Doug M's Way of the Wicked (Inactive)

Game Master Douglas Muir 406

Suffering Evil withdrawal. Shakes. Angst. HELLLLPPPPP!!!!

Hope you are having fun in FL.

Posting will be lightish through Monday night. Sorry, but I'm visiting with my Mom. Will try to get something in every day, though.

Doug M.

time for bref and shadow beastie to come up with a game to play in the wardens room, especially now that i have accepted the chaoticness of bref

I live in Panama City, where are you visiting?

HEY NO FRATERNIZING WITH THE DM! :)

Heh.

-- Mom retired to The Villages some years back, north of Ocala. That's where I am now. Here through Monday, fly back Monday night.

Doug M.

No worries - this campaign has been going at a hellfire pace (no put intended), so the sudden slowdown feels like withdrawal.

I assume that everyone here has some type of a RL which will limit their posting ability. I will be out of town from Monday night until Saturday for instance. I will be able to post several times a day, but since I will not be at work with my laptop all the time, responses will be delayed.

Once again, have fun in the Sunshine state.

Been in Ocala more than a few times. About 4 hours from me. Have fun.

DM have some mojitos and Cuban sandwiches for me.

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Gang can we have a more organized and less disjointed search of the tower? Perhaps three of us to a floor, and taking items of interest, use and value then dividing those up before we leave.

Did the veil Edmin's special friend (no not the Axe) provide us with have a Bag of Holding or was I just wishful thinking that?

Edmin looks up at Cуровую and nods. "Yes, but make it quick my lady. We do not have long to dally here."

I'm guessing that's not the first time Edin has said this to a 'lady'.

;)

Probably better than Bref looking under you while asking: Where Beastie?

Bref can't help it if he is an innocent. He is only 4 years old.

Bref wrote:

Looks under Cy Beeeeaaaastie?

Most men stopped calling it that after the middle ages, granted there are still a few holdouts.

I called him out on that too.

Yet Bref at 4 has is not far from most men's maturity level in New York which I would place at 10.

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Thanks with the help searching guys! There's has to be a healing potion or three here somewhere.

For searching the tower it may be just to assume that someone in the party takes 20 looking at:
Warden's room
Bookshelves
Warden's corpse
Dining room and tapestries
the office, etc

Since we have a giant ogre, Jax is going to suggest piling up anything gold, silver and portable for the ogre to carry.

We need to find some healing for the party!

Interesting, in the Spellbook, those are, almost, spell for spell I would have picked!

Only Vanish and Levitate seem to be absent.

It's too bad there's only one..we'll have to share it for now. I hope you don't mind if I use a page to scribe this scroll of shocking grasp into it? Its Jax's go to spell.

Please do Jax.

I was going to suggest this, as a player, not in character, would Rosa negative channel to heal the Judge so he in turn can heal Morsum, who we will need to scout?

I don't play summoners but I think that's what it inferred they can do right?

A side benefit of this game we have is I'm learning more of the mechanics of the game that I would not be able to look up during a normal real life game.

Yaay, learning!

DM and group

Would it please be possible to do a quick inventory so we know what DM allowed us to take with us and what we have from directly from the tower, and I will ask Edmin to please take the Warden's head.

All Bref has picked up is a kitchen knife, a shiv, a chefs hat, a rolling pin, a ring, and thieves tools

Yes, Edmin would have brought the head after you asked.

sorry my posts have been lame lately. I was having issues with a player in a game I am running on the forum and it was really sapping my creativity. I had to ask him to leave the game, we just weren't playing well together. I am a bit out of sorts, gaming wise, feel like I failed my players. I should be back to normal tomorrow. Though I will be on a plane for most of the day

Thanks guys, and thanks for the help Edmin.

I am not too worried about what we have from earlier, just from the Warden's tower, because I don't want us to have left something behind because we thought it was already accounted for.

Edit: oh sorry Bref. You know what helps? Chocolate! Works wonders.

Or, at times ... GOOD blue agave tequila.

I am sure you did your best given the situation with the player.

Longsword, chain shirt, crossbow, kitchen knife, Great axe, shield, guard uniform, helmet, crowbar, club, Warden's head, Wardens ring.

well i do have a long layover in london again, so it will be boozy time. thankfullly only 4 or 5 hours this time not like last time and the 12 hours

DM just asking permission that even if you advance us in game, that we took stock of items we could carry, such as books, the Wardens clothing, everburning torch, the Seal of Brandascar, portables, etc.

I will update later once we all post.

If the DM could post what all we have found in one post, it would make things easier. It is always hard to track stuff in multiple posts when we find it at different times. If necessary and we need to track it down, the easiest way is to click on DMDM's profile and then click on just his posts. Then scan back to when we first entered the tower to see what we found.

I went online to find a visual to share with you guys and looked for 'brunette with an eyepatch' and got back three sites which had girls wearing eyepatches ... and nothing else! They were not even cute! I appreciate beautiful women too but these were Le Yuck. :(

Edit: Judge that's why I posted the request here so I could help type it up for DM and have him copy it over to the main unused campaign thread. Less work for him to cut and paste and helpful to us in game, I don't mind doing that.

For example:

Warden's Spellbook

Ill make the list now,

chain shirt, crossbow, oil in bottle, shield, guard uniform, helmet, club, 30 year old map, Chilly powereder, Book, scroll ( how the place was rebuilt) Wardens ring?, Edmins Vale with Window left on it and rope patch.

Search for female pirate pictures might help. Here are a few, probably not what you want though:

Cartoonish with sword

Costumish with sword

Cartoon with musket

Branderscar Headsman's Axe:
The axe a beautiful masterwork weapon, clearly the work of a skilled and dedicated master craftsman. It has the arms of Branderscar repeated up and down the handle. One face of the axehead is inscribed with the holy symbol of Mitra and the words "HIS JUSTICE COMES AND THAT RIGHT QUICK". The other face has the royal seal of Talingarde and the words "TERMINUS EST" ("It is the end").

The sites I found were too 'trashy' and those you have are too cute and sweet, so its not me, but I appreciate the effort, I got a sugar rush.

I think of it as an ornate bearded axe.

This

or like

this

or

This.

Those are actually inexpensive!

Or just search for "women eye patch" on google and then see what images show up.

"Woman eye patch" on google

Maybe..

This...

or

My Favorite!

The following seems to be the items we've found that are worth money and aren't armor/weapons. Is this about right?

100 gold (Sack from magic veil)
4 GP First guard group
Bag of mixed coins (Guard's chest) 12 gp
1,000 gold (Chest from Blackerly's room)
Whiskey-poison? [Given to dogs, from Blackerly's room]
Sticky, tar-like drug? [Found in Blackerly's chest]
Silk banner “Brandenscar Reap What you Sow” (From Mess Hall)
Warden's Spellbook
Collector's Items books: 370 GP (From Library)
Warden's Ring (Someone picked this up?)
5 Nobleman's outfits 75GP (one on Cimu)
Great Seal of Brandenscar

I think that's about it for items of value.

Jax I gave each of you a ring, there were also other portables from the Warden's tower and earlier in the prison, like the everburning torch. I will go through our posts and add them up for us in the next few hours, thanks all!

Going to the gym for an hour before I get lazy and stay in, be back right after.

ok folks I am going my two days worth of airports again starting today. I will post as I can from airports during layovers and will be back on Pacific time on Monday PST.

Safe Trip Bref, I know that Air plane Food only feeling well.

A question for more experienced PBP players / GMs. If I think you're missing something obvious, what's a good way to work that in a PBP context? Drop a hint? Have one or more PCs make an INT roll?

Doug M.

whala!

EDIT HEY YOU DIDNT ROLL YOUR INT DMDM

Ha, good idea.

Doug M.

On treasure: I apologize for any inconvenience. You guys seem to have done a good job sorting it out. Well done.

Okay, break for tonight. May go quiet for most of tomorrow -- airplanes, family stuff, work. Talk amongst yourselves!

Doug M.

On treasure: I apologize for any inconvenience. You guys seem to have done a good job sorting it out. Well done.

Not at all, there's no inconvenience!

I just wanted to get some idea of what were allowed to take. For instance for some reason some of us thought we had that anti magic stone, or some items of value we found could not be carried. I know Edmin thought we had the branding irons, etc. To save not getting confused with several posts going on, I suggested we consolidate. I just wanted all of us to be aware what was being brought out of the Warden's place.

he cy can you make a google doc that we can all edit? maybe a tab or wahtever for each person so when we pick something up we can just add it in?

I just wanted to get some idea of what were allowed to take.

If you can carry it, you can take it. You just need to state clearly what you're taking.

However: note that "you can take it" != "you should take it". You'll notice there are places where I've mentioned that potential treasure items are heavy, bulky, or fragile. Carrying an oil painting or a rolled-up tapestry over your shoulder through the middle of a jailbreak? Maybe possible, but perhaps not a great idea. (Though I've known grab-every-last-copper-piece players who would want to try.)

Doug M.

bref has the greatest treasures in the world. His rolling pin and chef's hat. He will be buried with those for sure!

Hopefully that won't have to happen today.

:)

TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE. OR, TO MAKE PIE.

yum. ok turning Bref over to DMDM. if he is alone too long, he will start to create a far too involved plan to take out the guards himself.

i will post again from the lounge at heathrow, but DMDM you know what bref would do!