Doug M's Way of the Wicked (Inactive)

Game Master Douglas Muir 406

As to webcomics, I've been following Girl Genius since it started (as a black and white printed hard-copy dead tree comic, way back in 2000).

Here's a sequence I've always liked. Agatha is the long-lost heir to the Heterodynes, a family of mad scientists, most of whom were evil, insane, or both. (Agatha was raised far away from her family and is perfectly nice.) She's now come home, and her father's seneschal is bringing her and her friends to meet the castle. The castle is a gigantic steampunk computer, and it's basically Chaotic Evil -- it was created by her mad scientist ancestors. It's fanatically loyal to the Heterodynes, though...

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071003

oooo no you are not gettin me hooked on another one!

After Cуровую and Jax who has the highest intelligence?

And I think Dren as been away from posting.

I am lurking, just not much to say atm...

I believe Xen has the next highest.

If Jax bites it..can we use Dreamscarred's psionic classes? Soulknives would make amusing pseudo-maguses (if we could re-flavor all the psychic bits to arcane bits).

I have 14 Int, Xen has 13, Dren has 12 and our brave anti-paladin has 10.

goblin genius 16...o wait goblin dead

Judge soon to be genius undead.

I kinda hate psionics, but that's neither here nor there. Trying to stay close to Paizo canon, _pace_ the occasional homebrew monster or spell. Paizo canon is pretty huge these days, and it's almost all online, so it doesn't seem like a great hardship.

ooo wait maybe ill make a goblin gunslinger next time i croak!

see im tempting DM to not kill me...he does not want another goblin prancing around his carefully ordered campaign!

Just like to say you people are doing great! 5k posts is quite the accomplishment.

*retreats to lurking*

of course how many of those posts are bs goblin chatter?

We try, unfortunately as productive as we are at posting, we still pale in comparison to Baldwin's campaign. I was asked to join that late last summer and you all have 12000 IC and 5000 OOC posts since then.

This tale looks to be a legend that will go down in history.

At least as the College of Heralds (purged and revamped) will tell it.

just had a cast prty tonight and I am blasted. I feel like Zimu.

what did the cardinal say about sending us with extra iron?

I'm pretty comfortable with where we are. The speed of gameplay does seem to fluctuate, and I could go a little faster if people wanted to.

im fine with the speed, we just had a bit of a stretch where several of us were doing nothing.

We're about to leave it once the current sitch resolves.

ok it wasnt a complaint, hope it didnt seem like it, i just thought we were doing the multiple stories at once.

We were, but they've all wrapped except the Jax/Zimu one.

what about our request for iron, based on the knowledge?

Oh whoops, right.

And that is FIVE THOUSAND POSTS in the gameplay thread. Good gracious. Well, thank you all for sticking with this!

5,000! Thanks for keeping us on out toes, paws and prehensile tails DM!

Really fun ride and thanks to all the rest for keeping the volume loud and the humor fresh.

THANK YOU DM! Cheers to the rest of us!

I have 14 Int, Xen has 13, Dren has 12 and our brave anti-paladin has 10.

I asked because I wanted to figure out what was going on and to figure out how to play our next hand. I wanted to plan out how to deal with Irin. Barter, cajole, bind, report to the cardinal, open a greeting cards outlet, etc.

But the Judge is not there, and from a role playing perspective Xen is not yet trusted by the group, Dren is creepy at best ... So I guess Edmin is back up.

You don't trust your healer yet? Just because he wants the end of the world is no reason to not trust him...lol

Actually seeing you potentially threaten a much more powerful creature...you should have gotten Dren at least he would have been a voice of reason :]

dark and stormy

Just one?

You don't trust your healer yet? Just because he wants the end of the world is no reason to not trust him...lol

In character, not you silly.

Actually seeing you potentially threaten a much more powerful creature...you should have gotten Dren at least he would have been a voice of reason :]

Damn good point!

well we only had one ginger beer. Also had a couple beers rum and coke and vodka and grapefruit soda

good thing was the party was at our house so it was game on.

Yeah last weekend had friends over at the house for steaks and wine...after many bottles later I found out why I don't drink 5-6 glasses of wine after 2 large margaritas anymore...Sunday was a total bust on the couch!
Pretty much game over...

I think that the speed is good. This is the fastest pbp for me by far, and running at about the correct pace. We are averaging just under 1000 posts per month which is pretty good, better than 30 per day.

I would be fine with faster, but how we are going is good.

There are days I can post 4+ times and others where I only get a chance to take a look twice or only once during the day. I do love how fast it moves though, if you all move faster..well I've yet to have any arguments with Doug's decisions in DMing Jax when I take too long!

Quick summer movie transition, I was not excited to see The Man of Steel movie, until I saw the trailer.

Wow you guys are awesome. And mini you make a great goblin lol.

I am good with the pace, just ready to move on to the next part.

I thought that it might be the end of Jax for a minute though, good level of anxiety that you built up Doug!

I helped a little too.

Ok, there really needs to be a way to figure out how many stalkers each campaign has. Clearly this one is doing well on the stalker count with at least 3 popping up in the past week. I know that my ToEE campaign has at least 3-4 as I have gotten that many PMs and requests to have access to my maps at different times. And I have seen numerous posts from unknown followers in other campaigns.

I think the correct term is "lurkers".

Doug M.

I'm here cause I'm stalking my gm lol. Bref is dming a game I'm in and I was checking out his other games lol.

See, they are stalkers, much classier than mere lurkers.

I miss Bref.

Trying to wrap the Irin mini story arc by the next day, any suggestions from the evil peanut gallery?

Goblin still here!

Beat her over the head and take her stuff? ...wait that probably won't end well.

I don't think we're going to get anything/much else out of her. It might be best to ask her/get her to tell us how to avoid the Cardinal reading her plan from our minds so we keep both her and ourselves safe..she could be a useful ally in the future.

The best way to keep anyone quiet in the mansion is to threaten to raise Bref as a haunt which would follow them forever tossing poo and general insults at inopportune times.

THAT. IS . AWESOME.

Future haunt encounter right there.

I would like to wrap with Irin, as you guys have been standing in her room for three days RW now. She's a fun character to write and all, but the rest of the party is hanging around waiting for this to resolve.

Zimu, I have the impression you stashed the pen (and scribbled the note, yes I haven't forgotten) more out of impulse then as part of a well thought out plan. That's fine -- impulsive decisions can lead in interesting directions sometimes. But at the moment, it has you out on a limb wondering what to do next. In that context, it's perfectly OK to shrug and say "eh, never mind -- here's the pen, wipe my memory, let's move on to the next thing." I'm not saying that's what you should do; just saying it's a perfectly OK option.