KC's Age of Worms

Game Master Kobold Catgirl

It's Christmas here as well today. Yay for living in the future. Merry Christmas (^_^)

I'm definitely one who pays less attention to the finer points of what's going on, but for me that's part of roleplaying being dumb. If I actually applied myself fully to solving the group's problems and directing its actions, Cuetzpalli would not have 8 int.

I do feel like I understand what's going on at this point. We need to meet Lashonna; only apparent way to get to her without more trouble is the dinner. Once we meet with her we find out what we can about Bucknard, then try to go find him, right? Am I missing anything important?

I guess we also want to get Zal out of the pokey if possible before we leave.

As for dinner prep, we hired crazy lady with lots of kids to make us clothes and Eben as fashion advisor...not sure what other prep there is to make really...

I’m definitely guilty of being a little lost at this point.

I understand we’re waiting to attend Zeech’s party so we can meet with our contact. It’s some of the subplots that I’ve lost track of.

1) What was our plan for freeing Zalamandra from her hostage scenario?

2) What was our plan for getting back into the basement where we gave her up?

3) Who was the playwrite we met with and what was her importance? From what I gathered she was trying to get the party’s help with some kind of rebellion. Did I misread that whole scene?

4) Who were the goblinoids that Astraden and Farrukh met on the docks?

5) Who were the Hextorians that were interested in the party while they were at the rundown Kord temple? What was their importance?

I recall originally thinking that last point was something that Tanith was supposed to investigate further.

1) Dunno

2) Don't think we're doing that, or we already did it.

3) Miomay, she's writing a play about us apparently and might be able to help us at the dinner. At least that's what I got, I might be missing some of the subtext there.

4) Dunno

5) Probably worked for the secret police and were keeping an eye on us.

I might have just revealed how badly I have been paying attention, but I'm pretty sure that's at least half right.

I think we could want help to run interference/act as wingmen during the ball, which is maybe what Miomay is offering. We won't know until KC gets back, though.

I don't think we have a plan for freeing Zalamandra yet, other than "staying in town until the ball." But we should probably figure out how we're going to get her out during/after said event.

I thought there was some sort of ransom we had to pay if we wanted to get Zalamandra out of the aerie...

Oh, yeah, I was thinking we just try to break her out when we presumably see her there.

Happy birthday, KC!

Happy belated birthday! Didn't see this yesterday. Hope it was a great one!

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday to the kobold!

As far as Tanith's questions go-

1- There isn't a formal plan to free Zalamandra, yet. The angels said when they took her that they'd be in touch, presumably with release conditions, so 'waiting it out' is a possibility. Other possibilities include seeing if we can get a favor at the ball, either from Lashonna or maybe Zeech himself, or if all else fails, we burn the aerie to the ground with holy fire and call it a day.

2- There aren't currently plans on the table to get back into the mystery cellar. I'd like to, I feel like there must be something worthwhile if the angels are so adamant about it being off limits, but given that these ladies are tough to stealth around and they're holding one of our own hostage, it might be better to wait until problem # 1 is resolved before planning another crawl into the cellar.

3- Jury's still out on Miomay, though it does seem like she's floating the possibility of having us stage a revolution.

4- the barfull of goblins may or may not be a side plot- Astraden was looking for work, or something? And got directed to the bar, where we subsequently got the fun poisoning treatment.

5- there hasn't been any followup on the Hextorians yet, but it's likely they're just one of the many floating levels of menace this charming town provides. Though they seemed pretty decent folks, for all that they worship a nasty god.

Happy Birthday, KC!

Sorry about my absence, everyone. Alright, tomorrow I'm going to go over the posts here and on the gameplay thread and come to a conclusion about how to get things moving again. Going forward, Winter term starts next Monday.

During Winter term, my guaranteed post days will be Thursday, Friday and Saturday—on other days, it'll likely be a bit spottier due to classwork, though I do hope that once I'm in the swing of things I can establish fairly reliable posting even at the start of the week.

Cool, sounds good.

Awesome!

Excellent recapping, Eben! And thanks, Tanith and Cuetzpalli, for summarizing the points of confusion.

Things have been plodding at times, primarily due to my wish to give everyone something to do when someone decides to do something like "hang out with the Kordians" or "get a job at the meanest bar in town" (by the way, in case I didn't mention, the weird poisoning subplot is explicitly what they do to anyone who enters without making a big Intimidation check). I'm going to try to streamline things. In the interests of keeping things flowing, make sure to clarify whether there is something you actually want to roleplay, or whether you're just narrating what your character does to pass the time.

I read your post here and your new gameplay post but I'm at a bit of a loss on what to do in-character. Tanith wants to uplift these oppressed people (and possibly inspire a little revolution) but I have no idea how to begin accomplishing that. From what I can tell the Blessed Angels are everywhere and the NPCs we met at the Kordian temple seemed disinterested in doing much. Am I misreading the situations from earlier? I'm open to suggestions.

I literally just forgot. This is what happens when I don't sleep. There'll be a post tomorrow.

You should probably sleep, TBH.

Does Mrs. Crumm foster a lot of kids? It wouldn't be otherwise biologically likely for her to have six five year olds with two twins among them, right? Unless Olmans lay eggs?

Maybe she's one of those genetically rare people who has serial multiple births.

Yeah, kinda weird, huh?

Maybe she's one of those genetically rare people who has serial multiple births.

Well, that still doesn't settle the issue. It's not how many children overall she has (though with 18 total, multiple births multiple times would go a long way towards explaining that...) but rather the timing behind how many kids in this particular subset are age 5. There's six total, so she could have had sextuplets, except that then two of them are called out as being twins.

It's possible that they are sextuplets born from a total of five zygotes: four born fraternal and then the last zygote split, producing a set of identical offspring. Or, alternately, we're looking at a case of Mrs. Crumm's body failing to temporarily shut down her menstrual cycle after one birth, resulting in the six kids being born in sets less than a year apart. So at the start of one year, she gives birth to twins, then immediately (or very quickly) gets pregnant again, giving birth to quadruplets nine months after the twin birth. (Or vice versa.)

Or she's a very generous, open-hearted woman who adopts orphans (and under Zeech's regime, there may be a LOT of orphans) and raises them as her own.

To be clear, they're called out as being identical twins. "Identical twins" was shorthand for the fact that they look exactly alike, not that they were literally born as strict twins (mixed triplets are a thing). I don't think anyone actually asked Ms. Crumm about the birthing patterns.

In the final encounter of Age of Worms, you have to babysit all eighteen kids at once.

Unrelated to anything in the thread, but writing articles about project management/improvement really makes you realize that adults really aren't very different from children.

I'm sitting here getting paid to tell grown ass adults to keep their workplace clean in the same way my mom used to make me clean my room.

I still have scrying crossed out on my character sheet, but I don't believe I've used it this spell cycle. So I can probably use it to scry on Filge like, right now?

"Alright, kids, this next field trip is called a 'scry-and-fry'!"

Another week of spotty posting, I'm afraid—midterms are coming up. I shouldn't have too much trouble, but I want to make sure I stay on top of them. In the meantime, feel free to leave any further activities you engage in. So far, Astraden's and Cuetzpalli's combined efforts are sufficient to bring the day to a close, though, so there's no obligation.

I'll think of something, maybe I can ruin all of Eben's magic tricks for Vatz.

Okay, I see why I keep missing Thursday—my schedule actually got set to Friday-Saturday-Sunday, so I wasn't getting the Thursday reminders. Some quality schedule maintenance right there. Blah.

Yeah, I'd hoped to get an update in order tonight, but it's not happening. Sorry! I'll see if I can't get an update tomorrow afternoon!

I am also considering changing my schedule to posting mainly during the weekdays, since I'm finding my schedule management is actually better when I'm at the dorm, but I'll hold off on that for now.

Don't wait up for me if you can; I had an idea but I've been stuck in tankless water heater hell for the past week and haven't had much time to post, and my live game is tomorrow.

Does Mrs. Crumm foster a lot of kids? It wouldn't be otherwise biologically likely for her to have six five year olds with two twins among them, right? Unless Olmans lay eggs?

Some of them do.

DankeSean wrote:

Does Mrs. Crumm foster a lot of kids? It wouldn't be otherwise biologically likely for her to have six five year olds with two twins among them, right? Unless Olmans lay eggs?

Some of them do.

Yeah, that quote came back to mind with the revelation yesterday. I don't know whether to be impressed at myself for noticing one of the hint-details, or irritated that I stopped following the breadcrumbs and just said 'eh, whatever, she has a lot of kids who know way too much about magic, nothing suspicious about that, let's just get on with it.'

Aaaaaah! Change!

Turn and face the strange
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
(Don't wanna be a richer one)
Time may change me
But I can't trace time

There are a few things missing still, but otherwise it seems okay.

By the way, I will tell you guys right now, there will be a major loot influx during this chapter. Don't worry too much about your long-term wealth—2,000 gp will be back to serving as pocket change soon.

By the way, I will tell you guys right now, there will be a major loot influx during this chapter. Don't worry too much about your long-term wealth—2,000 gp will be back to serving as pocket change soon.

Hoo boy! Is the ball gonna turn into an Ocean's Eleven heist number? (To be fair, I imagine we wouldn't be light on cash at the moment if we hadn't bungled our first entrance into Sinner's Sanctum.)

I guess that depends on how bad you are at playing nice around the prince.

Alright, here we go into Finals Week. I'll aim to post tomorrow, and I should be able to maintain some level of activity, but don't count on posts being too regular.

Hoo boy. Okay, I'm back home, and the grades are starting to filter in. I'll get a post up tomorrow!

Here's hoping you did well!

I am moving back to America on Thursday, so don't expect posts from me for the next several days. I'll try to get something in if I can, but there are no guarantees.

Oh yeah, I just remembered - last week was this game's 4-year anniversary! And Feral's birthday! And today's my anniversary!

March sure is a busy month.

Happy anniversary Gark's marriage/game start/Feral's existence!

It's not actually a marriage anniversary because we're sinful millennials, but the sentiment is absolutely appreciated.

And my birthday was two weeks ago, so March is just a time of craziness. Enjoy the anniversary of your wanton ways, then, Gark! Happy birthday Feral!

It's not actually a marriage anniversary because we're sinful millennials, but the sentiment is absolutely appreciated.

I still suspect it's all a scheme to deprive me of cake and a bouquet.

Regardless, happy...um...March, everyone!

Looking forward to Easter Fool's!