Lol :) I'm a mad Whovian. Though I only began watching it this year.
Good lord. This hotel in Brisbane has the most expensive internet I have ever seen! 30 bucks a day!
I am counting out my pennies...
Yep welcome to Australia ZetaGilgamesh home of expensive Internet! :) Most hotels charge through the roof here.
I'm about ten hours down the coast.
Apparently Vodafone has an aircard deal that will be about 33% of the cost. I am going to investigate.
I should have a few NPC posts for the main timeline tomorrow. I'll add to the prequel timeline after Ali tells his story, but no rush. I'm loving the prequel, by the way!
Love the camels :D
Good luck with Vodaphone ZetaGilgamesh.
I'm back home now. Back to work tomorrow.
I have a hearing Friday morning, and lots to do before then, so I likely won't be able to post until the weekend. But I have something to add to the Shadow of a Watchtower timeline, so nobody post to it until I get a chance.
Rodger. You have my prayers man. Fight the good fight.
Okie dokie.
Good luck at your hearing Magister.
Haha, yeup! I applaud the dedication.
Well, it's really just one fairly long post. It gets split up because I have aliases for each NPC.
Got one for you guys now too.
Sorry everyone, I'm getting smashed at work again. Last night was local game night but I will post tonight!
Yay took all night but I got it up.
I love the way you get the NPCs interacting with their own aliases Magister it really brings the game alive :)
Gear for Ali and Theodric: It looks like all Theodric really needs is a holy symbol of Abadar. You can certainly "borrow" one of those from Garavel/Almah; they're Abadarans, so they should have extras.
Felliped or one of the mercenaries can carry an extra melee weapon and bow for Ali, or you can hope to salvage them from gnolls. Armor is probably too heavy to lug around, and it takes a while to get on.
The main other thing to decide is how many and which mercenaries you want to take with you. Obviously, more men means easier fights. You don't need to worry about losing experience, because I'm not doing experience. I'm not going to directly adjust the encounter difficulty depending on how many you have. But here's how I'll do out-of-combat stealth: Dashki will be leading you, so he'll make one roll for the whole party using his (substantial) stealth bonus. Each other person must make a DC 10 Stealth check or give Dashki a -2 penalty. Dullen and Utarchus are the only mercenaries with non-negative stealth modifiers. If you want to pick and choose which mercenaries are most useful, Asad and Travis are 2-hander wielders (Asad currently wielding a scimitar 2-handed, Travis a greatsword), Dross is a reach/tripper, Dullen is a crossbowman, and Utarchus is a longbowman.
wtf... i said Felliped purposely looks the man in the eyes.... I meant Theodric.
Lol yeah that part was a little confusing :)
I do a lot of secret reactive rolls, when I don't want you to know exactly what roll is necessary; perception, knowledge, etc. You can go ahead and make the rolls if you think I might have forgotten, because sometimes I do. In this case, I already rolled for you, and you didn't succeed. Someone in the party did, though... ;-)
I still need to know which mercenaries Felliped and Valik want to take with them on the rescue/raiding party.
We aren't taking all of them?
Have any of the leadership placed limitations on how many we can go with?
The two who went into the tombs with me at a minimum. That would be a party of four.
Dashki is coming too.
But here's how I'll do out-of-combat stealth: Dashki will be leading you, so he'll make one roll for the whole party using his (substantial) stealth bonus. Each other person must make a DC 10 Stealth check or give Dashki a -2 penalty. Dullen and Utarchus are the only mercenaries with non-negative stealth modifiers. If you want to pick and choose which mercenaries are most useful, Asad and Travis are 2-hander wielders (Asad currently wielding a scimitar 2-handed, Travis a greatsword), Dross is a reach/tripper, Dullen is a crossbowman, and Utarchus is a longbowman.
The reason not to take everyone is so that we will be able to stealth easier.
The reason not to take everyone is so that we will be able to stealth easier.
Correct. But it's up to you guys; you can take them all if you want. (In-character, it is specifically up to Valik.)
Well I hope the real campaign can deliver as well. :-)
Working on a post for Valik/Felliped. Scene-changers take a while.
Yeah, me too. Set up my laptop to watch a movie with my daughter, and forgot to plug it in. Battery died right at the exciting part, and with it what I had already written... Oops.
I hope I'll be able to get it up this afternoon or evening.
I'm not going to be able to post again until Thursday, at the earliest. Sorry, guys!
No probs :) I eagerly await! :)
Back!
Custody stuff is fine for now, next court thing is in January.
House just passed DHS inspection.
Got a new job this week.
Things are looking up. It even rained!
Go ahead and move the prequel thread ahead as seems convenient. I don't have anything to add until mid-afternoon.
Going to be camping the next two nights. I might get a chance to post again tomorrow morning before I leave, but after that I'll be out until Sunday.
No worries. You stopped at just about the right time. I'll have an update for you sooner or later...
Hey guys. Sorry to have been AWOL for a while. I'm getting into heavy deadline mode with my master's thesis, so I'm going to have to take a break from PbP for a while. Look for me again in late November or early December. I hope you guys will all still be around then, you're a great group and I like how the campaign and prequel are going.
Thanks for letting us know Magister. I love this game so I'll be sticking around :) I hope you do well on your thesis. Good luck!
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Hey everyone, how's things. My uni applications are done :) never thought I'd go to uni. I hope I get in :)
Hey Kip