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Yes, I know this finishes abruptly, and I'm only halfway through Saturday. I keep finding other things to do. Maybe I'll finish it if you all give me a little encouragement :-).
Injury report part two
Spent most of yesterday without a voice and coughing up vile green stuff (am a bad girl; made myself too ill to go and help out with kiddie club thing at church). Am still coughing a lot and now have blocked nose too. We think it's because I was a bit run-down and slightly ill beforehand (had been complaining of sore throat, plus periodyness), though. It appears to have come out into just a normal cold now, so I don't think it was all to do with the weekend, it just didn't help much :-).
Friday, addendum
Several incidents I forgot to tell which occurred on Friday. When I was having the introductory talk with the organiser-person, I asked when I was meant to be paying for the weekend, and they said that Charlie (the lady who handles the finances) would be very impressed because nobody ever remembers that bit, especially said organiser-person, and that I shouldn't worry because she'd hunt me down if I didn't get around to it. There was a photo call, which occurred just after the stewards had taken down Tessaret's stats, and was just that; everyone trooped out of the 'tavern' room and (cc?) took two photos of us. Before taking the second she instructed everyone to look serious now, which was the cue for someone to say something funny that made everyone crack up laughing. On the adventure itself, we encountered some normals (we weren't the only people on the campsite), which occurred when we were busy going the wrong way at the start of the adventure. Hence everyone was quite jumpy and almost fell upon the half-dozen youths with swords at the ready.
Saturday Morning, pre-Adventure
Got bored enough to actully get up around 7:30am, and went to have a wash, so that it'd be easier to quit stinking on Sunday morning when I had to share a car home with my parents. Unfortunately it only took about half an hour, and I'd just got back into bed when black-dwarf-guy woke up and moaned about his feet being frozen and that he was going to kill the idiot who'd left the door open. That idiot having been me (on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
phamster's instructions), I kept very, very quiet. Dave-Kasruun had also been woken up and some talking happened, but black-dwarf-guy insisted that half an hour was a long time and we should all get some more sleep. We didn't. Eventully some other people woke up and I got back into character kit, and ate some breakfast. phamster ended up sharing out his breakfast - naan bread and sausage - which was much more interesting than my dry-bread-rolls. I put together a bag of food - the cheese, some grapes, more bread rolls - so I could just grab it at lunchtime and not have to mooch food off other people again. (Then again, mooching food off other people is great fun. Other people's food is always so much more interesting than your own, even if it's absolutely identical.)
When we got downstairs, there were comments passed as to how unusual it was that it was Saturday morning and there hadn't yet been a proper fight, my swordplay practice notwithstanding. There was some discussion about whether we could manage to sneak Tessaret onto the Saturday Morning adventure despite the fact that she was way, *way* below the XP range (i.e. far too pathetic and wimpy) -phamster's character was on it, y'see - but eventually I decided not to bother trying. Shortly after the names had been taken for the adventure, everyone else got called up for a Monster Briefing - everyone who's not playing a character in the adventure plays monsters instead. I've managed to lose *both* the briefing sheets I was given, so I can't remember exact details, unfortunately. We all trooped into the Staff Hut and were given our briefing sheets, and then we went through all the encounters and chose which monsters to play. I was still hauling around The Big-Ass Black Shield Of Cheatingness, which not only was great defence but also gave me something to fall over onto, which was helpful later.
Saturday Morning, Monstering
After holding up proceedings by asking about every single ability on the sheet, being kitted out with a monster tabard and a Gil tabard and holding onto the aformentioned shield and the kind of middle-length sword (Longsword with less reach than everyone else's longswords) which I think I'm going to christen El Pathetico because it was a monster sword and hence it had a habit of bending and bouncing when hit with people's own swords/sheilds/personages, we finally set off to our first monstering location. This involved hiding halfway down an amphitheatre-like pit beside the climbing frame that was being used as the ship taking the adventuring party from one side of New Avamar to the other, due to being nasty lizardy sea-critters called Skraelings. Not being the most sure-footed of people, I looked nervous enough that somebody offered to give me a hand up when we had to go, but I made sure I positioned myself just behind a tree so I could pull myself up on the trunk. Lots of time stoppage later (everyone had two leaps, which meant that game-time was stopped while you made a 30' move), I got a couple of hits in but didn't remember to use my Spit Acid ability in time due to being cut down quite thoroughly by a defender.
I think we got to be Gil next; in fact, I think we got to be quite a lot of Gil, as they were meant to be the main troops in the area. As a Gil Trooper I got to run around behind my big shield, which was quite amusing, and meant that I had something to land on when being dead, which was helpful. We had some fun guessing which side of the hedge the party would turn up on (and almost being squished by a car, and being threatened by a group of ramblers with their hiking pole things), and got to witness the Tuathan who was determined to give themselves hypothermia (although it did warm up later in the morning) doing a beserk charge towards us, although I managed to get cut down with lightning bolts from the party's caster soon afterwards, although I wasn't quite sure whether I was meant to be dead or not for a bit. Also amusing was the encounter when we were meant to be fighting a couple of Rovac (the people that the party were trying to bring a warning to) when the party arrived, and ended up fighting them for about ten minutes while waiting for the party to actually show up, then stopping to get our breath back before spotting the party and trying to start fighting again quickly.
Some normals had stolen the climbing frame by the time we needed it again; we staged the Rovac settlement encounter (which almost turned into an unintentional fight, because one of the party refused to give their name until seriously threatened) further back than we'd meant to. I sat behind a tree for the duration, because I was a little confused as to what I was meant to be doing. The penultimate encounter was the most fun, though; we had two 'Dread Gobin Beserkers', pathetic little 2-hit critters that were in a permanent beserk so very little could actualy drop them, and two imps, of which I was one. The other imp got taken out by Peter using two swords - one to keep it at bay, one to do Spirit damage to it, because the imps couldn't be felled by normal damage either - but I managed to land beside the character who could control demons, and so he promptly did, leaving me to follow the party around for a bit. I enjoyed being an imp, fluttering around at about 10ft half the time, looking around hungrily/curiously, and then charging into the middle of a bunch of Gil that couldn't hurt me in the slightest... I was hoping to travel home with the party too, but the controller dismissed me ('let me go home') after I'd taken out some Gil for him. So I threw on a Gil tabard, grabbed the Huge Shield of Cheatiness and my trusty sword El Pathetico and joined the other monsters in running around after the party in what we later were told was actually meant to be 3' of water and hence not run-around-able in, and generally getting killed.
Saturday Lunchtime, Character Cards
When I got back to the main set of huts, after divesting myself of monster tabard, Gil tabard, Shield of Immense Cheatingness and red-velvety-thing (it was *hot* by this stage in the day), I went to fetch my bag of food. Munching a couple of bread rolls and an awful lot of grapes, as well as one slice of cheese (the only slice of the fake cheese I brought along that I actually ate), I also got offered some chocolate (this implies 'I ate some chocolate' - when have you known the Chessypig to refuse free chocolate?). A group of people were doing stat-type-stuff, so I asked around and then chased down Charlie for a character card, which I got filled in partway, then went hunting for the rulebook/folder/thing so I could decide how to advance Tessaret in levels with the XP she'd got from her adventure. I'd originally gone over to see if I could beg, borrow or steal a copy of the monster briefing for the adventure, but that objective got lost amid intense rules studying and so forth. I got a copy of Tessaret's 'battle board' for the adventure (which was pretty much empty given that we didn't actually fight anything) and my completed character card, folded one around the other, and promptly lost them both. Along with the cheese.
Some wandering-around-aimlessly occurred here, semi-in-character; had a few more random swordfights without making use of the Massive Shield of Cheatiness, offered a first-level Psionicist my sword on hearing that it would make them explode if they took it, cheered on a crossbow-wielder as they did some range-finding and then took potshots at a volunteer who wanted to see if they could parry the bolts with a sword. (They couldn't. Impale, knockdown, lots of people standing around and laughing.) At about this time, some rather serious-looking people walked onto the scene, and somebody dragged Tessaret somewhat out of the way. From various sources, mostly the wood elf that had been in her party, she learnt that the rather dangerous-looking creature was a Balrog, that the event was called a Death Test and the character undergoing it, Styles (who happened to be a vampire), had to kill the Balrog before it killed him, to advance in rank and become a Captain of Boer. She did some smiling and nodding and kept close behind the wood elf, figuring that not only did he know how to keep out of the way, but also that it was always a good idea to stay near a known healer.
Injury report part two
Spent most of yesterday without a voice and coughing up vile green stuff (am a bad girl; made myself too ill to go and help out with kiddie club thing at church). Am still coughing a lot and now have blocked nose too. We think it's because I was a bit run-down and slightly ill beforehand (had been complaining of sore throat, plus periodyness), though. It appears to have come out into just a normal cold now, so I don't think it was all to do with the weekend, it just didn't help much :-).
Friday, addendum
Several incidents I forgot to tell which occurred on Friday. When I was having the introductory talk with the organiser-person, I asked when I was meant to be paying for the weekend, and they said that Charlie (the lady who handles the finances) would be very impressed because nobody ever remembers that bit, especially said organiser-person, and that I shouldn't worry because she'd hunt me down if I didn't get around to it. There was a photo call, which occurred just after the stewards had taken down Tessaret's stats, and was just that; everyone trooped out of the 'tavern' room and (cc?) took two photos of us. Before taking the second she instructed everyone to look serious now, which was the cue for someone to say something funny that made everyone crack up laughing. On the adventure itself, we encountered some normals (we weren't the only people on the campsite), which occurred when we were busy going the wrong way at the start of the adventure. Hence everyone was quite jumpy and almost fell upon the half-dozen youths with swords at the ready.
Saturday Morning, pre-Adventure
Got bored enough to actully get up around 7:30am, and went to have a wash, so that it'd be easier to quit stinking on Sunday morning when I had to share a car home with my parents. Unfortunately it only took about half an hour, and I'd just got back into bed when black-dwarf-guy woke up and moaned about his feet being frozen and that he was going to kill the idiot who'd left the door open. That idiot having been me (on
phamster's instructions), I kept very, very quiet. Dave-Kasruun had also been woken up and some talking happened, but black-dwarf-guy insisted that half an hour was a long time and we should all get some more sleep. We didn't. Eventully some other people woke up and I got back into character kit, and ate some breakfast. phamster ended up sharing out his breakfast - naan bread and sausage - which was much more interesting than my dry-bread-rolls. I put together a bag of food - the cheese, some grapes, more bread rolls - so I could just grab it at lunchtime and not have to mooch food off other people again. (Then again, mooching food off other people is great fun. Other people's food is always so much more interesting than your own, even if it's absolutely identical.)When we got downstairs, there were comments passed as to how unusual it was that it was Saturday morning and there hadn't yet been a proper fight, my swordplay practice notwithstanding. There was some discussion about whether we could manage to sneak Tessaret onto the Saturday Morning adventure despite the fact that she was way, *way* below the XP range (i.e. far too pathetic and wimpy) -
phamster's character was on it, y'see - but eventually I decided not to bother trying. Shortly after the names had been taken for the adventure, everyone else got called up for a Monster Briefing - everyone who's not playing a character in the adventure plays monsters instead. I've managed to lose *both* the briefing sheets I was given, so I can't remember exact details, unfortunately. We all trooped into the Staff Hut and were given our briefing sheets, and then we went through all the encounters and chose which monsters to play. I was still hauling around The Big-Ass Black Shield Of Cheatingness, which not only was great defence but also gave me something to fall over onto, which was helpful later.Saturday Morning, Monstering
After holding up proceedings by asking about every single ability on the sheet, being kitted out with a monster tabard and a Gil tabard and holding onto the aformentioned shield and the kind of middle-length sword (Longsword with less reach than everyone else's longswords) which I think I'm going to christen El Pathetico because it was a monster sword and hence it had a habit of bending and bouncing when hit with people's own swords/sheilds/personages, we finally set off to our first monstering location. This involved hiding halfway down an amphitheatre-like pit beside the climbing frame that was being used as the ship taking the adventuring party from one side of New Avamar to the other, due to being nasty lizardy sea-critters called Skraelings. Not being the most sure-footed of people, I looked nervous enough that somebody offered to give me a hand up when we had to go, but I made sure I positioned myself just behind a tree so I could pull myself up on the trunk. Lots of time stoppage later (everyone had two leaps, which meant that game-time was stopped while you made a 30' move), I got a couple of hits in but didn't remember to use my Spit Acid ability in time due to being cut down quite thoroughly by a defender.
I think we got to be Gil next; in fact, I think we got to be quite a lot of Gil, as they were meant to be the main troops in the area. As a Gil Trooper I got to run around behind my big shield, which was quite amusing, and meant that I had something to land on when being dead, which was helpful. We had some fun guessing which side of the hedge the party would turn up on (and almost being squished by a car, and being threatened by a group of ramblers with their hiking pole things), and got to witness the Tuathan who was determined to give themselves hypothermia (although it did warm up later in the morning) doing a beserk charge towards us, although I managed to get cut down with lightning bolts from the party's caster soon afterwards, although I wasn't quite sure whether I was meant to be dead or not for a bit. Also amusing was the encounter when we were meant to be fighting a couple of Rovac (the people that the party were trying to bring a warning to) when the party arrived, and ended up fighting them for about ten minutes while waiting for the party to actually show up, then stopping to get our breath back before spotting the party and trying to start fighting again quickly.
Some normals had stolen the climbing frame by the time we needed it again; we staged the Rovac settlement encounter (which almost turned into an unintentional fight, because one of the party refused to give their name until seriously threatened) further back than we'd meant to. I sat behind a tree for the duration, because I was a little confused as to what I was meant to be doing. The penultimate encounter was the most fun, though; we had two 'Dread Gobin Beserkers', pathetic little 2-hit critters that were in a permanent beserk so very little could actualy drop them, and two imps, of which I was one. The other imp got taken out by Peter using two swords - one to keep it at bay, one to do Spirit damage to it, because the imps couldn't be felled by normal damage either - but I managed to land beside the character who could control demons, and so he promptly did, leaving me to follow the party around for a bit. I enjoyed being an imp, fluttering around at about 10ft half the time, looking around hungrily/curiously, and then charging into the middle of a bunch of Gil that couldn't hurt me in the slightest... I was hoping to travel home with the party too, but the controller dismissed me ('let me go home') after I'd taken out some Gil for him. So I threw on a Gil tabard, grabbed the Huge Shield of Cheatiness and my trusty sword El Pathetico and joined the other monsters in running around after the party in what we later were told was actually meant to be 3' of water and hence not run-around-able in, and generally getting killed.
Saturday Lunchtime, Character Cards
When I got back to the main set of huts, after divesting myself of monster tabard, Gil tabard, Shield of Immense Cheatingness and red-velvety-thing (it was *hot* by this stage in the day), I went to fetch my bag of food. Munching a couple of bread rolls and an awful lot of grapes, as well as one slice of cheese (the only slice of the fake cheese I brought along that I actually ate), I also got offered some chocolate (this implies 'I ate some chocolate' - when have you known the Chessypig to refuse free chocolate?). A group of people were doing stat-type-stuff, so I asked around and then chased down Charlie for a character card, which I got filled in partway, then went hunting for the rulebook/folder/thing so I could decide how to advance Tessaret in levels with the XP she'd got from her adventure. I'd originally gone over to see if I could beg, borrow or steal a copy of the monster briefing for the adventure, but that objective got lost amid intense rules studying and so forth. I got a copy of Tessaret's 'battle board' for the adventure (which was pretty much empty given that we didn't actually fight anything) and my completed character card, folded one around the other, and promptly lost them both. Along with the cheese.
Some wandering-around-aimlessly occurred here, semi-in-character; had a few more random swordfights without making use of the Massive Shield of Cheatiness, offered a first-level Psionicist my sword on hearing that it would make them explode if they took it, cheered on a crossbow-wielder as they did some range-finding and then took potshots at a volunteer who wanted to see if they could parry the bolts with a sword. (They couldn't. Impale, knockdown, lots of people standing around and laughing.) At about this time, some rather serious-looking people walked onto the scene, and somebody dragged Tessaret somewhat out of the way. From various sources, mostly the wood elf that had been in her party, she learnt that the rather dangerous-looking creature was a Balrog, that the event was called a Death Test and the character undergoing it, Styles (who happened to be a vampire), had to kill the Balrog before it killed him, to advance in rank and become a Captain of Boer. She did some smiling and nodding and kept close behind the wood elf, figuring that not only did he know how to keep out of the way, but also that it was always a good idea to stay near a known healer.
