Aubrey's Rise of the Runelords campaign (Inactive)

Game Master Aubrey the Malformed

Yeah, camping is great if the weather's OK and everybody has their health. Once the rain and sniffles start, it becomes a lot less fun.

Wimps.

LMAO, that's the first time we've bailed since we started camping as a family, and we did camp 3 separate times in August ;)

Now to start planning the next camp....

I am away from tonight until Sunday night - my wife's birthday weekend - and I doubt I'll be checking in much.

A lot of shit IRL on my plate right now. As such, I doubt I'll update my games much in the next two days.

No probs, hang tough.

I'll prolly check back in tonight.

Ebola in town + wind knocked down privacy fence + 2 tests this week + whatever else you have = busy me

I'm back. What a week from hell.

2 tests done.....I "love" that I can do the accounting, but entering "show your work" answers on a computer on double declining balance depreciation then showing the income statements for 3 years with a 3.5 hour window is discombobulating to say the least.

Got the global head of department's secretary sitting next to me today. Meaning the global head of department might be swinging past from time to time. So I might be a bit quiet during the day.

Ouch.....

Heathy has dropped me a line saying he is struggling a bit at the moment with life issues and may have to step away from the keyboard for a brief spell. Hopefully he'll be back soon, but in the meantime you guys will have to run Hudak.

Hello,

I think I'm going to take a hiatus for a while from pbp.

I have so much crap to do that when I get free time I'm a zombie and can't hardly function, or I spend a long bit figuring out what the hell is happening and every time I get back into it, guess what: it's time to flake off again for a week.

In the future when I seem to be able to be involved with this form of gaming in some sort of fruitful way I'll let everybody know and see what/where/when is good to pick up the pieces and go on.

But, I am at least putting my pbp games on hiatus for the nonce.

I will check back in whenever I'm not so damn busy that I can pay rudimentary attention to what the hell I'm doing.

I mean, Hudak......charge the wight, dude; don't wait for him to charge you so you can fullattack. Derrrrp.

Be well, Heathy.

Guys, I'm thinking of running a Wrath of the Righteous PbP here. I say "thinking" because it would be an additional commitement of time, albeit I don't plan anything that would be at much variance to the scenarios as written. Would people be interested? I'd be looking for the usual six or so players.

I'm in. I've read the AP, though, but I don't expect that to be much of a problem.

No, it won't matter. I read it, and am rereading now, and noticed there was loads of important stuff I forgot.

Cool. So, if we get this off the ground, I'd like to play a sneaky party member - a rouge, or maybe a monk. It's been a while since I played either class.

Ok then, I'll set up a Discussion thread. We'll see if we need to recruit depending on the response to this.

Indeed, here it is.

Just to let people know, my boss is in from Germany and we went out last night, hence my being a bit quiet over the last day or so.

Anyone heard from Vatters - he's been uncharacteristically quiet over the last few days?

Been feeling a bit manky this weekend - not at death's door, but it's nevertheless hard to summon up inspiration. I might be quiet for a day or two.

A belated Merry Christmas to everyone. Not expecting anyone to post much until the New Year, though you are welcome to if you so desire.

A belated Merry Christmas to you, sir.

I'm returning to the fold of the living today having struggled through another holiday work season.
Happy belated New Year ya'll!

Welcome back!

A heads-up - I have a 84-hour workweek coming up next week. I doubt I'll be my effervescent self, though I'll give it my best shot.

So how'd you feel about the election Ithers?

Have to give it some time to see I guess. So many people voted for Syriza while openly hoping they wouldn't actually do all of the crazy things they campaigned on. Many people believed they would instantly moderate if they won. Now we'll see. It is weird to see a leftist party whose big revolt is to try to undue all of the recent changes and basically promise to go backward in so many ways. I don't see how they could back down on trying to get out of the austerity measures though. It is really the core of their platform and everything else is built around it. If they cool towards that too quickly everyone will turn on them.

I am a little surprised that Golden Dawn came in 3rd again considering so many of their elected officials have been convicted and are in prison.

I should also say there were no good viable choices in the election. The other main party at this point is the one who was the primary engineer of cooking the books and putting Greece in the position it is in. The party which used to be the other main power in Greece was utterly destroyed by being the ones who found out about it while auditing the government after the election in 2008 and being in power when austerity was introduced. They went from taking 40% of the vote to something like 4%.

It opens the possibility that we might move to the states depending on how things shake out. We were planning a trip to London in a couple weeks or so, but we'll have to see how fast the EU is ready to give us the boot ;)

Random aside- Mrs Ith went shopping like a survivalist before the elections loading up on dry goods and stuff just in case there is a period of mass chaos and shut down of imports for a currency transition.

Every English news source I here is mispronouncing their party name. They keep saying SyRIZa which sounds weird. The tone is one the first syllable. SYRiza.

Make you sure you take some euros out in cash form.

Done.

That is quite scary.

Even more so because of how calmly you describe that last bit.

There was a point in the financial crisis in the UK when I suggested to the wife we take some cash out, just in case. Never got round to it and it wasn't necessary, fortunately.

You UK guys have any favorites for kids (3-4 years old) that we shouldn't miss on this trip? Our guy is about 2 months from being 4 and has pretty much the classic interests of dinosaurs, robots, cars and trains. We'll probably hit the Natural History Museum a couple of times, but what else tops your list? We'll be staying in South Kensington.

The Transport Museum in Covent Garden is fun. James is a train nut and they have bus and train simulators in there. Frankly, he enjoys the rides on the Tube almost as much. The Docklands Light Railway is also fun - as it is driverless, you can sit at the front and see where the train is going (it is mostly above ground). There is also the Emirates Cable Car over the river in east London. If he likes steam trains, there are probably plenty of volunteer-run ones around outside London - an internet search will do wonders, but the Bluebell Line in Kent (or Sussex) might be nice, especially as it can be combined with a visit to National Trust stuff.

How long are you around for?

Science and industry museum is awesome. Though a lot of it is better for older kids.

I haven't taken the kids that far south though really.

We arrive on the 11th, but too late for anything more than dinner and leave on the 21st. I can already see him going crazy for bus/train simulators. Thanks for the tips :)

Are you planning on staying in London the whole time or going to spread your wings a bit?

We'll probably stay in the city. I like the idea of seeing some countryside, but we have a hotel so anything we we did would have to be a day trip only and I suspect we might be too lazy to get out of London. We'll see. Honestly at this point this is the least amount of planning we've put into any trip. I'll have a couple of days off before we leave and will make some plans at that point.

I'm leaving in a few hours for some vacation days. Will still probably post in the morning and evening when I have wifi.

Have fun!

Have fun.

Just had a very convivial lunch with Ithers, Mrs Ithers and Baby Ithers. Thanks for a very pleasant time.

Did you bore Mrs Ithers with game talk?

No, we steered completely free of the subject. For which I am sure she was duly grateful.

I'm sure she was!

Hah! She would have been very polite about it but Aubrey would have seen the zoned out, nod at the appropriate time, routine that most work talk rightly earns me.

For a while at a different job here in Greece I worked with a very nice guy who, once he realized I was also a gamer, would regale me with endless stories about ongoing or past games. I liked the guy but damn... It was an experience I'll avoid sharing with all of you in the future if we should meet. ;)

Just to let everyone know, I am on holiday from this Saturday until Monday and will not have IT access during this time.

I'm away this weekend. Will be back to posting on Tursday probably.