Christoph - what's the Discord link for? I have so many sign-ins and log-ins to different things that I'm reluctant to take on another one...
I made a Discord server (text and voice chat forum) that I created specifically so we could have a non-forum place for OOC chat. In other games, I've also seen people duplicate Gameplay posts (with and without formatting) so that you can see a notification when people post. I just wanted some non-forum place available for discussion. Not sure it's critical to join, but potentially nice to have.
I apppreciate setting up the Discord and I'd like it very much if you could use it to notify me when you are ready for me to move the scene or combat forward. Lack of notifications is my biggest problem with PbP, especially once there are 3+ games running.
I know there are bots intended to help run games over discord too. I haven't used them in practice but would be interested to try.
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Hopefully the forums are back for good this time!
This really is the least stable platform I've experienced in the last decade.
Pretty terrible, isn't it? Hopefully sorted out now!
EDIT: And to whoever is accompanying Ellie and now has to undo the damage she's caused: a thousand apologies :/
The website gives me less and less confidence. Ellie / Freija, I hope you will reconsider and join Christoph's Discord channel ASAP. While the website was down I managed to join two games over Discord and do a complete encounter in one. We could have been much further in if we would continue playing over Discord while the forums are down.
Yeah, I'm sold. Will take a look at Discord tomorrow morning.
I'll try to get a post in soon. Hopefully, the website is stable again!
Yeah, I just managed to post after failing several times.
Let's hope it stays up this time... got a post up.
Hi all, I've been holding off from doing this, but following the website crashes and my attempts to keep the games I'm running from going under, I don't have time or headspace for this game.
I'm really sorry to do this to you, it's been a great game. I will continue to GM and I hope to see you on these boards at some future stage.
Ah. Well, I'm no stranger to overcommitment myself, so I understand. Sorry to see you go, this game and party kinda fit my headspace neatly. I wish you luck in your games and maybe our paths will cross again.
On a related note I haven't heard back from Freija for a month now, including two PMs. I am going to assume this game has 4 players now.
Sorry to see you go, Ellie (not Eldarel). I really enjoyed your character. Wishing you the best and hoping we'll get to play together again in the future.
That seems a safe assumption, CyberMephit. I've really enjoyed how things have been going so far. Sorry for not getting a post up sooner. I got a bit behind and then it kind of snowballed and I haven't had enough time to get caught up to now. It should go easier now that I'm caught up. :)
Do we need to consider recruiting any additional party members? The only thing that concerns me is we're a little light on front-liners without conjuration support or Freija.
Sorry to see you go Ellie. Best of luck with your other games!
Yeah it seems that having a frontliner would make your odds of success better. I also see that Sofia hasn't posted in 3 weeks, I hope she's still with us. I'll give it another week and then will reopen the recruitment.
EDIT: Actually I scrolled up in Discord and noticed that Sofia warned us that she will be moving on the first week of Sep, so all good.
Grrr... one of my posts got eaten by forum goblins. Will post tonight.
Yeah forum goblins are the worst :( I usually copy my posts into notepad before submitting but once in a while I forget and then they sneak attack!
Hello everyone, one redeemed criminal and Knight of Ozem recruit here for your tanking needs. Thank you for this chance!
Welcome to the group Dragos. Looking forward to you getting stabbed with pointy objects on my behalf :-P
I will wait until end of this week for any word from Sofia. I hope I won't have to reopen the recruitment thread again to find us a caster :(
Welcome Dragos!
Welcome to the game, Dragos.
Ninja'd by a minute or two. Fixed it up though.
And now I've made it, Delfina 3.0 lol. I'm excited to play with you all :D
Welcome!
Howdy!
Hello Delfina!
Welcome to the crew!
As a heads up, I will be traveling next week and unlikely to maintain daily posting until Oct 15th.
I will give Delfina (and Mihaela) a few days to confirm their presence before doing any substantial updates.
Delfina's player got back to me saying they've been sick but are now recovering and should return to posting soon.
Glad to hear it. Hopefully Mihaela is also doing well and will return to posting soon.
Yeah, glad they're feeling better. Hope all is well with Mihaela too!
Sorry everyone, had a bit of a relapse, but I'm actually better and able to post now, but it seems no one has posted this month. Is that part of the normal pace or have things stopped?
Glad to hear you're feeling better. Things have definitely slowed down. I'm still here and willing to post if people want to continue.
I'm definitely here too.
Voice of the Spire here also. I think we were waiting on you/Mihaela but I haven't seen Mihaela post in a long time. I'm not sure if Cybermephit is still here or not. If we're going to keep the game alive, I think we need to get back to posting regularly (daily).
I am still here! I wasn't sure where to take the game with two more sudden disappearances, and was on the cusp of calling it quits. I need to admit I have difficulties weaving sudden changes like that into the narrative.
I agree we need to be posting regularly if we want the game to keep up, it would also be nice if people warned if they don't have time to post and want me to bot them.
Delfina, I'm happy you feel better and are back in the game! I encourage you to join the Discord channel set up by Christoph so that we could more easily ping each other and alert of delays. For now please do the perception check called for in the last gameplay post!