Hello everybody, I will be visiting my girlfriend this weekend and my posting will probably be non-existent until Sunday evening. I'll see you all then.
DMPC me as needed.
I believe we were told not to interract with the charge. Although, I do not recal any reason being given.
The reason (from something of a game mechanical/metagame POV) is that the baby has to stay put for a period of time on the order of a few days to weeks, and directly interacting with the parents takes success at that down to a single Diplomacy check. And one with significant penalties, at that; you've got a small child (or a flying helmet, which is probably worse) translating for one or more heavily armed foreigners. Mess up the roll and they nod and smile until you're out of sight, and then they pack up and run for it.
OTOH, Gallowsmith didn't know you'd have a passage token from the local government, which might help a bit.
Thanks for the summary...I recall now.
I'm going to be on the road or at a meeting most of the day today, so will not be able to post.
No problem.
Should it become necessary [1], you can replace Grungar mid-game.
[1]I just played _The Dalsine Affair_ on the boards, and was having a flashback to the way the boss fight started out for us. It wasn't the initial sneak attack that put the hurt on Grungar (though it wasn't anything to be happy about), it was when I rolled a 20 for the pukwudgie's initiative check so it could go before Grungar could react, and it got its sneak attack bonus damage again.
Man, that's just rough.
Don't worry Grungar, we'll keep you alive! Well the others mostly, my way of keeping you alive is by killing everybody else.
damn, that sucks lol. Hopefully he makes it through, I really enjoy playing his character.
DM I have the following ability.
Seize the Initiative (6/day) (Su): An ally within 30' may take the better of 2d20 for initiative
I didn't spell it out before going to sleep, but it would make sense that Grungar on his watch would have that benefit.
Much like, Drovic, I will do the same. You do have two pure killing machines with ya!
Unfortunately, Dashel, even if Grungar had maxed his initiative he still would have gone after the pukwudgie; it maxed as well, and it's got +4 compared to his +1.
Deshel definitely needs light armor to sleep in.
If you figure out that they're zombies you can at least channel at them. I can understand a certain amount of reluctance to close with them in your current state of readiness for combat.
ETA: BTW, that obscuring mist probably saved the party.
Since he was sleeping, his armor needed to be off or he'll be fatigued.
You're right I still don't know they are zombies and I'm relatively clueless about their type, numbers and locations.
Any of you seen Grungar's player elsewhere on the boards lately?
Not I...
Grungar is the DM in a shackles game that I'm in and he has not checked in there recently.
I'll be out of town for the US holiday weekend; may have a chance to check in, but posting will be curtailed.
Back among the connected. It looks like nothing from Grungar's player on the boards since early May; Drovic, when do you wrap up your exams?
My final exam is on Friday, so by this weekend my posting will be back to normal.
I've been DMPC'ing you in the other RA game Drovic.
I believe we lost Grungar; he is also MIA in the game that he DMs.
One of the players who had to drop out last time around is interested in coming back, though. You've taken out the most problematic of the area's threats to the child (it was the pukwudgie that had been killing most of the missing loggers and turning them into zombies), so I can cut this segment short and put something together for the next mission.
The pukwudgie, btw, had mixed it up with the annis hag after the hag was retreating from you--as far as it was concerned, the hag was encroaching on *its* hunting ground. If you'd gone north to check out where you'd heard her scream, you would have found the dead ogres and troll before the venom could turn them into zombies, and the pukwudgie fight would have been a little more problematic for it.
Bring the player back in. Is it STR Ranger?
That was a tough battle, good use of effective poison on us. That stuff just zaps our abilities, and well, it stinks when you are caught asleep without armor on. I need to get a chain shirt, but I really like when parties are caught off-guard, it makes the situation unique.
No, not STR Ranger. It's overfiend_87/DM Aron Marczylo, Krolmnite's player. I think I was already DMPCing Krolmnite when you joined, though.
Hmmm...why can I not remember him? Was that even before my joining, as well? Then again...maybe it is just my age...ugh...
Yes it was before you joining Conner. I believe he was in for a few posts when I arrived, then the DM played him.
You've taken out the most problematic of the area's threats to the child (it was the pukwudgie that had been killing most of the missing loggers and turning them into zombies), so I can cut this segment short and put something together for the next mission.
I'd like to see and hear the reaction from the town folk and farmer now that there are bodies to witness.
Woodcutter, not farmer.
That sounds good, but I am prepared to attack if they attempt to take us into custody. I will not sacrifice the mission.
I'm going to be on vacation from the 6th to the 16th. Let's plan to restart after that; it may take me some time to get the next piece together, as well.
That works for me. Are we near leveling? If so, we could level our characters while you are on vacation.
Not quite there yet.
Drovic, how did exams go?
I get to return next year and that's all that matters haha.
How much longer do you have to go before you're done?
I just finished my sophomore year so I should be done with undergraduate studies in another 2 years. With the intellectual arms race of the current age I'll probably go strait for my masters degree although I'm not sure what in yet. I'm considering medical school to go into forensic pathology.
Sounds interesting! In a previous life I was a forensic chemist/toxicologist, doing legal blood & urine drug/alcohol testing for the State of Wisconsin. Then I went to grad school in materials science, which was a bit of a shift.
I just landed a solid job that gives me near daily 7-3 hours. My posting will be non-existent during those hours, but I wills till be active after that.
I'm back in town.
We may be slow getting restarted; I'm hustling to finish a PFS PbP for the online game day, and I've also gotten hit with an unexpected project at work. I'll keep you posted.
thanks for the update.
I'd been on vacation last week, as well, and part of the time I wasn't able to connect. (Upper Michigan...beautiful place, but don't expect good cell service.)
Welcome back...onward?
Yup. Just coming unburied from work that had piled up while I was gone.
Thanks
I'm not going to be able to post until Saturday.
No problem--I'm also going to be slow getting started, but I wanted to get a post out. It'd been almost a month since the last game post, after all.
The other two players are in another game that I run: Rappan Athuk. We are dedicated players so I doubt a little layoff will thwart us.
By the way, if you ever want to join a game as player let me know. I have one game COT that is at the last battle of book 6 and I'm mulling over my next campaign.