A Hero, lost in the dark, shall be found (Inactive)

Game Master Terquem

He's certainly confused by Miagnik...I'm trying to figure out how he'd react.

Miagnik - I'm not asking for you to clarify either. I think your post is totally fine.

I know I don't have to clarify, but I will.

Miagnik is in a transition stage wit his alignment at the moment. He used to be a very self-serving pyromaniac who would spark a room full of gas and flammable liquids to kill a single enemy he thought was in there even while the rest of the party was in there too. After much berating however, and loss of several companions due partly, he believes, to his actions; he's learned to be more restrained and careful of how destructive his magical fire, can be. Especially where Fireball is concerned.

(There are more personal reasons for him but I'll keep those hidden for now.)

He's aware that this town is a Dwarven settlement and in the lands under Sir Henry Vessocho's, Moralane's father, protection. We're here try to gain allies, which made this primarily a diplomatic mission. Which means that the Goblin who's actively associated with her acting rashly and accidentally killing a bunch of innocent bystanders would be very bad.

This particular situation might be him learning that too much restraint can be just as bad, as trying to minimize casualties done by him, he allows enemies to roam and cause far more havoc in the long run.

I apologize for my sudden disappearance without notice; it was inconsiderate to everyone involved in this game. Unfortunately my RL circumstances are such that I pretty much have to retire from PbP for the foreseeable future. I hope this game continues on to successfully rescue Hallister from the Vampire Queen's dungeons!

No worries, thanks Agos - good luck in real life

Barnabas, Kurgan, Moralane - where are you?

Look, I know I am not doing the best possible job of running an exciting, active PbP campaign, I know.

But To make things work I either need to wrap this combat up now, not even having a clue what most of the party thinks is the plan for wrapping up the encounter, or keep letting this thing drag out - which I don't want to do.

It is going to be a hard game to manage, but I will keep trying.

Honestly, I have no idea where we are. This combat has gotten pretty far outside my understanding of what's going on. I moved myself on the map and took two shots. I'll keep doing that as long as the fight keeps up.

Personally, I think you should wrap things up narratively, let us regroup, and nudge us toward some kind of goal if we can't come up with one on our own.

As a possible suggestion, someone could yell to Miagnik to hold off on his plan to run off and to stay and help finish off the remaining enemies.

When the round gets back to him, that's what he'll do.

I am here, but have been very confused in the chaos of this battle. I thought I had already acted for the current round but I'm not really sure what that even is. A narrative wrap up seems like it would make sense.

Finally! The boards were almost constantly down for well over a week there.

Miagnik's just waiting to act again.

I know...been crazy around here lately. The fact that it is the entire Paizo website has to be killing them.

Are we stable now? Was down for the past two days again

I hope so, I'd thought it has stabilized on Sunday too. I think they have more frequent updates on their Facebook page.

Are we stable now? Was down for the past two days again

Until it goes down again!

Okay, I'd say at this point it would be a safe bet that the Paizo site has stabilized.

Just checking in again.

I just posted what I hope is an adequate wrap up of the encounter in the street and a call to all the players still interested in this game to check in

When we know who is still here, and what, exactly, the group wants to do, we will get going again.

Now that I have only three games to manage, and the site appears stable, we should be able to have a, maybe, good PbP game experience.

still here

Still around.

sending out messages to Barnabas, Beldain, and Kurgen

Beldain, Kurgan, and Barnabas have not yet responded to Private Messages

After a lot of thought, and angry feelings directed at myself, it comes to me that it is time to end this game. I want to thank you all for putting up with it for as long as you did, including those players who suffered through the other, previous game. I don’t know if I could have done a better job, I don’t even know if I can run Pathfinder games at all anymore.

When I looked over the posts made by the Eye in the previous game I saw that the Eye had told the previous players exactly what needed to be done to end the curse, and then I went looking for any exchanges between the players about what to do with that information and I could not find anything. It seemed, to me, that the players simply did not read the posts, out of boredom probably, and went right back to just heading into the dungeon without any sort of plan at all.

I don’t blame any players for this. I know I ran a different, sometimes strange, sort of game, and I know it was not good at times. I know that you all put a lot of effort into your characters, and I know you tried to make the game work. I wish I could have done a better job.

I want to thank all of you, but particularly Doomed hero and Patrick Bailey who worked so hard just trying to stay with the game and keep it going for my sake.

Good luck to all of you, and good gaming in the future.

Sorry it didn't work out, but hopefully you'll run another game soon.

It wasn't just for your sake.

Thanks for the game, Terquem. I enjoyed it.

I agree with Doomed Hero, I really enjoyed the game overall and it definitely wasn't just for your sake that I hung around.

It wasn't out of boredom, honestly I just wasn't as organized in taking notes as I am now and sort of forgot the details even when I probably shouldn't have.

Thank you for running this game as long as you have, I know it can't be easy to run a game at times.

I don't know if you are ever planning to run a different game on this forum, whether it's 5th edition or something else, but I hope that you do and I would be pleased as punch if I was invited. This was probably my favorite game to be a part of.

Anyway, take care Terquem.

Dang. I was waiting in the wings, followed the whole new game with Mae posed mid-discussion with the Eye, waiting for a grand and apologetic entrance. I feel Mae was responsible in part for the end of the first game by Leroy Jenkins-ing the giants and then leaving, apologies to DH and Patrick for that. Tell you what Terq, how about another game? Let's make something work.

If I ever start another game on these forums, ever. I know there are some things I will need to do differently

It's probably best if I just don't think about it right now. I don't know if there is ever going to be a way to have a PbP game where the players want to talk to each other about what is going on in the game, or ask the DM questions in the sort of way I remember it used to be a long time ago. The game has changed, and it seems I didn't.