Event 10
May 30, 2014 - May 32, 2014
Event Favorites:
chellesbelles Jun '14
...and go!
zorrahyeyi Jun '14
ORC: "You win this round, hicks!"
Giuseppe: "Can you come here and tell everyone what you wanted to say yourself?" Johnny B: "Can you eat a dick?"
BestwickValentine Caplan Jun '14
SPIDERS!
MANTIS!!
Crashing a Red Hammer supply depot only to find Brady wearing nothing but a red hammer speedo and the makings of Johnny Two Butts' birthday party. Table flipping, yelling at people to drop cake, and making off with our loot taco... I'm fairly sure this was one of the best mods I've ever been on. The setup and result were so drastically different that it was perfect.
Having Tap explain his spiritual beliefs and finding out that Patches may believe in something other than himself for the first time ever.
getting swindled out of 20+ salt for "magic stones" and "a shiny loot sack".
There are more but my brain is melting, I'll post them as I recover.
ehutch79Hutch Jun '14
Playing someone other than the brother for the first time since the pylon fight.
Tap_of_Winds Jun '14
Half in game: the Mantis fight was terrifying, it was throwing cleaves every minute or two; However, after the mantis died, watching the it zoidberg style waddle away then trip over a rock on its way back to HQ nearly had me doubled over laughing.
The story competition. I loved everyone's stories, most especially Dr. Knowitall, though "and the moral is: Don't get eaten by mutants" came up pretty close.
all the conversations with Dezba, Patches, Vico, Zorah, and Natalya. They all had little stories and bits that added up into an enormously appreciable whole for a roleplaying experience. Everyone I talked to was interesting, but those folk stood out.
Special thanks to everyone who gave dwindling, "what the god damn hell is this crazy Timochen talking about" looks, when I tried to explain the machine spirit.
Squid baby
dcltdwKonstantin Novoselov Jun '14
Dusters enter trading post. Have loud (toot!) annoying (tooot!) party with party horns (toottooooot!!!). We are all glad we are outside. Then, half-naked man comes up to TP fire. I AM LUCIUS BLAHBLAH SLAYER OF MICHAEL BLAH BLAH. Everyone: if we ignore you, will you go away? Yes? Excellent. Half-naked man enters TP. I AM LUCIUS-- 5! thud TOOOT! TOOOOOT!
Small_FryFaustine Caplan Jun '14
Dusters enter trading post. Have loud (toot!) annoying (tooot!) party with party horns (toottooooot!!!). We are all glad we are outside.
Then, half-naked man comes up to TP fire. I AM LUCIUS BLAHBLAH SLAYER OF MICHAEL BLAH BLAH.
Everyone: if we ignore you, will you go away? Yes? Excellent.
Half-naked man enters TP. I AM LUCIUS--
5!
thud
TOOOT! TOOOOOT!
The best ^ Then bringing him to the Pavilion and watching faces change from stern to "haha omg what is even" in about 2 seconds flat. crashing 2butts party and subsequent duster party wrecking face cooking with dahlia YOU get an inspire and YOU get an inspire and YOU get an inspire! INSPIRES FOR EVERYONEEEE. New characters, you guys were all fantastic! tradesies! that moment when wil comes up as a duster and asks in a squeaky, high pitched voice if the dusters will follow him into the dark to chat with his "friend". patches stating matter-of-factly "this is going to be an ambush with timmy. sooooo, yes. let's go" buenomancy brian coming out with bueno candies (swedish fish this game!) and me bringing one to dahlia to get her in on plot: "Dahlia, I have a present for you, put it in your mouth" she does, after tasting says "Uhhh clarify, this isn't poison like it is at S&C is it?" Inquisitor/game of thrones plot! i am shocked that no one got stabbed. "I'm J-Dawg, who's Jerec?" "What should our legion names be?" "Mine's Phukit. J-Dawg Phukit" quickly misreading orange tags as smooth glass instead of what they actually were 'smooth grass'. something useful went to something i didn't need to pick up at all very fast. sky kraken bullshit everything else.
adminSimon Jun '14
During the final ORC fight: A sniper calls "Yuri, LINE OF VOICE SLAY!" into a line of players. Everyone looks around for a second, confused -- "Who?" Again, the sniper yells "YURI. LINE OF VOICE SLAY." Yuri just nods, gives a thumbs-up, and slowly tips over backwards like a target at a shooting gallery (while still giving the thumbs-up).
Getting bushwhacked by Zorrah.
Listening to player reactions to the audio logs in the mod.
Wil gearing up as the Troga knight in Staff Center: "I must break you."
Timochen Time with Dezba and Tap.
It's not the Aldebrandi Inquisition; it was supposed to be the Aldebrandi Casual Chat.
Blue Jun '14
Wil. Bug Creature. mic drop
CoryDo you require assistance? Jun '14
Number One moment of all of Second Dawn:
The anguished cries of Dahlia as Giuseppe was thrown into a truck that promptly began peeling away. For a brief moment everything was real.
Other Fun But Less Poignant Things: - Stuck up a tree radio the legion for help and watch all of town arrive in less than ten seconds.
The entire town yelling for Natasha to come save them from giant rampaging spiders while she is off excitedly dissecting one instead.
Watching the different ways in which people went about trying to interact with Plu.
Jimmy Beatles and Will Mantis.
"It is a comfort to know that even Demons have fears."
DaveGame Director Jun '14
Before game on Meghan saying something along the lines of "Have you seen the spiders in these woods? They're huge!"
Wil describing the inspiration for the mantis.
Natasha "I'm a body doctor, not a feelings doctor!"
Shirtless Knight: "I am so-and-so, Slayer of Michael Sheridan!" Tap: "Who?"
Dhalia explaining the sky to 23-Boxcar
Watching as players dropped everything whenever there's a new radio broadcasts. It's the record scratch trope applied to larp.
Hutch comes out as a bard, and strums a few chords. Someone: "Your guitar is horribly out of tune." Hutch: "What's tuning?"
Trees not being on fire.
AndyTwo-Steps Jun '14
Oh my god this event was legendary. Seriously, legendary. Where to start...
-Watching the ORC snipers go from laughing as the car peeled out, to terrified when I started catching it and they couldn't bring me down. Hearing one of them scream "WHY WON'T YOU DIE???" was the icing on the beautiful cake of that moment.
-Speaking of cakes, everything surrounding Johnny B's birthday party. Probably the best moment was when we beat up the first wave of guys, I duck around a corner as I hear another coming and ready to Waylay him, hear everyone in our gang starts screaming "Drop it!" or "Don't move!" or somesuch... and I walk back around to see one terrified dude holding a freaking cake. Perfect.
-The subsequent moment where we pretty much broke Ryan C. with the story of the birthday party adventure. "What game are you even playing? I'm out here in a post-apocalyptic nightmare, and you're storming a birthday party and stealing cake. I don't... what..."
-The grand melee. "Okay Zorrah, ready?" "...Yup." "Ok... go! ...what... oh you f***er."
-The tournament match with Aaron. That fight was so good, and he so earned that victory.
-Zyanya throwing Inspire with her "Epic" glasses: "Hey Dahlia! Put these on! They're awesome!" "Oh-okay..." "Inspire! Plus 3 temporary Blood, +4 to your next strike!" "Wow! These are good glasses!"
-Running up to Dave Burbank as he carried away the AT crate, expecting to roll him because he only had one weapon, and quickly realizing that I was sorely outmatched all the same. Sweet merciful Odin that man is a blur.
-Aldebrandi political game of thrones chess. Hell yeah.
-So much mail plot! From spooky nightmare fuel with Hannaphan to forming postal codes of conduct with Double Time to meeting Little Steps, newest courier in town. And having people actually use the stamps! Heh, good times for a postman.
-Learning that I am an HVT to the ORCs. "Eliminate and Intercept Communications." Ha ha, well then.
-The "last recording" audio from the Facility. Whoa.
-Dahlia hopefully realizing how dense Two-Steps can be: "Two-Steps, if you thought I was seeing anyone, who would that be?" "What does that mean?" "I mean if I was seeing someone romantically, as in dating them... who would you say that was?" "I dunno. Who?" "...Really?"
-Hunting a beetle literally made of shields. Holy hell.
-The botched-then-salvaged Legion bounty hunt.
-SatCom1... sounds super ominous. I can't wait to see how that turns out.
-Going out on revenge plot, and all I can think of is freaking Duke Revenge from way back at War Day. And then, of course, Brady is the big bad on that plot. So hard to stay serious.
I'm sure I'm missing plenty of awesome stuff. This event was all about accomplishing amazing things and testing my physical limits. I cannot wait, cannot wait, cannot wait for fall.
car0murCaroline Jun '14
Gotta agree with Cory, for me, the best moment was seeing Giuseppe on the other side of that ORC line and feeling like my heart was being crushed.
Rowin spitting out her cigar butt and audibly hearing about 10 people fall in love with her in that moment.
Aldebrandi politics. Oh my god, yes. Yes yes yes. Too many to list.
Small Fry. Everything about Small Fry. D: "Be honest, you this is fun, isn't it?" SF: "Yes... this is really fun."
Conversations with Vienne and Jurgen. I love the both of you, every moment is gold. You're pushing my character to grow in ways that are very interesting and important.
Seeing Sir Jerec go from being unsure about his ability or even right to run his household to actually wanting to be Duke. The character development is truly awesome.
Those ORC battles. The look on Tibbs' face when my shield got sundered and I screamed in rage and started laying into him.
Plu!
G: "What would you think if I got a horrifying robot eye?" D: "Well, it's your body, you can do what you want with it..." G: "I'm glad you approve. I was going to do it anyway, but I thought it polite to ask."
Old Skunk's very sad, poignant reasons for wanting to get married.
The Tournament. Wow, INCREDIBLE to watch. I could not have been happier. HUGE thank you to players and staff for making that event as awesome as it was, it would have been nothing without all of you. SO HAPPY!
Blue Jun '14
Oh, feeling my heart sink when Roosevelt and I made it past the first row of orcs with subterfuge and then hearing him say "yeah, get us to that sky truck" and watching the gunner in the back of the car unhesitatingly pop him in the guts with a critical. Pretty sure they don't call them "sky trucks".
PS: I didn't get thrown into shit. I climbed into that truck.
AthenaZ Jun '14
The Aldebrandi politics...if you have any desire to be married off, this is the faction to be in.
The actual relationship/ love plots drama with Dahlia and Guiseppe. Not something I expected to see given full force in a LARP and I love how I am drawn into it and can feel a real connection with these people I quickly came to feel like my family.
A blushing Jurgen
Being moved to tears by the power of the recordings in the Facility
The green Mantis thing, terrifying and hilarious all at once.
The moment the inquisition guy saw Sir Jerec (I think I have the right name) and recognized him in the Legion disguise. I thought our plot was done for, but then in sweeps the leader of the legion and is all "Back away from my soldier" I thought we would break into battle right then, but know the political wheeling and dealing somehow worked in our favor...so far.
That final battle!!! OMG I just followed along the rear guard calling out buffs, but holy hell the adrenaline and the power and excitement of that battle. I heard "They have Guiseppe in the truck" and Dhalia's cry and I rushed forward.
VoodooSpecterGribbit Jun '14
Brian's plot for the Dirty Sevens. "What's that?" "It's a squirrel!" "SEVEN CRUSHING!" "It's not a squirrel!!!" Sorry for shooting Steve in the face in the dark, it was really tough to see.
THE SPIDERS omg I used so many bullets. Interestingly wound up with a net loss of 1 bullet over the course of the event. Sorry for shooting Steve in the face in the dark again. Really, I wasn't doing it on purpose I will work on my night-fighting.
Earning a Lollypop!!!
All time favorites:
Raiding the warehouse that wound up being Johnny B's Birthday, trashing it, stealing all his loot (I got a harmonica and a flute out of it) and his cake and hauling it back to the trading post. Also watching small fry get into the spirit of winning and beat down that poser who claimed to have killed the Aldebrandi rebel. And two steps waylaying Brady's NPC. And the terrified look on the cake bearer's face when we all pointed our weapons in his face and made him drop the cake.
So good!!!
Also seriously the noise that flute makes is the most dreadful thing I've ever heard in my whole life. It's just terrifying.
The plant-off fight between Sidewinder and Mecha Sidewinder
Hearing the rumors about how everything was going insane for the Aldebrandi, but miraculous shit kept happening to resolve it.
Everything kept coming up Jurgen, and it was awesome
Getting exactly the crossbow that I needed. Boris is a true hero of the people.
Natasha's enthusiasm for creepy crawlies.
SQUID BABY!!!!!!!
"It's okay, I know taxidermy, you're going to be alright."
Being awake from 6am to 3am every single night. I had to sleep for like 12 hours last night to recover.
lde47Cross Jun '14
Legionnaire in a tree - Cory wins getting ALL of beacon to jump to action faster than ever.
Daliah wanting to arrest the inquisition, ALL of them.
The scene with the inquisitors, who knew complex politics would be so entertaining to watch.
Trying to help Guiseppie be sneaky "Cross please move to the other side of me."
Hive of goose
The animals taking over the coms.
Staff vs garden tool, longest fight in a battle.
Sara, "Oh thank goodness those scars aren't real."
I'm sure I'm forgetting more.
dcltdwKonstantin Novoselov Jun '14
I didn't get a chance to check, because I was too busy concentrating, but did anyone near me see: during dinner, I was talking to the Major (Dave C's Legion commander) when the letters radio transmission began. Did he have a "I am not smug I am not smug I am oh fuckit I totally am" expression as I started scrambling to copy down stuff?
Because, yeah. Encoded radio transmissions. /happydance
Actually, relatedly: afterwards, the Major hits me with a clue bat ("hey, dipshit boy, how did they know the info in the message? That's not something you can figure out just by visual observation." "... OH SHIT"), and we start wildly speculating. I was having this meta-amused reaction, because I honestly could not tell if it was two characters wildly speculating, or one staffer talking to another person halfway in staff mode coming up with a way to turn a town's possible reactions into an encounter. smile
3 Brady ones:
- bestest riddle prizes
- meeting Fabulous Dancer (or whatever the name of the fabulous hair club for men character is)
- seeing all the ohshitohshitohshit going on when Zorrah and then Yuri got LOV-cleave'd from the treeline at night.
BestwickValentine Caplan Jun '14
OH.. How could I forget?
Vee shooting himself in the knee during the red hammer fight Saturday afternoon then complaining to me about it until i fixed him
DaveGame Director Jun '14
OH.. How could I forget?
Vee shooting himself in the knee during the red hammer fight Saturday afternoon then complaining to me about it until i fixed him
This sounds like there's a longer story behind this.
BestwickValentine Caplan Jun '14
Honestly?
He loaded his pistol and got ready to fire it at someone, hesitated and then he accidentally shot it into his knee.
I wish there was a better reason but he just.. did.
also, Vee used to be a Scavenger until he took a bullet to the knee.
wowy319Zack Oak Jun '14
Oh man, oh man. So many great moments this weekend - seeing the power armor I painted in action. I'm very happy with how it came together. - Realizing how many favorite moments I wouldn't be able to talk about on the forums. - Duster discussions with Gribbit, Two-Steps, and Patches. Two-Steps going full Cyrus with realizing how much potential Dusters have. - Players discussing radio funtimes! - Being my drone, and everyone being excited to talk to me, and see how I reacted to different things. The immediate reaction of "No, Dmitry, you can't say that" when I inadvertantly learned how to say "dicks." - Eztic's growing sadness as he saw just how thoroughly damaged some of the drones were more than others. - Archery competitiooooon! - Simon's threatening tone when he turned to my Tekalli brave, asking "Do you question the gifts of the gods?" - Johnny and Giuseppe being 12 at each other over the radio - SPIDERPLOT. My baby is coming into its own, and people are excited about it! I'm so thrilled that people like this plot. - Everything Dahlia does, ever.
Sedgewick Jun '14
As I was tending to the fire Friday night, Simon Moody wanders over as his Tekalli. It is literally just him and me on this entire side of the campsite. We have a long talk about the nature of the world... And then he tried to recruit me to the Tekalli because I am apparently an honorable and worthy man... I THINK I declined in a respectful way. XD
AndyTwo-Steps Jun '14
...Two-Steps going full Cyrus with realizing how much potential Dusters have.
If Two-Steps was even slightly bellicose I would be pouring Lorekeeper into busting out Cyrus' speech at the argument. As it is now I will probably leave that exact thing to Mr. Ambassador.
For reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I9_pZ85zIQ
adminSimon Jun '14
Before the end of game, I need to see Two-Steps delivering that speech while wearing the EPIC shades.
DaveGame Director Jun '14
Actually, relatedly: afterwards, the Major hits me with a clue bat ("hey, dipshit boy, how did they know the info in the message? That's not something you can figure out just by visual observation." "... OH SHIT"), and we start wildly speculating. I was having this meta-amused reaction, because I honestly could not tell if it was two characters wildly speculating, or one staffer talking to another person halfway in staff mode coming up with a way to turn a town's possible reactions into an encounter. smile
That was a completely in-character conversation.
Tap_of_Winds Jun '14
Dusters enter trading post. Have loud (toot!) annoying (tooot!) party with party horns (toottooooot!!!). We are all glad we are outside.
Then, half-naked man comes up to TP fire. I AM LUCIUS BLAHBLAH SLAYER OF MICHAEL BLAH BLAH.
Everyone: if we ignore you, will you go away? Yes? Excellent.
Half-naked man enters TP. I AM LUCIUS--
5!
thud
TOOOT! TOOOOOT!
I would also like to point out that the last part happened without so much as a hiccup in the action.
He walks in, poses, starts talking, then we hear "5!", watch him slump over in the doorway, someone steps over him with the birthday horn "TOOOOOOOT" followed by raucous laughter.
It was fast enough that for a moment I thought "was that a planned gag?"
PraseodymiumBaldassarre Giotto Jun '14
My 10 for E10 1) Sprinting back and forth between the trading post and the pavilion trying to get a hold of books 2) The pure adrenaline rush I got from reading Natasha's research from exactly the book I was looking for 3) Consoling the mother of squid baby while everyone in the town was making fun of her 4) Watching the medical community of Beacon distract squid-mother's friend with Jurgen so they could steal the corpse of squid-baby 5) The Inquisition... what a show. 6) Sidewinder vs Mechasidewinder Kaiju battle 6b) Realizing that sidewinder was out of control as he cut down one of the other spectators (Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope) 7) Two-Steps winning the grand Melee 8) SPIDERS!!!!! and I believe it was Yuri beasting out on them. 9) ORCS!!!!! and everyone running for cover as soon as they spotted the sniper. 10) Watching Sir Lucius Wolfbane (The man who killed Michael Sheridan, even!) swear fealty to Giuseppe while the entire room laughed themselves out of their chairs at his antics.
Aaron Jun '14
Selling drugs to clowns at 3 in the morning All of the fighting in the tournament. Directorate sausage fest. Deciding that the spiders needed to die, killing them, nearly dying myself, before going off on Vengeance plot. Strategically planing the next steps of building our drug empire. Fighting ORCs, they have been my favorite enemy to date. Seeing the Intel gathered on beacon, and who the priority targets were.
The little Tekalli Directorate showdown sunday morning.
dcltdwKonstantin Novoselov Jun '14
[quote author=Konstantin Novoselov link=topic=6264.msg10327#msg10327 date=1401727282]
Actually, relatedly: afterwards, the Major hits me with a clue bat ("hey, dipshit boy, how did they know the info in the message? That's not something you can figure out just by visual observation." "... OH SHIT"), and we start wildly speculating. I was having this meta-amused reaction, because I honestly could not tell if it was two characters wildly speculating, or one staffer talking to another person halfway in staff mode coming up with a way to turn a town's possible reactions into an encounter. smile
That was a completely in-character conversation.[/quote]
Likewise for me, but there was one moment late in the conversation when the meta-ness of it caught up to me and I nearly started laughing.
wowy319Zack Oak Jun '14
Selling drugs to clowns at 3 in the morning
Quoth Dave Camacho: "Oh god, I thought I dreamed that went out."
Valdi Jun '14
[quote author=Konstantin Novoselov link=topic=6264.msg10304#msg10304 date=1401665663]
Dusters enter trading post. Have loud (toot!) annoying (tooot!) party with party horns (toottooooot!!!). We are all glad we are outside.
Then, half-naked man comes up to TP fire. I AM LUCIUS BLAHBLAH SLAYER OF MICHAEL BLAH BLAH.
Everyone: if we ignore you, will you go away? Yes? Excellent.
Half-naked man enters TP. I AM LUCIUS--
5!
thud
TOOOT! TOOOOOT!
I would also like to point out that the last part happened without so much as a hiccup in the action.
He walks in, poses, starts talking, then we hear "5!", watch him slump over in the doorway, someone steps over him with the birthday horn "TOOOOOOOT" followed by raucous laughter.
It was fast enough that for a moment I thought "was that a planned gag?"[/quote]
Makes you wish you rolled Dust Runner eh?
Grim_Fandango Jun '14
No one should ever wish they rolled a duster.... fucking dusters...
adminSimon Jun '14
OK, I won't lie... Ryan friggin' Cohen during the tournament gave me both chills and bursts of pride. Seriously, homeboy is showing y'all exactly what I wanted the Tekalli to be.
"I said -- on your feet!"
zorrahyeyi Jun '14
MACA! TZONICZA! TEKALLI!
wowy319Zack Oak Jun '14
OK, I won't lie... Ryan friggin' Cohen during the tournament gave me both chills and bursts of pride. Seriously, homeboy is showing y'all exactly what I wanted the Tekalli to be.
"I said -- on your feet!"
I was so proud, and so glad to be out as a Tekalli.
AndyTwo-Steps Jun '14
I still support Zyanya's idea: clearly Zorrah uses guns to handicap himself, because after that display... damn. That was some fight.
adminSimon Jun '14
Another forgotten moment: Caroline comes into the kitchen to collect a cloak she left there earlier. Jokes are made about Old Skunk proposing to her. Her response? "Old Skunk can't resist... MY BOO-TAY." She proceeds to twerk her way out of the kitchen and into the night.
Matt Jun '14
1) Friday night battle. 2) Vienne decadance. Love it 3) Real talk with Dahlia. 4) Tournament. Everyone brought it. 5) Cigar spitting. 6) Thunderhammer. 7) Inquisition time. 8) Keeping Karst safe from squid mutants. 9) Genital bulge Mantis 10) Dildo bats.... they use sonar.
car0murCaroline Jun '14
Another forgotten moment: Caroline comes into the kitchen to collect a cloak she left there earlier. Jokes are made about Old Skunk proposing to her. Her response? "Old Skunk can't resist... MY BOO-TAY." She proceeds to twerk her way out of the kitchen and into the night.
and I never stopped.
AndyTwo-Steps Jun '14
Here's a forgotten moment:
"Tibbs... Tibbs, what is that shirt?"
Sedgewick Jun '14
Here's a forgotten moment:
"Tibbs... Tibbs, what is that shirt?"
Was that me being a smartass? I remember thinking it, can't remember id I let it out of my mouth. XD
AndyTwo-Steps Jun '14
No, that was Ryan C., giggling like a man possessed.