Was a plot heavy event for the Ern and Leviathan in general. The issue with the chained people (chained by Wülthgar, our bad ass ancestor) is getting out of hand. Wulthgar managed to create three more debts. An undead baby with a gaping hole in the back of her head was sent to Pit Mot as a fulfillment of his wish for daughters. Ewww! Wülthgar is building cities on our home world U'tahar and creating ever more undead and raping and experimenting on women.

We went on a quest to try to make Wülthgar mortal again and Enid ended up with a part of the possible solution. (Can't spoil more here) Almost got lost on the Crossroads, she'll never ever venture there again if she can help it.

Our summoning ritual was the bomb! In short: people got swimming lessons, dived into the sea where they caught seahorses as mounts, then proceeded on into the deep where they had to fight an angler fish to retrieve a large seashell that contained a pearl: our elemental princess. It looked wonderful. We did it at night when it was dark and we had blue light on everything from the pentagon pillars. We blew bubbles and held up sheer curtains that represented the waterline. The angler fish was a pimped igloo tent and Miranda (our princess) actually lay in the seashell (children's sand box) until she was freed. (Unfortunately at the moment of freeing a huge mist cloud from the smoke machine obscured everything....) We had stick seahorses too. We got a 9 for the performance and lots of compliments.

OC we had a fairly relaxed event. We were on the site at 12:00 on Friday and installed ourselves without haste. We did the grocery shopping after Cora and Rene had unloaded their stuff at the camp around 16:30. The whole weekend long we were able to help out people that needed can openers, an extra plate/bowl, rope, pliers, toilet paper and other stuff. We're well supplied.

Möttul (Matthijs) kept the campfire going and did lots of cooking, handing out tea, cookies, eggs and bacon, dinner and pancakes to passers by. He made everybody feel welcome and a few people thanked us for our hospitality and the great campsite and homely feeling we provided. Yay! And a great campsite it was.

Unfortunately we had to break up on Monday in pooring rain. The whole weekend had been fairly dry with some rain in the evening/night but on Monday we had a good deal of water coming down. So everything was quite wet when we had to pack up. Still my mood was on the bright side and the packing went in an orderly fashion. No real stress there. A one hour drive later had us back home around 20:00.

At this moment we still have to repack the sahara tent, which is finally dry. Some chests need to be repacked and stored in the shed and then we'll have to vacuum clean the whole house again because we have half a forest lying on the floor. All larp related laundry and the dishes have been done already. Yesterday I also cleaned the fridge and the microwave so apart from vacuum cleaning and doing the toilet and bathroom I'm ready to celebrate my birthday this Saturday.

Things learned at the Summoning:

• These things are not water proof: cookie jar and all the other glass pots
• The biggest crate is a good table when you put it upside down
• A central place to put the tea mugs on is a good thing
• Water in the bucket for quickly rinsing the mugs cuts down on the dishes
• The last minute made tarp (patchwork of all left over pieces of tent fabric) worked very well
• The opened up side of the wood storing tent was an improvement. We can now store the food baskets and cooking stuff in there as well
• Nobody eats bread for breakfast so we should definitely buy less of it

Things planned for next time:

• Making an IC cookbook. (The prints with recipes got really wet and are OC) However, neither Mottul or Enid can read so there will be lots of pictures.
• We need to make a new tent for the wood and foodstuffs, made out of actual tent fabric instead of a curtain. (Fabric is already ordered). Even impregnated curtain is not waterproof. (duh)
• I really need to put soles into my boots for extra comfort. Impregnating them would be wise too. Or I could use some actual quality boots.
• The sheath on my knife is useless. I need a new sheath that will allow me to wear the knife on my belt without loosing it.