07-31-2017, 03:22 PM
I had a good time. I think the event was very well done given how much NPC camp had to deal with. But I am me, so I am going to complain anyway.
Pros:
- The loom of X, of course
- Shattered elves are creepy as fuck, and they performed a ritual I named. ;.;
- The Bogeyman. I love Bogeymen
- I love fighting the Citadel
- Hanging out with Maxypoo
- Buckley's RP with the only-talking-about-clothes and subsequent torture was amazing. I wish I could give RP awards. You are fantastic. I don't know if I would have been able to react that quickly and well to such complex stimuli
- Mason the Foot Rest
- Newbies in general for being so up for anything/my weird crap. But you said it wasn't close to too much. I'll have to up my game
- NPCing is, as ever, very enjoyable in Ralinwood
- Dustin's Healing elemental snubbing me!
- Wasting 1-2 Lifes and a Suspension because nobody thought to check if I was just unconscious
- Zia's dream mod. Dustin is an excellent villain
- I am so impressed that Erk survived her suicide mission
- Charming Vrael and getting negged immediately
- The elf party! So much tasty food
- Halfway through the elf party, forgetting that elves existed at all
- Pandora visitors! Con: No Malek
- Tormenting kobolds. I feel scary. Sorry for being so mean! Your characters are phenomenal and I love them
- The ghost that thinks my hat is stupid (my hat is great, fuck you)
- Having the head of the local Blood Red Rose get on his knees and apologise to me
- Charming Robyn as the giant grey ogre thing. Immediately getting puked and drooled on by it
- Holy fuck I know what the Fail Sionnach are and what they're up to and it is so incredibly exciting! And what happened when I tried to let one possess me. And the fact that they interacted and learned and stuff!
- Alecto: So, like, did you rob me after we had sex or are you a prostitute?
Lilith (forgetting all elves): Who are you?
Well, that's unfortunate
- Weezy, Ryan, Yoshi and Anthony's NPCs were great. They were fun on their own, and I love that they were sneakysneaky NPCs. Excellent for immersion. Also chasing Weasel around was great fun, as was Ryan mistaking Lilith for a prostitute and Anthony immediately going "OKAY BYE" and running off
- But seriously, Buckley is so funny. Damn
- Hannick's excellent hallucinate/charm RP. I mean, I did neither of those things. Nope.
- Glitter EVERYWHERE
- Ramsay
- "The dead dark elf told me to tell you the singing fish guy got eaten by the spirit eater." EXCUSE ME?
- Magnar taunting Barley and fucking booking it away
Cons:
- I am not a fan of 'it was all a dream' mods. It feels like it trivialises everything that happened, though it was very cool as it happened
- The first tower mod: I had no idea we got some kind of reward for that. The elemental shield/elemental blade thing. I never heard about it. I have no idea why. Also not sure what the statue people were about. They just seemed to wander around being confused. If there was more to them, great, but if not it seems like a bit of a waste of NPCs
- The second tower mod: So, theoretically, we were supposed to make it through this test. I have no idea if we did, at all. I love hard fights, but the elementals/elemental lords were really only capable of being fought by a small handful of PCs (immunity to X Y Z damage just means only a few people are fighting at all). If we did succeed, there seemed to be no reward at all. Was the reward finding the Fail Sionnach ritual? I have no idea. Unless we screwed that up as well, it seemed like an info dump and there was nothing we could do to actually affect it. Which, info dumps are great and I am super excited to have learned stuff, but most PCs had no idea what was happening, nothing they could do about it, and that is rather a let down for a big town mod where supposedly we are passing a big test. Was that part of the test? How was it related at all? Dunno. I don't really understand the tower storyline as a whole. People being possessed and attacking was great, though. But I have no idea what the point was, whether we succeeded, whether we benefited at all, and a lot of people weren't able to do anything on that mod.
- When there are specific interactions like puzzles and ritual circles, these need to have a marshal. Like the mystery Fail Sionnach circle. Ivanna was too busy being an NPC to be the marshal. NPCs don't make good marshals for that reason, unless that's the only thing that NPC is doing. Having to interrupt other PCs fighting/interacting with her to ask what happens when we do X Y Z to the circle is not great
Overall, lovely time. And weather!
Pros:
- The loom of X, of course
- Shattered elves are creepy as fuck, and they performed a ritual I named. ;.;
- The Bogeyman. I love Bogeymen
- I love fighting the Citadel
- Hanging out with Maxypoo
- Buckley's RP with the only-talking-about-clothes and subsequent torture was amazing. I wish I could give RP awards. You are fantastic. I don't know if I would have been able to react that quickly and well to such complex stimuli
- Mason the Foot Rest
- Newbies in general for being so up for anything/my weird crap. But you said it wasn't close to too much. I'll have to up my game
- NPCing is, as ever, very enjoyable in Ralinwood
- Dustin's Healing elemental snubbing me!
- Wasting 1-2 Lifes and a Suspension because nobody thought to check if I was just unconscious
- Zia's dream mod. Dustin is an excellent villain
- I am so impressed that Erk survived her suicide mission
- Charming Vrael and getting negged immediately
- The elf party! So much tasty food
- Halfway through the elf party, forgetting that elves existed at all
- Pandora visitors! Con: No Malek
- Tormenting kobolds. I feel scary. Sorry for being so mean! Your characters are phenomenal and I love them
- The ghost that thinks my hat is stupid (my hat is great, fuck you)
- Having the head of the local Blood Red Rose get on his knees and apologise to me
- Charming Robyn as the giant grey ogre thing. Immediately getting puked and drooled on by it
- Holy fuck I know what the Fail Sionnach are and what they're up to and it is so incredibly exciting! And what happened when I tried to let one possess me. And the fact that they interacted and learned and stuff!
- Alecto: So, like, did you rob me after we had sex or are you a prostitute?
Lilith (forgetting all elves): Who are you?
Well, that's unfortunate
- Weezy, Ryan, Yoshi and Anthony's NPCs were great. They were fun on their own, and I love that they were sneakysneaky NPCs. Excellent for immersion. Also chasing Weasel around was great fun, as was Ryan mistaking Lilith for a prostitute and Anthony immediately going "OKAY BYE" and running off
- But seriously, Buckley is so funny. Damn
- Hannick's excellent hallucinate/charm RP. I mean, I did neither of those things. Nope.
- Glitter EVERYWHERE
- Ramsay
- "The dead dark elf told me to tell you the singing fish guy got eaten by the spirit eater." EXCUSE ME?
- Magnar taunting Barley and fucking booking it away
Cons:
- I am not a fan of 'it was all a dream' mods. It feels like it trivialises everything that happened, though it was very cool as it happened
- The first tower mod: I had no idea we got some kind of reward for that. The elemental shield/elemental blade thing. I never heard about it. I have no idea why. Also not sure what the statue people were about. They just seemed to wander around being confused. If there was more to them, great, but if not it seems like a bit of a waste of NPCs
- The second tower mod: So, theoretically, we were supposed to make it through this test. I have no idea if we did, at all. I love hard fights, but the elementals/elemental lords were really only capable of being fought by a small handful of PCs (immunity to X Y Z damage just means only a few people are fighting at all). If we did succeed, there seemed to be no reward at all. Was the reward finding the Fail Sionnach ritual? I have no idea. Unless we screwed that up as well, it seemed like an info dump and there was nothing we could do to actually affect it. Which, info dumps are great and I am super excited to have learned stuff, but most PCs had no idea what was happening, nothing they could do about it, and that is rather a let down for a big town mod where supposedly we are passing a big test. Was that part of the test? How was it related at all? Dunno. I don't really understand the tower storyline as a whole. People being possessed and attacking was great, though. But I have no idea what the point was, whether we succeeded, whether we benefited at all, and a lot of people weren't able to do anything on that mod.
- When there are specific interactions like puzzles and ritual circles, these need to have a marshal. Like the mystery Fail Sionnach circle. Ivanna was too busy being an NPC to be the marshal. NPCs don't make good marshals for that reason, unless that's the only thing that NPC is doing. Having to interrupt other PCs fighting/interacting with her to ask what happens when we do X Y Z to the circle is not great
Overall, lovely time. And weather!
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OOC: Cat M.
OOC: Cat M.