Disjunction

Game Master Diamondust

Exactly. Knowledge of fiction won't be too helpful.

Still it gives us a starting vocabulary. I think most cultures in the world had stories or even beliefs in the undead.

Ahhh! I've been delayed a few times today meaning to update for you guys. I will definitely get to it tonight though!

I am going on travel for work tomorrow through Thursday and then directly to Dragon Con for the weekend. I'll have my laptop and will try to keep up through Thursday but after that my time will likely be eaten by the con. Will be home late Monday September 4. Bot me as needed.

I want to give y'all a heads up. I'm travelling out of town Thursday for my brother's wedding, and then I have my thesis project presentation, then I'm travelling out of town again to paint a mural at a street art festival in Denver! So Thursday through the next Sunday I'm going to be busy. I will try my hardest to post at least once a day, but it seems that's kind of the pace of this game so far more or less.

I hope everyone is enjoying the game so far!

Hey all. I am back from my work trip and con. Pretty exhausted (very little sleep at cons for me) and catching up on everything. I hope to have a post up soon. I have a short trip this weekend too and will be gone Friday through Sunday. But then that's it for trips for a while.

I am finally caught up enough to begin to read the 29 posts I am behind here. I'll do my best to post today.

I run my home game tonight and then leave tomorrow for a blacksmithing event over the weekend so I will not be posting much until Monday. But after this trip I promise I'll be home for a while.

Blacksmithing?

I hope you don't become overwrought. :)

Yes. I have been learning and acquiring tools for about 4 years now. Hoping to build a shop soon.

Cooil Yep that's ok. I was planning on letting you choose the animal. As you know there is a creek nearby where they get their water and where they sometimes wash and also play.

If anyone else has any thoughts or questions about what's happening to them feel free to ask. I won't answer all questions or give away everything but I want it to be a fun journey.

Checking in. Sorry for my absence. My mother had a mild heart attack and has been in intensive care in the hospital since Tuesday. Little damage to her heart and two stints have cleared any blockage but her blood pressure will not go back up. Until it does she is stuck in the ICU and I am stuck 12 hours a day at the hospital. I hope live is back to normal soon.

So sorry to hear that. Do what you need to do. RL is more important.

All good mate. You take care of what you need to.

Thanks Guys. There is surprisingly little downtime. Not even getting enough sleep. Wearing down, I hope something change soon.

Moms are the most important, but take care of yourself too.

Sorry to hear about the heart problem. Hope it gets getter soon.

Its been a rough 10 days but it has a happy ending. I am back at work and catching up on things. My mother spent 8 nights in ICU but is finally well enough that they moved her to a normal room last night and they are talking about sending her home as early as tomorrow. I'll post in game later today. Thanks for putting up with my absence.

Glad things are better. :)

good to hear :)

Awesome things are looking up. I meant to say that you have your full inspiration pool after the first night.

I'm going to be camping Friday through Sunday. 'Bot me if necessary.

Nudge

Cooil, waiting on you.

@Janice: Is detect magic a cantrip you would be happy having as one of your known spells? i didn't mean to take character choices away from you.

Yes, absolutely. Detect Magic is very useful. No worries.

@Desmond: What cleric domains are you choosing?

Judgment and Redemption

Hey everyone.

I will be allowing some skill retraining beyond the normal retraining rules. Since you are technically becoming a gestalt you won't get more skill ranks to add until level 8. What I am going to do is each level up to 7th you can have 1 free skill retraining. What this will do is let you move up to your int mod in skill ranks to other skills. If that is not enough you can do more retraining with the usual expenditure of dedicated time here. This will let you gain knowledge of things you wouldn't have learnt on earth in a very magicless environment.

I will be travelling for the holidays this Thurs. through next Friday. I may be a little less active during that time.

Safe travels.

I am not traveling at all, so I'll be free to post as needed.

Sorry about the slow update guys. PC crashed last night.

I don't mean to make everyone roleplay every mundane day. Unfortunately you don't all get your class abilities in the same way or at the same time.

I've been watching the BBC series Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and noticed that this season there are some parallels to our game . Characters are shifting to a different dimension where there are wizards, magic, and other fantasy world elements. One character is being guided to learn to do magic. There's also a thread where a wizard from the fantasy world is mucking about with a magic wand in the normal earth world. It's an interesting and popular trope.

Luckily none of us have pink hair. :)

Nor do we have to wield scissors instead of swords. :)

That's interesting. I'm looking forward to Bright which comes out on netflix in december. I'm hoping it might give me a few ideas for down the line.

Judgment and Redemption

I chose these because they fit my understanding of the Catholic conception of God. However, I'm not sure what deity will actually be granting Desmond his power. If it is the Angel of this world or something beyond that, I'm willing to have a discussion about it.

That's fine you will get those domains.

I want to clarify the language thing. You have knowledge of their language for 24hrs after touching the ziggurat object. They don't understand English, you understand and are speaking their language. This is just like the Share Language spell.

Gotcha. I was thinking it was more like comprehend language instead.

Life been a bit nuts this weekend. Will update soon guys.

no worries here

I have a questions about communicating with Cooil's spirit animal. The rules say the spirit animal is like a wizard's familiar except as noted in the Shaman sections, including the particular spirit selected. A wizard's familiar normally can only communicate with its master with the empathic link ability listed in the 1st level abilities of the familiar.

Empathic Link (Su): The master has an empathic link with his familiar to a 1 mile distance. The master can communicate empathically with the familiar, but cannot see through its eyes. Because of the link’s limited nature, only general emotions can be shared. The master has the same connection to an item or place that his familiar does.

But the rules for the Ancestors spirit say, "The spirit animal can speak and understand a number of bonus languages equal to the shaman’s Charisma bonus."

Does this mean when Cooil communicates with his spirit animal with the empathic link, he can use language or is it still limited to just general emotions?

The rules for Intelligence say a creature with Intelligence 6 or 7 is "Dull-witted or slow, often misuses and mispronounces words." I would generally interpret this to mean language use roughly the same as a child just learning to speak.

Should I treat the spirit animal essentially as an NPC that the GM controls or as an Ally that I control unless the GM decides to take control in specific situations?

Do you have any other guidance to suggest on role playing the spirit animal?

Thanks.

You will control the spirit companion as much as a wizard controls a familiar, I will control or speak for it only at specific times. It will know the tree people's common and sylvan. If it speaks it will be telepathic. You can choose its bonus languages like you are teaching them to it. It won't be a walking commune spell but it will be able to be helpful while in its home world and the Spirit Dream(where you will feel like the familiar funnily enough).

Thanks. Today I saw a pair of real river otters at a nature center in a park where I live.

Also I meant the cantrip slot you get is one slot that you can change the spell each day when you prepare spells. Since Shamans have access to their whole list. So you don't have to only use Create Water.

Gameplay post is finally up guys. I apologise for the long wait. I have been exhausted the last while but I have not forgotten anyone.

My posting may be limited for the next few days. My home computer is in the shop and so I'm limited to using my iPad or my work computer. It's also the start of a new teaching term, so that keeps me a bit busy the first few days. I'm teaching in the morning now, Monday through Thursday, so most post will have to wait to late afternoon or evening.

going into the holidays and all, I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the game :)

Merry Christmas everyone and apologies for my unannounced christmas absence. Getting right back at it with only 1 more short break new year's eve/day where I won't be on here.