No worries, this is a long distance race not a marathon :-)
Again sorry for the lack of posting recently. That wedding ate up most of my time. I should be back to normal. And Phoebe totally would have wanted to stick with the group. I am caught up and working on a post.
And again welcome new people!
OK, thread updated. I've been pretty sick for the last two weeks (which you should know having dotted into my Status Thread!) but I am feeling much better now.
Give me a sound off as to who is here, it seems it's been a long while since we've heard fro Arnault!
I'm still here. Glad you're feeling better!
Sorry, So busy :(
I really want to keep playing though!
Sorry, So busy :(
I really want to keep playing though!
OK, post when you can!
I'll move us along Wednesday more posts or not :-)
I am here and with a rather wicked headache. If I am slow to post that is why. So glad the creepy eye is better :)
Present!
Here!
Life just got a little chaotic. So bot me if I do not post.
This part of the adventure lacks further challenges. There are only two more scenes I want to run, one at the dinner this night and one the next morning. After those scenes are over, we are going to set sail for Antarctica! Within the next week or two of Real Time, we should be underway.
Instead of having anyone roll Skill checks for checks passed in this short chapter, I will instead award each PC 4 more Skill Points to Spot Hidden. You may take that increase now.
I am back. So is that a plus four to the skill. That is out of pity and I am ok with that :)
Pity? Mercy? Eh who cares it's four more points :-)
I'll give it a few more days for folks to chime in before I interrupt your dinner :-)
Spot hidden is actually the worst skill in this game. Seeing nameless horrors is never good.
Last scene in Australia.
Once Louis, Phoebe and Alphonso check in I'll move us along as I am not sure when Arnault will be back to full time posting.
Alright, I'll follow THAT post up with the first one headed towards the final destination! Bye bye civilization!
OK, so we have 6 characters (despite Arnault's silence as of late). You will be the 6 that I hope will finish this super adventure!
However, this IS Cthulhu so there is a good chance some of you will die. All replacement PCs can only be taken from the ship. The log of who's who is in the campaign info tab. If we get a death that will be the pool from which you draw. Some are former PCs, those you'll use a pre-gen characters. Crewmen I'll allow you to stat up with specialties to skills based on the abilities of those crewmen (and women though there are only a handful of those).
So sorry. This week has been hectic. I am stuck on my phone but I will get caught up.
Sharing is caring.
So I felt like sharing!
So in a madding voice I shout,
Won't you please check this out!
If you cannot deduce
I am bit of a fan of Dr. Seuss
I'm going to be traveling pretty much all day tomorrow, and will definitely not get a chance to check in during that time. After that I'll be visiting family and will be able to check sporadically as activities allow. I'll be coming back home on the 1st and should be back to more-or-less normal on the 2nd.
If you haven't seen it, this movie is just about the best Lovecraft film treatment I've seen (granted, the bar's not that high in this regard). Highly recommended if you don't mind low-budget and silent films.
Wanted to give everyone a heads up that I'm travelling this holiday weekend and my posting may be sparse/non-existent. Will catch up on Thu 11/28 at latest.
My computer is down for awhile and posting from my phone is questionable at best but I will try. Bot me if you need to
Sorry folks, RL not been kind lately.
Update now.
Ugh, finally going to update now!
Hopefully, the next update won't take 3 weeks, moving through the weeds in RL so...
It’s pretty late at night as I am writing this. I’ve been through a significant amount of struggles through the past two years (actually through the past 41 but especially the past 2). I’ve had worse stretches of time before but I believe that these past struggles were due to my own lack of maturity and self-awareness at the time those events took place.
Likely those events were necessary for me to experience to survive the events of the past two years and get through them as well as I have. Physical ailments, getting older and requiring more sleep, bankruptcy, and ultimately divorce. You know life is not going swimmingly when going to work feels like a vacation.
Regardless, when I first started getting involved in PbP on the boards it was a chance to play, finally! I’d been DMing for the bulk of the time that I’ve played table top that I was enjoying being able to be a player for once. Then with so many damn flaky GM’s I just started running games and well, things snow balled from there.
Life was fairly stable at the time the normal ups and downs. Then about two years ago, I started getting into PbP as a way to escape reality. Sort of the same ways drugs were casual and enjoyable for me as a teen and ultimately led me as close to suicide as I ever want to get again.
I am not saying that PbP has made me suicidal but I am saying that I recognize that I was using PbP as a coping mechanism to avoid a bad marriage. PbP did NOT lead to the failure of my marriage but it did contribute to my ability to tune it out.
I make a decent living but between bankruptcy and divorce I’ve little to show for it (well except for this killer book and RPG collection ). I could point the finger at my soon to be ex-wife but when you point one finger at a person, three more point back at you. I could have prevented things from becoming this bad and I chose not to. I did it, ironically, because I believed that if I had the marriage would have ended and ended badly, so much for best intentions. I am not going to second guess myself, what happened happened. As divorces go, this one has been rather amicable as we have put our daughter first and ourselves second.
Being married to someone who makes as much if not more money then you (depending on sales that year) places one in a position to “take it easy” when it comes to being aggressive about making money (well it placed me in such a position anyhow perhaps because making money does not move me).
Early on in my career I had an opportunity to become a premiere M&A Financial Services Tax Attorney in a Big 4 Firm. It’s a big deal and potentially a lot of money but I did not really want it because I knew I would be working a lot and traveling a lot. My ex agreed that I should turn it down as she did not want to be married to a workaholic and that was not who I wanted to be anyway. Nor do I want to be that person now. (In yet another twist of irony, she has become a workaholic, funny how things turn out).
I do not regret the decision though I do lament the loss of income that such a decision would have brought to me.
All of this rambling nonsense is leading to the point of this post, I need to work more. Not at my current job nor do I want to get a new job, I actually like being there as odd as that sounds (to me). I need to get a second and perhaps a third job, side gigs. At 41 about to turn 42 with no retirement and no savings for my daughters college, I can no longer hope that the ex’s business will come through as an investment plan. Even if it does, I will not be the beneficiary of that largesse. I need to make up for 11 years of being “comfortable” simply working.
Thus, it is with heavy heart that I am announcing that I will need to close down a number of the threads I run and withdraw from a number of the games I am a PC in.
I suppose this decision will not be a surprise to many of you as my posting rates have been abysmal since these events took a turn for the worse (in some respects the better to be honest) since Thanksgiving of 2017.
I am not generally a person that feels remorse or guilt but I do feel a level of disappointment with having to make this decision. I apologize for disappointing many of you who put work into PCs relying on my consistency as a GM/DM over the course of the past several years.
My plan had always been to run a hardcore dose of RPG’s until my daughter was a teenager and then, spend my free time writing the novel I had been working on since before she was born. I had hoped that over the next 9 years or so I could wrap up most of these campaigns and the few that remained would be more manageable.
Life has not worked out that way.
The good news is that I will still run several games but the current load is too much for me to handle in this transition. The further good news is that I believe this will allow for those games to move along much more quickly.
By tomorrow I will have made my decision as to which games I will keep and which I will shut down.
Thank you all for taking the journeys with me despite the lack of length or resolution of so many of them.
I will still be around just in a diminished capacity so this is not goodbye just a “be seeing less of you”.
Like in the other games I am in I love your GMing style and I am rather attached to finally being in a Cthulhu game. Apparently people think this system is only for the truly masochistic. But I do not want to know that you are suffering for my entertainment. So whatever you choose I only wish you well.
Indeed. While the journey for me was short I did truly enjoy experiencing a difference system and appreciate your honesty and in letting us know what is happening.
I hope everything turns around for you, and that you get to a place where DMing and playing can go back to a leisure / hobby rather than an escape.
Thank you for the opportunity to play and learn and I wish you and your daughter well for the future.
I have decided to keep this particular game IN the rotation. Look for updates Wednesday night.
Thanks for the support guys, the good news is that this one WILL keep going.
I would say that Alphonso is thankful to continue, but that might be stretching his good side a bit. The player behind him, however, is very thankful both for this and many other games. Rock on ST Shadow, and know in the darkness, there is always a hand when you ask for help.
Brilliant. So long as the game is not too big of a stress on your life and sanity I am more than willing to continue. Bring on the Madness!
I think my live table just fell apart. I may need a few days to get rid of the lingering anger, bitterness, and sadness I feel.
Yeah mine did that earlier this year and left me empty for a while...
Life is finally starting to get a bit less hectic. Thanks for the patience, I will be back to normal posting again this Sunday.
Medical Profession (Nurse) Special Benefit - Immune to Sanity loss from the sight of a non-Mythos death.
Is this where that comes into effect?
Medical Profession (Nurse) Special Benefit - Immune to Sanity loss from the sight of a non-Mythos death.
Is this where that comes into effect?
Yes indeed it is :-)
Woot! So would it be first aid to try to figure out what happened to the bodies?
Woot! So would it be first aid to try to figure out what happened to the bodies?
Correct.
How many do you want?
How many do you want?
One is sufficient.
Do soldiers get something similar?
Do soldiers get something similar?
I don't remember I'll check next update.
That was a success right?
That was a success right?
Yes.
FYI, I believe we lost Eliza and Arnault from the boards completely. We'll continue to roll with 4 unless you all believe we should recruit.
I'm good either way.
Well that sucks but I am fine with what we have.