Age of Darkness

Game Master Mothman

Hi folks,

I'm taking my computer in to the shop to get looked at today. If the problem is more than they can handle at the Apple store, I might be without my machine for several weeks, which likely will hinder my ability to post.

Sorry about the inconvenience...

Ouch! Been there, done that, still got the old PC in the corner,...
;P

Good luck TwiceBorn! :)

Problem solved... in a flash, fortunately!

YAY!
;)

Hi all,

Just a heads off i'll likely be out for the next two days (Thursday and Friday) as we're heading to the river to go water-skiing.

Bad timing about to head into a scrap - so Moth, please feel free to NPC if I'm holding things up. As mentioned, the plan is to cast Magic stone for Pharris and/or Laithe and hurl these in the first couple of rounds, then spells and/or wolf form if it comes to hand-to-hand.

BTW, I am about to get SLAMMED here at work, so posting may be irregular for the next 2 weeks. I SHOULD have time to post daily, but they won't be my usual novelettes. ;P

Thanks all!

BTW, I am about to get SLAMMED here at work, so posting may be irregular for the next 2 weeks. I SHOULD have time to post daily, but they won't be my usual novelettes. ;P

Thanks all!

Talkin's about being slammed... just had a 12-hour work day of my own! Take care of yourself...

Talkin's about being slammed... just had a 12-hour work day of my own! Take care of yourself...

Ah, so it was SHORT day then?!? ;P

Ah, I brought this on myself. Besides all the busy-ness of running the space, I got tired of seeing the college kids have all the fun, so I went and auditioned for a part in the musical,... and got it! So NOW besides being the Tech director, and Lighting Designer, I have to memorize all my songs and dances too! ;P (Good thing I'm a glutton for punishment! besides, it's fun!)

Thanks, I'll come up for air in a week!

For a moment, I thought about coming and giving an aid other roll on that Strength check, then I looked at my strength and thought better of it.

I am SO Sorry for absence,
Tech week for the musical, (Which I'm also IN), so a little past insane right now.

SHOULD be back by the weekend. (Hopefully sooner!)

Laters~

No worries.

If someone else wants to act for Nicolai while Ragadolf is away ...

MY NPC dice rolling on these boards is abysmal, so I'll pass. Pharris ain't doing much better..... She never seems to roll average, its great or total rubbish.

Nice surprise, you could have given us hundred guesses at whats in the statue and I doubt we would have got it. Well done Mothman.

Cheers

Well I can’t take credit for that idea. I don’t think I would have thought of a gibbering mouther crammed into a hollow statue either. A mummy or wight or something baked into a statue might have come to me (and that’s in fact what I was going to do) but in the end the mouther was just too wild to pass up on (if you're wondering how exactly it works, it was put into hibernation, a temporal stasis type effect, and then the statue was formed around it. Tampering with the statue breaks the spell).

They’re kind of tough though … hopefully your dice rolls get better do I don’t start to regret going with it.

hmmmm didn't realise about the splash damage. He has a flask of acid aswell, does that cause splash damage?

I am seriously regretting tooling up to only fight undead, Chill Touch is my only useful spell at the moment, Glitterdust area is too big. I need to make my self a wand or three come level 5.

hmmmm didn't realise about the splash damage. He has a flask of acid aswell, does that cause splash damage?

They both do splash damage, but I’d rule that if you actually moved into melee range and poured the flask out onto the creature, you would avoid the stuff splashing enough to do splash damage.

I am seriously regretting tooling up to only fight undead, Chill Touch is my only useful spell at the moment, Glitterdust area is too big. I need to make my self a wand or three come level 5.

And that’s why all DMs are evil …

Actually, chill touch is not a bad thing to use here, and the spell lasts, so you still have another three uses of it. So far, you’re the only one who’s damaged it.

As for making wands, well, you guys should be hitting level 5 once you’re done down here, chances are. We talked along time ago (in real life – not so long ago in game time) about having some down time – in fact, you were on your way to a secluded village in the mountains for just that purpose, when you decided to go exploring ancient tombs ;-)

And actually, I have meant to put some wands in somewhere as treasure. There hasn’t been all that much good stuff for the arcanists, given that we are in a low magic world – not too many wizards to fight and loot their stuff!

I do like low magic worlds, it is how I tend to DM as well.

Allows me to be extra special evil.

And actually, I have meant to put some wands in somewhere as treasure. There hasn’t been all that much good stuff for the arcanists, given that we are in a low magic world – not too many wizards to fight and loot their stuff!

Pharris ain't exactly loaded down with artefacts!

And actually, I have meant to put some wands in somewhere as treasure. There hasn’t been all that much good stuff for the arcanists, given that we are in a low magic world – not too many wizards to fight and loot their stuff!

I'm happy with low magic...

Hey Guys!

(What'd I miss?!?) ;P

I survived the excitement of tech/performance week! (Bare-ly!)

I SHOULD be catching up on my postings tonight-ish/tomorrow, I hope!

Sorry for the absence!

See you soon!

Oh, belated welcome back Rags. How did it go?

Hey ADMAE, Z-Day is back on.

Easter holidays, work and writing/running games next weekend for three days mean I'm not going to be posting much for the next ten days.

I'll try to keep on top of the game but feel free to NPC my character if you have to.

Cheers

Oh, belated welcome back Rags. How did it go?

Hehe, belated response,...

Sorry guys!
I was busy last week, then got a last-minute chance to attend a stage combat workshop and re-up some certifications, then the requisite family Easter stuff,...

Um,.. I'm back! :)

Will catch up ASAP!

And Happy (After) Easter!

Heads up, wife has been in hospital since Thursday and she had to have an emergency operation today. So my posting might be patchy for the next week.

Do not delay the thread for me, DMPC if I don't post please Mothman.

Man, hope your wife is ok. Let us know ok?

Yeah, hope all is well ADMAE?

Wow. Prayers ADMAE.
Hope she's OK.

Wow, that was unexpected. Wishing you and your wife all the best, ADMAE... and hopefully a full and speedy recovery.

Thank you all, she is on the mend now. So I will be posting in between visits.

<Whew!>
Glad to hear it! :)
Join us when you can. Take care of the family first!

Good to hear it man.

Good news ADMAE, relieved to hear it.

All DMs I'm glad to hear that she is getting better. All the best to your family with such a pressure around.

I'm back and a bit feverish so please ignore any weird posting for the next day or so.

Cheers

How are you feeling French Wolf? Better I hope?

I came down with something flu-like about three weeks back, knocked me out for a day or two, but I've had this persistant sore throat since then, which is now starting to get worse ... hope I'm not up for another bout of it ...

I try not to dwell on the low grade colds and headaches that happen periodically here, mainly through lack of good sleep but also because I put alot of effort into the DnD weekend and was pretty run down by the end.

Sore throats aren't so common, but we always have lemons and ginger in the house just in case. The fever was a 24 hour job which helped, because my son isn't the sort to sit around for much of a day. He was off for Easter Break but is back in nursery today.

Good luck with that throat. You should be heartened by the way everyone posts in this game so consistently. AoD is good fun. I wish some of my other games had the same ethic.

Cheers

Posting is patchier than when the wife was in the hospital, she needs full time care, so I am not getting much time to myself at the moment.

Good luck to you both. I wish you well. Sometimes it feels like there aren't enough hours in the day.

Cheers

Good luck to you both. I wish you well. Sometimes it feels like there aren't enough hours in the day.

There aren't! ;P

And +1 on the good lucks/well-wishes to you guys! :)

Posting is patchier than when the wife was in the hospital, she needs full time care, so I am not getting much time to myself at the moment.

Sounds really serious... I hope you both get through this soon. Can't imagine what you must be going through right now...

As above - my best wishes and thoughts are with you man, hope that things are gettnig better. Don't worry too much about the game.

Sounds really serious... I hope you both get through this soon. Can't imagine what you must be going through right now...

Thank you all, if you are interested, this is what happened.

She went in for key hole surgery as a day case patient at 8am Thursday, didn't recover from the surgery, they thought it was a reaction to the anaesthetic. They shunted her off to the first available bed Tuhursday 7.30pm. It took us until 5.30pm Friday to get a doctor (student) to see her, who told her to drink fluids and she could go home, at this point she was still white and couldn't raise her head off the pillow with out fainting, BP was 85/45 and pulse was 125.
Bless her, she force her self to walk by Friday, no change to vitals, an again we got another student doctor form the Gynaecology ward to eventually come and see her at 5pm Saturay, this doctor told her she need a blood test and she would organise it. The doctor left to get her blood kit, got pulled into surgery and came back at 9pm with her coat on to apologise and say she would be back tomorrow to do it.
That night (Saturday) she went numb and swelled up around the key hole cut (port), panicked and very scared she got a doctor to look at it, who said they needed a Gyno doctor, they contacted one, who said it could wait to the morning.
Sunday morning the Student Doctor from Saturday reappeared with a Registrar. The registrar took one look at the records, went mental and rushed her off for a blood test, ultrasound and got her a bed on the correct ward.
Turns out her blood count is 5.5 (should be 12 for her) and the void space in her belly is full of blood. The signs that she had been bleeding to death where there for every one to see, but none of the nurses or student doctors had seen them.
In the consultants words, "the bleeding must of slopped or clotted by now, because we are having this conversation." basically she could of very easily died. They need surgery now to clear all the blood out of her, but could not risk it while she was so weak, so they put her back on fluids and planned to give her 4 units of blood over the day so she could be operated on Monday morning.
As the second unit was being put in she crashed and they realised the bleeding had started again, so at 6pm Sunday she was rushed off for surgery with no guarantee she would be back as she had low BP, racing pulse and on top of those she had eaten.
They had to cut her open from her belly button down wards for about 6 inches to evacuate the blood and find the bleed, which was a nicked blood vessel in the port.
She is now out of hospital and recovering, but it was very very scary.
I am having to take time off work to look after her as she has no core strength and can not do anything. She also has the worse bruising I have ever seen.

Morale of the stories:
1) There is no such thing as a minor operation.
2) Just because they are a doctor, never assume they know there arse from their elbow.

At least the hospital has acknowledged they could of killed her and they are involving us fully into the investigation and procedure changes. I am waiting for the wife to decide if she wants to sue them, I do, but she is unsure.

Thank you all, if you are interested, this is what happened.
<a lot of very scary stuff>

Ho.

ADAE, That is probably the scariest thing I have ever heard. (And I have family in the medical field. I have heard a LOT.)

Someone above loves you guys! I am glad to hear that your wife is going to be ok. More prayers and well-wishes coming your way ASAP! :)

God bless, and take care of your wife! You two were obviously meant to have more time together! :)

I've never been through that but it sounds horrendous, but I hope that is an end to the bad experience and you two can get on with enjoying life.

My wife and I went through the exact opposite thing when my son was seven weeks old, the doctors and nurses saved his life. But he was getting the best care not the worst.

Good Luck, mate.

Andy

Holy crap.

Wow, so glad that they seem to have figured it out in time, so sorry that you and your wife had to go through all that first.

I have little trust in doctors or hospitals. I don’t actually blame the doctors or even the hospitals for the most part, I blame the whole system – don’t know how much things differ there, but here there is just not enough funding for health, the hospital system is under severe strain, you do not have enough doctors per patient and they seem to put far too much responsibility onto not fully trained doctors who are usually working on too many hours of not enough sleep.

Given all these factors, there is very much a culture of trying to get people out of there as quickly as possible, or just leaving things until they get very bad.

Holy crap.

Wow, so glad that they seem to have figured it out in time, so sorry that you and your wife had to go through all that first.

I have little trust in doctors or hospitals. I don’t actually blame the doctors or even the hospitals for the most part, I blame the whole system – don’t know how much things differ there, but here there is just not enough funding for health, the hospital system is under severe strain, you do not have enough doctors per patient and they seem to put far too much responsibility onto not fully trained doctors who are usually working on too many hours of not enough sleep.

Given all these factors, there is very much a culture of trying to get people out of there as quickly as possible, or just leaving things until they get very bad.

ADMAE, wow... I don't know what to say...

My dad was in the intensive care unit up here for a month, from mid-November to mid-December 2009, and we were told on three different occasions to rush to the hospital because the end was near... yet somehow, the old man survived and was back on his feet by early February. But that was one of the most emotionally draining periods in my life.

The situation over here in western Canada is much like Mothman describes for Australia. But as with you, ADMAE, it was hard to know which doctors and nurses to trust, especially when every few days you'd have a new doctor in the unit whose expert opinion contradicted those of the others who had come before... unless they were student docs, in which case they often seemed VERY uncertain what they should be doing period, and their explanations left much to be desired. So many people hang on the words of doctors as if they were the words of God... but yeah, doctors vary in quality, and even the best of them are fallible.

But errors like those your wife suffered through... unbelievable...

Again, I'm hoping the worst is over, and that a full recovery will occur...

I'm sitting here shaking my head ADMAE, though very relieved to hear it did not go the way it very well could have. Sounds like you have a very strong or very luck wife (probably a combination). Wishing you guys a speedy recovery.

Our experience with doctors here is that because they are under lot's of pressure (not enough to go round) they make guesses and prescribe some drug or course of action without taking the time to properly diagnos the problem. Ridiculour because ultimately that puts more strain on the system; the patient comes back in a week with the problem persisting, get's prescribed something else and soon what could have been resolved in a single visit or consultation turns into 3-4.

Thank you all for your responces.

I will try and keep up to speed at posting, but I am back at work as well as looking after the wife and trying to do my end of year accounts, which seems to have come around incredibly quickly.

Don't let it stall because of me.

My round 3 action will be to close on the warlord and try in desperation to make him run away shrieking like a cheer leader.