I thought that we needed to bring the oak back to Tweyd, so the shield could be made with all the fancy Symbolism and stuff.
Hmm, for me the dots work better than they should: the forum keeps showing me new posts that don't exist. Oh well.
I'm very busy in real life at the moment. Nothing serious, just a lot of things that have to get done around the same time. Unfortunately this means I can't post here as much as I would like to. Things will be back to normal on Wednesday or Thursday next week.
But until then I won't be able to write big posts, if I am able to write at all.
Feel free to remote control my character as needed to keep the story going.
I'll also have to delay the revealing of Ana's backstory till then. Sorry to Thorvald, and anyone else who is waiting for it.
Ana will ask the others to accompany her to meet the fae lord.
Boards seem to be feeling a bit better (23.Oct.12, 2350 EDT).
@Ana - glad to hear nothing amiss. Personally, I'm going to hunker down for a few days ahead of the election myself. Then I'm going to try to catch up to National Novel Writing Month. I console myself that hectic schedules indicate interesting people :)
"So, Ana, have any of our male compatriots managed to catch your eye? Some of them aren't too bad looking you know."
Zethyris, hearing the murmuring of the females, decides to step it up a notch. With a brilliant grin, the dashing half-elf winks to the audience. He then puts on a blindfold, and fights with one hand behind his back.
His dark-blonde flowing locks gleam in the sun, and his sword seems to be a glowing blur as it flashes faster than the eye can see, weaving a net of steel around his opponent's blade.
Zethyris then sheaths his rapier and somersaults over his opponent's head, backflipping away from the whirling horizontal slice.
As he lands, he opens his palm to reveal a [insert personal item here] that he managed to palm from his opponent during his acrobatic display.
Tossing the stolen item back to his bewildered opponent, he draws his rapier, flourishes and bows, then heads back to the sidelines as the next pair of combatants take the field.
Taking off his blindfold, he throws a grin at the ladies and goes back to shooting his bow.
Sure, you look great, until Jediah proposes the elf tossing contest
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Hey now, you're only *half* elf, so don't get all uppity on us boy. :P
I hope they fix / update the boards soon. Sometimes it updates when I've read posts other times it doesn't. Its been doing it since Monday night.
Yeah, the boards are really driving me crazy. :(
Yeah my posta are getting out of order because other posts "appear" after I submit one.
Jediah last call on getting Thorvald to resize the half-plate for you before everyone heads back to Tweyd. Also noticed someone ask about selling loot and such in Merton, that's not possible due to them having nothing to trade and no money. Once back in Tweyd you can sell anything you need/want to as normal. Also another hint to close off remaining subquests here, no-one has talked to anyone about securing lumber for Tweyd.
I am trying to gloss over Anastasiya's little trip to the forest right now de to her business in RL if everyone could help me out by letting those questions and such slide until next week would be appreciated.
Very well, Jediah will ask for the half-plate to be resized
apologies for bouncing around the timeline - i'm being a little ADHD trying to wrap some of the threads up.
Hey guys before we go back to Savol let's go to the lumber camp! We can get some lumber to take with us and I bet there is wealth and tools there we can give to the village. A win win for everyone. ARC will take us there if we are interested plus out of game it will give us something to do without Ana that won't be as important as seeing Savol again.
So YouTube Immigrant song, put on your horned helmets and get ready to get your looting on!
Sounds fine to me. Loot and pillage! Though Rutilux might not be entirely pleased...
"Lumber camp adventure time everyone!"
Sounds fine to me. Loot and pillage! Though Rutilux might not be entirely pleased...
Hey! Their dead! They won't mind. Plus you can't leave it just lying around for bandits or the evil eaters of the flesh to capture. Kids could get hurt! it is Rutilex's civic duty. And besides the social justice of helping the village rejuvenate itself is a very noble goal. Plus there were women there. Dagmar knows that each one may have up to 35 pairs of shoes to her name. We can loot and scoot!
The muppets can make pillaging look cute though. :) I loved watching that show when little.
hrmmm... good thought. Looting and pillaging without the messy necessity of the slaying. Works for me, and there should at least be anything made of iron remaining. :)
Let's do SOMETHING! Julian needs stimulation!
I'm not touching that one...
Let's do SOMETHING! Julian needs stimulation!
I'm not touching that one...
...and perhaps that is the problem. ;)
Jediah attaches two Shocker Lizards to Julian
On the other topic, Dagmar is okay with passing by the southners village. In such a harsh land with scarce resources, scavenging isn't uncommon. Though she feels guilt for what happened, there's no point in letting anything useful just sit there and rot.
While I was hoping to see the boss sooner rather than later, I can see the points of scavenging. Mind you, Rutilux will be looking out as much for survivors as he will anything else if we go so fair warning :)
Looks like we are all in favour of heading to the village! Hop in the TARDIS, everyone!
Heh he said survivors!
Now, if this were a novel, we'd be conveying the results of our trip to the lumber camp as part of our report to leadership here, in a flashback. Everyone up to shifting to a strict past tense narrative writing style for one scene?
I'm fine with out DM just writing it up as a flashback for us. I'm also fine if he just wants to roll perceptions for us for anything we find.
@Dagmar - sounds like you're trying to weasel out of my literary experiment :)
Ah yes, the return to the lumber camp. Zethryis remembers that day as if it was yesterday...
I vote we play it out (at least until Ana is back). The 'literary experiment' sounds fine with me.
Literary what? Man, I am tryin to keep it real foo! Just put the gold in the bags for cripes sakes! :)
okay I'll set up the flashback later
'literary experiment' ?
You're not an English teacher are you?
@Dagmar - Me? no - I R a engineer (well, computer scientist & program manager). But I play an english major for fun and profit. Thanks for the implicit compliment :)
You're welcome. :)
Well, hopefully if someone calls out, ANOTHER party member will notice, because Rutilux isn't too perceptive right now
His horse-sense is tingling, preventing from hearing well? ;)
Annoying Julian first: how does Zethyris know where he is?
Annoying me: I started a recruitment thread about Star Trek but I can't see it. Can you?
I figured we were all going there (it was listed as the first place we went), but Julian went ahead first. Though I suppose with that perception check I can't see Julian... but I assumed he was sneaky until he realized there was nobody in the room. If he'd rather try to open the safe himself, go ahead. :D
Re: your thread - I can see it from your threads screen, but if I click on the link I get a blank page. It seems to be fairly common after the site update - they're working on it.
Tuesday Update Thread
Demonstrating once again the utility of the specialist trap-monkey :) Zethyris, don't you get a bonus on that save for trapsense or something (not that it much matters..)?
Oh - and... "Paranoid much?" trap on the door and on the safe? gotta be some goodies in there. But it sure doesn't speak well of the internal esprit de corps of the folks that were at the camp...
Not until 3rd level.
Indeed, Bertram seems to have been a little paranoid... but then again, he did dupe a boy from the nearby town into getting himself killed and releasing the Devourer onto the fae - he might have more secrets he wishes not to be known.
A vast Varisian conspiracy is afoot!
Then would a single toe be a small Varisian conspiracy?
:D
Heh ok that took me a little bit, but it got a smile.
Flashbacks within flashbacks. Whee.
I'm back, by the way. But take your time to raid this town thoroughly. I still have to find out what happened to me in that forest.
As soon as you do put on your horned helmet and come pillaging!
Flashbacks all over the place. It has become like Inception!
600!