And to you, Cap'n. Fair winds and following seas!
Sure thing. And happy holidays to all you mates. Dingus will spend more time perfecting shooting rays from his magic wand.
Indeed - fair winds and following tarmac? to one and all.
I'll be working through the break unfortunately, though I will have visitors come boxing day which will be very good indeed.
May you all eat too much, enjoy time with families and all that jazz!
Likewise tae all ye crazy mates.
Have a good one and hope Sanity Clause festoons you all with much deserved swag :)
Posting from my phone; can one of you roll my AoO? Dagger, +8 to hit, d4+2 damage.
Posting from my phone; can one of you roll my AoO? Dagger, +8 to hit, d4+2 damage.
aye, I'll get it.
Shipmates - Happy Hogmanay to one and all from Bonnie Scotia. May you all be first footed by a dark haired visitor bearing gifts and the boon of good luck.
Thanks again for a fantastic year of gaming - honour and a privilege to sail with you all on this feckin' crazy voyage and canny wait for what the coming year brings us.
Alas I'm on call for our Offshore Ops and as such I'll not be imbibing any tinctures. I will however raise a symbolic dram to ye all come the bells.
All the best for 2014 when it comes my friends.
Skal!
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Indeed, here here what not and so forth.
As an aside... here's hoping that our soggy companion is able to rejoin us soonish, he's been missed.
Indeed he has... :(
BTW Dibbs - am mulling treating myself to a Muay Thai/MMA Holiday in Phu-ket/Thailand (boards thought the spelling sans dash was sweary!) around late Sep-Early Oct...
Giving myself a few months to plan if its feasible so will likely be around March when (if) I book...
If I do we'll have to swing meeting up matey!
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Doooo iiiiit! - I could hop over to phu-ket for a howdy... or you could come crash at my place in KL.
In similar vein I'm likely to be back in the motherland come 2015 for the Rugby World Cup (there are a few games oop north in Yorkshire I'm eyeing) so would be able to return the favor then.
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Happy 2014 one and all!
My road tally over the break came to 4050 miles driven on the dot. Sheesh. I'm giving Santa a run for his money...
Long and short- I'm back.
Don't look now... but we might be getting back our dark and soggy preacher shortly :)
Don't look now... but we might be getting back our dark and soggy preacher shortly :)
when? Should I give him time to post his own tracking roll?
Cap'n - he said over email: 'I was going to make an appearance on the boards this weekend to make my apologies and see where things lie. It is nice to know at least a spot is open despite my disappearing act.'
Give him till Monday?
Hello friends. I hope all are well and have had a good holiday season.
I wish to apologize for my absence and the obvious hole it left in this game. I suffered a major shock in my life around Thanksgiving that has affected my network of family and friends, my emotional health, my career, and long term financial wellbeing.
My job increased in duties to overcome a vital loss in our small ranks just to make it to the new year. While we struggled to meet that milestone, my job may yet still evaporate in the coming months if the board moves to dissolve. Exhaustion and depression had settled over me, to a sense that I knew something was wrong but was unable to stop it.
I have been around long enough on these boards to see people up and disappear, and I always wondered what happened. Well, I am here to report that sometimes life can kick you in the teeth, and take something from you. I loved visiting these boards and not just for the online PbP. Several times a day. Usually first thing in the morning after checking email and last thing at night, looking for that last possible update. Well, a switch had been thrown in me. Something I loved just fell away.
Over Christmas, I did some travel to spend time in desolate places to clear my head. I love the desert and its effect on me. Seeing life growing, however limited, in the harshest of environments is a good inspiration for one looking to renew one's life or get over life's hurdles.
My job still may evaporate and I don't look forward to finding a similar job in this economy, BUT I have turned a corner and have begun to look at this proactively as something to prepare for instead of dread. Maybe even doing some fiction writing, something I always wanted, but a full-time career held me back...we will see.
Through this, my local friends and family have been supportive. In that vein I seek to get back with my wider net of friends I have made over the internet. Chatting with people all over the world in different locales and different (or the same) places in their life has always been an education and comfort. So while not completely over my depression (I have been battling depression to a smaller degree for a number of years now) I am in a better place, so I return to my old haunts. I want to thank those that reached out and others that expressed concern.
This is my first visit to the boards in quite some time, and I image there is a lot that has happened in my absence to go back and read. I suspect I have been dropped or replaced in some cases, and I totally understand and respect that. And again I apologize for the disruption I brought to this game. If the group does still have a place for me, I can begin to resume my postings here as I try to get back up to speed.
In either case I have enjoyed my time here and will read future developments as it has been a fine game.
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Meowzebub - as expressed over the electronic mail sending device, condolences for the shock over the holidays and if I saw you in person I would offer platonic man-hugs of a comforting nature.
For mine you're always welcome in any of the many many games that we share on here, and in this one first and foremost. Our little rag tag group of cripples and nutcases needs it's anchor, so I'd be more than happy to have you pick up the soggy one where you left off and keep guiding us down the dark and stinky sewer holes we seem to invariably find ourselves in.
Cliff notes version is we's chasing were-rats, and the Groom's tracking skills are on point :)
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Aye, Groom. I don't think there was ever any talk of making you walk the plank. You are welcome whenever you feel up to it. Hell, I've actually shared a beer with you so you're safer that the rest of this motley bunch ; )
As Dibbs says, it appears the Blackened Knot is somehow involved with the Brain Boil afflicting the orcs in Freeport. You just cleared the Knot from the Chumhouse and the survivors have fled into the sewers. Apparently, they are afflicted were-rats themselves. Could use a tracking roll from the Groom if you're ready to jump back in...
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BD - if you haven't already, go buy 'The Banner Saga' - you'll love it :)
Mateys - it's a wee bit early, but I wanted to give y'all a preview of what the third year anniversary PbP gift was going to look like this year.
You motley bag of scoundrels will be getting a deck of these - while dear Cap'n will most appropriately be getting the Cap'n's version of same. Just my way of saying thankyou for a time well spent and enjoyed :)
Wow. I dig it! As if running for you nutters weren't its own reward, Mark has got to sweeten the pot with a lovely bonus each year.
Huzzah! I'll be counting down the days until April. ; )
Thanks once again, Little Buddy!
Thankee for the kind words Cap'n - and I hope that the project runs on time so we won't be twiddling thumbs a-waiting for them.
Anyone else lost a bunch of posts over last night? Was burning the midnight oil - posted a heap and now they are all gone :(
Feckin techin' grrrrrr.
Yep. I must admit as much as I love the Paizo community, they have the most unreliable forums I have ever visited...by far.
Yep. I must admit as much as I love the Paizo community, they have the most unreliable forums I have ever visited...by far.
+1 to that shipmate.
What did get eaten was my generous appreciation of Mark's next commemorative gifts :) - mighty picks, cards look amazing...
Personally I'm now counting down to the 20th anniversary business class tix for us all to visit him in KL lol...
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Heh - I don't even buy business fer meself... cattle class for you :P
Moo.
We can always agree to met in the middle....that would be out on the gigantic floating heap of plastic bottles growing in the center of the North Pacific.
Do we have some corpses up top that are handy? Or are we going to fight the Craptopus?
I don't know about handy, but you've left a trail of dead knotters.
SO what's the plan?
Think fighting the craptopus could be a bad move... but its likely to be Kaul's defacto approach...
Getting the corpses and feeding it is a good idea, getting it on side could be very useful for down the line (disposing of certain evidence and the likes heh)
My 2 sails worth
Best one o' the longshanks go fetch a fresh one to sate the bugger.
NOTE: Kaul is already halfway across and it will likely take a great deal of time for him to squeeze back through the rat hole and try to drag a body through. The otyugh hasn't shown any aggression yet despite getting excited because you keep mentioning food...
The otyugh could end up being our version of Bricktop's pigs from Snatch :)
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6 pieces, 1 otyugh, 5 minutes. Probably should pull out the teeth first, you don't want to dig for 'em.
I'll be away this weekend.
How are you doing, Meowzebub?
FLU-NAMI ! I can't even think. I'll update when my head doesn't feel like a pudding.
Feeling any better, Cap'n?
At this rate we'll be all outta puff by the time we do reach the ratters and will have to run away...
Feeling any better, Cap'n?
Well, I WAS... two long ass days of work later: I've got the croup so I'll probably be hacking for a month now. lovely.
Thanks for the thoughts though.
Good to hear the death plague is weakening Cap'n... I've inoculated myself over the past couple of days with sweet potato and roasted garlic soup... so I should be vampire resistant till it gets flushed out of my system.
Off to Glasgae for a gig shipmates so won't be active today or most of the weekend. DMPC Kauly as necessary :)
Lots of travel this week, so posting while continuing may be spotty.
I'll be up in the thread as soon as I get this food coma under control...
14 people, $1500 worth of crab, lobster, crab, prawn, crab, clams, chicken and such... much tasty, many wow.
Too bad they didn't have bagpipes- Dingus' greatest bane!:
I can't believe you found a video of one of my future kinsmen :-)
Just back from oilfield stuff in Norway guys - knackered and loads to catch up on - so apologies if my posting is spotty.
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S'all right Kauly... we can wait till ye baws thaw out :P
Frozen fruits? Wrong game surely ;P
Plums were toasty thankee very much - Noggies have quality thermogear heh.
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NOTE: It's that time of year once again- SPRING BREAK! I'll be traveling and camping over the next week so posting will be spotty.