Odak the Iron Giant |
Again, sorry for the delay. I was so tired on Sunday that I couldn't make a decent post. I've been working today but the internet was out until about an hour ago.
Doctor Majuba |
The Doctor will happily head on down, poking his staff 20' ahead of him shifting his senses to the sentry skull.
Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11
Darkan Unterpied |
Quick question to the Gm. You said earlier that the path split, each route being rather windy. In the current post you said that the air was still and we had yet to reach a turn.
Did you mean winding path? I'm assuming the branch we saw was on the edge of the view.
Doctor Majuba |
I do not wish to block anyone so if you would like to move ahead of The Doctor, please feel free.
Also my number one rule is "Never split the party voluntarily"
Runt the Ogress |
I wish I had thought to give Wolfrager a higher charisma, now that I look at it Eldritch heritage: Orc as a feat line would be really good for her mostly because I want the 'Power of Giants' ability as a way to represent the bit of Frost Giant in Runt's blood coming through.
Oneirohero |
Hey folks, sorry for the lack of activity. Been busy at work and making a menu for a friend. My next GM post will try to resolve WOLFRAGER's attack and then everything else.
To gain more charisma would require either more levels or respeccing your ability scores.We'll have to discuss that for after the conclusion of the current situation.
Karol Heart Singer |
Sorry for the lack of posts, I lost all net unexpectedly for a couple of days. Big fibre issue or something.
Odak the Iron Giant |
Sorry to those waiting, internet provider/DSL has been crapping itself the last several days making it difficult to even stay online, planning a post tomorrow (23rd) when I have the day free.
Karol Heart Singer |
no prob
Oneirohero |
Planning to make a GM Post on the 30th after work, provided my connection doesn't screw me over again.
Been looking for places to rent in my home town so I can move there, get my own internet that works /and/ get physical access to the router all I want. There are other factors involved with moving out but one of them is basically 'to get better internet', it's kiiind of a big deal.
Odak the Iron Giant |
Uhh... please bear with me. My computer has suddenly started degrading and black-screening (does even feed the monitor any signal despite it whirring on the tower)
I'm still trying to get Mak's post done but I fear Maptool may push the system over the edge again.
Odak the Iron Giant |
Warning!
This isn't a drill, the computer I've been using to keep track of everything in the campaign is now unoperational, while I can certainly keep connected via the laptop I can't continue GMing in the way I was before (you know, aside from the long periods of nothing). I'm still trying to restore my logins for various things.
Tigerwolf, my Skype is still active more or less, we need to discuss how to proceed.
Runt the Ogress |
SUggestion(at least for future work): perhaps store your things on a service like GOogle Drive? That is where I keep all my GMing info and WIP character sheets and all you need to worry about is making sure you remember your login, as an added benefit you can share documents with people via Drive so if someone needs to take over GMing for a bit you can just give them permission to view/edit
Odak the Iron Giant |
I certainly have Dropbox, although typically I didn't move/save things to it to avoid losing access to it. I'm highly certain my hard drive is okay, it's just some operational part of the old computer is broken so I'll need time to get new parts, piece everything together and look at what's left.
When I do, I'm definitely going to move my stuff to the Dropbox folder so I can work on it at any other computer with Dropbox on it.
Sorry to leave you all hanging, kind of like my old computer; my quality of GMing (and time-keeping) had degraded to a halt.
Oneirohero |
Most of the parts for my new computer came in yesterday, I'm only missing the case and graphics card. When I get those, I'll attempt to bring over my old HD and see if I can resume things in the game. The remaining parts are due to arrive either tomorrow (Monday) or the day after. Then it might take me a part of a day to piece it all together and test it.
Thank you for your patience.
Oneirohero |
Welp, as usual, things don't turn out as expected. It's Tuesday now and I still haven' received my Case and Graphics card, I could probably get away without a graphics card for the moment (or using my old one if it wasn't the thing that blew) but I certainly can't make a computer without the casing to protect it.
I must ask everyone if they have any concerns about their attendance for this game, usually long pauses in games can be death knells if they're not properly communicated. I still haven't heard back from Turgrim so we may have lost our only Hobgoblin PC.
Oneirohero |
It seems I've hit a big snag regarding computer components. My graphics card has arrived in good condition but the case is still AWOL and I just researched why, apparently Amazon used a different courier service known as Yodel (as opposed to Royal Mail as 95% of my purchases have come from) and looking on Google reviews apparently the service has 1.1 out of 5 stars for being the worst courier service in the world.
I'm talking about reviews stating that drivers just flat out throw purchases over someone's fence so they can get their '50p delivery bonus' and sign the missed delivery notes after not even attempting to deliver the item so they don't have to retry. That they either have no phones or a 50p-a-minute phoneline that is only an automated service and nothing else. And to think my place of work actually uses that company *shudders*.
So yeah, I just reordered the same case from Amazon and took the Prime trial because I honestly don't care about money any more, I just want the damn thing fixed. I will cancel the order immediately if there's any email suggesting that Yodel will be doing my order again, I don't want another £38.99 down the drain. It's been really hard to find anything to help find some resolution to the shoddy courier because up to this point Amazon has been really good about deliveries being on time and in good condition. Thank god they didn't deliver some of my more expensive components in the £140 category...!
Oneirohero |
Good news! I finally got my computer case which means as of when I was typing this, I'm now working on building the new computer, It will require some time to go through a tutorial or two to make sure I'm doing it right from scratch but now I have all I need to summon Shenron--I mean, rebuild my new computer with the old hard drive.
After some testing I'll work on resuming from when we left off, provided that the hard-drive and it's contents are okay.
Oneirohero |
Well, I've managed to hook up all the cabling for the PC and it runs well with no obvious fluctuations in temperature or problems with the BIOS. Except like buying your very first mansion and you're about to go inside to enjoy it for the first time you find that the door is locked and the key you have doesn't work.
My hard drive needs startup repair and it's not doing it automatically. UGH! I'm trolling through all kinds of PC solutions to find how to get this thing to start up properly but no luck yet.
I can confirm that (after actually connecting the data cable properly) that the drive is functional and appears in the BIOs, it also can go into startup repair so it's not like it's bricked or anything but like my previous metaphor I'm so close to getting the old data back but it's locked behind some error.
No set time when I'll actually figure this out, but it can't be too much sooner now.
Karol Heart Singer |
Fair enough. Computer issues are annoying
Oneirohero |
It feels like I'm in a Zeno's Paradox sometimes...
I managed to buy a new hard drive, disk drive and cables so I can install a new Windows 7 onto the new computer. I've installed a lot of the drivers stuff and I'm actually writing this post on it right now (yay!). The problem is that the cable/adaptor I brought to try and connect my old Hard drive as a USB (and pull the files from it) doesn't fit which means I'll need to wait til tomorrow to go back to the computer shop and find a cable that will.
This is relevant because my Maptool stuff is /still/ on the old hard drive so even though my desktop is usable, my campaign stuff isn't. Honestly if I do get the right cable there's very little I can think of that would stop me from finishing this build once and for all.
At least I'll see how my 3D applications fare with the new build. Having to install them all again.
Oneirohero |
Victory!
I went back to my local computer shop (for the third time), this time bringing in my hard drive along so the guy could look at the connectors. Apparently my previous attempts also failed because USB only provides 5 volts whereas the connectors I had before either didn't fit or didn't provide the necessary 12 volts for a Hard drive to function. I brought a hard-drive enclosure which has the proper connection and power and my old hard drive is now functional secondary storage on my new computer. I'm currently copying files over as we speak and eventually I'll get my Maptool stuff back!
But therein lies a problem.
It's been a long time and no doubt the flow of the last battle has been washed away with time. It's a tad unprofessional but I think we might do better by continuing the mission but closing out the ambush battle with the bugs. Had we not been distracted we should be on the last act of this mission by now, or at least with the tunnels. I think we should skip ahead a little bit and start fresh with a new battle with a better conclusion.
Please reply below about what you think (and also give me a heads up on who's still in the game)
Doctor Majuba |
But...I just put on this lovely coat made of the finest wasps. I am good to move forward, these cramped spaces are killing my back