Out of character discussion thread.
Welcome! Team Neutral
Character Name: Nikeisha (no surname, as she has no idea who her family is).
Sex: Female
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral. She's not interested in good or evil, per say, and doesn't care about laws. Its all about people and personal loyalties.
Race: Variant Human
Class: Warlock
Background: Urchin
Deity: Polytheistic
Character Name: Shenkt "Hack" Corchran
Sex: Male
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Race: Human
Class: Barbarian
Background: Outlander
Deity: N/A
Character's Name: Jun Valanthe
Gender, Alignment, Race, Class: Male LN Half-Elf Bard
Background: Guild Merchant
Deity: None
Character Name: BellaLuna Liaqirelle
Gender: Female
Alignment: NG
Race: High Elf
Class: Monk
Background: Noble
Deity: Aldellion (But, just becase she's an elf. She is not really religious.
Baen "The Brave" Cobbleson
Gender: Male
Alignment: Neutral Good
Race: Human
Class: Bard
Background: Folk Hero
Deity: Aldellion
Character's Name: Ashrie VanShorn
Gender: Male
Alignment: LN
Race: Elf
Class: Wizard
Background: Hermit
Deity: Aldellion
Name: Tavir Nethuani
Gender: Male
Race: Half-Elf
Class: Bard
Background: Urchin
Alignment: CN
Deity: Grumorjak is probably the name he curses by which is as close as he comes to worship.
Yay Neutrality.
With a bit of chaos mixed in....niiiice....welcome all!
I'll get an alias created shortly and post here.
EDIT: and here it is.
Jun, of course, prefers order to chaos.
Welcome everybody! Hehehe. Going to be interesting, my haughty high elf with all these 'inferior' races ... :D
Greetings and well met!
And I wouldn't worry too much; the haughty and prideful find themselves knocked down eventually. :P
If we screw up badly enough, you'll eat dirt just like my unsophisticated commoner ass would! :D I think it'll be fine. Everyone's going to have an interesting time interacting with each other's idiosyncracies
...am I reading that we actually have 3 bards correctly? Damn, this party is gonna be metal.
Hello all~ I love that we have three bards all of very different backgrounds. I like that a simple choice can already set characters apart like that. Super interested seeing what we get up to with hearts full of neutrality.
Jun isn't so much a musician as a "I use subtle magic to augment my formidable negotiation skills" guy. He is really just travelling as an adventurer for excitement more than anything else.
Will everyone do me a huge favor and make sure that your passive perception score is listed somewhere in your tagline? I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks!
Done!
Ditto
Ello everyone, looking forward to some team neutral shenanigans!
Added passive perception and insight.
Is there any particular reason people are waiting to post in gameplay? Is it because I didn't make a formal announcement that it was open? I kind of figured people would jump over there as soon as they could. Please, if you were waiting for my official invitation to post in gameplay, consider this it. :)
Yeah, the fun has begun at the bar!
Someone should probably do something before Nikeisha tries arm wrestling Hack or something equally a bad idea.
Is there any particular reason people are waiting to post in gameplay? Is it because I didn't make a formal announcement that it was open? I kind of figured people would jump over there as soon as they could. Please, if you were waiting for my official invitation to post in gameplay, consider this it. :)
Stupid Paizo! It didn't tell me there are new posts there! I've been waiting for you to post something there!
I didn't know we had started, so that's why I didn't post. I have since corrected that.
Mended, in gameplay we posted about the same time, so you may not have seen my post with another question for the Senator. Also, would you mind maybe posting at the top a link to your google drive where you have all the characters? I have not read all the backgrounds yet and would like to do so.
Also, I was looking at the map. What is Daybreak? I'm guessing a bridge across the river with a keep on one side?
Ahh Bellaluna, you reminded me I wanted to ask everyone to do some things for me.
So...
Formal Announcement
Would everyone please do me two favors. Favor the first, make sure that your gender, race, alignment, class, background, HP, AC, and Passive Perception are listed in the tagline for your character. Many of you have this already but some do not. This is the minimum I'd like to see in everyone's tagline. Those who have more, excellent! Thank you. Favor the second, will everyone please post their backstory in a spoiler on their profile page. As an example you can look at Ashrie VanShorn's profile page. You'll notice at the bottom he has a spoiler labeled backstory. Please, will everyone do that same thing? Thank you!
Once that is done, Bella, you can just go to the Characters tab of the campaign, and click on each character's profile, and their back stories will be there for you to read. :)
Now, about Daybreak, you guess correctly. Daybreak is a city that I imagined a while ago, but that became necessary to map as it may be the route people want to take to get to Blueblossom Haven, depending on their modes of transportation and group preferences. The other two major routes to Blueblossom would be via a ship up the River of the Republic, or on land, stopping at the Briarhill outpost and taking their ferry across. Daybreak, the city, is built around (meaning it grew naturally spilling in every direction) Daybreak Bridge, an ancient structure of unknown origin; both the elves and dwarves claim it was their doing. The massive stone arch bridge, has a tall pyramid of pillars attached to the sides of the bridge at its peak, and atop the pyramid sits a giant crystal (also of unknown origin) that catches the light just as the sun crests the eastern horizon, spilling rainbows across the bridge and water. It is a tourist attraction, and, a very important land route for trade in the Republic. -- Thanks for asking!!! :)
They should be visible now; I had them in there but not on the correct line.
Updated! Soon the docks will also know of Baen the Brave! :D
Heads up friends. I will be embroiled in family Christmas celebrations for the entirety of the weekend and will, with a 99% certainty, not be able to post until Monday morning.
Enjoy your festive shenanigans.
Huh, I just noticed something weird. The avatars for the party ladies face to the right. The avatars for the party dudes face to the left. Even the GM's weather vein does it. Tavir is kinda facing forwards, but he's looking to the left.
interesting observation. I wonder how many of the pictures for each gender follow those trends?
Hmmmm...good catch...never noticed that before!
That must mean my skeleton avatar was a man before it died... :) Very astute observation Nikeisha!
Okay, well, that observation doesn't hold true entirely. If you look at Team Good's gameplay page you'll see that both Lindaer and Psalm are male avatars (I'm 90% sure they are male anyway), but they are facing right. :) So, there are a few anomalies/exceptions. ;-)
Huh, neat!
Interesting ... hmmm ...
Yeah, it's definitely not all portraits that match it. It was just an interesting quirk of this particular group.
Okay everybody, My RL Mom and Sister arrive in my town tomorrow evening (Friday 12/15), and they will be here for 2 weeks. Ass some of you may know my Dad just passed away on 12/3 in Argentina and so my Mom had to come to the States to take care of some legal issues and she of course want to spend some time with me. I have not seen her in about 1& 1/2 years or so, and it's been 3 years since I have seen my Sister. This means my posting may become somewhat ... erratic? or very occasional? slim to non-existent? I'm sorry. I will do what I can and of course you Game Masters feel free to do whatever you feel necessary with my character.
I know this is bad timing for me to try to speak to this man about midvale and really the whole situation! Sorry, couldn't be helped. I'll do the best I can.
I remember seeing that when you were accepted. Very sorry to hear about it but obviously its an important time to be with family. Come on when you can and know we'll all be happy to have you interact when you can.
Yeah, don't worry about it. We'll be here when you get the time.
If I need to bot Luna I will, no worries. You enjoy your family time, and check back in with hobby diversions whenever time allows. :)
Man, things are not going well with the castle group at all.
I don't know if it is just me or what, but the Battle Grid is not allowing me to edit anything so far.
Sorry Bella, I was sure I had set it as everyone with the link can edit, but it looks like it was set to "view" instead. I've since adjusted it. Let me know if it still doesn't work. There might be a glitch there!?
No problem Mended! Works now! Gave myself a little coloring to my border.
And as far as I'm concerned you have not tipped your hand on the bullywugs readied actions, cause I don't remember what capabilities they have and I'm specifically refraining from looking it up! Luna don't know, I'd rather not know myself! Being they are frogs I strongly suspect something about their tongues flying out quickly or possibly spitting? Guess I'll find out soon enough!
GREAT fun so far! - We'll see once we start getting more into the mechanics of 5E.
And by the way, reason I changed my nickname to Luna (which is STILL spanish! Haha! for moon): 1. She is not very pretty - or Bella. 2. I plan to go into the Shadow features of the monk later and that seemed more fitting to the moon aspect of her name, what with my mind being fluent in Spanish and all that. Not that it truly matters of course, just 'splaining myself.
I suppose I could delete this profile and create a new one with the identical photo and info, just changing the "Bella" to "Luna" huh?
And by the way, reason I changed my nickname to Luna (which is STILL spanish! Haha! for moon): 1. She is not very pretty - or Bella. 2. I plan to go into the Shadow features of the monk later and that seemed more fitting to the moon aspect of her name, what with my mind being fluent in Spanish and all that. Not that it truly matters of course, just 'splaining myself.
I suppose I could delete this profile and create a new one with the identical photo and info, just changing the "Bella" to "Luna" huh?
I think that is fully awesome, and if you want to make a new profile with the nickname Luna, I have no problem with that. That's a lot of work on your part, though, so if you'd rather not, please don't. We can all remember that, though her family called her Bella, now, in the company of humans, that she is actually starting to grow fond of, she prefers to separate herself from her aloof elven parents and go by Luna! :)
Sorry for the mangled post. I haven't been sleeping well due to a lot of extra shifts and my dad dying causing some depression...and sleeping issues.
But yes, it was meant to be Nikeisha tapping her fingers against her thigh. The idea is the for Somatic components she'll either tap her leg with her fingers or tap her staff on the ground if she has it while directing the spell with the other.
Hopefully my next one will be a little less buggy, or I'll notice it before the editing window closes this time.
... Just understand that sometimes we peasant humans might just call you "loony" for your strange elven ways. :P
In jest, of course.
Sorry for the mangled post. I haven't been sleeping well due to a lot of extra shifts and my dad dying causing some depression...and sleeping issues.
But yes, it was meant to be Nikeisha tapping her fingers against her thigh. The idea is the for Somatic components she'll either tap her leg with her fingers or tap her staff on the ground if she has it while directing the spell with the other.
Hopefully my next one will be a little less buggy, or I'll notice it before the editing window closes this time.
Nikeisha, my condolences on your father's passing. Please, don't worry about such trivial things as using the wrong noun in a PbP. I know Bellaluna very well, from two other games we're in, and he really just meant that to be a joke, not any kind of criticism. I'm sure he'll say as much whenever he gets a chance to post. He also recently lost his father, so I'm sure he both sympathizes and empathizes. Take care of yourself, and remember this game is supposed to be a fun escape from reality, not another stresser! Okay?! I hope you're having fun. I know I am. Frog's legs for everyone!
Yes Nikeisha! What Mended says! Absolutely it was just meant as a joke as the ;) winky face and the :P sticking out the tongue face should have indicated!
I am so SORRY for your loss! I just lost my Father on 12/3 so I certainly sympathize and understand to some degree! If there's any way I can help please let me know! I would be most willing if you want to chat, on here or through PM's! Or if you just want to vent or whatever! Please!
Yes, let's try and have fun here! I have never had frog legs before! Looking forward to it!
Oh, I know you were just making fun. It was more the fact that I did a post that mangled that bugged me, and I felt it required an explanation. While the English Language is mine to maul, I'm not usually that awful about it. No, your post was funny Bellaluna. Feel free to make fun of stuff like that with me.
Merry Christmas everyone!!! Nothing much in the link, just an image, but it is sent with meaning. :D
And happy holidays to anyone who enjoys other holidays, too!
... Just gotta cover my bases.