I grant wishes. One wish per creature per day. You can wish even when it isn't your turn. Your wish counts as my verbal component and boosts my caster level by 1 for that spell. I can only grant your wishes with spells that I know though so... y'know...try wishing to be bigger or for people to get set on fire.
"Yeah, yeah, fine. I guess I'm travelling into the barbarian lands again. Just want a single week in polite, orderly society but noooooooooo I gotta go babysit somewhere else."
No worries, I was only posting over last weekend to give you guys as much opportunity as possible to learn things about Ravenmoor. I set up a window because, in scenarios past, sandboxy things don't do well on pbp unless the GM can get people to post. I have found that a reasonable deadline is the best carrot/stick to get people to post.
At 12:00 pm central today, your movement around the town will be restricted. People know there are outsiders in town, and will likely notice your presence at or absence from the festival. Though you might have only met a dozen or so people, there are over 130 people living in Ravenmoor.
I know I tend to be more lax with this one, but we need to pick this up. If people don't participate in the festival I will be issuing them failed chronicles. If I have to issue 2 failed chronicles the table falls below the player threshold and I will have to give everyone failed chronicles. Please don't put me in that position.
CORRIN AND DEJAT-IF YOU DO NOT POST BY FRIDAY, MAY 5, YOU WILL BE GIVEN CHRONICLES WITH ZERO GOLD, XP, AND PRESTIGE. If you do not post I will also be talking with the online venture leadership about your pbp futures, as well as options to minimize the damage your unresponsive behavior.
META
Hey peoples--we're pretty much out of the RP side of the scenario. Things are going to move fairly quickly from here on out. I don't mind botting people, but if we can keep a consistent pace we can get all your characters through this within a reasonable time. I don't want to be GMing this into the late summer/fall because people aren't posting in initiative order, and I know you probably want to be able to do more stuff with your characters by summer's end.
It is my understanding that some people have a "if I don't have anything to contribute, I don't have to post" mentality, but this mentality does not serve the play-by-post community when you are in combat situations. I cannot and will not run a module for Dejat and UK alone.
Well this is disappointing. With the player drops and Adoril's pending deployment, I am going to call it quits for this adventure. You've all participated in enough encounters to earn credit for the module, but if you were interested in what was going to develop, I've included the information in a spoiler below.
I will be sending out chronicle sheets this weekend.
Ravenmoor Spoilers:
It turns out that 200 years ago, a cult of Ghlaunder infiltrated Ravenmoor and began to pervert its worship of Desna. A pair of faceless stalkers would pose as anyone sacrificed, acting as them for a time (Leonard Kriegler was sacrificed a few years ago). However, Elias Kyle managed to kill one before being sacrificed himself. This is all detailed in Kriegler's journal (which you would have found if you later searched the manor). What's even more interesting, is that the mayor is conducting these sacrifices to fulfill an oath to Ghlaunder made by his forefathers--if a sacrificed is missed, then Ghlaunder will take the leader of the town. Mayor Kriegler is mostly acting to save his own skin, and when you encounter him and his cultists (who would have been nude and covered in mosquitos), upon defeat, a powerful insect-like aberration bursts from his corpse. That would have been your 'final boss', and it is a nasty encounter. In the end, only about 30 of Ravenmoor's residents were involved with the cult. The remainder are entirely unaware of its existence and are horrified when they learn who they've actually been praying to, and are more than willing to repent. They take up the process of replacing the mayor with a new candidate, Viorec Korzha, and in time, life in Ravenmoor returns to normal.
