The Strangler of the Shadow Moor (Inactive)

Game Master Terquem

Sorry bout that as i was responding the paizo gobos appeared on my screen. Just have them attack my initiative iz only plus 1 anyway

Thanksgiving is just about a week away and I know it is a time here in the U.S. when many people spend happy times (and sometimes not so happy times, haha) with their extended families. I am off work all next week and will try to keep all my games up dated, but I expect everyone here in the U.S. will be a bit busier than normal.

I'm another American, and I know Xor is, too. Anyone else from anywhere else?

I'm American, but I'm going to school in Canada. American Thanksgiving is too close to Christmas break for me to go home for both, so Thanksgiving will probably be just another day for me.

Also American... but living in Korea. There's no turkeys here ;.;

people who are not fans of Kim Jong-un would disagree with you...

I live in the Philippines. To me, Thanksgiving is a mysterious holiday that involves turkeys, american indians, and awkward family get-togethers that involve a lot of food.

Yep, that pretty much sums it up, oh and pie, lots of pie

Ribat: Be sure your hit point total is what it should be now - you've also healed 1 point.

Good catch, Sasithorn. Thanks.

Somehow I copied the Sacred Touch trait to my sheet and completely missed the Standard Action part?

So that will have to wait for round 2, when the lion is trying to drag Xor off for dinner

Dwarf meat is notoriously tough and gristly. Are you sure there is something more tender and tasty that he'd rather eat?

<_<

>_>

Given those meat-and-ale breakfasts you're so keen on, I daresay you've made yourself pretty succulent.

it was worth a shot

A current encounter map is posted, sorry that it is crude. The blue line represents the boundary of the hill and outside of that there is water of varying depth from about 1 to 3 feet.

You're a bit glass-jawed for a Dwarf, aren't you Xor?

At low levels, a crit makes everyone a bit glass jawed.

I was thinking of your Constitution score, actually.

Are you sure you don't want to double-move, M.A.R.V.I.N.? Or even charge it (which you could just do from where you are)?

I suppose I technically could, and I can always drop my weapons if I wanted to drag Xor away.

Thank you everyone for supporting this game!

I have to go out of town today, leaving in a couple of minutes, sort of an emergency, but if everything id fine I should be back late Sunday. I hope to be able to update then

Thank you all so much, once again

Ready to move on? Just let me know what you want to do next.

Can't remember all the quests we have active right now, but the one we're doing is following a trail when Nathaniel and Gideon disappeared. The other one we're keeping an eye out for is the experimented troll-zombie thing.

That's better than I can remember. I guess I had those two mixed together.

Well we are entering a long couple of weeks of various lengths of vacation time for most people in the USA. I’m off of work until the 4th of January (woo hooo!) I won’t expect regular posting from anyone, but please do check in when you can, as I will be in and out as often as I can. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of you who celebrate this time of year

I had wanted to get back to updating my games on Friday, and instead ended up in the emergency care center getting eight stitches in my left hand. Now, I’m not the best two handed typist by far, but the whole situation (frozen water pipe for the second time this winter, flooded basement window well, broken window and the cuts to my hand) put me in an awful mood.

So here I am typing this with the right hand and one finger of the left, and letting everyone know I’m back and going to try to get things moving again.

Thanks to each and every one of you, you’ve been great players and very patient with me.

Let’s find out where we were and get going again.

Much thanks to you as well. =] I hope things for you are getting better!

Does anyone else have any questions for the farmer or his daughter. Do you all want to go see the old woman?

Sounds good. Diarmal's just hanging about and waiting for the graces of Lady Aisling to be called upon!

Yah, take us to the old lassie

Can't think of anything else to ask, so to grandma's house we go!

Indeed.

If there is anything I can do to generate interest in this game, for each of you, please PM me your suggestions.

It seems I am doing a terrible job of creating any hooks or NPC's that most of you find interesting and I do want to see this game go on, but it seems like it is sliding into doldrums rapidly.

I'm still interested! I apologize if I'm not quite active, I'm having some personal problems.

I think it would be good to have a small summary of our current goal and previous goals in the campaign tab, as well as allies. I can't speak for the others, but I sometimes have trouble remembering who's with us and what the different character hooks are. I can search the previous posts to make the basics of it if you want.

A general recap would be much appreciated!

Yes! Good idea I will put together a brief synopsis today and short important details about the NPC's as well and post it to the campaign thread.

I see now that keeping the campaign Info tab up to date and relevant to current situation is vital to a successful PbP campaign, Thanks!

I'm still paying attention - there's just only so much I can do, and I've got my fingers in several ongoing pies right now.

This game includes these Characters

Xor, a Dwarven Cleric who specializes in throwing rocks (been in the game from the beginning)

Sasithorn, a shadowy, small, elven-type, arcane master (been in the game from nearly the beginning, also has some memories of a previous adventure that may have included Tessrimea’s grandmother (see this game The Castaways )

Diarmal, a Drasbian (highland elf) cleric, (been in the game from the second encounter)

Marvin, an android gunslinger (been in the game from the beginning)

Ribat, a grippli ranger (been in the game from the second encounter)

The adventure began when strange things that seemed to be part shadow, and part undead (being made of stuff from the plane of shadow and the plane of negative energy, technically they were not “undead” but had similar aspects and were accompanied by skeletons and zombies) attacked a village called Connie’s Bright. This attack came hot on the heels of an attempted kidnapping of a young barmaid named Holly who disappeared, after she was rescued and allegedly attacked the barman, Nigel, with a knife. A group of newly acquainted heroes agreed to set off toward the west, into a place known as the Shadow Moor to try an discover the origins of these monsters.

These events occurred late on a Thursday Night

The heroes were joined by these Non Player Characters, on Friday Morning to discuss a plan

Nathaniel, an Eshian (Halfling) paladin

Tessrimea, a Gymnagaopthian cleric

And

Paulina Southmiller, a dwarven fighter

Paulina identified herself as being someone assigned to observe this “planet” and claimed she originated or came from, another world. She has demonstrated strange technology and has claimed that Marvin should not be able to wield a gun on this world. Her explanation was difficult to follow.

The party left Connie’s Bright on Friday afternoon to find some answers in the Moor

The party found a ruin, to the west of Connie’s Bright, and evidence that some other person, or persons, also have access to advanced technology and were conducting experiments on various creatures captured in the Moor. One of these creatures, a Bullywug female, named Fonidea was rescued from a holding cell in the ruin, and told the party about a strange monster that was set free in the Moor, by her captors.

The party lost a few members, including Nathaniel, when he went off with another hero (Gideon) who temporarily joined the party after being discovered hunting in the Moor.

The party followed a trail, presumably left by the strange monster described by Fonidea, for a few miles to the north of the ruin, and when night fell, a rainy night, the party made camp on a small dry patch of land in the moor with a few small trees, and were attacked by a lion. The lion was badly injured but managed to run off, into the darkness of the wet moor, with Ribat’s net still clinging to it.
On Saturday morning, the party continued to the north, and found a small hamlet, not even a village, with a few settlers living on the very edge of the moor, making a living by farming (cutting, drying and selling) peat as fuel. They met a man there named Keith VanSullon and his daughter Karen who told the party that the small hamlet was called Havanstand.

The party heard a story that involves an attack on the hamlet by a hulking dark creature that almost killed a man named peter Gikk, but that the monster was driven off by an old, mostly blind woman, named Grandma Marili, who happens to be Keith’s Mother-in-law, and Karen’s Grandmother.

Sasithorn suggested the party visit this old woman, and that is where you are now.

[ooc]This synopsis was very hard to write, as I kept wanting to make it longer, but I hope this is enough to explain what is going on.[/b]

What this game is about

The idea for this adventure began with the game "The Castaways" which was supposed to involve alien technology being used to open portals to other planes, and when that game died, I changed the idea a little and moved it to this campaign, which originally started out as being something that was supposed to be very lose and carefree, but got ,moved away from the open gaming thread by the site's moderators without me asking them to do that. So now, you are a party of adventurers tracking a monster that has been on the lose for about a month, strangling and eviscerating villagers, and in the process of determining the why's and wherefore's you've discovered something bigger involving a mysterious villain in a red cloak.

A good summary! Thank you.

Sasithorn, a shadowy, small, elven-type, arcane master (been in the game from nearly the beginning, also has some memories of a previous adventure that may have included Tessrimea’s grandmother (see this game The Castaways )

I don't suppose this remarkable mystery is fated to see any tie-ins/resolutions?

Ribat manages to quit staring at Fonidea long enough to ask where he can find a new net.

He doesn't have enough cash, but his 2 lbs. of darkwood are worth 20 gp, which is the cost of a net.

Ooh...I'm just saying, DM, that if I were you, I'd take this opportunity to let the guy playing a travelling merchant attempt some kind of haggling check for a better deal...:)

That's an excellent suggestion, Sasithorn, and others have also offered alternatives.

I'd like to leave it to Ribat, should he want to replace the net, ooc, with a few messages exchanged between players here to cover the logistics that would be fine, or if the player would like to Role Play the opportunity to sell the Darkwood now, he can go ahead and ask marali about that.

Alright, I'll move things along very soon with a post, but I just want to make sure that all the characters are on board for moving to the next village?

Sorry for holding things up, but I had a hard time deciding what Ribat would do.

Yep lets go

I'm good!

Sounds good!

Into the Unseen!

Just a thought, Ribat: Maybe you want to take the opportunity to buy a Small trident or scimitar, if such things can be found here?

I'm about to go on an 8-day trip. I should stay able to post, but it's possible I won't.

No worries we won't forget you.