Had a great time this past event, thanks all!

Gypsy Jam sessions! I think next time we should add some bodhran... plus also, could one of the Yhatzis please tell me what song I learned to play?

Saffron's cake

The songs we were playing are: Boys of Bluehill and Harvest Home

There will be more cake...

I had a great time this weekend, I wish I didn't live so far away so I could play more often!

Highlights:
Baking brownies till 4 in the morning, I got to see a lot of interesting conversations in the inn (Mary Beth's peppered bacon was pretty awesome as well).
Wally's before game storytelling meeting was great, liked the powerpoint, good job on Emily for the pictures
Hanging out with the Celts is always a good idea.
Main mod was scary, everytime I saw the green glow stick, I was pretty sure I was about to be magically sniped. Every black shadow was just as terrifying as the one before it.
The party was great, thanks to everyone that came and hung out and/or donated food.
Jam session!!!!

Lowlights:
Spraining my ankle just before main mod started. Everyone was very nice about it though, I appreciated that!

Looking forward to seeing everyone again in September.

This was my second event and it was as much fun, if not more, than my first (the alt-event in May).

Highlights:

• My first late-night cabin invasion.  I somehow got away and screamed my fool head off for the guards.  And the bad guys didn't get my gold.
• My first market faire, which was totally awesome.  The amount of work the players put into their wares is absolutely amazing.  My "alchemical gummy frogs" were a success and I sold out.
• My first chance to see the Monastery and participate in a Mass.
• Getting to tell Von Ritter that people still do, in fact, talk about his fight on top of the Dragon's Claw Inn against the vampire.
• Getting to finally meet the famous Ming Na
• NPCing the first night and "holding the line" against the advancing players.
• While NPCing, not knowing if we were supposed to be shouting Tight-Fist, Typhus, or something else.  The RP there figuring it out was great.  Thanks to all involved.
• Feast was delicious as always.  My thanks to the cooks and servers.  Job well done.

Lowlights:

• Just the bugs, but players were generous with sharing bug spray, so there were few problems.

I had a load of fun at this event, even if we didn't get there till 1 AM on Saturday. Maybe next time we'll leave when planned instead of at like 7 PM (stupid five hour drives, grumble grumble grumble...).

Maybe next time I won't get hauled off to help save hostages when I was gonna speak to the nobility; that might be a good plan for my continued survival.

And mark my words, one day I will find a use for that blasted Freeze Water spell I keep getting! One day! I WILL DEFEAT THE ANTERIES SEA!!

Thanks for making it a good time for us zany Rhode Islanders. Maybe we'll be back sooner than every two years next time (we're hoping for sometime in the Fall)!

"Yep, that's the life of a Wild Mage. Emo, emo, emo."
"Isn't it more like 'emo, emo, lightning bolt?'"
<Later, sing-sing voice> "Emo emo Lightning Bolt, emo emo boom!"

This was a great event for me and was a blast overall.
Learning that I am terrible at Texas hold-em and lucky at blackjack and eventually breaking even.
Realizing that Rhamulus resents his brother to a small extent, mostly the being constantly inebriated. Thanks to Efgail/Jared.
Sleeping in Yhatziland.
Ram-you-lust the Virile! Exploder of women's panties! and my apparent rival: Ambrose, the Angry Badger of Travance!
Gypsy party
Bridge mod was interesting. Standing right next to the fuse when it was lit was one of those: "Oh... well this sucks" moments right before sprinting to the safe side of the bridge.
Subsequent belt bridge. Just wow.
Learning that starting a story with "So I was hanging out with the gypsies" never bodes well
Goblin Ganking before main mod.
0-60. Things not to do.
Never actually entering combat as a PC.
I spent too much time with the gypsies. I had to try not to adopt the outrageous accent.

Only downside was sleeping until the clean-up hold. I feel like I missed a lot of good Sunday morning RP.
Staying in the most out-of-the-way cabin has it's downside.

Edit: One of the most interesting things to happen after the event was turning the waitress at The Ugly Mug in to a future LARPer. Way to go Matt.
Being told that I should get Deflect ASAP because it can stop a slay and responding with that if I'm fighting something swinging Slays, I screwed up somewhere.

Some of my memories from my first event:

-Up Sides-
1)  Miscellaneous IC chatter talk in character in the goblinoid line before the chanting.  Deciding which parts of the hu-mons were tastiest.

2) Seeing some of the incredible costumes and realizing I will have to put more effort into mine.  I sort of half assed it for the first time going to a game, and seeing how almost everyone was in great costume, I wished I had spent a bit more effort into mine.

3) RP around the hookah and at the party.  I got to know a lot of people IC and OOC because of that great RP.  Up to, and not excluding, the fastest man I have ever seen run away from a gazebo.

4) Spinning Poi and actually getting tipped IC for my performance.

5) Explaining to people that I normally just drag wounded people out of fights, unless I am drunk, and then I do stupid heroic things... and then had the battle scenario where I went behind enemy lines and ended up working the belt bridge. 

6) Watching peoples mixed reactions to the Gypsy.

7) Seeing how quickly people can traverse a campground when a scream happens.

Threatening to curse the person outside my cabin window if he broke in, and having them actually go away.

9) The kidnapped woman scenario, the bridge mod, and the goblins sneaking into camp.

-Down Sides-

1) Getting blocked in at the end.  While a good portion of the people that come don't have a 4 hour drive, blocking the vehicles of people packing to go sorta sucked.

2) Having to wait until September for another game I can make it to.

Let's see...where to begin?  This event was seriously one of my best LARP experiences ever, so it might be hard to narrow down.

Highlights -
- Excellent RP all-around

-Accidentally pushing Kwildar's buttons while he was hallucinating.

- Taking a few minutes to randomly rename people (Like The Angry Badger and Ramulust only to hear people talking about them by those names on Sunday)

- Lina telling me that I have grandchildren (because she started to Teach people after I instructed her in that skill)

- Feast

- Yhatzi Advertising Company, llc.

- Hearing about the attack in the Yhatzi cabin Sunday morning, then hearing Rudolf loudly reminding everyone that he's not a Yhatzi.

I'm sure there's more but these posts are supposed to be relatively short...right?

- Taking a few minutes to randomly rename people (Like The Angry Badger and Ramulust only to hear people talking about them by those names on Sunday)

HAHA!! this was my 2nd event and even more fun then the 1st

I have to say Ambrose the angry badger of Travance is a better title than the potato sack barbarian! and I owe it all to the Yhatzi! You guys were great! the angry badger would be nothing without you guys and I hope to see you guys at the next event!

I would have liked to come to the party but an invite is an invite =,(

AND!!! I got to hang with the asguards!

very very funny welcoming helpfull and cool!

but boy really great event!

hope I see everyone at the next event 2

Good event. I always enjoy gypsying.

Low Lights:
Arriving really late due to having work until 5:30 PM
Screwing up my ankle during NPC shift (Thanks John and Diane for the understanding and help respectively.)

Highlights:

Paetros "fire spinning".
Yhatzi Party
Bridge Mod - awesome
Rudolf - that guy was awesome.
Except for the unfortunate injuries, the weekend was awesome. Thanks!

ok so now that its taken me a week to recover! here are my highlights!
Friday-
-I came right into game as my gypsy and had fun introducing the new "cockatoo gypsy' name Kat.
-having Captain Syllables try and get me drunk all night lol and playing cards with Nicoli. Also giving the "gypsy talk" to nicoli and Kat to inform them of everything.
-Having an in depth conversation with Kwildar and laughing on the inside as the gypsy who is afraid to love was giving Kwildar relationship pointers lol.
-Being whisked away by the most charming hip shaking Liam gypsy ever! and then once we walked into the woods being broken by a comment.
    Liam: why are you cold?
    ME: well because it's chilly we're not in the heat of the moment...
    Matt IT WAS THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT!
    Me and Liam: i never meant to do those things to you *stomp stomp clap*

-Being tortured for 4 hours by a glommite demon and finally having a character with 3 minor insanities. lol Now i have to do scar make up... as if it didn't take me long enough to get ready as it is.
-getting to NPC a glommite cleric and trying to convert Rayven and Brax after they flat out told me they were galadelian and Gaian.
        (said to Rayven): so you look like a helpful guy, pretty strong and helpful.
        Rayven: well, yeah i can be, my goddess grants me strong abilities to help
        Me: oh yeah? my god grants me useful gifts too! Almighty Glomm hear  my prayer *breeches door on the in*
      It was hilarious because Brax and Rayven could only look at each other like "did that really just happen?" and then killed me
-having doctor maxwell fix catatonic fits and having one in the middle of treatment sorry Ben! you brought it on yourself!
-Apollo coming in and using Lore:Gambino "tell me everything" lmao.
Apollo: so we believe the demon might have left something behind...
Me: does this involve my chest?
Apollo and Maxwell: yes
Me: you will not do anything until Tobar is around.

-the bridge battle of death and me and nicoli singing to a swimming balthazar "just keep swimming, just keep swimming, what do we do? we swim! Swim!"
-having father edwin come over to ask me what was wrong with my chest since i had a huge scar down it only to begin freaking out and running away from him tripping over my own skirts in the process. darn minor phobia clergy.
-sleeping through feast yet again *sigh*
-coming out as Pracika for main mod and swinging more damage than Rayven at one point. Actually coming up with a decent strategy plan and proposing it to antrum who said it was a good idea but then having it ignored anyway.
-Taking down an antipaladin with Captain Syllables with two blades of victory. I felt so useful.
-being knocked to the ground with 50 decay body and being drug back behind lines to be healed. Once i regained my wits my first words were "those ba****ds stole my headband!" in a furious rage just to have wolfgaar hand it back to me and my mood instantly changes to happy gratitude lol.
-SMORES!
-finding shamus to teach me posi barrier
-waking up sunday morning and missing breakfast once again... i really should eat more at KR
-teaching Rayven's brother how to fight with two longer weapons at once.
-hearing captain syllables back story and laughing to myself oog as it fit my backstory perfectly.

my only low light was waking up late for NPC shift and trying to put my stupid contacts in... other than that i had a blast!
         

This was my first LARPing event, and it was even better than I thought it would be! I think my favorite part of the whole thing was the night battle, because clomping around with a polearm and hitting vague shadows in complete darkness was really fun. Especially since I was hollering "4 damage!, 4 damage!" when it seemed like everyone else at the front lines was hitting at least 8 damage or more. Another great part was acquiring the nickname "Pokey" since I was always poking enemies with my giant halberd. I definitely hope to get to the next event, because this had made a LARPing addict out of me. Unfortunately, I'm from RI, but the 5 hour trip is 100% worth it!

Whoops!  Don't forget to sign your posts Marcus, just a heads up!

Lowlight: Like Mars, being stuck at home and not getting the chance to go to war.  Bummer.  Will be there soon!