Personal Weekend Highlights
- Getting to lead the 2 new player parties, being put forth by my fellow adventurers as the "official" leader of the second party and being recognized for my leadership.
- Being able to perfectly distribute loot to all aforementioned adventurers for their parts
- Watching Drakkon and an mysterious unnamed wild elf pull off a absolutely perfect duo garrote ambush on a flesh merchants guards only for Gnar to epicly walk between them as the guards were getting dragged into the shadows to slay the distracted flesh merchant.
-Having Gnar convince us to watch a snake and a frog fight, betting on the snake to win only to have the frog make a stunning turn around on its last legs and Physically Engulf the snake and Gnar praising Daelrion because of the frogs' cunning.
-Getting Feared by a zombie, fleeing in terror only to come charging back meanwhile half my party is looking at me like I've gone mad. I chuckled.
- I gots me a new shiny shield
-I died
But it was all worth it making Mason hold on to the Reps from the corpse loot he snagged and watching him try and run away from Shattered Elves with an extra 2 swords and a shield. Heh heh heh
The General Review;
Pros:
-OOG lighsticks in the Saturday night wild elf mod. Thank you so much shapers. A good portion of my mind is usually on the watch for people being hurt OOG in darkness due to my having very good night vision and not having that distraction really let me RP around the party and do my thang
-Multiple new player mods. Again, thank you so much guys.
-I also really liked how the snakes den tied in a little more into the RP; (the snakes were biting farmers and poisoning them) that the town hired new adventurers for this is spot on (I've done a "clear out the vipers den" quest in so many MMORPG's/RPG's) so we had a reason rather then just obviously being thrown a bone.
-Einhar cultural games. Ingentium didn't take part/watch as he isn't a fan of Einish but nice touch guys, nice touch.
- Waking up, hearing the alternating sounds of running, death and battle and as slowly/quietly as I can put on all my armor (chainmail hauberk/gorget/greaves). The amount of suspense and dread Ingentium felt was intense. I probably looked at that tent flap kneeling with my sword out for a good 20 minutes after getting it all because I suspected an ambush.
-Actually getting to get into the thick of things and get proper stuck in due to a +5 Threshold and very generous Elemental casters empowering my swords
IS THIS HOW YOU FRONTLINERS ALWAYS FEEL!?
-This may have been a con for some but as a lover of history and medieval tactics I adored the "crush" of Saturday night's wild elf mod. So visceral. It was irritating but it felt so right.
-On the note of medieval tactics; congrats townsfolk ya'll are getting WAY better at forming ranks and holding the line. Special shout out to all my shield-bearer bro's for actually coming to the fore when the calls went out for shields.
-Meeting more new players so soon into my Underworld tenure and being able to get together a little adventuring party with them. Shout out to Olgeer and Suther.
Cons:
-I've heard a growing number of people pointing out poison ivy to me in various areas and with all the running around and hiding in the forest that folk seem to do the areas in which the Ivys are in is real shitty.
-Friday night's delay. I understand there was traffic but without knowing the reasons behind the delay it gets annoying that all of us already there have to suffer for it.
*-NPC's on Saturday nights event were very difficult to distinguish between OOG and in-game, it was extremely irritating at some points especially when an NPC (I'm fairly certain it was the same person) frequently is telling us that he's OOG with a boat-load of attitude behind it. There was an instance where an NPC was sitting at the edge of the brush on the path and a good 10 of us were staring at him in battle mode before someone poked him and he aggressively tells us we're out of game. Like come on man.
*This complaint is due mostly to the all enshrouding darkness. As mentioned in a previous review when its that dark all we can see (and I have fairly descent vision so I pity any who don't) are black possibly dangerous smudges against other, unknown, scary and possibly dangerous darkness.
- The caber breaking in two throws. My heart broke along with that log.