DM Carbide's Through a Cracked Mirror: The Dark Road
Game Master John Woodford

The main discussion thread for this PbP is HERE. Please use that thread for OOC discussion.

Now that James Martin has closed the original thread, any discussion can go here. Yeronimous' player is still quiet on the boards, and I haven't really been pushing things while waiting for him. Now I'd like to press on, though, so if you'd like to continue, please check in here. We can recruit a couple more players, or I can dial the opposition down a bit. Personally I'd prefer to get more players, since (paradoxically) that seems to make for a faster-moving game. I haven't GMed much on the boards, though, so I'm always open to suggestions and comments.

Its looking like this game has died unfortunately, a victim of the Christmas recess.

I'm afraid so. Pixel Cube hasn't been back on the boards at all, and I have no idea what happened with the other two. I'm not sure it'd be possible to get new people brought in and up to speed with only you left, although I just thought of a way to do it that might work if you're interested. Let me know.

I've enjoyed the ride, but don't feel great about Darc getting to know another bunch of characters....

.....but then I'm liking Darc and his gruff ways ...

.....OK, if you can get a few adventurers to join in, let's say we reconvene in 3 weeks, say the 15th Feb with the new characters up and ready to go. I'll come back then and see if you've had any success. Is that OK with you DM Carbide?

Huh--I thought I'd replied already. Yes, that's fine. I posted the recruitment thread and have a few nibbles (not hard, with how fast PbP games fill up).

Sami gazes at the towering spires and sprawl of the city with wide wonder. Once again, he has to catch himself and draw back within the concealment of his hood. Though his race was widely known in his homeland, this place was much different, and he knew that persecution for his race would only be a hindrance to his quest. From withinhis shadowed cowl, he responds to the stranger, though his mastery of the common tongue is basic at best.

Indeed, I seem to have lost my way. Perhaps you could show me the direction to your healers...the most powerful in the city, if you know of them.

Having never seen a talking bird before, but at the same time thinking it no coincidence that the dream and the bird are related he picks up his pace, wondering what sort of evils he will have to face to set things right.

Clearly this is a task I was meant to undertake, with much curiosity I am off to go meet this guy.

Finally having arrived in the city, Xavier glances over the metropolis before him.
Ho, Father, if you could see your fool son now

He'd have to finish the trip to the City markets and settle with the traders he'd signed on to guard. The whole scenario seemed beyond him. He leaves home to make his own way, defends a village and now he was following a damn bird.
Dad said the big adventures started like this..

He'd hoped the Wizard (it must be a wizard) was famous because beyond asking around the magic shops, he had no idea how he was going to find the pointy hat.

It occurs to me that since this is beginning to turn into gameplay, it's time to move it over to that thread. I still have to review your characters in detail, but I didn't see anything in the first pass that would give me pause.

One piece of bookkeeping: Max HP at first level, roll after that and if you roll less than the average take the average value instead.

I still have not rolled yet. I had forgotten about that.
HP rolls
1d8 ⇒ 1
1d8 ⇒ 2
1d8 ⇒ 5

The average is going to be x.5. As an example for a d8 it's 4.5.

Do I round up to 5 or down to 4?

Round up to 5.

I will fix my hp in my profile, and await your final looking over of my character sheet.

HP:
3d8 ⇒ (4, 1, 8) = 13

My apologies - I've still alot to flesh out with Sami. The BG is really the only thing complete. I'll have him done by tomorrow at the latest.

It occurs to me that since this is beginning to turn into gameplay, it's time to move it over to that thread. I still have to review your characters in detail, but I didn't see anything in the first pass that would give me pause.

One piece of bookkeeping: Max HP at first level, roll after that and if you roll less than the average take the average value instead.

Cool. I showed my rolls in the recruitment thread.

So adding 1

yea hey ... new people ...

Let me know when we meet up and stuff ... not that Darc says very much ... but no healer type boo hoo!! Oh well, might have to be a bit more ...

Character updated; should be about done.

@all.

Hey just on Xaviers INT. I never roleplayed a char with a score that low before but I don't think he has to talk in the 3rd person. I started a thread on the advice board about roleplaying a 7 int.

Opinions widely very but I read some pretty good arguememts saying a 7 int is roughly an IQ of 83. Think Rocky Balboa. Or a solid D student. So I was intending to play him as a lovable jock! His planning usually consists of 'Up the front' and retreat is a 4 letter word. He'll listen to party members so don't worry about him kicking in the door while you plan, just know he'll not offer any convuluted shemes and don't ask him to remember anything complicated.

Daddy was a Pally so he has manners and a simple charm. But there is somthing basr inside as well.

I think its adorable, also funny his first thought is about bedding my char when he saw her, lol. :)

-How much longer do we need to wait for Rashun?

I am here. The GM said he had to do a final look over of characters before we started. If the game started I did not know about it, sorry.

edit:If the game started can someone post a link?

http://paizo.com/campaigns/DMCarbidesThroughACrackedMirrorTheDarkRoad/gamep lay&page=last

Today was my wife's birthday, and work was also kind of frenetic. Real post coming tomorrow.

I apologize if I made that confusing; I'll put my direct conversation in a spoiler to DM Carbide next time...hindsight...

are we getting another post for us cause thats what I was waiting on?

Tare the game has started. It is here.
It is strange that both of us got confused and we had to give each other links. :)

I know the game has started I am eretria I am asking if he is posting more for US as in you, me and xavier

ok. I misunderstood.

You will, though it may have to be later today--posting's been thin, because I'm in hospital. The joys of getting older; I had a blood pressure spike a couple of nights ago, and though it wasn't anything obviously damaging the docs still want to give me a stress test this morning. I've got time for a few posts before the sadists, er, techs arrive, but after that I'm not sure what they'll want to do.

Hope you feel better, Carbide! Don't let us stress you out!

Keep well Carbide don't worry about us ... we'll still be here when you're better.

Take your time. The game can wait.

Get well first

and now I feel bad for asking >_>

and now I feel bad for asking >_>

Don't feel bad, I'm sure DM Carbide would prefer we all know he's still with us, just delayed. Unless someone had asked, we might have thought of things differently.

No problem, Eretria. I should've mentioned something sooner. In other news, I'm back among the living. The stress test was negative (so I have no stress? I don't think so...), I'm just supposed to cut way back on sodium and maybe get high blood pressure meds. On the whole, it could have been a lot worse. I'll get a post out later today.

Incidentally, I was up for posting earlier today...until I had someone run a red light while I was on the way to work and total my car. This has been a bad week.

Holy crap; you're not kidding. I hope that you and yours are unhurt from the accident!

Surviving; it's been kind of tough to focus on things with the insurance paperwork and the search for a replacement vehicle hanging over my head. I think I have most of it taken care of, though.

Xavier, I just wanted to say I adore how you note that your character's mind isn't completely on the task at hand :)

Agree with Eretria; I think you're doing a really good job of roleplaying someone less intelligent in a functional way.

It's easy. I just pick the lack of focus displayed by my ADD 6 year old.
;)

I imagine a 7 int adult reasons and speaks fine but would be a bit unfocused.

SO rashun's post prompted me to show a visual example of what exactly eretria is wearing

Picture this robe/dress, only colored in white... she is a sorceress after all so they dont wear armor :)

Thanks Eretia. I will edit the post, but now he will just find another complaint. :)

Xavier's character is funny though.

he really is... sadly he might actually endear himself to eretria >_>

Even untalkative half-orcs might flutter an eyelid at Eretria...

When they meet up, obviously.

Oh geez, that would be three of ya finding her cute XD
Sami hasn't commented one way or another but I figure since he is rping a lizard guy its probably not a thought his char has

Sorry; not enough tail for me.

Lol