Children of the Void (Inactive)

Game Master therealthom

Merry Christmas to you all!

Happy New Year!

I'll post tonight.

Guys, you may have noticed my posting has slowed. We've got a big job due in March. Expect slow posting through the end of that month.

Good luck! It's been crazy here, so the slackened rate may actually improve my ability to keep up!

I am NOCAN THE CONTRARIAN! Noooo. I expect GREATER POSTING! POSTING ALL THE TIME! NO-CAAAAAAAAAN!

Nocan the Contrarian

In my defense, I've got kiddos that do watch this. It's highly probable I watch this more often than they do, but, I'll never admit it. :)

(Just as an aside, this is actually a cleverly written cartoon. It's pretty funny.)

Will post tonight.

work explosion

I am still kicking around; but with Tyrrol asleep, I do not feel I can really contribute ;-)

Take your time, Thom - my work is pretty well exploded, too. Darn second job, leeching spare time...

Can't edit the above post.

Yeah, the boards are all jacked for some reason. Can't get into my account, either.

I added Kuva's fort save to the bottom of Kuva's last post yesterday - sorry for the confusion. Putting this here so it doesn't clutter up the gameplay thread!

cool. my bad.

A wizard using a crossbow. I like that, brings me back to the old days when players knew the wizard didn't have to use magic all the time.

All of my spellcasters have crossbows. They can just never hit with them. Might as well spend their standard action snapping the bolts over their knees.

Hey gang, my posting is going to be spotty at best for the next week and a half - losing my lunch break check-in time during school vacation. I'll be back in the regular swing of things the first Wednesday of March.

No worries Jelloarm.

Work continues to be a kick in the pants.

might be travelling/work for today and weekend.

may have trouble posting for a couple days.

No worries! :-)

Preaching to the choir - 'may have trouble posting' seems to have become the story of my life.

Just got my work schedule for the near term. If the estimate is correct, I need to put in about 160 hours over the next two weeks. You know something's going to go wrong. So I'm putting the games I run on hiatus for 3 weeks. See you then.

Good luck! Hope everything goes well, and we'll see you on the other side.

Back, but work is still a mess. I'll try to post as often as possible. Someday, I promise I'll be back to a decent posting schedule.

I think Kuva would try to fight his way out as well. He is quite the fiery little guy. :)

Kuva would *chew* his way out of the grapple while headbutting the tree to death with his face. :)

lol! THAT'S true!

I think Kuva would rage and attack.

I second Set's suggestion :-D

I'm half tempted to not post an action for Kuva, just because you all seem so happy to imagine him violently battling the plant.

However, he couldn't use his falchion while grappled, so against all odds, he may actually try to escape... but will rage to do so.

Jelloarm, if you;re going to get eaten by a plant, the moonflower is the one. It is one vicious over-sized tuber.

Oh, my player knowledge totally gets that - but Kuva totally has a chip off his shoulder. It has 'flower' in it's name?? He's totally convinced that all the other barbarians are going to laugh at him now.

...Mordecai says clinically, pondering how the idea of bringing these creatures off of the island is *breathtakingly* unwise, but keeping that opinion unvoiced, since he's fairly certain that Clegg isn't going to live long enough to see his plan come to fruition.

I thought this too, but less eloquently. I hate monsters that spawn because in most cases there's really no reason the world shouldn't have been swamped by them already. Some day I'll run a campaign that starts at really high level. The BBEG will be a simple wraith. I'll set it in a city.

Mordecai wrote:

...Mordecai says clinically, pondering how the idea of bringing these creatures off of the island is *breathtakingly* unwise, but keeping that opinion unvoiced, since he's fairly certain that Clegg isn't going to live long enough to see his plan come to fruition.

I thought this too, but less eloquently. I hate monsters that spawn because in most cases there's really no reason the world shouldn't have been swamped by them already. Some day I'll run a campaign that starts at really high level. The BBEG will be a simple wraith. I'll set it in a city.

Yeah, the incorporeal ones are the worst. Being unable to leave the island, the alien doggies at least have *something* mitigating their taking over the planet. Shadows, wraiths, specters and greater shadows, on the other hand, are just brutal. Vampires at least have a vested interest in not creating spawn (not being big on the sharing), and don't just do so by accident.

Green slime, brown mold, etc. would also sweep over the average planet like wildfire, consuming everything else.

The ecosystem (or necrosystem) of the average D&D world is fubar. :)

In the module as written, Clegg sends the party on various missions like those you just discussed at lunch. They are a collection of sidetreks with little impact on the main story-line.

We can RP the encounters and combats in detail, or we can kind of broad-brush them and I'll just describe the next few days.

Either option is fine by me :-)

I'm good with either way as well.

Let's try one or two of the side-missions.

I laid the side-missions out for you. Moonflower cuttings. Tentacle-dog acquisition. Zombie acquisition. Those are the ones that take talent. Hunting sky metal anyone can do and CLegg sends people out everyday because it's a morale booster. The crew is down on the other ideas.

You have a little sandbox time.

Kuva would be down for any of the acquisitions - something that lets him swing a weapon. He's not picky.

Player-wise, whichever style of 'the next couple of days' you'd prefer, Thom.

I'd like to watch you guys chart your own course rather than make it up myself. Set a goal. Make a plan. We'll see how it plays out.

Nice post, Ludomancer. "tongued by zombies."

So, we haven't seen much action since Tuesday. Could be coincidence, could be the holiday weekend, could be you don't really want to play in the sandbox for a while.

So I will reopen the polls on the question of how to proceed in the near term.

Not big on Moonflower cuttings. Sounds like horticulture. Boring. BUT, I'm sure it has something to do with some form of monster though.

Either Tentacle-dog's or Zombie's would be my choice.

But I can roll with whatever.

You know what they say: You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

Joana.... go away. :)

Javell, using strictly OOC knowledge, Moonflowers are Huge otherworldly plants with 'swallow whole', which grow from the bodies of those they ingest, and subsequently excrete, in 'seed pods' ;-)

I am happy with any of the three options :-)

Kuva, too, will be happy to swing his falchion at whichever foe he can get his hands on.

Javell, using strictly OOC knowledge, Moonflowers are Huge otherworldly plants with 'swallow whole', which grow from the bodies of those they ingest, and subsequently excrete, in 'seed pods' ;-)

Yep, that's what I figured. Some kinda nasty creature. Didn't realize it was THAT BIG and nasty, though. First time I've ever heard of it.

Consensus?

Zombie quest.

If someone says zombies, let's hunt some zombies!

Go go fearless zombie hunters!

We should bring lots of rope, so we can tie the suckers up and lead them along like cattle, or perhaps something to craft snare traps with?

I'm not sure how far that tongue thing snakes out, so it might be necessary to gag them.

Being zombies, it might be really hard to subdue them, since you can't knock an undead unconscious to take it captive, without also destroying it...

Bringing a couple of 10 ft. poles and some tent-fabric might allow us to make a travois / sled-thing, so that we can drag back any of the tentacle-hounds we might manage to not utterly kill. (Since it doesn't matter what we go out specifically looking for, there's no guarantee that we won't get jumped by the hounds anyway!)