We haven't interacted much with the other guild members, but do we know any of them well enough to know who would care that our masters are dead? Perhaps some of the other wizards who were friends with our masters and would therefore recognize us as their familiars and possibly be inclined to help us?
I get the impression Silvertail is not as clear about her intentions as she thinks she is.
Good RPing....
Unfortunately Silvertail is the sort of character who never admits she's wrong. XD
This party has an awful lot of cranky animals in it.
Silvertail's not cranky. She's above such petty things as getting cranky.
I'm going to just wait at this point until the next GM post, as it feels like we've talked an awful lot while waiting for a brief bit of scouting to be done.
We haven't interacted much with the other guild members, but do we know any of them well enough to know who would care that our masters are dead? Perhaps some of the other wizards who were friends with our masters and would therefore recognize us as their familiars and possibly be inclined to help us?
They would all care as it was the Circle of 8 though do you want to inform everyone the Circle is dead?
I'll try to get to this update tonight, went to be bed early last night, still not feeling 100%.
I think that is true but it also may have something to do with the masters being killed...that might put a damper on a persons day..
Take care of yourself!
I don't think we'd inform everyone that the whole circle is dead, but if one of us just said that our master was in trouble and we needed to find Mordenkainen, I think that would be safe enough. But only if there's someone one of us would trust enough. So that might be a better question--is there anyone here we know our masters trusted?
(Of course, they might have been betrayed, so not even that might be good enough...)
I'm asking because I really don't feel like we have a direction to go right now, and I'm trying to think of ways we could at least get a hint as to where to go to find Mordenkainen.
Take care of yourself!
I don't think we'd inform everyone that the whole circle is dead, but if one of us just said that our master was in trouble and we needed to find Mordenkainen, I think that would be safe enough. But only if there's someone one of us would trust enough. So that might be a better question--is there anyone here we know our masters trusted?
(Of course, they might have been betrayed, so not even that might be good enough...)
I'm asking because I really don't feel like we have a direction to go right now, and I'm trying to think of ways we could at least get a hint as to where to go to find Mordenkainen.
Yeah I figured you all would want to make sure there was no danger here first before trying to find Mprdekainen, I'm just taking longer to respond than I wanted to!
Remember it is the dead of night so no one (except for those with insomnia) are awake.
All PCs are aware of the following important NPCs that operate the Guild/University:
Kieran Jalucian - Human Male Wizard and Guild Master,
Darnak Khorshkan - Human Male perhaps Fighter or Expert?,
Jawal Severnain - Human Female Wizard Head Librarian,
Kondradis Bubka - Human Male Wizard Dean of the Apprentices,
Heironymous Tigana - Gnome Female Arcanist Mistress of Wares, and
Ephraim Blackrod - Human Male Magus Master of Discipline and Ceremonies.
Bunnicula is still nowhere to be found.
Of course, none of you have spoken to any of them before except Bunnicula!
Let me know if Silvertail's snark gets to be too mean. I can dial it back some.
Checking in.
I've got this on tap for tomorrow :-)
RL has not been so cute and fuzzy lately. Hoping that it gets cuter and fuzzier for a while...
So I've gathered. I hope so too! :D
I'm not sure exactly how familiars "normally" work when their masters die. The way witches familiars' can still teach other familiars spells for 24 hours suggest that they retain their unusual characteristics for about a day, but I don't know if that applies to wizards' familiars. I've written Silvertail's thoughts assuming this is the case, however.
Obviously we're *not* going to lose our unusual intelligence and so forth, but I don't think we would necessarily know that at this point.
I asked James about familiars with dead masters once, and according to him, it is different for every familiar. Some revert back to being a normal animal quickly, while others can take years or even never revert.
So, not quite official answer is that familiars can retain power without a master.
Ah, neat! I like that answer. So even more uncertainty for Silvertail to deal with. :)
I'm getting married this Friday, so it's quite possible I'll be somewhat... distracted for the next while. So if I disappear for a bit feel free to have my character do all of the smart things I haven't thought of.
Congratulations! YO.
hey, that's a pretty good reason for being absent. Congrats!
Grats!
So, now it's honeymoon roleplaying time right?
It will be in a few days. :)
I heard of a couple having a wedding ceremony on ddo. Doing anything similar?
Nah, though our reception is going to be RPG/board game-themed. With games to play at the tables instead of dancing (neither of us is big on dancing). :)
Did that for a christmas party in the army once (it was a base sponsored event) and a few buddies and I ended up at a table with disney trivia game. At first everyone thought we were going to be terrible but we ended up doing well, and a couple of us were unbeatable. I have a younger sister, as an excuse. Not sure about the other guy though. :)
In other news, I got a lovely little sketch of Silvertail. :)
NICE! Almost looks straight from a Disney Movie!
Tekumsah has not posted anywhere on the boards in some time. For now I will write the PC out of the game and move on with the rest of the group.
Hopefully, we cab start to move along with less interruptions on my side!
Dear all,
Having computer problems. Will likely be unable to post for a few days. Apologies. Please bot me as needed. I hope to be back soon, but with the holidays, my computer repair may be delayed.
No idea if Anaxian heard Silvertail there.
FYI, my apologies for my frequent absences as of late.
Playing in 20+ games and running 30 is time consuming, especially as RL falls apart around you!
Often I find that if I fall behind in updates, I need to make time to simply update a Discussion Thread to inform the PCs of a particular game that I am either going to be posting later in the day or week or will be on a break form the boards for one reason or another.
To save time updating so many damn threads I opened this thread some time back and linked all of my DM aliases [except this one] to this thread to inform people as to status.
Of course if people feel the need to ask other questions outside of PbP feel free to do so but mainly this will be a thread dedicated to ensuring that my PCs know my status and to assure everyone that even though I may have some absences away from the boards (or particular games) this thread will always be up to date with my status.
Thanks for your patience here folks. I'll link this to my DM Avatar as well.
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Fidget pats a paw on Silvertail's shoulder. He knows how she feels. Maybe they all do, to some degree... except maybe Anaxian.
You made me snort my smoothie.
It’s pretty late at night as I am writing this. I’ve been through a significant amount of struggles through the past two years (actually through the past 41 but especially the past 2). I’ve had worse stretches of time before but I believe that these past struggles were due to my own lack of maturity and self-awareness at the time those events took place.
Likely those events were necessary for me to experience to survive the events of the past two years and get through them as well as I have. Physical ailments, getting older and requiring more sleep, bankruptcy, and ultimately divorce. You know life is not going swimmingly when going to work feels like a vacation.
Regardless, when I first started getting involved in PbP on the boards it was a chance to play, finally! I’d been DMing for the bulk of the time that I’ve played table top that I was enjoying being able to be a player for once. Then with so many damn flaky GM’s I just started running games and well, things snow balled from there.
Life was fairly stable at the time the normal ups and downs. Then about two years ago, I started getting into PbP as a way to escape reality. Sort of the same ways drugs were casual and enjoyable for me as a teen and ultimately led me as close to suicide as I ever want to get again.
I am not saying that PbP has made me suicidal but I am saying that I recognize that I was using PbP as a coping mechanism to avoid a bad marriage. PbP did NOT lead to the failure of my marriage but it did contribute to my ability to tune it out.
I make a decent living but between bankruptcy and divorce I’ve little to show for it (well except for this killer book and RPG collection ). I could point the finger at my soon to be ex-wife but when you point one finger at a person, three more point back at you. I could have prevented things from becoming this bad and I chose not to. I did it, ironically, because I believed that if I had the marriage would have ended and ended badly, so much for best intentions. I am not going to second guess myself, what happened happened. As divorces go, this one has been rather amicable as we have put our daughter first and ourselves second.
Being married to someone who makes as much if not more money then you (depending on sales that year) places one in a position to “take it easy” when it comes to being aggressive about making money (well it placed me in such a position anyhow perhaps because making money does not move me).
Early on in my career I had an opportunity to become a premiere M&A Financial Services Tax Attorney in a Big 4 Firm. It’s a big deal and potentially a lot of money but I did not really want it because I knew I would be working a lot and traveling a lot. My ex agreed that I should turn it down as she did not want to be married to a workaholic and that was not who I wanted to be anyway. Nor do I want to be that person now. (In yet another twist of irony, she has become a workaholic, funny how things turn out).
I do not regret the decision though I do lament the loss of income that such a decision would have brought to me.
All of this rambling nonsense is leading to the point of this post, I need to work more. Not at my current job nor do I want to get a new job, I actually like being there as odd as that sounds (to me). I need to get a second and perhaps a third job, side gigs. At 41 about to turn 42 with no retirement and no savings for my daughters college, I can no longer hope that the ex’s business will come through as an investment plan. Even if it does, I will not be the beneficiary of that largesse. I need to make up for 11 years of being “comfortable” simply working.
Thus, it is with heavy heart that I am announcing that I will need to close down a number of the threads I run and withdraw from a number of the games I am a PC in.
I suppose this decision will not be a surprise to many of you as my posting rates have been abysmal since these events took a turn for the worse (in some respects the better to be honest) since Thanksgiving of 2017.
I am not generally a person that feels remorse or guilt but I do feel a level of disappointment with having to make this decision. I apologize for disappointing many of you who put work into PCs relying on my consistency as a GM/DM over the course of the past several years.
My plan had always been to run a hardcore dose of RPG’s until my daughter was a teenager and then, spend my free time writing the novel I had been working on since before she was born. I had hoped that over the next 9 years or so I could wrap up most of these campaigns and the few that remained would be more manageable.
Life has not worked out that way.
The good news is that I will still run several games but the current load is too much for me to handle in this transition. The further good news is that I believe this will allow for those games to move along much more quickly.
By tomorrow I will have made my decision as to which games I will keep and which I will shut down.
Thank you all for taking the journeys with me despite the lack of length or resolution of so many of them.
I will still be around just in a diminished capacity so this is not goodbye just a “be seeing less of you”.
Ive said my response elsewhere. To help facilitate your decision I'm going to pull out of this game. You started this one started because of a post I made in another thread, so I'm hoping that me deciding not to participate will make the decision to shut it down easier.
I'm not doing this because I don't like this game. If you finish other campaigns in the future and want to revisit this idea, I'd be down.
This is the only thing I can do to help you, so I'm doing it.
Take care of yourself.
Thanks DH.
Unfortunately, this is one I will have to close.
Good gaming to you all.
Awww, too bad. Hope things go better for you in the future Shadow!
yeah, I thought was a really neat campaign idea. All the best