The Band is Dead... Long live my retainers.

The Band is dead, it was wiped out by that pesky POEE who sent them all to their doom in Exoma. I could have reconstructed the Band but after spending a weekend building up a nice decent sized group (Was about 10 men all told). I just didn't have the heart and as mentioned in an earlier post I gave up on followers. Just me, Fledge and Ruby. As a Knight however I've decided to take up the minimum once more, a squire Leah has joined our ranks and a yeoman, Uradan who'll hold my banner He has to level first, Bannerman are notoriously hard to level up once they start holding the banner. A couple of pegasi for them and that's it. So just the four of us. It isn't the Band reborn or anything I'm taking my skillset elsewhere these days, and I'm not pouring my heart into trying to make the small group work.

It will be easier to manage though.

Gav

RL Stuff (for a change)

I'm not around much, I won't be around playing properly except maybe on sundays and the odd hour during the week.

The plan is to get married in 2012, on my current income and the fact the Missus still has a few years to go before she qualifies as a psychologist we can't really afford it. But I'm in my thirties and I think this being the right woman and all I really should start getting a move on. I got an offer from the hostel I used to run a few years back to come back. I explained I was teaching and didn't want or plan to leave that job, so the owner offered me a part-time manager position and a 5 percent share of the company if I manage to stop the occupancy figures going into free-fall and get the rates back to 2005 levels. I spoke to Her Indoors about it and she also wanting to get married in 2012 agreed that we should make the sacrifice. So on an average week my timetable is something like this:

1pm Wake up
2pm Go to school, prepare lessons
3pm-9pm Teach
9.30pm-3am Manage the hostel, mainly web marketing and the like, with some managerial stuff thrown in.
4am Home
5/6am depending on how wired I am, sleep.

Except on a saturday where I have the school off, so I do 3pm-1am at the hostel.

We're still seeing if I'm able to keep up the schedule but I've managed to the last couple of weeks. I'll make up my mind at the end of the month. My regular job is enough to pay the bills, but considering I only get paid 9 months of the year, it isn't enough to save up for a wedding with.

Wedding aside, I will see if I can throw the odd donation LS's way over the course of the year anyway.

The War Ended...

Pretty much. Though with the odd dig, occasional comment or rudeness it does seem that my declaration of it has made Porph go from neutral/sometimes good to hostile in my direction. There were promises of forcing the end of Gavadel (via yog-sothoth) if I didn't concede defeat, via life eating if I was found idle and various insults to my intelligence. And I do concede I'm not a player of the mechanics of the game. I said the war ended if Porph apologised for destroying the Band, which she actually did, though some more insults were thrown just after too (I think that's where the stupid comment came in). There was an unrelated incident yesterday whilst me and Dyne were idle, though Porph says she didn't sacrifice my stuff, someone did (I believe her actually), though she did sac Dyne's. Which seems to me as just mean.

It has forced me to take Gavadel in a new direction, before I was willing to let power slide by me, now I'm actively searching for it. There'll probably be a leavetaking in Corna (not like that association ever did me any good) and I'll try and rejoin the Wandslingers. There are a few other avenues open to me but I'll keep those to myself.

The Band is officially disbanded, though a smaller Band will probably crop up at some point with the bare minimal. Ruburnel and a Squire. I have a few stored in Fledge but I think even Nerus will be let go at this point, donation or no. Gav's going in a new direction. He needs reinvention every so often, though this time, without losing Fledge.

On a related note: Why don't Knights have access to combat maneuvers?

Round 2

A different scenario from Round 1, rather than a straight fight I chased Porphyria around Camelot for at least... half an hour maybe more. Definitely got the feeling I was being the mouse in the game rather than the cat. Eventually Porph seemed to get tired of my chasing her and went in for the kill. I didn't last long after that. It's hard to hit someone who's invisible which didn't help. It was fun, but this time Porph went straight to destroying my stuff somehow. So no treasure hunt this time for my stuff and had to use guild equipment to help the Losthaven Guard in their fight against Shub-Niggurath. So... died to Porphyria but /did/ manage to help Venar, Dyne and Morgana at one point fight an Elder God. And defeat him. Venar's gift of Heavensfire during the fight went a long way.

The war continues...