GM Kiora's Wrath of the Righteous

Game Master Kiora Atua

Wow. Things went fast while I was out.

Miss Kiora-lady... you need to put your dice in a microwave. :|

ill roll max for badguy dice and min for goodguy dice all i want D:

:P It's K. 1/36 ain't bad. For the nom-monster. :|

Now's a good time to reveal that Ary is actually Iomedae in disguise :p

I wish I could loan Ary my killing die, Lleuad seems to have inherited a measure of its power, but I used to have a die that would always roll and confirm a natural 20 when attacking a boss or in dire situations. My dwarf priest even one-hit killed a demon big-bad once, much to the consternation of our GM :P

Anyway, no dying! or Fen'wen is gonna totally have to come over there and do... umm... something worse than death that... erm... only she can do? (I'm guessing it's a bluff)

Ary will be fine. Or she'll get nommed. I'm not really sure, to be honest :P

Thanks for the heal, Hrut! I was kind of skeptical that anybody in the party could heal me at all. Still, Markus wouldn't back down from a deadly encounter with other lives on the line.

Yeah it's a small amount but for you sometimes it is just enough to decrease the wounding penalties. Wish I didn't barely miss 2x also, would have made the fight easier.

I should probably get around to actually reading the info on Hrut's class. He keeps pulling out all of these fancy tricks that I don't know the workings of. @_@

I know, I'm terrible.

He hits things so hard that other people get better. It's Magic!

I've looked over the class on d20pfsrd a couple times, but I haven't really learned terribly much beyond that and that he has an AoE AC buff. But then I'm just a simple rogue; my knowledge is limited to lying, sneaking, and determining the pointiest end of a stick and where best to shove it.

Short version: PoW characters are martial characters with very small spell lists. Each class has several traditions they can follow, and you can trait or feat for more options. Traditions are like spell schools, but slightly different.

Hrut uses Silver Crane (Mostly healing; it's the 'good' aligned tradition), Broken Blade (Unarmed Specialty), and Golden Lion (Mostly buffs and team stuff). He may have other options, but I haven't paid careful attention. :o

Hrut also has Veiled Moon, a supernatural discipline that is very roguely (stealth, teleportation effects, very good against incorporeal creatures) that is meant to reflect creepy-weird powers he gained after being possessed by a demon as a child. He mostly has used Disturbing Strike from that discipline to apply a -4 to next target d20 roll.

He also has Iron Tortoise - but I don't think he has ever actually readied his Iron Tortroise maneuver (which lets him captain america his shield about)

Busy day, updating right now.

Wow I'm so popular! That's the just of it mostly, they also reset each combat so they arnt "used up", I was a huge fan of the bot9s from 3.5, also I like the mental anime style of the pathfinder cartoon in my head with it. I would say my class is very good martial class with versatility, which I enjoy, but no where near a full or even partial caster once they get going. Just wait til I can teleport >:)

Added Garil and Crocris' HP to the campaign tab... y'know...in case you care about em ;p

Garil's got a name now and is actually fighting, so he's moved up to at least Horgus-level. And Horgus has moved up from Horgus-level by showing he has a heart!

What's this? Horgus is evolving!

Back on the topic of Hrut, I've gotta say that a teleporting Hrut is a scary idea. It'll be as if Hercules and Nightcrawler had a baby. :P

To-Do List:

-Talk about druid stuff with Crocris

Rofl, wtf@that picture.

To-Do List #2:

- Remember his name is Crocris not Crocsis D:

I admit to NOTHING!

Hey Valaria - you are actually 20' away from the rearguard battlemap. Hurray!

(forgot running is 4x speed, I was thinking 3x cause that was chalebs but he was wearing heavy armor :p)

I don't wanna get up; I wanna stay asleep in my bed...

:( Have to go to work, though.

Don't make me do itttttt.

Also, lots of glorious sleep last night. Unfortunately, it didn't put a dent in my amount of tired. :(

*Whines more*

I didn't get glorious sleep last night, although that was mostly because I kept not going to sleep. Also my body has decided that what I really want is to wake up as soon as there's any sort of light in the sky, even if that's 6am. *grumble*

Oh my goodness. That is precisely how my sleep patterns have been for the last month. It doesn't matter what I want, the latest I have managed to sleep in over a month was 8 am. And the time I go to sleep doesn't matter. One day I was up until 5am. I woke up at 6:30 and could not go back to sleep. I've even put a blanket over my blinds and curtains, and my circadian rhythms remain strong. :(:(

I feel your pain! Isn't it terrible? I want back my ability to sleep until noon! :P

The other day, I managed to sleep until 5am. I stayed up for like three hours, and then managed to nap until noon. It was the best day of my life!

I can sleep on command basically anywhere at any time so I can't really empathize ;D

I generally run on 5 hrs of sleep (from midnight to 5am) though and I rarely drink coffee :0 I gained sleepless superpowers in grad school.

I couldn't do what Hrut was talking about earlier, like 8 hrs across 3 days? That's beyond my powa.

I can go about 48 hours with no or limited (like 1 hr or 2 hr) sleep before it starts to suck. No, I don't go to work on that little sleep, that'd be dangerous for my patients D: - but that was basically how finals were back in grad school.

I used to do that all the time. Go days with minimal sleep... now I just can't.

*Hugs*, Ary!

Here's my terrible sleep depriviation story. The effects have mostly passed now, but I think it was almost a decade before I recovered the ability to stay up even for gaming.

Damn Li'an, that's intense!

I'm glad you survived that and didn't wreck your car commuting or something (assuming you don't public transit)

I didn't commute at the time, I telecommuted. Sounds great, but for a project like that it basically turned my apartment into a prison. I literally lived inside my room for the whole month with trips to the front door to pay the pizza guy :P

@Li'an: I can see why that'd cause a nervous breakdown, yeah. Sheesh. I couldn't come close to doing something like that.

And yeah... I don't think I'll ever accept bringing my work home as a thing. I need my security.

Ary: Yeah, looking back I'm not even sure how I made it through. There's no job in the world that pays well enough to justify that kind of toll on your body and mind. What's really hilarious is that my boss's boss sent me a $50 Best Buy gift card with a thank you note at the end of the project. I laughed so hard I almost cried when I saw that.

Yup, I don't bring work home anymore at all unless it's an emergency, and then only the bare minimum to get it out of the way. :p

Hahaha, gift card? Wow. That's almost mean.

I don't really get an option out of bringing work home - but on the bright side I get a lot of autonomy as to how and when I do my work, I am compensated well, and I legit enjoy helping people when I get a chance to :)

It's not hard to stay up all night working on a case to try and crack why someone is having some freaky weird side effect when there's an actual person who will benefit from that work.

Like a year-ish ago we had a patient who had an anaphylactic reaction to a flu shot, after having gotten the flu shot for like a decade safely. The patient was pretty weirded out because they had a good handle on what they were and weren't allergic to and they do a good job of avoiding triggers.

Anyway I figured out the culprit was that they had a latex allergy and the pharmacy they went to for their flu shot switched brands from Fluarix to Fluvirin - the latter of which uses latex in their pre-filled syringes. I felt like g@* d%$n Sherlock Holmes '-'

I don't really know that I can relate to you guys. I got awakeness superpowers like you mention but I haven't had to go all-out and wreck myself yet, so I guess I just count myself relatively fortunate.

On the other hand, I'm still younger than all of you, so I've got time to wreck myself.

Super top-secret actions for this round. I can't confirm that it consists entirely of running, but I will say that it's *highly* likely that it consists of nothing but running. :p

I suspect you'd get in trouble if you started taking patients home ;)

Solving problems like that is fun, and that's a pretty cool that you managed to figure that out!

I've decided that enjoying my work is my main priority, and I do enjoy it, so I'm happy. Also I get to walk to work every day, which I love as well.

Edit: Markus: My 20-year old self wouldn't have related to myself 3-4 years later when I had that insanity either, much less me now. At least in respect to work, anyway. Gaming on the other hand is the one ring that binds us all :P

@Kiora-lady: I'll try low sodium, high potassium. Probably. It really depends on how successful I am in finding resources and how expensive and needy it is to maintain. I like bananas, so I got that going for me. :p

Edit: Markus: My 20-year old self wouldn't have related to myself 3-4 years later when I had that insanity either, much less me now. At least in respect to work, anyway. Gaming on the other hand is the one ring that binds us all :P

Hahaha...

I am like literally the opposite person of who I was when I was younger, especially when I was a teenager haha.

Shameful confession time: When I was 16, there was this guy, he had the most ginormous crush on me, and did a piss poor job of hiding it.

At one point he managed to steel himself up and asked me out on a date to some movie - I said no - and my main reason for not considering him was because he openly played Dungeons & Dragons and that made him an unspeakable mega-nerd of undateableness.

In any case his ice-breaker of choice to try and warm himself up to asking me out was showing off his dice collection, of which he was quite proud. He had a lot of different colors and styles, including a fancy dice tower for rolling them.

Anyway I had to go all hardcore with it, made fun of him mercilessly to my friends, stole his dice collection from his locker, and made a really mean, mocking set of edited images about his dice collection and distributed them on Myspace, like someone from the damn Mean Girls movie. (yeah I returned his dice.)

I was horrible >_> So naturally, a little over a decade later, I spend most of my freetime playing tabletop RPGs.

tl'dr - cyber-bullied a guy because he played d&d, the fates are ironic

Oh my god, you were a monster. :|

To be fair, though... there's a high probability that culture caused you to do that. A decade ago (Less for you) was a very different world. I was also ostracized for the things I enjoyed. It kind of creates a feedback loop, to make matters worse. When people are stung for the things they love, they stop sharing the things they love. :(

Did you ever apologize? :o

I was mostly nice to everyone unless they'd ever been mean to anyone I cared about besides me. Then grudges were formed. :| Grudges with teeth. :|

Nah, I was just an insensitive b+#$* :p

I didn't grow the hell up until like... college or so? And I started being exposed to a lot of different people and their different interests. And eventually I got to the point where I realized judging people based on what they do in their freetime is hella stupid.

I never apologized. Sometimes I think about trying to find him through facebook or something and saying that I'm sorry and that we should get together and play Munchkin or something. But I don't know how that will come across so I chicken out :(

If any of you were bullied by b+!%#es like me, would you respond well to something like that?

If any of you were bullied by b#++#es like me, would you respond well to something like that?

Personally, I have a very calm and chill philosophy about how to live life, and I am always very flattered when somebody thinks of me. If someone from my past were to tell me they realized they used to mistreat me, I would be happy to receive that message. I probably wouldn't start any sort of friendship with that person, but it would make me feel good.

All the bullies I dealt with were jock assh*les who'd never admit they were wrong, much less start enjoying the same things I do.

But if a blue moon occurred on Friday the 13th during an eclipse and the gods decreed that they learn their lesson, I'd probably accept the apology, but not really be willing to actually game with them. I mean, it would be nice to know they finally got it and were sorry, but I doubt that I'd entirely let it go.

What Markus said. I don't feel comfortable just adding people to my life, but I've made attempts to apologize for sleights.

Also, I think 'what people do in their free time' is really the only thing you -can- judge someone for without being a weirdo. Then again... most of my friends from highschool became (or stayed) stoners. Or left town. :P So I feel strangely vindicated in saying that. :)

For me it was mostly what is dubbed as 'rednecks'. I think there was a legitimate problem in vocabulary; I never learned to talk like a southerner and for the life of me didn't understand a lot of what was said. :P

I also did have a bit of a chip on my shoulder about being 'smart'. Whatever that means, really.

Yeah, basically, you guys are reflecting what I've already thought haha.

On the plus side, he'd probably feel good that this random girl from high school, whom he probably doesn't think of at all, has been thinking about him all this time. The memory of him showing off his dice collection to me has crystallized in my brain for some reason, I can remember it really vividly. He was so happy to just be talking to me :|

On the negative side, it'd probably come across as mostly for me. I'm sure he's grown up into a successful adult and probably has a family and career - he shouldn't need a self-esteem boost at this point - the apology would basically be for me and that's... selfish.

Also - it's a weird conversation to start. "Hey, this is Paula, y'know, that girl who made your high school life a living hell? Possibly the first girl to crush your heart? Just wanted to let you know I'm totally different now and am sorry about all the horrible things I said about you! I'm even obsessed with d20 games now! :D Who woulda thunk?"

Okay I wouldn't say that but it'd basically be the jist of it >_>

UGH sorry guys your GM was secretly a horrible person. :(...

My interactions at that age with girls essentially boiled down to me being oblivious. The couple times I got shot down they were polite about it thankfully.

I dealt with a few asshats in HS, but none really qualified as what I'd consider a bully. I dealt with a few when I was younger, but I have one of those slow-fuse big-explosion tempers, so I'd inevitably get fed up and escalate it to a fight at that point. Given that fist-fights ended the harassment, I'm guessing they weren't terribly serious bullies either. :P

I'm the same way about adding people. If someone wants to apologize that's fine. It costs me nothing to accept their apology, and obviously if they're offering it after all these years it's something that's important to them. But beyond that I've barely got enough time for the friends I do have without adding more to the list.

Also I think it's ok for that to be one-sided. Maybe they've forgotten, but my guess is that it's buried down there somewhere, even if they're over it. If they really are, then either the apology doesn't matter, at which point there's no reason not to accept it, or they'll appreciate it. If they aren't over it, either it'll give them a little bit of peace, or they'll be a dick about it, which means that you're being the better person today, even if you weren't then.

Also your GM dice gave you away, they're a bit monster-y ;)

We <3 our GM nevertheless!

The secret is: Everyone is a horrible person. But they aren't all the time.

I dealt with a few asshats in HS, but none really qualified as what I'd consider a bully. I dealt with a few when I was younger, but I have one of those slow-fuse big-explosion tempers, so I'd inevitably get fed up and escalate it to a fight at that point. Given that fist-fights ended the harassment, I'm guessing they weren't terribly serious bullies either. :P

I uh, was never really mean to his face. Or to anyone's face really. My evilness manifested in a lot of cruel gossip behind people's backs (which probably made its way back to the subject), stuff on Myspace, etc.

When he was asking me out I let him down gently. And I politely listened to his rambling about his dice. In particular, I asked him what his biggest dice was and his smallest dice. He explained to me how to read a d4. I am cursed to remember the details of that conversation a decade later :(

... I had female friends who were willing to be cruel to people in their faces though. I was far from the queen bee of b#$%~ery haha.

Er... not that I wasn't mean. I'm not gonna repeat the stuff that I said about him when he started his fantasy LARP club - that was really mean :x

We <3 our GM nevertheless!

Aw, that means a lot. :3 I've gone and made myself all bummed thinking about this crap.

Meh, I deserve it. Probably doesn't compare to how he felt when he saw those pictures on Myspace >_>