Eh.. kind of. Its more as you said "Bank holidays" where the kids are out of school and most businesses are closed. The major ones here are thanksgiving, Christmas, new years, and independence day. A couple of notable other ones are memorial and labor days.
The only holidays we really have are Easter (plus the days before and after), Guy Fawkes, Christmas (plus days before and after), and New Years. We have about 6-7 Bank holidays a year too, which last just for the Monday.
Out of those the only one that fits the criteria is Guy Fawkes. I understand you have quite a few more holidays in America.
We have 12 days associated with government holidays...Most are mondays that add to a weekend, but then you have Thanksgiving that is a Thursday and Friday combo. Veterans day, 11 Nov, falls on the actual holiday but the day off is given on the next workday to the weekened when its Saturday or Sunday.
:-) Veterans day is certainly a day to lift a few, in my humble opinion..
Remember the ones we left behind and the good times that were had.
Totally agree. We had a great community event here. VFW then served a nice lunch after.
Very nice. I have not gotten around to joining either the VFW or the AL, but it has been on the list of things I would like to do given enough free time.
What were you in, Volkar?
I was a Navy Corpsman (FMF) assigned to First Marine Division as a line medic.
USAF, DD - Fighter Weapons School - State Side during the last half of the 1980s. wow, DD...wow...not easy duty compared to my desk work as an Executive Assistant.
Oh hey, how has the recovery been post crash a while back? Hopefully all progress is being made in your wife's case.
Nice work! I have several buddies that are/were AF. Good people, and I was deployed with some spectacular operators.. PJ's will always have every bit of my love and respect. They saved the lives of my men several times when things got bad. Would even fly into hot LZ's even our own pilots wouldn't touch.
Everyone has a job, nothing to compare, man.
Thank you for asking. She healed up well from the wreck.. it was the underlying problems that we are and have been dealing with and what made the wreck such a big deal. She had a surgery last May, where they cut through the femur and rotated it and is still trying to rehab. Once she is good to go, she has two more coming to basically take apart her knee and try and put it back together correctly. Shes 25 and has had 5 knee surgeries already.. these are just hail Mary's to try and keep from doing a replacement.
Lordy, she deserves a medal for having to go through that...wow. That is a heck of a situation to have going on and then get into an accident too...wow. Hope the PT goes well for her ad she is back at it
Thank you. It is much appreciated.
"I don't like it, but I think we need to at least check the front door and see if we can enter that way," Volkar said with a sigh. "The concern about going around is that we won't see what is behind us, and if we go in the front, we at least know that across that bridge, isn't much. There is even a way we can temporarily disable the bridge, might be worth doing."
frig...wrong part of the board...lol
Ok, a quick strategy discusion - I think we do the hard fight with weapons against these things...the reason why, I think we want to save spells and bombs until we are in the actual fort. BUT, after the last fight...
Ok, a quick strategy discusion - I think we do the hard fight with weapons against these things...the reason why, I think we want to save spells and bombs until we are in the actual fort. BUT, after the last fight...
I'm completely out of spells, so we're gonna be doing that regardless!
I only have weapons, but I agree any spells and abilities should be saved for further in the building.
Daelric chucks his axe and shield to the floor and starts hugs everyone in proximity, pats the Goblin dogs on the head and says something in Goblin. The dogs start to howl in a tune and Daelric breaks off to start singing in Dwarven, once he has finished he sings the same song again but in Common.
Hey folks, sorry I was silent - was away for Christmas and then Boxing Day in Victoria BC..home today but just now playing catch up.
Not a problem. I figured it was just the holidays. Glad to have you back safe and sound!
What if we all use the top of the watch tower as our resting place? Yea, I don't like sleeping, but I think if we tried to make sure that our two spell casters get some rest, Daelric and I could split the watch. We can toss the executed goblins down into the pickle room
If we can at least try to barricade the entry in some way, yeah, that should be doable. That way at least we don't wake up with goblins swarming all over us!
Considering the wealth of supplies that you have found very close to the tower, I would say that this is entirely doable. Is that what yall want to do?
Works for me.
Why not carry them and throw them ibto the sea, instead of spoilibg the supplies?
So long as we don't trigger more guards and such, any thing to get rid of them makes sense.
Yall have left a trail of dead goblins so far.. why not just toss them off the top of the watchtower and outside the gates to join the bodies from the fight there?
Anyways, it is the next morning, and everyone is up and rested. You have a couple days supplies scrounged from the goblin larders, and a whole hutch full of fluffy bunnies to cook up too! ;-)
Nooooo not the cute fluffy bunnies!!!
Just adjusted my character profile to account for the trail ration eaten. Is no one wanting to use the +1 Longsword? I am happy with my axe, but thought Volkar may like to use it.
I think my axe would still be a better weapon Daelric. I say keep it ad we can sell it
Now, where is the instant rabbit stew maker?
So you guys know, I'm hoping to pick up Craft Magic Arms and Armor at level 5. That means if we sell a magic weapon that we find, I can turn around and use that to enchant something else. Ergo, once we get there and have a few days, any +1 weapon is fungible - we can turn the money from a +1 sword into the enchantment costs for a +1 axe. :)
That would be awesome! Just have to pay for someone to cast the "Masterwork" spell to make my axe Masterwork.
I was planning to get that spell next level. But remember, if you want a mithral, cold iron, or adamantine weapon, you have to buy that - I can't transform a weapon into a special material. I can just enchant it once you have it. :)
So, I think we have to figure out if we move into C14 or move and clear out the doors in the hallway that we walked by when we heard them shouting.
We didn't really examine any of those doors to the west of the tower we are in...I suspect we noted a double door and two singles...but a doube door does kinda indicate a special room of some type.
Ah, didn't realise you had put a suggestion in here. I figured we would work systematically up through the building. Starting at the entrance and clearing the rooms in order of closet to the entrance ... almost like Tetris, clearing the bottom layer before try to work out the next.
I know a very bad analogy, but it gets my point across, I hope.
Yep works for me...ok, following you down the corridor.
Couple of questions, did the Chief take the extra damage from the Acid Arrow the round after he was initially hit with it and if I move to him, can I hit him or is he out of reach?
The extra damage does not take effect until Kiera is next up.. it is dealt once per round, depending on Kiera's level. As for reaching him, he is currently 15 ft in the air, so he is out of reach of melee weapons.. unless someone might still have their boar spear? I will have to look up the range on those things again if that is the case..
Edit: If you are talking about the acid arrow from a couple of turns ago, that was negated when Kiera next posted and decided on a different spell.. Since I botted her, I allowed her that option.
Sorry for the confusion... looks like I wound up using the acid arrow anyway, but at least I scored better damage. ;)
Yes, you did!! Much better use of the resource, I think!
Ah right! It was the retcon that confused me. Is there anyone actually left on ground level?
Nope.
Hope all goes well with your travels and her appointments!
I hope everything went alright with the wife.
Volkar, I didn't think you had Cure Moderate Wounds on your Extract list or that you had the Infusion discovery. Even if you made a slight typo on the character and meant Cure Light Potion that you made, as soon as you give it to me it becomes inert and would probably poison me instead of healing me. Good thing Andrezi healed us, otherwise I would have drunk it.
Thanks for the concern.. right now we are just in a holding pattern fighting with the insurance to pay for the next surgery. Until then, its all "update" appointments and pain management specialists. Biggest problem here is that it is a 4 hour drive one way to these appointments, so that's at least a day of work lost, and travel/eating expenses. Thank god she has family that we generally stay with out there.
The dumbasses in the approvals department have approved to have her knee taken apart, bone surfaces resurfaced, and donor tendon/ligament/kneecap transplanted, but refuse to allow the doctor to replace the cartilage. The Dr's are about to sic their lawyers after the insurance company for not allowing best practice to be followed. Meanwhile, we are fighting through the grievance process and trying not to pull our hair out!
Volkar: Daelric has the right of it. Any mutagen or extract you make is only for you and becomes inert the moment anyone else picks it up.
EDIT:: After reading the gameplay post, I went digging.
Brew Potion (Ex): At 1st level, alchemists receive Brew Potion as a bonus feat. An alchemist can brew potions of any formulae he knows (up to 3rd level), using his alchemist level as his caster level. The spell must be one that can be made into a potion. The alchemist does not need to meet the prerequisites for this feat.
This means that Volkar can indeed create potions that everyone can use, and are separate from his mutagens. However, I can't seem to find where he brewed any potions up. I remember us talking about it, but I can't find the post that states CMW.. I have been looking in the area of Pg 17ish in the gameplay thread. Just after the catacombs, but before this adventure.
Ok, I will need to look at a note...ok back in September 25th (Ok, that was a flipping long time ago...) Kiera was kind enough to give me notes on potions.
But, here's the weird thing. I think the CMW was something that I bought or got. Not something I made, as the list I have in the note to myself goes like this:
Formulae
True Strike
Stone Fists
CLW
Shock Shield
Enlarge Person
Crafters Fortune
Extracts
CLW
Firebelly
Bomber's Eye
Target Bomb
True Strike
@Volkar: On Sep. 24 in the discussion thread you said you had one CMW potion, and if you never used it, that may be it.
Yea, I think that is what I am finding as well...may not be needed now thanks to Andrezi CPE...but probably need to figure out if it is available as I think the GM just warned us that things are going to get worse.
lol.. I don't know.. did I?
In addition to these findings, don't forget about the list on the campaign tab. There are a number of potions and such listed that are assumed to be split up between yall.
Unfortunately, my computer decided that it didn't want to work today, and is sitting at the repair shop. Hopefully tomorrow I will be back and rolling!
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