The Strangler of the Shadow Moor (Inactive)

Game Master Terquem

Apparently I'd forgotten about the water in the main chamber :P Thanks for the reminder!

I just want to be clear to all that I'm not out of the game - the world just seems to be falling apart right now, so expect impeded performance for the time being.

That doesn't sound very good :( I hope all the pieces will fall into place soon! In the meantime, carry on as best you can :)

As a gentle reminder, descending to the bottom of these stairs will not be treacherous, but will take a bit of time, and is not taking you any closer to your destination, following Marvin's tracking ability. Which, at the moment is no longer able to detect the signal from the "Gate" you were sent to find and destroy.

However, I'm certainly not going to stop you from finding out what, exactly, is down there.

Well that's not encouraging, I thought we were following his signal

Awright, make a ole, lets get bach on trach

Xor heads up.

Lead the way marvin

My oldest son and his wife brought another wonderful little girl into the world on Friday, making us grandparents for the second time now. We are taking mom home from the hospital today. Mom and baby are doing great. Happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there.

I should be back to posting game updates tomorrow,

Happy to hear that and congratulations!

Okay, so here I am with my first full day off trying to explain my absence. Basically, the company I worked for was dissolved, and we merged into a larger company owned by the mega corporation Fluor. All of June was a nightmare, and July we began revising our procedures and finally got new org charts. I am still, sort of, doing the same job, but my immediate manager, well he got a new boss and he really doesn’t like his new boss and I think he is taking out his frustrations on us. We’ve been having stupid long meetings every day. Three employees were fired for time card fraud (which is sort of the catch all excuse for firing people who work on government projects). I know I shouldn’t post from work, but I often do during the week, but with all the changes and scrutiny I was being very cautious. Things are still pretty chaotic at work, but I think things will settle down by the end of July.

On top of that we had a new granddaughter born at the end of June, baby was fine, but mom had a small set back from the c-section she had, and my wife and I were spending a lot of time helping our son and his little family.

I know that’s a lot of silly personal real life stuff to put on the forum but I wanted everyone to know where I’ve been. I have this whole day to try to get all my games caught up and I know some of you have been waiting a very long time. I hope you can find interest in the games again and come back to play when you can.

Thanks, everyone

Thanks for sticking with us and keeping this going! Your stamina, commitment, and patience beats the hells out of most people.

I apologize in advance for any inconvenience but starting tomorrow I will be traveling for the rest of the month with very limited internet access. Please feel free to bot Gwernach as you see fit - anything short of bait (well, maybe) and canon fodder if that's not too much trouble :) If all goes well, I expect to be back on the Forum August 1st.

Diarmal, please remember to pray for a lesser restoration spell or two. I'm sure you know, just making sure.

Here is an update for every one of my wonderful patient players

I have not been able to do updates during the week from the computer I normally use due to the recent changes in my employment (working under a new contractor). I won’t go into details, because the truth is I allowed myself to get spoiled by the previous contractor’s more or less indifference to how much time we spent messing around on the internet (as long as we got our work done, they didn’t seem to care much). The new boss is watching us, and has installed something called iPrism, to track our online activity.

What this means, first I am not shutting down any games. I love the games here, and I have great players. What it does mean is that I will try to do more updates on week nights and on the weekends, but it also means that my already slow games will probably get slower.

If any of you find this is something you just don’t have time for and want to drop out I will not hold that against you. I understand that players want to spend their time doing something that they feel is worth their effort, so I will do my best to give you the best game I can, but understand it might be slower than it has been in the past.

The good news is I only work 4 days a week and have Friday off, and with summer winding down my Fridays will be a little slower in general and I hope to make it my primary catch up day on games.

Thank you

First, I'm back!
Don't worry GD, I've gotten used to the laid back pace of this thread and with my added work load, well, I don't think I will be caught falling behind. Carry on as best you can!

Got my first set of stitches out today and the lab report says the cancer was fully excised so I am going to have a great recovery. I hope to be updating games tomorrow. I've been a little weak, and work is still a bit rough, but I have no intention of quitting my games, so

Thank you for being patient with this old man

CONGRATULATIONS!

I wouldn't worry too much about a game, just get better

Agreed, take care of yourself! We'll be here when you get back :)

Sasithorn still badly needs a lesser restoration or two.

If I don't get updates done today it might not happen until Monday. I am so sorry for this recent slow down and I am trying to recover from some things that I was not expecting. Please hang in there

I apologize to everyone. I got dragged off by my family for a surprise trip this week and haven't had one free moment since last Friday. I will be back this weekend.

Glad to see you back, GM. =] I hope you've recovered and have been well.

Thank you so much Marvin, and thank you all for being patient with me.

I am about to post some long story pieces in the game thread, before we actually get to what happens at the gate.

Cool twist to the story :) Should I assume more to come which will prompt us forward?

My next post will be back at the rocks. You can go back to the early part of this game and learn more about Parker and the red Mysterion, if you were maybe a little boared

Okay, what will you do? Approach the rock? What about Diarmal and Sasithorn?

I mean to approach the box. My request to be carried stems from the assumption, based on your description, that I'm too short to wade safely.

I'm having a little issue right now at home, please be a little patient for a day or two. Thank you

Each of you receives enough Experience Points to reach 4th level.

You have destroyed the gate, and all that is left is for Marvin to decide where the tracking device will be placed.

You can return to Connie’s Bright, or to the Module where you left Agent Southmiller.

Yaayyy!

It's maximum hit points per level, right?

for levels 1 thru 3, yes, lets roll for new hit points, and reroll any roll of a "1"

I thought I remembered you saying that.

Level 4 HD: 1d6 ⇒ 2 :(

I feel for you Sasithorn...
Level 4 HP: 1d10 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

1d10 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

Ding!

HP!: 1d8 ⇒ 3

So, Xor: Any chance we could get Mr. Tolkien back for our grand Tomb of Boorors adventure?

Mr tolkein has been super busy mastering his new position at work.

Been a busy week, should be back on Tuesday

Each character receives

400 experience points, for completing the mission to track down the gate

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone. Like most of the rest of you I'll be busy for the next week, but I will try to get things updated.

Enjoy the festivities if you can
Cheers,
David

Here's wishing you all a Merry Christmas Holiday! I'm looking forward to digging deeper into this adventure, and others the old man has up his sleeve ;) in the new year! :)

Thanks Gwernach!

I hope everyone is enjoying the Holiday time of year, and maybe getting a few days off. I have been busy, weird since I am an empty-nester, seems I am more busy during this time of year than when all my children were home.

I ended one of my games in the past week, which was the first time I actually ended a game here (instead of the game ending because of lack of interest). That game started in June of 2014.

I am playing a marathon session of Time stories today, I got the three expansions for the basic game for Christmas, yay!

I hope to be updating all my games tomorrow.

Nice haul, DM! And congratulations on ending a game! That's super great.

Happy New Year guys!

Happy New Year! *crosses fingers*

Happy New Year to all of you as well. I hope I can catch my breath soon and settle down a bit, haha

I hope everyone had a great holiday season, and looking forward to another year here on the forums. I intend to struggle through some awkward posts to try and get these games moving again. Please check in so that I know you are still around.

My plan now is to get up a long post that brings you back to Agent Southmiller, and introduce you to Parker Anderson.

If you are all willing to keep this adventure going, the next part of the game will take you far away, to a desert on the western part of the continent of Kijta, which is south of Eysturlun (to the southeast of where you are now). That part of the adventure will be a dungeon crawl set in the ruins of the Hospital Ship Contagion, which crash landed on this world many centuries ago.

Cracks his knuckles...Ready!

Looking forward to it!