Hearts of Darkness: Way of the Wicked

Game Master Celeador

Back from the trip to see the family. Expect a post on the morrow.

Oswald, excellent use of the spell. I will post your results once I have Barnabas's actions due to the fact that the first round of detect magic will only let you determine the presence or absence of magical auras. (there are) as to how many, you will need to continue using the spell into the next round.

Well my friends... I am going away on business. I won't be able to access the pazio forums for a while. I hate how these breaks have upset the tempo of these games. I hate how it has cause it to lose steam. You guys deserve better than this. Thankfully this is my last one and then I can move along to a desk job where I have hours in front of a computer at a time and I can keep it going with more dedication. Please hang tough during this hiatus. I have great things in store for the game.

-Mitra

Celeador and I have worked out an email system for the other games, so hopefully he can slip in a few updates here as well.

Good luck with the trip! And no worries. Hope everyone has had a good start to the New Year.

Morning Guys, I had some things come up. Long story short.. I am back home and have access to the forums. Not sure how long it will last for, but while I am here no need to get e-mail updates. I'll let you guys know if things change.

Sooo....

Do we have an eta on this game coming back online?

Yes, I just found out that I will be having more time / access to a computer than I previously thought. Because of that, I was hesitant to start the game up because I might have to leave again. Expect a post tomorrow.

Well that is exciting!!

Roll call everybody! We've got ourselves a game here!

Here and ready to rock some tentacles!

Fangs for the update.

Kaynen hoists a glass in celebration.

I am waiting to hear from Raging Swan about doing some writing in the near future. If that comes off - I would prefer to step aside for someone more committed.

Will let you know as soon as I do.

Cheers

I'm still here and kicking. I've been waiting to do my post as Dris to see what the status of the game was.

If we do wind up replacing someone (and I'd hate to see that) I totally recommend Jelani (Rasso from our RoW campaign) as he's a super reliable poster and I think he'd dig this.

If you can get Jelani do. He is a great player and DM with some very creative ideas.

Raging Swan and I are in discussions and I'd be happy to step aside for another who can add more to this game. Kergh is a fine character so if he wants to take him over then that's your perogative, AoM.

Cheers

And thats round 2! I'll work up a post and write out what happens with Driss.

Ahem... Is this still on?

It is. Our intrepid DM has had a real life roadblock, but I expect things to resume in the future. I suggest giving him time.

Oh, I have no problem waiting. After all, this is an interesting game. I was just curious is all.

Thanks for chiming in Mikhail.. And I appreciate all of your understanding and patience. My wife and I went through something pretty tough recently that threw a wrench in everything we were planning. In truth its been a struggle to put up posts in any game. It's not that I don't want to. It's the mental factor of stuff weighing me down. That said I am committed to getting all of my games going again. I have been getting some posts up in other games, but not consistently like I have in the past. On the bright side, no more deployments so there's that in the games favor. I don't plan to leave any of you hanging. I just want you to know that we will resume. Same with my Zeitgeist game and anything else I am apart of.

Without going into some specifics, we got some bad news. So I was returned from deployment early. We are going through grief counseling with our priest and things are getting better. At first I couldn't talk about it at all and out of respect, I won't say what happened. At first I didn't want to accept it/talk about it. Alot of days I felt like I was going through the motions. But things are slowly getting better. But the acceptance is starting to come, and it's becoming easier to deal with. So yea, thats what's up. I want you guys to understand where I am coming from, so you don't feel like it's some BS excuse. Please hang tough. Like I said things are starting to even out.

AOM is in my city this week. We are going to hang out and discuss how to best get this game up and running. Good things are a-comin', y'all.

Good luck tomorrow, Robert! I voted for your Superstar adventure.

I spoke to Isaac today, we hashes out some ideas for how to build some momentum and get us back on track.

Kyle came over to the house today and we discussed (among other things) how to kick back into gear. He was firm that he could commit to this game as a GM. One of the things that we discussed was momentum. I've had to stop and restart a few games from time to time, and momentum is important in getting a good start. We discussed the trials and (this is tentative) figured that we could skip to their climax. (We discussed skipping them in their entirety, but he told me what the last one was; I recommended playing out the climax.) We would then level up and finish out the mission to end the first book. I'm totally prepared (and psyched) to start back up again, and I hope you all feel the same way.

Hey guys, I'm alive! Superstar has sucked a lot of life out of me, however, though since I didn't win I won't be saddled with additional work that'll keep me away from my games. I'm going to take the rest of this week to decompress after everything that's gone on, and I'll be back to my normal efficacy on Monday. Sorry for how things have ground to a halt these last couple months, but that's past now!

I'm glad to hear that Kyle's going to kick things back into gear. I'm totally ready to get rolling again now that I don't have the specter of RPGSS looming overhead.

Excellent, as an addendum, I've realize that I over committed myself to pbp's and plan to quit a few php's that I'm not active in order to concentrate more on the more indepth ones. Six months ago my access and time was far less restricted than it is now. Thank you all for your steadfast determination to help me maintain this game.

Barnabas is ready as ever.

You might want to PM people to take a roll call, since new posts might not be showing for them.

Good suggestion!

Zzzzzz....

Did someone say they needed something ignited?

Lucid, Kherg, and Oswald I wanted to follow up. Kergh, you mentioned that you might not be re-joining us so I wanted to find out where you stood. Lucid, I know you ended several of your campaigns and I wanted to know if Drisella was still apart of the group. Oswald, I just wanted to make sure you are still here as well. Let me know as I am planning to start a long post to bring us back upto speed.

Still about and waiting on things to start up again.

This is easily one of the most challenging games I have played in. Kherg is well developed - as are so many of the other PCs.

The sporadic nature of the game has effected my enjoyment of playing Kherg though. I enjoy playing, not waiting. But that isn't enough to stop me wanting to play with you guys. Its understandable when real life gets in the way of me too.

Kherg's in.

How much time do we have left? We had just over twenty-four hours to retrieve the pendant of silver and sapphire.

Lets say, eh.. 8 hours. Enough for spells to be refreshed.

Presumably, Kergh was able to heal our wounds with infernal healing and channel negative (in Mikhail's case).

How does 5 charges of infernal healing and 2 channels used so far?

One charge would top off Barnabas.

EDIT that last post should finish "......sound" I am guessing that all those intervening chambers cost us something.

Cheers and good to be posting again.

I'm definitely here for the long-term. I'm pretty committed to this campaign for the time being. I'm working on a post right now.

I'll write the reading up tomorrow. I have it all planned out, but I wanted Mikhail a chance to adjust his question if he so wished based on the diplomacy check.

Working on a Super long post, about halfway done. I hope you guys are going to like it. Zzzzz

Mulling some ideas around for Fanguar's question...

So Kaynen and Ethaniel are the only ones to not make a decision one way or another.

Great posts.

While I as a player would totally do it, upon reflection I think that despite his curiosity, Kaynen sees the reading as more entertainment than useful reconnaissance and is far too psychotic and paranoid to accept an unknown geas.

Ethaniel is thinking about it, truth be told. However, I am torn between having him ask about his adopted father or his strange sword. Leaning towards the latter frankly, seeing as how he is rather obsessed with the damned thing.

Evening guys, is there anyone else who is going to have a reading? I can move us along in the next post. Gaugeing interest before we go to the last "lesson". Castor, let me know or make a post in game. Right now my weekdays are best for posting.

P. S. Barnabas, I'll tell you now that The basic DC for any information was Knowledge Local, DC 20, next post I'll write up what you know. It won't be everything, but it will still advance your story.

Kergh is done here. Fun reading how bad things are getting so I don't want to add to the pain and misery.

So as you've likely noticed it's been over a week since I've said so much as a peep in here. The last week or so has been rather busy for me as I took on a new project at work, and that's going to be ongoing for at least the rest of the year. I haven't had any time to devote to keeping up with my PbPs, be it as a GM or player.

I think, right now, I'm going to have to take some time off from all of my PbPs to try and focus on my RL commitments. I know that's kind of craptastic, and I totally agree. I don't have a firm schedule of when I'll have more time available, either, which is even more craptastic.

So, until I'm able to say otherwise, I'm going to have to put all my PbP activity (which include running anything) on hiatus, which... is kind of the last thing I wanted to do. But at the moment it's really the only choice I have.

I'll understand if you need to find a quick and permanent exit for my character, as this is kinda' out of left field. When I have time again, I'll circle back around and see where things are and if there's still a place for me. I just... don't know when that will be :\