oh well off to work. another 8 hours in the middle of the night.
A friend of mine plays a game called Shatnering - when someone yells "Shatner!" you have to overact whatever you were doing. You're right, though; it does sound... crude.
I find it hilarious, even though I've never actually watched Star Trek.
The original series is very dated, but not painful. Next Generation is pretty good, especially after a couple seasons. DS9 is just good all-around. Voyager was hit or miss for me.
Don't talk to me about Enterprise. That show was ruined from the first time it's opening sequence played.
All I can do is hope the RP value of this character is enough to justify keeping him around, 'cos really, he's kinda obsolete now. *sadface*
Yeesh. Have fun at work, Noro. If you want, you can give me one more punch for the road. :P
All I can do is hope the RP value of this character is enough to justify keeping him around, 'cos really, he's kinda obsolete now. *sadface*
Don't worry, Horatio, having two faces isn't a bad thing. Olivius can't talk his way out of a paper bag. Besides, it's more about the dice at this low level anyway.
All I can do is hope the RP value of this character is enough to justify keeping him around, 'cos really, he's kinda obsolete now. *sadface*
But you're smart and stuff! And you can sing AND play instruments!
Yes, but it was being the sexy diplomancer that was the fun part! :P
And who says you can't be? Tag team it with our wonderful life oracle and be the sexiest of the sexy diplomancers together!
There, there my spoony bard. You're only a slightly less sexy diplomancer than I. I'll tell you what, you may be my assistant diplomancer in All Things Sexy with regards to ... Butchers. You can diplomancer all the butchers you want. There, see? I can man this work.
I'll even throw in the Tiefling. You can have her too.
(As a side note, I'd probably put that other 18 in Con for a life oracle with life link at lvl 1, but that's just me. )
(As a side note, I'd probably put that other 18 in Con for a life oracle with life link at lvl 1, but that's just me. )
Hmmmmm... interesting point by the... fighter, yes, of course. I think you may have something there Olivius. Let me revisit after I start writing my background. Oops.
Argh ok, disappearing now for a bit for real.
Hey now, the tiefling was never up for negotiation. :p
And hmm, how close a definition of butcher are we talking here? No, I'm not metagaming... Totally not metagaming.
Lou might me considered a butcher, but then Noro might do more than punch you. :P
Yes, and I think I like my... Assets right where they are.
I'm so glad that Thirzin can't really be replaced.
Must be a nice feeling. :P
Ah come, come now. It's not so bad, is it? I'm sure you have nice assets. Sing us a rhyme on the matter and let us all be merry!
There, there my spoony bard. You're only a slightly less sexy diplomancer than I. I'll tell you what, you may be my assistant diplomancer in All Things Sexy with regards to ... Butchers. You can diplomancer all the butchers you want. There, see? I can man this work.
I'll even throw in the Tiefling. You can have her too.
“Ex-cuse me? Who. The precise Hell. Are you, hmm? Who are you that you can decide who may or may not make approaches to me?” Pavanna is not impressed. >:(
Hey now, the tiefling was never up for negotiation. :p
Noro punches Horatio, for the Tiefling and she like to punch him.
I think I deserve a punch for that. >.>
“Ex-cuse me? Who. The precise Hell. Are you, hmm? Who are you that you can decide who may or may not make approaches to me?” Pavanna is not impressed. >:(
Asuriel unsuccessfully tries to hide the look of obvious frustration from her face. Raising her left eyebrow and taking a step back she says, "Hell? Interesting choice of words... Hmmm. Well, excuse me, I was trying to be polite by letting the associate diplomancer handle the matters of corruption while I attended to sexy ones, that is all."
The tips of her lips form a perfect smile as she bats her eye lashes, "No offense Tiefling, I have learned that you cannot change you are."
Okay, New thread's up: Linky
You should see this, but just in case, I'm PMing everyone the link.
“Ex-cuse me? Who. The precise Hell. Are you, hmm? Who are you that you can decide who may or may not make approaches to me?” Pavanna is not impressed. >:(Asuriel unsuccessfully tries to hide the look of obvious frustration from her face. Raising her left eyebrow and taking a step back she says, "Hell? Interesting choice of words... Hmmm. Well, excuse me, I was trying to be polite by letting the associate diplomancer handle the matters of corruption while I attended to sexy ones, that is all."
The tips of her lips form a perfect smile as she bats her eye lashes, "No offense Tiefling, I have learned that you cannot change you are."
“Oh, really. Now hear this, angelkin, CFB: you do not know who I am, and you have no idea of the state of my soul or my character. There is exactly one person in creation who decides who and what I am and will become — and you’re talking to her!
“When my time comes, Iomedae will judge my soul to be righteous or damned. Until that day, your insight is neither sought nor welcome. My metaphysical well-being is hale and well in good hands, thank you, and frankly you should be more concerned with your own. ‘Why beholdest thou the mote in thine sister’s eye, and not the beam in thine own?’, you condescending harridan?”
"...you condescending harridan?”
The smile vanishes in a blink of an eye. Asuriel crosses her arms on her chest and shifts her weight to her right foot.
"Harridan? Excuse me? Was that truly necessary? Do you always resort to name calling when you don't have your way?"
She raises her eyes, looking towards the sky and slowly shakes her head as if frustrated with a school child. "My, my, my. Quite the temper you have on you, isn't it? Your ignorance of my observations is but an example of the continued."
Asuriel turns to leave, no longer interested in this conversation. "If you'll excuse me, I have more important matters to attend to."
She pauses after one step and turns back around. She places a single finger on her lip and acts if she suddenly has remembered a very important fact. "I do not believe Iomedae will need to invest much effort to determine, what was it said now-- Ah yes,what you will become."
She turns back around and intends to walk away with more important matters to address.
"Wait just one barley-blasted minute - associate?" Horatio asks incredulously, green eyes flashing with wounded pride.
And I thought I wasn't good at being diplomatic. :P
I can't help thinking there's a 'between heaven and hell' joke somewhere in here for me...
Well me officially on the poop lost, let me take this opportunity to introduce myself! :D
My name is Cory, I live in Maryland and I'm a 36 year old techie who manages a datacenter in DC. I've got three boys under the age of seven that keep me on my toes 25 hours a day. I'm currently GMing two RotR games right now, I love this storyline! I've been RPGing my entire life, almost always in the GM role, starting when I built a Lego RPG for my friends back I. Middle school a long, long time ago. Spent most of my time in World of Darkness and only have been Pathfindering it since '12. If you find in doing something wrong first thwack me then please correct me (Caveat: Pavanna must first ask politely before thwackage).
Anyway, I can see you all already have a great group dynamic and I thank you for inviting me in and I look forward to healing (most of) you soon!
Heh — before GM Salsa revived this campaign, I was actually playing with the idea of GMing a PbP of Rise of the Runelords reinterpreted into a pseudo-Greek setting, with the pseudo-Greeks as the Chelish immigrants and proto-Russians/Ukrainians as the locals/Shoanti, drow as the good elves(!) in the area and the ‘light’ elves as the arrogant brutal imperialistic jerks.
Sheriff Belor Hemlock as Phrourarch (Garrison Commander) Basileios Phillipides, a tall, burly blond Rusyn, wearing a scale klibanion and hoplon shield, armed with spear, xiphos and shestopyor, riding a hippogriff into battle... tell me that’s not a cool image, I dare you!
Asuriel, I think you should put up a character description. I'm trying to decide whether Horatio would resist being thwacked by Pavanna to turn on the charm. ;-) (No offense, Pavvana, darling, but our dynamic is... complicated.)
Well, behind the screen, I'm Veronica (call me Ronnie), a 23-year-old amateur concert photographer and volunteer primary school assistant with asperger's syndrome and too much free time. I'm GMing Kingmaker for my friends and probably playing in too many PBPs, of which this character is in three. But this was the first I loved, and probably the best I've been in, so I'm positively giddy to see it back.
Damnit, Pavanna. That sounds fantastic, and part of me would love to play it, but the rest of me knows I'm not intelligent enough.
Hi Ronnie! I'm planning to flush out her full background and description today! I was focusing on crunch and background prelim yesterday so we could start. Sorry I know I'm a little behind everyone, my games I GM kept me quite busy as I try to keep the pace quite high. I'll be caught up soon though, hang tight!
On a side note, I hate being restricted to avatar pics of only Paizo origin :( I can't find anything close to what I wanted. Just another reason I like hosting my own forums and making my own rules. :D
Pavanna - That IS a cool image! Maybe we could get it sketched.
Wow, Pavanna. That is one of the very rare times where I don't know half of the words in a post.
On the intro bandwagon!
I'm Gideon, a 28 year old father of one, husband to another, and Sign Language interpreter to just about everyone else. I've been pathfindering for about 2 years and PbPing for about a year and a half. :)
Yeah, as I complained earlier, the only thing right about this image is the smirk. Hopefully <redacted> will do a good job bringing Horatio to life, and I'll be able to show you all what he really looks like!
Also, for those who don't know and anyone who may have forgotten, I'm in South Australia, so sometimes I go to bed and miss out on all the juicy RP. It's also why Pavanna and I hads such a strong dynamic in the last round, because our timezones are so close.
Well, since we're doing introductions.
My name is Adam. I'm from Alabama and I work for a local IT shop that specializes in Managed Services (ie we make sure our clients computers are in good shape and do a lot of preventative maintenance.) I am on the Online services side of things, which is a fancy way of saying I deal with websites, email, firewalls, and networking stuff, but mainly websites at the moment.
I am 24 years old, and have been playing Pathfinder since 2011. Rise of the Runelords was what got me interested in both PBP and GMing. Out of the 30-some-odd aliases and characters I have played, or attempted to, my favorites are Gkirkhan, who was inspired by the Jagers from Girl Genius, and Raseri Whitescale, who's in one of Cory's RotRL games.
You guys have no idea how happy I was to bring this back.
I got the news of the campaign's resurrection just as I was heading to bed. I stayed up for hours catching up in the discussion thread. Next thing I knew it was 4 am...
So yeah, this being back is probably one of the best things to happen to me in a long time. When you're battling depression, you take your joys wherever you find them, and this was a big one for me.
Adam, I could hug you for doing this, but that would probably be weird. So accept a great big thank-you from me instead. :D
Man, I go to bed and off things go. I might actually need to read the old thread to get back into this Olivius. It's been a while
Olivius is a stubborn bastard with a rod up his backside and an unfair hatred of bards. There ya go. :P
I'm considering keeping a running "Relationship with party members" tab in this alias. Could be amusing.
Link's in the Campaign info tab.
Lol, Horatio. He likes Pavanna! She's a bard!
well I guess I can intro now as well..
My name is Ed, and I live in New Jersey.
You could say I am "rocket Scientist" but that would not be true. I am in fact a nuclear technician that has really bad spelling ability.
lets see (3 boys, 2 in college so I am mostly broke) back story...
6 years US Navy Submarine service, 3 Years Army (Armored Cavalry) 22 years nuclear power plant worker / Union Foreman.
been to the North Pole, through the Panama Canal, spent lots of time in the Caribbean. and lived in Scotland for 4 years.
Favorite character? well if you don't know then you don't pay attention.
Ronnie, I doubt I’d be setting that high a bar for you to clear. I’d be making a lot of it up out of pop-culture stereotypes, Wikipedia references and Google translations, out-takes from 300 and Jason and the Argonauts, and various other sources to evoke the feeling of a period of history I know I don’t know in nearly enough genuine detail. ;-D
@ Olivius/Gideon, in case he hasn’t hit Wikipedia yet:
klibanion: a fifth-century Greek cataphract’s scale-mail hauberk. Actually a cataphract slang term, since it translates as ‘oven’, a clear remark on how damned hot wearing it got in a Mediterranean climate ;D
hoplon: a round heavy shield, one of the iconic armaments of Greek hoplites in the Homeric tales and the age of Sparta v. Athens
xiphos: a Greek shortsword, like Eric Bana and Brad Pitt used in their duel in Troy :D
shestopyor: (Russian) a six-flanged mace, traditionally a symbol of authority
And FWIW, I’m Danyel (yes, that is a valid spelling for a man’s name, according to my father and my birth-certificate, and like Johnny Cash’s ‘boy named Sue’, I had my share of childhood scraps about it). I’m a year older than Cory, working in a supermarket by day and moderating the BattleTech forums by night under my primary profile-name. I started out with AD&D in high school, drifted into Shadowrun and then BattleTech in the late nineties, then picked up D&D again just as the 3.5 era started and from there graduated to Pathfinder when the 4e transition came along.
On the down-side, though, I live in a town not much larger than Sandpoint, so I haven’t had a real-world gaming group since... high-school, and a lot of that was hack-and-slash. :-( This PbP is some of the first heavy-duty roleplaying I ever got to do, and as Ronnie has said, it turned out to be a blast, so the revival has me just as stoked.
Replace 'bard' with 'musician', then. There's no way it's Horatio who's actually the problem! :P
I think I can take a guess at your favourite character (is it Lou? It's Lou, isn't it? :P)
I'll never tell. ;)
Ok! Just skimmed the previous gameplay thread. There's the mysterious Cade, Saroune has agreed to magical tutoring in exchange for special combat lessons, and everyone seems to be getting along swimmingly except for some tension between Olivius and the Limp-Wrist. :)
We also had a tendency to make up slang, which continues, I hope.
I've added a new tab to my profile, so if you've ever wanted to know what Horatio thinks of your character, feel free to check it out.
And yeah, that's not a bad recap. There's also some tension between Horatio and Noro over something Noro hasn't fully explained to him yet!
Now that we've moved to a new thread you can probably safely inactivate the old campaign, GM.
*Is a little obsessive about the orderliness of his campaign tab*
Done
And I know all about you and your campaign tab OCD ;)
Saroune's been quiet. Are you around, friend wizard?
I hope so. I'll give her a little more time to post.
Looks like we have two Eds in the game. I'm 25 and I'm the head brewer for a Michigan microbrewery. I've been GMing since I was a tween and made the move to Pathfinder when a friend showed me the beta version back in '09. I've also run Warhammer Fantasy, Shadowrun, and Legend of the Five Rings.