June 2024: The Waiting Move

[Ivy]

Most deadly game on record and the war hasn't even started yet...

Post what you can remember here!

[Pavel Vesely]

Fri PM:
•Hobble into town, godsent, get escorted into the inn by Brummbär. Meet a few faces, shovel down some food.
•New Dwarf friend watches me get shot by a Golem, covering him. Armor held up, but that laser stung.
•Quietly observe Marwhel for a bit.
•Follow a random party into the woods, wind up discovering Nordinist ruins. Vital to my quest? Gained a vested interest.
•"WTF did you say about my God?" I.

Sat AM:
•Early-morning shenanigans with the Dwarf, free tour of town included.
•Desire to know more about the ruins, tablets brain hurty though.
•Scarf down lunch.
•Bum some change off new employer to send a letter home.
•Strategy time.
•Lovely conversation with Val, found a few potential sources of info on my religion.
Sat PM:
•Go pray by ruins, seek guidance, feel drawn to that hole.
•Meet a few more people.
•"WTF did you just say about my God?" II
•Unintentionally revenge jumpscare Gull.
•Sneople? SNEOPLE!? Saa!? *Main system activating combat mode.*
•Get slapped around a fair bit, but manage to save a nice handful of lives, wipe out on the ramp.
•Kurosawa moment with a Marcus-shaped sneople. Dash-slash, keel over.
•Strip armor, go full flourish mode, but get double-teamed.
•Held that pose.
•Play pass-the-snek with Dimitri for a few moments.
•Meet Rincewind.
SUN:
•Strange(r) merchant lends Guy a voice. Talky hard.
•Echo Armories, manage to trade mortal wounds with one.
•Where do you think you're going, boss? Where's my pay?

[Quill]

Quill's No-Good Very Bad Day ) Literally so much happened oh my god.
Fri:
• Golems! People get all torn up! Hey Holdfast why?
• Marwhel shows up. I go "hey I don't know if she knows about the Saa thing I can probably just keep a healthy distance." Turn around on the inn deck a good chunk of time later, realize I have not remembered to keep checking said healthy distance. SHE IS NOT HAPPY WITH ME. I get mushed
• Where's Kondor? He usually plays a significant role in keeping all the Saa stuff running smoothly. Does this mean I actually have to do my job as Saa apprentice? Hello? Guys?

Sat
• Globetrot and Callum are back! Yay!
• Up to check on Saalter and do Quill's usual morning prayer.
• Knife heals me up, I am concerned about this elf's medic skills. I think I have piss in my blood and leeches in my brain. But medic 2 I dunno it's probably fine
• Globetrot gets his hand cut off. I'm morally opposed but uhhh medic 2 I don't know how to treat that.
• Quill is disoriented to realize her dear snake friend is much less popular than she thought. Probably because half the town think they're gonna get mushed. I think my mushing was mostly because I pissed Marwhel off on a personal level but idk man.
• Little late for my mid-day prayer! It's fine I'm sure Saa won't mind that I'm—OHHH NO.
• First Quill cry of the day. People, please tell me we didn't destroy the Saa effigy I'm concerned for town. I was literally just asking Saa to protect us in war this morning.
• Okay not the answer I wanted. Saalter gone. This is all fine. Quill's fine. Second Quill cry of the day, this is fine.
• Rhy binds me to the ground for 80 minutes as punishment for saying stupid stuff to Marwhel I don't even remember and getting my head mushed. Globetrot is two of the most dangerous things Globetrot can be, Bored and Nearby, and therefore spirit bonds Rhy & Quill.
• Marr interrogation. I have good intentions with the snake I ssssswear.
• Sneeple! Sneeple! Snake people! Ouch! I'm pulled out of town because I'm religiously opposed to hitting these guys and they're beating my ass. Also Rhy.
• Rumors go around that I summoned the sneeple. Rest assured if Quill summoned sneeple she would've summoned ones that liked her. My armour gets crushed like a tin can.
• Marr interrogation part two plus Ryn and a compel truth. Ryn tries to impersonate my god which is genuinely such a good and funny idea oog but Quill is upset.
• Sneeple! Sneeple! I'm all bloody, Rhy's all bloody, and I still can't hit said sneeple, so I figure Rhy and I would be a liability. We're out of town because Rhy goes "WE'RE GOING" and I can't argue with that by the virtue of spirit bond.
• Okay, they keep coming and they're namedropping Saa. This must be Saa's will, a punishment from my God. This means I probably cannot intervene with this by divine will. That's fine. This will pass.
• I don't think it's passing. I can hear people calling out to me. Fuck. Okay. I'm calling up Saa. Saa says sacrifice needed. Okay cool, mush me again. I can't be mushed because Kondor isn't here to fill the religious leader position, and therefore we need me as priestess. When did I become a priestess? Where am I? Where is Kondor? What's going on?
• People are not fond of my ideas, want to wait to sacrifice Kondor. Quill decides probably not a good idea to sacrifice one of the like two believers in town and/or wait for him to get back from Saa knows where. Amber volunteers to be mushed. Val and I make up a ritual on the fly. Saa says "we'll see" when I ask if this is cool. The gravity of the situation does not hit Quill until ritual is set up and Amber is ready to be mushed. Quill gets her third cry of the day. Emily gets ibuprofen because oh my god I didn't know I could sob like that over my fictional little guys.
• Surprise! Rincewind says Amber doesn't have to be mushed! The sneeple are essentially a coincidence from some other weird holdfast nonsense and Saa is mad but not invoke-war mad. Okay 45 units of my blood be upon snee, it's patched up for now. Also thank you Val for your earth mana donation may Saa protect you.
• Quill is in trouble. I apologize to Ryn, who is rightfully livid. Quill essentially gets grounded. I'm oog eepy and catching an earlier ride home, so Quill is just hiding miserably in her bunk for rest of weekend.

[LocalBayleaf]

Friday: walking back into town via le woods, oh hey! I know that person, bracelets come to mind (Emellia). We walk into town together. I know some of these people I’m sure of it! There’s Red who reminds me of bandages (Rosco) and blue faun (Drixar) and ROAR (Brummbar). I eat food from the Inn. This should be a good night.

- stargaze on the deck with Red (Rosco) and Bracelets (Emellia) and my new friend Fluffy hands (Bryoni). We talk about constellations and then Old man joins us (Ambrose). Red (Rosco) is upset about some guy named Theo? Apparently he killed a bunch of kids or something. I’m not really sure.

- GOLLUMS! There’s so many headless people??? I don’t know what’s happened but I grab a sword and try to help. I get hurt and my armour is busted but Smokey (Corrin) fixes it. Very cool person.

- Emellia died. I’m very upset. I really like bracelets. A lot of other people die too.

- later into the night I join a group on an adventure into the woods. We find a strange hole in the ground with a staircase leading down into it. Blue Faun (Drixar) has me copy down what’s inscribed on a stone. I don’t know what’s happening but I’m happy to be helpful!

- looking at Bracelets (Emellia) makes my heart hurt. I ask Drixar about the medics. “They never have enough.” I will learn then. I will help.

Staurday:

- cat boi and Callum return. People have questions for them. Not everyone is happy. There are outsiders with them. I don’t like them. Rosco isn’t happy and takes cat boi for a walk. I’m pretty sure he stabs him?

- I track down drax, drizzled, fazziled? Blue faun is making things in a cauldron. I ask if I can learn. I gain two potion recipes!

- I find Red (Rosco) with Floofy hands (Bryoni) and they teach me healing things. We patch up Floofy hands (Bryoni) and I learn about bandages and poultices. I can be more helpful soon.

- Bird (Gull) holds a concert on the deck. Everyone is singing and stamping and it’s so much fun! Old man (Ambrose) keeps poking the Goat (Kez) when his back is turned. It’s very funny. Goat (Kez) blames Floofy hands (Bryoni). I correct no one.

- snake people?? One crashes through the window in the kitchen and some elf dude (lexicus) pokes it with a really big stick. The stick breaks so he punches the snake thing to death.

- more snake people but now they’re in the ground in the field? I’m very confused. Someone died and Red (Rosco) is very upset about it.

- Dimitri is so badass but why is he carrying a door?

- someone has to die to a snake god? I’m confused. People are upset. Door (Dimitri) is determined to keep Holdfast safe and will die trying. I hope I’m brave enough to die trying someday.

- I see a shrike! It’s a big bird thing that steals shiny weapons and stuff! Goat (Kez) gets distracted by a spider and misses it! A bunch of people had setup candles with a sword in the middle to draw in the shrike! Apparently they are rare so it was really cool to experience!

Sunday:

- apparently we’re going to war. Some dude (Merrick) asks me if I’m going and a bunch of other questions like “are you aware?” To which I said no because I’m rarely aware of anything. Of course I’m going! I don’t know where it is or who we’re fighting but I will help Holdfast and its people however I can!

- this morning is very chill. I watch sparring in the field and walk the Dog (Dog) with Blue faun. Bracelets (Emellia) buys me coffee it’s very good!

- BIG ARMOUR uh THINGS! Stab stab stab wow what a time in Holdfast I’m so happy to be back home!

[Z]

Woo, big game

Friday
- Wow we have a lot of cast
- Shadows my beloved
- Get like, 5? people? Excellent night
- Oh god the golem/construct things are wrecking house
- Oh god people are dying
- Uhhhhh what can I do to help
- Ok Peter good luck buddy lets throw some Earth Heals I guess
- Ah ok Marwel is here
- Oh no Marwel is here
- Ok let's explore the ancient hole in the woods! Woo!
- The stone tablets are so goddamn cool, I love them
- Ok it is so late (~3am?) goodnight

Saturday Morning
- Oh god it's early
- Woo! Heralds! Declan time
- It is noticeably more tense now, the siege is ongoing, we are here to return your people as promised
- Oh and check on Olive, she's doing good right? You guys kinda kidnapped her
- Through the jigs and the reels we pull Degren out of the earth plane for this
- Ok! She is no longer kept in the stasis chamber, that's great, her mom and fiance thank you
- Make sure Globetrot and Callum are not seriously harmed and are treated well enough, that's good
- Have a small heart to heart with Dimitri actually, it was nice
- Next mod! Merchants time!
- Pierre the confederate halfling is selling masterwork materials! Come and get them!
- Sell like, 3 things, rough day oh well
- Lunch was good though!

Saturday afternoon
- The war meeting is going on, so that means...
- THE FIRST SNEEPLE
- Accidentally walked into the meeting, get absolutely obliterated after about 2 minutes by all of the top fighters who encircled me
- Ah all is well, was a good taste of what was to come
- Chill for a bit, haunt Theo
- Have some fun with Phins! MORTAL KOMBAT
- I think I'm forgetting something else that happened but idk
- Have a power nap right after supper before the fighting starts
- The SNEEPLE come in force now, all 3 archetypes as well, our constrictors, vipers, and burrowers
- CONSSSSSSUME! DESSSSSTROY! FOR SSSSSSSSAA!
- Sneeple are a lot of fun actually, but I get to switch out
- A Shrike!!!! I have been super looking forward to this all game
- Sneaky sneaky out and about, I don't know if anyone actually saw me when I did a run by during a wave of sneeple, almost snagged a sword but I just missed it
- Eventually people start to hear about me and get glimpses, people think Brummbar is crazy at first and seeing things
- I am very real, and very sneaky, manage to snag a nice big axe, and eventually folks set up a ritual of "summon shrike"
- it's a sword left out surrounded by candles, good ritual actually
- I slowly make my creep towards it, I am sure people are watching me but I am taking my time and doing my best
- People are actually looking at a spider that they thought was me, lol, lmao even
- I burst out and snag the sword while they are distracted, I think only Ceridwynn see's me? Maybe one other person?
- Hehehe I love this actually, I really enjoy sneaky creatures / npcs / Z
- Have been hanging out sneaking on the side of the inn a bit, and can't help but see this lovely, sharp, jagged sword inside, and it's not too far, hmm...
- Do my counts, walk around inside oog "describe scene: I burst through the window"
- Snag the sword quickly and frantically, immediately drawing attention from the folks inside and burst back out the window, probably took about 6-8 seconds total
- Callum is running right behind me, I have a few seconds on him
- He chases me a for a moment, but once I breach the tree line I lose him pretty quick, good try!
- Poke around a little more afterwards, manage to sneak even up on the deck and find a fork from meal plan, mine now
- Go in finally and chill, have some late night talks with folks which is always nice!
- Bed time

Sunday
- Ah ok I am up, slept very well actually!
- Playwrights! Mercutio and Laertes coming in looking for some local talent
- We are doing a play known as "The Battle of the Silk Road" Starring Datura!
- People love this, it's lots of fun auditioning people, and we have a blast
- Rehearsal next month! Applevale by the fall, and Ner Batin before winter if everything goes well!
- Oh yeah Teek is around too
- Woo ok good, chill out a bit more, feel like we need something else before game is over
- A couple Echo Armouries for a little last minute combat, it's good fun!

Overall GG! Y'all survived and we are on to war, good luck Holdfast.

[Drixar]

Time for my event memories lets gooo

Friday
-Playing insanity 8’s with Rosco and Briony while we wait for Corin, Dog and Merric to come back, Drix is like a lost animal when his family is away
-Come inside late cuz I’m talking to Amber, why is everyone crowded around Theo?
-Oh my god he has the decapitated head of the doomsday cult prophet. I’m gonna be sick
-Golem! Construct??? Whatever it was it killed like 4 people, only keeping it together cuz others aren’t
-chaos is erupting around me, I play dead next to merric’s body to keep him safe but mother fucker wake up PLEASE
-as soon as he does I help ivy spin him like a dozen times, that’s what u get for making me stress and briony cry
-Find the entrance where we assume said beings emerged, many go in while I stay above with Krond, Amber, Ari, J’rase and Emelia (?)
-Send J’rase and maybe Emelia back to the inn in case the group come out elsewhere
-Oh yeah krond so here’s all the shit you missed in the like 5 months you were gone
-I forget if we did anything when we got back to the inn, bedtime

Saturday
-I wake up and go OOG to get some water, the heralds, Callum and globetrot are here…… yeah I can be ready in 5
-sorry Charlie ik u wanted a cloud morning go get rosco stuff
-hey aha morning Callum start fuckin talking
-do some things I forget
-“Hey we need someone to do dishes” “I will” no Francis im taking over ur banned
-Do a bit of brewing after dishes to teach Marco, yippee!

I forget a lot of Saturday so out of order ish stuff I remember
-Dropped OOG to take some pics cuz I was overwhelmed, yippee for coping!
-Hung out at the psychic circle with ryn and Marr for a long time, got some inspiration and booked it to the inn
-felt bad constantly interrupting jess and Danica in their mod but they assured me it was chill
-Hanging out, barding, taking the piss, good times
-Me and gull sing for ages, we don’t care that we are killing our voices while the night is young, we’re having fun

Saturday night
-Sneeple start arriving, im taking a break in my bunk when they first arrive
-“10 wood 10 wood 10 wood!!” … they got that I got another sec
-Lexicus making calls from the hallway… maybe I should get ready
-IG drix was napping in his bunk, the faerie staff is thrown on a half awake blue boy, “Keep it safe” kk boss u got it
-Finally gear up and join the fighting Jesus Christ what is happening
-“You are on our side now fight holdfast till you enter your bleed” hehe okay
-I start attacking Lexicus, he grapples me and knocks me out
-Knife wakes me up, fuck they took my staff, I draw my dagger and start slashing
-They knock me out again, I hear a consuming count start and end quickly above me
-Dimitri picks me up, I still have my dagger, I feel like a toddler flailing to get back to the park as I try to hit him
-“15 sunder” okay night night now I’m finally fixed
-I get brought inside and pass knife, “don’t wake drix he’s bad!” “I’m bad?” “Oh! Never mind he’s not bad anymore!”
-there’s talk of sacrifice, I don’t want it to happen, everyone’s yelling. Let’s use this overstim and fuel my RP
-amber is going to sacrifice herself, ryn is dead. Drix can’t keep it together like he did last night
-rosco comments on me taking ryns armour off. I’m giving it to corin so it’s fixed when she wakes up. Without another word he helps me
-snake fight ends with no sacrifice, rincewind interuppted the ritual holy fuck
-talk with him alongside merric to convince him to join the war. After what felt like hours he agrees
-some real fucking good rp with Corin, drix said he volunteered for the war weapon, Corin gets misty eyed and for the first time in a year and a half they swear at him. Names coming off real fast
-I’m so eepy, it’s bed time

Sunday
-wake up and spend some time outside with Marco and Dog at the air circle, it’s a really nice day
-there’s theatre guys here casting people for a play and they’re holding auditions
-they said I would be a good Dimitri?? As they say this I lock eyes with Dimitri, this feels either threatening or amused and I can’t tell which
-I walk over to Theo to get his thoughts, “hi Dimitri” “hi Krond”
-proper auditions begin, I do my Dimitri audition very awkwardly, they ask me to audition for Theo with a song, I do much better there
-I have never seen Adam wake up and kit up so fast, kez auditions for marr, it’s a great laugh
-games called and I allow my braincells to melt to mush, the curse of having a brainiac character

To say I’m not scared for war game because of this games deaths would be a lie, but only time will tell how we do

[Rosco Agassi]

Friday:

-Insanity 8s on the deck with Drix and Briony while we wait for our respective loved ones to come home. It is silly and fun.
-Theo has a severed head in his bag? Gull is yelling? I'm going outside.
-Stargaze with some of my friends! I love clear nights like this.
-I know we won't have Rudi but am confident the medics are going to be okay.
-The constructs massacred us. There was no time for healing, the Medic Corps were overwhelmed and we lost 5 towns members in the span of 20 minutes.
-Rosco is heartbroken and scared, trying to run a (very very small) group of medics who are also heatbroken and scared.
-Lose Merric, Kez, Knife, Emellia and Amber. They all come back eventually. Merric takes the longest.
-Once the fight is over, Rosco kicks Merric for making his cousin sad by being dead for too long (this knocks him back into his bleed) (he is promptly healed).
-Hi Marwel, thanks for helping us
-Oh God. Oh No. She's mad at Quill (she kills Quill)
-Someone better destroy that fucking alter before she kills all of us.

Saturday:

-I am halfway through putting make up on for my second character when Drixar oog tells me that the heralds, Callum and Globetrot are back. I've got unfinished business so Cloud is going to have to wait to have their turn in the sun
-Rosco is furious at Globetrot "telling" Nero about Teek. He has been stewing in that anger for over a week. I have one very clear order from Z.
-I beat Globetrot into his bleed, bandage him up and drop him in front of Val to heal. I go to the faerie ring to pray and calm down.
-Continue on my quest for the elusive Medic 6. Declan says the only way to get more medic skills is to go to Providence. Oh boy, I'll be going there but I doubt you'll want to teach me anything while we're killing Nero.
-Marco I will ABSOLUTELY teach you how to medic.
-Speaking of medics, I'm responsible for payment and reports this month. I am not built for paperwork im built to get angry tell people where to go.
-Get to attend the combat strategies meeting. I have trouble paying attention but know I have to for the Medic Corps
-Help Yanna with...whatever Yanna has going on.
-Singalong on the deck I KNOW THE LYRICS TO GULL'S SONGS AGAIN!!!!
-Supper, then Sneeple. Time to wear my new armour and feel like a leather turtle instead of just a turtle!
-"PERMISSION FOR INTENSE PHYSICAL CONTACT?" "YES" "3 MAULING 3 MAULING 3 MAULING" Lexicus really do be bare-knuckle fighting these guys
-Ryn is dead. That makes seven.
-Saa demands a sacrifice. Rosco gets mad about all the people who are throwing themselves at the opportunity to die, knowing most of them don't understand that at some point you're gonna stop coming back.
-He gets overwhelmed and irrationally angry (you're welcome for that bingo number though). Krond tells everyone to shut up. Now he's also sad because he's disappointed Krond. You can't have shit in Holdfast.
-REALLY cute rp with Merric and Briony as they try to stop Rosco from spiralling in guilt. I love my parents.
-Saa doesn't demand a sacrifice? Okay Rincewind, we trust you apparently
-Yeah fuck this, goodnight

Sunday:

-The directors are so funny. Dimitri tries to tell me to audition for the role of Dimitri who is "more meat than man." I decline. Everyone else tries to get me to audition for Krond, the "peace-loving berrypicker". I decline again.
-"I would rather eat rocks than improvise in front of people" -Rosco, played by Charlie, the oog improviser
-Teek shows up, I keep my promise to Z (and myself) and check on her. She's thankfully doing well, though we keep Globetrot away to be safe.
-Spend the rest of the morning weaving and listening to Teek and Yanna talk. Have a lot of fun starting a new project.
-Go home and immediately sleep until 9pm oops

Thanks for a great weekend friends!!!

[Corin]

Friday night:
- Game on! I get to walk in with Dog, Merric, and Gull as we return from Ner Batin, and get summoned to the citadel to learn we're gonna get Compel Truth-checked at some point to make sure we haven't betrayed town (this did not happen)
- Some people need things made so I get a classic game start with Smithing Time for Corin, now featuring a hammer of Extreme Speed (which also makes me drink Bone Hurting Juice, ow, ouch, oof)
- There are...golems?? Constructs?? Merric and Kez are WHAT
- Five people die and all i can do is fix their armour! Boy howdy is Corin ever feeling useless and so very worried that the same thing will happen in Providence!
- Marwel beats up the constructs, so Dog, Sebastian, Ceridwynn and I get to do very explodey construct dissection surgery which is very excellent smith enrichment
- I fix more things and finish my crafting queue in the wee hours of the morning while Ryn and friends look at some cool stone tablets that apparently came out of the same hole as the constructs? wild, cool, good shit

Saturday:
- no Zephyr today tragically, there's just so much to do
- more pre-war crafting for people, and then the pre-war meeting - apparently there are hundreds of stairs involved in getting to Nero (if we have to OOG do that I Will Die) which means the support wagon plan is dead before ever getting off the ground and is now being replaced with making the smallest kit possible so I can make someone wear it in a backpack
- Also killing Nero probably requires volunteers unravelling themselves with a Magic SuperWeapon which is. just incredibly terrifying (more on this later)
- Excellent smith 7 training with Sebastian!! So excited to finally be a master smith, next step is Enchanter
- the Snake People (sneople) are here and they are very scary. i spend lots of time hiding under tables so they don't kill me before i can get armor done. very glad we didn't need to do a human sacrifice to make them go away, thanks rincewind!! also please come to war with us!!
- very very emotional roleplay ensues when i find out that BOTH of my kids are on the volunteer list to use the Scary SuperWeapon that Unravels You. i communicate the gravity of the situation to them. maybe someday they will understand that dying is far from the only thing they can contribute to the cause. maybe they'll figure out how important they've both become to me in the last year and how much i would rather lose everything than let either of them go. i think at least for now they are both off the list and i can breathe again, but i don't think that is the end of it just yet.

Sunday:
- we're casting for a play??? i hope they find a better Datura than me so I get out of it oh dear oh no
- teek is here, yay!! oh no what did globetrot do oh god we're even more boned next month than I thought
- i get more materials from the guild and make a new crafting queue!! i spend the rest of the game finishing that up, armouries are outside but i'm sure folks have that handled

Three weeks until Providence! I will try to make sure everyone is as well-equipped as possible, I don't know what else I can do besides stand in between my children and anything that wants to kill them. I am equally excited for and terrified of whatever is about to happen. Hopefully Dog and I can pull through with our metallurgy experiments in time to have some useful intelligence!

[Brummbär]

Alright let's get into this!

Fri Night/All of Saturday:

•  Before game started there were some actual shooting stars over the top of the building, it turns out that was the foreshadowing for the slaughter that was yet to come…

• I began the night in watch of the town gates awaiting the return of my old friend Kondor; I noticed a tired stranger walking in behind the small group, so I helped them into the Inn. Turns out his name is Guy and he has no ability to verbally speak! Thankfully he has his book. He hails from a small town to the south-west and has severe amnesia… hopefully we can help!

•  While I was having a drink with Guy and introducing him to some of the Holdfasters, Bats, Nightmares, and some powerful constructs attacked the Inn. I managed to drag Rosco out of the line of fire until I was overcome with bloodlust… Thankfully Amber saved Rosco and me!

• It hurt deeply to hear later that Amber and Amelia were killed… (I have decided to begin an avenger arc for Brummbar to finally get into combat) Although on the bright side the existence of magic cannons has fueled my (Cole’s) desire to make my Ballista Pys-rep!

• Apparently they found a cave in the forest with some ancient tablets? Cool! I watched Yanna, Kez, and Ryn try to crack it until past 3…

• After everyone except Guy and I went to bed, around 4:30 I decided to exploit the quiet of the early morning! I broke into the citadel and basement with the lie to Guy that I’m a trusted guild member and that I do this all the time. Sadly only found like 4 earth mana and a lockbox that required Cole to know Lockpicking. Not even after 5 minutes with my loot, my mana bag decided that stealing is wrong so it let go of my belt and dispelled all my mana…

• After feeling annoyed IG (and outraged OOG) at the failure of my pouch, I showed Guy the Air Circle. We discussed business over a pizza. Then we did some early morning hunting and I was blessed with the power of the gods for 6 hours… (Sadly nothing was around to fight for half of that time, would love to get  Weaponmaster and Marksmanship if they didn’t cost me double)

• After I crossed out our two missing townsfolk from the board I kinda just watched people awaken. Then Providence came to town with Mr. Hilsneek Globetrot and Callum in tow. I tried (not very hard) to have a say in their fate, but then Jay the inventor caught my eye… I learned everything there is to know about the Providence Minecarts! I wish I made an offer to purchase that music box though, becoming a discount bard would’ve been funny…

•  I walked around and showed Guy the circles when the light gave us our vision back, it was cool. I went to bed when the merchants showed up and woke up when Guy said apparently I was desperately needed in the Citadel? Yeesh I only got an hour of sleep but alright. So it turns out I should’ve finished my model that I made back in the last 40 minutes of April game… Oh well at least I’m the only one that understood it!

•  After I left the meeting and sat on the deck to do some much needed paperwork, I saw some Sneeple come from the direction of the Saa Statue and go into the citadel, except for 1… He came to kill me on the deck… Thankfully I have mastered the art of dropping down when my armour breaks to fake him out.

•  I saw a battle arena manifest thanks to 3 floating Phins but I couldn’t convince Rhy to fight me… something about becoming Spirit Bound?

•  So I went hunting with Amelia and the newcomer Ras and came across a hungry rat. The glutton ate 11 mushrooms and still demanded more, so it tasted the silver edge of my axe. I vowed that the next rodent I saw would also become a pelt, then Jake’s adorable rat showed up… I gave it like 5 minutes of thought before nailing it between the eyes with a tactical potato as a distraction before jumping on it like a velociraptor. Also at some point I got a deadly phobia of water till the end of game so that was cool.

•  At some point when it was just Ras and I we came across a hungry snake! Thankfully Knife and Shade were nearby so the snake became a pelt. (I got its Skull!)

•  The invasion of the Snake Clan was a wild experience! I spent most of my time doing rounds from the Kitchen to the Front Deck. I boarded up some windows after one jumped through the window into the kitchen, but otherwise it went ok! I did get blinded, but I got to test out Strong Will Alchemy for the first time, it was awesome! Then I nearly died when Yanna used Water Untaints on me! (That was the only time someone hit me with Water Magic while I had the Phobia)

• I accidentally joined a Hit Squad with Kez and Ivy, but it was alright! We did pretty good until Dimitri decided to join the Snake Army… At some point he vaulted over the railing onto a snake too!

•  Sometime later the Snake Clan is trying to sacrifice Amber! Marr and I use two different methods of trying to stop them; Marr took physical action while I tried recruiting more people from the Inn to help. Sadly nobody had the reserves left to fight them again.. I did not expect the Snake Comet though, that was WILD!

• I learned the hard way later that Kez is not a psyker… people thought I was imagining things when a creature was zooming around the field. It turns out that Shrikes are pretty much mythical creatures, so that was cool? It joined the hit list when it stole my Dwarven Brother Grimmdellgar’s axe, but Kez said he was waiting for years to see one so I didn’t hunt it for sport!

• So it turns out that Shrikes and Spiders look the same to me, so I didn’t notice THE BEAST… I got Krond to lob me up onto the roof after it but it escaped my grasp. Callum decided the fastest way to the ground is via gravity so he shoved me off the roof and broke my foot! (It was quite funny, another thanks to Yanna for fixing me) Why did he get air carried down instead of jumping… 10 minutes later THE BEAST returned and went onto the roof again. This time I got thrown up faster and had a cool 1 v 1 with the Sage Spider on the basketball court! It turned out that 30 magic is more than enough to dust it, but then Callum stole my kill! He carved it up so I angrily got air carried off the roof by Taka (I had 5 health left so it was nice not dying of fall damage!). I learned later that Callum slipped and fell off the roof! He denied shoving me though, so I might get revenge later… (Probably not but we shall see!)

•  Not much else happened so I went to bed and HIBERNATED

Sunday:

• I woke up quite late on Sunday and missed all the auditions… That was fine, I'm an old dwarf after all!

•  I did some gathering and then trained Ras in the way of the Battleaxe. During our training some Echo Armouries showed up so we tested out our skills on them. I am definitely getting better at combat!

• At some point on Saturday I dumped around 30-40 tags into Drixar's donation cup to help with the upcoming war. The look on his face when I kept finding more and more things to donate was near priceless! (I hope it went to good use lad!)

Overall it was the best game i’ve had so far! I’m eagerly looking forward to casting in the upcoming war!

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