JZ's Carrion Crown - (Wake of the Watcher) (Inactive)

Game Master JamZilla

^That will work for me but Hazel's not too picky - just tell her what she can do to help and she'll do her best to get it done!

In other news, I'm heading out of town later today until Wednesday afternoon. Please bot Hazel if needed and I'll catch back up then!

Sounds good to me!

This is a PSA to all of my active games: I will be unavailable starting this Friday afternoon (the 16th) until next Thursday morning (the 22nd). I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please GMPC me as needed.

Where did we land on loot?

Also, where did that belt of giant strength come from? Vermundr likes to know where his trophies have come from.

The undead monk Acretia

Ah yes, make your loot decisions!

Loot breakdown post

JZ...We teleported to Feldgrau. The plan was then to teleport everyone to Kaz's folk's place in (just outside of ) Caliphas. If everything was good there, Kaz was going to port his family to Lastwall, then back, then we would all leave from Caliphas, which was a lot closer to Thrushmoor.

No problem. How much do you want to play that out? I'll tell you now that your family is safe, have had no interaction with anyone suspicious and received your letters gratefully in the mail.

I don't want to skip it necessarily and it's rich rp material, but equally if you're keen to move on with the story I understand that too.

Let me know your thoughts

Ordinarily, I'd love to play this out, but frankly, I am swamped, exhausted, and still a little under the weather.

I'll try to put up a nice long fluffy post sometime soon, but I ma perfectly OK with doing that as a flashback. If everyone else is OK with it, let's rejoin our heroes on their way from Caliphas to Thrushmoor.

Sorry if that bypasses anything that you had planned. Also, thanks, everyone for letting Kaz hijack things for a bit. Oh, and that bringing back from the dead thing, too.

No worries at all Kaz!

Now, the only worry is that our teleport rolls put us on target. 4 times in a row.

Back from my trip!

Sorry guys, crazy couple of days but hopefully bacm to normal now. Update today

No worries, holiday season gets like that.

Happy Thanksgiving, guys! Or Happy Thursday, if you prefer. Or both, that's cool too :)

I really hope I am not starting Yet Another Fight With Vala here.

I think if it is a fight, Vala’s probably to blame for starting it. =D

Zed is ready to coup de grace the man and move on, but he doesn't want to estrange Constantin if he isn't on board yet.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

At no point did Constantin advocate investigating every single crime that this guy committed. He simply suggested informing local law enforcement, if we decide they can be trusted, so that they can carry out such investigations or at least notify other families who may have lost people to this dude.

I even said I don't care if we execute him, because it's basically just luck that he didn't wind up dead while fighting us!

I am mystified as to why people think that I am saying we should take a lengthy side-journey to chase down every crime this guy committed.

Some quotes from my recent posts:

"That's a job for the constabulary"

"I don't care if we execute him now - his survival is really a fluke given the circumstances"

So, somehow, my track on this got wildly misinterpreted!

Hopefully that clears things up. Carry on!

Ah, yes it seems a number of us were having some misinterpretations about Constantin's position.

Than drop him off at the local law enforcement, give a brief overview of who is he, and be done with it, yes?

Yep!

" but we at least need to make the gesture of closing the loop on his other crimes, for the sake of any other survivors."

"After all, this is not only about us and our crusade. Vrood has impacted many other lives and they, too, deserve better."

I'd read the above, in particular, as an intent to try and tie up all messes left behind by our would-be assassin. My apologies for misreading it.

^That's how I read it too and I also kinda piggybacked off of Vala and Kaz because I wrote my post while tired and at work last night (same as I'm doing now, whee!) - so just ignore her last post. She's good with dropping the guy off at the sheriff's or guard post or wherever.

The intent was that we bring information to the authorities about this guy so they can take care of that.

Basically the thinking is:
* This guy has probably assassinated other people
* Those are unsolved crimes
* We should tell the authorities "hey we found and fought this dude who was a paid assassin, maybe look into your old unsolved murders"
* Alley-oop!

Let's draw a line under this guys, as I will do so in gameplay.

If only I'd switched back to a life spirit instead of bones, I could have just popped that turd with a breath of life! Can you imagine that guy's surprise to think he got away only to pop back a breath later but now without a lower jaw? Talk about regrets.

We're stalling a little bit here. It might be worth you gathering information on those dark riders you keep hearing about.

It's late December, stalls happen are are pretty normal :)

Heh yeah, what Zed said. I've also been busy doing a lot of GM prep for different things on top of working and the usual holiday stuff so I've not been pushing my player games as much as I should. Will try and do a little better :)

Yeah, it's no problem. Just wanted to make sure it was due to the time of year and not because you weren't sure of a lead to follow etc

Just a touching base post to let everybody know I'm here and reading along, Zed has just chosen to stay quiet for this scene.

Woo, I think I'm finally over the worst of my (figurative) holiday hangover and ready to ease back into regular posting again!

That said, I'm not really sure what to do with Hazel at this exact moment - it'll probably depend on what Vala learns from her scrying antics.

Hello all, I've been very busy/stressed with suddenly moving across the country for a new job and don't expect my posting to be fully back for a little bit yet. But I am alive and well and excited to continue!

Happy New Year everyone!

Be getting this back under way with the journey to Illmarsh soon.

Happy New Year, all!
Zed, if you don't mind me asking, where have you landed?

Somewhere in southeastern America :)

Hey, congrats on the new job! I hope you're able to get settled in and back into a good life routine as quickly and painlessly as possible :)

And yes, Happy (Belated) New Year!

I think this sailor's dilemma is pretty far out of Kaz's wheelhouse. Any ideas?

I can lift the old man out with telekinesis and bring him to us, or perhaps Vala could fetch him. The ship, though, I got nuthin'.

Same; I don't know that there's any way to keep it from smashing into the quay barring any magic shenanigans Vala might have up her sleeve.

Well if you can get onto the boat, through fly or teleport or some such, then you might be able to help him pilot it. The boat is far too big for one person to manage

Vala can fly on her own thanks her flight hex and has one single fly spell prepped as well. Heaven's Leap hex would be a quick solution, but I took the Waves spirit rather than Heaven's, so that's not available.

I would guess, too, that the winds would make it difficult to fly out to the boat without ranks in fly, and it looks like Vala's the only one trained in that particular skill. If someone would like to try flying out alongside Vala though, let me know!

I could have prepped control water or control winds, or, heck, both even, but I prepared a lot of violent spells instead in case of another ambush since my scry attempt failed and I was worried I'd tipped them off. =(

womp womp.

D'oh!..lost a post over the weekend, but it was basically a "I'm still here" bit.

I lurk as well :)

My apologies, guys - a lot of life going on, and I have not been at my sharpest here on the boards. I'm going to go back and re-read everything since Kaz and Hazel dies, get up to speed, and I should be posting again by Monday. If Kaz is desperately needed in the next 48 hours, GM, please feel free to NPCbot him.

Thank you all for your patience!

EDIT: Though with that Sense Motive, Zed, you might be all covered...

Sorry guys, had a job interview today and all my mental energy has been focused on prepping for that and then actually doing it so I'm shot right now.

Update tomorrow. Thanks for your patience.

Hey, no worries! Hope you get the job! :)

Good luck, JZ!

Didn't get it.

I'm fine about it.

Honestly.

No it's all good.

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Everyone make a fortitude save vs DC 55 or die!!!!!!

<runs away crying>

Haha in all seriousness I am cool with it, it was a really good experience and I still feel I gave a great interview, just wasn't quite what they were looking for.