Ruins of Pathfinder: The Mysterium Compact (Mythic) (Inactive)

Game Master Robert Brookes

I've moved you all ahead some to see what you as a group/alanar do once you run back into one another. Since he is moving at half speed you were able to catch up to him with haste. I've roughly approximated a formation for you all, but if someone else would like to be in the front/towards the back just say so.

I hope I am not being too much of a pain. I have an eight hour test Sunday that's a pretty big deal for my Pathophysiology grade. I have 3-4 more weeks of class before leaving the island and will have a minimum of three more tests in there.

I'm doing my best to keep up with posts. I hope they are generally satisfactory during this busy time.

Nope! No worries, this is actually the perfect time to be busy since it's an introductory part of the story that's just gotten past the character introductions and into an initial "team building" part. Hanging back and being a little reactive has worked well :)

I added basic stats for all the current monsters to the campaign info tab. Sorry I forgot to have those up last round. This now includes the "flying skull" Alanar is dealing with.

Aldon brought up a perfectly good point in a PM to me a moment ago. I got the fragile rules backwards in my head.

Fragile weapons break on a roll of a 1, and fragile armor breaks when you take a critical hit. So be on the look-out for 1's!

Balls, didn't catch that I posted under my regular alias there. Too late to change it now. Ignore the baby chimera, that's really an ifrit in disguise!

Oh yeah, Deriku's computer is still exploded so I'm NPCing him. He's bringing it over tonight to my apartment, presumably and hopefully I can fix it. Unless his mobo is fried... >_>

T_T

Totally off topic, but when I'm having woes with one of the PCs I've built I've been floored by how helpful a couple guys are over at http://www.hardwareguys2.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi forums.

If I can't solve it myself (or find a solution via Googling it) they haven't failed me yet.

(The forums were initially created to accompany the PC building and troubleshooting books written by R Thompson, which I also recommend, but I believe it's fine to post there even if you don't have one of Thompson's books.)

Ack, my sympathies. Here's hoping it's something fairly easy to fix and not an exploded mobo.

...blah. Typed up a post last night before I left for work, left, found out that I'd apparently hit preview instead of submit. Got home, hit submit, the website ate it. I'll write it out again when I wake up. X_X

On the bright side, as an amateur PC tinkerer myself, I suspect that forum is going to be a helpful resource in the future for me. :D

His mobo is fried, unfortunately. I did everything I could, but it's kaputsky. I think his plan is to build a new relatively soon.

I just finished my 8 hour test. I've only got two more tests for the term and for the first two years of basic sciences before I'm heading back to the States.

While I don't have any kind of breathing room due to the two tests in three weeks, I have at least made it past this immediate rough patch.

Sorry for going AWOL. Work has been nonsense lately, plus the 'splody-mobo. My brother has offered to let me yank organs from his old HP, so maybe I can hobble something together without frying it.

Until then, Deriku is perfectly happy to stand around holding a lantern as he has a -6 attack for a maximum of 1 point of nonlethal damage. Also, it gives him a good vantage point to say "Stands on the Spiral told Alanar so." when he gets eaten alive by monsters.

You're probably best served using his mobo and case and just carving out your HDD, Ram and Graphics Card. Just use his HDD as primary and lash yours on as a slave to see if it works. That should at least be serviceable for a little while. I doubt his mobo will fit in your weird case.

Just a heads up that ill be updating tonight. I have a 9 day vacation from work starting tonight where I'll be home and posting more regularly.

Yay for vacations~ Looking forward to it.

Good to hear! Will also be looking forward to it~

Updated! A little later than I planned, but now I've got nothing but free time for a good long while. The last week at the office was super hectic trying to tie up loose ends before my vacation.

:3

...Now's the time for Anlessa to post that she takes a swing at it! ;-)

She would probably would consider it if it wasn't for the spider venom. :p

Never fear! I have posted and Shen Hua will take care of all of it.

....uh, next turn!

Ahh well, reasoning with flaming skulls is probably rarely the right answer but it was worth a shot. Interesting to hear the girl behind speak, and declare her independence from the skull.

Ahh well, reasoning with flaming skulls is probably rarely the right answer but it was worth a shot. Interesting to hear the girl behind speak, and declare her independence from the skull.

It's always worth a try!

I'll admit, I didn't expect that Alanar would ever hug a ghost. But she's a girl in pain, and even though I'm kind of thinking he's about to take cold damage here, it's in his nature to comfort someone crying like that.

Alanar the Firehearted: Ghost Hugger

Hah!

I just looked at the map for the first time in a bit. I haven't been looking at it because I thought I was next to Anlessa and we're stuck in the middle and it's not like I'm in combat anyway.

Imagine my surprise that I'm down at the end of the hallway in the dark all by myself!

So I hightailed it back to the group. I had thought that you were simply reminding me that there was no light back where we had come from. I didn't realize that Shen Hua had gone down there to find that out.

Whew. At least she's back in relative safety now. What a terrifying adventure that was.

I can't view the map. I keep getting sent to a page to clear my cache and cookies. I've done it twice and deleted all information linked to web apps as well and once I try to open the map it switches me over to the warning page.

Shen Hua will move up so that she can aid another if possible but last time it looked I was in the back with no path forward.

You could move up, but you might take an AOO depending on how other people move. Do you have a weapon? I think you need to be armed to aid another, though I might be wrong...

I know people are busy and stuff, but I'm looking for two more players to get an ACG playtest off the ground. I'd love if anyone here could help me out. As I am also very busy these days I'm not asking for a lot of time commitment. It will be 1-3 posts per week depending on my own availability to update.

Advanced Class Guide Playtest

I just checked on the PRD and you are not required to be armed, but are required to be in a position to attack the enemy your ally is fighting.

Hey guys, just a heads up: December is shaping up to be a real bear at my office as law firms get in their billing in advance the end of the fiscal year, so I've been pulling overtime and generally working harder than usual. As such I've been pretty burned out when I get home so I may miss a day or two of posting here and there up through New Years. Please bear with me and any slowness to respond to stuff.

So noted.

A heads up on my end, as well: we're currently getting a rather nasty (for here, anyway) winter storm. While it doesn't seem as bad as the 2009 Horrorstorm was, I may be without power and/or internet for awhile, so if I should suddenly vanish, that's probably why.

I'm back from my extra busy week at work. I'm still going to be a little slow but I've got some more free time now to handle things.

Also, may I add, it blows my mind that Alyona only has one N in her name. I-- could've sworn it was two. Like, forever. I thought you were joking at first but-- mind blown.

Haha, no big deal. I used a name generator drawing from a pool of several eastern European countries. So it's a real name, at least an anglicized version of a real name.

I just finished the first of my finals and I'm wiped out with a splitting headache. I was up all night studying and so I'm going to sleep now. I will catch up and post later tonight or in the morning.

Sorry to fall behind. I'll catch up asap.

PS: Pretty sure I passed that one. One more on Thursday and then it's back to the States for Clinical Rotations!

(Belated) congrats on passing your final, and good luck on this one!

I won't have a chance to update until tomorrow night on this, guys. Just so you know!

I got all of my results today. I passed all of my courses as well as the program. Goodbye four hour lectures, pointless lab sessions and mindnumbingly frustrating questions written by people who speak poor english.

YAY!!!!!!!

On the other hand, come May, say hello to 12 hour days at the hospital followed by a four hour study sessions six days a week and huge tests every 3 weeks. 8)

We leave the island Thursday for the States where I will be sequestered until March to prepare for Step One of my Boards. I will have a short vacation then until May when I will begin Clincial Rotations in NYC.

So, I should have far fewer problems making my one post a day for the next six months. 8)

Cool.

Thanks a ton for bearing with me while I'm crazy busy this month, guys, I really appreciate it.

Traveling tonight...and then on and off til New Years. I'll have my laptop with me, but will be intermittently slow to post.

Thanks for the heads-up Taeo!

We will continue onwards to the school once everyone has had a chance to react to what happened and said/done everything they'd like now that they're in safety.

Hi All!

Just to give you guys a heads-up, I'm super busy because of the holidays and haven't been on the Internet outside of my phone in a few days. I'll be delayed in updating things till this weekend, most likely, though if I manage to steal a little time here and there I will!

I hope you all had an excellent week! :D

As a Christmas Gift to the groups I'm GMing for, you've each received a present of your choice, contained behind the spoiler! Just let me know which one you'll be taking in a reply to this message, and don't forget to mark it on your character sheet!

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Ruins of Pathfinder: Christmas Gifts!
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Ooh, awesome! Will pick my bonus when I get back from work; thanks Lucent!

Also wanted to wish everyone happy holidays; hope your Christmas is merry and bright!

Big damn hero points please! Thank you sire. -bows-

Thanks! Call me a sucker for the Deck of Many Things...

card: 1d54 ⇒ 52

... is that the Wanderer?

I too will choose Big Damn Hero Points for my Christmas Gift. (I admit the Harrow option was tempting, but given my luck it... didn't seem wise. ^^;)

...Oh, I strongly suspect you're right...but then Taeo's never been the wisest. ;-)

Hey guys! Wanted to pop in and let you know I'm running a blog of personal Pathfinder design insights over here if you're interested!

And Taeo: It *is* the Wanderer :)