Oct 2016 Highs and Lows

Highs:

Five and Jess sneaking behind murder tower as Bron walks up in a shield. Five: You should go have soup! Bron: I already had two bowls! Five: So have another! Jess: Five! Five: Yeah, have five bowls! Jess: FIVE! Five: Yeah, five bowls of soup! Jess: Amy, whats your name dear? Amy: Oh, damn. Soup.

Being told at various points that there are backup plans for when my character sticks his nose into things.
"4 Seconds" was how long it took Bron to mouth off to a Godking.
High stakes, plot-wise.
High tension between pc/npc teams for who's gonna start WWIII.
Got offered a job by Kuhani Kametayan... Daft woman.
Town being paralyzed by the "least bad" choice situation till the very end.
Love the politics that can come from the town's lie. Unanimous vote to piss off Raia and then cover it up by some of the most beloved characters falling on swords.



Lows:
Sad that Bron didnt start World War Greenskin.
Didn't roleplay with any of the Generals whatsoever, due to trying to avoid them.
Didn't mean to get in trouble with Kametayan (her old accent was jamaican, not southern... case of mistaken identity) but it worked out. Got some accidental badass points for surviving her ire.
No more Captain Baron, Karlo, and Tucker?! *bawls*
No backup from the town?! Even Darius left me hanging.

I have to say that this event was very strange for me. Through the month and a half before it there was a LOT of prep, and then during the event there was VERY little I had to do aside from answering questions and making sure that nodes and randos went out. I CONSTANTLY felt like I was supposed to be getting mods out there, only to think, "Wait, I can hear screaming, and obviously the players are doing SOMETHING cause they keep coming up here to ask questions, make lore tests, and so on..." Not strange-bad, strange-strange.

Highs:

~THE COSTUMES! All the NPCs made their own costumes and flavor, and it was out of this WORLD.
~The little details.
~~~Garen's character having a translator in his helmet because he was created by the dragons and did not speak common.
~~~Mike McClosky finding a tennis ball and putting it in his bag so he could give it to the baby dragon when he met her.
~~~Garen bringing a toy and a snack to the event for the baby dragon...
~~~Jon Langdon's amazing performance as Kern when players would come to the campsite.
~~~Literally all the detail in the costumes of the NPCs
~Madison's goofy Taunting Dance.
~Players getting really excited when they realized that the outcome of the event could be peaceful
~~~And later, when the baby went through the portal, a few going, "Wait... That's it? Really? They aren't going to 'YOU FOOLS' at us? Woah..."
~The paint and costuming of Kree and Raktor. Eric and Joe did such a FANTASTIC JOB.
~The performances of not only Kree and Raktor, but all the players.
~MONSTER SQUAD
~~~Seriously: they put out nodes, they were random monsters, they set up bodies and props and traps and everything. Everything that was not main villains was the Monster Squad, and they were AMAZING. Thank you guys SO FREAKING MUCH!
~PCs trying everything to have someone take the decision off their hands, or make it easier.
~~~Calling to the gods
~~~Getting back in touch with Kree and Raktor for clarification.
~~~Anything to try to find the RIGHT answer. There was none. Like the 2016 election, someone is getting screwed.
~Monster Squad hustling to get out there for an Emergency Quick Mod (when they were blue summons and we went to storm the town for a prisoner rescue) and making fun of me afterwards because it took close to two hours.
~Monster Squad "Sneaking" into town. Hilarious.
~ALL of the Acolytes failing a Lore Test. Ha.
~NPC Camp. I liked an in-game area for the NPCs to chill.
~Being The Empresses, and hearing out of the corner of my ear (its a thing, damnit) players being INSANELY worried that the Greenskins and the Elves were going to throw down. HA! Shows what you know. Mua ha ha.
~Chilling at the end of the event as Under, and Al'Kari being worried that I was gonna kill PCs for being mouthy
~~~"Do I look like some short tempered, super powerful people that have been giving you trouble?"
~~~"Er, yes, in fact."
~~~"Bah, I live in Shadow Valley: your town couldn't come CLOSE to some of the mouthy shit I hear before breakfast."


Lows
~I really, really, really wanted to fight the entire town as Kuhani... Ya'll just took a knee and shit. Jerks. ( :-) )
~Blisters
~The weather on Saturday was TOO nice. I was hoping for some overcast, with no rain. Hard to make the yard haunted and creepy when you can hear birds happily singing on a bright, sunny day.