Setting my goals on updating all games in the next 24 hours. I hope everyone is still around. I’ll post a short recap to remind everyone where we are and then try my best to get things moving again.
My mistake, I took a good theatrical description, "dropping to one knee and then standing again to fight" - too literally, and began thinking you had gone prone - I'll move you the full amount when I update tonight
Male Human Fighter 1| AC 18 T 12 FF 16 CMD 16 (18 v Trip and disarm)|12/12 HP | F +4 R +2 W +1 | Init +2 | Perc +2
The DMG has rules for chases here. I ran one from The Gods Market Gamble and it went ok, but frustrating for some of the characters who didn't have the needed skills.
Waiting on the search results. My first reaction would be, since Cicily has confirmed the orc really didnt want to hurt her, is to get the names of his agents, scare the crap outta him to get him to run, and let him go so we never hafta deal with the snake ever again. Depends on what we find on him. Killing him in combat would've been fine, but killing prisoners without a just reason seems too dark for Cal. Especially since we have the word of his victim at least partially excusing him.
Calex, please decide from the following list, what you will keep
Potion of Cure moderate Wounds
Acid (2)
Alchemist’s fire
Black adder venom (2)
Bloodroot (2)
Blue Whinnis
Liquid ice (2)
Oil of Taggit
Thunderstones (2)
The cure potion I feel should go to one of our frontliners- Rob or Ravena.
The Blue Whinnis I'll keep- it may be usefull if we ever have another prisoner to keep subdued. The liquid ice too is something Cal would like- he enjoys that kind of oddity. The rest can be divided amongst the others as decided by the group.
No. I want him to have enough equipment & money to get off Urandoma, but take enough of the interesting stuff to punish him. I'm hoping this will dispose of him, without resorting to murder. Him agreeing to exile hopefully solved that. If we encounter the weasel again, all bets are off though- he only gets 1 pass from Cal. Killing him in combat would have been ok, but since he surrendered civilized actions are called for. Had he killed his prisoner, he would have received no mercy from Cal, but Cicily herself said he took pains to avoid hurting her.
Besides, I really would like the name of the enemy agent in Woodbridge.
I will not be doing any recruiting for any games on these forums. However, if any of you have a friend, one you like to play in PbP games with here, who might be interested in joining this game it would make me very happy if we could find a Maetaur player character who could stick around for a while, and who was willing to put up with my ways.
I would like to find out how interested everyone is in continuing this adventure - the next thing that should happen is (after returning to Woodbridge, or perhaps not all of you returning to Woodbridge) determining exactly what is to be gained from seeking out the mysterious places Cicily was barely able to tell you about 9which will be a modification of the next part of the Pathfinder Giantslayer adventure path, the Hill Giant's Pledge).
Woodbridge has been a fun place to develop, for me, and expand upon which has spawned other campaigns in the same setting, but if the players feel like this is a good place to stop, and are tired of the style of play I present, we can end this game right here.
So please post here with your intentions to participate in another long adventure, or take this opportunity to bow out of this game.
I've enjoyed everyone of you as a player, and hope all of you the best in the future.
I, of course, will only shut down the game if a majority of players decide that this should be the end. If half or more of you want to keep going I will consider a recruitment.
Well that is four out of five active players in this game
I'm not really sure what to tell Marcus, though a long while back I tried to get him engaged in some goings on in the village. He probably missed that post, and I should contact him to see if he is still wanting to take an small, if not too active, role in Woodbridge's growth. Poseus had said he wanted to keep follow9ing the game, but was not able to be active, so we still have him in the character tab.
Marwan:
On the mainland, west of Harrispania, Pallicadia, and Vurespania, the mountains are home to races of giants. What you know of their nature, is based mostly upon conjecture, rumor, and tall tales. All giants, when they are encountered, which is very rare, are said to be dangerous, either because of their short, violent tempers, or in some tales, their buffoonish simplicity. Some folk in the northwest of Alodoa tell stories of peaceful Hill, Stone, and Storm giants who live in hidden valleys and mountains shrouded in clouds. Not much detail is actually known about the habits and daily lives of these giants, and even less is known about races of giants which some say are actually cross breeds whose blood is mixed with ancient elemental beings, these would be the Fire, Rock, Cloud, and Frost giants, which loom large in old stories as far more dangerous enemies, but which are never seen these days. Marwan would be surprised to hear that there are Giants on Urandoma, being that it is an island, but at the same time he probably doesn’t know the complete geography of the island, and will be surprised to hear that the mountains to the southeast of the lands where he is now are actually very high, some reaching over ten thousand feet to the tops of their peeks.
Halloween shenanigans and the site being off line a few times when I was trying to check in have put me way behind in updates. I'll be trying to get small updates done tonight.
Minor point, Terquem...Wiscarra says in her character background her mother's name was Geralda. Its not an important change, Carra hasn't been in the game for over 3 years, but just a nitpick. ;)
We can just go with the other name moving forward. I'm probably the only one here that would notice.
Speaking of Carra, that was a surprise to see her being mentioned in the game again after so long. Way to show the past lore and breathe some history into the current line. Well done, boss!
So the weasel lied. Next time I won't feel any need to hold Ravena back, then. And I'm guessing there WILL be a next time. He's probably scuttled off to Lograd.
Sigh.
At least Cicily is free. I can put that in the win column if nothing else.
I have moved the party to a location on the hill country south of the Green Wood, which can always be used as a land mark when traveling through this region. The Green Wood is to the north of your current location, perhaps no more than one quarter to one half of a mile away. The hills to the south roll in higher and higher elevations until they reach the Hill of the Cairns, the highest hill around for miles. You can see the Hill of the Cairns, and you know it is about six miles to the south. Using it as a land mark you can easily reach it, and then from there you can see the smaller Fox Woods which are north of the river crossing , which is just a quarter of a mile west of MIngary bend. Now the journey from the Hill of the Cairns is a bit southwesterly, and not directly south, which is where Woodbridge would be, however, there is no safe river crossing anywhere along the river that you know of, other than the place you have already traveled from, making the journey a bit longer than it would have to be.
Here, the party can take a moment to discuss among themselves any plans they want to make on what they will do when they return to Mingary Bend, and Woodbridge.
Working up a good filler for a response by Tom the giant. Also, that time of year so I expect everyone to be a little busy. We probably don't want to push a confrontation with Wiscara's mother unless you are sure you have a good plan and we can wrap it up before the week of Christmas and New Year's Eve.
If you need to bounce ideas off each other just use the discussion thread. We don't need to have everything be role played out
You can cross the river, and go east to Mingary Bend, dropping off Cicily and Darlene (after she has shared a few hours talking with Stolos - I'll get something put together for him soon)
and then go south into Woodbridge
Do you feel like you've had enough time to prepare for what you plan to do?
Sounds good to me. I like Marwan's idea of Calex and Stolos visiting, and Aniktah and Darlene both make good points. 2 visiting might be better than 3, as larger numbers tend to gather more suspicion.
YAY! I'm back! Sorry for going dark for so long guys, our cable modem crapped out. Service guy just left, so I'll read up on what I missed and try posting later today or tomorrow at latest.
My plan was to update games yesterday, but yesterday we had a fire at the facility where I am a system engineer. A Pyrophoric event in the sorting trough. I was assigned to the Emergency Response Organization and assigned to the Emergency Operations Center. I wasn't released from work until 9:20 pm (my day started at 3:45 am)
I'm a little tired and shook up, but I think I can get updates done today.
