Event Review - Drown with the Sickness (July 2019 Weekend)

[Dr. Moran]

Many thanks to the plot team/NPCs/etc... for all the hard work they put into the event.

Pros:

• Sybil was absolutely amazing. The reactions of the people on the mod, trying to figure out what she's communicating via divine pictionary, then walking back into town with Sureeta was unreal. Costume was great, RP was great, overall I'm so happy I could be there for that. Ralinwood doesn't get a whole lot of global tier stuff so this was super exciting.
  
• "Since when is Ll'yandra the goddess of extortion?"
  
• I really enjoyed playing Hazel the Vitki. Yoshi and Ange did super amazing makeup, and the RP was absolutely phenomenal. Addressing Oliver and Shark as a pair was really interesting and the private chat I had with Oliver afterwards was 10/10. Also playing the Snelf who just got to lie in a field while town panicked was the role I was born to play.
  
• My cabin, as usual, is swell as fuck. Great RP all event.
  
• Nel and Rykkin both getting lollipops that made them feel sadistic for the duration of eating it was a riot. I legitimately thought that I'd take a death for having to suddenly go from "that one kind of grumpy Ice Elf who doesn't follow Pandora" to "oh she's definitely doing some Pandora shit over there". Instead people barely noticed until we were both already covered in blood and trying to convince others to try the candy too.
  
• Frost was a really fun NPC to talk to. I didn't really know what the point of that party was but I had fun accidentally sliding right back into extra-planar politics before I realized what I was doing.
  
• The mod with Sunny was hilarious. Started with Nel vs. Sunny ft. An Actual OOG Chair™ and ended with Nel declaring that she was willing to die if it took out all the other players in the room with her.
  

Cons:

• It has been 0 events since somebody has incorrectly stolen an item.
  
• I did not like the poison/disease mechanic. It felt needlessly complicated, NPCs didn't seem to also be affected by it, and there are many similar but more straightforward rulebook effects that give a similar "we're all sick" feel but don't require custom rulings and confusion.
  
• The spiders that attacked the camps did not have any loot. Apparently that was because the NPCs were sent to get people moving but only had enough loot for their pops on the mod site, but it's really shitty to unload your skills trying to save your pal from 3 spiders and none of them have anything. RIP my decap.
  
• Event was really oddly paced. Sometimes it felt like nothing was happening for hours, or that it was only small mods for a certain audience. Sometimes it felt like a bunch of town mods were happening in quick succession. I found myself really bored for the entire event despite trying to go on mods when I saw a hook out. I think I did maybe 4-5 the whole weekend.
  
• Redcaps are fun and fine and dandy but maybe also send out some stuff without magic thresholds at night? It was fun to have an actual scary fight in the evening but then nothing much else came out so me and my normal sword just twiddled my thumbs.
  
• Lighting mod sites more/putting glowsticks around hazards would be nice. It's been an issue pretty often in Ralinwood where nobody can see anything, especially in the woods/when its overcast. A few well placed glowsticks could help. Or just floodlights. I dunno. I'm night blind. Let me see.
  

See y'all next month when Ori comes back and finds her Guard Captain is dead, her resurrection circle vanished in the night, and she missed the appearance of an actual legit goddess.