CELESTIAL SUMMONS - GM Angelina's Campaign

Game Master Lady Firedove

Sorry.. I bought the mule to add to the 'communal' mule train the party has.

Sorry that my posting has been spares. Shift work and slight ill health slowing me down.

Much cheers to all.

Eli bought all the mules we needed (as was mentioned to me on the board). He wouldn't have bought a "spare" (or had you buy one) to trail along too, I don't believe. It's just another mule to take care of unnecessarily. Just my two cents.

Addendum: Arabeth, why would there be a spare mule? This relates to your current OOC in your most recent posting... Natanja honestly wouldn't be looking after your pack animal ... She has better things to do and think of. The mules in our group are currently be ridden on ...

Interesting.

Though, should a mule be a riding mount? Can it then also carry equipment? Not being an equestrian type of person, I have no idea as to how much 'boot' space an animal might have. I thought it was either riding OR equipment? Not both? I bought a mule to carry the large items. The blankets, bedding, tents, large camping utensils... Have I over thought the process?

Much cheers to all.

Well, if you bought a mule to carry your equipment, then it is your responsibility and it should be tied to your horse and following behind you.

The rest of us had the option of either buying a horse or mule and Eli bought the mules so it seemed the economical option to go with.

LOL, either way, let's not worry about it much.
Mules can carry some equipment along with riders, but not a ton.
However, I don't know if your group actually bought any tents or other larger equipment.
(You're quite lucky it's been dry so far.)

Arabeth, do you want a pack mule?
Eli, did you figure you had bought one for her?

Honestly, I don't care to make any fuss or stress over it, so let's just decide how we want it, and go with it from here. :)

At this point in the journey,
Eli has harnessed his mule to the one-animal cart and is leading it on foot (or riding on the small cart bench, which could fit two.)
A pack mule could be tied behind the cart, and Arabeth could then be freer to move more quickly on her horse.
However, I don't know how long you guys will be keeping the cart.

As for the splitting up issue, if it can be resolved in character, that would be my preference, and perhaps you do want to track the mule/horse/whatever trail through the underbrush a bit more, but the trail is at least a day old, possibly two, so it definitely got quite a big head start, and I'd rather not split the party for too long, if we can help it.
Characters are free to speak up as they would like.

Thanks! :)

P.S. I hope you feel better soon, Arabeth!

Reconsidered things about the traveling.
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So, ignoring what Eli's released above (because it's wrong):

Rations: cost 45.5 gold for 7 days <5 silver per ration * 13 cousins (Not counting Poterol) * 7 days = 45.5>
Donkeys: cost: 96 gold for 12 mules <8 gold each * 12 mules = 96>
Donkey Equipment: cost <{22+44+110+5+4.2 gold = 185.2}>
{5 gold per pack saddle * 1 mules = 5 gold}
{10 gold per riding saddle * 11 mules = 110 gold}
{4 gold per saddle bag * 11 mules = 44 gold}
{2 gold per bit and bridle * 11 mules = 22 gold}
{5 copper for feed/day * 7 days * 12 mules = 420 copper = 42 silver = 4.2 gold}

45.5+185.2+96 = 326.7 gold, total.

That should be 33 platinum, not 14. Quite the mistake!

Submitting this, so I don't lose it... again. >:(
Had more written, but accidentally shut the window. Will be posting again, shortly, or editing this.

So...
Cost: 326.7 gold
Released: 33 platinum = 330 gold
Change: 3.3 gold

THE BOX
Before: 50 platinum, 40 gold, 15 silver, 5 copper
Shopping: 33 platinum
Change: 3 gold, 3 silver
Final: 17 platinum, 43 gold, 18 silver, 5 copper

I purchased 12 mules - 11 for riding and one for packing.

There are 14 of us.

That means I acknowledge that three folk had horses (or other mounts, but, as it turns out, horses) - Aeryth, Arabeth, and Lesith.

That is what I paid for.

Arabeth specified that she purchased things (from her funds): another mule, pack saddles, and fodder.

Mule costs: 8 gold
{5 gold per pack saddle * 1 mules = 5 gold}
{5 copper for feed/day * 7 days * 2 mounts = 70 copper = 7 silver = 0.7 gold}

All told, she spent 8+5+0.7 = 13.7 gold = 13 gold, 7 silver

She received: 10 platinum, 6 gold, 1 silver, and 1 copper.

Conversion: 9 platinum, 15 gold, 11 silver, and 1 copper.
Spent: 13 gold, 7 silver

Remaining: 9 platinum, 2 gold, 4 silver, and 1 copper.

So, unless we recton something, *Arabeth* has an extra mule, it wouldn't slow her down to date, and she can always cut it free, as needed.

Sound about right?

EDIT: With two pack mules, Eli would take them and attach them to the wagon as well - they would follow behind, or help pull it, if possible.

If there's an extra mule, Cernan may have tied some of his extra stuff to it. It's hard to carry around that many masterwork tools when you've also got an anvil, forge components and a full set of alchemists' flasks and reagents.

been off line almost all day and will be again tomorrow. so I guess that i will not be conversing much.

I just hope I get the chance to actually get to know the others.

Short but significant game update posted...

Another short but significant ... very significant... game update posted.

not to be a pain but I thought we were moving slow with this..

game updates once a week? are we moving forward already? I think I'm still on the road before the bodies.

If I had the skills to do what i wanted I would definitely be doing stuff that may be forcing us to back up. so unfortunately i don't.

anyway we are at the town now?

can we go back to game updates as planned?

PS i will be reading the last 40 - 50 posts now. so I can make sure I don't do something stupid or say something stupid, or not look like an ass for identifying something that was already discussed.

man I am soo far behind on my games....

*Hugz Sister Azmaria * (^_^)

Hi, Sister A.
Sorry if I moved too fast!
The last few game posts have more-or-less been short additions to the last big one as you approached Endurant.
I didn't think each little one would be enough material to chew on for a week.
You can find them all linked to on the Campaign Info tab.
Game pace should slow down again now, since your group has arrived, and since I have a busy work week ahead.
I just get prolific on the weekends. :)
You can feel free to put a spoiler tag post in gameplay going back in time to show more of your character's reaction to finding the bodies.
Now, the group has arrived at the smoking remains of a village and is beginning to look around.

I am trying to put together a character for a game, as I am probably the last one left and holding everyone up. but i keep having to check some of the games that are moving very fast.

it takes time making level 16 characters

no point in that too much I can't redirect action of the past like say if Sister A wants to bury the bodies before heading out or even burn them. that would change everything or just put in a position of ... "too bad, so shut up and follow along."

So i will try something but it will probably be just some wasted dice rolls.

*Hugz again Sister Azmaria *

In pertaining to the poor souls we found along the road. Burying them would have teken time which, at the time, we didn't think we had.

Of course, now with the revelation of the present.... We could have taken a few more months to get here and -other than things being lost through scavenging and elements- made none the difference. :(

Wishing every one the best and looking forwards to great ass kicking for JUSTICE!

It depends on the GM, but I know that when I run games I am always willing to let characters take retroactive actions like that in PbP. I think Angelina is generally fine with that too, so it really wouldn't be a problem.

Thank for the help gm i have been having some very frustrating few days.

I just sometimes don't know what to say or do

Know what you mean. I've been having some increasingly bad days for what is now close to a year. Luckily, PbP happens to be my emotional mistake, so I'm doing fine on this point.

*Hugz Sister Azmaria * (^_^)

Wishing every one all the very best.

A new gameplay post is up, with a special spoiler tag for every character! :)
I figured since everyone posted, I was okay to move forward.
All major game posts are linked on the Campaign Info tab.
Enjoy!

This place is a real kick in the gut for a gentle soul. Poterol REALLY wants to find out who did this, and why.

Then my mission is accomplished...

Friday is pretty easy to confuse with Wednesday, it's got half of the same letters.

That said, a game's pace is ultimately set by the GM—as long as this isn't too fast for you, the pace seems fine.

Sorry if Arabeth seems too much of a drama queen.

I have been sick over the past few days and the imagery of the experience is still fresh in my mind. Putting the suffering to good use in art/writing feels therapeutic.

Much cheers and best wishes to all.

Cernan, maybe I just really, really wanted it to be Friday already. :)

Arabeth, what's roleplaying without some drama? :) Feel better soon!

Natanja gets up at dawn to commune with her spirit animal for an hour. So she can take the watch shift to coincide with that time frame, if possible.

*Raises hand* Arabeth is happy to take the last shift as well.

Greeting the dawn is a nice way to start a day.

Poterol will take first watch, as that is his time to commune.

Azmaria can take any watch, she is not yet a spell caster so yeah, there's that...

Curious to see when the super secret spoiler will be a plot point.

@Cernan: I was waiting for one or two other people to check in before reading the spoiler and playing it out -- Tomorrow morning (or later tonight?), I was thinking (whether they do or don't).

I'm a little lost on the order of things. Did Natanja, Cernan, and Eli come back, have their discussions and then find a the survivor or did they find the survivor and come back without the child and then had the talk about weakness and wrongness?

Chap will take the middle watch

Aslo did Natanja only call specific people or did we all hear that a survivor was discovered.

sounds like she called for specific people but if we all heard then I can presume this poor child is gonna get 14 various heal checks and spells and soo flooded with divine energy she will glow good for a month

We regathered first.

Thereafter, we headed back out and Natanja found the child.

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EDIT: Ninja sisters: Natanja only called for those who were supposedly there. I'm pretty sure she forgot that Eli was supposed to be around. Specifically, she'd been traveling with Cernan and Kaya, thus she called for them. Most everyone else should be either asleep, guarding, tending the pyre, or working on doing or helping one of those tasks.

Stuck doing the chores

To clarify events:

You somewhat regrouped near the wagon after finishing most of your searching and had the conversation about weakness shortly before sunset.

Then, Poterol and others started unloading the five original bodies and making a pyre to burn them, while some went to start getting the logging camp ready for the night, and Natanja, Kaya, Cernan, Eli, and maybe a few others continued searching the rubble.

Shortly after sunset, Natanja found the girl under the bed...
So I would guess that most everyone would still be awake, although a couple might have gone off to sleep.
Natanja stabilized the girl, called to those nearby to help get her out, and carried the girl to a "patch of grass"... which would have to be a bit of a distance away, outside the burned area. Perhaps it was near the short path leading to the empty logging camp and the stream.

You can decide where your character was when the girl was found, whether you would have heard Natanja or noticed her carrying the girl over to the grass, and whether you hurry over to join those with the girl.

At work

By the reading of things.... it would seem Arabeth is abed, wanting to be up and awake to greet the dawn and look after every one as they sleep.

Didn't forget you were around, Eli. Just was not certain you were there at the precise moment Natanja found the girl as it seemed Eli had a number of tasks he was taking care of (around sunset). So I simply played it out with the two kin actually with Nat the entire time.

Natanja: no problem. If it wasn't clear, I'm not upset or worried about it. I could easily see me forgetting things in your place. Mostly I was just explaining my guesswork. :)

Regardless, that works.

The little archaist

little archaist

little archaist

the little archaist. :)

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what <I think> you think it means.

+8 knowledge, arcane 1+4(int)+3(class)

+9 knowledge, local 1+4(int)+3(class)+1(race)
+8 knowledge, nature 1+4(int)+3(class)
+8 knowledge, religion 1+4(int)+3(class)

(Though you might mean it via linguistics or augmented age.)

((Also, you lack your stats in your "class" line in your profile. You'll want to reply to this post and copy/paste the below and edit it according to your info, though I think I have everything correct.))

female Kitsune (voidkin) Arcanist (white mage) 2 | AC: 12, T: 12, FF: 10 | HP: 12/12 | Fort: +0, Reflex: +2, Will: +4 | CMB: +0, CMD: 12 | Init: +2 | Perception: +1 | Sense Motive: +6 | <Current: ->

EDIT: To be clear, I suspect Autocorrect, or something similar is changing your word. If not, however, and you're use is intentional, I'd love to learn a new way of using words! It's always cool.

Kiwyn,
TLDR version of grammar-nazi Eli's post above:
He thinks you mean to call yourself an "arcanist" not an "archaist" but he's not certain. :)

Well, you know, "TL" is my name...

*looks back*
Frickin' auto-correct. ><

"Calm yourself, child." Eli agrees, in his flat monotone.

He removes his mask, and smiles, benevolently.

"We are friends and allies here." he notes, gently.

Yeah, that's... not creepy at all...