wow... I miss one day and look at all these posts, lol. PbP is my only gaming right now too. My oldest son is 9 and he's starting to get curious about pathfinder, so I may try to get a couple of RL friends that I'm living closer to now together to introduce him to it, but I'm still too busy with grad school right now.
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Re: Listening to stuff - Funnily enough, I can listen to audiobooks while I draw, though that may be because I was listening to the Legend of Drizzt series. Not exactly something that's known for deep, contemplative themes. :D
Speaking of drawing, I drew a Joanna! It's her in her current armor. I didn't look at the Gray Maiden armor that she supposedly scavenged pieces from, so I'm almost certainly off there. I think I made her legs too long, though she's supposed to be slender. She just looks taller than the 5' 4" she's supposed to be.
A large part of my job is writing technical reports, and quite often I'll listen to music to drown out the distraction of the office... I have to keep it to fairly mellow type stuff and there's no way I could listen to podcasts or audiobooks at the same time...
Adam - Also, loving your new Joanna...
Sorry for my silence. Been bummed as heck, had to deal with a lot of stupid people on the internet and had to take a step back, had a minor medical scare (thought my appendix was going to burst [it didn't]), and now a trauma with a close acquaintance.
I'm trying to be around. On a lighter note, I got back into Skyrim (which might not be helping, TBH), and I've lost 8kg in a month due to a diet, so... kinda yay?
As I've said in the Divine RotRL game, I'm here for ya. I'll be keeping you and yours in my thoughts and prayers.
And really, Skyrim's pretty fun. I've just got other things taking up time I'd use for gaming.
I just hope they don't try to give your character only two voice choices if they give them voices in the next game.
Oh, and I hope you guys are ready for a fight. Jo's probably going to kick one off despite her best efforts.
Those are your best efforts?!?
Lol, poor Teldon- his sense motive is high enough that he can tell exactly how poorly everyone else is bluffing...
I'd say the same about Joanna, but she was wearing a helmet.
I think this should be a lesson, if we're trying to avoid a fight, we should just get Bri and Jo to make puppy-dog eyes at them. The odds of success are much better anyway.
That said, I do hope we get to some point where we can engage in some silliness again. I miss having Jo be adorkable.
I am so sorry to hear of your friend's loss, Ronnie. That's devastating.
I also must apologize for disappearing yet again! It seems that the past few times I've had had a chance to try to post, the site was unresponsive.
I had been planning to update all of my online games Saturday night while I was hanging out at my neighborhood bar, but some friends of mine dropped in, and I decided to be social. (I got in an update for my on-again/off-again Ravenloft game, but no others.)
Right now, I'm posting from work while procrastinating writing a whole bunch of edits to a website...
Hey, nothing wrong with being sociable. ;)
And yeah, the sites been a little flakey with this last round of updates.
Also, I hope that this isn't too out of character for Joanna to all of you. I just figured that after Joanna poured out her heart and offered her what is, frankly, a very good deal, and the callous way Quenelle seems to regard Helanda and, by extension, the other Gray Maidens that were victims of the monsters here, her frustrations with this place boiled over.
Also, oooowww~! That hit hurt. If Joanna takes another one like that, she's not going to be staying in the fight long.
I'm sick.. please DMPC me
Get well soon Arsith!
In the meantime, I think this sums up Teldon and Joanna pretty well. Hope it at least gives ya a chuckle. :)
EDIT: Then there's this little bit. honestly the whole comic's worth a read. I'm just trying to catch back up.
Thankies!
Pffffff!!!!! Gloating about public holidays when not everyone around the table gets one.... grumble, grumble, grumble...
So, I read a bunch of webcomics and one of them updated with page that reminded me of this group so much that I laughed and thought I'd share. You want the last two panels. No points for guessing which one's Teldon. :P
Hi, folks.
I am dealing with some elder care issues from 300 miles away. I'm not sure when I'll be able to resume regular posting.
Thanks for understanding.
Yeah, I hope things get resolved quickly, Zee. And, Arsith, I hope you’re feeling better.
Anyone know what’s going on with the gameplay thread? We seem to have stalled a bit...
Lemme second what Nate's saying here. Hope things work out for you guys.
Hi, folks.
I am dealing with some elder care issues from 300 miles away. I'm not sure when I'll be able to resume regular posting.
Thanks for understanding.
Yeah, let me just agree with what the other folks are saying - hope it all works out as smoothly as it can...
As to Gameplay thread, my bad - I had a hell of a mid-week with travelling and it took the wind out of my sails - I managed a couple of posts in some of my other games but didn't get to this... back on it today :)
Hi, folks.
So, here's what's been going on...
My 79-year old mother is having some serious health problems, and I'm not sure how much longer she'll be able to continue to live in her house. It's the same house I grew up in: two stories with a finished basement; bedrooms upstairs; washing machine/dryer in the basement. She's having a great deal of trouble with the stairs now, and there isn't really a way to install one of those stair-climbing rail seats. (I looked into it.)
Further complicating matters is that she lives with, and had been a primary caregiver to, her older sister, who's now 86. Thankfully, both my mother and my aunt still have all of their marbles: Their limitations are strictly physical for now.
I live in central New York State, which is about 300 miles away. We don't have a lot of family left in my old hometown. My sister still lives there, and she has been keeping an eye on things. Unfortunately, my sister is kind of marginal herself, and I can't really trust her to make sound decisions. (The family joke is that my sister is 47 but still acts like she's 17.) One of my cousins lives in Boston, which is only 40 miles away, so she can drop in a few times a week. I trust my cousin to make good decisions, and we've been discussing how best to keep our moms healthy and happy.
I've been driving out a couple of times a month to help take care of things around the house, but that is unsustainable. My cousin and I just hired some home health-care aides and a housekeeping service. It's expensive, but still cheaper than an assisted living facility.
I am hoping that the newly-hired in-home aides will be able to lessen the burden on me and my cousin. I'm not going out there this weekend, so we'll see how it goes.
I'm hoping to get back into the game shortly. Honestly, I could really use the mental distraction right about now!
Thanks for letting me vent!
I'm glad of that too. I haven't had anyone in my family lose their marbles yet, well, inasmuch as any of us have marbles to lose :D, but We've got a similar situation with my grandmother on my mom's side of family. Big house with lots of sentimental value and history that she lives in all by herself and can't really maintain without help and all of that. She'll be 90 in December, and keeps saying she doesn't want to be a burden. She definitely doesn't get around like she used to. At least my mom, her two sisters, and three of us four grandkids live just down the road so we can help out.
I'm not sure what's worse, getting older or watching someone get older. :\
That's certainly rough. I hope the services you and your cousin have hired work out well. My stepfather recently had to move his aged mother into assisted living (he lives in the suburbs north of Adelaide, she lives in Ballarat), so I know by association how rough it can be. Hopefully your mum won't need that for a while.
I know that often just being able to vent and be heard is more valuable than any advice (and I think/hope its clear that we're glad to do that)... I also used to work in construction so I also know that adding a 1st floor laundry hook-up is usually far cheaper/simpler than installing those stair climbers. That's not always the case, and I'm not sure it would solve the whole problem, but I thought I'd mention it on the off chance that it might be helpful to consider in the future. I hope that the steps you've already taken will have a big impact!
That's some pretty challenging stuff... if there is a positive side is that at least the limitations are just physical - and it sounds like you've got things on an even keel as well; here's hoping your hired help works out okay... no advice to offer sorry, but happy for this place to be somewhere to vent or to have some kind of a distraction...
Just echoing what others have said here... my inbox is always open for folks who want to PM and, if you ever see me seemingly ignoring posts in the Discussion Thread then its just 'cause I'm an absent-minded, juggling loads of balls at work then returning home to a 6 yo / 9 yo pair of boys, fellow... I saw Briana's / Ladile's Walking Dead game suddenly stop and it is kind of sad - and, I suppose, always a risk of running long games that we get emotionally invested in. I consider everyone here a friend - goodness knows I've played on these boards with you folks for a good few years... I'm not on Facebook, Google Hangouts or the like - but, e-mail is a thing :)
I'm not planning on going AWOL anytime soon - four of my five GM games are long campaigns (Shattered Star soon to finish book two of six, Legendary Planet halfway through the second book proper, the Emerald Spire at the thirteenth level of sixteen... and the Blight only just started along its long road) - but I'm going to PM players my e-mail address - just as an insurance against the 'has my GM dropped off the face of the world?' syndrome - if I do ever go long term in absentia, you'll have another way of reaching out...
My email can be found on this profile. Like Zed, my PM box is always open if you need to chat or vent. I may not have any advice, but I am pretty good at listening.
*sends love to Briana/Lady L*
(and a PM)
(and a friendly hug)
(yeah, sad to see The Walking Dead of Golarion stopping, and worried about the GM)
(and when do you plan to GM again, Lady L? I love your games..)
I'm also here if anyone ever wants or needs to chat. I also might miss a few things here and there, but it's entirely on me. I'm working a job that still isn't paying after six weeks, leaves me mentally drained, and has some very frustrating people in it (adults and children alike). These games are the only Pathfinder I have left - there's too much stuff going on in my local PFS lodge to enjoy it right now, and with GURPS and Exalted taking up my weekends, what time do I even have left?
(Not that I don't enjoy those games immensely: Captain Balthazar Ward just Exalted last session, having been visited by Luna in her guise of the Two-Faced Bride, and now has the strangest craving for calamari, as well as the knowledge that one of the last people to carry his Exaltation was killed by the Scarlet Empress herself. Which is very interesting.)
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7,000 posts and still going…
...and just as a bit of fun, here's a reminder of what was happening each time we clicked around the next thousand posts...
- Ziomarra accepts the call from Lady Heidmarch to retrieve the Sihedron.
Ziomarra grins a mirthless smile and shakes her head. "Well, if I had been content to perform Harrow readings for tourists at two silvers a session, I would not have left Kaer Maga. And if I truly thought that secrets were meant to stay buried, I would not have petitioned to join the Pathfinder Society!"
- Teldon, having received a message that a contact who he fought dead is, in fact, alive and well, agrees to an arrangement that will, eventually, lead to Ravenmoor...
"Excellent" Teldon exclaims. As he turns to face Kyrot his eyes meet Briana's and his gaze lingers there for a moment longer than perhaps it should. When he realizes what he's doing, he forces his attention to the tiefling and continues, "Please inform Lord Fairfax that it would be my honor and pleasure to represent him... but also mention that there are 1 or 2 particular items of great interest to another benefactor with whom I have a previous agreement and I will, of course, need to honor that arrangement."
- the group, minutes away from discovering Nalathi murdered in a shack used by a cult of Ghlaunder, fight an Aranea...
The spider creature recoils as Ziomarra fixes it with her gaze - yet, despite the sudden lethargy which grips it, it easily avoids Briana's Mace attack.
- Deep below the Crow, the friends find themselves fighting hellhounds in a labyrinth attuned to a dark corner of hell...
With Aristh and Zee's summoned butterfly taking the the fight to the second hound and Joanna and Teldon still facing off with the first, Briana decides that the best thing she can do for the moment is to hold her position lest she get in the way. Desiring to be proactive as well, she reaches out and places a hand on Teldon's shoulder to imbue him with a little extra insight on his next move.
- Seeking the next shard of the sihedron, the friends come to the aid of an unlikely guide...
Seeing Teldon taking care of the last of the thugs, Joanna turns and rushes to help the stricken Kandamerus.
Feeling a little winded as her connection to the divine power of her goddess fades, she turns to the others.
“Do we have a way of tying them up,” she asks, nodding at the immobilized and charmed thugs, “any rope or something like that?”
- Fighting demons beneath the Lady’s Light, the friends are only moments from Teldon’s abduction and subsequent ensorcellment…
This time, Arsith hits her target
Come to me, demon!I'll fight your evil with the power of beauty, of purity!
- In a brief interlude between fighting Illeosa’s honour guard, holed up in the Lady’s Light, and seeking out the Shard of Lust, Shadlah wonders aloud to her stone companion…
Shadlah shakes her head, looking at the small pile of rocks that snuffles and waddles around her half-finished works. He says very little with so many words, she mutters in a voice that only the creature can understand, and the armadillo makes an odd chuffing sound in response, attempting to assimilate a half-formed figure into its abdomen.
She glances curiously at the coloured lights, asking, "Is this common practice among tshamek?"
And here's to another 7000. :)
I've been having a ball so far and I'm looking forward to the next shard. We needs a little zaniness once Halli's back to normal and we've helped Zee with her theft of an identity.
Giving Arsith and Shadlah until this evening to post otherwise I'll GMPC or Delay them...
Hi, folks.
I am still alive, if anyone was wondering.
The home aides at my mom's house seem to be working well, despite my aunt's frequent racist comments.
Teldon: I took your advice and installed a washer/dryer combo in the main floor bathroom. That's also working well. I also converted the dining room into a bedroom, so my mom doesn't have to climb stairs on a regular basis.
On the gaming front: I have put my Ravenloft and Runelords games on hiatus for now. I hope this will allow me to post more often in the three games I'm playing in.
I am also completely open to communicating with you folks outside of the Paizo boards. Please feel free to PM me, and I'll share my email address, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and phone/SMS contact info.
Now to read the 80+ posts on the Gameplay thread...
Glad to hear things are going at least a little bit better, I hope they continue to improve!
Same here. Very happy to hear things are going well for the most part.
Glad to see you're back, take care!
Somehow in the busyness of last week I missed it, but my overall post count (across all aliases) has broken 10,000. I know some of you are way past that but it seemed like a noteworthy milestone.