Huh. I received a PM from him a week or so ago inquiring if I was still interested...

Sorry it has taken me so long to get back with everyone. I DO have reliable internet access again & am still interested in continuing the game.

Given that GM Grey has actively pursued another PbP in the last few days, I am inclined to say so, yes.

I would consider it a courtesy, GM Grey, if you would retire this thread so that it no longer shows on my/our Campaigns pages as an active Campaign?

After the fact, I realized a further contributing factor was that last week was finals week for my accelerated college class. I have three five-week classes, of which one just finished, so I believe that in the interests of not having another episode like this past week, I will likely be taking another hiatus when my next final comes up in about a month.

Yes, I'm back.

Guys, I apologize but I feel I should probably take a break from PbP for a bit. I just wound up leaving a Campaign I had a great deal of time & enjoyment invested in because what I felt was a simple miscommunication snowballed rapidly & to be painfully honest, I can't tell if I was over-reacting or took too long to make the break.
I'm going to take about a week off, DM Grey, please go ahead & 'bot' me if needful.

Blossom perks at the thought of a new tongue & smilingly agrees.

*** Before (the conversation prior to the posse) ***

As the conversation winds down & the Pathfinders prepare themselves for the endeavor, Blossom leans down & whispers in Annie's ear. "Roeddwn i'n meddwl ei fod yn tric mwyaf difyr."

*** now ***
At Beylinda's comment that only E-Terah's night vision was better than a human's, Blossom looks over, an amused expression on her face. She does not bother to correct her 'superior' however. As April & the other accused witches offer their thanks, Blossom's hair licks out to caress each one across the forehead, as though to say 'it will be well'.

You got to meet Tom Baker & you don't know why it was the best Con you've gone to?!

Blossom nods in agreement, her attention once more familiarly diverted by new music to which to dance.

Blossom continues her conversation with Joan until Belinda arrives or Joan takes her leave of her.

Sorry, I was unexpectedly out of town all day yesterday.

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27, is she simply embarrassed at performing in front of an audience or is there something else?
For that matter, with a roll like that, is there anything Joan wants to tell me, that she isn't?

Blossom applauds Joan's & the other's efforts enthusiastically as she has come to understand these Avistani do. When Joan returns. "这是美妙的!"
"So often my companions become so engrossed in their 'duties' they forget to refresh themselves. It becomes rather oppressive at times, I must admit."
Yes, Blossom has a tendency of slipping between languages in the middle of talking without recognizing it, particularly when she is excited.
Is it still morning?

Um, DM Grey...
Is that supposed to be E-Terah & Belinda?..

So far as I'm aware, Belinda is somewhere else.

At Joan's query, Blossom shakes her head ruefully. "Dea-chomharsa a rinneadh? Uimh Rugadh mé mar seo. Tagann Mo daoine ó i bhfad, i bhfad ar shiúl, fiú níos faide ná na cinn eile. Bhí mé a thrasnú 'Corónach an Domhain' a fháil ar an talamh nuair a bhuail mé le mo chompánaigh agus ar deireadh éisteacht leis an guth do féin."
At mention of dancing, she perks up. "Ba mhaith liom go mór a fheiceann tú rince."

Smiling slightly & shaking her head at her companion's comparatively crude manners, Blossom replies once more to Joan's words, "Eagla orm go bhfuil do i bhfad níos fearr ná mo chuid Béarla. I am, b'fhéidir araon tiocfaidh feabhas." Reflecting upon Joan's earlier question. "Ní mo chompánach ná mé féin go bhfuil 'Sidhe'...
Tá muid go simplí daoine, difriúil ó tú, ach nach bhfuil. Liom buíochas a ghabháil leat as do fáilteachais, ach ní gá duit a siamsaíocht a chur ar díbh féin le amhrán? Le ceol?"

You can't put a spoiler inside of another spoiler.
Does Taldane sound to the inhabitants of this land to be English? If not I will cast Comprehend Languages on myself, smile & point at things as it becomes important.

Smiling & nodding in agreement to Joan's request, Blossom mutters 'sotto voce' to E-Terah. "Pa gen anyen mal ak byè a. Yo yo se tou senpleman ke yo te sosyabl. Mwen se asire w ke yon fwa ou te bwè yo tout anba tab la ou pral santi yo pi byen."

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (11) + 10 = 21
Linguistics: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19
Knowledge (local): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 19
Sense Motive: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24
Is she speaking Elven? Or is she using a spell such as Tongues?
Also, her gestures, are they intended to imply a social ritual, Perhaps similar to a handshake or bow or Kowtow?
Finally, if I claim not to be one of these Fair Folk, are they likely to respond with laughter or violence?

"这个不起眼的游客提供了许多感谢你们的热情款待。我们已经走过了很长的路要走，我希望听到你的歌？" Blossom replies, her hair stilling briefly as she bows in response to the woman's gestures. As she rises, a coil of her hair snakes it's way out to the man's mug before tying itself into a knot at the very tip before vigorously jerking the hair beyond the knot free to drop into the proffered vessel. Smirking slightly, she adds. "嗯，我的同伴希望品尝到你的啤酒。"

"Are you a playmate or a bully?" Blossom interjects finally. "Some like to play rough, but most of those prefer their playmates equally...
Robust,
perhaps?" Cocking her head in continued contemplation, she expounds further. "When you dance to your own song, it's easy to step on toes. If you would dance with another, learn to hear their song."
Her hair has become rather agitated as the conversation has continued, finally wrapping itself about at the nape of her neck as she follows Terah to the door. "Where there are spirits, there is often music. I would very much like to hear the other music this land has to offer."

I'm Back! The projected week-long bit was including travel times &...
extra stuff that wound up not happening, which bothers me not the slightest.

I will have a gameplay post later today.

Unfortunately, I am going to be gone at a Family Reunion for about a week starting sometime tomorrow. DM Grey, feel free to 'bot' me as needed.

Just realized we are all casters!
But only River & I are prepared casters...
Today's prepared spells: Cantrips(bleed, dancing lights, message, stabilize), 1st(charm person, comprehend languages, sanctify corpse), 2nd(blindness/deafness, perceive cues)

Ah ha! What a marvelous jest! I must inquire of the Jill if our Lady of Trickery might bequeath such cleverness upon ourselves.

The rest of you notice that as the Priest begins speaking, Blossom's posture & carriage immediately straighten & still, only to almost as quickly flow back into the more languid motions you have become accustomed to. "謝謝你，歷史悠久的老人!"
"Your pardon, I was surprised to encounter an admonishing one here such distance from 'the Land of the Silver-rooted Tree'. I understand very few such as myself have traveled this way?" Reflecting further, she adds. "I am not a follower of your 'Christian', but will refrain from disrupting your ceremony."

"如果你堅持一點，但只有你和我...
Oh! my apologies. Alright, but only the two of us, I don't know 'Tibbers' that well..." Blossom adds coyly, her hair sweeping out to open the door to the bed chambers.

Ooh! Hi!

*waves*

Sitting herself next to the small girl, Blossom nods in commiseration. "It can certainly seem that way..."
"It often helps to think of it like returning to a house which has new occupants. You may know where everything is supposed to be, but it is still best to recognize it is their house, not yours."

Think a little bit Luna Lovegood, a little bit Wednesday Addams. Not so much intentionally creepy, but obviously considers matters from a completely different angle than most people.
The picture doesn't really do it right, but she does look & sound like an Asian Elf. I'm not going to try & do an accent however.

Roused from her musings, Blossom focuses once more on the present. "Oh good, the flowers don't smell right anyway."

You're not getting another Bard...

edit: DM Grey; by strict RAW White Hair has no out-of-combat utility, unlike the Prehensile Hair Hex. Would it be possible for it to have the level of utility of the Prehensile Hair Hex?

DM Grey: I'm going to bow out. Real Life just kind of hit me with a 2X4 & I need to focus on recovering.

Everyone have a great time with this, it looks like ti will be a LOT of fun!

@RCB, Nice crunch, good fluff. Now, what would she do on pseudo-earth?

Dance!

Basically imagine the old 'Kung Fu' TV show only instead of a transposed Shaolin Monk in the Old West have a female Caperoista with magic hair that she can fight with as well.

Oh, and magic.

This one has long followed the call of 'DEN'. In Jinin, on the Path of Aganhei, in Va-ri-si-ah, all the same.
This...
Ehl Ehy still resounds with the thrum of 'DEN'.

I have been trying to play this White-Haired Witch concept forever! I hope you feel she would be an interesting addition to this campaign.
Posting 1+ times a day is rarely a difficulty for me. If you check my profile you will see I have a certain degree of experience with PbP
& I always try to provide a 'heads-up' if I am likely to be away for longer than usual.

I know this is far too late, but sorry I missed out. Real life kind of hit me like a Mack truck there for a week & a half.

Good luck to every one who made it!

Sorry I haven't posted or updated yet. Wound up taking all day today helping my mother move to her new place. Right now I'm beat like a drum.
Going to try really hard to have those things done tomorrow.

No worries, thank you for a prompt reply.

Adam!

It is good to 'see' you again. Also, I hate you, those rolls are just too sweet...

Duboris; not certain if you missed my question previously regarding buying spell scrolls with the starting funds, so I will ask again.
If I purchase spell scrolls with my starting funds in order to add the spell to those my familiar knows, do I need to make the Spellcraft Check or do we consider it to have already been successful?

@Tiriael: The most (in)famously MAD class would be Monk. I was considering a Martial Artist Monk, but then all my rolls were only 'above average'.

I'm not certain anything is 'taken' yet. Aside from the matter that Bards have always seemed to me one of the better classes for 'doubling up'.

Though no-one has broached the subject or (to my recollection) implied interest in a class where it is key, what is the current Theological state of the world? Which is to ask; what deities still make their presence felt? Clerics, Inquisitors & Paladins are available classes so to whom do they & lay-worshipers still pray?
Unrelated, mechanical note; If I spend a certain amount of the starting funds on spell scrolls to be 'ingested' by my Familiar, do we consider the Spellcraft check to have automatically been successful in Character Creation, or should I make rolls?

This is Irnk's character.

May this one present herself? In life she answered to Restless Cherry Blossom, an admonition reflecting her nature & proclivities. In death...
Well, the dead do not change.
An Elf Witch of the White-Haired persuasion, she is as fickle as her name might imply & as true as her questionably-beating heart allows.

Yes, I have played this character before in PbP. Unfortunately the Campaigns she has partaken in previously all died for various reasons. I'm hoping this is neither an omen, nor an incentive for her disinclusion...
Right now the Character sheet just includes the differences inherent to White-Haired Witches vs. 'vanilla' Witches. That will change given time. I intend her to be at least reasonably social as well as arcane.
Are you allowing/requiring Traits?

I'm immensely flattered that someone's been following our story, but at the moment, I've offered the open slot to one of the applicants from the original recruitment thread. Should (heaven forfend!) we find ourselves in need of another replacement, I would be happy to consider your character submission at that time.

Yay!

If positions happen to come open, I would be quite flattered to be considered.

Originally thought this character up for a Second Darkness game that subsequently died. She has since seen quite a bit of tweaking in attempts to get into other games, but the core concept hasn't changed much & I've always liked Riddleport & the concept of an 'innocent' Calistiran.
Obviously she would need updating for your guidelines.

Again, I hope I'm not stepping on any toes, but I have been following the Campaign since all of you began it & would love the opportunity to play in it.

Ah well. Those chosen, congratulations & have fun!

May I present Restless Cherry Blossom, Elven daughter of Jinin in far Tian Xia.

Consistently exhibiting the impetuousness characteristic of their ancestors pre-earthfall, the young elf girl first was called Restless Cherry Blossom by the elders of her community as an admonishment. As time passed however, it became painfully apparent to family, friends & neighbors alike that what they hoped was merely an extended immaturity was in fact evidence of a perhaps supernatural atavism.

When her hair turned from russet gold to a silvery white akin to freshly fallen snow & began moving about as though it were another limb it was no longer merely apparent, it was inescapable. Soon thereafter the Jill arrived, whispering secrets to her in the darkness & the quiet.

That night she left her childhood behind her & with it the only home she had ever known. Making her way from trade caravan to trade caravan she followed the Path of Aganhei, over the Wall of Heaven, across the Crown of the World, until the day she came to Kalsgard & chance put a name to the presence she felt whispering through the Jill. Calistria

With the Sacred Sting's name on her lips, Restless Cherry Blossom (now an admonishment of an entirely different order) danced where the whispers led her. Eventually, the whispers brought her South. At first, she thought the Elven enclave in the Mierani Forest was her destination, but it soon became apparent that they had no more use for a strangeling such as she than her Jinin kin. Not long thereafter, the name Sandpoint crossed her ears, and with it Cyrdak Drokkus & his theatre. Though the opportunity to dance has brought her here, the Jill's whispers lead her to believe she may soon bear witness to her mistress' gift...

Haven't updated her gear/gold, but I believe the sheet is correct for your requirements.

Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to you VoV.
For that, it is probably obvious that I am withdrawing my entry. I want to answer your questions & this looks like it will be an amazing AP, but I think I have too much on my plate already.

Alright VoV, here are, at least the beginnings of answers to questions.

VoV: That's alright, I haven't had an opportunity to update the character yet.
In fact, if I can't manage to do something along those lines before tomorrow morning, I will likely be withdrawing myself from consideration.

It will require a certain amount of contemplation, but this unworthy one requests permission to present herself for consideration.
It seems she was diverted from her dance to the warmer lands, finding herself instead in this place where warmth is derived from the heat of one's blood & the strength of one's passion.

How terrible.

Yes, she will require considerable tweaking, but this sounds like the kind of campaign she would be fun to play in. I will update her story to comply with your recommendations.

Much like Bimbur, this character has a number of posts under her belt, but also like Bimbur, they all seem to die. The second PbP she played in was a CotCT that only made it through the first scene. Having heard many positive things about this Campaign she would like to toss the hat she never wears anyway into the ring as-it-were.

The Dockside Vengeance trait comes out of 'Varisia, birthplace of Legend'

I believe I will opt for Witch/Archmage/Trickster at an effective rate of 4/1/1, which will likely round out to two levels Witch/one level Archmage; two levels Witch/one level Trickster; and so on...
I have not yet read enough of the Mythic Playtest rules to determine if that is feasible or not, but you were asking for someone to make the attempt. If it turns out that won't work, just 2/1 Witch/Archmage, likely with some 'generic' Mythic abilities selected instead of Archmage abilities.

This one would be honored to take part in such an historic undertaking.

If it wasn't already obvious, this is the White-Haired-Witch Irnk mentioned.

*Bawls inconsolably*
Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
I will still be here,
if you should manage to fire it back up.

Woo hoo got power back this morning. And hot water, what a glorious day. I'll get this moving today so everyone can have today and the weekend to get back in the swing of things.

Yay!!

Calloo, Calais, Oh Frabjous day!

No worries. Important thing is you stay alive & well. The game can resume once life returns to a non-catastrophe state.

Hey guys, sorry it took me so long. Forgot to keep track of the Gameplay thread after an extended time without posting.
Blossom's spells today are: Cantrips: resistance, stabilize, touch of fatigue; 1st: bungle, obscuring mist, sleep

Blossom conceals herself along the route Rumal leads the thugs down. untrained Stealth: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7, untrained Bluff: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 1 = 19, to feign sleeping.
Is it possible for her to hold an action to cast Sleep if one of the Thugs acts as though they have seen through her rouse?