Hey folks! Just want to apologize to my tables for being somewhat absent this week—I was impromptu hijacked for the UK Games Expo.
Also—No! No lergy allowed! [/casts Remove Disease]
Site's been dodgy as all get-out lately, and always when I'm available. It's up right now, but it's quarter to three in the morning. I'll keep trying tomorrow, but if you're waiting on me, don't. I haven't been able to get more than a few minutes of working site time a day for over a week now.
I haven't been able to post for three days...until today. Seems stable at the moment however!
*knocking on wood*
Don't jinx it :p
Wonkiness abound the last few days.
Aye, been very instable beginning of the week.
I am ill. And supposed to be in bedrest. I decided to check boards regardless, but posting may be spotty until I'm better, so if I take too long to post or fail to do so, feel free to bot me.
Hey folks. Dropping this quick line to all of my games:
You may or may not have heard of the recent Grenfell Tower disaster that occurred in London earlier this week. While I am eternally grateful to not count myself among its victims, without going into explicit detail, let it be known that my present circumstances have changed substantially as a result.
While I suspect that things will calm down over the coming few days, please feel free to bot/exempt me as necessary in order to keep proceedings moving.
Eternally apologetic and grateful,
- Hourai.
Hej. Feeling fine again. Got worse before it got better.
Plus, once I was feeling a bit less ill, I had the bright idea of working on updating my computer system while I was home anyway, which caused some further problems with being able to go online.
Either way, I'm back now and will catch up with all my games plus post today(within about 12 hours). Apologies for going missing. I did update some of my games when I originally fell ill, but not all - assuming I could post somewhat normally for those not moving at too fast a pace.
@Hourai: Sorry to hear about you being somehow affected by that disaster. I would offer more kind words, but I don't mean to ask for detail, so all I can genuinely say is that I hope things get better again soon, if they can.
So...are we waiting on something? I can't go until after the Gremlins do it seems.
I'm waiting on Rasellia and Sylvester to post attacks or responses, You're free to post a "planned" action in the meantime. I'll give them another day before we move on.
Hey folks. Dropping this quick line to all of my games:
You may or may not have heard of the recent Grenfell Tower disaster that occurred in London earlier this week. While I am eternally grateful to not count myself among its victims, without going into explicit detail, let it be known that my present circumstances have changed substantially as a result.
While I suspect that things will calm down over the coming few days, please feel free to bot/exempt me as necessary in order to keep proceedings moving.
Eternally apologetic and grateful,
- Hourai.
Sorry to hear that Hali. Read this when I was at work and didn't have the capacity to reply. Thoughts are with you and hope everything works out all right.
Sorry, DM. The initiative order you posted didn't make it clear whose turn it actually was. You posted it as "Basil, Silvester, Rasellia, Gremlins Hali, Gauntlet, Ember", but then Ember posted, and it wasn't clear whether there was a surprise round, and between financial stress and a bad cold, it slipped my mind entirely.
Sorry, DM. The initiative order you posted didn't make it clear whose turn it actually was. You posted it as "Basil, Silvester, Rasellia, Gremlins Hali, Gauntlet, Ember", but then Ember posted, and it wasn't clear whether there was a surprise round, and between financial stress and a bad cold, it slipped my mind entirely.
No worries. I don't mind players posting "readied actions" and she did post before I got the initiative up. I probably should have made it clear who exactly was supposed to act as well.
I don't wanna bypass half the party in the middle of combat, so I'll wait a couple more days.
Understandable.
Maybe our Australians could pop in to give a short update on their status?
Hali did state she may be inconsistent for a while.
No idea about Joy, but an alias posted last Friday.
Can't talk for Silvester but I just got caught up in a busy but productive week. Sorry once again.
So did the gremlins actually move or not? On the map, they look to be in the same positions. And do they have hide in plain sight? o_O
My guess, since none of us were attacked, but we got to make attacks of opportunity, is that they scattered, moving away(with their move action), getting to cover and trying to stealth there(with their standard action).
Their regular attack damage would diminish down to 1 point of nonlethal. They NEED the sneak attack to actually have a chance to hurt people. If they can't flank, they need to employ hit&run-tactics, using one round to move in and strike, then the next to run and hide again.
Or, that's my interpretation from events.
In that case, map is not up-to-date, but since we could make a perception check to find and attack one, I think in this specific case it's harder to make a proper representation on the map.
I'm fully in favor of using the map, but for this tactic, theater of the mind may be the superior choice.
Basil, I appreciate the input, but I'd really prefer to wait and get an answer from Default on this.
Aye. Of course, GM input is the final word.
I simply was not clear on wether you were unsure what happened, or in doubt about what you think is going on.
In the former case, providing the scenario could serve to make things easier on the GM, since you could assume my explanation to make sense, and post.
In the latter case, if your own idea matches mine, that may provide enough confidence to believe its true.
In both cases, there was a chance further input by GM would not be necessary - or, as now, a chance that is is(e.g. if our perceived scenarios don't match up, or you find fault with my explanation)
I was unsure which it was, but acted myself based on the scenario I provided above since it was the only one that made sense to me.
Did not mean to be a busybody, please don't misunderstand.
(e.g. if they HAD hide in plain sight, they would have hid first, THEN moved...not move and provoke attacks, then hide. That should come natural, not require tactical thinking on their part.)
They don't have hide in plain sight, worry not.
The gremlins did "flee" in a sense, they are hiding within the caverns they appeared in, and they will try and retreat later or keep attacking. But to give you all an idea of how many gremlins are in your specific areas, I decided to leave the tokens where they were and give them a little ninja symbol to indicate their 'hidden' state. There's not a lot of room in this map, so putting the enemies in the walls may have been confusing.
Sorry if my mapping was confusing (also a reason I was considering discontinuing it or finding a better solution).
So as the combat stands, you can make perception checks to try and locate the little buggers, if you point one out it is immediately revealed to the rest of the party.
Any other questions? Had a busy day yesterday but I try to limit my absence to at least every other day. On the rare occasion, two days.
Thanks for trying to chime in Basil. Unfortunately, I'm usually at what is approximately 2:30 am for me, or I would have put forward an explanation.
bump
Hali? Ember? Silvester?
I know Silvesters "El Ronza" posted Friday.
Ember's "Almathea" posted yesterday.
Only Hali seems to have been inactive since the Grenfell tower incident, with that last update from middle of June.
It would be nice to know whats going on...or if GM knows more from PM's, if he could let us know whats the situation, since half the group had their last gameplay posts over 3 weeks ago - I would hate to see this turn inactive as I had a good time so far.
(That said, if there are issues that prevent others from having fun, now would probably be a good time to voice them so they can be addressed.)
Im here.
=)
I sent messages out to Ember and Silvester last Friday I believe.
Hali, I'm giving a somewhat indefinite excused absence with the incident she mentioned.
It might continue at the slow pace for another week as more information is introduced. I don't plan on ending the game currently, so in the case where players might decide to leave, I'll hold a re-recruitment.
Though, I do hope it's just an odd case of scheduling, real life, or something perfectly understandable.
I'll update the discussion thread with news if I get it.
Thank you, GM, status update => much appreciated.
I've sent some additional messages out.
Hopefully we will begin moving forward within the next three days.
Alright, long awaited update so here we go.
I've heard back from Silvester who has decided to withdraw from the game due to a mix of reasons, which I believe are reasonable. Assuming Ember does not respond within the day, I will be dropping her from the game.
Hali has a pass until I hear otherwise, and will be put in the *nebulous limbo* until she returns or doesn't.
Rasellia, you and Silvester entered the game as a pair, and your backstories are linked as well. I'm not sure if you'd like to continue the game when they have dropped out, but will understand if you'd like to withdraw.
Moving Forward
I'm going to be holding a re-recruitment with the aim of getting the party up to at least 5 players. If Keldor and Basil would still like to continue of course.
Let me know your thoughts.
First of all: I would like to continue, yes.
I do wonder about the "mix of reasons", admittedly. Of a personal, non-game related nature that is none of my business?(If so, disregard my wondering) - Or did you formulate it ambigious on purpose?
Because if there are in-game reasons, even if there's no desire to sort things out and continue, we should probably address problems.
I bring that up because after his last question, I felt that maybe I came across as a busybody when he was looking for GM input...
I may have been, as his activity already seemed sporadic, and I hoped a quick answer, if satisfying, would have allowed him to post before being gone again for a few days.
But I'm now worried that it achieved the opposite and established myself as a undesirable co-player in his mind. Also before, when I "shot" him(while explaining I would not normally do so)...
I dunno, call it a gut feeling or insecurity.
But if you want me(or Keldor, I guess) to change something about the way we approach the game or do things, I suppose now is the time - so if I messed up so far, do tell.
While I'm not going to post our messaging, I will relay that the reason to withdraw was due to a mix of personal life, and not having enough interest to continue. There was no mention of any of the current players being at fault.
In the future, please do refrain from shooting at players though ;)
I'm IN. Always. I want to see where this AP goes and where my character comes out in it! =)
Thanks for sticking with it DM Default.
Let me know when you set up the recruitment? I can then direct a few (PC) friends from other PBP games in this general direction.
I am sorry to see Ember go however...if she does. She's funny and a great PC for this game IMHO. I'm hoping Hali sticks with it too!
If you want any input on new players, let us know.
I will try and not shoot people unless necessary.
Sorry for having been nosy. But I tend to...overanalyze if I feel I may have made a mistake and then something bad happens.
That said, I'll have a very busy month at work coming up, so I'm not sure how much time I can spend checking potential replacements. I will try and provide some feedback on a narrowed-down list, of course!
I'll create a re-recruitment sometime in the next couple days (yay 12 hour shifts...), until then, I guess we're on a bit of a break.
Yeah, unfortunately I think I will drop out. University has been taking up quite a lot of my time recently so I haven't been able to be as active in any of my games (PBP or physical) as I would like. So perhaps it's best for me to take this chance to give myself a bit of extra breathing room.
Rasellia and Silvester are pretty closely linked so perhaps they both realize that they're not quite up for adventuring?
I was enjoying the game and wish you all the best continuing it.
We'll have a new group sometime this week. Just a heads up.
Awesome!
Great! Just saw the recruitment thread. Looking good!
And looking forward to continuing. Should we "proceed" with an in-game reasoning to return to our home base?
Suggestion: Maybe Rasellia and Ember get hurt seriously and we manage to stabilize them but can't heal them, and decide to evacuate and try again tomorrow?(With Rasellia nearly dying, that would explain Silvester staying with her(and them deciding this is not what they came for), and with Ember nearly dying, Hali would have a reason for extended care...with the option of returning once Ember died(or recovered and left *shrug*)).
I mean, we'll want to pick up the new guys, right? ;) Or will that just happen in a compressed GM-post?
Hello new folks and old folks.
Currently, our remaining duo is still delving in the caverns, but as they are weakened and a good majority of the team is gone, we'll proceed with the following.
Basil and Keldor (Gauntlet) will return to the bar which is their home base, bidding farewell to their former party members ho have taken quite the hit.
Our new folks have already met up with each other and have caught word there is a team with that share their goals. Acting on this information, they go to the bar and introductions can then take place.
Thoughts? Also, new folks announce your presence.
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a young sylph woman with grey skin and purple black hair stays seated while talking with the bar keep about new things she might be able to learn to run the business her and her older sister run "Fatalis Mortis" she seems to be a bit on the shorter side, and quick with her fingers, but when those who look away don't seem to notice her for a while
Hello all!
I just want to confirm that this thread (discussion) is all out of character. But the Gameplay thread is for in game, such as in character introductions, correct?
Sounds good to me, I will throw something into the Gameplay thread.
Side note: This is my first PbP game, so if I get formatting wrong just let me know. I will take any constructive criticism very well.
An attractive and immaculately dressed Halfling sits in the bar, an exquisitely carved walking stick leaning against the table to his left. He is chatting with the other new members of the group.
Hi all.
@Tathaniise...is you sister "innards of death" and you run the inn "deadly of death" or "predestined annihiliation"? *smile* I'm glad you are not a clan of dhampir necromancers ^_^ more serious though, my latin does not cover tathaniise unless it's supposed to be derived from euthanise? Help me out there if there is a reference I've been missing??
Been wanting to play a Sylph for a good while now, looking forward to some more inspiration!
@Harg: You got that right. This thread is for out-of-character chat, announcing when you'll be gone for a while, non-game-related topics, clarifications, stuff like leveling up or mechanical reasoning for proposed actions...anything that does not relate to the gameplay/story, really...there's ooc tags for in-game use, for small things or questions to gm, but the other stuff goes here. You'll quickly get the hang of it.
The general consensus of formatting is as follows:"Bold text with "'s indicates direct speech", while italic text represents inner monologue/thoughts. There's some variation on things like telepathy, but they don't come up often. Some people like to do or whispering via tags as well.
For conditional actions, spoilers work well. But no worries, as said, by simply mimicking what others do it will become natural pretty fast.
@Kell: Still haven't gotten around to really see the Occult classes in action, nor really look deeper into them. But then, Basil has no idea either, so that'll work out perfectly and I can marvel at the things you do without feigning surprise ^_^
@all: looking forward to getting to play again, and hope you'll all have fun!
I'm in a few of DM Default's games, so I know he's a good GM.
I will tell you that the archetype of occultist that I took makes them work a bit differently than the standard Occultist. For example, I cast Arcane spells instead of Psychic spells.
hey guys! thanks for picking me DM! Looking forward to it
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@Basil.....Tathaniise I used the name from actually the Fae language - Ta'Thani'ise which to them rough translates to "The Total Quiet" and yes Mortis is mostly phrased for Mortality. Viscera Mortis was actually short for Visceral Mortis or Visceral Mortality, and the bar is a bastardized translation Fatal Mortality. These are not their real names, they adopted them when they saw how they would be treated, Viscera looks like a Drow, and her sister looks like a Half Drow so they figured it would be appropriate
@Basil Thanks for the primer! I will do my best.
@Kill Just like Basil, I know very little about the Occultist. Harg knows very little about other types of magic, other than his "homebrew" style magic. Going to be fun not knowing what the heck is going on in character too!
Full disclosure to everyone, my wife is due to give birth any second (her due date was the 11th). It's our first child.
That being said, it should not affect my ability to come and read and post. I will have plenty of time during naps and such to jump on and play. Going to use it as a touchstone to the real world (though playing in an imaginary one) while I am learning to keep a tiny human alive.
At first I didn't think it was something I should share, because I don't think it will affect anything. But I figured I should mention it, if in the next few days I disappear for a day.
Congrats, Harg! And good luck. I have several of my own and, man, they can take it out of you...
Thanks! We are very excited. We are very ready. Luckily coming on to a forum to role-play does not take TOO much energy.
This is the discussion thread, as mentioned, and mostly for out of character discussion.
Congrats Harg, not at that stage of my life yet, but hope to be eventually.
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Yes, keep breeding so I won't have to.