PBP[PFS] #5-04 The Stolen Heir Table 2

Game Master Valeron De Stinzite

Feel free to introduce yourself. This is the table for subtier 4-5.

This is Truddig; he is currently going through retraining.

Laiashi here. Front-liner in combat, party face out of it. Laiashi specializes in schmoozing and blending in.

Here's Zhatara. A somehow haughty mesmerist of unknown descent. She's got impressive diplomacy and/or intimidation skills, but she's an even better liar. Her magic maker her capable of forcing opponents to do her bidding but she can also boost the party tanks via her tricks.

This is Obo. Truddig, you are down on the spreadsheet as a level 5 Ranger but the profile shows level 3 which could affect our subtier or whether we have the 4 player adjust or not depending on what everyone else is.

Truddig is level 5. Once I have the retraining all documented and signed off I'll be updating his profile online.

This is Aryxis who's particularly handy in Diplomacy & UMD.

Has a bunch of spells but generally likes just wacking things with his large magic sword (which he likes to make as dangerous as possible)

Jarat is not very good at talking to his fleshling counterparts. Between Jarat and his animal companion, they do a fair job of hitting things until they stop moving. Animal companion is a wolf, who likes to bite and trip. Pack tactics flanking build, eventually moving in to mounted combat capabilities but that's not relevant until level 7.

I think that’s everyone. I didn’t have a chance to make my maps up this weekend, but I’ll have an introductory post today or tomorrow. We won’t need maps for at least a few posts.

I'm currently without a reliable connection to the internet and can't really keep up with the game. Bot me as needed please. Everything should return to normal in a couple of days most.
In the meantime bear with me, and sorry for the inconvenience!

No problem.

Busy day everyone. Update this weekend.

Maps are up. Everyone please past what character image you want to use on the first map. I also have a sheet up with everyone’s initiative and perception on it. Please update it at you convenience. Don’t worry about the saves on there.

If everyone could put a spot on the bottom of the Init sheet as to what faction you belong to that would be great. I could look myself, but if I have a list then it makes it a little easier to make sure everyone gets everything out of the scenario. Plus, it helps me to to miss anything faction related. Thanks and sorry for the long delay.

Still waiting on a few to post before I update.

I'm not able to update the sheet from my phone for some reason. Laiashi has an initiative of +6, a Perception of +5 (+1 to avoid being surprised), and is a member of The Exchange faction.

Truddig's rebuild is now online. It took longer than promised; sorry for the delay. I've updated his stats on the Init, Perc sheet.

Updated the sheet with Aryxis' Init, Perc, Saves & Faction.

Sorry everyone I’m in the middle of moving to another house. I’ll get an update tomorrow.

Hey team,

Im heading overseas on holiday for 2 weeks this weekend so my posting maybe be spotty particularly this weekend while I get myself established. I should still be able to manage a post every day from Monday onwards.

Bot me as necessary.

Thanks.

Sorry everyone I was completing my move this weekend. Now that I’m finished and my whole body is sore I can update regularly. Update later today. Thanks for your patience.

Congrats on the move, hopefully it was a good one as I said congrats and don't want to feel stupid.

Nice to hear Deekan. Hope your new place is going to suit your needs for a long time!

I’ll give everyone a chance to act before I update.

I’ll wait to update until after everyone acts.

I am away from tomorrow until Thursday next week. I will do my best to post as I can.

Sounds good.

Update incoming!

I’ll wait for everyone to post before I update.

Does anyone need their character for Gameday?

I never sign up for gameday with an unavailable character. I'm good.

I’m good. This character is not signed up for game day.

Not signed up for Game day with this character. Sorry, I was at GenCon.

Good. My other table for this there are a few signed up. I have to push through to finish. Good thing I don’t have to rush this table. I can make sure everyone gets everything from the scenario.

If nobody posts more actions then we will just carry on later. Another update this afternoon.

This is unfortunate timing with the revival of the forums, but I am heading into the woods for the weekend to go float down a river. I won't be back until Sun PM, so expect regular posting from me to resume again on Monday.

Let'go people! Who knows how long the forums will stay functional this time? Poooostttt!!!

:P

Indeed, get it while we can.

All right we are back! Update tomorrow!!!

Figured I’d better get a post in before it goes down again.

Hey, with all the site outages, I've kind of lost track of what we're doing in this game. I know we're investigating the kidnapping, but I'm lost from there. @GM, or anyone really, can someone summarize what our goal is, what clues we have already, and what we're currently pursuing (i.e. why are we at the alchemist)?

Thanks!

Yea I had to look back through the previous posts to remember.

As I understand it, we're currently tracking down who hired the kidnapper. All we have to go on is that he's a brown-haired Taldan man, likely an alchemist, who looked at his hand a lot as though instructions were written on it. The name of the alchemist's shop were in came from the girl we rescued.

Let’s hope the site is up for good! Update later!

Bump. Did we lose our GM? PM sent.

The rules for adopting an orphaned game define that there be 7 days of inactivity in both Gameplay and Discussion for a game to be classified as orphaned. This game qualifies, and our GM's latest post was after the major downtime period, so I don't think the site outages are a factor in this.

Can we get a rolecall to see if all of the players are still present while we wait for a response to my PM? If I don't hear back in 24 hours (10 AM Fri, Eastern US time), I'll post in Flaxseed for a replacement GM.

Edit: crossposted. Welcome back Deekan!

Still here. Rough couple of days. Update incoming.

My apologies. Nothing serious, but too many things came up to count. Not making excuses, it just slipped my mind.

Pokes the game with a stick.

helps Jarat with a pike...

Everyone act and then I will update.

Can we use the Rule of Two in this game so that we don't have to wait so long between updates?

The general principle is that--since PbP games are played asynchronously (everyone playing on their own schedule, not all sitting down at the same time)--PbP games can take too long if we always wait for everyone to post their action. The Rule of Two is a principle where if two players post in agreement on a course of action, the GM moves the action along as if all 6 players posted in agreement.

I've also seen this done as a Rule of Three, which is also fine. Obviously, this is an out-of-combat strategy for posts. When we're in initiative everyone still needs to post their action or get botted if they are unexpectedly absent.

But it seems that we are getting bogged down in more waiting for posts than actual playing. Keeping the action going when we're out of combat will be a big help.

Thoughts?

I would entirely agree.

Also agree.

I've PMed GM Deekan again, to see if we can't get this game going again. It's been more than 7 days since last contact, so if I receive no response, I'll post in Flaxseed for a replacement GM.