A World Apart (Inactive)

Game Master mdt

No worries DM :)

Sorry for not responding everyone, my last week :

Thursday, 2AM Kuwait time : Emergency in Calgary, we need you there Monday.
Thursday : 9 hours of work
Friday, 1AM Kuwait time : Plane delayed, wait 2 hours, take off
Friday, 2PM Central Time, US : Land
Friday, 3:30PM Central Time : Get home
Friday, 4PM : Collapse in bed
Saturday : Run around doing everything I thought I had 4 days off to do.
Sunday : Repeat running around, collapse, sick and coughing. Take nyquil
Monday : 2:30AM, get up and get ready for 5AM flight.
Monday : 4:15AM, realize I left laptop at house, no computer, call wife, arrange to have it overnighted.
Monday : 7AM, Get on connecting flight to Calgary, wait 90 minutes on tarmack
Monday : Noon Calgary time : Land Calgary
Tuesday : Noon, laptop arrives
Tuesday : 3:15PM : Post this message

I'll try to get something up tonight, but no promises. I'll be back in the states again Thursday Night, so if not tonight, Friday. Sorry again.

Np. RL always trumps a game, and given your schedule, I'm amazed you found time to post anything.

Seconded. Thanks for the update.

All I can say is: Dang!

Look James Bond I know its a hassle to be an "International Man of Mystery" but really I have to wait till Friday? Can't you just use a laser watch or something to wrap all that other stuff up? :D

Time zone transitions suck. Being sick sucks. Work sucks. Take your time, its all good.

I can wait. RL Takes Point

indeed it does :)

FYI: I will not be able to update until next saturday as i am away from home at the moment

Will be on 'Holiday' from 12th December to 22nd December. I'm told that there'll be little wifi.

I'm around. Holidays and what not. Occasional spotty posting but mostly just here ;p

I know I've been really silent lately. Since the beginning of October, work has had me slammed. Long days with close coming deadlines... and now I'm trying to do the work I'm assigned plus the work that I'm pulled off that assigned work to get done first to get told I need to do better because the assigned isn't done. It's drained everything from me.

I know things are going to be crazy at work through at least the beginning of the year. Could be longer... I don't know for sure.

Sorry everyone, I had a family emergency Friday afternoon. And then another one Sunday morning. I'm a bit shellshocked. I may be a bit spotty this week on posting.

No worries. RL takes precedence, even without family emergencies.

Best wishes to you & yours.

I heat that mdt, tis the season, I have been hit by a few of those as well. Obviously, take care of home first.

Sorry for the late update but as the holidays are arriving am i am one of the "lucky" ones to have to stay and man the fort (policy @ work is no staff under 50% presence) i am having lots of stuff to do both in and out of the work place

Sorry everyone, we're on break until after christmas. I've been sick for a week, bronchitus. Doctor gave me a z-pak (alergic to penicilin) and it's wiping me out. I'll be dragging bottom for at least 3 more days, and that takes us to X-Mas, so we're on break until next week. Sorry, collapsed last night and slept all day Saturday.

Get better and Happy holidays for everyone

Np. Real life trumps all other concerns.

Have a merry Christmas!

NO! I demand ALL of your time, regardless of holidays or work schedule or how sick you are. Me and my friends here are...

Uhhh...where did everybody go?

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Happy Holidays and get better!

lol. Happy Holidays.
I'll be back.

Informing everyone; I'll be taking a break (still mostly working tough) from the 24th until Jan 4th

Happy Holidays to all my fellow gamer's

;)

Indeed Happy Nondenominational Gift Giving Day, or Holiday of choice to all ;p

Merry christmas Everybody! I hope the year has being good for you.

Merry Christmas!

I don't know why I feel this way, but I think this artic hectate sounds like a lot of fun. Of the three we've seen since crossing through the frog-people's lands, I'm enticed by this one a great deal.

I'm willing to continue exploring for other, less extreme environs if the rest of the group feels strongly about it, but I'd be pretty stoked to give this one a shot, even if it means we need to schlep back to the boat to request more gear from the voice.

Other possible avenues for supplies could be trading with the frog-folk or hunting along the edge of the jungle hectate for furs and fire wood and the such.

Eh, Goragg cares not as long as he's warm. I don't think we have enough cold weather gear, though, so my guess is we need to schlep back and ask The Voice for it.

Personally, I'd prefer to explore what we can now and schlep back later. I don't think our mysterious benefactor would be happy if we didn't at least try to explore a bit before coming back and returning 'coz we fancied it would not be an acceptable reason.

I was already carrying cold weather and we brought three other sets. Did anyone else have one? We have a couple of small ones too, which I assume we could modify to fit Palakka somehow?

The small ones could be cut up to fit palakka, it would slow his movements by 10 ft.

Its up to the rest of you. I am game but I also have elemental DR so the risks are lower for me.

Well, if we have enough cold weather gear, why not?

If I'm reading the original equipment list correctly, I think we have enough cold weather outfits to proceed.

Onward!

Good enough. You're entering where the blue cross-hair is. Please let me know the path you are taking.

Still waiting to know what path you are taking.

How about we skirt the southern border straight across through Row 10? If it gets too unbearably cold, we can pop into the jungle-that-has-no-idea-what-'cold'-is land on the other side of the border.

Sounds good.

Yeah, I'm game for that.

Ok.

Sorry all.

Happy New year to everyone.

Have being over celebrating. Hence the ermmm absence?

Sorry all.

Happy New year to everyone.

Have being over celebrating to a reasonable degree,

Wish you all a better 2015 than 2014 was :)

(will take me a day or two to catch up on all my games)

Clay, Blackfire

Price 20 gp; Weight 10 lbs.

This pliant black clay is always pleasantly warm to the touch. Working blackfire clay in your hands for a full round causes the clay to grow much warmer, granting you a +4 alchemical bonus on saving throws made to resist cold weather. You can combine five blocks of clay over the course of a minute to produce a source of warmth equivalent to a small campfire, allowing you to heat a campsite and cook food.

Blackfire clay only produces heat, never light, smoke, or odor. The clay emits warmth for 1 hour before hardening into an unusable lump. A newly created brick of blackfire clay is composed of 10 blocks.

We have a fire going now, Grim. As neat as blackfire clay is, I don't see how that'd help us now if a full fire isn't enough to save us from freezing to death after nightfall.

I always thought of Blackfire Clay as one of those strange things that is more useful than fire for survival but less so for basic camp tasks. Like the packs you can break to warm your hands IRL. So strangely helpful for not dying out right but not so great at making a meal?

So, it seems to me we never resolved the issue of the gear. I made a comment at one point that we could carry it all but we never really broke it down...now that we are making rafts I'm wondering if we should resolve that?

Probably, unless you're going to leave the gear in the jungle hectate while you sleep in the ocean hectate (or leave it in the frozen hectate while you sleep in the ocean hectate).

Does anyone have the master list? Can they post it to Google Docs or the Discussion thread? Then we can claim items until they're all spoken for.

Its a separate page on the pallet list linked above.

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Loaded up the donkeys with arrows, donkey chow, and adventurer chow. A lot of the stuff seems like we could do without it, like folding chairs and tents.

I suggest we italicize items in the master list when they have a carrier, so we can see at a glance what we have with us.

About 2/3rds of the donkey chow is gone at this point. And you're down to using the pills for gruel for the people.