Going Out With a Bang: Event Review

[Victor]

Whadja like?  Whadja love?  I guess you can let us know what you didn't like as well, I suppose.

Assumed did not like:  Weather related things.  We all didn't like that.

[Maximus]

Had a great time!
pros: Killing in the name of Alakasha, Adding new mushrooms to my grove, showing off how Maximus can dance without touching and Kidnapping in the name of Alakasha (best RP that event!)
con: missing out on the closing plot because of Kidnapping....next tie ill just murder

[Bart Schmied]

Was a decent event for me, glad to play a new character and do something a bit different.

Pros:
+Great RP and chatting with others.
+The "games" we're awesome, lots of fun (especially bag sack!).
+Food was excellent.

Cons:
-People on phones annoyed the shit out of me. Put your damn phones away people!
-Very few monsters to fight which made slow periods through out the day. (assuming this was because of low NPC numbers, but still an hour+ with nothing to fight gets a bit boring)
-The monsters swinging 10 body is a little bit extreme, makes it so only a few people are able to fight them with out getting 1 shot.
-The final mod where we were getting the ship to rescue the lady had one of the same issues as high winter. Only a few people were able to take part(with out wasting 3 gold), leaving the majority of people with nothing to do and not get to take part. The main fun of playing is taking part of the mods, so when for IG reasons only a few people are able to take part it makes for a dull time.

Aside from the downtime it was a fun event overall, looking forward to seeing what weekend events are like!

[Marek]

Honestly, of all the games I've attended so far (back to All-Hallows) This was the best experience I had. I supremely enjoyed the hunt with the martial adviser, the rp was fun, and the fights were plentiful and very rewarding. Honestly I'm pretty sure we were on the hunt for like 2-3 hours and it was awesome. Finding the cabin and getting to uncover the explosive plot was awesome as well. I felt very much like if you were involving yourself and willing to get covered in mud and wet then the game had an enormous amount to offer as a day mod.

-Pros :
-Everything with the hunt
-The explosive present
-getting to rp with people I have not done so with yet
-getting webbed and attacked by a charmed bear... damn garglyn thing
-getting asked to join a buck hunt later in the day
-lily pad was a great improvised fight scenario and I really enjoyed it.
- leaving a bear and skunk to fight eachother, watching bear run away
- Having enough small things going on that the "everyone is a blob thing" didn't seem to occur as much, if at all.

Cons
-players just ignoring the skunk stink and not showing any reaction or fear of it (I assumed it was like... horrible awful, like burn your eyes stench and make you vomit stench)

[Promises]

-The monsters swinging 10 body is a little bit extreme, makes it so only a few people are able to fight them with out getting 1 shot.
-The final mod where we were getting the ship to rescue the lady had one of the same issues as high winter. Only a few people were able to take part(with out wasting 3 gold), leaving the majority of people with nothing to do and not get to take part. The main fun of playing is taking part of the mods, so when for IG reasons only a few people are able to take part it makes for a dull time.

The last 'mod' was entirely PC driven and not really supposed to happen as I understand it. Blame the crazy obsessive dragon followers for that one. There was some gentle nudging that we weren't planned to go after that ship which was ignored

I'll post my review in a bit. Had lots of fun.

[Bart Schmied]

-The monsters swinging 10 body is a little bit extreme, makes it so only a few people are able to fight them with out getting 1 shot.
-The final mod where we were getting the ship to rescue the lady had one of the same issues as high winter. Only a few people were able to take part(with out wasting 3 gold), leaving the majority of people with nothing to do and not get to take part. The main fun of playing is taking part of the mods, so when for IG reasons only a few people are able to take part it makes for a dull time.

The last 'mod' was entirely PC driven and not really supposed to happen as I understand it. Blame the crazy obsessive dragon followers for that one. There was some gentle nudging that we weren't planned to go after that ship which was ignored

I'll post my review in a bit. Had lots of fun.

ohhhh, that makes sense then.

[Solei'czar]

Lots about my game was hampered because of the swampy conditions, so I'll try to take that into consideration as much as I can while providing this feedback.

Pros:
- Good RP opportunities with some folks, got to really play up some of the quirks of my race (If I was rude to you, it was purely IC!)
- Water everywhere = Very intriguing for a fire elf
- Felt connected and able to get a personality down for my character
- Making new friends
- The mushrooms were entertaining, and I thought cleverly done, with some of them appearing in crevices, etc
- NPCs demonstrated a LOT of effort into their roles and dedication

Cons:
- A lot of downtime, with literally nothing doing. I'm not sure if it was made clear or not that the "hunt" would take up 3 hours of the day, which tied up all of the NPCs in the woods.

- The creatures that showed up were oddly overpowered in strange ways. With the first bit of action the town-center saw, being imps that could break weapons and armor very easily, and seemed to resist any attack and magic spell thrown at them (until a powerful Cleric bashed their skulls in). I didn't face any of the "badgers" in the meme-fight, but heard they were tearing people apart fairly easily.

- Fighting in a confined space with a 2H weapon

- Was fairly confusing and not communicated much about what all was going on (This is more of a PC fault than anything)


The Ugly, but moderately uncontrollable:

- The field was a sopping mess, which made fighting and running extremely difficult for all parties. I found that some of the areas that were focused to fight on, could have possibly been chosen better but, it was hard to find anything that wasn't underwater.

- Some of the RP events that arose IG, seemed to be tailored specifically to certain persons again. This was something I had noticed in High Winter, and I saw it happening again in this event. I think it's great that personal plot, or events that specific PCs have had a lot of time invested in handling do come up; It feels a bit raw to have these plots come up during day events/tavern events. With there already being such little content (for whatever reason), having an entire situation resolved single-handed by one or two PCs feels odd in events like this

- It wasn't made very clear that this event would be an outdoors event. For those who are regulars to the guild, I'm sure it was obvious. I had the foresight to ask beforehand, and prepared appropriately. There were a lot of people who were not expecting to be playing outdoors and it wasn't actually stated anywhere that it would be primarily outside. It's sort of a shared responsibility on this one


All in all, I had some really good experiences IC. I was able to broker some trade. I'm not going to hold the poor experiences I had against the team because there were too many factors working against them (Not enough staff, terrible field conditions). Thank you to the Shaping team for doing your best with what you had, thank you to the NPCs or gutting it out, and a big thank you to the PCs who made some of the first memorable RP I've had with this character.

[Promises]

I'm still trying to think of ways to get Logistics to move more smoothly for everyone, but I think it went better this game. If you have any ideas (that don't involve hours of additional work for Adam and I) feel free to pass them on to logistics@undeworldralinwood.ca

Pros:
+ I got the chance to do more roleplaying then I usually get up to. It was great.
+ Dragon stuff. Spooky mysterious dragon stuff.
+ Being "heroes" and hiring that boat.
+ Involuntary nap.
+++ Sevatar's my first character that I've played for more then a few months, so it's really fun to watch the progression from being an unknown in town, to starting to getting recognized for being 'the guy' for something. This event helped put how long I've been playing him and how he's changed in perspective.

Cons:
- I think it was because I kept finding things to busy myself with that were PC-PC but I think I missed all the mods that did happen. +/- because I was having fun while missing them.

Another shout out to the NPCs for doing so much with so few. It takes some dedication to go out into the muck to get beat on, fall down, have to stay down while you get looted, and return for another round.

[Lilith Caia]

I had a nice time, and it seems like most people did. Most of this was PC driven enjoyment, but I understand that there were very few NPCs, so whatcha gonna do? PC driven is my favourite driven, but in this case it led to a lot of down time. I'll have to work on ways to make my own fun.

Positive:
- Logistics is very smooth
- I loved the Swamp Witch mod
- Sir Jerry the Beguiled and the Sleepy Dragon Knight
- Music! Thanks, Rebecca and Austin!!
- The hunting seemed to make combat people very happy
- The NPCs that I did see did a very good job
- 'Welcome to the Church of -' 'THERE'S A SWAMP WITCH!' I think it was a good sermon ending. <3
- I really enjoyed talking to Nex, the mage advisor
- Dope ass bar
- Ralinwood's catalysts are hilarious

Negative:
- I had a really hard time finding non-combat things to do. There was the wizard who wanted to gamble - but had no money - and there were the three wild elves and the dark elf - but they only wanted to talk to one PC, apparently. Perhaps I missed the RP hooks?
- The last mod may not have been planned, but there didn't appear to be anything available to do at that time besides it
- Once again, RP mods seem to not really be a thing most people can access
- When I tried to get access to information/plot/anything from NPCs, it was generally shut down so it felt very much like 'this is the story, we don't have time for anything else' - which I understand from a logistical perspective, but makes things complicated when we are also told we should be avoiding doing anything with Shapers online

[Capri Aquari]

Esteemed Brothas and Sistas,
I have to say this was a fine dandy event that went down, I had a great time chatting up with as many of you as I could and the event was a nice smooth run that I happen to enjoy.

+ A lot of simple RP between players made for a great time for me, I love talking with new and old PC's
+ Thanks to everyone who came on by and grabbed a drink from my Isle, Your patronage really makes my day
+ Yet again I've shown that sometimes booze can be a hilarious solution to things, case in point, the Foxes that came on by

Honestly I don't have any negative comments on this one cause I was looking forward to a nice and simple RP driven event between folk and that's what I got. I can't wait to have more fun with everybody and I'll be sure that Capri brings in even more delights and wares for everybody to try.