Blood of Heroes. (Inactive)
Game Master Mrdarknlight

Split the attempts into different spoilers. So first spoiler would look like

Got it.

Caine I put you at G-3 because I figured that is where you wanted to be. Also I did AoOs since it easier to do them than wait, if you have a different action for an AoO please put in a spoiler when post for combat.

The AoOs are for them attacking unarmed right? I appreciate you handling the rolls for me.

As a note, they also provoke for standing up. (I just realized I need more AoOs for this character. Going to have to work on that.)

Finally, once per round I get a Redirect attempt. This round it will be aimed at the leader.

Are any of them still armed?

Will do my round in a few hours when I'm at a real keyboard.

I thought you just tripped the Eruus Thug and Ferrin Thug. Both of them are armed, boss is also armed. So AoOs I put up was for standing up.

Ah, gotcha.

Well I definitely disarmed one of them with my initial readied action.

We'll take care of the rest of those weapons in a bit...

I can see that caine's actions are going to require a flurry of edits to get the sequence and coding right. That post took me an hour.

I should just learn not to try to write up caine's actions at work. Too many interruptions... sheesh.

Also, I realized I was making a mistake and thinking that Improved Trip gave a free attack. That's Greater Trip. You can give the thugs some HP back for the improved trip attacks. They shouldn't have happened.

Because we're dealing with races that are unfamiliar to us as players, can we get a short blurb about each of them in the Campaign Info tab? It'll help me remember which one is which.

Put stuff into the campaign info tab.

Take us back to the tavern.

Of course Chuluun and Jael would be on the look out for anything unusual.

Should be fun story to tell when you get back. :)

Everyone been busy or just did not see my post?

I didn't see your post. :| Replying soon.

You guys around?

Yep.

I here everyday. Though I won't be available for almost whole of June, as I will be away again (probably for the last time this year).

Just waiting on someone to post more questions to the creature.

I think that's mostly on Asriel, unless one of the folks who just came back can speak the language. I suppose you can continue to hand-wave Asriel translating questions.

Caine isn't really interested in a "hunt-and-peck" communication with the creature. He'd rather leave that to the smarter folks.

I don't suppose one of our magical types can just give the critter Comprehend Languages or Tongues or something?

I don't have any questions for it.

I sent Asriel and Fafhrd pms no answer so far. Going to wait a bit more before doing something.

Alright so no answer back from Asriel, and has been awhile since he lasted posted here. Any of you guys know a friend that would want to play a skill type character/buffer? If not should I put up a another recruitment thread?

Guys see my last post?

Yeah.

Honestly, I'm not sure what's going on with this guy. As a player I'm curious and right there with the communication puzzle you've presented, but Caine doesn't really care about it. He's content to let the brainiacs figure it out and get the cliff notes later.

As an aside, I feel like the game is losing some momentum due to lack of character-based motivation. Half the group is unsuited to the puzzle, and the folks with the right skill set aren't posting often.

On top of that, playing house and setting up a bar is fun for a while, but it seems like a lot of it could be done as a montage.

Likewise with the hunt-and-peck language puzzle. Seems like a couple linguistics checks to figure out how to establish real communication wou8ld speed things up a lot.

Please don't take this as disinterest on my part. I'm just commenting on what I'm seeing in terms of the meta-game.

I was more talking about the last post in this thread.

As for the creature it is important to the story, it cannot talk or write you guys would need some way to talk to an animal to speak to it. For what is going on with the creature one second.

Hmm.... I have no friends who are in play-by-posts anymore. I'd be willing to have another recruitment thread up.

Setting up the tavern was going to be a montage, was just trying to get the bit with the creature out of the way. I am going to put up a recruitment to get a new person or two.

Montage is going to be speed things up about a week, anything you guys want your characters have had done in that time for sure?

Not that I can really think of.

Well, as Viktor saw, in the recruitment thread have a monk/cleric and a Cross-Blooded (Air Elemental/Stormborn) Sorcerer/Evoker Wizard. Looking to join the game so far.

Will post update after new people post in thread. I have some ideas to get them into the game but have to see if they have any preferences.

Hey guys, I'm going to be creating the monk/cleric. Considering Quinngong monk, and taking domains of good and travel. Other than healing, let me know what buff spells the party needs and I'll be happy to memorize them. It'll take me til tomorrow or Wednesday to get the profile ready.

Happy to be joining the group.

Nice to meet you, Gerald, I'm sure you'll be a welcome addition to our group. I can't really think of any buff spells off the top of my head specifically, but bless is usually a good one to pack. I'm sure I'll come up with other stuff at some point or another.

I'll definitely have a Bless or two memorized. Any other requests, just let me know.

Gerald do you have any preference on how you wish for your character to meet the rest of the group or is anything fine?

Dm, I am fine with any method of introduction you all are comfortable with. This is the alias I willbe using, although I haven't made any useful info into it yet.

How do we do wealth/gear?

Here is some equipment I made for the game. You have 7,000 gold. You cannot buy magical weapons or armor. Other magical items can be bough though.

I'll check that out this evening.

I'm 2/3 the way there. I'll have him ready to roll tomorrow afternoon.

Unfortunately I will not be back on till next Wedsnesday most likely. I leave Friday for Canada and will not be back until then. If you wish to roleplay my character some, I am fine with that DM DarknLight.

Character is ready for whenever DM wants to bring me in...

Should be today, since Fafhrd left to Canada. One sec got to write up the post.

Mr. GM, I can't remember if I've brought this up before, but your (otherwise awesome) promptness steps on my toes a little.

Because almost everything Caine does is a sort of chain reaction, I usually have to edit my combat posts 5 or 6 times.

I'll often change my action descriptions and dialogue based on my mechanical results too.

When you see my posts pop up, would you mind giving me about 15 minutes to finish editing?

Caine, you can actually preview your results and post accordingly by hitting the preview button down at the bottom of the Text box.

This is the part where I feel dumb...

It's all good. I didn't know about it for a while, either.

Yup, I use the preview, to say if enemies miss or hit.

We seem to have slowed down a bit. Fafhrd is usually pretty good about checking in, but I can't remember the last time we heard from Chuluun. I'm worried we may have lost him too.

Fafhrd went to Canada, Chuluun went on some business trip, will get a post up in a bit. Power went out when I was going to post and just got it back.

I'm back and I'll finish getting caught up tonight.

With Rage, Mutagen and Bull Strength and your hammer, you could probably make short work of that cage.

Hi all. I am still away on trip. Managed to squeeze quick peek here.

I will be back to normal this coming Thursday.

Viktor, thanx for the tip of Preview, I am also one of the silly ones here.