Darkest Corners volume 2

Game Master Harakani

Alright, sorry all. While I've had a bunch of new commitments crop up thanks to work and uni, if I'm honest the issue is probably the dread I get opening up the game.
I realistically need to do this from home, and it ends up (somehow) consuming anywhere between 20 minutes and a whole night, averaging hours. Because the forum counter vanishes when I open the page I keep putting it off until I know I have enough time to start and finish a post.
This makes it worse, as I end up reading pages of posts trying to work out what I need to remember from the last time because it has been so long - and can't be a lot of fun for you either.

I'm going to try to be more in-and-out, if you're okay to keep poking me if it's been a while.

There must be a faster way to do this, but I just don't seem to be built for it.

It doesn't sound like fun on your end anymore, it sounds like a chore. While curious as to what's in the depths of this house - and our dreams - I don't want to satisfy that curiosity at the cost of your dread.

If you think that you'd feel better for stopping please don't hesitate to do so.

We all understand, I hope, and telling us ahead will mean it's still say top 30% attendance :P

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Now I'll take a look at your big IC post and hope things aren't as rough as they sound : )

Hey GM. We're playing the game to have fun and that's as much true for you as for us. Dread is not an emotion that any of us need. Life is stressful enough as is.

There's no problem at all from my end if you want to let the game expire. It's been a fun times and you're a great GM.

Regardless of whether you choose to continue, I will forever treasure the memory of picking up a summoned leopard in a field of silence to try and throw it at a flying invisible foe.

Yes there have been some pretty awesome moments : )

Aye :) My take-away memory from that event will be stopping that fleeing mage with silence, a kneecapper and nausea - that was a very intense part :)

That said, I second the opinion of the others: This has been the first game I got to play in. As such, I cherish it.
But gaming is about fun.

You clocked in at 14 posts this year, so far. 5 since June. That is by no means a complaint of any sort, but it does not seem to be as fun for you as it should be.

I am running my own game, with a much lower rotation than I would like(I'll try updating tonight or tomorrow, real life was deciding to be complicated the last couple days).
And I know that feeling, of having to check back when it was too long, of not wanting to get things wrong etc...

I would love for you to continue, even if we adapt a more by-the-book approach, and any inconsistencies are either ignored or taken care of as they pop up.
But I fully understand if you would prefer to place the game in a hiatus(if a significant break could help with your life re-settling) or stop it.

Happy New year :)

Happy new year all.

Happy new year!

Belated Happy new year!

I think I am going to bow out.
I've pretty much managed to get some order back, but I keep hovering over the link and chickening out. This is the longest (albeit infrequent) campaign I have ever run, and I think it is something about that, but I'm not sure what.

This is a great group, and I am feeling very guilty about abandoning you, but I had a GM bow out recently, and it made me realise I should probably do the same.

I'm more than happy to hand this over to someone else, if anyone is interested, or support you if you want to advertise for someone. I have run this module close enough to the book it should be easy to pick up, and I'm happy to help out with the transition.

Apologies to everyone :(

Thank you for running it as far as you did. And thank you for spending your free time helping us have fun : )

I'm a little sad that we won't continue. But! Real life is important. Your fun is important. And if it doesn't work it doesn't work. No need to apologize. I don't feel abandoned since you did communicate with us - and that's the most important bit.

My best wishes to you and all your endeavors. And hopefully we get the chance to play together again in the future!

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As for trying to pick it up with another gm I'm not sure how I feel. Have to think about it. Does the party have any thoughts?

Thanks for running the game GM. Really appreciate your thinking of us but really if it's not fun for everyone then it's not worth it. Maybe you could write a short happy ending epilogue for everyone as sendoff? Even that's not necessary as the game did provide a lot of good memories and I'm grateful to you for having run the game.

I'm okay with whatever the rest of the group provides, but I think it might be good to move on. Can't imagine playing it with anyone other than Darkest Corners.

I wasn't here long, but it was a good time. Thanks DC.

Personally, I'd second the epilogue request. Just a montage 'and this was how you solved the mystery' of this latest adventure is all I really think I'd need for closure. If you've got one last post in you.

Thanks :)
Happy to do an epilogue as a sendoff.
Would you like an epilogue for the module, or for the campaign?

I took my sweet time. One one hand, it is hard letting go, it was my first pbp - but having someone else run it would feel wrong.

Some closure would be welcome, though. Not sure to what extent would feel 'right', though.
E.g. I was not sure where exactly I was going with Kestral and her gang, just yet.

Also, thanks for properly closing this, not just leaving - it is much appreciated despite my overall mixed feelings about the situation.

I was thinking the module, as I didn't feel I personally had enough time with Diene to say where she was going, except "The Continuing Adventures!" type sendoff.

That said, I was one of the newer faces.

I think the module is good. Isama has a lot of policing ahead of her I feel.

A module wrap-up would be nice yeah. Feels like about the right scope. (And I'm curious about how this all fits together :P)

Alright, I will work on it. I'll try to get something up this weekend. Mostly I'll use this thread, then post the final in gameplay.