GM Could I ask you to let us know your post rate, will we be looking at posts from your every 4 to 5 days from now on? Is there a problem we should know about.
This is my favorite part of running a game like this: watching the players guess. I will say that at least one of you is somewhat close to one of the mysteries at hand.
That being said, we're talking about beds for medium-sized creatures. Which is odd, because they have had beings the size of Skyscale in the ship, but no bed his sized here.
And I am also surprised that Ameo did not take even comprehend languages when he leveled, but I can't play people's characters for them =D
Yea, not sure why I didn't think to take comprehend languages. I could beat myself for that over site.
Ok Guys I am dropping out the game, it fairly clear now the game has gained a GM post rate of 3 to 4 days per post. Its killed the game off for me, as we can't keep spending time talking to each other with little or no input form the game GM that has meaning.
I am sorry it has gone this way but this is not of my doing, it happens, I just wish GMs would be honest and make it clear when they intend to have post rates drop to once twice a week.
All the best.
I personally feel that there's still plenty our characters could do to interact without the DM. We have entire -worlds- that effectively belong to -our imaginations-. :P I get that you want to get the plot moving, and I'm totally there on 2/3 of my games... As a point of fact, I'm generally just kinda hanging out waiting for everyone else to post in all of my games.
That being said... life happens. If you remember, the DM just got a new job that's kind of kicking their butt. I think you're the person who shared that knowledge. Throw in that I -think- they were also recently sick (or maybe that's like every other DM and -not- this one) and you have a recipe for slowed posting.
And -that- being said, I support your decision to do what's right for you :) Get into a game that better fits you and your needs. The game is to have fun, if you're not... then something needs to be done :)
I am sorry to see you go Calista. I personally would like to see things continue. There are acceptable reason that it has been a little slow, such as the reasons skyscale said. I know generating all those items must have taken some time.
I do wish you would reconsider. I also do wish the rest of the group sticks with it.
nah, I've had some work stuff come up that has slowed me down, but I'm still going to do my best to post at least daily.
no, I was sick recently as well. I just had a pile of projects drop in my lap and I just got them under control (more or less).
I am sorry to hear about your Illness and work load Vorg, and thank you for telling us, I can now take that into account and understand whats going on. I asked so I showed willing to find out but with no input back felt kind of neglected. Its cool to know your checking the game as you read my post within a day and responded. But understand with out the knowledge of your real life situation, it really did feel like we where left hanging, trying to work out what's been going on your end. I am sorry but it really felt that way to me.
If I had know the GM was having problems posting the I would have taken that into account with my last post. But now we know, you where sick, has a lot of real life work stuff etc but now had them under-control.
So back to the game
@Sky: yes there is a lots we can do PC to PC but the last discussion went around and around at the end. Because we needed input form the GM of the views being aired. Then Flat Bed's Vs Beds came up, funny yes but again 1 post from GM would have cleared that it.
Since I maxed out skill points in linguistics, putting me at a grand total of +9, and I only know 3 languages currently, would I be able to learn celestial over time, or any other languages for that matter?
As an Aasimar, Celestial should be a language you get for free.
You can racial trait out of it. Plus, with race builder, you can probably just -sell- it :)
During the requitment phase of this game I was never quit sure about the language selection considering we were supposed to come up with languages from our home planets. I did not think we were following the norm, so I only started with a couple languages from my planet.
ye I think the whole languages broke down when the party fell to 4 players and we needed a common language or it would be the most frustrating game of all time. hehe
What you call frustrating, I call amazing. Imagine all the pantomiming you can think of... then add dragon wings. BOOM.
yerr try that in combat where each player cant tell the other players any thing, fire ball and breath weapons becomes so much fun, YIKES!!
Huh... I definitely thought Celestial was how Isabela was communicating with Ameo in the first place. I got Sylvan as a racial bonus, and assumed that my planet's Sylvan was slightly intelligble with Isabela's—just enough to communicate a little bit.
Korash doesn't have much training in Linguistics, so he's not very good at speaking Draconic yet, but he'll get better over the next few levels.
Kali was speaking 'modem' with Ameo. CREEEEE RRRRRRR OOOOO KUKUKUKUKUKU
GM?
Weekends are slow. :P
ya, I am away from my computer most weekends (I have RL responsibilities that don't involve computers) but I try to pop in if I can.
As far as the languages go, See below:
Common: Planet-Specific
Sylvan: Universal
All of the extraplanar languages (celestial, infernal, abyssal, the elemental langauges): Universal
Draconic: Universal (also, this is the language that the language of magic is roughly based on).
Undercommon: Planet-Specific
Aklo: Planet-Specific
Druidic (druids only): Planet-Specific
Racial Languages (Dwarven, Elven, Giant, Gnome, Goblin, Halfling, gnoll, etc): Planet-Specific
So can I go ahead and pick some languages since I have a bunch of points in linguistics and didnt pick languages since I was unsure?
yes, go ahead and do so. Keep in mind that your starting languages are going to be your Celestial and one of the languages from your planet (whichever one would be the best equivalent of common from your planet).
I had already picked planet languages, I just thought that was all we were supposed to know.
I apologize if that is what you believed. I have (hopefully) cleared up things there. There is a specific plot point that required having players have languages specific to their planet (although I could have been clearer about that) so I needed that information.
Vrog, Does ameo know the language that is being presented everywhere? Since I apparently know more languages then I had realized.
Can ameo read any of this stuff without the aid of the suit?
no, as I stated when we first started, none of you recognize the language that is being spoken or written anywhere.
Luckily, Isabela just memorized a pretty decent (and very mechanically technical) 1000-or-so-word dictionary of Alienese, that she can access later with Autohypnosis and Linguistics checks.
except that comprehend languages always makes things appear in your native language.
Autohypnosis bypasses that. She'll memorize what all these things said under the effects of the potion, then have two 'pictures' that overlap once all that changes. [TIS] will still be [TIS] to her memory, but in reality it will be replaced by [Æ] after the potion wears off. Therefore Æ = TIS.
Eh, from Korash's perspective Isabela's people are just really zen (and possibly too laid-back)
Ping Ping Ping...
sorry, meant to post that yesterday, but then I woke up with a 101 degree fever and slept pretty much all day.
Know what you mean I have a sticking cold :(
Also, I don't mean to not interact with Cali's ability. But Sky, in this particular instance... is a little cowed. And a lot more interested in the results of gorilla-on-a-table.
He'll probably ask to have his implants scanned but -not to tear him apart-. :P
Well the implants are out, Think is even thow She planes shift the lot of you she will not do so. Not until she has found out if this place and anything on it is a danger to the Blood Clans.
the poor, poor blood clans.
I fully expect us to be 100,000,000 years in the future and in another Galaxy, so no shocker there then.
I dunno... the title suggests we only have 1,000 miles to go, which isn't very far at all.
it's a paraphrase of a quote by Lao-Tzu. The Quote in it's entirety is "the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Although a closer translation is something like "the journey of a thousand miles begins where you are".
Oh, sure. I was just making a pun.
That's what I was thinking as well.
But there's also that Proclaimers song. You could have totally been going for that, too :>
So... I figure one way to maybe get this game to pick up a bit is to have us move towards fight some enemies/challenges (which we haven't really had since the very beginning, and one very brief fight). Since Korash is a trained warrior anyway, this is most likely what he's looking for—the station's been overrun with horrible enemies/monsters of some kind, and if we're going to be here for a while we might as well figure out how to track and defeat them.
...he just doesn't speak the language of the technology yet, so I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how to get the character there.
Sky can't even move. Bring it. :p
This is going out to all the games that I'm in currently:
So my work has me working 50-60 hours a week to keep up with all the work that I have been assigned, and this is probably going to persist for the next 3-6 months, until the end of our busy season. That being the case, I'm going to have to drop out of my current play-by-post commitments. I apologize if this inconveniences anyone, it was clearly not something that I was expecting to have happen, but I ultimately have to face facts.
Again, I apologize if this is a burden on anyone else.
That being said, if you guys are still interested, I should be able to have some bandwidth to run, but my posts would mostly be on Sundays (with a nod here or there during the week when I would be able to post), or I could explain everything to you guys now so that I don't leave you hanging as to what's going on. I'll leave it up to you guys.
I was truly enjoying running this game, and I hope that you all would be willing to move to a reduced schedule that could then pick back up, but if not, I completely understand.
I'll be here. The beauty of play by Post is that as long as I have interest in the campaign and players, time isn't as big of a factor. I like snappy quick roleplays, but that is solved just as easily by 'more'. So... you're good with me.
Yeah, that's fine.
Just checking in. Post if you have the time, no worries.