Sadly all my "help other party members" stuff only works on targeted spells, not AoE stuff (until I get 9th level maneuvers and can take Invulnerable Shell of the Iron Tortoise).
I give a +4 to Will saves for everybody within 30 feet, but it's a Morale bonus, which we usually have covered already.
If I'd been a Hawkguard instead of a standard Warder I could make everyone invincible, but I'm not an archer.
So, we're heading into the holidays, and I'm sure everyone's going to be slowing down their posting for a bit as a result, but hopefully we can get the item shopping stuff done by the 27th or so. I'll be trying to check the campaign daily in case anyone has any questions or anything they need clearing up.
Merry Christmas, all!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to everyone!
Merry Christmas!
Happy Boxing Day!
...have an...enjoyable... National Fruitcake Day...?
Happy pre-New Year's, all!
Happy New Years guys!
As for consumables to deal with the blasphemies there really is no silver bullet other than contingency-silence. With that in mind, we should prepare to deal with the consequences.
I suggest everyone pick up the following:
Potion of Lesser Restoration x4 - negates the strength penalty (300g each)
Scroll of Freedom of Movement x4 - protects from the paralysis (750g each)
There's not a lot to be done about the possibility of daze. Fortunately it's only one round and there's a save to negate.
Thanks for the recommendation. I will buy those. Happy new year!
I can pitch in for some of those, I have 1854 gp leftover.
I just bought one of each for myself, the x4 confused me...
Sorry for quietness on my end, been a busy week and a half. (Turns out I'm going to be moving in the very near future.)
I've marked off the gold for a couple of each of the scroll and potion.
Yeah, best of luck with the move!
So, are we done with shopping?
I'm done, and I think we have a list there of what everyone wants to buy. Even if everyone hasn't marked off the money, I believe the purchases are decided and we're good for it.
Time to move on, methinks.
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No, nothing that serious. Quite the opposite: I've had a fairly flexible period to move out (found out in September that the owner of my apartment was planning to sell it, but there hasn't been much progress on that and I had been planning to not worry about moving til spring), but a good opportunity opened up in a friend's apartment with one of their roommates moving out, so I decided to hop on it and will be moving in mid February.
And I'm ready to move on in game as well! (Pun opportunity!)
Marking off 4200 GP for the purchases.
Ready.
Then I'll make the actual post moving you all "on the road" as soon as I can find the time.
Then I'll make the actual post moving you all "on the road" as soon as I can find the time! That's just been a big hurdle for me with student teaching back in full swing.
You doing okay KC?
Gotcha; just checking in. I know that feeling some days. -.-'
I do appreciate the concern—things got really rough for a bit there. But I didn't drop out of the program, and even I'm a little surprised by that!
I think the best assumption here is that I can aim for a weekly or biweekly post for now, but we're sort of entering Naked Mole Rat Mode here—slowing down the metabolism a little. That's not how we'll stay forever, but I think we should keep going at a gradual pace until I have some time to breathe again. We're past Week 5, anyways, and that's purportedly the worst of it. I literally just didn't have hours to spare last week. I also had to get my computer replaced and lost my scheduling notebook two weeks ago, which didn't help, I'm sure.
Next term, I'll be full-time teaching but out of classes. I'll have more free time then, at least, and a less "diversified" workload to keep up with. I do better when I have fewer items on the to-do list, even if they're bigger items.
tl;dr: Things have been rocky since November, but they won't stay that way. I'll keep slowly updating us along. Expect the post either tonight or around 5am tomorrow morning!
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It's a long post.
To recap so far:
Working for the archmage Manzorian, formerly known as Tenser, you journeyed to Alhaster to get answers from the last person to see Bucknard alive: A mysterious and clearly paranoid bard named Lashonna. You found a city in the grip of an unstable tyrant and the petty oligarchs beneath him. Prince Zeech was tearing apart his own city to complete the Great Project, a monolith distinctly similar to the Spire of Long Shadows. Lashonna, his last true friend from his paladin days, revealed that he is trying to recreate something from his dreams, though she knows not why.
Lashonna said that she sensed she'd gotten mixed up in something much bigger than her, revealing that Bucknard had been a man obsessed with Kyuss. He had gone off to track down Dragotha and never returned. Lashonna, however, had since discovered that there is an ancient and mythical library which might hold the answers to, among other things, Dragotha's phylactery's location: A haven of knowledge stolen from the world called the Library of Last Resort.
“As Balakarde mentions in his journal, the Age of Worms and Kyuss’ resurrection nearly took place fifteen centuries ago. Something happened involving the Order of the Storm to stop them. Now, I don't exactly know what the Order of the Storm was, exactly, and I'm guessing that's how they very much prefer it." She sighs, rubbing her eyes with one hand as her other conjures up a refill for Zalamandra. "For all I know, they might still be alive. That is our greatest hope: That they've survived, lore intact, and could be called upon to aid us in the fight against Dragotha. But that would require something to go our way for a change, wouldn't it?"
She pauses briefly, seemingly to regain her composure. As silence hangs over her in an almost tangible curtain of unease, she reaches beneath the desk and procures a small vial that appears to contain a lock of hair. She sets it down before the party. Her long nails tap the desk. "But whether they're alive, dead, or... none of the above, as it were, I believe I know where they would be. Close to the center of the Nyr Dyv, my studies and resources have determined, there is an island.
"This island is called Tilagos, host of a mythical library of sorts. It has been sought for centuries by wizards, scholars, and explorers, for it is said to be filled with hundreds of years of history, memories, dreams, and, of course, secrets." She taps the desk rhythmically with both index fingers, her stare unblinking. "Secrets are so valuable aren’t they? Seems the longer they are kept, the more they’re worth. If a written account of the secret of what happened to Dragotha’s phylactery exists, it must certainly be there, in the final testimony—if indeed they are dead—of the Order of the Storm.
"In the Library of Last Resort."
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Astraden's weird glowy stuff today is a reference to this, by the way. Don't drink and planar travel, folks.
The move is done! And I'm not dead, though my thighs kinda feel like it.
Hey, guys. Curious and concerned to see how everyone is doing at the moment.
I'll start, and, to be fair, while not the grimmest of all situations, it isn't overly pleasant looking: as a New Yorker, things are kind of, shall we say for lack of a better word, wacky. My work shut down for the past week, and we all get to find out tomorrow if that will continue. (It almost certainly will) With pay, for the time being, but if this goes on much longer then that will likely end, at which point they'll lay off most/all of the staff so we can go on unemployment until the store can reopen. Not ideal, but better than nothing.
On top of that, (and likely a good chunk why we closed down when we did) the same day the closing was determined one staff member was covidiagonsed. She's young and healthy and says she's doing okay, so that's good, but she's someone I'm in fairly close contact with at work, so I'm self quarantined at the moment. No symptoms, and it's been a week since I last interacted with her, (she gave me a birthday donut! And then her birthday was two days later so I came in with cupcakes for her and she was already out sick! But at least this meant my roommate and I got to eat cupcakes to console ourselves later...) so I'm halfway to clean.
I'm not alone, I've got a roommate in much the same boat as me (her work didn't stop, but enabled work from home for all employees...), and we've plenty of supplies (one of the first things we did when I moved in was a roommate Costco mass stocking up run 'just in case this corona thing gets worse'... yeah, we were hoarding toilet paper BEFORE IT WAS COOL.) So there's been a lot of catching up on reading and netflixing over the past week. It would almost be a fun vacation if there weren't a giant specter of annihilation hanging over the world!
Anyway, hope things are tolerably decent with everyone else, just needed to vent a bit. Stay healthy.
I'm doing pretty good on my end. I live in relative nowheresville, Florida and have already been working from home for the past 2 years, so not much has really changed for me except I'm running low on toilet paper because people are dumb.
Hopefully things improve before this becomes even more of an economic crisis than it's already shaping up to be.
My family and I have experienced almost no changes, honestly. We live in a township with 2000ish people in it. We've been working toward or moving on to and building our prepstead for the last 10+ years. As far as I can tell events like this will happen more and more often over time. If it's not a pandemic, it will be something else. Our system and society are totally and completely unsustainable, and frankly insane if you spend any real amount of time thinking about it.
I don't work for anyone, she built a work from home lifestyle over the last couple years, kid's not old enough to be in school yet. We live very simply and maintain a debt-free lifestyle. We are well stocked with food, getting lots of fresh eggs daily from multiple species of bird, and will be planting a huge garden soon. When you have as many animals to take care of and live as far from everything as we do, you never leave home anyway.
This whole situation honestly makes me feel like Nostradamus, and makes me really pretty sad that more people didn't listen to me (or people like me) about being prepared when the good times were rolling, instead of blowing me off as some crazy guy. I hope everyone here is okay and safe, and that this blows over soon. If you find yourself unprepared for this, and we all come through the other side, I would encourage everyone to add basic preparedness to their suite of normal priorities. Being ready makes everything a lot less scary. Good luck, friends. Keep your heads on a swivel and stay smart.
So far so good down here in So Cal. We're one of the hardest hit states so I started stocking up on a supplies a few days ahead of the curve. My office transitioned to fully work from home late last week so I've still got regular income.
I will have to resupply in the next couple weeks. I'm not looking forward to that.
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Happy late birthday, Feral!
Sweden has just started monitoring the virus in the general population (previously only testing people with serious respiratory illness, which in my completely uneducated opinion went directly opposite what the WHO said to do), and they say we're just a few weeks behind the progression for Italy. It sort of feels like there's some collective denial here - "It won't happen here, we're a Rich Country". I guess we do have more of a health care system here, so maybe they're partially right.
No enforced quarantine yet but Swedes are generally very Lawful so I think people who think they have it are staying home. My work has told everyone to work from home who can (including me).
My partner just moved to a smaller town for an internship, so I'm going to move down to her and bunker up in case the stay at home order does come.
Really hope you don't get fired, DankeSean. Let us know if you end up setting up a gofundme or something similar - solidarity is super important right now.
How's KC and Dragoncat doing? Hopefully things are all right on their end.
I'm doing alright for now. School schedule's been thrown for a loop thanks to this COVID-19 pandemic, but things are starting to shake out now.
Turns out my province has declared a state of emergency in order to keep the disease from spreading.
Hey! Just wanted to check in real quick. Things are a little much, but nobody's sick yet—not with the covid, anyways. I had a fun normal cold that lasted a couple weeks, but none of the symptoms synced up and it's since given way to normal annoying allergies. That said, the lockdown has begun. I also regrettably failed my first class, and it was one I shouldn't have failed. I'd already made the decision to withdraw from student teaching, so this didn't make anything fall apart, fortunately. Actually, I got insanely lucky—because I backed out when I did, I didn't waste time prepping a whole now-useless edTPA (the edTPA is basically a unit of teaching that you record and write big essays about, to prove to Pearson that you know how to teach). My peers in the cohort are really in a pickle.
Anyways, I'm out of the ed program for the time being and will need to retake one of my classes next year. It's all good, though. I left on my terms, and while I shouldn't have failed that class, the consequences aren't that severe.
Between all that and the new isolation, the stress kind of got to me again and I hid from a few of my more forgiving responsibilities—this game included. Sorry I haven't been in touch! I bet I can get things rolling again soon. The nice thing about this horrible world catastrophe is I get a lot more free time. I'll make sure to apply some of that time here.
Also, Oregon handled the pandemic pretty middling-ly—better than Washington, but it's a strange day when I catch myself saying, "I wish the Portland Mayor was our governor." Everyone really dragged their feet here, and I can't tell if it was incompetence or a wish to give certain businesses and interests* time to "prepare".
* Oregon has a long and proud history of activism and community engagement by homeowner's associations, developers, realtors and landlords.
Glad to hear you're healthy, sorry about your class. Don't feel bad, I failed statistics in college when I shouldn't have. Life goes on. Stay safe!
Sorry to hear about your failed class, but I'm glad everyone's doing okay health and happiness(?)-wise.
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Glad to hear you're healthy, sorry about your class. Don't feel bad, I failed statistics in college when I shouldn't have. Life goes on. Stay safe!
I'm given to understand that 8 out of 5 people fail statistics.
You joke, but I'm taking two statistics classes now—a Math one and an Econ one. Since they're both online, it's a bit of a tussle, but luckily I have a few Discord friends willing to coach me through stuff. Things are going okay so far.
It's really fun because with the lockdown, it constantly feels like everything's happening and nothing's happening. I'm still looking for the time, even though in theory I have All The Time now. I appreciate everyone's patience.
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It's really fun because with the lockdown, it constantly feels like everything's happening and nothing's happening. I'm still looking for the time, even though in theory I have All The Time now. I appreciate everyone's patience.
Despite the fact that I work from home anyway, I feel less productive post-lockdown than I did before, so I feel that deeply.
Little things like taking the time out of your day to go to the grocery store and stuff help recharge those batteries an amount I'd never noticed before now.
It's really fun because with the lockdown, it constantly feels like everything's happening and nothing's happening. I'm still looking for the time, even though in theory I have All The Time now. I appreciate everyone's patience.Despite the fact that I work from home anyway, I feel less productive post-lockdown than I did before, so I feel that deeply.
Little things like taking the time out of your day to go to the grocery store and stuff help recharge those batteries an amount I'd never noticed before now.
Yeah, I, too, work from home, and it's really weird how draining it feels to just sit around and do nothing for so long. It's a struggle to get basically anything done, and I think that's why the PbP has sort of entered a lockdown hiatus.
Classes are out, but I'm planning a move, so I'm sort of easing my way back towards this in between that to make sure that, when I make a new post, I can sustainable keep updating afterward.
Are we all still here?
I'm still around, able and willing to pick back up if everyone else is. Might take me a minute to get back into it, but with regular updates shouldn't be an issue.
Yup yup! Ready and waiting.
Always!