“Say Your Right Words!” (Inactive)

Game Master Terquem

The chamber with the shambling mound had a left and right exit

The cave entrance also had a left and right exit

Let me know what you want to do, and how you intend to get by the shambling mound

I have more animal feed that I can use to distract it. I have three packs. I'll try using one.

Ohhh missed this for some reason. I'd say the shambling mound left exit . Clear out as much as possible before heading to the entrance.

I think we should go ahead and open the door.

Do it!

Tabaaac isn't going to do it! He's too scared!

Gobzilla is brave he will do it ;)

A surprise Mother's Day get-a-way has taken me away from computers until Tuesday, sorry for the delay.

I'll be trying to update the map tonight and tell you all what is beyond the door

welcome back :)

Well here I am apologizing again. I am headed to Boise again, a four hour drive, and will be back Sunday. I had wanted to get all the games updated today, but couldn't get the time. Sorry everyone.

I hope to be back with some updates Sunday Night.

I have a touch of Bronchitis, but I am trying to update games today anyway.

Someone in the group, *ahem* might have the ability to summon forth the water that has receded in this pool, but that might involve negotiating with a Water Elemental or two...

Not this goblin!

I'm pretty sure you were the last one in possession of the wand of wonder...

I have a wand of wonder?

I realize it was a long time ago, in a long, dragged out, mostly nonsensical game, but yes, you used it to control the water elementals at the first pool which contained the door to the Here. The rod was found in the chamber of the mummies, where you also took a nice hat.

Oh, the scepter thing!

My oldest son and his wife brought another wonderful little girl into the world on Friday, making us grandparents for the second time now. We are taking mom home from the hospital today. Mom and baby are doing great. Happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there.

I should be back to posting game updates tomorrow,

:)

Congrats!

Starting Thursday Jun 30 and through Wed July 6 I will be camping and not have access to the internet. I won't be able to post.

Back from camping!

Okay, so here I am with my first full day off trying to explain my absence. Basically, the company I worked for was dissolved, and we merged into a larger company owned by the mega corporation Fluor. All of June was a nightmare, and July we began revising our procedures and finally got new org charts. I am still, sort of, doing the same job, but my immediate manager, well he got a new boss and he really doesn’t like his new boss and I think he is taking out his frustrations on us. We’ve been having stupid long meetings every day. Three employees were fired for time card fraud (which is sort of the catch all excuse for firing people who work on government projects). I know I shouldn’t post from work, but I often do during the week, but with all the changes and scrutiny I was being very cautious. Things are still pretty chaotic at work, but I think things will settle down by the end of July.

On top of that we had a new granddaughter born at the end of June, baby was fine, but mom had a small set back from the c-section she had, and my wife and I were spending a lot of time helping our son and his little family.

I know that’s a lot of silly personal real life stuff to put on the forum but I wanted everyone to know where I’ve been. I have this whole day to try to get all my games caught up and I know some of you have been waiting a very long time. I hope you can find interest in the games again and come back to play when you can.

Thanks, everyone

I'm fine. It seems like we're in the homestretch for this game, I will stick with it until the end.

Family and work take first priority of course. Hope thing settle down for you.

Here is an update for every one of my wonderful patient players

I have not been able to do updates during the week from the computer I normally use due to the recent changes in my employment (working under a new contractor). I won’t go into details, because the truth is I allowed myself to get spoiled by the previous contractor’s more or less indifference to how much time we spent messing around on the internet (as long as we got our work done, they didn’t seem to care much). The new boss is watching us, and has installed something called iPrism, to track our online activity.

What this means, first I am not shutting down any games. I love the games here, and I have great players. What it does mean is that I will try to do more updates on week nights and on the weekends, but it also means that my already slow games will probably get slower.

If any of you find this is something you just don’t have time for and want to drop out I will not hold that against you. I understand that players want to spend their time doing something that they feel is worth their effort, so I will do my best to give you the best game I can, but understand it might be slower than it has been in the past.

The good news is I only work 4 days a week and have Friday off, and with summer winding down my Fridays will be a little slower in general and I hope to make it my primary catch up day on games.

Thank you

I will be out camping for a week. feel free to bot Fluuk in that time, he will focus on carrying the water bowls.

I'll be back around monday the 8th at the latest.

Fluuk/Unbolath

Got my first set of stitches out today and the lab report says the cancer was fully excised so I am going to have a great recovery. I hope to be updating games tomorrow. I've been a little weak, and work is still a bit rough, but I have no intention of quitting my games, so

Thank you for being patient with this old man

No problem. I'm glad that you're doing well.

No worries at all. Glad to hear the great news.

Hope Tabaaac didn't ruin it with his question :)

Hope everything is alright.

Everything is okay, I hope to update tommorow. Been some stress, but I am dealing with it.

If I don't get updates done today it might not happen until Monday. I am so sorry for this recent slow down and I am trying to recover from some things that I was not expecting. Please hang in there

I apologize to everyone. I got dragged off by my family for a surprise trip this week and haven't had one free moment since last Friday. I will be back this weekend.

Best kind of delay.

I'll be sure to let you guys know though if I surprise win a million dollars. :p

I think we are going to wrap this scene up soon. I am dealing with a minor issue at home, please be a little patient for a day or two. Thank you

I apologize if I made this decision too difficult.

It's alright. I think we might have to vote.

So I think we have two options?

Forget asking for help and take care of Penny's attackers ourselves?

Give someone not Penny the words.

I'm fine with both honestly.

I prefer "Give someone not Penny the words and idiot-proof the wish." The other option is too open for failure and most likely only results in more violence. The words could just be used for things like eternal world (village?) peace.

Two votes for that then?

Gemdar and Flukk?

I'm in the don't use the wish camp and go and slaughter the bad guys.

We are waiting for Fluuk to vote, yes? I will send a message to him

But I want to say that if this ends up being a tie, I will not have an NPC cast a deciding vote. I realize this has been a drag. I get that, so let me say something out of the norm for a DM

Whatever decision is made I will not punish the characters claiming it was the "wrong" decision, okay.

I don't don't do that. I don't even have the intelligence to try to imagine every possible outcome that I could pre plan based upon selections I want the characters to make. I have always been the sort of DM who simply builds a framework of the world, there are problems, situations, and the characters will make choices. When they do, I'll then figure out what is a good challenge for that decision and how the story may go.

So don't worry too much about this decision, and I hope you all know that no matter what you decide, I'll try to make the outcome interesting, challenging, and worth sticking around for

Sorry for my slow posting. Have been mega busy with RL. Fluuk is waffling but probably more in the don't use the wish also.

Well,

If you want me to just push through this decision with DM fiat, I will, but I feel it sort of takes away a lot from the players.

It seems we're tied, so I change my vote to No Wish.

That's fine with me.