DM Talomyr's Kingmaker

Game Master Talomyr

Star-elk, mooing their way across the night sky!

"Star-elk" withstanding, once the Kingdom building is done (we're taking D5, right?), are we ready to move on?

I'm ready to continue, I can update the spreadsheet once Tove weighs in with the ruler's choice about the options that the advisors have presented. ;) Won't stop us from further adventuring!

Ready to get going!

I like the concept of a "Star Elk". Also, good to go.

Onward. :)

Happy with the choice to move toward incorporating the Temple into our territory. I definitely think it’s a good idea to avoid claiming the deep gnomes home before we discuss the process with them, and entirely possible that we actually leave the homes of our allies as independent pockets external to our claimed hexes, I think that would fit Tove’s vision for the future of the Greenbelt quite well.

There's a whole subsystem called vassalage that allows you to subinfeudate other kingdoms. Of course, we have no idea how deep the gnomes' hold actually goes... and they may not want to be seen as our "subjects." I think it's fine to leave them (and the lizardfolk) alone in their hexes and let 'em be allies rather than subjects.

I'll update the spreadsheet!

Ha ha. I love "subinfeudate" as a word. I had never heard that one before, and I used to be an English teacher, so that's rare.

Gaming is education. :)

It's not the kind of word that comes up a lot in everyday conversation. :)

It's not the kind of word that comes up a lot in everyday conversation. :)

My degree is in international communications, and I study political history, this is only the second time I've ever seen it used.

"If I had a nickel for every time I saw it, I'd have two nickels, but it's still weird that I saw it more than once."

Heheh

"If I had a nickel for every time I saw it, I'd have two nickels, but it's still weird that I saw it more than once."

Dang it I screwed up the formula it was supposed to be

"If I had a nickel for every time that it happened, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice."

Yeah I noticed but figured I'd let it slide. ;P

With the conversation turning away from boyfriends you may note that we are finally getting around to satisfying the Bechdel Test.

Realising I havent updated the calander since we left to fight the wisp but I'm going to hope I'm somewhere close and at least one of these months is Erastus...

I noticed we needed a boat to investigate the tower in the middle of Candlemere Lake, and we found the raft at the ferry station, but we haven't gone back to actually investigate that tower yet I don't think?

And in 2 months we'd definitely be able to have a boat built.

Okay here's the up-to-date calendar with all our progress.

That puts us in early Arodus now, having founded Elkmark in Desnus, with these two kingdom phases being our third and forth I think?

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Phase 1 ~ 01-Des-4710
Phase 2 ~ 01-Sar-4710
Phase 3 ~ 01-Era-4710
Phase 4 ~ 01-Aro-4710

Excitingly that means we'll likely bring the Temple of the Elk into our borders in Rova, next month, just in time for the Harvest Feast/Harvest Moon festival.

Also on the subject of holy days before we officially move on from our downtime I want to retroactively say Tove would definitely have held an event for Archer's Day, as well as her spontaneous Lover's Moon feast.

Probably just a simple archery competition with the best archers in each catagory (target, field & clout) winning one of those silver Stag Lord amulets we picked up in the spider's lair.

Garathane would love to participate in Archer's day, being a Erastilian himself.

But rather than competing, since he is an authority figure, he would gather all of those too young for the main competition and fire two arrows into the target. Anybody who gets an arrow closer to center of his better shot is given a gold piece. Anyone who does better than his (intentionally) worse shot is given a silver piece.

So I guess Azen can't compete either because she would just be winning money from the party, but she'll do some workshops teaching people how to craft arrows and care for their bows.

Yeah I ruled myself out for the same reason

I'm happy to let you continue to roleplay or execute other of the more mundane functions the Councilors have to/would like to do.

Or if you are ready to wrap up the time at home and head back out into the wilds, that's fine too, just let me know which direction you'd like to go?

Argh, I missed posting for the festival because I was out today.

When the Archer's Festival rolls around, Celebeth is using her petty magic to amuse families and especially children, but her real purpose in doing so is to look for kids who might have bright minds and a predilection for magic to make sure they can be followed up with later in case they have a knack for learning magic themselves.

I’m happy for either, we can finish Tove and Celeste in spoilers if everyone else wants to move on. I’ll try and remember to bring up the Harvest Moon festival in the gameplay thread when the time comes so we can actually play out the whole celebration since I think that could be a lot of fun.

In terms of direction, I wouldn’t mind taking a boat down to explore the Candlemere tower while it’s still fresh in our minds. Perhaps we could map out H5 on the way? Then head to I5 and I6 afterwards to fill in that part of the map?

I figured since we were taking two months of kingdom building, getting in a little scene would be some fun to color that time, and what better than a chance for sisters to chat?

Anyway, I'm ready to head back out any time. A li'l exploration as suggested by Tove sounds fine with me.

Do we have any currently outstanding missions/posts on the quest board?

Sorry about the delay. I'll update later this evening.

We're just a touch too low for Minor Creation, or Fabricate, which would help both with the crafting success and the timeframe.

Don't ask me why it took me this long to do this - call me old fashioned maybe - but I've made a version of the Elkmark Calendar which I can actually edit online and keep better up to date.

I'll keep the link in my bar (next to my new Portrait which was also way overdue for an update) so it's a bit easier for everyone else to reference too.

Would people like me to add your character's birthdays onto it? If that's something your characters keep track of?

Hmm. 18th of Rova for Azen.

Posting this in all my games that have activity: won't be posting today because my right eye is swollen up so that I can only see a blur out of it, and even though I can still see and type, it's obnoxious and giving me a headache. Will be back when this goes away, hopefully tomorrow, and sincerely apologize for the absence.

Well that sounds unpleasant at best. Hope things get better soon.

20th of Lamashan for Rhiannon's Birthday.

Sorry for the delays folks, got roped into a few household projects that took far longer than they had any right to.

Will be updating the game shortly.

After tonight I will be out of the country for a few days and not likely to post again until Wednesday.

Thanks for the heads up. Hope you have a safe trip!

Thanks. Still intend to get at least a small post up in the game this evening before disappearing.

Have a safe trip.

Hope you have a safe trip DM :)

Back home, but arrival was quite a bit later than anticipated (Let's hear it for delayed flights). Will resume posting tomorrow.

I have burning hands, but can't cast anything while nauseated (move actions only). If it is still alive in 10 rounds, I'll use blunt arrows.

(I get fireball next level, but not quite soon enough for this tendriculos thing.)

Family in town. Posting will be spotty at best until Sunday evening.

Oh yeah, fire and blunt arrows. Have to remember.

Sorry for the delay, while the family visit is done, I seem to have picked up some sort of bug that has me somewhat less than fully functioning.

I'm going to be at my company's big IT Conference next week, so just heads up I probably won't be able to post regularly again until the 11th.

Not my turn, so not posting yet, but I am back. :)

Hooray! Welcome back!

Out of town on business until Friday. Still intend to post, just will be later in the evening.