One more clarification:

Damola died before. Not often, but she did. ICly. She even fell into death. But this was in a situation and story that didn´t completely destroy her consistency as a char for me and that didn´t make her unplayable for me. I was able to play her in a way that recovered her ICly without destroying her core traits as a character as being lighthearted, playful and serene, while still being cautious and protective of herself where this makes sense and where she actually knows her way as a char, she has been roofclimbing often in her childhood and didn´t fall into death there either.

Heck, I tried playing her with it, but it didn´t work out for me. At least one player accepted that I took Damola out of it at that time.

Actually realistically spoken, what would happen in a char is blown into a death during the event like this or killed by an NPC: How realistic would it be for the char to ever appear again in the event? I know lots of players just run through DR as quickly as possible and then continue with the event without playing *any* of the consequences of dieing. "Oh I just died, it doesn´t matter, lets go on." I know in game mechanics PS does not have a perma death, but does that take all the consequences of dieing away when RPing? I know chars die OOCly all day, and ICly as well and don´t take it for anything serious. But honestly *how* realistic is that, how realistic would it be for a char to fall into death and continue with an event actually as if nothing happened? How would that be different from my taking Damola out of the event? Realistic for me would be that if the char died, the char would be traumatized, would have to deal with the trauma and there would not be much of a chance for the char to ever appear during the runtime of the event again. More for some chars, like Damola, less for others, but really, even for the toughest guys, do you think its realistic to go through DR, then say "lalala, I just have blown into death and died or torn into pieces and died, but I don´t give it a damn" and continue as if *nothing* happened? How is that any different from taking a char out of an IC experience, different from deciding that char did not experience it, did not live *through* it? To fight against a giant dwarf for example, be killed and appear with the event just 10 minutes later again as if nothing happened? How much sense would that make ICly?

I tell you my personal answer to this: *none*.

So I do think that any "You are dead" decision of a GM basically takes a char out of the event completely for its entire runtime of it if played realistically and thus destroy the fun of the player taking part in the event who wants to see how the event goes on and experience it with the other players together. Its basically a "You are out, go away." if realistically played. Sure, I had Damola run through DR as well, I know my way, thanks, and appear in the event again, but basically that alone didn´t make any sense whatsoever if Damola would have experienced the consequences of a death realistically. If I played her realistically with what happened, Damola would not have appeared in the event again *at all*. How is ignoring the consequences of a "you are dead" decision of a GM during an event and appearing ten minutes later in the event again as if nothing happened any different from what I am asking for here?

If its the story, if its how I received the story versus the consistency and playability of my main char as I see it, Damola didn´t experience the story. In my oppinion thats no different than how many players play or more accurately do not play the death of their chars during events so far. So I even do not think I am doing anything special here. Actually I think its even more honest and respectful of the GM decision to let a char die. Instead of just ignoring it altogether I make it obvious that it didn´t work for me and am willing to take Damola out of the event completely.

That said, I do think that the story doesn´t need it that it has been exactly Damola falling into death for it to exist and make sense as a story. It could have been some other citizen of Yliakum who has not been played by a char and the story would still be consistent and make sense. Heck, this could even give a consistent continuation event that way, for example about rescuing that non player backed char from DR or helping that char to recover from the experience. On the other hand up to now I didn´t receive any suggestion on how to play Damola consistently with what happened and even not a single response about the two suggestions I had.

And also: I do think its unlikely that my decision about Damola will cause any serious inconsistency issues with future story lines. Unless you plan to create a future event around the fact that Damola was blown into death in this one, I think its quite easy to avoid any conflicts around the different ways I and GM team decided to handle this. If I am not forced to play Damola ICly with having experienced this death thats inconsistent for her, it does not matter for me at all whether GM team decided she has been there while I decided she has not been there. I can live with the difference in viewpoints. I just will play Damola in a way that she hasn´t been at the event at all. So far I didn´t read anything that convinced me to handle this differently.

So my current decision for this is: To stick with my decision, let it go and rest for now and deal with any issues of my decision only if any issues ever arise out of it, which again, I do think, is unlikely.

Hello!

Just as an announcement for anyone who took part in the event but didn´t notice what I wrote to gossip – and also as an more in-depth explaination on why I handle it this way:

ICly Damola did not take part in the event and thus wasn´t blown off by a GM from the bridge and thus also didn´t die.

Why?

Cause for Damola´s character it would be totally inconsistent to go onto such a bridge and let a strong way blow her into death. She is very cautious and she actually still fears DR ICly quite much. There is no way that she would risk her life so easily without any apparent need to hasten that much.

What happened?

I read the warning about the wind, but as player didn´t recognize that the wind would be that strong that it would threaten Damola´s life. I was about to play Damola as cautious, watching whether the defensive wind spell may have worked, stepped back a bit, but before I could finish writing that a GM already blew Damola off into DR. Actually she fell down with me having written half of the reaction.

I didn´t feel like having had enough time to RP my reaction to the wind thing. I´d expected some kind escalation of the warning like "A strong wind comes up and the bridge staggers dangeriously" or something like that together with some realistic time to RP any response to it before Damola being blown of with no chance to react it. For me it as a digital "You are dead". Thats not much fun to RP. And unlike that last time that happened to a char of mine in a pen and paper RP Damola didn´t accuse a God where something like this actually can be realistic.

I tried playing as if Damola really died there this way the GM have blown her off, but it just didn´t work for me, so I am doing what worked before, I am taking Damola out of this RP completely. ICly she wasn´t there, she didn´t die in a way that would be totally inconsistent to her cautious character. Sure she is much into helping others, but without need she wouldn´t risk her life that easily.

This is not up for discussion for me. I will play her this way, whether you respect it or not.

What would probably have worked for me would be:

1) The wind blow would have been totally unexpectable and Damola wouldn´t have had any chance to react to it. Which it was for me OOCly as a player, cause I didn´t notice that the wind was that strong before Damola was blown off without any chance to react anymore, but not ICly as there has been some warning at least even when on short notice. In real life I would have felt the strongness of the wind and sure I would have respected that, but here we just read text, I didn´t grasp the severity of it as a player. What would have helped me to do would have been some escalation of the warnings like "A strong wind arises and the bridges staggers dangeriously" together with enough time to RP my response to it. Sure Damola would have stepped back then.

2) Damola didn´t die on having been blown off. Actually I got the impression on being blown off Damola fell down from quite a distance from the side of the abyss. I had the impression Damola wasn´t that much into thin air already. And that she may would have fallen down but not all of the distance and would have survived it. But as thats just my perception, she may have been off that far already.

So what would have worked for me would be to carefully being able to choose the amount of risk Damola would take. I didn´t feel that I had this option like in other RP events where Damola stayed in the background instead of attacking a strong NPC. I considered to discuss solution 1 with GMs, but I didn´t feel like there would have been a enough time to reach an outcome that would have worked. Solution 2 only came into my mind after I quitted playing PS already.

Again, I am not willing to discuss this. For me as player this experience has been very frustrating and it feels like a punishment for playing out courage with Damola. Yet, while Damola can be courageful, especially when helping others, she also is not that naive to let wind blow her off that easily. So the way I didn´t notice, I didn´t receive the severity of this wind thing as a player while still having a chance to react to it put her in a place where I didn´t know how to play her anymore, even after I tried one idea. So I am doing what recovers her consistency, I take her out of this.

I did take Damola out of RP ICly before, but rarely – in a situation where I thought I wasn´t give a chance to react in a way that would be consistent to her (although back then I might have had such a chance). And there I even still RP´d it in a way, but in a way that didn´t leave the other party a way to react either – it was before I learned that this is important for RP as a player.

If you think me taking Damola out of this event like this is lame or something like that, feel free not to RP with Damola. Its how I play her. I may stay away from events for a while, as taking out Damola out of RP I initially enjoyed like this is quite frustrating for me as a player. But having to play Damola inconsistently with the core of her character for a longer time would be even more so.


That all said: I liked the general idea of the event and I am grateful for GM´s organizing events like that. So do not let my reaction spoil your fun with the event. Just please respect that Damola wasn´t there. (If you don´t respect it I will still play her that way.)

Damola ponders and memorizes:

What a nice event the prize giving was.

This time already as I opened quite some fellow citizens waited outside, including two eager cooks who turned in a recipe for the contest:



Lot of people wanted to know the winners of the pie eating contest – Kabitar announced them:



Licina, the winner of the cooking contest received her prize – also as you can see our inofficial Pie Eating contestant, the cute little Yulbar was again with us:



After the harsh and disrespectful words of the cook apprentice Mourole the honorable Seduna recognized the efforts of our cute little tabei Jemima, our youngest contestant:



[More images as usual as you removed filename from image link. Hmmm, I want a way to automate most of the image handling – some images have writings of items on them, I didn´t include these]

Okay, so the Pie Eating Contest is over as well.

While it started slowly and participants where late, it grew into a wonderful competition. [With lots of great roleplay, thanks!]

We even had an inofficial contestant who didn´t event wait for the beginning of the contest, while a brave dwarf was quite confident to be able to eat all the cakes by himself – a confidence that to my memory didn´t last very long [ ]:



We had several rounds and our cute cub was so hungry to start in the first round:



But she also ate too much and needed to be cared for and given a digestion potion. That didn´t hinder her to want to eat more cakes later on.

In generally dwarves and enkis were quite fond of eating lots of cakes – as the second round shows:



We had quite some spectators to the contest as well:



And almost unbelievable the lady who was helping to organize the event was into eating pies as well – but unlike other contestant she did so gracefull and by cutting the pie in several handsome pieces:



And here we have the two organizers of the event:



Thanks a lot to Kabitar for having the original idea for this event and its rules and for helping with it. He moderated the whole event!

Dear Illysia,

I truly like this idea. When would you be willing to take some of the things I want to share with those in need? [OOC: How about an event at the tavern in Gug with a fixed date and time? I would like that!]

I am also glad you are willing to keep the Stonehead tavern open and hospitable.

I didn´t announce anything yet and I am only speaking on behalf of my self, not in behalf of the whole Red Crystal Den´s team, but as far as I am concerned: If you want to be at the Red Crystal Den´s and have a drink, but cannot afford the tria to pay, be all means come and enrich us with your presence – while I personally open it, I am willing to cover any expenses to give drinks and meals to those in need. Also if you seek some work to do: I am willing to pay well for herbal ingredients and on an as needed base also for meals and drinks for the Den´s.

Wow, what a nice gathering this was. At first I was about to make a face as only two cooks appeared. But determined to host this contest together with Kabitar, I was happy to see more cooks appeared with time. [OOC: People, its still 20:00 GMT+2 (CEST)] no matter what the event calender says – and was also okay to appear later, but today be there before the Pie Eating contest starts, last time I would accept any recipe will be 21:00 GMT+2 (CEST), as we then need to hand the recipes to the jury.]

Some of the earlier cooks presenting their recipes:



And then the second round of cooks telling the audience some more details about their recipes:



Also our cute little cub dared to present her Enki recipes on the stage:



Looking forward to the pie eating contest! See you there.

[OOC: Is posting photos IC or OOC? I bet OOC, as… well no digicams in Yliakum I suppose ]

[I'm sorry but I don't understand what is happening on the 28th. It looks like "And what can be better than this:" was supposed to have something after it.]

Look again