By all accounts "Learn to Fly" was a success. At
the advent my mission was to give a couple aspiring event-holders the
opportunity and the means to get a taste of event holding. I offered logistics,
funding and NPC help along with a booked site and date. In return I asked for
two six-hour blocks of plot, and I would fill in the rest. It was my hope that we
could plant a seed that will develop into more quality questing events for the Realms. Lako took me up on the offer.
He took control like a seasoned event-holder and along
with the rest of Gau Dring, made my job easy. He first
asked for time beyond what I had planned and eventually I scrapped all plot
that I had written and given away the full weekend and creative control.
Gau Dring rolled onto the Creathorne site like a SWAT team,
gear in tow. A large tree-ent costume and minotaur were unpacked and Lako handed
me a 26-page, bulleted, point-by-point plot document including stats for everything
that was going out during the event before we started hanging every piece of
black plastic Andy Disbrow had lent us.
The event went smoothly. Lako, Adam Landry and I had sat down
at a few points during the event to reevaluate where the plot was and were it
was going, making sure the flow was good and we would meet time. Everyone
worked well together and was receptive and respective of each other’s input.
Aside from never ending compliments of this group and their
competence as fantastic event-holders, I want to convey what a fulfilling
experience this was for me. I've thrown more than a dozen events over close to
two decades in the Realms. It’s always a sigh of relief when your event is over
and people had a good time. This was better. I couldn't be happier to have been
involved in this, even more it makes me happy to have been a part of launching
a new event-holder. The game is better for having this staff. I’m humbled to have
been a part of it.
