All Hallows: A Reckoning - Event Review

[Lilith Caia]

Well, fuck. I barely slept at all over the weekend, so I am likely to forget a bunch of stuff, but I'll try to mention everything I remember, because holy shit was it all amazing. One of the best games I've had. Sorry, some of this will probz be sappy.

Some of my favourite things:

- Falcon's beautiful descriptions of my auguries
- Matt literally gluing a mask to his entire face
- Kiddie pool of blood. "I don't want to go in there." "You definitely want to go in there." "I DON'T THINK I DO. ;.; "
- Julia: "Hey, gimme your face for a sec, I need to draw lines all over it"
- The NPC makeup in general was super swanky
- Gurr, the actual best bodyguard
- Walking around in a towel for two hours because it was demon-o'clock and I was not allowed to sleep until they were dealt with, apparently. ;.; Character goals achieved!
- The purple-eyed stilt demon was the coolest looking thing, holy crap
- And getting judged by tar and found wanting. Harsh!
- The seven sins/two unforgivable sins demons. I loved figuring those out. Ralinwood has wonderful RP NPCs. Also mediating for Sureeta and Rachel made me super happy
- "Okay, roll for your success in the orgy"
- Angela was Superbia as fuck. Awesome
- Invidia was super fucking cool
- The Butcher was just some straight up, old school horror. Very cool
- The vampires were great, partly because of their excellent RP, and partly because of how nobody could answer their questions and they were like "Wtf is this dumbass settlement doing?"
- Hiding in the woods. I love it when town scatters
- Magnar
- Dragon Wagon cabin was so much fun
- Magnar and Aeval
- Attackos. Everything about that. Holy crap
- "Laugh or die" was pretty damn great, too
- Getting to have a puppy for a little bit, even if it was a mistake
- Getting kidnapped by one demon on the way to chat with a different demon
- The Heintz siblings were so much fun to hang out with, and the snippiness between them was hysterical
- My loot bag tag was an alchemy RM tag I remember bringing from Jericho. That was fun
- Chatting with Bast. That was some excellent RP that kept getting interrupted (though I had to kill that bear)
- Tea with Kyrem and Svenheim
- Gnar was a sweetheart
- Civilised discussion with Dehclan
- "How many fucking people are hiding in the woods beside Maximus's henge?"
- Chatting with Akiko is always super lovely
- Sunday morning's final mod

I'm sure there's a ton I've forgot.

Because I must find something to complain about:

- Sad I missed the mermaid, super sad I missed the Sunday gate argument
- People getting irked by me asking them Demonic Arts questions. It is kinda nitpicky, but demon NPCs should know if they are lesser/greater, and if they are a specific subtype of demon or just a generic demon demon

Shout out to Brian, for letting me duel the bear. I cannot describe how vindicating that was. Everything I've seen you do as a Shaper has been both excellent and frequently hysterical.

Thanks to Justin for being so incredibly concerned with how things are going for players, and always trying to keep things interesting/fun - and for creating intricate characters even when most players will never get the opportunity to notice things like the wood fae mindset.

Ivanna's roleplay as both Aminata and Neviah was wonderful, but I especially loved how terrified Aminata was when she was trying to take off the bracelet. Fab acting.

Dan, you are insane. Kiddie pools of fake blood NOT BEING ENOUGH FOR YOU insane. I don't know how you manage it, but thanks.

All in all, if I have to retire because of what happened Sunday morning, I can't imagine a better game to go out on.