The Gathering 'Hot and Not'
Because I'm evidently a hopeless trendwhore.
Hot:
1. A fantastic thursday night, where I got horribly, horribly drunk.
2. RPing with both the 95th and the Militia. Had a lot of fun.
3. Building on the above, I got dragged away from the Saturday night banquet to be informed that I'd been completely unexpectedly promoted to Captain (from Corporal) in the militia, and was in charge of the Night Watch. I was somewhat shaken by this (and I missed pudding, the bastards!), but ended up having an almost complete ball trying to control things in the market place during the chaos of Akari attacks and various muggers coming out to play.
4. The group of incompetents from the Harts who attempted to mug me on Friday while I was doing patrols, got caught and then dragged to their IC command. Ended up getting several hours of fantastic diplomatic/judicial RP out of it, and ended up getting pretty chummy with all of them OOC.
5. On a personal development point, my confidence and social acumen seem to have kicked up into the next level. The last time I can remember making so many new friends was actually the very first time I met House Soulsplitter. So. Many. Cool. People. Particular thanks go to Tine, Owen and Van for giving me so much support, especially when I freaked out some on saturday.
6. As usual, I lost quite some weight over the weekend.
7. People are recognising me! Both as a member of the 95th, but also as myself. The number of times I had people come up to me in the market place and go 'Oh, hey, you're Rupert Rupertson! I've been hearing about you..'.. Wow, it was staggering. A huge ego boost. (Doubly so having myself introduced to people as 'The best blade in the militia'. Yay, frothage).
Not:
1. The weather. On thursday and friday the wind was so heavy that it completely bent the shit out of our tent- we'll need to look at getting some replacements organised for the busted poles. :( It also pissed it down during the big battle on sunday, which meant I got a severe cheesegrater effect from my chainmail.
2. There was a small but unpleasant OOC incident on saturday night involving myself, down to extreme tiredness and need to bleed off stress on my part. But it was all resolved the next morning, and thank goodness didn't taint the rest of the weekend or (I hope) a friendship that I'm starting to recognise as very valuable to me.
3. I suffered a bit of a freakout on saturday before that, due to a huge amount of stuff happening shortly after I got unexpectedly dropped into the militia role. But after a short breakdown and a vent to one of the other guys I pulled myself together and started to have an amazing time.
4. My body is reminding me that quite simply, I'm not as young as I once was. The amount of aches and pains I suffered over the weekend was ludicrous. My weak ankle also went spectacularly a few times. Oh- and my skin is absolutely atrocious, due to the rubbing of the armour I was wearing. I've got horrible painful itchy crusty sores all over my back and legs. :( (Yes, that was way TMI ;p)
5. OOC stuff happened at the end of the weekend which really sucks for everyone, but at least the problem has now been dealt with. I only saw the knock-on effects of this though, wasn't directly involved.
Hot:
1. A fantastic thursday night, where I got horribly, horribly drunk.
2. RPing with both the 95th and the Militia. Had a lot of fun.
3. Building on the above, I got dragged away from the Saturday night banquet to be informed that I'd been completely unexpectedly promoted to Captain (from Corporal) in the militia, and was in charge of the Night Watch. I was somewhat shaken by this (and I missed pudding, the bastards!), but ended up having an almost complete ball trying to control things in the market place during the chaos of Akari attacks and various muggers coming out to play.
4. The group of incompetents from the Harts who attempted to mug me on Friday while I was doing patrols, got caught and then dragged to their IC command. Ended up getting several hours of fantastic diplomatic/judicial RP out of it, and ended up getting pretty chummy with all of them OOC.
5. On a personal development point, my confidence and social acumen seem to have kicked up into the next level. The last time I can remember making so many new friends was actually the very first time I met House Soulsplitter. So. Many. Cool. People. Particular thanks go to Tine, Owen and Van for giving me so much support, especially when I freaked out some on saturday.
6. As usual, I lost quite some weight over the weekend.
7. People are recognising me! Both as a member of the 95th, but also as myself. The number of times I had people come up to me in the market place and go 'Oh, hey, you're Rupert Rupertson! I've been hearing about you..'.. Wow, it was staggering. A huge ego boost. (Doubly so having myself introduced to people as 'The best blade in the militia'. Yay, frothage).
Not:
1. The weather. On thursday and friday the wind was so heavy that it completely bent the shit out of our tent- we'll need to look at getting some replacements organised for the busted poles. :( It also pissed it down during the big battle on sunday, which meant I got a severe cheesegrater effect from my chainmail.
2. There was a small but unpleasant OOC incident on saturday night involving myself, down to extreme tiredness and need to bleed off stress on my part. But it was all resolved the next morning, and thank goodness didn't taint the rest of the weekend or (I hope) a friendship that I'm starting to recognise as very valuable to me.
3. I suffered a bit of a freakout on saturday before that, due to a huge amount of stuff happening shortly after I got unexpectedly dropped into the militia role. But after a short breakdown and a vent to one of the other guys I pulled myself together and started to have an amazing time.
4. My body is reminding me that quite simply, I'm not as young as I once was. The amount of aches and pains I suffered over the weekend was ludicrous. My weak ankle also went spectacularly a few times. Oh- and my skin is absolutely atrocious, due to the rubbing of the armour I was wearing. I've got horrible painful itchy crusty sores all over my back and legs. :( (Yes, that was way TMI ;p)
5. OOC stuff happened at the end of the weekend which really sucks for everyone, but at least the problem has now been dealt with. I only saw the knock-on effects of this though, wasn't directly involved.