Hey, guys. Just to let you know, posting from me may be sporadic tomorrow. I have some family business to attend to.
Check.
*tap tap tap*
"Is this thing on?"
Whew. So many distractions keeping me away. Sorry about that. Fortunately(?), I'm home sick from work today and I can spend a little more time on this...
More for the playlist!
Battle with Tsutama: Good Death from Shogun 2: Total War soundtrack
The Old Letter: Relic Uncovered from Dungeons & Dragons Official Roleplaying Soundtrack
Piper & Alara's Date: Asami & Mako Dine from The Legend of Korra Season 1 soundtrack
Sandpoint Cathedral: Hymn - Shiva from Final Fantasy 10 soundtrack
Just got home from vacation last night. I will get a post up later this evening.
Happy American Independance Day!
*tap tap tap* "Bill?"
*tap tap tap* "Bill? You there?"
Sorry. Work has just been draining me. I've been researching how much we need to be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act and what that will require in tagging PDFs of medical records so that they can be understood by a reading application. And this is for a BIG customer.
But, on the note of getting a caravan ready, how many of you have reviewed or read over the rules for caravans that appear in the Player's Guide? I'm willing to hand-wave a lot of that consideration off unless people want to be able to stat out a caravan with its staff. If people are willing to hand-wave most of it off, I'll still build a roster of NPCs filling various jobs so that you have people to interact with.
I have my pdf of the Player's Guide, so I can look up the caravan rules. As for playing with them, I'm willing to try them out.
I am all for ignoring them, honestly, as I looked at them and they look like they are majorly time consuming and would be tough to do in a PBP setting. If it were tabletop, that would be different, but I think it would be wise to leave them on the table and go for simplification. Lets keep poor Bill's work to a minimum if we can.
Sorry for the unexplained absence all. But I had the perfect storm of personal coincidences coalesce last week. Last Monday my Mother-in-Law, who has Dementia, forgot she had taken her evening medication and accidentally retook them. My Father-in-Law, who also has early onset Dementia, called 911 and the result was an overnight stay in the hospital. They currently have a caregiver who is with them from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. but apparently need 24 hour care. Both adamantly refuse to move off the farm where they live and into any sort of assisted living facility so my Wife and I have been searching for some live-in caregiver.
Even though we live almost 200 miles away we are the closest immediate family to them and have been trying to conduct interviews over the phone while we rely on various Aunts and Uncles to keep an eye on them.
Coupled with that is the minor inconvenience of an app that I downloaded two weeks ago not shutting down properly and running in the background of my phone, sucking up over 5.5 Gig of my 6 gig wireless data plan. While that may not seem like a big deal I do about 80% of my postings at work using my phone's hotspot for my laptop.
Good news is that we seem to have found someone who my In-laws like that is willing to take over after their morning caregiver goes home and stay overnight until the next morning starting this Monday. All of my wife's family, including an out of state brother and sister, are going to be visiting the family farm to celebrate my wife's and her twin brother's 50th birthday this weekend and to discuss the current situation, so I won't be on very much this weekend starting Friday. Also I get a fresh packet of data starting tomorrow and should be able to begin posting from work again.
Sorry to here that, Aelbourne. Glad to know that things are improving.
Glad to hear things are getting better.
Hey, just making sure that we're all still here.
Also, I just want to let you guys know that I'm going to a friend's wedding tomorrow, so posting may be sporadic.
I'm not going anywhere. I love this toon!
"Hee hee hee... you won't get rid of me that easily!" :)
If a skeleton critting me couldn't get rid of me I won't be going down anytime soon.
Sorry all, what with the craziness that happened last week it has only driven home the point that I have once again overextended myself with my games and need to cut back.
Bill, thank you for thinking about me and inviting me to join your game and I seriously regret leaving. You have my sincere apologies but it's better that I leave now before I get too emotionally involved with my character and the story progresses too far.
I wish all of good luck and good gaming.
Sorry to hear that, Marik. Good luck in your future endeavors.
Sad to see you go, Marik.
Incidentally, anybody seen Bill? I'm kinda waiting on him in the flex time thread...
Again, Bill, you still with us?
Back and hopefully able to pay a bit more attention (just hitting deadline now).
As far as the caravan rules, we won't be using them heavily - mainly for a bit of color. I'll be running "caravan encounters" like more regular encounters rather than using the more abstract caravan rules.
Also, time to check the spreadsheet and make sure things are divided up so that any other plans and purchases can be made.
And I guess we need another arcanist. Bummer.
So, how do we get another archaist? Start up a recruitment thread? Ask other players in our other pbp games?
So, how do we get another archaist?
Arcanist. Sorry.
I would suggest a recruitment thread just in case.
So, we're in agreement on a recruitment thread?
I think so. Any requirements you guys want me to pass on? I'm guessing an arcane caster of about any stripe would probably do.
Yep!
Yeah. Any arcane class should do.
Sorry for my absence, had an extreme lack of usable internet, followed by 4 rough days at work. Back for a week, then off to GenCon.
I have updated the recruitment thread. I hope we'll have a recruit soon.
And, for reference, insults may raise a rivalry relationship, but raising a friendly relationship takes more than words and compliments. They like gifts.
Just so you guys know, posting this weekend might be sporadic because I'll be going on a trip with my family.
Hey folks, giving you a heads up: I will be very, very slow (possibly not at all) to post the next week. I am going to GenCon, leaving Tuesday morning, and won't be back until late the following Monday. Lots of PFS!
Have a good time, Jacen!
Waiting for Alara at the Flex Thread.
Replied. :)
So, should we do something to make sure the applicants are still with us? Give them a message? Tell them to RP amongst themselves (hopefully getting a look at their play styles)?
Also, are Bill and Masamune still here? I know Jacen is at a convention and Alara is here.
I'm open to both of those ideas. Watching them RP amongst themselves could give us a good idea of who would fit better into our group.
Okay, I'll get on it! :) Love seeing potential candidates RP with each other to pass the time!
I am still here just waiting to see who will be joining us.
Okay, I just set up the RP scenario for the recruitment.
So the recruitment RP has begun. You guys can add to it, if you want. Play roles of minor GMs.
Can't wait to see a new journal entry!
I've updated it. :) And the Flex thread.
Waiting for you, Piper. Flex thread. :)
Waiting on Alara in Flex Thread. Also, the recruitment thread is progressing. Anyone want to add something?
You know, one item I would really like for Piper later on is something like a necklace, a ring, or something like that (most likely a necklace) that has telepathic communication as one of its abilities. Again, not right away. But still, I like the idea of multiple ways of communication (just in case one fails, Piper has something else to fall back on).