I would like to grant Mark my proxy, to evidence a lack of desire to thwart Mark, owing to my concern for Phillip's frustration and continued self-distancing.
As Malkith stated, I could care less what happens to the spiders, but they're probably better off dead. I guess that puts me in the "dead" camp.
Give me half a vote for living spiders. While they'd be fun to do something with, they'd require a degree of proactivity and if we're beginning to follow the plot of the game I think we already have enough distractions. Add to that the fact that Braddon wouldn't exactly be the one putting together any convoluted schemes and I realise I'm essentially voting more work for you guys. So, only 1/2 vote for amusing arachnid anecdotes and antidotes. :-)
Phillip's already in the wind, though his position was well stated. His IC reaction was mostly directed towards Saul for listening to Gristav's reasoning, but not giving Phillip respect enough to argue the counterpoint.
Gristav - out of all those involved in the fray - your character is the only PC that really didn't want them dead... so take ownership of that and actually follow it up.
Gristav will diminish in Phillip's eyes if he allows his conviction to fade, while he might embiggen if he follows through and makes something of the spider's being alive. Perhaps you could work them into the Varisian night as a brash and boldfaced two fingered / spidered salute against Cleg.
I don't really care one way or another. Initially(IC wise) Snake was just wanting to kill 'em. Mainly for the reason of, because that's what you're suppose to do. We're pc's, we kill the monsters/bad guys, whatever.
But, I also find it kind of interesting with this idea of: 'Let's fight fire with his own fire'. Of course it's not gonna be anything like planting a bomb in the building, but it is kind of fun kind of sticking it back in his face.
You know, it reminds me of Baldur's Gate. Don't know how much you folks know of it, but, it's like the best DnD video game ever.
Anyway, there's a Beholder guarding this treasure. Well, as pc's your first inclination is to go kill it. Why? Because it's a freaking Beholder! And that's what pc's do. But if you take the time to talk to it(My brother never did. He just immediately went in with guns blazing), you can actually convince it that it has done its job protecting the treasure. A powerful wizard(I think, but I'm totally not sure) asked it to guard his treasure for him as he was dying. But the way he said it was in a way that you could twist it to where there was an escape clause for the Beholder. I can't remember for the life of me how the wizard put it but it was pretty fun being able to "win" without having to kill the thing. Or having to avoid a dang death ray!
In a nutshell, I like twists like that. It makes it more interesting for sure. But I also don't have a problem with crushing a skull or two either. :)
And just to be clear, I'm talking as a PC. I promise I don't go around crushing people's skulls. :p
Baldur's Gate is good... but Planescape Torment is a work of high art. If you haven't Javell, do yourself a favor and pick it up.
The Brothel of Slaking Intellectual Lusts, Dak'kon, Morte, the Sensates... so many memories.
What if Gristav cooks and eats the dead ones, then reassembles the carapaces (will probably need two to cover the damages) into a puppet-spider. We could scuttle it across our ceiling-cloths, or hang it in a chest lid, so it swung out when the chest was opened.
Sadly, a doc to write for work, so little time tonight for Gristavian garrulousness.
Baldur's Gate I remember, never saw Planescape: Torment.
Planescape Torment was freaking awesome! Man I forgot about that one.
Yeah Mark is right. That is another one that is highly recommended. Now I'm curious if they make it compatible with today's Windows. I think I actually still have it; I'm not sure if I got rid of it or not. Now I'm gonna have to look and see. It wouldn't matter though, even if I did, there's no way that version would work on my PC. Not on Windows 7.
I can't believe that one slipped my mind. Man that was definitely a good one.
I checked on Torment and you can't buy any physical version that's compatible for today's Windows.
But I did find it on gog.com for download. Which is compatible for the Windows of today including 8.
I've always been kinda leery about downloading a game from a site I'm not familiar with. But it is kinda tempting being only $9.99. Any thoughts about gog.com, anybody?
BG is also that price as well. But I've heard that Black Isle(who is also the developer of Torment) was having issues with the BG download. Another reason I'm leery about downloading a game.
North Carolina yields to South Carolina, and New York abstains ... courteously.
So that's what? Three votes for dead, one-half vote for alive, and Javell straddling the fence?
Torment lied to me and I'll never forgive it. It was all, 'Oh, you can play as any character type you want,' so I maxed out Nameless's Int and talked my way out of most situations in the first part of the game without a lot of combat. Then I have to leave that part of the city via the sewers and get dumped into the Dungeon of Hack-N-Slash. I had the magus-y guy, floating on-fire guy, the talking skull, Falls-from-Grace, and Annah, and we TPKed over and over on the very first encounter in the dungeon because we got swarmed by melee monsters and Torment didn't have fireball or really any area of effect spells. We died over and over and over because I wasn't melee-heavy enough and each caster could only target one enemy per round. I never got to finish that game because I didn't want to start over and play a more combat-focused Nameless.
Javell, the Baldur's Gate that doesn't play nice with Intel graphics is the Enhanced Edition; the GOG version with the original versions of the game is totally separate.
Oh, hey, Tendal has a trait that lets him sell gear for 60% instead of 50%. If there's any loot you're looking to liquidate, you could relegate it to him and take care of it offscreen. Should all be on the Campaign Info tab, I believe.
Yep. I'm on the fence. I truly don't care one way or another. IC wise, OOC wise, ABC, NBC, or any other type of C wise. :)
Gris knows(?) a guy with an interest in venoms, that might pay off.
Finishing Friday night live PF, likely to post tomorrow,
Why does the invitation to step into another room give me a cold sweat and tingly nape of the neck? :P
Why does the invitation to step into another room give me a cold sweat and tingly nape of the neck? :P
So, what's your next character? :-)
Hmmm... I'd have to go complete opposite perhaps? A stoner Erastil devotee that just wants everyone to get along?
Why, Phillip, you'd think you don't believe your co-religionists are trustworthy and have your best interests at heart. ;P
Things at work are getting busy (losing more employees than you're hiring will do that), so I need to take a little hiatus from the game. Rather than continue to slow things down or leave people wondering what Malkith is doing, I'm going to take this opportunity to let him step off stage for a bit while things (hopefully) get back under control.
As long as it works for you, Joana, when everyone regroups at the Goblin again, it will be a good point to get back into the action.
I'm sorry to hear things are so hectic, the loreweaver. I'll be happy to leave Malkith consulting his cards until you have the time to step back into the game. Just let me know when you're ready.
Aye Malkith... and hopefully Phillip hasn't gotten himself killed by the time you're back in action!
Your calmness and wisdom will be missed (and may lead to Braddon's demise). Please hurry back :-)
That's true: Who knows what trouble Braddon will get himself into without Malkith there to step in and stop him? :)
Thanks guys. Hopefully I won't be gone much longer than it take for Braddon to find himself in trouble :)
Thanks guys. Hopefully I won't be gone much longer than it take for Braddon to find himself in trouble :)
See you tomorrow! :)
My daughter's birthday is tomorrow (Groundhog Day baby), so I'm unlikely to have much posting availability, at least until the evening.
So if you'd seen her shadow, she'd have been born in March? :)
That was my little delivery room joke: that if she saw her shadow, I'd have six more weeks of pregnancy. I don't remember now if my husband laughed, but if he was smart, he humored the woman in labor. ;)
I would have laughed :P
I would have laughed :P
Lol!
De Bergerac. Wasn't that a Chelaxian Cognac?
I thought it was this guy: Cyrano
Cyrano De Bergerac was a Lvl 5 mind and a Lvl 1 face who hid behind a shrubbery and coached a friend with a Lvl 5 face and a Lvl 1 mind to woo a beautiful woman. Gris was mostly joking, but still suggesting Brandon consider working a little harder. :)
This was another out-of-Golarion reference. No canonic reference suggested itself.
Always difficult translating references. I quoted Rousseau once and attributed it to a Galtan philosopher. Then we've had a Dutch door in Riddleport, and Betta's stock included hessian and crimplene, without a Netherlands, Hesse, or Crimple Valley to which to attribute them. Not much you can do about it but give a wink to the fourth wall and forge ahead. :)
Always difficult translating references. I quoted Rousseau once and attributed it to a Galtan philosopher. Then we've had a Dutch door in Riddleport, and Betta's stock included hessian and crimplene, without a Netherlands, Hesse, or Crimple Valley to which to attribute them. Not much you can do about it but give a wink to the fourth wall and forge ahead. :)
What in the CRAP are you talking about?! Is anything you said even actually real words?
You know, I read, "Always difficult translating references" and I'm like, "Difficult translating references?!?! How about translating the whole freaking paragraph?!" Because I have no idea what the hell you just typed. And I mean that in the most literal of sense. I think I'll just "forge ahead", m-kay? Movin' on. :P
"Man is born free, and yet everywhere he is in chains." Only now that I find it, I see Phil didn't make the roll to identify the (fictional) source of the quotation. :P
The Dutch door is on Grimas's cottage at the Velashu Ferry, and hessian (known in the US as burlap) and crimplene (named after the Crimple Valley where the company that developed it was situated) were fabrics Phil pretended to consider for Ethel's dress. Most or all of which might well have predated Snake's joining the campaign.
The base issue is that there's no way to reference real-world material without an accepted in-game equivalent. One could reasonably modify "The sun never sets on the British empire" to "...the Taldan empire" because it has a similar history of colonial expansion, but you can't use a phrase like "put your John Hancock on here" because there's no corollary to the Declaration of Independence and its signers in Golarion. So you can either say that the door of the cottage is divided horizontally in such a fashion that the bottom half may remain shut while the top half opens, or you can just bite the bullet and call it a Dutch door even though the word "Dutch" is meaningless in Golarion. Now, if there were a clear Netherlands equivalent, like Galt is to France, you could get away with calling it a FakeNetherlandese door. :)
And this is what I get for asking. Okay, you win. But for the record, I really did not want to know what the crap you were talking about. Mainly because, I still don't know what the crap you're talking about. :p
I'll leave that to Mark. That sounds more like his kinda talk because it sure ain't mine. And you would know this because I use the word, "ain't". :)
I'm not sure what's more heartening. That Javell is completely non-fussed by references he doesn't get, or that Mark gets the references, and is fussed at their imperfections. Or that Joanna is winking at the proscenium. (It's not dirty, Javell, look it up :) )
But it's all very heartening. Good to be playing with you all.
Mark isn't fussed at these references.
Besides... when we're all communicating in a hodge-podge pastiche of a veritable plethora of derived words from many sources we really should take a post-modernist view of things should we not?
And just as proof... I've dropped a reference in there for Joana to pick up on :P
I'm not sure what's more heartening. That Javell is completely non-fussed by references he doesn't get, or that Mark gets the references, and is fussed at their imperfections. Or that Joanna is winking at the proscenium. (It's not dirty, Javell, look it up :) )
But it's all very heartening. Good to be playing with you all.
Lol! Surrrrrre it's not. Yeah, dictionary.com is remaining closed at this time. (There's just way too much fear I won't understand the definition.) :p
If I may ejaculate an interdiction betwixt Javell and loquacious obscurity... there is really much to be had of words and their twisting.
From the childish turns upon mastication and similar earthly pleasures to the delicious mellifluous nature of such verbs as defenestrate... Grand Eloquence, or as my high school English teacher applied to myself as an appellation for same 'Word Wanking' can be a pastime both ennobling and a weapon that can eviscerate a man as ably a sword.
Say it with me: "Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness is good... Brevity is the tool of the devil"
Lol! Okay, I'm starting to think that between you and Joana that this is just fun for you people. :p
Next thing you know I'm gonna be told that "ain't", ain't a word. Sheesh.
You know, there was a post from Braddon in game that described what he heard from Gristav. It went something like this:
"Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah..." etc., so forth and so on.
Yeah, sadly, that's me in real life with you people. Maybe I should be playing Braddon? Hm? It would probably come a lot easier for me than Pryllin. :p
Well maybe that's why Morthos(a pc with an 8 Int in another pbp that I was in with Joana and Mark) was so easy to play. :)
"Ghost riders in the night."
Thanks, Braddon. Thank you. Now I have this song stuck in my head:
Ghost riders :P
And since I'm linking music, I've been meaning to do this ever since I took a closer look at Phillip's avatar.
This is who he reminds me of, the spitting image I'm telling ya, especially seeing how he's obviously a "Woman's man, with no time to talk.":
Lol! ;)
Some of Paizo's artists like to insert Easter eggs in their work. Hence Sorshen, supposedly one of the sexiest women in the history of Golarion, being the spitting image of Megan Fox. :P
Lol! Okay, I'm starting to think that between you and Joana that this is just fun for you people. :p
Of course it is! :D
I didn't pick up on Mark's reference, though ... so now I feel uninformed. :(
Green Toenails Gang - Chapter 1: 'My name is Olivia Sharp. I'm an agent for secrets. That means I'm a special kind of detective'
Ha! You know, I never actually read that series, just Nate the Great. But I couldn't resist the name Taffy Plimpton. :)
I'll confess I've not read the series either... just google searched for Taffy Plimpton :P
"Ghost riders in the night."Thanks, Braddon. Thank you. Now I have this song stuck in my head.
My work here is done. :-P
It may turn that Phillip's slight diversion to the house of sin could prove useful... it's given him and me time to think :)
In other news, my first ever cornbread loaf is currently cooling - looks and smells good, so here's hoping it tastes good with some tomato and sweet pepper relish!
To clarify, Mark, while warning Phil of the dangers of illicit trafficking, Hassan does not seem to be trying to put an end to the conversation.
How did your cornbread turn out?