May 2024 Long weekend: Queens Gambit

[Ivy]

Ow oof ouch my brain

LARP tho!

[Quill]

THIS WAS SUCH A GOOD GAME
Fri:
-Slimes! Don’t like ‘em!
-Discussing our Saa plans with Snesus (snake jesus)
-Goop dog discussions (socratic)
Sat
-Woods! Woods! Woods!
-Earth circle hangout with Drix & Amber (and momentarily Bikbun)
-Bikbun builds the Saa monument, Kondor and Quill take Saa on a world tour
-Snake success! I donate a shit ton of my blood!
-Ropen
-Playing checkers with and invoking the eternal wrath of Globetrot
-Globetrot decides to put his checkers rage towards something productive (doing unethical psychic experiments on Kondor). Well damn I guess I’ll go along to make sure he doesn’t die.
-Kondor doesn’t die but I’m peer-pressured into drinking his blood for science
-Saa prayer time! Y’all come join me sometime!  
-Kondor and Quill threaten each others’ lives over checkers
-Chess 2.0. I’m too busy babysitting a frog because I’m well aware everyone in this town could turn me into soup
-SKELETONS
-I stand guard while Rosco, Ryn, Rudi, and Drix get a slime out of Apple’s blood. She engulfed a slime and was very proud of it.
Sun
-Nosians
-More checkers! With gambling this time! I win a state!
-Morning Saa prayer
-Harmonized with a rat! The rat is on drugs! Dream blunt rotation!
-God bless Kez and Malva for teaching me lore, I Know Things Now
-Medic training! Yayyy!
-Afternoon Saa prayer
-Marwhel shows up and Quill decides to dip off to Applevale early (I’m eepy)

[Lady Val]

(OMG Hilary actually posted?!?!)

Friday
- Sad I didn't make it out but excited because I managed to finish the crumbles and shortcakes.
- RP with Amanda the night before game

Saturday
-Driving into game with Amanda and speculating about what happened the night before as well as getting some RP in
- Setting up EATC and feeling so loved -- I'm so glad y'all like fantasy Starbs
- Despite the headache, getting to enjoy vibing with Seb and Zil and getting to chime in on convos with Corin, Drix, Quill, and Brumbar
- Heavy RP with Lexicus and Zilyana
- Ropen attack, I love that mod, I'm also a massive dragon fan so    
- Silvar and the Soul's Guard. Gods Moggy I swear every character you play is pure comedy gold. Bandit, Ryoter, villain, doesn't matter, you have amazing comedic timing sir.
- Veggie Quesadillas from Mitchell <3
- Sad about missing combat chess
- Arming the town before heading to bed to finally sleep and OMG I am so glad I made the bed before we left town

Sunday
- Knowing Mitchell is ok after last night and being relieved
- Looking fabulous, so happy with the way my hair looks now that I'm actually taking care of it. Wore a binder as Val. Check. Ears look great. Check. Gender euphoria = achieved.
- Morning set up of EATC, I wish I didn't forget the banner at home
- Visiting the Faerie circle and finally having time to pray
- Theo. Just Theo. I love making you coffees.
- Providence visits and holy crap the dynamic between them and Val is so tense. So hard to use Faespeech to get around questions. So glad Lexicus backed me up and helped protect Apple's identity.
- Dimitri hugs. That is all.
- Emergency wedding planning, I love you Sharon and I am so glad Aidan, Amanda, and myself were able to help you this weekend.
- Making hot chocolates that look actually picture perfect delicious
- Dodge Mana is amazing and I loved watching it. Go Emilia and Corin!
- I'M SO GLAD YOU LOVED THE CRUMBLES!
- I maybe purchased a very valuable thing... the radiant was worth it
- Butter chicken
- Being able to be there to emotionally support my friends
- MARWELL AND THE TEA! HOLY FUCK GARRETT, YOU IN TROUBLE!
- Getting to once again bond with Marwell over the torture of others who put the town at risk
- Vibing with Mitchell in the bunk room, we need to get coffee together again soon
- Bear mod. I was so happy I got to help get baby bear to mama using one of my favourite spells. Val was actually scared of going into the woods alone with only 3 mana and no back up but she felt so bad for Honey and how lost they were that she needed to go back and get Mama to leave the town alone (yay pacifist approach!). So glad Lexicus and Theo had my back. Val prayed to Faerie the next day hoping that they would be safe because she felt so bad after seeing them alone and lost in the woods.
- Champagne time
- So sad I missed Bat Rastard but super happy that Winter's Night might be coming back

Monday
- Quiet morning set up of EATC
- Providence returns... and then runs off
- The War Mod, holy fuck the plot turn this has taken. Loved the RP with the guild heads, and the RP with the town Fae. Thank you for indulging me, I've been wanting to have a moment like this come up organically for some time. Also Val is now super focused on ending this siege with as few Fae casualties as possible ASAP.
- Callum, why? Why, you gotta be like that? You had so much potential.
- Val backstory arc???

[Rosco Agassi]

Friday:
-The slimes were cool as hell. "With water I command you to laugh" and "With water I alter your memory: you have no bones" was a really fun spell combo.

Saturday:
-Played my second character! They made lots of friends, gave out cool pinecones and sticks and got to explore the woods. Playing a mute is hard and was a bit isolating at first, but overall a very fun change of pace from how serious Rosco usually is.
-I really like the Soul's guard. They're all really fun to interact with. Special shoutout to Sergeant Neko.
-Dodge Mana 10/10
-Town threatened a bunch of normies who were just trying to get through Holdfast. Like damn, I would be scared too if a crowd of armoured people surrounded me.
-FINALLY got my project done after three months of blood, sweat and tears ig and oog. Finding time to do the ritual is a whole other story.
-Am one of the first people to learn the news of the phase spiders unravelling people. gotta keep that one to myself the entirety of the training exercise....yikes
-Chess 2 is fun, watching the other surgeons drool over the hot people fighting was even funner
-RIP Bikbun's sword.
-I beg for people to give me five minutes to tell Briony about the phase spiders, considering her brother was probably killed by one in Radiant Junction....they do not allow me this luxury
-Gull tries to apologize, I have no fucking idea who this man is and just get angrier that a stranger could pretend to understand my family better than me.
-Briony got her first taste of angst rp and she is as hooked as I always knew she would be
-Apple shows up! Hi Apple!
-There is a slime in her blood, that she put there....okay.
-We get it out, put it in a bottle and keep it as a pet. Apple is feeling much better, the whole thing is the least eventful slime extraction I've ever seen and I am more than okay with that.

Sunday:
-Lovely woods walk was interrupted by a doomsday cult
-"What the fuck do we do [to stop them]?" *Sits on the ground* Okay, I guess that's what we do.
-I am a sinner who is irredeemable and going to hell. Hell is a swap though so that's cool.
-After the longest 30 minutes of my life Theo shows up and diffuses the situation
-Wedding! Help guard in the Citadel, on standby as a medic incase something shows up (we are in the clear).
-Some more Dodge Mana. Apple turns Ryn into a spring bear and Ceridwynn into a spider. I get so many hugs from beasties.
-Spent all weekend nervous about the (diplomatic and apologetic) letter I sent Marwel...turns out that Garrett made a more interesting (stupid) one, so I had nothing to worry about.
-I did miss seeing her though, which was unfortunate. Got confirmation from Philip that my letter was recieved and appreciated.
-Arluru friend with a malice addiction.....I love you.
-Bears in the woods? I spend most of my time running from the bears.
-The trapdoor works! It helps me run from the bears.
-Shadow creature, merchant and a rat who's only four days old (too bad that's 4/6ths of his lifetime).
-I take an early (for me) bedtime.

Monday:
-Everything hurts but I get up anyway
-Good conversations with Declan and a really cool moment of realization for him.
-No one can get near this amnesiac NPC. Manage to to get her to let me untaint her.
-"FUCKING MARCUS" ....okay then
-Actually got to do the ritual and it worked. I can remember Gull. Really cute rp and a lot of emotions for Rosco.
-Holy shit we're going to war with Nero. We're so fucked.

Honorable mention to the fact that Rosco is having a bit of a religious crisis about faerie

Overall really good game! See you all in two weeks(ish)!

[Malva]

Saturday morning Theo and Fr Francis banter

Zefir hiding in plain sight from Ari

Opening cans of worms

Dunking on Gull for being unable to think about textiles

"When in the Frontier"

[Ivy]

Gosh Jeez what can I recall...

Friday:

- Can't remember shit all: I know I went to bed before any fighting happened

Saturday:

- Praying to Lord Air with Dog, speculating on a ritual we could perform to venerate our lord of cutting winds (Spoilers it involves a lot of rotating)
- Dodge Mana was so fun to watch! Bomb Plate Delivery was a blast as well! Things were going so well for team stick then we had 3 end-zone turnovers lol
- Sparring with Candlewick
Saturday Special Event: Chess II!
- My first bout with Kez went about as well as Ivy expected: Poorly. Ivy's (backstory) upbringing had taught him a very different idea of what an honorable duel or sparring match is supposed to be compared to what he gets in holdfast, and yes it upsets him every time.
- Besides his own bouts: Today we learn that every holdfaster harbours some means to one-shot-alpha-strike one another, which they otherwise never seem to use.
- Second bout with Bikbun though, was one Ivy knew he was well-equipped for. The plan is simple: Breach Bikbun's strongwills with spins, land a transforms to buy some room to draw his sword, and drop Bikbun with an enchanted sword strike strong enough to breach Bikbun's toughness while the blow is guaranteed to hit. This plan gets off on the wrong foot when Ivy is faced with his most challenging opponent yet: BikBeyblade. One hit takes out his shield, the next his helmet, but he finds his opening and turns Bikbun into a candle, buying him time to draw his blade. When one enchanted hit isn't enough, he enchants his blade once more and commits to ducking Bikbun's next devastating swing to land the finishing blow!
- Had to stop due to my brain getting the bad wiggles from the sunder axe, but ultimately that was the best PvP I've ever had in Epoch ever! :  )

Sunday:

- OOG for most of the day: Saved all the hard cooking for day 2 like a D I N G U S.
- Grilled Cheemse
- Took pictures in my free time, got some of the wedding.
- Butter Chicken time
- The necklace comes in and I hand off my scroll of nullifies to Sebastian, I hope he makes it count.
- The necklace is dead!!!
- Back IG after dinner non-combat, and getting to spend some time plinking away with my crossbow

Monday:

- Lol I guess the NOSians have more willpower than us to wake up early
- War Were Declared: Hesitating about signing up but after a heart-to-heart with ytrom Ivy came to terms with going to war
- O look a mana popped up in the citadel where the necklace was destroyed :/
- Inspecting the evil mana and tossing it back to rook, who didn't catch it. O wel.
- Kitchen cleanup going real good : )

[Z]

This is my brief write up that I will add to when I remember to!

Friday
- slime time
- spectator in the woods
- almost kill 2 people woopsie daisy that's on them technically
- bed time

Saturday
- popcorn!
- we play some guys^tm in the woods and are convinced not to go to Providence probably
- Souls Guard time, I love Sgt Neko
- mmm lunch
- mana dodgeball!! Even having 1 eye I killed it and had a blast
- cat nap in the sun for bomb plate delivery
- we peace out for Ropen
- Ropen
- back again for supper!
- time for Chess 2!
- DEAAAAAATH!!!!!
- excellent fight against Corin, gg really good game overall tbh it was great
- skeleton time afterwards was nice to get some energy out

Sunday
- Nossian time
- not Nossian time
- hi it's me Declan I'm from Providence too
- get a mixed reception, that's expected
- leave and Sgt Neko comes back, wedding time!
- do some good patrols with Drixar, getting lost in the woods is fun and I love guard duty
- the wedding goes really well and we peace out
- parrot spider and the necklace of wild magic, tons of fun
- supper!
- honey bats! Marwel! Where is Garret Godsbrand.
- that was fun, time for night Ropen!
- I always love playing the shadow so much, genuinely my favourite creature to play
- THE BEAR
- that's a cool and creative problem to solve for town, I get some excellent grabs in while they are occupied
- take a 10 minute break after they finish
- time for the merchant! And more shadow time
- ok goodnight now

Monday
- oh my god it's so early, let's do this ritual finally
- I'm both glad and disappointed no one saw the ritual
-  Declan and Titus are back
- We both get the message at the same time. We have to leave right now.
- hurry out of town, manage to get Callum who wanted to join us but dunno where Kondor is
- back in as Sgt Neko one last time to guard an important meeting
- town is given an offer I have been super looking forward to
- Good luck with the war. You've got 6 weeks to prepare. I believe in you guys

GG y'all! Excellent game

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