I think Gris is at 10/19 hit points. I'd welcome any contrasting opinion. Or healz. Kthxbai.
Right, if anyone's still hurt, the ship voyage was restful enough to regain 2 hp naturally.
I think Gris is at 10/19 hit points. I'd welcome any contrasting opinion. Or healz. Kthxbai.
Pssh. It's like you think Roderic's Cove is dangerous or something. What could happen to a bunch of newcomers in a known pirates' haven after dark?
Looks to be 18 altogether, then. Thanks.
I'm floating around... though I'll be a bit scatter brained over the next week or so. We've got Chinese New Year (so Mon and Tues are both public holidays)... oh... and there's some job related turmoil to deal with as well... fun times!
Hope things return to an even keel for you, Mark.
Well... on an even keel now... but the ship's been de-masted. For clarity, I've been put on enforced annual leave - which is to be followed by unpaid leave unless some work emerges from the shadows. So considering how long (if at all) I want to commit to that before potentially figuring out an exit strategy from Malaysia to parts and climes presently unknown.
All is good, though unsettled... and somewhat doing my head in. Which is partially why I've been somewhat less than my usual loquacious and verbose self in thread.
"... I'm off to make introductions." pausing while he holds gaze to see if there is dissenting or affirming reaction from the others.
Presume we're waiting on you for the next step, Mark?
Yep - step taken, sorry for the holdup - CNY festivities and what not.
Yeah, I noted as I was posting that your long holiday weekend was only just over. Hope I didn't come across too pushy; just wanted to verify that you had something you were planning to do.
Sorry I have been slow posting. The last two days have been crazy on surgery.
I've had a busy week as well. And then someone digging in the neighborhood cut a cable today, and we didn't have landline or internet all afternoon.
A post of mine has evaporated. A response to the barman. From days ago. I'll try to catch up soon.
Just a short note with apologies - I've not been in a happy headspace (well that plus busy with real life events over the weekend) for a while which has made it difficult to get into character. Hopefully on the mental mend and will be back into it sharpish, but a bit of patience is appreciated.
Meandering melancholy makes most messages morose?
Certainly understandable, given your unsettled circumstances, Mark -- and iirc, you usually did most of your posting from the office.
Was there anything else Phillip was wanting to do tonight, or are you okay with moving ahead to bedtime when everyone else is?
Nah - Phil didn't have anything specific for the rest of the night really... apart from making sure we were reasonably well battened down and unlikely to get murdered in our sleep.
Aye - I did do alot of posting from the office... but if anything it should be 'easier' as I have a few hours with no kids at home in the morning while I'm on my enforced leave.
Its a challenge dealing with massive change. I hope that things begin to move along a bit better for you soon.
Shortest day ever! Only 102 posts. ;D
Aye - I did do alot of posting from the office... but if anything it should be 'easier' as I have a few hours with no kids at home in the morning while I'm on my enforced leave.
In theory. The thing is, when you're at the office, you can reasonably feel like you've nothing else to do at any given moment. At home, I at least tend to think of all the chores around the house that need to be done: laundry, dishes, cleaning, tidying, general home maintenance. I don't think there's been a moment since we moved in that I haven't felt like there's something I really should be getting done and feeling guilty about not doing it.
Man may work from sun to sun, but whoever's at home's work is never done.
News on the work front... I have some! Will be mobilising offshore (to an oil rig) on Sunday for anywhere up to 3-4 weeks. The role should continue on and off through till the end of May - which gives a bit more stability to me here (plus means I can get paid again ;).
What it might mean though is that I suddenly drop off the contact map. Until I get offshore I have no clue what their internet filters are or aren't going to pick up... so while I'm hopeful Paizo is still accessible it isn't guaranteed. As long as I can get online I'll pop up a quick howdy - but again given it's a new job and I'll be landing right in the middle of ongoing operations it might take a few days before I get meaningful downtime.
So ultimately smiley face followed by pensive face which is hopefully followed by tired yet professionally satisfied visage.
Very good news, even if it means less of you, however temporarily.
First things first.
Shortest day ever! Only 102 posts. ;D
That's still impressive- 102 for "You get there." :-D
(And I took my hp up 2 to max for the new day too.)
NSFW due to language - but these are well worth a watch and chuckle.
I'm sure you're busy this weekend, Mark, but if you have the time to drop a post about Phillip's intentions in Roderic's Cove, it'll make things easier on me if you end up not being able to access Paizo reliably.
Yarp - will do in character presently. Children have been banished out of our hair to the electronic babysitter :P
Basically he's proposing doing a decent reccy of the town - sniffing out the seedier quarters (where Marlo or Lil might be) and establishing whether the ship in question has been at port. Both done with some degree of circumspection if possible - I think the first day we should probably try the softly softly cheeky monkey approach... then go Braddon nuclear tomorrow if we need results with more alacrity.
One of the other points of interest would be any scuttlebutt in the seedier sections re: Marlo's operations / intentions in Riddleport.
So the plan is to split the party? Braddon, Phillip, and Snake investigating the Teeth of Araska, while Tendal and Gristav approach the Port Lieutenant?
Split the party. Ah those 3 famous little words. What could possibly go wrong? Right? :P
Well we did spend a whole evening and day together... it's an improvement ;)
And aye, split away.
Access confirmed while offshore - just need to find some time to use it now :P
Yay. :-)
Indeed: yay. :)
A wild post appeared - I'll only be online once a day - and even then for only potentially 0.5-2 hours or so... so I'll probably be on the side of less detail rather than more... but at least I'll be here!
Ugh. sorry I am so slow. I am back on nights for the next 2 weeks, internal medicine now. I have been getting only an hour or 2 of sleep at a time for the last 2 days, so I am kinda a mess right now.
Don't worry about it, Zeta. I've had a busy week, and Mark's going to be limited in posting time at least until he gets back onshore.
That said, I'll never understand why medical schools think it's a good idea to make sure their students never sleep. I got one of those little marketing magazines from a local hospital with an article on how important it is for one's health and well-being to get enough sleep and how sleep-deprivation negatively affects job performance just today. Schools training nutritionists don't brag about forcing their students to eat meals of Oreos and Mountain Dew. It's like they're just hazing you.
Sorry for the silence. Work went crazy, weekend went under and I noticed I'd last posted Wednesday. Many apologies, will pay more attention.
Enervating couple of days... sigh.
What Marikel said. :-)
Well... I'll confuse the situation to say that today we did 3 hours work in 14 hours and it's still good enough to be considered a 'day well spent'.
Slickline-ing ain't easy, but someone's got to get bored senseless watching it for the whole day in the sun.
Slickline-ing ain't easy, but someone's got to get bored senseless watching it for the whole day in the sun.
I have no clue what that is, but I keep picturing you press-ganged into a crew like the beginning of Skull & Shackles.
I have no clue what that is, but I keep picturing you press-ganged into a crew like the beginning of Skull & Shackles.
LOL (actually LOQ... I'm at work :-)
Well... I'll confuse the situation to say that today we did 3 hours work in 14 hours and it's still good enough to be considered a 'day well spent'.
Slickline-ing ain't easy, but someone's got to get bored senseless watching it for the whole day in the sun.
Well, I'll confess that you've done well. :)
Dang that's a long day. I can see why you would be spent. That's just brutal.
Slicklining is using a really long, really thin wire to deliver tools and do work deep inside an oil well. Imagine a DC 30 Disable Device check, that you can't take 20 on, and where maybe three of the 20 guys there are Aiding Another, three are counting how much money is being lost every minute, and the rest are holding their actions to be first to call 'not it' if something goes wrong.
Oh, and a couple paramedics and firemen, because they might be needed, too.
I'm guessing 14 hrs on a 3-hr job is 'went well', because it wasn't 74 hours?
Heh - Gristav is reasonably close to the mark. It's actually a really nice thing to try and explain to non oilfield people as it just sounds so daft and stupid.
"So let me get this right - there's a plug that you need to put inside the well about 8,000ft down below you, so you stick it on the end of a bit of wire and just dangle it in there?"
"Well yeah, gravity still works right so it just drags it straight in... well not straight in... we need to give it a bit of help because the well is not straight up and down... so get this - we stick wheels on the side and make it heavy - genius right?"
"Hmm, ok - so that lets you get it down there... what happens next?"
"Oh that's the exciting bit... we kind of jiggle it."
*Eyebrow raises* "You... jiggle it...?"
"Yeah totally - the bit we hung off the end has a 'jar' in it which opens and closes right. So we just pull on it quick or let go of it a bit until it runs into itself."
*Eyebrow rises further* "You make it hit itself?..."
"Yep - no other thing for it really... and we keep making it hit itself until we snap a bit of it off and it stays where we want it... right in the nipple... most of the time at least."
"So what happens when it doesn't stay where you want it?"
"Oh... that's when it gets really interesting... and we go fishing!"
Or something like that at least... generally no paramedics and firemen though... just some really uncomfortable calls to town when things go pear shaped.
3 hours in 14 is good because we finished the day ahead of where we started. So long as you're plodding forward, not matter how slow - it's still in the positive territory.
14 hours isn't that bad - I'm only required to be outside for about 12 of them - the other time's spent inside with emails and paperwork and such. Yesterday I was up at 04:45 and got to bed at 00:30 the next day... still a long shot from the bad old days though. Old timers generally have stories of a 40-70 hour shift that they did when they was just a lad. My best is 36, though at the moment it's pretty decent as I've got a back to back. When I'm the only guy and dealing with long hours and broken sleep patterns it gets really gnarly.
Good lord, I thought my time flying had crazy long shifts. You definitely win...whatever you win Phillip.
Not sure if I would want to compete against you for longest shift tho...
You ain't kiddin' about that, Zeta. I can't even imagine a 36 hour shift.
Don't know how you do it, Mark. They'd be calling in the coroner for me if I had to work those kinda hours.
Very busy today and into tonight.
Please do not delay for me. Gris dutifully takes a servant's meal in servant's company.
Have to share this. Was looking into our archives, saw this post and the two following...
http://paizo.com/campaigns/ShadowOverRiddleport/gameplay&page=149#7427
And thought of this:
https://youtu.be/J0BrdMi-oyc?t=228
So offshore sojourn number 1 should be winging it's way to a close on the morrow - 20 days offshore, so not too bad a ticket to swing at. Likely get a little bit over a week at home before I have to do it all again.
Yay! Post for Phillip when you get home.