Hey guys! I have some obligations that will keep me away from home on Wednesday. Would you all be okay with using our Thursday alternate day for the session this week?
Also, Gabriel, hope you're around and everything's okay. We didn't hear from you at all last week.
Playing on Thursday this week saves me a lot of stress, since my other game is playing on Wednesday this week.
TIMING!
I should be able to play Thursday, though I may have to leave early.
Okay, I'll keep that in mind.
Hopefully I hear from Gabriel's player soon, because if he misses another session as a no-call no-show I might need to start looking for a replacement.
Alright, if we do it Thursday, I'll be available until 7 for sure, possibly until 8 (Central time).
Ack. Thursdays are normally fine, but this week I'll have to miss. Again. :(
Booo, sorry Agent. :(
I'd rather not go another session with two missing players, especially considering what's coming up. If I don't hear from Gabriel by tomorrow I think I might cancel this week.
I'd also need to leave a half hour early, but that's true any thursday we do it. (Of course, I miss the page turn and so wake up early for today.)
Still no word from Gabriel, I hope everything's okay with him.
With Gabe likely not making it again and Agent needing to sit out (on top of some people needing to leave early) I think I'm going to cancel tonight's session. Sorry guys, but I just don't want to push on with two people absent again.
If I still don't hear back from Gabe in the next couple days I'm going to have to consider a replacement party member.
We good to go for Wednesday?
Any word from Gabriel?
Do we have a new person lined up if Gabriel is out?
Can I keep asking questions?
I'm good for Wednesday, yep. I still haven't heard anything from Gabe at all. It'll be three weeks without a word from him tomorrow. I haven't gone through the process of finding a replacement yet, either. I think what we'll do is play Wednesday's session, and I'll tap on what is left of the standbys to see if any of them have time.
I may be late or absent tomorrow, I'm not sure where I'm actually going to be at session time tomorrow. I will attempt to at least have the MUSH server up, but Lucent has a backup in the event I'm not around at all.
I'm hoping neither, but would always prefer just *late* as opposed to absent :)
Naturally, of course. It's looking like I should be here. THe snow has me stuck at a friend's at the moment, and provided there's no power outages I should be good.
Sweet, sounds good. Got your message from the other night as well, hope you find out copy of Mass Effect 3 sometime as well so we can do some multiplayer this week.
Lucent, you may have to host the MUSH tonight, as I don't hve router access where I am to open ports at the moment.
So, I thought I broke my router last night. I couldn't get connected at all after my connection stopped working and spent a couple hours trying to figure it out before stopping in frustration.
I didn't break my router, I'm just a retard.
This morning with a clear head I figured out what happened. In attempting to get the MUSH up and running on my computer I somehow managed to trigger my old-as-balls firewall software to disconnect all incoming/outgoing internet connections. Apparently it thought the attempts at incoming access from my girlfriend's laptop qualified as an intrusion attempt and just turned off internet access. Without, like, giving me a f$*#ing popup.
So, piece of ass zone alarm software has now been gutted from my system. I haven't tried accepting inbound connections to the MUSH yet. I figure it'll work.
Do we want to try for tonight? Also it doesn't appear that any of my remaining original backup players are free to join in Gabriel's spot. Does anyone know a player they'd like to recommend before I throw open the gates again?
Since I'm about to head home for the night and may not check the boards right upon getting home, I'll take that as a "no" for using the alternate night tonight. Hope to see you guys next week. In the interim, if you have any recommendations on a replacement player for Gabriel, let me know.
I haven't looked at anyones character sheets or background, so I have no idea what spot Gabriel filled. He was a serious mystery to me. If I didn't know he was a summoner synthesis I would have been going like "What the heck?".
Turns out right after you left, Ravenfall was able to get router access and set up the Mush.
So we shall do this next week. For sure. Hands down. No exceptions.
Haha, oh god the timing :(
Definitely on next week. Gabe's role was largely the party face/tank since as a synthesist he had preposterously good armor class. The high charisma requirement for summoners meant he'd be good in a leader-y/diplomacy role too.
I'm more looking for good players ideally, then I can discuss role/etc with them.
There is a possibility I will not be able to make it next wednesday. I will keep you informed.
I just got hired for a moving job that takes Wednesday and probably Thursday, so no matter what day we play on this week, there's a chance of me being late (though much more likely on Wednesday than Thursday). I have no idea how late, I probably won't know until the day of.
Okay, thanks for the head's up. Unless Wof winds up unable to make it Wednesday we'll probably keep the day there. Being a little late won't be too bad. Let me know when you find out how long!
Thursday this week would also be better for me. </bandwagon>
Despite what I said earlier, Thursday is actually NOT better for me, since I can't reschedule my other game this week. I'd prefer to only double up if I have to.
I am fine either way now. Wednesday or thursday.
I'm going to be doing things tonight, definitely. Do you think you could get the MUSH up before you take off to move things, Rav? Just in case you're not back until later.
Game is still on for tonight, right?
Yep.
I'll start up the MUSH now. I just got home, but I'm still going to probably be 15~30 minutes late, on account of I feel like I spent the day living inside a pinball and now I'm going to go pretend my bathtub is a Lazarus Pit.
I'll be a little late getting the session log up tonight. I'll probably do it in the morning, I have stuff to do tonight. But for those who missed out you'll get it then :)
Let's kill those pesky bears!
PESKY BARRS.
Let that serve as a note that I'm totally good for tonight's session. If anyone's got scheduling issues lemme' know sooner than later.
I may be absent or late tonight; I can't know for sure at the moment. I know I will be out a large portion of the afternoon on Ze Job Hunt. Hopefully I will be back in time for awesomeness or not miss much of it, but my laptop is presently not where I am, so regretably I can't turn on the MUSH in advance. If I'm back before we start, everything should be gravy in that department though.
Okay, thanks for the heads-up.
Also, I've been mulling over some things the last few days with regards to the campaign and its progress. I took a look at how many sessions we've been able to have since inception and the amount of ground we're able to cover during the session and it -- by fault of the medium, I think -- feels like it's been going at a crawling pace, between availability issues, tech hiccups and the like.
I wanted to know how everyone else felt about the speed of things and the progress we're making. I try not to run sessions when we're missing too many people, so as to not have that awkward moment where someone who really should have something to say/react stands in the background like a cardboard cutout, but that's contributed in less sessions overall happening.
There's a couple of solutions, if you guys aren't happy with the pacing, that we could work with.
1) Always play a sessions as long as one person is available: It means more and more people will miss out on sessions, and after missing a few in a row they could have to either be dropped or might just drop themselves for feeling left behind.
2) Convert to a Play-by-Post format and forsake the actual game-session MUSH angle entirely. I presently run a Reign of Winter PbP (my first ever) and it's surprisingly more fun than I would've expected. But I know this format might not be for everyone, either.
Let me know what you all think, it's important to me that my players are happy and feel engaged in the game!
I personally have commitment issues when it comes to play by post. I've dropped out of everyone I've joined. Also, of everything I know about PBP, it would go even slower than the current rate.
We really aren't that much different from actually meeting together. Because of our method of communication, and the story telling aspect of it all, we will be slow. The only way we could speed it up would be if we all hopped on voice chat, but that would destroy what we've been doing.
I personally am fine with our current rate of progression. So it may take us a few years to accomplish anything. That will just give Karrn more time to munch on his moose.
Play-by-post would be cool, but I don't have a problem with the current format. Being the person who's probably missed the most, I don't mind people playing me. The slow pace actually helps out with that, since it's easier to catch up, but I'm not worried about becoming discouraged.
As for tonight, I'll definitely be here. I hit a rough patch with work the past couple of weeks, but that should be done now.
I'm personally good with the current pace, since I've had bad luck with PBP.
That's a relief to hear, guys. Really! I was worried things were progressing too slow for everyone's tastes, you can never really know those things as a GM without asking. Looking forward to tonight!
So! I've found our replacement player, he's from my Reign of Winter campaign. I believe he's making a cleric or possibly an oracle, depending on what whim he decides to go with ;)
I think he needs to be a monkey goblin oracle with the nature mystery. Just to put the rest of our party to shame.
Rofl. Oh my god monkey goblins, yes.
Wait, am I allowed to pick a Monkey Goblin? That would change everything. Screw competency, if I can be a goblin!
(Also, hey guys, I'm the new recruit!)
The replacement party, should everyone be killed, will be a pack of supremely curious goblins. It can't go wrong!
I'll have to remake Gobgob then, my infamous Goblin Cleric of Calistra from a friend's campaign. This was our first Pathfinder game, and I did not know much about Calistra back then. Gobgob died defending his group from far too many gargoyles than he could handle - he went down channeling negative energy like a boss. And high on chalk - he snorted chalk regularly.
Wow, somehow I missed an entire important discussion. Whoops. At any rate, welcome, Crusty!
Thanks! I'm still working on my guy, as I've switched him around quite a few times since hearing of this campaign.. Lucent knows how much I've been rambling their ears off with ideas and questions XD