Event was good. Getting to the event at a decent hour was nice. Leaving at 10pm on Saturday sucked, but was very much needed. All in all, a good event.
Friday:
Arrived, got stuff put away in our tent area, got checked in. Tent area was great. Excellent planning on that set up. Having all the tents facing the central picnic table really made for a much better effect so people could only enter from the one side. And since that side hade the fence and the gate it reallt reinforced that it was all one building. Now once the event started, we all met and dicussed our new group strategy and planned actions for the weekend. After that, the caravan bringing sutff in was attacked so we went to go help. Having a group that actually stayed together was pretty nice. Having a polearm next to me again was great. Needless to say the bandits weren't much to fight and the few town members that had run down there were holding their own before we even arrived (as a large group will always move slower than a single individual). We did the shield, polearm thing and I don't think our group took a point of damage. Good job guys. Healing the injured was fun, especially Mike's face when I told him I really could do it. We then went back and somehow I got involved in handing out resources and stuck in some such nonsense about how to do it each event. Thanks to Donovan for letting me go after awhile.
Then came our cave. There was some such thing about our cave happening while the other cave did (travel time or something) so were only able to do the one but, eh, there was enough to share.
Cave was great (if a little dusty). We formed a nice group with the healers in the middle, empaths and secondary warriors in front and behind them and then primary warriors in front and behind. Even with semi continual Npc attacks we made quick work of most. And it was rare that I had to drop defensive matrix to actually rage kill one. This was only at the corners where the polearm couldn't reach. Finding the big monster was scary but once we got going it wasn't so bad. Only got hit with one 10 crush that I couldn't use parry. Actually counting down the cool time as Mike began dishing out the heavy damage continually was fun. Our exit was a little stumbled but first aid proved to be a great skill as I kept our injured alive while the surgeons could work on few that needed it and the other warriors took care of the monsters streaming from the cave. Forgot the 60 count on first aid the first time I used it, but then thought 'wait...' and corrected from there.
Saturday:
Got up around 9:30 with Nelkie to stretch and have some lite breakfast. After that we began doing some target drills for martial arts and then did some defense drills. Around 10:30, Nelkie came in hard and caught my foot pad and we both went down. My middle finger took the brunt being dislocated and tearing two ligaments (which now meant I couldn't swing a sword but could hold one to block with). Eh, soldier on. Spent most the day resting and icing it. Did a scouting mission to the Abysmal cave, which gathered some useful infomation, but didn't take down more than one or two. Plans were made, I iced the hand. After game break, we did the Abysmal cave.
This was a fun battle. Since Corbyn couldn't be on our side, he had to npc. Since this jar had to be taken 3/4 of a mile away, I knew the good guys would have a bad situation as anyone who's run a marathon is going to be trouble to keep off your butt. So I became a runner (can't fight anyway). We had Kels bringing the jar out, and we would travel with him till he got stuck or tired. I also had one of the town's newer members (Crush guy, Iold you can't remember names) who was much closer to high school than me. The first cave went down and I went in and helped with the puzzle (thanks to Npc's for checking it first
) And damn Mike for giving the one clue we really needed as the last one. Stupid GG. Then the vial came out and we pressed our way through the cave. Kels got stuck by our own guys and passed it to me. I booked out of the cave and found Crush guy, and he was off like a bullet. I've done my share of long distance running (some with Corbyn) but I have never seen him move like that, especially after fighting for alomst a half an hour. He was past me before we reached the top of the hill. It was like those dreams where you can't run any faster. We did require a game to make sure there were no physical injuries just past the cabins but after ensuring we were ok, we took off again. Calling the game on then turning to see Corbyn and Crush guy already running sucked. I lost about 4 strides that way. Eh, I caught up as Corbyn was finishing him off and saw Corbyn take off into the woods followed closely by our backups we had placed along the way. One of our troops took down Corbyn and handed me the vial and I took off for the field. Corbyn then still had the ability to reel me in and hit me enough to for me to go defensive matrix and backpedal the last 30 yards or so. Damn you Npcs for making that so difficult but it was very fun. And I think we need to chop Corbyn off at the knees and force him to take up smoking to slow him down and reduce his endurance.
After this, my hand just became too much of an issue and I decided to head out. Excellent event all!
