Emerald Sky

Game Master Asmodeus

did you miss me in round 4? seems like it.

Good catch. Updated.

Stunning Fist forces a foe damaged by your unarmed attack to make a Fortitude saving throw. So I can plant a stunning fist anywhere into my flurry of blows as long as I don't go over daily max. Which I planted two in that flurry to maximize my chance's.

Stunning Fist forces a foe damaged by your unarmed attack to make a Fortitude saving throw. So I can plant a stunning fist anywhere into my flurry of blows as long as I don't go over daily max. Which I planted two in that flurry to maximize my chance's.

Next time call it out in your dice equals. Stunning Fist. Etc.

Stunning Fist forces a foe damaged by your unarmed attack to make a Fortitude saving throw. So I can plant a stunning fist anywhere into my flurry of blows as long as I don't go over daily max. Which I planted two in that flurry to maximize my chance's.

Well, actually you still can't use it more than once per round as well. The monk ability grants you the feat, the feat specifies x times a day, but no more than once per round.

An argument could be made, based on the way they later refer to the monk getting x number of times instead and not mentioning the once per round thing, that it doesn't apply to monks. But I don't think that was their intention.

Brand Orson wrote:

Stunning Fist forces a foe damaged by your unarmed attack to make a Fortitude saving throw. So I can plant a stunning fist anywhere into my flurry of blows as long as I don't go over daily max. Which I planted two in that flurry to maximize my chance's.

Well, actually you still can't use it more than once per round as well. The monk ability grants you the feat, the feat specifies x times a day, but no more than once per round.

An argument could be made, based on the way they later refer to the monk getting x number of times instead and not mentioning the once per round thing, that it doesn't apply to monks. But I don't think that was their intention.

I read that as well and went hmmm......I think they meant no more than once a round since you get the feat and that's the feats wording...so, yeah. That's my ruling. Once per round. Monks just get more uses of it a day than other characters.

makes sense.

This is one long workday. 25 minutes from the end.

Oh man i have to say the whole Lightning and storm stuff is very cool. I haven't seen too many elementalist wiz/sorc types that stuck to a kind of spell and make sure it lines up. Those are among my favorite. Someday i will make monktype but alinged for elements. Very avatar style.

There is a reason that most don't stick to one elemental type. I have a TON of different things, I just make them sound like they are the same theme.

That's what i mean, you ARE casting other spells and its awesome to describe them the way you are. All too often we say the spell from the book and not RP it.
As long as Luc knows what your casting im fine with that. you should put the actual spell in a spoiler for luc.
I like your descriptions better than knowing the book rules lol. Well besides its effects cause those are fun lol.
Same goes with all the jargon really, saves, action knowing if a bad guy makes the save.
Basically I'm saying we keep only RP stuff in the game thread. Talking,cool maneuvers written out and descriptions. Meta stuff in spoiler only and questions move to the discussion thread.
Luc was thinking something like that i think but i havent seen anything yet. Good idea? bad idea?
thoughts?

That's what i mean, you ARE casting other spells and its awesome to describe them the way you are. All too often we say the spell from the book and not RP it.

As long as Luc knows what your casting im fine with that. you should put the actual spell in a spoiler for luc.
I like your descriptions better than knowing the book rules lol. Well besides its effects cause those are fun lol.
Same goes with all the jargon really, saves, action knowing if a bad guy makes the save.
Basically I'm saying we keep only RP stuff in the game thread. Talking,cool maneuvers written out and descriptions. Meta stuff in spoiler only and questions move to the discussion thread.
Luc was thinking something like that i think but i havent seen anything yet. Good idea? bad idea?
thoughts?

Jesse, The short version of Lucas is Luke, not Luc. To address his point, people asked for the game elements to be evident in the posts rather than be in spoilers so I've adopted that as the new noomal. His question about putting gameplay related questions in discussion is a good one as we recently had a raft of questions followed by answers to clarify right in the middle of what should have been exciting action. I put a template for action related posts in the campaign info thread to hopefully help. It has the rules bits in out of character tags followed by the flavor text (a la Amelia's magic missiles being black snowflakes, etc. Let's keep the gameplay thread to actual roleplaying and action posts and the discussion thread for any questions needed to make your rp and action posts as great as possible. some questions are fine, but if it gets out of hand, I will ask that things be moved to discussion to avoid clutter. Thanks, guys.

Brand will take the con back. gets him full hp that way.

Writing this on the fly, haven't time right now to catch up on the gameplay thread.

I am going to be crazy swamped for the next few days. I should be able to post once a day, and if I am lucky I'll get more than that in, but no gaurntee. Feel free to assume I go with the flow if it's just me you are waiting on to chime in for a day or two.

Should be back to normal soon.

Thanks Rich.

Dammit, I had a few minutes, made a post, and accidentally switched pages instead of publishing. No time to re type, the gist was everyone should rest I stealth back to the boat to make sure it's safe +14, and camouflage it again until morning +5.

I think the knight should return to his order to let them know the supplies were intercepted. In the morning.

What time of day is it? I thought it was only noonish?

What time of day is it? I thought it was only noonish?

We'll call it early afternoon at this point, but yeah. I think he's referring to how beat up Maitreya is an indicating he'd like to not get into more trouble today if it can be avoided.

Right... at one point I was waiting to see if the hp total was including Con damage or not, so I could then guesstimate how much more healing to do. Which I'll do now.

However, I am not the party's healing battery, especially if both Monks can heal themselves to the tune of 9 hp per 2 ki. Not greatly efficient, but there you have it.

See Jesse knows the tunnels are the biggest threat. But brand doesnt lol

See Jesse knows the tunnels are the biggest threat. But brand doesnt lol

Tunnels of unusual size? I don't think they exist!

Darryl did Evelyn take that potion? if so let em know so i can remove it.

Sure.

where isss everyoneeeeeee im bored. and want to write. Course when you all get to it, ill be gone for a while lol....

Writing this on the fly, haven't time right now to catch up on the gameplay thread.

I am going to be crazy swamped for the next few days. I should be able to post once a day, and if I am lucky I'll get more than that in, but no gaurntee. Feel free to assume I go with the flow if it's just me you are waiting on to chime in for a day or two.

Should be back to normal soon.

Unforseen school day? :)

Shutterwasp wrote:

Writing this on the fly, haven't time right now to catch up on the gameplay thread.

I am going to be crazy swamped for the next few days. I should be able to post once a day, and if I am lucky I'll get more than that in, but no gaurntee. Feel free to assume I go with the flow if it's just me you are waiting on to chime in for a day or two.

Should be back to normal soon.

Unforseen school day? :)

No idea.

A lonely tumbleweed bounced past. Pushed by a breeze that felt like the world sighing.
A hawks call breaks the silence.

Been too long without input from Rich or Brian, so I'm pausing a little so they can chime in. Sorry.

Yeah. Bad plan. Thing has already been scouted. Should have gone to the wagons.

I'm not scouting, I'm going to find info direct from the bad guys... at least that was my plan.

It was? Ok. Good to know.

This kind of plan calls for extensive spoilers. Like what contingenices are in place should you fail? As things stand there are none, leaving everyone else in the lurch....waiting either for success (leaving them out....boring) or failure (leaving you out since you're dead.....boring)

and probably putting the in great danger after you gave up their location under the torture......

Always push the action forward. But do it together. And interact as much as possible. Direct questions are being ignored left and right.

Read the posts before yours in detail. And maybe, since it's kind of always Evelyn's turn, post in gameplay as often as I reply to get past this (if you do) as quickly as possible.

Thanks guys.

So I think we need to address a few minor points.

1. Always. Be. Pushing.

This means move the game along with your posts, even if its dialogue with someone else. No denying, which just closes doors. Do a game of Yes, and/or to open alternatives.

Make something happen, even it is a character trait being shown,a bit of worldbuilding, etc.

2. Spoiler Tags

If you come to a junction of some sort or have a question, give some spoiler tags for further action based on the answer.

If the answer is this I do this....
If the answer is that I do this....

Doing it any other way slows things down for no reason. PbP is slow enough without that. The kinds of one liners you can get away with at the table have no place here, especially if you are not able to post as often as others. You become a bottleneck if so. Please use spoiler tags so that the game flows faster.

Thanks.

I don't think doing a brand dialogue thing works at the moment, so ill wait till this gets settled or later on.

FYI Lucas, um how does this zombie plague feel when you get bitten and you get sick and turn? hours? days? minutes? is there a average? cause im pretty sure i have it....

Hey all, whats up. I just wanted to thank all of you for being in this and express my gratitude for being a part of something with such inspiring characters and storytellers. For we all all part of this story as its tellers, in our own way.
If all these pages of Role playing and fights were taken out and pieced together seamlessly, we would have a robust character driven book with people who read like authentic individuals in a very epic landscape. But i have to say too i miss our rogue who was great at driving the story in unexpected ways.
That's all, felt kinda sappy cause i was having a good day.

Very nice of you to say. I appreciate the sentiment.

What did you mean by your post, D? I take it you didn't read the posts ahead of yours and thought you were still in combat?

Feel free to do your post over.

The team is pulling out under paddle power.

What did you mean by your post, D? I take it you didn't read the posts ahead of yours and thought you were still in combat?

Feel free to do your post over.

The team is pulling out under paddle power.

Yes, that is exactly it, my plan all along was to grab info, Black tentacle whomever tried to stop me, then fly to safety, so I got blinders on. Once I made it out of the tent, I sort of assumed the hundreds of warriors we were supposedly being surrounded by, were going to stop us, just sort of skimmed.

Moving to discusion thread...

Don't have them right now. would have to rest first.

I think we'd be the same amount of time behind in that case...

I dunno, it took a couple of days to get here. If we can get 1 nights rest in ( rope trick guarantees that), then we can be back instantly at mudwater

Maitreya sat cross legged and I,passive at the back of the boat as those around him bickered and argued. He could sense the push and pull of his companions egos, and so sat and let the drama play out around him.

The clearest path seemed to be the one championed by the majority. A return to the village was clearly necessary. So he sat, waiting for the arguments to end and the path to continue.

i cannot push, for the next step is sleeping, and there is nothing to do in the meantime hat makes any sense with the information given. Evelyn is starting something with the knight, but her actions to this point suggest an abrasive nature and she has not provided any reason to take her side, so like I am ignoring the thungs happening with brand and Amelia, I am for the time being ignoring the behaviour of these other two.

Abrasive? I dunno... more irritation of the fact that the party decided to not trust her previous plan (or ability) to infiltrate the camp, and by extension, not trust her. So more pouty than abrasive I'd like to think.

Maitreya the Monk wrote:

Maitreya sat cross legged and I,passive at the back of the boat as those around him bickered and argued. He could sense the push and pull of his companions egos, and so sat and let the drama play out around him.

The clearest path seemed to be the one championed by the majority. A return to the village was clearly necessary. So he sat, waiting for the arguments to end and the path to continue.

i cannot push, for the next step is sleeping, and there is nothing to do in the meantime hat makes any sense with the information given. Evelyn is starting something with the knight, but her actions to this point suggest an abrasive nature and she has not provided any reason to take her side, so like I am ignoring the thungs happening with brand and Amelia, I am for the time being ignoring the behaviour of these other two.

Abrasive? I dunno... more irritation of the fact that the party decided to not trust her previous plan (or ability) to infiltrate the camp, and by extension, not trust her. So more pouty than abrasive I'd like to think.

lol.

Pouty? You decided to go in alone and asked us to be close in case things went sideways.
I did exactly that. And when they discovered who you are, I moved in to help as you suggested, from that point on you were calling me a fool - sorry dude, that is more than pouty. If you had said, "help only if I ask" or something, it may have been different, or defined an ability to be "in control" in the middle of an enemy camp, maybe.

Luke responded to your plan to go in alone so quickly that none of us had a chance to question your plan or be part of it, so I took what you requested to heart, be close in case I need help, and that's what your character got. If the tone you were going for when you addressed me wasn't meant to be insulting, then maybe you shouldn't have actually used an insult?

Sorry - play by post, like email, doesn't convey tone well. For example, this note may be coming off as kinda rude too, but I assure you, that is not my intention, I am just looking to point out my character's point of view.

This is a medium that doesn't do Split the Party very well either so try to avoid that whenever possible.

Actually, it sucks at the table too, so don't do it! lol.

No one knows what each others characters are capable of, so try not to make assumptions someone would "know" your plans or what any given spell does.

Maybe lay them out before heading out if that is the expectation. That would help future confusion.

Pouty? You decided to go in alone and asked us to be close in case things went sideways.

I did exactly that. And when they discovered who you are, I moved in to help as you suggested, from that point on you were calling me a fool - sorry dude, that is more than pouty. If you had said, "help only if I ask" or something, it may have been different, or defined an ability to be "in control" in the middle of an enemy camp, maybe.

Luke responded to your plan to go in alone so quickly that none of us had a chance to question your plan or be part of it, so I took what you requested to heart, be close in case I need help, and that's what your character got. If the tone you were going for when you addressed me wasn't meant to be insulting, then maybe you shouldn't have actually used an insult?

Sorry - play by post, like email, doesn't convey tone well. For example, this note may be coming off as kinda rude too, but I assure you, that is not my intention, I am just looking to point out my character's point of view.

Oh, totally no probs there...

:)

Isn't alignment tricky, folks?

Not at all. I am playing in character, the scrolls and knight's own words suddenly made me suspicious, so I detected evil just in case it was a set-up. I sense taint. I called it.

Btw, I suspect something else, but since Evelyn wouldn't, I'm not saying so.

I'm thinking ironwood mechanical wings? with some dragon-skin for lift? We haven't had any engineer stuff in a while.

lol brand went all monkish meta

Brian, can Amelia make use of a +3 deflection bonus?