[AP] The Shackled City Adventure Path by GM Rutseg (Inactive)

Game Master Balacertar

Appreciate the handwaving on the crafting GMR but I couldn't resist a little hammer and tongs flavour in the game thread :)

Up to the group if they want to contact Marigold and have her rejoin now or after they head to their meeting(s) :)

I'm around, just real busy IRL. Things will calm down in another four weeks. Then two months later get busy for another six-seven weeks. So sporadic posting for a while yet sorry.

Thanks for the heads up JJ. Hope things go good for you! :)

*munches popcorn as she watches the proceedings*

Still here, still following along :)

Surprise surprise! :)

Hey folks, I'll be heading out of town to DieCon19 and won't return until sometime late Sunday night/early Monday morning. I likely won't have a ton of free time for posting but I'll try to keep checking in and keeping up with Gameplay :)

Enjoy Lil' Miss :)

Congratulations Marigold on your new promotion!

Thankee :)

Sorry for that one Ryan. This is perhaps one of the toughest encounters in the book. There is a reason for which they focused on you. It's scripted by the AP author, nothing personal. In the future I will be able to explain and discuss better what is the AP trying to accomplish here.

No worries, just figured in this case I had dropped out of sight so so Ryan made the perfect target.

Looking forward to see what happens in the future. I should have enough Hero points to cheat death if that is OK.

Likely, your priestly nature was their first order of business- kill the healer, then the rest... you're special.

No bonuses to the remainder of our group and a big part of healing removed, makes perfect sense....

Heard it mentioned before that the red crosses on medics could be also thought of as targets....

Big take out from MMORPG - if you don't deal to the healer quickly, all else is for nought.

Or the glass cannon, they need dealing with fast too.

I'm back and rested and have spent the requisite time with loved ones who missed me (the weirdos) while I was away on my con adventure! Thank you for your patience :)

Here's me thinking we were the only weirdos in yer life Lil' Miss :)

Hah! Nah, I was talking about the meat-space weirdos but you're right, I've got plenty of weirdos online....including you guys ;)

"Welcome back Mistress Montajay," says the recently departed Taskerhill. "See what happens when you leave me to my own demise.... Err devices." ;)

Glad you're back and well rested

Aerondor mentioned it earlier but as of about a week ago I now have some new responsibilities as pertains to PFS PbP. While I don't think it'll affect this game too much there's the possibility of occasional slowdown on my end due to VO-related-business, most likely to pop up during our online cons. If such a thing happens, your patience and understanding is appreciated :)

Congrats Lady Ladille, I knew JJ had mentioned something previously but I had missed what the honor was.

I hope you find your new pursuit rewarding, Marigold. We are the lucky ones to have you at our table.

Congrats Margiold! We do have now someone to keep us to date about new stuff :)

I don't know how many of you do PFS on the forums besides JJ but sure, I can keep you guys informed about upcoming events if you'd like :)

Congrats Venture Agent Lil Miss! Well deserved :)

Gang - wee heads up - work hammer is swinging hard this week. Bunch of offshore ops have converged for kickoff o'er the next 7-10 days which means I'm having to do a bunch of pre-job work and scheduling in the run up.

Between prepping rental kit packages, client meetings and getting my offshore teams readied, my heads frankly mince.

Bear with - posting opportunities might be fleeting, and content basic until later in the week.

No worries Maxim - hang in there and I hope it all goes well!

No worries Maxim, thanks for the heads up!

I am also scared of work spikes for this August as some buildings go into maintenance mode.

Happy Father's Day to all you dads, grandpas, step-dads, godfathers, and father-figures out there! Hope you have a fantabulous day today!

If you (general you) have reason to find today sad rather than joyful, I hope you're able to have a good day today just the same. Hang in there, okay?

For everyone else, Happy Sunday :)

Thanks Marigold! Although not my case :P

Curiously we have a different date for dad's day on 19th March.

Same here, although I'm not too sure when it is. I'll get a card or three hopefully.

This part of the AP is much more free in what you can attempt to do and where/whom you might want to try to talk for information on who is behind your assassination attempt.

If at any moment you feel too much confused or too much lost let me know and I will suggest three or four possible lines of action so you can keep on moving.

Well hot darn if we didn't go ahead an' hit 9K posts!

Awesome accomplishment to one and all - kudos to the Watchers and especially to you GM-R for making this such a standout game :)

Here's to 9K more!

Whee!

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Hurrah!!! Let's go Watchers! :D

Happy 4th of July to my fellow Americans and Happy Thursday/Friday to the rest of the world :)

My middle child's birthday :-)

*Organized Play Note*

For anyone that might be GMing for the upcoming PbP Gameday VIII don't forget that GM Courtesty Signups will be opening soon, depending on your time zone! This means that GMs will be allowed to sign up, as a player, for 1 game early before player signups open to the general public. So if there's a table that you're really eyeballing, that'll be your chance to grab a spot :)

*nudge*

I know that Maxim said work was picking up for him a while back but everyone else has gone kinda quiet. It's been a few weeks since we've heard anything at all from Ryan. Hopefully everyone is okay and just super busy right now :)

I fear we have lost Ryan indefinitely. He gave me an email for these cases but he has not answered me after a week. I can only hope he is personally ok :(

Me too. Hopefully he's just been out of pocket due to work.

Agreed. Work has a way of sneak-thiefing time from our diversions...

That it does. I'm pretty good for the next few weeks, but come August, I'll be flat tack again for a month or two.

Loot sheet updated after the priest/orc/jotunn throw down. I'll update it as we strip the Wee Jas temple like treasure locusts ;)

Marigold's spent waaaay too much time around some of you - now she's trying to be all intimidating and stuff!

"What are undead doing here?" asks JJ somewhat concerned that the man he had been trying to only knock out seemed to have died...and then vanished.

Sorry JJ, I guess that deserves further explanation from my maths.

Maxim had the man badly injured. JJ's critical made it that enough of the NL damage was transferred to lethal damage after reaching unconsciousness and regretfully the transferred to lethal damage was enough to kill him :P

Yowzer, he didn't have many hp! I thought NL went to lethal only after it was over his maximum hp?

No biggie really, sounds like he had a contingency or something in place for the eventuality.

I bring up Ryan as sentinel, and it rouses my curiosity- it's been a couple of months, and it would be good to know if Ryan was still out there. Any news? We're getting along decently with the four of us, so I didn't know if we were gonna consider bringing/back a fifth...

I have an email of him but he has not answered me after a month has past. I am still hopeful he is ok and he might resume gaming at some point, but I do agree recruiting a fifth player is a wise move as there are many adventures ahead and some of them might be deadly for a group of four if the gods of dice do not shoulder you up.

Sounds a plan - not heard from Ryan's player in my Starfinder game either :(

Potentially tapping up Gaming Ranger to see if he'd bring Dandarrion back might be a easy first step? We're in a Zweihander pbp here on the boards so I know he's still active...

@GMR: Can you remove one of my other aliases that has infiltrated this pbp please? Must have posted with my half-orc thug Kaul (from my Freebooter game) and he's now showing up as a character in this game.

Kaul's definitely not the sort we want lingering around Cauldron!