The Pact Stone Pyramid (Inactive)

Game Master Pact Stone GM

That's cool, Beetle! This game hasn't been going for a couple years out of a lack of dedication!

Gencon was fantastic. The high points were me finally getting to play the old Middle Earth CCG with interested parties, and picking up and playing the Daybreak Expansion to Battlestar Galactica.

Sweet! How is the Battlestar Galactica game?

Vinnnie Meets the Vampire Kickstarter.

Hey guys, I own a small publishing company and we are trying to Kickstart a project. The campaign is going poorly so far, check out the site. If you are interested or know someone who would be please pass it along. Thanks :-)

Cool! You have a company?

I look forward to checking it out this weekend. I can circulate it on a site I use.

Dennis - are you Rickman? Or are you one of his partners?

Hey Beetle, I am one of his partners. He is a pretty good artist some of his other work is really good as well. Some up and coming artists in the comic field were his students about a decade ago, the most notable I think is Charles Wilson who draws "the Stuff of Legend".

Thanks for the bump on the site, much appreciated.

I don't know if this helps or not, but when I tried to be a backer I found that if you are outside the US you can't get any rewards, even the .pdf. I wonder if that's fixable or just a practical reality. At least you got your main market.

Hope you guys make your goal!

(Luckily you are not Rickman - I would have demanded Dune Squad character portraits forthwith)

Hah! He could do them too, heck if I WAS him I would have done one for him. You would NOT want to see a rendition of Hal drawn by me.

I don't think that goal is going to be met but that is ok! Better to try even if you don't succeed, there is always something to be learned from failure.

Good attitude man!

Let's keep those turns coming in the meantime while we discuss, but is there now any interest in dropping initiative?

I feel like I should 'call the combat' in order to better keep things moving. I hate making you wait on PC's who are themselves waiting. That way if somebody has something they want to do, they can just jump in and do it.

On the other hand, if you feel its tactically disadvantageous, I'm not interested in screwing you all over. This pyramid is getting rough enough as it is. (Your kinda on the big boy levels now. . .)

Also, I think it's kinda cool that we actually have a combat approaching a round 10 - that's very rare at such a high level.

At this point, dropping out of initiative would be fine with me. But whatever the rest wanna do. I can roll with the majority, no prob.

I like round by round for no other reason than it keeps order a bit better than everyone shouting out what they want to do at any given moment.

I still haven't figured out what Gandel is gonna do, he is as baffled by Hal's action as anyone else is!

Due to a death in the family I will be unavailable for a few days.

Sorry for your loss Dennis!

Condolences, my man. Truly sorry to hear that.

Thank for the well wishes guys. I am back and ready to go, looks like I will be healing Karek next...

Welcome back!

Thanks Mr Exciting.

Beetle did we just break through Scarab wall upstairs?

I think Denis is asking if the rescue of Lydia was a fulfillment of Donkor's divination with Pharasma, early on in the adventure (the rhyme).

I’d am happy to say “Yes”, as that is a very cool interpretation! But I would of course be lying if I said that was what I, as the GM, actually intended.

OOC Information:

“Legends of the Past form Scarab’s wall” was meant to be a veiled reference to the Scarab’s plan to delay the pyramid’s construction. Lydia had been trying to create unrest amongst the slaves by encouraging the natural superstitions association with unearthing things which should not be unearthed. She was using ghost stories to slow them down.

Pharasma was anticipating that the Dune Squad would encounter Lydia and become involved in her plan. Pharasma (and the GM) was wrong. Due to some unexpected developments, including an extra-planar side trip, the Dune Squad ultimately arrived several days late after Khymrasa successfully unearthed the pyramid.

The pyramid construction delay was actually a large component of the published adventure. The Dune Squad came at it another way, and that is cool.

The real questions now is: what did Pharasma mean by

“When Suekhan’s count strikes 56?”

Or

“But too far down lose they soul?”

I think Suekhan's count has something to do with the mental commands he was trying to instill in our first brief encounter with him which Gandel thwarted.

The second I am afraid we are going to find out about very soon....

My guesses:

“When Suekhan’s count strikes 56?”:
Based on the fact that he is a devil and some of the cut-scene dialog we have seen, I'd say that he has been bound to serve as a guardian of the pyramid until he has slain 56 intruders, at which point his contract will be fulfilled - whatever bad stuff that entails I'd rather not find out.

“But too far down lose they soul?”:
Going downstairs in this pyramid can be hazardous to your health. So let's not do that, huh....wait, what are we doing, again?

Fun fact: While I'm having a fantastic time, I also can't wait for this adventure to conclude, so I can run off and read the adventure to figure out just how much of our crazy antics have deviated from what is actually in there.

Despite the high post count I am a bit surprised we are almost finished with the adventure.

Tell me Beetle after we conclude this adventure any plans to run another PBP with the Dune Squad :-) I am certainly interested in playing in another game that you DM.

So before I forget, let me alert you all that the Beetle hive is planning on expanding again. So in a couple days I am going to disappear for a hospital trip of unknown duration, just a couple days I hope. Once I am back I will have the zombie template for a few weeks. However, past experience suggests that only means I will check the boards and post even more frequently - so need not to check in - just be more forgiving if my error rate has a noticeable up-tick for a time.

Huzzah! Fantastic news. Mazel Tov, or whatever greeting is appropriate for beetle reproduction.

Congrats-zie! Get some sleep man.

I think this game has featured the most life changes of any I have been a part of. Congratulations!

Good luck with the newest member Beetle!

Thanks!

Yeah, I'd have to say that is true for me too. Were we to make a list it would be quite impressive.

I think we need Javell and Mr. Exciting to come up with announcements still though. . .

Congrats to you, Pact!

And... I DON'T THINK SO! :)

We are done in the Javell household. I can barely handle the two I got. And I can't really handle them! :p

Super busy, I won't be able to get to this thread until later tonight or perhaps tomorrow. Just an FYI.

Fun fact: While I'm having a fantastic time, I also can't wait for this adventure to conclude, so I can run off and read the adventure to figure out just how much of our crazy antics have deviated from what is actually in there.

Thanks for that. I too am keen to reach the end as I think we've all invested too much at this point not to make it! We'll have to drag each other over the finish line. I'm not sure the game can survive the loss of another player so everyone hang in.

[This is all code for my posting might be spotty next week.]

But what I wanted to mention was if you don't have a copy and are still interested, the module has gone on sale through Paizo for only 2 bucks this month. Though shipping cost might be an issue depending on location.

Jacob Trier wrote:

Fun fact: While I'm having a fantastic time, I also can't wait for this adventure to conclude, so I can run off and read the adventure to figure out just how much of our crazy antics have deviated from what is actually in there.

Thanks for that. I too am keen to reach the end as I think we've all invested too much at this point not to make it! We'll have to drag each other over the finish line. I'm not sure the game can survive the loss of another player so everyone hang in.

We are with you to the end, Beetle!

That's also exactly how I feel about my Realm of the Fellnight Queen PbP game. It has been running for over two years now, and is getting close to the finish line. But since anything can happen, especially in PbP, the actual end might easily be months away.

[This is all code for my posting might be spotty next week.]

But what I wanted to mention was if you don't have a copy and are still interested, the module has gone on sale through Paizo for only 2 bucks this month. Though shipping cost might be an issue depending on location.

Purchased. Even with shipping, a physical copy of the module shipped to my mail box here in Denmark is going to cost me a whoopin $ 6.52. Surprisingly, that is cheaper than buying the pdf, or adding the module to my AP subscription sidecart.

Got house guests for a few days - my posting will likely drop off. Will be back soon - I am in suspense!

I picked up a copy of the adventure as well. Looking forward to reading it once we finish with the PBP! That sale really did have some great deals.

My copy arrived a couple of days ago, and is sitting among my other Pathfinder books, waiting patiently for us to finish. The temptation to go and read it is about Succubus-level, but simply leafing briefly through it to make sure none of the pages had gotten wet while it was sitting in the mail box revealed several spoilers, so it will stay there until we finish.

Apologies for my ongoing absence. Gotta scrape some time together here.

Tis ok, I have long absences from the campaign I am running, it is much more difficult to DM than it is to play!

Thanks Dennis,

I've added an untagged map which shows the lower level recently explored by the Dune Squad. I haven't had a chance to to tag where everybody is right now. Hopefully you can get a general idea from the descriptions in your posts.

Apologies for the delays guys. There's a storm aftermath where I am. I'm one of the lucky ones with power, but no internet. Once I am back up and running I'll play catch-up, which should be soon.

In the meantime, wishing you all a very Merry X-Mas to you and yours. May you win initiative in the New Year.

--Beetle

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you Beetle as well as my Dune Squad companions and of course all the Little Hurgah's and Beetle's born this year!

Merry Christmas to the faithful Dune Squad-teers!

Merry Christmas, everybody. Best wishes for you and your families.

Merry Christmas, folks!

Merry Christmas to all!

So it's to be gang up on the extra-planar then, is it?

You think I care?

Wishing you all the very best for 2014.

May old acquittance be forgot!

So it's to be gang up on the extra-planar then, is it?

Only if you let it! Happy new year!

I will be on vacation from January 2 through January 7, please DMPC me Beetle. Thanks!

May old acquittance be forgot!

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