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Character: Peony
Which Event: To the Sands the Machine Returns
Responsiveness: Never left me waiting for long, even when handling sudden IC or something else. Vaast majority of the wait time was on the player end! (particularly me I think-)
Balance: Had some rough patches, but having to account for no healer, having to adjust for several surprises...overall every fight felt fair even if we wound up forcing several on-the-fly adjustments!
Storytelling: Felt like a fun dungeon delve, while it wasn't anything incredibly complex narratively it was incredibly succinct, responsive to what we were doing (circumventing the last round of a tough fight via some convenient identification and a clutch wisdom roll), and the ending of the event was genuinely peak as hell, and felt incredibly climatic. I wish I could've done it more justice in my own writing!
Anything else: Overall I can't applaud Why enough for how good they were at rolling with the punches on this event, having to account for suddenly having more players, suddenly having less players, the party nearly breaking down into complete in-fighting or abandoning the adventure then and there, only to pull it all together in a climax that I couldn't tell if they had planned it very well OR were just very good at retooling whatever had been the initial plan into a fun climax. Whichever the case, it speaks to a lot of experience, and an overall fun day. Can't recommend enough.