The familiar voice of Captain York calls out, "They return. Or do they, tell me, what were the first words I said to your group when you encountered the barricade!?"
The man's paranoia is still clearly quite high.
Before you can answer the woman's voice, Winter calls out
So, is York a man or a woman? Sorry, first time I see these NPCs...
So, is York a man or a woman? Sorry, first time I see these NPCs...The familiar voice of Captain York calls out, "They return. Or do they, tell me, what were the first words I said to your group when you encountered the barricade!?"
The man's paranoia is still clearly quite high.
Before you can answer the woman's voice, Winter calls out
Sorry, a man. There are a man and a woman guard with them as well.
Storyteller, are you alright with pf Kobolds taking the dragon wrought feats from 3.5's races of dragons?
Storyteller, are you alright with pf Kobolds taking the dragon wrought feats from 3.5's races of dragons?
Just pass em by me first so I can loo at em.
OK, now that I live again, let's get back on track!
tbh, I've kinda lost track of what we were doing here... can we get a synopsis post to kick things off again? thanks.
tbh, I've kinda lost track of what we were doing here... can we get a synopsis post to kick things off again? thanks.
Ah, then we've come to the perfect point of the adventure as some basic questions are about to be answered by the Survivors.
The group started in strange cobblestone streets where they were chased down by a horrofic figure who chased them down with a wicked straight razor slaying each in turn. The group then awoke in the basement of Briarstone Asylum. None of you had any memories at all of who you were.
From the first moment of being awake, you encountered a shapeshifter who was trying to slay a chained down prisoner. You saved him and slew the shapechanger.
From there you found a way out of the basement and up onto the first floor fighting vermin.
Disoriented you found yourselves in a ruined building where you found some survivors, mostly humans who distrusted you from the get go. T o prove yourselves to the, you were asked to head into the north halls and clear them, you did so finding and rescuing two survivors along the way. One a man who spoke gibberish the other Randee.
Now, you have rested and are now about to get some damn answers from the Survivors as to where you are and what the hell is going on!
ok, thanks!
Between being sidetracked and waiting to see if anyone else would chime in, got behind a bit.
The moment is now here though, the Godlings will be heading through the eastern barricade which I had yet to describe as there was no reason to.
Everyone still with me here!? ;-)
Yeah, just a bit under the weather. I'm going to try a catch up. Sorry for being a little less diligent.
Yeah, just a bit under the weather. I'm going to try a catch up. Sorry for being a little less diligent.
It happens :-)
I was just thinking about this campaign when I was walking my dogs 10 minutes ago thinking, "I wonder if we can get that Godling campaign back off the ground?" And there you guys are! Awesome!
I was just thinking about this campaign when I was walking my dogs 10 minutes ago thinking, "I wonder if we can get that Godling campaign back off the ground?" And there you guys are! Awesome!
So long as I don't die, we'll finish this thing!
Oh yeah, dig it? Yeah!
Sorry if I'm a few posts behind... Husband is in surgery today and probably won't be able to post again til late tonight or tomorrow... Again, sorry for any delay - feel free to bot me to keep the action moving...thanks.
Sorry if I'm a few posts behind... Husband is in surgery today and probably won't be able to post again til late tonight or tomorrow... Again, sorry for any delay - feel free to bot me to keep the action moving...thanks.
Oh jeez is he ok?
He is now... thanks for asking!
Best wishes to him!
He is now... thanks for asking!
Great! :-)
As you are all well rested all level 2 benefits and powers are available to you and all HP are full. Great idea with the Orc Bloodline there Macho Man! :-)
The plot thickens...
Heh, so it does!
I am really enjoying this one. :-)
So we've gone from the Thing/Invasion, of the body snatchers,nightmare on elmstreet reference to an odd memento/Halloween? What movies will be next?
Just got home from the vet. Had to say goodbye to a dear companion kitty today. I'm a wreck and may or may not post later. Tomorrow morning I leave on a 4 day retreat, so my posting may be spotty if at all during those four days. Please bot me as necessary... sorry and thanks.
Aww sorry for your loss, it's always sad to lose our animal companions.
My condolences as well.
No worries take your time and try to enjoy the retreat.
I will be getting us up and running the next few days. The site being a mess has slowed down my posting considerably.
Yeah I was about to make my post, but not 20 minutes later the power went out for my town. I will have that up.
Yeah I was about to make my post, but not 20 minutes later the power went out for my town. I will have that up.
No worries, the boards have not been working or working horribly slow for me for what feels like forever.
I have plans on Friday and Saturday night so I don't see myself doing any DM updates till Sunday evening.
Turns out I'll update this tomorrow, too tired to ascertain how I want to approach it ATM.
OK, gave us a push post to move us ahead.
RL is still a bit of a mess for me but I am trying to increase updating frequency. Hope you are all still around!
I'm sorry. Who are you and what are you doing on our game postings?
I'm sorry. Who are you and what are you doing on our game postings?
Damn, I thought the amnesia cleared! It appears to be back once more! Just head north and it'll be alright :-)
Oh no, he's smiling. Everyone scatter, travel in the east and always in the east.
Oh no, he's smiling. Everyone scatter, travel in the east and always in the east.
Did I say North? I meant East :-)
Trying and failing to increase posting frequency. Ah well, here I a once more to push us forward again!
Thanks for your patience, life should get better by April/May at the latest.
Perhaps, for everyone sake, we should let this campaign die. If RL gets in the way this much, take care of RL, and maybe we'll meet again on the forums. What does everyone else say?
It's Shadow's final saying on it. To me, with all the heavy-metal and wrestling references in here, how can I not love it? :P
If you're willing to put this on hyatus, count me in when you retake it. If you're willing to go on, count me in.
Don't forget about horror movies Randee. As for the game, I'm fine to stay. Considering the nature of this current game, I find it easy to pick up at at point in time.
Well, I run 30 games here on the Boards and so far I've only last a handful of PCs over the course of the last 4 months from the delays. If you want to withdraw because of the pace I totally understand. However, I'll still be running unless everyone withdraws. I'd certainly like to keep going as this one is quite fun.
By April/May skies should be relatively clear and normal posting will resume.
Yeah, gotta give it to you storyteller. despite the little hickup, your time management skills are impressive. I'm staying for the long haul or until my character gets killed.
My biggest time management problem (outside of trying to handle work/kids/divorce/bankruptcy/pets) is the fact that my need for sleep has increased 33% since I turned 41. I used to operate on 4-5, now I need 6-7, very annoying...
Man, I'm turning 40 next summer. I'm preparing for the worst...
Man, I'm turning 40 next summer. I'm preparing for the worst...
From a physical standpoint there was a difference as well. Before I turned 41 I was squatting 435 for a good 5-7 reps depending on the workout. But I started just getting too damn sore to continue doing it. So it was not a loss of strength but a loss of ability to recover that was hampered. Not even durability, the durability was fine, I can still have an intense workout for an hour, hour plus.
BUT if I do it with really heavy weight, it's 3 to 4 instead of 1 to 2 days to recover.
The need for more sleep and lack of recovery are the two big differences for me. Everything else is the same (well besides life changing events but they are not controlled by age just mere circumstance).
The trade off is I'm probably a bit smarter than I was. I'd say wiser but I learned from my own stupid mistakes not someone elses...
It's unwise to label yourself as wise anyway :P
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”.
Unfortunately, this is one of the games that I will need to close.
As this is an AP, you may be able to find a replacement DM,
Good luck and good gaming all.
Sorry to hear that, I loved this one a lot.
Is there an option where you can put this inactive or something?
Just an FYI folks, I MAY have found a replacement GM for this one, stay tuned for the next few days.
Oh wow, and I was going to turn thral into a "memorial character".
FYI, as Grendl seems to have vanished I could also probably convert to PC from GM assuming my "Benefactor" does pick this one up...