The Wild Wild East (Inactive)

Game Master nate lange

I got those prayers you requested. Sending them up now.

Good Luck

thanks bros

I know weekends tend to be slow on the boards but that was a pretty underwhelming response... so far, I've got Gan and Kenoichi accompanying Sung Wo... Zhang, I'm unclear if you were settling in for the refreshments or to stay while Sung is gone? I'll give Hiro/Vashiro until I get home from PT tomorrow (about 15 hours from now) to post or they'll stay behind.

Apologies, spent the weekend at NC State Veterinary Hospital with my Malamute who ended up having intestinal surgery. She is doing well and posting will return to normal.

On the other side, crappy first skill check for me. Boooo.

Bad roll, but nice to see someone take my suggestion. Probably not much we can get from here about that town, but good to leave no stone unturned. Hope the pup is feeling better.

Zhong is tagging along for the hijinks of the town, and will partake in whatever trifles will be had by all in the evening.

Nice motive sending sung

***Imporant***
I can't remember how much of this I've said before so I'm just going to put it all in one post... here are some notes on how I run things:

1) XP- I don't track it. I will periodically tell you all to level. This will be sort of generally based on how much xp you would have earned if we were tracking it, but I'll always have everyone level at the same time (so you never need to worry about missing out on sweet xp's because you were gathering info when the others got jumped).

2) Initiative- I'll roll it, that's just way faster. Also we're going to use block initiative, so when I say "Sung and Kojima are up" they can both post whenever they get the chance and their actions will occur in the order they post them. I know that will be different for some of you who are used to actions happening in strict initiative order but this way keeps things running smoothly and almost entirely eliminates the need to retcon actions that someone supersedes.

3) Combat Maps- as much as possible I use the 'theater of the mind' approach (give you enough details to figure it out in your head), and I tend to give players the benefit of the doubt when things are unclear. That said, if anyone is counting on AoOs, or when Vashiro and Zhong are working on flanking, we may have to try to be a little more clear in our descriptions. If at any point it seems like we're really having trouble with following the flow of combat I'll make crude maps in excel (so speak up if your having trouble).

Let me know if you have any questions.

Theater of the mind for the win!

I'll be intentional about flanking setups and the like.

I'll do my best to keep everyone healed up, but if your hp do not appear in your title bar, or are not current, there will be little way for me to know when you need help.

Also, if I heal you and you don't record it, I may waste resources healing you again.

Sorry for the lack of post today- dealing with a sick child.

hope he feels better soon!

Zhong
Not sure if you have it down but Bane ability as well as giving +2d6 damage also "increases the enhancement bonus" of your weapon by 2 thus giving +2 to hit and damage and maybe allowing certain DR's to be bypassed.

Thanks I didn't know that! I don't have bane up at the moment. Will remember for the future!

I'm just sitting here stuck in molasses

and its a cold day........

lol, sorry- was on the road today and the battery in my phone died before I could post. working on it now.

I would love it if everyone could please go ahead add their combat stats to their avatar banner like Sung, Gan, and Kenoichi have. It makes it easier for me to tell what's going on in combat, and it helps you guys as well (particularly Sung Wo who has already mentioned that you may not get healed if he can't see that you need it from your banner).

If you've never done that before, its east- just enter the relevant info in the "race" and/or "class" section of your profile. Thank you.

@Gan- you were just out of order (you ninja'd my post that made it your turn). In order to reflank that guy you'll have to take a move action, but other than that it looks like your chosen actions will still work.

Everyone- please remember that elemental damage on your weapons and sneak attack damage are not multiplied on crits.

True.. I'd forgotten as I hadn't played with that combo before

The writing in this game so far has been very enjoyable. Keep it up!

Sorry for the delay- I've just returned to work after being off to recover from surgery and there is a mountain of stuff for me to catch up on.

Hope the surgery went well!

Get to work old man!

my computer at work isn't working properly, but I should be through the busiest part of returning- post rate should be back up some next week.

No rush man glad you got out of surgery okay

sorry we're still crawling along... saturday night I either got food poisoning or a bad case of stomach flu and I haven't been able to keep anything in my system but dry toast or applesauce since... aside from feeling tired and weak, I am starting to feel a bit better... hopefully I'll have something up for you all tonight. again, I'm sorry.

All good

Food poisoning is never fun, sorry to hear Nate. Get better!

Thanks for the heads up. I'll be able to post in a couple hours.

Sorry for the slow down... I'm dealing with a bunch of garbage at work and my wife's grandfather was just taken off of chemotherapy in favor of hospice (end of life care). We'll keep moving but it might be a bit sporadic the next couple weeks.

I'll take over for a bit

The next day is much cooler and after a bit of traval, you find an oasis with a very nice, reasonably priced brothel.

Oh man, you guys are gonna be so bummed when you find out how cursed those hookers are...

Hey Nate, sorry to hear that. I hope things go smoothly for you and your family. That's hard stuff.

I'm very disappointed, how dare you let important real life issues delay your responsibilities to us in a make believe world. ;o)

Sorry to hear about the issues. Take care of your family, man.

Hope and prayers are with you sir.

have we lost Vashiro?

Roll call?

Good idea. I know sandboxy games are hard to pull off on the forums, and I haven't done the game any favors with my RL issues... Who's still around? And what are everyone's feelings on getting things back on track?

Sung remains as he is, and will always be.

I am Ganarcus? ..

I'm here. Let's clash come steel and stuff

Yo

Oops. Didn't check the discussion apparently. I'm here and ready for action.

So, everyone except Vashiro? I didn't see any suggestions for getting back on track... are people cool with this being a casual/slow game? It seems like we've been moving at like 1-2 posts per week for a while...

Slow and steady is fine as long as its consistant

all about it. more time to think about characterization and development. No pressure, no worries, just game.