September 2024 The Protected Knight

[Z]

Great Game everyone!! Drop those fun game memories down below!

[Z]

This game has so much!!

FRIDAY
- Sneeple and Shadows oh my!
- I get to play a weird fucked up creature and shriek at the top of my lungs, that's fun!!

SATURDAY
- Tbh I don't even remember what happened most of Saturday
- Playwrights? I think?
- Marwel time!! I get to be the pet hellion for god knows how long and I am GOOPY
- Then Rincewind!! Skele's are always a bit of fun, if a bit rough lately

SUNDAY
- Phase Spiders!! Holy fuck so many Phase Spiders
- THE DUNGEON AND NEAR IMPOSSIBLE PUZZLES (good work solving them gang!!!)
- THE SPOON IS ALSO ABOUT AND FUCKING CRUCIFIED SOMEONE HOLY SHIT
- I fucking love the spoon, what a dramatic thing
- RIOT RIOT RIOT
- Ronnie is finally here!! And he brought his Concubines Cutie and Patootie!
- Aaaaaaand Ronnie is dead, hello riot ghost!
- Goodbye riot ghost see you never hopefully
- Oh and the Nossians are back and doing a blood death human sacrifice ritual in the woods uh oh
- good thing y'all interrupted that thank you
-oh and Verbena got vaporized earlier that day I almost forgot
- So the collective strike team made a retaliatory hit at 230am
- And that was a lot of fun, I love shit like that

MONDAY
- Kaern Pride time, got to be a cat boy for a few hours, was lots of fun!!

[Ash]

Goodness, memory really is fleeting, isn't it? struggling to remember all that happened - or maybe that's just because it was quite a lot, and most of it chaotic lol

FRIDAY
- Stargazing with Rosco <3
- Sneeple show up. Thought they would be friends at first... no dice
- A shadow jumps me when I go around to the front of the inn, but I get off my Fire Lights in time to be fine
- A venomous snerson chases me out the front door shortly after, whereupon I eat shit and scrape my elbow
- After going OOG to wash and bandage that, I decide to stay OOG, and boy oh boy... Saturday night fight already on a Friday eh?
- The snurch folks are now actual fugitives apparently

SATURDAY
- I got to verify, like, four new alchemy recipes
- There was a water fight with goblins outside, but I was too busy doing alchemy baybeee (also I didn't know there would be, and didn't really bring clothes to get wet in)
- Got to properly meet the Halfling Mob. Sold them some 'shrooms (truffles guys, obvs.)
- After supper I walked to Carbonear and back for some candy
- When I returned, Marwel was there, but I was too tired to IG
- Then Rincewind later. Gotta make sure I don't tucker myself out so early in the future so I can participate next time, that looked like a hoot to participate in!

SUNDAY
- Also gotta go to bed sooner so I can make sure I don't miss when the dungeon opens - OOG I love puzzles lol
- Unfortunately the dungeon opening earlier meant that, like, half of town was away when the phase spider(s?) started showing up
- Double unfortunately, the spoon took that time to strike too
- (Well, unfortunate for the characters, I had a blast! The spoon is such a kooky npc!)
- It knocked me out while I was bringing one of the phase spider's victims into the inn... then ripped all my limbs off, and affixed the next four people in the sockets to be my new arms and legs
- Like, they got to keep their limbs at least, just with one hand or foot each affixed to my arm and leg sockets -_-
- Then it healed us each for one HP and left us in our agony lol. What a time!

- The outlaws from the snurch came back to town! Kondor is more sner than son now, and Morrigan has a giant, should-definitely-be-fatal chest hole suspiciously shaped like a fang...
- They're put on probation and let back into town though!

- Later on, Teek showed up, very dramatic! The barrier is down! Nero is called out! Verbena is told to sit down and shut up for an hour as a mic drop...
- But her necklace was stolen earlier, and Lexicus takes immediate advantage of the opportunity, and with some help from a couple townsfolk (some of which was even voluntary), manages to kill her!
- They throw her into the fairy circle, and wham bam poof, black lightning and purple dust and she's gone! And those who inhaled the dust were walking around with her levels of confidence and self assuredness the rest of game =P

- There was a riot after supper, which started when I was washing dishes. It was very fun getting to watch the chaos from the sidelines tho - if just because had I been out there, I'd probably have been on the ground bleeding out immediately lol
- Or just on the ground in uncontrollable fits of laughter! It was a riot in both the literal and figurative sense, that's for sure!
- Dick swords that I think someone said were swinging for cock damage, shirtless rioters with tape X's over their nipples, not to mention the normal riot things like all the windows and railings getting broken (poor Corin lol) and explosives going off
- Concluding in a ghost being chased off, getting hit by some sword despite being astral (what even happens if you kill a ghost?.. hope I never find out haha)

- Afterwards, folks are just milling about for a while. Dog says something like "it's awfully quiet, wonder if there'll be any more excitement tonight?" before everyone immediately told him to be quiet, and he immediately tried to take it back
- Then, not 10 seconds later, Brumbar comes in telling us there was screaming coming from the woods, and everyone immediately turns an accusatory look at Dog before going to check it out.
- Only maybe a handful of folks stayed back just in case (well, plus Corin was still fixing the last few windows anyways)
- It turned out to be the nomadic pirate hat lady Sharon played from last month, who the Nossians were now trying to ritually sacrifice! Neat! Glad it was stopped!
- She's inside, being terrifyingly good at looking completely traumatized. Kudos to Sharon's acting ability, 'cause I had to go outside for some fresh air and a reprieve from the somber mood
- Well, outside everyone was being the exact opposite of somber lol. They're carrying on, and at one point (despite my forewarning) two of them trundle into the inn chasing each other or something, and do an immediate 180 upon seeing the mood in there lol
- Well, we stick outside while intense drama happens inside, and end up playing:
- First, Snake Snake Snerson (aka Duck Duck Goose), but this version ended up involving a lot more grappling, there was an Earth Binds cast at one point to try and win a round, a Fire Engulfs to win some grapples, we were definitely conserving our resources well for the upcoming conflict lol
- Then it devolved into a game of tag. I managed to do a sneaky Clarity to avoid getting tagged, which was a bit I very proud of lol
 - At one point during the game of tag, the one of the lights from the ritual that was interrupted got used as a ranged weapon to tag with. We learned IG they represented glowing lines of blood, which gives interesting implications for what transpired there haha
- The game of tag dissolved after Leodora was downed by someone apparently actually calling damage instead of calling tag with a weapon strike

- Later that night, at around 2:30am a strike team came in to deliver a message from Nero regarding the retaliation he was bringing "in a couple months" for taking out Verbena (and probably because Teek called him out)
- They knocked down the entire crew hanging out indoors, left their psychic imprint, told the folks coming in from outside to stay back if they knew what's best for them, and vanished
- I'm very glad to have a timeline though!

MONDAY
- ngl, I woke up barely before noon, threw on my kit, ran out the door to see if I could find some last minute gathers (I did, two wild mushrooms!), and was barely back and stepping out of kit to go shower when game was called
- TLDR; idk what happened Monday lol

Well, I tried my best to be succinct, but definitely devolved into detailed recounting the longer I went lol. Hopefully this is adequate for Event Memories though! My first time doing them up, so lmk if I did something wrong somehow.

[Corin]

I didn’t get to this last month but I will try to recall things as best I can!

Friday
- Shadows and sneeple apparently? I remember none of this, oh well. Something about candles, I remember collecting some of them and eventually making a few spares to install in the lantern sconces to get cast to turn the lights back on a bit

Saturday
- Zephyr is here, yay! We go on a walk in the woods, I think? Either way I eventually end up on the deck, there’s a phin with a greed effect, and I Am Become Cain, Thrower of Rocks
- I put both Briar and Emellia into their bleeds, run from the law (Theo), chase him after it turns out he was bluffing to get the phin, put HIM into his bleed, and then get knocked out by Lexicus hiding behind the kitchen door. Incredible stuff, 12/10 sequence
- Not to be discouraged, I get a second rock for next time. That’ll do it
- Bedtime for Zephyr after hanging with the halfling mafia for a bit, they want Corin for stuff so it’s time to lose the pumpkin overalls (
- Corin gets to look at a Piece of Wall (it’s pretty cool) until Theo walks in and I bribe him with free cookie so the rest of the folks can hide the thing from our dear Lord Chancellor
- I think we had both Marwhel and Rincewind this night? There are skeletons in the inn but not really any fighters, I play chicken with Ian’s skeleton and the Snail Hat while trying to get Candlewick up and out of the room. Marcus enters as another skeleton while I am frozen and many no effect calls ensue.
- I remember fighting a Moggy skeleton on the field for an extended period of time while only like six fighters were awake, that was a lovely challenge and I think we went down simultaneously eventually

Sunday
- I wake up and get into Zephyr kit only to find that Ceri and also Cole’s mute character are unconscious and a lil bit fucked up in the hall
- I find Talia, who definitely knows stuff about things, and it seems they’re not actively dying but they’re definitely not doing great. I go to look for a surgeon and walk in on the Murder Spoon turning Ash into the body of Voltron and attaching other people to their arm and leg stumps The spoon looks at me so I run out the kitchen and I’m so glad there wasn’t a monster in the driveway because nobody would ever have found me. At this point Zephyr is pretty sure all of town could be lying dead in the inn and I don’t even have a poultice with me, so I skirt the edges of the field and head for the Earth Circle hoping to find friends there.
- It’s empty, but I hear voices that seem vaguely concerning so I hike through the bushes looking for the Fire Circle - I miss it completely and pop out of the bushes near the Faerie Ring behind some friends polishing off a Phase Spider. It turns out lots of people are in the Nordin dungeon and the people out here doing spider stuff have no idea there’s a spoon event happening inside, so they go deal with that while I help cut arrows out of spiderwebs.
- Zephyr throws several rocks at the second phase spider, unfortunately without success.
I change into Corin eventually! My good woods therapist friend Father Jeriben is here and we have a lovely talk while Verbena and the Snurch ft. Sybilessa have tense negotiations. We talk about the ascended, Saa and Nordin, and lots of other stuff. He’s a lovely conversationalist, y’all should go say hi sometime, genuinely no strings or soul attached ^-^
- More Phase Spiders (there are so many)
- Teek is here! Teek tells Verbena to sit down and shut up! Apparently this is Lexicus’ cue, so like two seconds later Theo is knocked out and Verbena is dust in the Faerie Ring. I get sent to find Rook, who is not at site, and a spider almost webs me Those of us tasked with watching Theo try to figure out how to contain him if he wakes up and is hostile, but apparently he was awake pretty much the whole time so that was…not needed
- Eventually dinner is over and there’s a riot! Oh yay time to fix windows! This time Ronnie is with them, Ian and Moggy are not wearing shirts (and that’s not even the half of it) and apparently there’s a Riot Ghost causing all of this nonsense, which Theo chases out of town with Arise Ariz. I spend most of the night fixing things, making excellent new railings and other structural elements that no out-of-town kaern would ever dare insult. Definitely.
- We play snake-snake-snerson and other games outside, I finally get to try Fire Engulfs and throw Callum around, and general hilarity and antics ensue. The antics take us inside where apparently Yanna’s long-lost sister (we found that bit out later) has just returned from almost being ritually sacrificed, so we take that shit back outside REAL fast before Ryn kills us.
- I sit and chat with the traumatized folks inside for a bit before bed until the collective sends a hit squad to kick us in the face and threaten town with a psychic imprint. So kind of them <3

Monday
- There are so many kaern here, cool! There’s some inter-pride beef but I trust Shade and Ryn have it handled. Marco wrestles Ian’s kaern and fights valiantly. One of them insults my freshly repaired deck railings and we nearly come to violent blows but apparently it’s chill and I’ll fight Callum instead, which is great fun.
- I have no idea what happened after this!

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