Mycordia crew tries to figure out what alchemists will help them:
PC: Is Lesovik even still around? he loves a curse.
Mycordia: I see him tied to a tree now.
PC: For fun??
Mycordia: There are strange spirits around, so no, probably.
Maeb giving Mycordia a present!
Amabel: Savia told me I wasn’t allowed to give away cheese for free or secrets.
Amabel 10 minutes later, tired of counting leaf and being handed a pile of ones: Ha! Savia isn’t here! she can’t make me count the leaf! I’m sure this amount is fine! Here’s your cheese.
Just the entire Zaffiro warehouse mod. Zevvi to the Vee-shaped Owl creeping back “I see you, you know”
George and Steve were the best Ooblings. Y’all had such good cheesey chats!
The sheer joy of the lee-shaped Spriggan in the final fight. What a delightful gremlin.
Getting to staff a Mycordia mod because I wasn’t needed for my first block anymore! Love seeing ya’ll work through the challenges to get to the back room.
Finally got around to pitfighting in Reverie, loved goading people into dangerous combat encounters.
Early morning component walk patrol as a MyStErIoUs CrEaTuRe and causing problems for small groups, then getting absolutely rolled by a big group that launched maybe 6 called strikes at me at once.
Dino wrangles! My prodigal son is doing so well with the little beasts, and we finally found a name for the bastard one! And of course, Big Boy Annihilator Spectrum, thank you everyone for helping me torture Jasper endlessly.
Hooking for the [REDACTED] repeater (sorry I got the details wrong at first, first group!) and getting yet another minor NPC named by Velikah.
Going out to dinner as Banjo, talking to the Mad Lads for 2 minutes before they had their kitchen/dish shifts, then sitting down at a table of mostly Not Banjo folks and saying “Clarify. Banjo can’t speak. You’re having dinner with Steve now.”
Always love Kobold shenanigans, it’s great to cut loose as a little idiot after having to be talky talk people all day.
Mysterious Stranger had his first successful bout of trades in Oak Harbor! Excited to do this again and probably make it slightly more accessible.
Wisteria needed that.
Eating only good and nice cheese and beverages thanks to the town consuming all of the bad effects first lol
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