Read the spoiler, could be fun.
19 is a pretty darn good save for this level, but I somehow have the feeling that it wasn't high enough for this lol. Just my paranoia I suppose.
Good luck with everything Mark!
EXCITEMENT!
Dropping in from elsewhere to pass the word along:
Thanks for the well wishes, have a brief period of quiet at home with our 3 year old while my wife's sister is on duty at the hospital.
Our wee one was born in the early hours this morning and both mum and bub are resting up and doing fine. Unfortunately a C-sect so recovery will be a bit longer, but have family in town to help out which will make it alot easier as we run shifts at hospital helping out.
Obviously will still be a few days before brain is rested enough and have adequate time to make sense of anything, but wanted to let y'all know that the delivery went fine.
Thanks for the cross-post Cynara :)
Wife and Bub continue to do well and all things considered should hopefully be back in our own home as of tomorrow. Will see how the home-life settles out before committing to a specific time for wading back online so will keep you posted on when that occurs and we'll start this wee beastie back up.
Back home with wife and baby boy and things continue to go well. You might have noticed that I've stepped back into the PbPs that I play in; and if things continue to go well I'll be back DMing in the next couple of days.
Just want to make sure that when I do re-start that I'm able to commit wholehearted and get things rolling with the quality and focus that I'd like.
So if I can test your patience for just a mite longer that would be much appreciated.
I understand how it is with a new member of the family.
And we are a go for restart - might be some delays here and there as I've visitors in town for another couple of weeks, but we are back on track and active once more.
Many thanks for bearing with me through the addition of the wee one to my family.
Woohoo - party. Now we just need some beetles to make it really fun. Er, ok, actually, come to think of it, we can skip the beetles.
Working up a response. I believe we were looking to trade this spyglass (which Tarik is totally going to try and steal back, though maybe at a time outside the scope of this adventure) for the strange box?
I am more interested in seeing his response, perhaps we can get something else for him rather than the eyeglass. Do you guys have anything else? We definitely want to make the trade, but if necessary, we could undertake a mission to recover something else for him to exchange for the box - or even to be able to examine the box and see if we can open it.
Yeah, I am not interested in selling the eyepiece. But the amulet is up for sale (or trade) if he is interested. But discussion of the box is where we want this to go.
Just need some in character input - don't need to roll diplo or anything, just launch into a counter interrogation.
You can always take tack of saying that you don't want cash, you're interested in trade and would need to see his collection before knowing for sure?
He might even know more than he lets on about this particular eyeglass...
I'll get my 2 cents in soon, I swear. I've been giving all my RP juice to the 2 games I'm running.
As an FYI for all, I may be off the boards from Friday the 18th until Monday the 28th. I have attempted to download a program which allows me to tether my PC through my Iphone, but do not know whether it will work where I am going. Thus, I hope to keep up with my characters, but if I fall behind, feel free to DMPC me as necessary.
Ok - time for a reality check again on this campaign. The last week of real time brought only 7 posts in the gameplay thread, of which 3 were from me. We've been stagnant for some time even before this and I'm getting a distinct feeling that there isn't a huge drive to keep this campaign afloat from most of the players.
So unless convinced otherwise - I'm going to call a halt on the Osirion expedition and close the thread down. It has been an enjoyable journey from my perspective and the lessons that I've learnt on this PbP have helped me to be a better DM for the other ones that I run here on site. I may very well put those lessons into practice and reopen a Osirion based game at some point in the future.
I apologize that we didn't get to fight through to get your revenge on the Scarab that Walks and see the treasures that were actually held in the vault of the Four Pharaohs (as well as tread the tightrope of negotiation with Lathrat) - but I think the right decision is to stop here rather than attempting to linger on and keep things going.
If people like I can give a cliff notes version of what I had in store for you for the rest of the campaign?
Understood.
Best of luck with your future campaigns :-)
An unfortunate, but not unexpected, occurrence. I'll say that though my interest is certainly here, I rarely have the time anymore to get a good post in.
I'm sure that my own tardiness in posting has been quite a bother, and for that I apologize. No fault of yours. I'll recommend you to any erstwhile player out there.
Awww man. I can understand your sentiment, and don't think it reflects on you or your DM style.
Noor definitely wasn't optimized, but was fun. She will live on in a sort, in some writings I am working on. It is not pathfinder based, so there will be some modification....although I may go for something with the Paizo short story contest though. Noor, the Groom, or Gylfir (all of whom Mark knows) are asking to be fleshed out more. That reminds me though that I owe some material for Gylfir, so that will be where I put my next energies.
Good gaming to all, its been fun.