So... The Gathering
Aug. 28th, 2007 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solabarWell I went.... It was a LONG weekend. On the whole I am going to be honest and say I didn't enjoy it much. There were several reasons for that. Although I will admit there were some high points. On balance I don't think the highs outweighed the lows for me. Perhaps I am right in the getting to old thing, maybe I am right that I am becoming jaded to the whole affair.
There were two 10's I marked. The faculty rituals which weren't their best (the best one being one of the 10's) were still very amusing. They definately helped me keep the will to live going. Which was fading at points. I wish ritualists wouldn't try to convince us that they are right and we are wrong all the time. There are two markers for a reason. If both of us independantly think the same thing that is probably what happened..... We give feedback not to make the ritualist feel bad, but to point out to them what was good and what was bad with what they had done so that they can learn from their mistakes.
I didn't know what was going on plotwise at the event at all. I guess that is a by product of being stuck to the ritual circle. What I saw was kinda meh... Ooh look it's more elementals :P Although I did get involved in laying Eikara to rest and it isn't often you get to walk up behind an anscestor that has been crushing people into the floor and say "Excuse me, I know you are an anscestor and all but I do believe you are shouting about wanting to go home? Besides which you are disrupting the use of the circle and we can't have that really, so would you like me to take you?" "You can do that?" "Oh most certainly." "Right then, Just one more thing then" *turns round and crushes one last person" "Right done now".
Other highlights were becoming a saviour/mother to a duckling... and tearing strips off people in a "You are wasting you life" fashion.
Lowlights include a general Meh feeling all weekend. Feet that ache despite not having walked very far. And well a general feeling that it doesn't really matter much to folks that that was the last time the majority would see me since I am headed off to the US next year. I suppose it just feels like an anticlimax after 9ish years of staffing, and really does actually make me feel a bit bitter about the whole thing. I also was livid for Dawn (and the rest of the bards NPC's) during the weekend. No one deserves treatment like that. I never thought it would be so hard to get people to say something about Eikara, but it was like trying to get blood from a stone! And that just made me feel even worse about the whole thing.
All in all I don't think I will miss it much.
There were two 10's I marked. The faculty rituals which weren't their best (the best one being one of the 10's) were still very amusing. They definately helped me keep the will to live going. Which was fading at points. I wish ritualists wouldn't try to convince us that they are right and we are wrong all the time. There are two markers for a reason. If both of us independantly think the same thing that is probably what happened..... We give feedback not to make the ritualist feel bad, but to point out to them what was good and what was bad with what they had done so that they can learn from their mistakes.
I didn't know what was going on plotwise at the event at all. I guess that is a by product of being stuck to the ritual circle. What I saw was kinda meh... Ooh look it's more elementals :P Although I did get involved in laying Eikara to rest and it isn't often you get to walk up behind an anscestor that has been crushing people into the floor and say "Excuse me, I know you are an anscestor and all but I do believe you are shouting about wanting to go home? Besides which you are disrupting the use of the circle and we can't have that really, so would you like me to take you?" "You can do that?" "Oh most certainly." "Right then, Just one more thing then" *turns round and crushes one last person" "Right done now".
Other highlights were becoming a saviour/mother to a duckling... and tearing strips off people in a "You are wasting you life" fashion.
Lowlights include a general Meh feeling all weekend. Feet that ache despite not having walked very far. And well a general feeling that it doesn't really matter much to folks that that was the last time the majority would see me since I am headed off to the US next year. I suppose it just feels like an anticlimax after 9ish years of staffing, and really does actually make me feel a bit bitter about the whole thing. I also was livid for Dawn (and the rest of the bards NPC's) during the weekend. No one deserves treatment like that. I never thought it would be so hard to get people to say something about Eikara, but it was like trying to get blood from a stone! And that just made me feel even worse about the whole thing.
All in all I don't think I will miss it much.
