Still the storms that battered me were mine...

[saxikath]

Having a day off after a LARP is so nice. I accomplished nothing useful yesterday, but I also don't feel like a complete zombie today, which I usually do on returning to work after LARPing.

Had lots of fun this weekend at ToV. Glorious weather; sunny and 70s much of the time, though chilly at night. And even though I haven't been getting as much exercise lately, the general increase in my fitness has remained; I can still sprint after a fight. Yay.

• Getting to go on a vision quest. Or, as I put it to some people afterward, a guided tour of my own psyche. Revisiting my character's biggest moment of angst, and resolving it. And actually thinking about the vision quest's lessons in game afterward and attempting to apply them.
  
• Both during and before the above, intense personal roleplaying with chmrr. I'm not sure where I'm going, but it's fun getting there, and he's really good at the intense stuff. And even though I missed, and who knows if I'll get to do it again... "Resist! Reflect! Air pierce!" was pretty cool. :)
  
• Jasper lives! Yet again, he survives the event.
  
• The Box. One of the other players decided that we needed to tell Jasper how awesome he is before he actually dies on us, so she went around collecting people's messages to him in a box. Apparently we made the player have to go out of game and cry when he got it. :)
  
• Watching Jasper and Kuruk get hexed in front of me and not being able to do anything about it. Not the "retaliatory strike" I had expected after my vision, but it fits the MO. Ichthyl, you are going down.
  
• Finding out that my erstwhile teacher is now a corrupted were. And seeing the results of her handiwork on Skyler. Urk. We have a problem, come autumn.
  
• Getting some ranger time in, even if it was mostly talking about Kaya's interest and questions. I think I know what my chosen foe is now.
  
• Successfully getting people to come do what needed to be done, even though it was Sunday morning and the task involved going to a big fight out in the woods. To quote Jasper from some previous event, "Yay leadership!"
  
• Building what was, in effect, a voodoo doll for the entire land. Failing to involve some of the people I should have, but eventually coming up with something that worked. Seeing the resultant pile of little bits after it was pulled apart.
  
• Watching the ground stand up and attack us as the taint was pulled into one small area. I know you guys were getting eaten alive by bugs waiting for us, but damn, that was effective.
  
• Getting swamped by gremlins and actually remembering to yell for help before getting knocked down. Yelling loud enough to be heard at the tavern. :) (And having the unarmed person I was with escape!)
  
• Great conversation with Timothy, patching up our differences. And watching Tiff the kitten were attempting to learn table manners.
  
• "I can't fix stupid!"
  
• Having metagenie compliment me on my fighting. That's praise indeed.
  

Still not sure what to do about Vortex (though I have somewhat more information). Pity Dranor decided not to have that meeting... could've used the intel. :)

Weird overlaps between games:
Legends-ToV: How many tainted lands do I have to fix, anyway?! And I barely caught myself to avoid saying "I remembered the signal!" to ringrose after the gremlin thing.
Prophecy-ToV: How do I keep ending up being the one who makes things by tying twigs together? I was not previously aware I had a talent for this...

Comments

[dharklady.livejournal.com]

Glad you had fun and some good highlights. :D The making you guys make a doll idea actually was inspired by the previous MJ event we went to where we needed an arrow that had never spilt blood. Needless to say our archer had none of those so we gathered the appropriate supplies from real material and Kil made an arrow. It would have never flown but it was so neat I wanted to incorporate the idea of players being able to make something for the ritual at ToV to let y'all be creative. I wish I could have seen it. :D

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

"I can't fix stupid!" That needs to be an icon. Or a button. Or both. :)

[dcltdw]

Now that is truth. :)

Jasper!

[ringrose.livejournal.com]

It was a weekend of "Oh, look, there he goes haring off into yet another combat", "I went to the privy. I told him I was going to the privy. Where the hell did he go?", and "Perhaps you want your armor, Sir?"

Of course he doesn't want armor. It keeps him from getting to the combat....

But I've kept him alive two events running now. Somehow.


(and it was a heck of a lot of fun to do)

Re: Jasper!

[willtruncheon.livejournal.com]

BUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Re: Jasper!

[ringrose.livejournal.com]

Sigh.