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Alright. WoM, I will admit that I found your phrasing there difficult to understand as well. Just to avoid further confusion, is he concealing his scent the majority of the time?

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And there are some limits on can't be recorded, WoM. Can be remembered. Someone could telepathically share a memory, which is not a recording. Memory isn't always accurate so it's not as good as evidence, but saying you can't be remembered is just silly.

Edit: ninja'd.

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icehawk, chill. Just go with it. It's a story thing.

Guys, the rules debate is moo. Diplomacy only works on PCs with their consent. It's not mind effecting. It's just a measure of how likable and charming or compelling your behavior is. A gauge to show if you really come across as debonair as you think you are, if you will.

I would not put it past the school to put up postings about job openings at the World Serpent Inn....I think you'd have a hard time finding a portal to the place otherwise, but the school is very determined to do its job. Ryo wasn't joking when he said the school itself is alive. Although not many people know about this. :)

Karish is cleared, and you can post in the discussion. There's just not much for her to do during the weekend. But you're free to wander and interact.

I did have one more question about Karish, though. Is she from off-world? Her background would certainly suggest so.

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Hey Lyn, are we authorized to bring in little NPC's pretty much whenever? Just so long as it doesn't interrupt a main plot point and all. . . .

Pretty much. If it's disruptive of a plot point you don't know about, I'll ask you to change it, but I can't be everywhere all the time, running all the npcs. :)

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Weeee!

On to other matters:

Do we have a schedule for when who goes to the nursery?
Has the room been expanded?

Ephebe generally goes late at night since that's when she has time. The rest are somewhat flexible about their schedule.

Expanded from what? It was built to house eleven eggs and accomodate dragons. :)

And no, it doesn't likely need to be expanded any further now. Aananda is more likely to go for a live birth again. The idea of having to spend an entire month in draconic form in order to lay the eggs is very unappealing to her, especially since for her it would fall in the middle of the school year.

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No baby on board for Tyrrin.

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Alright, high is good and since they aren't trying to be parents at this point, low numbers mean conception occurs.

1d100 ⇒ 62

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Most of the BoEF is either stupid underpowered or just useless....and I have seriously considered taking a black marker to the illustrations just so I don't have to look at the terrible photography that fails to be erotic or anything really other than truly awkward. But it has the best tables and rules for pregnancy, childbirth, and of course sexually transmitted diseases for when adventurers just can't resist that visit to a brothel in town. ;P

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Just go with the normal save DC. Let fate decide.

Also I didn't know there were tables for this. °_°'

Yeah, we've never used the mechanic you linked to (didn't know it existed til you linked to it) so there is no 'normal save DC'. What we've used to this point is percentile rolls using tables from the book of erotic fantasy. Also has tables for gestation length for different species....so useful. :)

Of course, when rolling for the dragons sometimes I wonder why bother with the dice roll when with wishcraft it's like 90% likely for conception to occur.

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5% when with another elf. I think it goes up if its with a human.

Now add in geneticly modified human, this may factor in. Ugh.

Up to you, Fireclaw/Lynora. I'm perfectly willing to let this go how the story takes them.

True....looks at tables again.....ummm.....I'm guessing 40-45% actually when taking into account the genetically modified thing.

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Well, even if it comes to that, Tyrrin's an elf, so there's only a 5% chance of conception....and on the bright(?) side elven pregnancy lasts two years so it would be a while before they had to deal with a baby even if she did get knocked up. :P

Still working out backstory, but basic skills and bare bones equipment prepped. I'll try to have at least a short blurb up tomorrow, but I fear the allergies have sapped my ability to brain.

You really don't need to fuss about equipment unless there's a particular sword you want for her or something. Also, you will almost certainly want to bump up those stats like a lot.

Alright. Since full stats aren't a must-have for teachers, I went ahead and linked a partial character sheet that has the bare basics of importance - skills (spellcraft, knowledges, and such, the musts for a magic teacher obviously), levels, and core ability stats. Still not done obviously - she has no gear, her feats aren't all picked, no spells, etc.; all the stuff that, unless the rare incident occurs where she'll be expected to fight, probably won't be needed - but I think the basic necessities, what little there are, are there. The link is in her profile.

Anything else I need, or is she ready for the look-over and thumbs-up/down?

Oh, cool, someone (other than Gareth) who can talk to Vriskra. :)

Looks good. Don't really need more for a teacher character. We're at the beginning of a weekend in-game and it may be quite a while before we get to Monday. Days can take a long time to play through. Do you prefer to go with her as newly arriving over the weekend or was there all along and just hadn't had any screen time yet?

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Alright, time to find where I left off. Still sorting through messages (ugh) but I can't handle a second day of no fun at all. I've been cleaning out my PMs. I had never deleted a single message ever. So I'm going through all of them, copy/pasting important bits into a word document, and deleting. I started out with well over a thousand and now I'm down to less than 400. (woo!) But that's still 398 messages to sort. (boo!)

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Loki, Lord of All He Sees wrote:

not sure which is worse Rosa or Renkai

Renkai... wouldnt stop attempting to kill you, including grappling you and dragging you off campus

The attempt would send Renkai to detention. Thank Dave whose attack on Saki caused the wards to be changed to include familiars, animal companions, and assorted.

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Loki goes to detention as soon as his casting turns violent. Familiars were included in the wards now so he'll be teleported away and his master will be called in to answer for him. If he was attempting to inflict harm before the shout spell, rather than just a prank, he would be teleported then before the shout spell could happen.

There's already a theology teacher, but he doesn't do magic. Planar studies sort of gets covered as part of conjuration. But then I think it sort of gets covered in a lot of classes. Overall just teaching divine magic is plenty enough.

lynora wrote:

Patrick Curtin wrote:

I'm kind of tempted to return to a rules-light scenario myself. Anyone besides Lynora here from the ancient OTD days? I see DB3, whassup bud?

You're definitely welcome here. :)

KC used to post in this game, but he's kinda wandered off now. I think it's just me and DB3 left from the old OTD days now.

Damn, that hurts.... (;_;)

(And good to see you in the thread, Patrick. It's been too long, sir.)

[Raises Mug] (^-^)

Sorry! I had a moment of dumb! :(

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And this is all theoretical. So unless it becomes an issue there's no reason to worry about it.

And remember, the epic level magic of the school causes it to acquire whatever is needed...perhaps even subtly calls those who are required. If there is a student without a teacher, perhaps the school would find a way to acquire a teacher. I would have nixed it entirely if it had been another student concept, but it seems like there's room for this.

Yeah, that would be nice....

It's not that important with the teacher characters. They range from 17th level on up. The assumption on levels is somewhere in the twenties since the majority are there, but it can be lower. Not into the thirties without special permission. Right now the most powerful character in the game is sitting at 35th level. But she mostly stays out of stuff when at all possible. Since they're not in combat often if ever their stats are much less important.

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It's gotta be tough, being a dm with this much on their plate.

It's too bad I don't get paid for this because I put in the hours like it's a job. :D

Pretty much this. My Real Life issues and my already groaning plate of PbPs make constant posting somewhat problematical. I'd rather fufil a 'guest star' role in any case.

I'll do heavy blades. Is there room for a darker anti-hero type teacher? Ex-mercenary type, possibly retired from some long wars in the past?

Yes, definitely. The teachers don't all have to be nice. :)

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Yeah. >.<

So today I've been trying to catch up on the business side of being the GM. Answering questions and sorting through backlog and all that crap. I've even been cleaning out my email and putting important info in places I can actually find it. I'm getting a new computer so I need to organize my files basically. Next step sorting through my PMs for the same type of thing. But the site keeps going down. I haven't even been able to get through enough of this crap to even think about updating the game thread today. :(

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lynora wrote:

Good thought moving this discussion over to the recruitment thread. :)

sure. You don't want to pad the post count here. We know where your loyal truly lies. :p

;D

See? I'm padding the post count here too. :P

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FireclawDrake wrote:

Orthos wrote:

That, and my character concept is pretty thoroughly tied around the "I've had my stint as the hero, this is my retirement" ideal. She's fought a lich emperor and a proto-archdevil, among other things; she figures a school can't too thoroughly outdo that =)

You poor unprepared bastard. ;D

Edit: Just so you know, DB3 has this creepy telepathy thing he does with people.

Rejoice, for I can tell if you don't! ;p

In other words, the crazy - it's catching. ;P

Hi everyone. I'm new to the site but this game has piqued my interest. If you're still recruiting I'd love to join as a student. I'm not quite sure exactly what I'd play though, probably something monstrous. Congratulations on such a long-running game by the way, I don't have much experience with play-by-post but I've gathered that it's a pretty rare thing.

Yes, this game is always open. There is no limit on number of players. First things first, there's a new player guide and setting info under the campaign info tab. You'll want to start by reading that. Then you submit your concept to me and once it's all ironed out I will clear you to enter the game. I or another player can help introduce you to the game if you need. It's a big school and only a week into the new term so it's thoroughly possible that a new student can come in as having been there all along, but only now running into some of the other PCs.

If Patrick's got fencing, I'll retool into divination, I suppose.

I actually need two blades teachers if that helps. One for light blades and one for heavy blades (think two-handed swords, axes, polearms, etc)

Edited my post upthread to include the post from Fawtl where I was trying to think of all the teacher posts that could be filled.

I'm kind of tempted to return to a rules-light scenario myself. Anyone besides Lynora here from the ancient OTD days? I see DB3, whassup bud?

You're definitely welcome here. :)

KC used to post in this game, but he's kinda wandered off now. I think it's just me and DB3 left from the old OTD days now.

Knew there were more teacher concepts that I had forgotten about in need of people to fill them...though we can certainly continue to gloss over them if we need to. :)

Edit: This is the list I was brainstorming elsewhere.

Need teachers for light blades, heavy blades, unarmed combat, possibly room for another music and/or dance teacher, could definitely use a divine magic teacher. Have about every other kind of magic including nature, but clerics get hosed a bit. Don't have a specific art teacher so that's open.

lol. Thing is, the only thing wrong with this computer is the wireless card. Plan on cleaning it out and giving it to the kidlet after the new one gets here. It's a big upgrade for him from the netbook he's been using, so he'll be excited. :)

Ugh. More internet hiccups. Laptop has a bad wireless card. It's very irritating. New computer has been ordered, but won't arrive for a few days yet. Couldn't find a store that had it in stock so I had to order it online.

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It always goes in groups. Not sure what spurs things in a lot of cases. Usually a casual reference by someone somewhere else. At least that's what happened this time. :)

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I need there to be more hours in the day....

Good thought moving this discussion over to the recruitment thread. :)

Yeah, was meaning to ask what classes were available and/or in need of teachers.

Binder's pretty core to Karish's concept, personally.

I'm fine with one, but two was too much. But Scint doesn't seem to mind changing so it's all good.

Need teachers for light blades, heavy blades, unarmed combat, possibly room for another music and/or dance teacher, could definitely use a divine magic teacher. Have about every other kind of magic including nature, but clerics get hosed a bit. Don't have a specific art teacher so that's open.

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Yeah, just posting in discussion, about to start working on PMs. Been talking to a couple of potential new players. Hopefully I'll be back to the game thread by lunchtime. :)

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Just had a thought: Lyn, is the nature of Ignace's ability such that it would attract the attention of a Lhaksharut (the inevitables responsible for ending permanent planar portals)?

If she starts using her abilities regularly it very well could. I doubt they appreciate living portals.

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Late evening of Friday night.

Hmm. We have one binder student. It's pretty uncommon as a type of magic in this world. Two new binders might be pushing it. Although Avalon is a pretty normal place for those who are rejected elsewhere to end up.

If it helps with concepts, we're rather desperately in need of a fencing teacher...

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Scintillae wrote:

Orthos wrote:

So many of my aliases are villainous though... doesn't seem the kind of thing suited to this sort of game =)

Just play a teacher!

I was heavily considering doing that anyway, simply because it outright says that teachers expect less screen time.

Also would be tempted to play him/her a little too much like the teacher from Paranatural. No, not Mr. Starchman.

Would fit right in. :)

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I get lost in the PBP forum. What's Agartha?

High level gestalt rules light pbp set in a school with obvious anime and comics influences.

Edit: and now I realize I really need to edit the world history to reflect the now slightly less isolated status of the world. Among other major in-game events that need to be included.

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so, that's all I missed during my time off?

Ignace had an incident where she got upset during class time and turned the girls bathroom into an inferno for a little bit. No one was hurt.

Dave wasn't paying attention very well during Ryleh's last class. Kiara and Dave are likely to face a pop quiz on Monday (in game) as a result. That covers the highlights of what Kiara should know.

There are a lot of upset firebirds running around after the announcement that the firebird sun is being destroyed in a few days. There was a fencing club meeting with an unnatural number of accidents. Folks are excited about their weekend plans. That's about what I've got for a general sum-up.

Edit: Yes, that's right. Fei went boom. He's also better now.

Also some new people arrived some more dramatically than others.

Oh and Johnny has a freaky new ship. Also Johnny broke up with Tybs.

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Speaking of, I have a bunch of posts to write, PMs to answer, etc. Better get to work. :)

I've heard nothing but good things about this Agartha stuff, but never had the time to read up on it enough to feel confident about jumping in. Especially since I couldn't be sure if I'd have the time to keep up with posting. =/

Well, you're always welcome to join if you want. I don't expect newbies to have read 40k posts already up. There's a getting started guide under the campaign info tab as well as some basic setting info. Time is definitely a factor. We have lots of different levels of involvement based on how much time folks have, but yeah, you have to be able to post a few times a day in order to really participate in story lines. What time of day those posts happen is less relevant. We have folks in all different time zones so someone is always on. So just know the option is there if you do decide you have the time. :)

lynora wrote:

Tordek Rumnaheim wrote:

Justin Franklin wrote:

Only 5 posts over night? At this rate we won't make 100,000 by the end of the year...

yeah, we need to watch out. That Tales of Agartha PBP thread is rapidly catching up.

^.^

This is actually my excuse for not posting more here....they suck up all my time. :D

I miss that freeform game we used to play before the Great Purge. We used to have the OTD scattered with threads/realms.

Yeah, that was an awesome game. We used a lot of inspiration from that in creating the newest Agartha game. Things like always open to new players, folks playing multiple characters, multiple people running story lines, etc. We had to make some changes to the format (one referee to oversee it all - that would be me, some stats and dice rolls to help keep things fair and introduce some elements of randomness) but there's some of that same feel. Still, it's not the Paizo Drama Society. :)

What I miss most about it was the ability to move the game over several location based threads. That would be sooooo handy, but it doesn't work well in the PBP section. :(