Hail to thee

Hi all,
I am an OOG friend of both Paul and Susan Shaffer, having met at a conference in Las Angeles. I am an Australian, sadly not many LARP's where I live, in fact research confirms that they are either less action-based, or science-fiction/horror LARPs which I dislike.

I hold a very special love for fantasy of many kinds, enjoying computer games like Quest for Glory and Kings quest. I attended my senior prom in a fantasy shirt and cloak.

I enjoy Dungeons and Dragons, and have a very open mind. I hope to be travelling soon across to America to meet my fiancee's Virginian family and as a result both of us are planning to attend a KR event with much anticipation.

Thanks for reading.

Note: Edited for spelling.

Hey Marty!

Welcome to the KR forums!  It will be wonderful to have you and Kathryn attend an event!  We have a good number of Celts, so Kathryn's thick Scottish brogue will be totally In Game.

Can anyone from KR remember if there's ever been someone attending from Australia?  How about Scotland?  Thanks.

Wow,
So cool to hear someone including KR in an across the world trek
Hope you enjoy it and arrive safely

Hi, and if you do join us for a game or two, then you will officially win as the "Player Coming from Farest" award, as you would have to cross an equator, an international date line, and numerous time zones. 

Hi Martin,

So cool to hear that you want to come.  Let me know when you and Kathryn can come and we will make sure to take you to an event.  You both will love it.

Ahem....

I have a few questions. First of all, next year around July/august me and Kathryn are planning to travel to the states to meet Kathryn's cousins there, and go to the conference (Suzi Knows). What dates are the events at that time so we can plan around that?

Character background question 1
Are there other pathways across the rift that may be unknown at this time or is the rift gate the only path across?

Background question 2
Dark elves....Are they relatively common around the Kormyre area? as in an attack maybe once or twice a year?

FINAL question to do with character selections
How does literacy work? In the ranger/druid areas, I can see advanced literacy as a valid skill, but not literacy.

Literacy is on the Commoner list .

Literacy (Continuous)
Literacy allows the character to read and write in the common human language.

www.knightrealms.com/index.php?option=co...temid=199&board=14.0
^ Currently scheduled event dates

Character background question 1
There are other ways to cross the rift but 99% of all characters come through the rift gate at some point in their life and generally is the only way people come to Travance. Other ways are possible but are very rare and must be approved in your history first.

Background question 2
I would say it is safe to assume that Dark elves make attacks once or twice a year in some fashion. Those attacks are likely more raiding partys then full military actions. Anything past that i'd say you'd have to find out in game.

Thanks, answers all questions totally.

Now to modify the history that much more.

Ugh....Having to ask another couple of questions relating to gaming time...

As me and Kathryn both will probably be flying into the US of A from Australia, we will need to have the dates ETC for 2010 (My god, it's full of stars)

Hopefully we'll be coming to the july event that year, but maybe to the june event IF possible. Kathryn does have family down in Virgina after all.

Anyway, boohoo to me here cause there aren't very many LARPing groups, or even very many DNDers....Sigh....
Show them all *mutters madly* open my own guild *chatters wildly* make it compatible with KR rules *screams and flies into the dungeons*

Because of the way the camps operate, we can only get the dates at the opening of the winter and summer seasons for that half a year.  As such, I believe we won't have the Summer dates for 2010 until something like the beginning of April 2010 (please don't quote me on that though, its just an estimate). While that can be frustrating and often cuts many dates close for a lot of us, its simply the way these camps work. 

Well, thats quite annoying as again, transpacific trips would be hard to plan over an essentially 3 month gap.
quite expensive too, and because I will have just been married... Sigh.

In other words. Blast it all. I can't do anything there and I can't find a SINGLE group over here apart from the SCA which doesn't do much in that way.

I don't know how long you can be in the US, but if you can plan your trip to be a month long you'd be sure to be here for an event.  Of course, if you're not going to be between VA and NY/New England for that entire month, you'd still be in pretty much the same pickle--too far away...

Well after all that....I might actually be able to come still and scare you silly with all my wildness.

Essentially I would probably be coming over to the USA for around 2 weeks, followed by at least a week in Scotland (work permitting) around the july period of time.

Bookings I would try and make at least 3 months in advance if not 6 months (I do want to see all my dear friends again) and I would probably bring over my only garb and mah longsword. (42 inch latex ringsword done by Lrpstore). I've bought over dodgier looking stuff hehehe.

Anyway, sorry to make a big fuss out of things, but as this is quite big for me!

Considering you're coming from another CONTINENT, I think some questions and desire to proper plan things out is justified. 

^^

the other side of the world methinks....