DM Talomyr's Kingmaker

Game Master Talomyr

Welcome Azen! And to the newly minted Celebeth!

Thanks Garethane. :)

Celebeth: I updated my background so it should reflect the younger half-sister relationship now.

Thanks Garethane. :)

Celebeth: I updated my background so it should reflect the younger half-sister relationship now.

Very cool. I think this is gonna be fun. :)

And thanks as well Garethane!

Welcome, Azen glad you could join us!

Thanks Kalaman. :)

Good to see you again Zanbabe, can't wait to see Azen join our party here :)

Good to see you again Zanbabe, can't wait to see Azen join our party here :)

Hey Kaavek. :) I'm looking forward to it as well. :)

All,

We're about half-way through our current recruitment drive. If there are any submissions/players that stand out to you, good or bad, please PM me your opinions/thoughts.

Thanks.

I swear I can read. Thanks.

Do you mind if I add a tab for city layout, so we can see what plots go where? This is sometimes important because improvement X must be adjacent to improvement Y.

I've added a tab for the district layout if someone wants to place your smithy. Also if you wouldn't mind placing Fort Redemption (4 squares as it is the basis for a castle) on the layout as well, that would be great.

Failing that, tell me where you would the buildings and I'll place them later.

Beat me to it! I was planning to snip the pics from the digital version of the module and place them, so it's going to take me a little while to do it all correctly.

I've got the building pics in there already. If you had something else in mind, please feel free.

I do not have permission to edit the file.

You should now

Ok, thanks. I've put the smithy closer to the northeast corner, purely under the RP conceit that some day we will rebuild the castle, and we don't want the ding, ding, ding right outside the windows at all hours while we're trying to sleep or conduct diplomatic business or do naughty things or whatever.

Thus far, no response from Bassius.

Tove, be safe and have a good time on your camping trip.

If Bassius is gone and we do choose to do another recruitment to fill the voids left by Terri and Bassius, I would greatly prefer one of the existing players step into the role of Ruler. Of the remaining party members, Tove would seem to be the best suited choice - even if that sets you all up to become a theocracy. ;)

Theo will accept the offer of becoming your Grand Diplomat. Leaving you with a choice for Ruler and then filling role the vacated by the new Ruler.

It just seems wonky to be starting up a new kingdom and have a newcomer step in and start running the place.

With Celebeth/Azen onboard, we'll just forget about the note that was sent to Theo.

Clang, clang, clang went the smithy.
Ding, ding, ding on the anvil.
Zing, zing, zing went my tinnitus.
Why didn’t we put it on the other side of the hill?

Hey, once we expand to another district, we could in fact move the smithy over there (and should if we eventually build a foundry, though really that's better served by just making a village by the old silver mine and using that as the center for all metalworking commerce, with a road connecting it to Elkmark)!

I think I'm leaning toward taking two more characters to guard against further attrition. I really don't want to do a recruitment part 4 thread.

I'm all for it (but of course I don't really get a vote since I am also new). :)

I think that sounds like a good idea, yeah.

You never know these days! Especially after our nearly-catastrophic drop-off. :(

Okay, I will go with two.

Thanks for the feedback that I have received from many of you.

I think I'm ready to make a decision, but will give you all until 7:00 CDT tonight to provide any additional feedback/push for a particular pair of submissions.

Alrighty, with no additional feedback, I've made my choices.

Thank you for the selection! I am on vacation until Monday, but I will create an alias for Sigefrid when I return.

Incredible timing. ;)

We could certainly swap out Ivo and bring the sisters in now. Or we can wait on the sisters until all the new folks are available at once.

I'll try and get a post up in the game thread tomorrow, setting up Terri and Bassius's exits.

Jesse, I'll leave Ivo's departure up to you, but would ask that you wait to see what happens with Bassius in particular before actually describing Ivo's leaving.

Celebeth and Azen are welcome to post about their arrival in Elkmark.

Ok, I was thinking that Ivo may go to hang with the deep gnomes and learn more about them, but I'll wait on seeing what happens to Bassius.

While Sigefrid has checked in, we have yet to hear from Bsldur. Hopefully we will soon.

Hey, I've been out all day and have had no opportunity to post until now. (Since you chose at just after midnight my time I think that's allowed :) )

Thanks for the selection!

Perfect! Welcome to the game.

Welcome brothers. :)

Alright, now that we have the brothers on board (or at least we will as of Monday, when Brainiac returns from vacation) we can try and get this show rolling again.

As I have had a tendency to go too grim-dark occasionaly in this game, if I am going too far with this story of Bassius's murder, please let me know.

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sorry that was my blade speaking, not me, I promise

Kalaman, you know you are welcome to participate in the scene, right? You are the Magister and as such one if the councilors Kesten was speaking to.

Welcome to Sigefrid and Baldur!

Alright, back from break. My alias is up and running, and I'm ready to start posted once our characters are introduced.

I'll get a post up involving Sigefrid and Baldur this evening when I get home from work.

Ivo's about to go do whatever it is he does when Azen makes her comment, and he says, "Welcome to Elkmark. You just got here, right?"

He squints slightly, then stops in his tracks and says, "Did you see other travelers on your way in? Any pilgrims?"

Now to see if Ivo/Celebeth answers the question posed. ;)

Update coming tonight when I get a bit more time since, like a total f~*@ing idiot, I have split the party three different ways. ;)

I'm out of town for the few days, so my posting will be a bit spotty, but I will still try to get updates done.

Sorry about the delay, folks. I've been having difficulties finding time to move things forward. I will try to get us going again this weekend.

That being said, in large part I am waiting for you all to tell me how you are proceeding. As best I know, we have Ivo in the tunnel - having spotted two women in a room, but not having been seen himself, and everyone else still on the outside of the tunnel.

My character just got there and doesn't know what is going on yet, so if someone can fill her in, or spark something I can work with, I'd appreciate the hook.

I've got Ivo covered, but it's his show at the moment.

I will be on vacation from Saturday 10/10 until Monday 10/19. During this time, I won't have much chance to post. GM, please bot me if necessary.

Baldur isn't going to rush in until the scout comes back, so I think we need Jesse.

Maybe assume that he does so we can proceed from there?

Hey y'all. I've been getting the itch to play, so I decided to catch up on what's been going on and wow, a lot has happened. I'm gonna miss Ivo, but it looks like we've got a bunch of new faces to get to know. Even if Terri doesn't come back, I'll be poking in every now and then because this group looks like it'll be a fun one to follow.

Oh hey! We're still in the middle of the transitional period. Presumably Ivo is gonna fail to disarm another trap and get poisoned and die, or something. :)