Aubrey's Rise of the Runelords campaign
Game Master Aubrey the Malformed

Apologies for my slow posting - we have no home internet right now, and posting from work is a bit tricky. Hopefully the situation will resolve itself soon.

No worries - life is a bit tricky at the moment.

Hello;
My wife's sick now, so I'll be chasing 3 kids around and taking care of her, and as such will probably post later in the evening for the weekend. So I'll see you guys later tonight!

Sorry about my lack of posting recently - I've been packing in overtime before going on vacation. I'll be going back to Arizona for a week or so before taking Easter off back home in Norway; right now it's all about cleaning, packing and traveling, but I should be posting more or less normally again from Tuesday onwards.

No worries, Vatters - we all seem to have more calls on our time than before. Have you found yourself a job you like, yet?

An interesting story.

Man. That's a damn snake.

Snakes ... Why did it have to be snakes?

Wait... did Alwyn seriously just essentially challenge Vethran to a pissing match over who has the more powerful spells? I like that he chose to one-up Vethran's 2nd-level web with a 5th-level wall of thorns. Haha! This should be fun...

I have a line that I really want to use now:

"Stick to the sermons, Shoanti, and leave the magic for the real men."

BWAHAHAHAHHA! That would probably get him thrown off the ledge...

Hey Aubrey, I have an 8-hour layover at Heathrow on Wednesday. My plane lands around 1300 and leave again at 1920. I can easily jump on the Tube and zip downtown, so do you want to meet up for some brews and a sarnie while I wait?

Wait... did Alwyn seriously just essentially challenge Vethran to a pissing match over who has the more powerful spells? I like that he chose to one-up Vethran's 2nd-level web with a 5th-level wall of thorns. Haha! This should be fun...

I have a line that I really want to use now:

"Stick to the sermons, Shoanti, and leave the magic for the real men."

BWAHAHAHAHHA! That would probably get him thrown off the ledge...

He so should do that ... or not ...

Hey Aubrey, I have an 8-hour layover at Heathrow on Wednesday. My plane lands around 1300 and leave again at 1920. I can easily jump on the Tube and zip downtown, so do you want to meet up for some brews and a sarnie while I wait?

The timing's slightly awkward but I can pop out of work and have a late lunch, and my diary is empty for Wednesday. Where do you suggest? Clearly, you need to get back in time for your flight, so somewhere in the West End might be best, probably near the Piccadilly Line. How about Green Park (since I can get there on the Jubilee Line from Docklands) about 3.00-ish? And are you going to be in human form or were-weasel hybrid-form?

Green Park at 3 o'clock sounds good. I'll try to be by the Jubilee Line platform coming from Canary Wharf. I'm 6'3" with thinning hair and a sunburn, and will be wearing tan pants and a blue hoodie saying "ARIZONA" - i.e. I should resemble a human.

I've also sent you a private message with my phone number in case you want to send me a text message.

Anybody with sunburn should stand out in London in April, notwithstanding the nice weather in March we had. That said, why don't you head for the ticket hall/entrance hall at Green Park instead since we'll be heading in that direction anyway. I'll be somewhat shorter that 6'3" and with glasses, probably wearing a half-sleeve shirt and maybe a blue fleece. I'll send you my mobile number too.

Aubs: you are supposed to send him the *distinguishing* features. You just described half the underground!

Yeah, well, I don't want to make it too easy for him.

Nice to see you in the flesh yesterday, Vatters. For those not present, we dissected the current economic, cultural and political malaise in the US, before moving on to talking about goblins.

Those are two topics that go extraordinarily well together.

And, yeah, it was a very nice lunch. Thus far, I've met Rags, Fates and Aubrey, and they've all been enjoyable occasions. So, who's next?

Much as I'd love to visit Europe again some time (and maybe get further north than Amsterdam next time) it probably won't be happening until the kids are quite a bit older and/or I win the lottery...

Of course Sydney is a nice place to visit :-)

I'm assuming you didn't just fly to Europe to visit Amsterdam...

Uh, no ... I think that was about as close to Norway as I got though.

Hey guys,

Apologies for my unexpected absence over the past few days. For those who haven’t heard, I abruptly lost my job earlier in the week. Times are going to be tough for a bit – my wife has just started working for three days a week after coming off 18 months maternity leave, so we fortunately have some income, but we pretty much burnt through our savings over the past 18 months so … hopefully I will find something soon. My industry is starting to be pretty badly affected by the financial uncertainty in Europe and elsewhere, but I’m sure something will come up. Circumstances may keep me away from Paizo more than normal though – not sure yet. Apologies in advance for any upcoming delays or slow downs. Please act for my character where required, or forgive slow GM updates as the case may be.

Anyway, this post is not meant to air my misery or garner sympathy, it is to express wonderment and heartfelt thanks to this fantastic community. Some far too generous person or persons who chose to stay anonymous have sent me a likewise far too generous gift certificate to help me keep up my AP subscription during this time. I can’t know for certain, but I suspect the person (or persons) is either a FAWTLy and / or in one of my pbp games. If you were behind this, thankyou so much, it is truly fantastic of you.

Cheers,
Luke

Hey guys,

Apologies for my unexpected absence over the past few days. For those who haven’t heard, I abruptly lost my job earlier in the week. Times are going to be tough for a bit – my wife has just started working for three days a week after coming off 18 months maternity leave, so we fortunately have some income, but we pretty much burnt through our savings over the past 18 months so … hopefully I will find something soon. My industry is starting to be pretty badly affected by the financial uncertainty in Europe and elsewhere, but I’m sure something will come up. Circumstances may keep me away from Paizo more than normal though – not sure yet. Apologies in advance for any upcoming delays or slow downs. Please act for my character where required, or forgive slow GM updates as the case may be.

Anyway, this post is not meant to air my misery or garner sympathy, it is to express wonderment and heartfelt thanks to this fantastic community. Some far too generous person or persons who chose to stay anonymous have sent me a likewise far too generous gift certificate to help me keep up my AP subscription during this time. I can’t know for certain, but I suspect the person (or persons) is either a FAWTLy and / or in one of my pbp games. If you were behind this, thankyou so much, it is truly fantastic of you.

Cheers,
Luke

Hey Mothy, really sorry to hear about your problems. It seems we are all suffering a bit at the moment with the economic situation. Hopefully something will come up soon.

Just to let you all know, I will be on holiday from this Tuesday for ten days. I doubt I'll have internet access.

Where are you off to Aubrey?

We're going to northern Spain - near Santander. We are taking the ferry from Portsmouth, which will be interesting - 24 hours in a cabin with an under-two. I don't know who will crack first, but I suspect it won't be him. Still, probably better than having him physically strapped to me for four hours plus when we went to the Canaries by plane in January.

I'll be out of town tomorrow for a week. I'll continue to check in from my parent's house, but last time I vastly underestimated the costs for roaming data charges on simple web browsing while in Italy. I'll probably check in each evening rather than a few times a day via phone.

Hey all, many apologies for my unexpected absence. This whole job hunting thing is tedious and depressing, and I’ve found myself getting easily distracted from it. At the beginning of last week I decided to buckle down, promised myself that I would not log on to Paizo until I had sent out some letters, made some job applications and finished up my portfolio … well, what I had estimated I would get done in about two days stretched out to more than a week.

Anyway, I’m back now and will try to catch up soon. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Pretty quiet out there, guys. I'm not complaining - times are hard, and we all have other responsibilities - just want to make sure everyone is OK?

Yup. Sat in a detacenter, as I was until 8:15 last night, so yeah, pretty busy!

I need to catch myself up on the Dark Sun game and post for Jareen, and then a bit of something for Camlo here, but he's again, pretty much following along, hence being quiet since the combat finished....

Just a head's up. I'm away from my computer from this evening, through to Wednesday Morning. Nice long weekend here in the UK :)

Please don't kill Camlo :)

Having been busy over the last week or so, I've popped back with another apology - I'm likely to be busy for the next week or so. I might be able to post on Tuesday, but otherwise I'll be AFK until next Friday. Sorry.

Out now until Friday.

Hey Aub's, if you want to speed things up, we could probably find a mutual time to do this bit in real time, then everyone else isn't getting bored....

We are at least in the same time zone...

Yeah; Aub; my Norwegian zoned friend Vatnisse......what's typically good times for you guys on the weekends?.....during the work week it's pretty much hosed I reckon. If I get home from work by 6 pm here, it's midnite where you are; and I can't usually be relied on to sit down in front of my computer til 7 pm.........

Of course, my habit of waking up at 10 or 11 am on the weekend is no help. I should deal with that anyway.

If you are trying to figure out how to meet up at the same time, from my experience sometime around noon eastern in the US on a weekend works pretty well.

It would be 11am for Heath. 5pm for Aubrey and 6pm for Vatnisse.

Entirely depends on how everyones' schedules work individually, but when I was running PFS online that starting time give or take an hour seemed to work pretty well at bridging the Atlantic.

I'll be more accessible this summer, as we have reduced opening hours. Additionally, I can now post from work most days. The main reason I've been a bit scarce lately is just plain old fatigue, but I think that'll get better too.

I wouldn't worry about it - I don't really have the time to spend to sit down for any length of time, so it'll be bitesized chunks through the day. We can crawl on in usual fashion - it's been five years, I'm used to it now. In fact, the idea of speeding things up gave me palpitations.

In fact, the idea of speeding things up gave me palpitations.

Yeah; I guess that makes sense.

I am finally re-employed! Still settling in at work, today was my second day on the job. Once I'm settled in, I suspect I'll be more regularly updating here. Sorry for being so intermittent these last few weeks. Lots of stuff going on lately. New house, new job, daughter just graduated kindergarten, etc.

Phew!

Huzzah! You really did deserve some good news.

COngratulations! Are you still based in New York?

COngratulations! Are you still based in New York?

Yes I am. I'm working at the command center as a server technician for MetLife, a major insurance company.

I'm bailing out for a week, like next weekend some time, for vacation......justa letch know......

Just to give you all warning, I will be away and unable to update from this Sunday until the following Saturday.

I'm away from Friday until Sunday - ERin and I are taking a long weekend in Stockholm.

Similar to the Eberron issue with Lightbringer and Runzyl, do we need to consider recruiting to replace Elisile and Vethran?

We can park them at the fort at least when we get a chance.

Since they are the sum of the real arcane power in the group, I'd say yes. We will need someone to fill that niche.

That could take a while, we might need to do it sooner.