Been having connection problems all day, discovered it's 'cause they are working on the line, and it'll go on for at least all of tomorrow too...
I may have trouble posting, but I'll try my best to keep up! Sorry... :(
No problem.
I'm glad to have Elijah as an NPC. Sorry for the silence, but I didn't think it mattered to much since Eva was down. Had a couple of busy days, and while I could check, I was not in the best position to post anything.
No problem. I expected as much given the season. :)
Best wishes with your connection Elena.
Merry Christmas! ^_^
I won't be making new posts for the day, see you tomorrow people!
Merry Christmas! ^_^
Happy Holidays.
Ok,
As it now officially Dec 25th where I am, it's time to hand out presents.
Everyone get's their choice of one of the following :
1) One 'I rolled a 20', usable at any point they want (not a crit).
2) One Automatic Crit Confirmation, usable at any point they want.
3) One Crit Negation (Negate a crit affecting them), usable at any point they want.
Happy Holidays.
Thanks, Santa!
I think most of the craziness that comes with the holidays has calmed down for me. Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!
And I can take Elijah for this round if you like?
Already moved elijah this round, but you can have him next round, he's actually in a combat area now.
Re-opened the recruitment thread. If nobody posts, I'll open a new one.
Woo! May we get someone new! We could use another person.
Uhmm... Now that Elijah is about to be taken out (and in any case he skipped the whole fighting sequence in the caves), as far as "canon" goes, how do you want to handle it mdt?
I mean something like: 'he was there all along fighting in the caves (or maybe he was exploring outside), then he decided to return to the village and stay there, no more adventuring!' or 'Elijah? Never heard of him, there was never anyone by that name!' or 'Oh yes, poor Elijah, he died (possibly in the caves)', etc...
Elijah was searching for another entrance, and missed that you guys found the false back. He came racing in, will help clear out the cave as an NPC, and will return to town. He will then resume his duties as town guard.
On that topic, we have the following interest so far :
Dal Selpher - ????? - ??????
Nazard - Emilian - Fighter (Brawler)
Eminem80 - Riley McKormick - Human Rogue (Knife Master, Scout)
MechaPoet - ????? - ??????
HustonJ - Larry Andoran - Fighter (Polearm Master)
Please be paying attention to the recruitment thread, and feel free to ask the applicants any questions you like. You'll be deciding who get's accepted, and whether it's one or two people.
Her former friend's arm slams into Elena, and she feels her ribs shatter under the impact, and blood explodes from her mouth as the small Eva Zombie does massive damage to the cleric.
Every time I check the thread, you are trying to kill someone mdt! Come on, the fight is over, give us a break! xD
Naaa, just kiddin' don't worry! ;p
On a related note, can Elena (or someone else) try some kind of knowledge check (religion or arcana, I'd say), to determine if they can think of a way to de-zombify Eva? I don't want to kill my favorite gnome! :o
Lineera, being a necromancer, would already know that you can't unzombify a zombie. It's a corpse. Nor can you restore someone to life if their corpse is currently a zombie. So, as long as she's trying to eat your brains, you're in a bad spot.
So we either let her eat our brains, or we 'free' her the old-fashioned way? Awww... :(
In all seriousness though, are you planning some kind of plot twist, or Eva needs to roll a new character?
Eva and I already discussed it in private messages, she's on the same page, and not upset.
Whenever someone with an active character dies, they'll be allowed to make a new character to bring in if they want to continue playing, and Eva is interested in continuing.
I'm very glad she decided to stay and play with a new character. :)
...But you have to admit, this is a bit of a downer. After Eva got into the negatives, we literally rushed to her rescue, rushing head on into danger, triggering something like 2/3 encounters at the same time, almost got killed ourselves...
And all for nothing.
In, what?, 4/5 rounds, maybe a few more, they just killed her (no interrogation?), reanimated her, and sent her against us.
Please don't take this the wrong way (it's always hard to convoy the right 'vibe' without speaking face to face), I'm not mad, or upset, or anything. I just feel this was a wasted opportunity. Instead of a glorious victory, achieved at the very last moment, against all odds (yeah, I'm a bit overdramatic, please bear with me!) that would've strengthened the characters and their bonds with each other... We just get this underwhelming feeling that our best wasn't good enough. :(
Also, Elena is going to by pissed at Lineera! She warn'd ya! Ye can't trust the undead, always undeading around, doing undead stuff... How can she work with Lineera from now on, I honestly don't know! O.o'
All I can say is, there are still missing children, and Elena would put that before anything else, even sorrow at Eva's passing.
Yep, we've talked and I plan on continuing ^^
You just need to Save those Children! Eva would want you too ^^
Recruitment related note:
I don't mind if we take two new recruits, though it'll likely depend on the applicants themselves with me. I've been keeping up with the thread. From what I see, there is one that is from Peridition's Point originally, but left only to be returning. And then two that are from elsewhere just passing through?
Yep, so far. Which is fine. There's going to be a need to make a trip to Hamsberg after the cave is completed (minor spoiler), so it's perfectly fine to pick up someone new in Hamsberg.
While this was definitely a downer ending, I quite like it myself mdt. While sad to see Eva go, I do like that our villainry are very villainous indeed, and that sometimes our level 1 best isn't going to be sufficient.
But that said, with no obligation to answer in any particular way, I must ask if we are actually anywhere close to the end of this cavern? 'Cause Lineera's of mind that once Eva has been taken care of, it's time to cut and run, bury their dead and try the cave again on the morrow, hopefully with greater numbers on their side... But if there's like one empty room at the back to take care of, as a player I don't really want to just derail everything for our return trip to just be a close to just being another derailment!
Again, as your the GM, I'm totally cool with you not wanting to disclose that information, but I figured I'd ask in case there's any vagaries you'd be willing to divulge in the interest of expedience.
I'd prefer not to give away information. On the other hand, it doesn't take long to do some IC checking to see if anything else is going on...
Gotcha, that's enough for me! So long as it won't take long to get a grasp of things IC, then that's enough for me.
All I can say is, there are still missing children, and Elena would put that before anything else, even sorrow at Eva's passing.
Ah! Don't worry I know, the children come first. What I meant was Elena and Lineera were making good progress, they were almost there to become good frineds (at least that's what Elena thinks)... But now? There's a lot of resentment and other bad feelings to work out before we can come back to that! :o
Now, in other news...
Please be paying attention to the recruitment thread, and feel free to ask the applicants any questions you like. You'll be deciding who get's accepted, and whether it's one or two people.
I love what you did in the recruitment thread! The tavern idea was good, the fact that it's an actual place that we'll be visiting soon is great! ^_^
Also, there are good candidates there, it'll be hard to make a choice!
Tell me about it. The quality of applicants is very high so far. Wish I could take credit for the tavern, but someone else did it in a game I applied for, and I thought it was a great way to handle it.
I think It's safe to say that I'm going 20 point-buy with dear Eli. Also, mdt, what's your rules on crafting?
Recruitment comments:
Wow, so many excellent applicants. This is going to be such a hard choice. Their numbers keep growing. I'll have to spend some time going more thoroughly through them.
You can craft. You can use the crafting in your character creation, but you can't increase your starting WBL by more than 25% through magical crafting. Mundane crafting doesn't really have a limit on it (IE: Alchemy, crafted weapons, etc).
@Recruitment - Yeah, tell me about it. I have some leanings so far, based on the characters, the postings, and the backgrounds, but I want to hear everyone's thoughts first. The cut off is tomorrow night for submissions, so we'll start seriously discussing after that.
Well chaps? I do believe it is high time we begin discussing applicants at least. Start seeing who we're favoring, discuss wants roles we wants filled, etc.
Personally, I am thinking we need a skill monkey, because right now I think we're lacking in a lot of skills that could be useful. Barely got into Cavern Death-Trap because of this, and as things progress, I'm sure having someone with a lot of skills on hand will come in useful.
Otherwise I'm thinking we need a replacement for Elijah essentially, some kind of front-liner who's... y'know, actually built for it. I mean, Elena's been doing a standup job as our backup front-liner, but Clerics are still usually more supposed to play backup, not be our go to guy for it.
So far, with these thoughts in mind and with what I've seen of their posting habits and what-not, I'm currently thinking that Riley "Lucky" McCormick, and Cathran Ingwood are my votes for whom's looking good so far.
Those two fill in a lot of absent skills in our group and Cathran's looking pretty good in a fight at the moment. Plus, her weapons of choice of abnormal, and I always like parties with a lot of unusual weapons.
Though we've obviously got a lot of good choices beyond those two too. Larry in particular pleases me as well given that he's a very skill-heavy fighter, definitely meets my criteria as well (Though he personally missed the top two slots given that most of his skills are the type that rarely help the party specifically, more trap dodging type things).
Though perhaps it would also help if Eva would be so kind as to give us an idea of what type of character she's planning. May feel less like we have to fill particular roles if one's already going to be filled here soon. Anyway, I've rambled long enough, and those are my current thoughts. What are everyone else's?
EDIT: Or we can start conversing more tomorrow, that works too! :P
LOL,
That's a great post Lineera, sorry I ninja'd it, if I'd have known you were typing it I wouldn't have bothered with the prod. :)
@Crafting: Sweet. Was going to take weapon crafting with a plan to later pick up Craft Magical Weapons and Armor. I just see him wanting to make his own swords. Eli's not exactly the alchemy wiz of his family anyways.
@Recruitment: I see some I like how they play so far, but there's one or two that I wasn't that impressed background wise, and they haven't made up for that post wise yet as a character. I'll say more on who I like after another go over of the characters. Because there's a few I'm leaning towards that I liked, but I'm reserving final opinions for the current moment.
Personally, I am thinking we need a skill monkey, because right now I think we're lacking in a lot of skills that could be useful. Barely got into Cavern Death-Trap because of this, and as things progress, I'm sure having someone with a lot of skills on hand will come in useful.
Otherwise I'm thinking we need a replacement for Elijah essentially, some kind of front-liner who's... y'know, actually built for it. I mean, Elena's been doing a standup job as our backup front-liner, but Clerics are still usually more supposed to play backup, not be our go to guy for it.
My thoughts exactly! ^_^
I strongly believe we are going to NEED someone able to detect traps (and disarm them), plus in general a skill monkey could help the party enormously.
And same as above I believe just as strongly we need a 'true' frontline fighter. Lets face it, Elena has been VERY lucky with her rolls so far, but she was supposed to be support, standing between the ranged characters and the melee ones, and not in the front lines! ^_^
I'd say, lets wait till tomorrow, when applications will close, then we can start discussing them!
It's no biggie! I'm just glad that was a prod for us to get moving, rather than telling us to abstain from discussion until the polls are fully, and officially closed. :)
And I'm building a gnome Magus ^^
We can start talking to day if you like. I'm not opposed. I do feel we need a skill monkey as well as someone to be the main Melee.
Ya'll can discuss as much as you want. :) I'll withhold my thoughts until the official close, to be fair as a GM. :)
Nice, well yeah, if Eva/Eli's going for the whole magical artillery-ish route, then yeah, I'm currently sticking with my first inclinations. That said I'm still working through actually reading backgrounds. I've glanced at the stats and builds of any RP that's caught my eye, but I may find some truly horrifying or wonderful backgrounds that may make me change my tune.
Also, I'm personally down for raising our party size to 6, it's a good number if you ask me, enough people to give us overlap in skills and abilities, but a small enough number that no one should be getting their creative toes stepped on.
Funnily enough Linera, my top two so far are also Riley and Cathran. I like Larry, but I like the other two a little better and I'm not sure if he's the right fit for our group.
Something just doesn't sit right with me with Emilian. I don't care much for him. Something just doesn't sit right with me about Emilian.
As for the others, I haven't yet ranked them in my mind.
"Eva may still be alive, that's not her on the ground. Take a closer look, whatever that is isn't her."
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Elena? You seem to have something in your eyes. You may want to flush that out.
:)
Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year! ^_^
Happy new year, and let's ring in the new year with a new bad guy! :)
Wheeee! :P Happy New year as well! Oh, and it's probably a good idea to say that I want my Christmas present to be a crit negation huh?
Probably wouldn't hurt, considering Elijah opened a new can of worms. :)
WOO! Yes, Happy New Year! ^^ Let's kill some things!
Assuming Lineera lives long enough to have this be a consideration is another matter entirely, but I'm curious as to some votes: Debating between a pure Oracle build, and a Oracle/Bard/Mystic Theurge build, anyone feel like adding some thoughts to the matter as we all try to shake off our sleep deprivation this fine New Year's Day?
It depends on whether you want power, or flexibility. If you go the O/B/MT route, you'll have maximum flexibility, but you won't have major power. No boosted channels, no boosted bardic skills/performance, etc. On the other hand, you'll have pretty much unlimited magic per day within your sphere of knowledge.
So basically, the difference between Batman and Superman. Superman has a lot of power, but he can't always do anything because the situation doesn't work for his strengths. On the other hand, Batman can't pick up buses, but he can quite often handle things Superman can't due to flexibility.
Ok, now that the submissions are closed, I think what I'd like to do is make my comments. I'm not going to list anyone right now, I'm going to list what I feel are the pros and cons for each applicant. In order of name. It'll take me a few to post it, but wanted to let you know what I was doing.