The Strangler of the Shadow Moor (Inactive)

Game Master Terquem

Cool; just so we're clear.

That said, is it really so spartan in here? I'm not asking for plot hints, I'm asking if we see anything that might distinguish one direction from another. Despite how long the temple's been abandoned, it was, at one point, built for people to utilize, so I'm what I'm asking is if there are things like signs or hieroglyphs or whatever that might say "This way to the Confessional" or "Paths of the Holy Ones, Grades Gamma thru Chi" or "Chamber of Teriyaki-Flavored Doom," or even just a disparity in the brickwork or a weird stain or a silly-looking bas-relief that suggests what might lie in that direction.

This area does seem unusually devoid of any symbols or iconography, perhaps thing are a little different further in...

In other news - I am traveling to Boise to put my wife on a plane (she is going to Cambodia for two weeks to visit our daughter). I might be late in posting this weekend and the beginning of the week

The map should be updated now

I'll get to that map as soon as I get to the other computer

I'll get that map turned around so that north is at the top, so we can all be sure of where we are

Leaving this morning for Boise to pick up my wife and daughter who are returning from Cambodia - Our daughter has finished her Fulbright Scholarship and will be home for three weeks (we haven't seen her for a year) so the next little while might be a bit slower than the regular slowness

Alright I've inverted the map, and adjusted the pixel size one more time (to try and fit it to a nice sized grid in maptools).

The problem is it is a pdf image saved as a PNG file and I cant fix the inverted numbers (in AutoCad) until I get back from Boise tomorrow

Looks fine to me, enjoy your time with your family Terq!

I had a few free moments today, and tried to update the game

I am sorry for the delay - but with my daughter home from Cambodia, and planning to return there in two weeks, it has been a bit busy around the house.

Cambodia? Now there's a place you never hear about anymore. What's she doing there?

She just completed a ten month stay as a Fulbright Scholar, and is going back there because her fiancee has a job at the American University of Phonm Phen

I'm out and about from Thursday until Monday, by the way, so please do DMPC me if it's necessary to keep things moving.

I'm hoping things will settle down by Wednesday or Thursday, when my daughter heads for San Francisco on her way back to Cambodia, but right now, emotions are running high

...we bought her wedding dress on Friday. The wedding is being planned for February, on Oahu...yikes

Congratulations! :)

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.

Thank you

With you till the end!

Congratulations! And yep, still around.

Sorry for the long delay

This part of the adventure is a simple dungeon crawl. If the party isn't in agreement as to what the purpose of diving deep into the temple is, things could bog down very quickly

Dungeon crawls are tough in PbP anyway, so I'll try to keep it interesting

I've updated some games tonight but I've run out of steam, I'll be back in the morning with an update

Thank you for your patience

We are, I think - the dungeon just hasn't given us much in the way of a sense of direction so far.

map should be updated now

I think I've completely confused myself with trying to fix the map. I think I actually had it right a while ago, and then kept thinking about it, and now I've messed it up again. I'll take another shot tonight.

@DM: I'm having a bit of difficulty deciding who fits Sasithorn better: Moloween or Tanri Shar. I've had my patron down as Moloween for some time since that's who you told me about at the start, but aside from the "Justice" angle you mentioned, it seems like Tanri Shar might be a better fit for me in other ways.

Moloween is a Lawful Neutral Deity of Shadows, and some types of prophecy involving justice

Tanri Shar is a Chaotic Deity of Shadows, and some types of prophecy involving unjust retribution

The map is updated, showing the robots. It might be a bit hard to see the codes for the grid, but we should be able to work though this. I'll set up a post for round 1, there is no surprise round.

Looks good!

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.

Sorry.

Keep on Truckin' - and Trekkin'!

Whoops. Sorry for the delay, everyone! I got sick but I'm getting better!

Came down with a bad cold, maybe the flu, I'm not sure, on Thursday, feeling better now. Sorry for the delay I hope to work all game updates today.

I may have to bot Marvin, but I know it is that time of year when a lot of people are busy getting ready for the holidays, so no pressure.

Look for an update tomorrow

Sorry for the delay

I should be able to get to the map tonight

Thanks, DM. =]

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

I can scarcely overstate my admiration for your dedication.

Anyone here interested in also joining another short adventure?

It's a wacky-ass Yuletide slugfest one-shot kind of thing (that could hypothetically lead to something bigger, maybe) - details here.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Happy New Year! May you do well now and in the future.

Happy new year!

We are back in the game thread now, hope to see everyone come back to the game soon

It started to look like the combat rounds were going to be the death of this game.

Let's call it.

The machine is destroyed, the party stands in the chamber out of breath and a bit confused as to what they were supposed to be doing just a few moments ago.

If you still want to play in this game, I'm still trying to run it, so lets see if the characters can come up with a plan of action, now that the "sentries" are defeated.

I'm not giving up! :)

As for the combat, your sentinels are a bit high on hit points; just shave a bit off, I guess, since you're mostly using custom monsters.

As for resting, as Gwernach suggested: I am neither for nor against it.

Not giving up either! Though I've been having my share of troubles I should be mostly online now.

And, a reminder to all my games

I leave for Hawai'i (Oahu) on Monday, and return the following Monday. Our daughter's wedding is on Friday the 9th. Most of the week will be overrun with wedding planning and logistic (managing all the family and friends who are coming to the wedding).

I'll have my phone, so if I have to answer a question I will try to do that as quickly as possible, but I don't imagine I'll be moving games forward much.

Enjoy!

Hope you all have a good time, GDM :)

I know you are all great players, and thank you for putting in the effort to keep up with me.

But when it starts to look like the players don't even want to post to talk to each other, maybe ask each other if someone has any idea what's going on, or to share ideas. It really bugs me.

I'm back now, and I appreciate everyone waiting for me. If you don't want to play anymore because this game just doesn't hold your interest, please let me know. And, please, let me know if you intend to keep playing a character that will never be interested in talking to the other characters, just so I know not to get upset about it.

I, for one, am sincerely still engaged, or at least I want to be; it's just the psychological deterioration I've been suffering for years - of course, I say *I've* been suffering from it, but I honestly can't tell where MY problems begin and other people's problems end anymore. I certainly didn't used to be this way. I used to be nothing short of a creative genius until I started getting punished for it in precisely the venues where it should have been most welcomed...but one thing you're never allowed to do is say there's some kind of hivemind effect dragging everybody down, whether it's true or not. You always have to blame yourself for anything bad you observe, continually taking on more responsibility while giving up more power...which means that if it IS a sort of mass psychological blight, you're basically force-fed it when you try to snap people out of it.

On a more concrete, discrete, immediate in-game level, my biggest problem is that I'm literally not sure where we're going in this temple; it's very spartan in here as you've described it, and our present quest is also a bit vague, so I don't think we don't know what to do.

Yes, it is a bit vague right now, but you know what can be as much help as talking to the DM about what is happening? Talking to other characters, you know telling each other what you suspect, what you are looking for, and asking them what they are thinking

So have we "rested" rested since that last fight, or was it just a few minutes for a biscuit-break?

it was not a full rest (as pathfinder rules go) and since there are no "short rest" pathfinder rules, it was just a break.