Tomorrow I leave for Northern Lights Coronation Campout, also known as NLCC. It’s going to be a huge event, I am food vending, it’s going to be a lot of work and stress, but that’s not why it’s going to be huge. It’s the first camping event for Northern Lights since the shut down, which …
Category: Blogs
Dec 20 2021
Baelnorn’s Year in Review 2021
2021 is nearly over. Time for a Year in Review post. When I migrated to Facebook nearly three years ago I did my first Year in Review post. Now as the year ends I find that I regret not continuing that tradition, so here we are, doing a Year in Review post. I’ve thought about …
Dec 13 2021
My Last Two Weeks
I was unable to go to Amtgard this weekend. A storm on Saturday knocked down powerlines at Silvermoon’s park, closing it. Then on Sunday there was Blackspires’s Weapon Master Tournament which I was unable to attend due to previous obligations. It was all very disappointing. By all I’ve heard Sunday was a great day. Some …
Dec 02 2021
Work, Work
Oh boy, have I been on that content creation grind! I’ve put in a lot of work the last few days and I have some fun announcements to make. I’ve been working on both LARP content as well as a separate endeavor, a podcast, called High Trek. If you’d like to help keep up my …
Nov 17 2021
Rusting Over
It has been several months since I made a post. It’s been a rough year and I just couldn’t keep up with my pre-pandemic pace of weekly blogs. Not to mention I haven’t been going to Amtgard weekly since things have opened up. I still go of course, but It’s more like 60% instead of …
Jul 20 2021
Shaking Off the Rust
I did a double day weekend. I went to Silvermoon (Aumsville, OR) on Saturday and Dusk Hollow (Dallas, OR) on Sunday. Saturday was mostly a normal day, there was no special event, but something interesting did happen. Then on Sunday there was the Arcana fighter practice at Dusk Hollow, which I recorded a few videos …
Jul 08 2021
We’re Back!
Northwest Amtgard is back! There are no more restrictions on meetings. I attended Silvermoon (Aumsville, OR) along with 54 other people. It was our coming back celebration combined with our mid-reign. There was a feast and a tournament. The tournament was a three bracket bear pit tournament, short sword, two swords and sword and shield. …
May 27 2021
Struggles and Hopes
It’s been a while since I’ve made a blog post, it’s long overdue. I want to talk about some of my struggles I’ve had to deal with over the last few months and what I’m doing and hope to be doing in the future. Sad News In my last post I was struggling too, mostly …
Feb 23 2021
D&D and a Soft Rebranding
I’ve had a lot of ups and downs the past few months which has affected how much content I put out. Sadly the blog has gone to the wayside due to the pandemic and the LARP i go to, Amtgard, being shut down. I’ve spent most of my energy on growing Twitch and my writing. …
Oct 08 2020
Updates!
This blog is mostly about updates, updates to the website and Twitch, but also have a bit about my writing. A lot of this has to do with the concept of the Brand. Over the last 5-7 years I have been trying to do several different kinds of content creation. Each avenue I tried to …