...And It's Called THE GATHERING!
Yay. I just had an immensely cool 4 days.
For those of you not in the immediate know (I doubt there are any reading this that I haven't wittered on at for AGES about this subject) I just got back from the Gathering. It's a bit like re-enactment, except that it never actually happened. You can tell that it never actually happened because some people walk around looking like the picture in the corner. There are also fairies, and cat girls (mmmmmmm) and elves, trolls, Vikings, Celts and arabs amongst others. And Eunuchs. Hi, that's me. I'm the Chief Eunuch to Prince Amir Azad Abdul Azad. My name is Abdullah Mufita Asrama. Say it a few times and the reasons for that choice of name will become apparent. That's right, I'm from the 'comedy/camp' school of Eunuchery.
Now lots of things happen at these events, and this one was particularly active for me, because I took it upon myself to be extremely dodgy. This entailed gathering as much information as possible, and nicking anything that wasn't nailed down. As it happened, it was mostly potions that weren't nailed down. so I stole them, and sold them to the alchemist's guild. (certain things are acceptable to thieve within the 'game', and can be identified by a tag that is attached). I also stole secret documents from a guild, and used them later to manipulate them into giving my group jobs. The look on the guy's face when I said 'then I believe these are yours' and dropped a couple of documents reading 'grandmaster's eyes only' onto his desk was sweet! The look on his boss's face later that night was even sweeter; we arrived with a particularly deadly poison to sell to them. At that point I think they realised that we could play hardball...
Anyway, I'll continue in a new post, after food...
For those of you not in the immediate know (I doubt there are any reading this that I haven't wittered on at for AGES about this subject) I just got back from the Gathering. It's a bit like re-enactment, except that it never actually happened. You can tell that it never actually happened because some people walk around looking like the picture in the corner. There are also fairies, and cat girls (mmmmmmm) and elves, trolls, Vikings, Celts and arabs amongst others. And Eunuchs. Hi, that's me. I'm the Chief Eunuch to Prince Amir Azad Abdul Azad. My name is Abdullah Mufita Asrama. Say it a few times and the reasons for that choice of name will become apparent. That's right, I'm from the 'comedy/camp' school of Eunuchery.
Now lots of things happen at these events, and this one was particularly active for me, because I took it upon myself to be extremely dodgy. This entailed gathering as much information as possible, and nicking anything that wasn't nailed down. As it happened, it was mostly potions that weren't nailed down. so I stole them, and sold them to the alchemist's guild. (certain things are acceptable to thieve within the 'game', and can be identified by a tag that is attached). I also stole secret documents from a guild, and used them later to manipulate them into giving my group jobs. The look on the guy's face when I said 'then I believe these are yours' and dropped a couple of documents reading 'grandmaster's eyes only' onto his desk was sweet! The look on his boss's face later that night was even sweeter; we arrived with a particularly deadly poison to sell to them. At that point I think they realised that we could play hardball...
Anyway, I'll continue in a new post, after food...