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Apprentice
 
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It was awesome! Thanks so much to everyone!!
More when I am less shattered!
Helen
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Sumana Basu - Masquerades & Massacres
Georgiana Hulce-Steiner - Lorien Trust
Nathara Lindsay - Maelstrom
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Heroic Knight
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| The Good - The Yurt of Undesirables and talk of Miss. Gillespie's great valleys of corn.
- The American accents. And the fact that I STILL haven't gotten 'Hallelujah' out of my head.
- 'Most inappropriate seance EVER!'
- Crew providing halal sausages for the fellow.
- Patrolling the line of the forest, exiting out back onto the field and walking for about twenty seconds when we hear murderous screaming. Turning around and there are three xenomorphs coming out from where we just exited. And we weren't exactly armed. And there were xenomorphs. And the running, and the running and the xenomorphs.
- Kit standard was AMAZINGLY high and just brilliant.
- All IC conversation with Miss. Gillespie.
- Being told to bugger off from anything interesting because I was a lady 
- A fleeing vampire tripping over a bench.
- 'Ladies guard the balcony!' *TWENTY MINUTES LATER* 'MISS. PORTER STAY WHERE I CAN SEE YOU.'
- Xenomorphs.
- Playing matchmaker.
- Attempting to blackmail a certain fellow.
- After the event realising I knew or had seen several of the players from Maelstrom and just hadn't known who they were owing to being disguised by kit! Things I Could Have Done Without: - The Fae. Really well done by the crew, excellent RP and I shall be having nightmares about Briarthorn for months but ... I feel they didn't really NEED to be there and I didn't think they brought much to the event.
- Whilst the magic and dragon riding and kit and whatnot were done well, nearly everyone was touched or had Daemonblood or something along the lines that made them just that little bit more odd. I would have enjoyed a bit more normality in regards to character creation - the regular folk were the minority! But I can't complain that these characters weren't RPed well. Just that there were LOADS of them.
- SUNBURNED OW.
- The dust on the path in the courtyard assaulted the bottom of my evening dress.
- I didn't really like any of the food. But I guess that's personal preference more than a failing on behalf of the crew 
- Not being able to find the entrance to the site. Maybe some signs next time? All in all really great event and I'm really excited for the next one The crew did an UPSTANDING job and the players were all really fun to interact with!
----------------------------------- Icon from a photograph taken by Xarra, used with permission. Maelstrom: Naho Chel - Comedy Tritoni Option. Odyssey: Satsobek Akef - Egyptian Handmaiden to Seshmiut.
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Initiate
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Well I have joined the forums specifically to froth about this event, so hopefully that's a recommendation in itself
The event was amazing, best fun I've had in a long long time, thanks so much to Bunni and all the crew who made the event so awesome. Everyone looked fantastic and the site was ace (even the overhead flights that we managed to pass off as passing dragons - 'Oh look, a Prussian Blue')
Special thanks to Gray and Jude for driving me and Dan to and from the event, and to Jude for making my dress Also, everyone else in clan Lafayette-Moreaux for epic voodoo roleplay and fun with accents! Finally Joe for helping me achieve my win condition of finding a husband (well, once the Antarctic expedition returns) and for his valiant efforts to keep his crisp English accent in the face of my Louisianna drawl.
Highlights:
Commodore Hawk's tall tales during dinner on the first night - masts as weapons ftw!
The alien attack (the costumes were amazing) and feeling like a damsel in distress until Tristan lent me his spare sword
The clan's stamping out of the Loa and the surprising amount of English polite society that were happy to join in
Introducing Tristan, Comodore Hawk and Miss Kipling to the family during said stamping - they all took it surprisingly well
Trying to resurrect the Prince as a zombie during the attack and accidentally summoning Baron Samedi
The Loa drinking everyone out of house and home - they wanted rum but we had to fob them off with port eventually!
The dancing, even though my shoes and dress were not designed for dancing on dust and large stones
Mr Kipling's incandescent rage over the serving of battenburg at the buffet
Getting to call everyone 'sugar' or 'honey', and being totally incapable of dropping my accent after time out on the Saturday
Telling people over breakfast on the Sunday that the number of marriages was obviously due to the threat of imminent death being an aphrodisiac - then having the very demure Miss Kipling ask me what an aphrodisiac was and how she could get hold of one!
Maelstrom: Fionn Morrigan, Flotilla Sacuza Trading
Masqerades: Delilah-Mae Lafayette Moreaux, rich white trash
RL: Laura
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Champion
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*Splat*
Am home, have done owie thing of peeling off my scar, now drinking stacks of juice and trying to get my brain in order from everything that's happened over the last few days. 
I've just had to bid Hannah, my lift (BIG Thanks by the way for lugging me around), farewell on the back of a trailer as her clutch fell to bits ten minutes from my front door. Hopefully she'll be home and safe shortly.
On to the event. Well, I had a brilliant time (Best LRP EVER!). Scheming, games, aliens, cake, amazing costumes (being absolutely serious, the society ladies looked amazing and managed multiple costume changes in short order and the American contingent worked perfectly), good food, plot, military planning, dueling, music, dancing, more scheming, romance that didn't seem to be awkward or forced, players remaining IC without break from time in to time out, a brilliantly atmospheric scrying (considering that we were all staring at a tray with some water in it), hard working crew who constantly bounced between having to be monsters to hard pressed staff to cooking, cleaning and washing up, fantastic facilities and constant over-flight of dragons just in case those dastardly French tried something sneaky. 
It just felt like everyone was having a good time. I can't wait to see the pictures.
Anyway, when'sthenextevent??? 
Ian
Riftworld: Lt Jason "Jigs" Gee
Massacres & Masquerades: Commodore Matthew Fallow RN
Ian
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M&M: Commodore Matthew Fallow RN
Riftworld: Defender Maccharius
ex Lt Jason "Jigs" Gee
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Initiate
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Hi all -- like transfixiated, I've joined the forums (or at least, started paying attention again) specifically to froth about this. So yay!
An absolutely fantastic event, though I have no idea how the crew expect to cope with the inundation of demands to play they're bound to get once the next one goes up; the whole thing was hugely immersive, from the costumes to the roleplaying to the betting on duelling matches. I loved that it was kept small, too: my only previous experience of weekend-long larps has been Maelstrom, which tends to feel huge and overwhelming. And I'm glad people enjoyed the Battenburg Rage; I appear to have created an excuse for myself to purchase "Nemesis", which can only be for the good.
Maelstrom: Chronicler Cassak of the Tenizidi, Old Blind Mad Tom, formerly Ivan Brock of the Wayward Scholars
Aliens & Alienation: Mr. Kipling
White City: Lucius Cristofori, Brutus, formerly Bill McKenzie
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Heroic Knight
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Oh, my word I absolutely loved this event. Absolutely bloody marvellous.
Special thanks to Gray and Mark for causing the marvellous snippet of conversation that you never managed to hear, which was between my cousin Robert and I and was along the lines of "How the bloody hell did you manage to get so damn popular?"..."I guess it must be my natural charm and wit."..."Surely you mean your enormous..." looks down at cleavage "fortune?"
Thank you to Jude for singing to stop me dying, thanks to the woman who played Molly for that realy good duel and huge thanks to Ellie and Michelle who are THE best PC sisters a girl could ever wish for.
And, of course, thanks to Bunni and the crew because frankly you were marvellous and wonderful.
Now, I need to find a woolly hat. I hear Antartica is freezing...
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PD: Betuana - you can call me Romance if you want to....
Odyssey: Zaira bint Faisal al-Musharraf of The Eyes of Darius. Ascendancy: Anna Elizabeth Hoyght -Mostly a Pirate and Kisser of Foreheads
M&M: Lady Jessamyn Faulconer - One's day started out so well...
RL: Kate, mostly confused, sometimes not....
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Squire
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Wow. Just wow. What an event. I must say I had great fun, and the best part was getting to dress up in decidedly fabulous costume!!
PD: Gebrinius Mercurius, Eidolon of the Weaver, ecumenical
Ascendancy: Gaspard, Culinaire etraordinaire
Sinergy: Magpie, of death
M & M: Lord Jasper Tyskiewicz-Quintain, eminent dragonologist
RL: Chris
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Squire
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Wasn't that awesome? :-)
Thankyou to all the players for being so much fun and to Bunni for inviting me to crew such an amazing event.
Wonderful site, great people, splendid costumes and more plot than you could shake a very large stick at.
See you all at the next one :-)
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PD: Was: Horn of the Laughing Rainbows Now: Guided by Voices
Brighton Below: Christopher Roe
Masquerades and Massacres: Crew (Benjamin Fitzquim, Robin Briarwolf, Charlie Hobbs and others)
RL: Mark/Zeke
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Knight
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Bluefaerie (7/5/2009)
Special thanks to Gray and Mark for causing the marvellous snippet of conversation that you never managed to hear, which was between my cousin Robert and I and was along the lines of "How the bloody hell did you manage to get so damn popular?"..."I guess it must be my natural charm and wit."..."Surely you mean your enormous..." looks down at cleavage "fortune?"
...wait, what? I'm sure I don't remember that conversation taking place... 
PD: Lode, Spine of the World
CUTT: Lucius Peters RIP; Katrina the Dwarf, Simon Dray.
M&M: Robert Faulconer, Esq.
RL: There are some who call me...
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Champion
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Bloody amazing event
The Good:
-The Atmospheric scrying
-The crazy American pagans and my accidentally stumbling into their "seance" ("They're a kind of Angel Huney")
-The Xenomorphs: Scary as hell
-The unanticipated need to find a wife RIGHT NOW! and she has to be in the army...
-The facilities, some of the best I have seen at such a reasonably priced LARP
-The Vampire on Friday working people up into a state of agitation.
-The sheer "Englishness" of it all. Everybody seemed to be holding very true to the society and values of the time.
-Great crew
-Magic envelope system worked better than I imagined. (aside from running out of the medical envelopes)
-Marriage!
-NPCs that felt very "real"
-Fantastic costume quality.
-Dancing and music! Yay! Even if I only managed one round
-All the ladies who played the sexist society roles to the hilt whilst subtly using it to your advantage to influence events
The Bad: (Mostly matters of personal taste to be honest)
-The Fae felt very overt. In Strange and Norell the Gentleman is powerful but relativly subtle, often invisible and instantly forgotten by some. They did feel suitiably insane though which was cool.
-Similarly a lot of powerful things were thrown about in the alien combat. It was rather less threatening when everybody and their dog was throwing around "Take that's!" and we had several cheval riding Loa possessing people. (That said the Loa were awesome in their behaviour). The impermenance of death also played a part. Although the Fae mitigated the threat of it all (which whilst very interesting seemed to dispel some of the tension). Raising the Dead to live in all of the source books is either impossible or a vast magical undertaking, the price of which consumes the remainder of the book.
-Lots of people took the "purple flaws" and seemed to experience few noticable drawbacks. It made the normal people seem quite rare and outnumbered. It didn;t feel like humans under siege by incomprehensible aliens, but rather one set of monsters opposing another.
-Magic was incredibly common, especially in foreigners, which seemed unusual in the very specifically anglo-centric world of Strange and Norell, which I believe somewhat cheapened it.
-Downtime: 5 years now seems like a very long time considering that several things were left unfinished and waiting 5 years to resolve them seems rather odd. Also it would not take many games to ensure that the current players would be forced to retire or take the elderly flaw. 1-2 years seems more managable.
PD: Veritas (Smith Eidolon)
M&M: Regimental Surgeon Magus Cpt. William Fairchild of the 67th Foot (second batallion)
OOC: Andy
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