Anime Festival Orlando 10 just ended a few days ago and I have finally recovered. Swords of Orlandia III was so successful that AFO has made me a full time member of their staff as their RPG Elements Coordinator. Pretty spiff, if I do say so myself. You can send feedback about the game to AFORPG@gmail.com.

There were a lot of amazing moments from the weekend, especially within the game. We had a nice quest dynamic and did well with interacting with others. However, I wanted to share my favorite story with you all before I put up a postmortem.

Throughout the weekend, we had an adorable young girl, about 10, playing our game throughout the weekend. She was covered in fake blood and walked around with a miniature scythe on Friday and Saturday. She played our game quite a bit and was pretty recognizable to us because of that. Saturday afternoon, she had lost her scythe and was really worried about where it could have gone. She was playing on the team I helped lead, the Shadowfowl, and had asked me to help her find it. The Raven’s Roost Tavern at AFO was the obvious place to look but we could not find it. So we tried lost and found and asked some staff members there. After a few minutes, I knew that wasn’t going to work. So I told her to wait by lost and found while I ventured back to the Tavern, for I had an idea.

Many of my players were loyal and willing to follow my orders as the Shadowfowl’s commanding general. So I had assembled a task force with one of my appointed lieutenants to help find the scythe as their new quest. They searched the convention and eventually found the scythe and reunited it with her. I do not know where, but she had thanked me for what I had done. Not too bad for playing evil, if I do say so myself.