Thirst - A Ravenloft PbP

Game Master Celestial Healer

I'm away at OddconUK until Monday now.

Cheers
FW

Things are likely to continue very slowly between now and my wedding in December. Lots going on! I want to check in occasionally, though, just to keep things from petering out. I hope all are okay with that plan.

Man, life - especially weddings - certainly take priority. I hope the preparations are going well?

Yeah. It just feels like there is a lot to do!

No problem with me. Best of luck with the wedding. Very, Very happy for you!

Hope all is going well with the wedding planning. Bumping to be sure it doesn't fall off.

The game. Fall off the radar. That's what I meant.

Two more weeks! Sorry I haven't been able to sit down with my PbPs.

No problem-o. I was actually posting to check how Paizo does timestamps because I was preparing a last-second kill post in a Mafia game.

Not a paladin.

/me shakes fist at Treppa!

MUAH-HA-HAAAA!

Sorry for lagging. Now that we've restarted, I've been deathly ill for a week. Getting back on my feet and trying to catch up. I need to review this one to figure out what to say to the guy, because I forgot what I had in mind.

Hi All

I'm away for a gaming weekend tomorrow followed by watching the Superbowl thru the night despite what happened to my beloved Packers.

Should re-surface some time on Monday.

Will try to post as and when, but feel free to NPC me if you need to.

Cheers FW

So Volidrian is guarding the front door but he could help with the locked one around back, of course in character he has no way of knowing this. Are Andrzej and Nathaniel staying behind the shop?

Hey guys, sorry my posting has been a bit erratic over the past few days, for various reasons I haven’t had as much time to keep up with pbps as I thought I would. I’ll try to find time to get up to date tonight if possible, otherwise tomorrow.

Hit by some kind of virus, please look after my pc for a couple more days.

later
FW

New keyboard tomorrow. Will resume posting then.

Just a heads up, I will be away in China for about two weeks from the 1st of April. During that time I’m not sure how much internet access I will have, how much time I will have to get on, and whether I’ll be able to get access to Paizo. Towards the end of the trip I’ll be in Hong Kong which might mean improved access. I’ll try to keep up with my pbp games if I can, but please NPC my character if required to keep things moving along.

Dear CH et al

Not sure if you guys have noticed but I've been slacking off recently. My studies and workload have risen dramatically in recent times, and my role here is growing. I wish I could find the time for this game because of you guys but that's not going to happen for a year or two when I finish taking exams.

Therefore I'm going to drop out. Seem to have lost my vim and vigour for pbp and its not likely to return.

All the Best
FW

Take care and good luck FW.

Best wishes, French Wolf!

So sorry to see you go, FW. I'll miss you.

Best wishes FW. It has been fun playing with you.

So - a heads up. I am looking to kick his PbP off again after a couple months' hiatus.

I know we're down French Wolf. Mike Welham says he plans to return, but it may be a little while due to travel and some other things.

Do we still have:

Leandro
Nathaniel
Tybalt
Res
Volidrian

Yup

Yes, Res is still here and interested. The hiatus has been well timed for me.

Volidrian is still here

I'm still in and interested.

Aye that I am :)

Excellent! May be a few more days.

I am kicking off with you all back in the barn. As I understand it, your plan was:

Bind Leandro, Andrzej, Tybalt, and Eliva to prevent them from hurting themselves or others.

Tybalt and Anuqa would remain to watch them.

Res, Volidrian, and Angalia would go to meet with the toymaker once everything is set here.

Obviously, feel free to modify those plans as you wish.

I think Nathaniel was also waiting at the barn to watch those possibly impacted by lycanthropy.

Oh yes. Was supposed to be "Nathaniel and Anuqa watching", not Tybalt.

In transit to Yellowstone. Very little internet access. Back on 7/25.
This goes for Volidrian as well.

Enjoy!

I am not dead (yet), but drowning.

Updating pbps is on my schedule for Thursday, 21 september. I will post at least something in all active pbps, and schedule an hour 4x/week to do pbps after that (sat/sun/tue/thu).

To my players: sorry for the delay, and thank you for your patience.

To gms and other players: feel free to bot me if I am holding up the game.

*cough*

I know cobwebs are kind of a gothic horror staple, but this place is awfully dusty.

Gearing up for a restart here. If you’re seeing this, feel free to chime in! Priority is being given to everyone who has played in this campaign previously!

Dotting

Dot!

Quick roll call. We’ve got:

Leandro
Res
Volidrian
Anuqa

I have invited Patrick Curtin to join with a new PC.

I PM’d DSX and Mothman, but am not sure whether they are checking. If we just have this five, I may invite a new sixth player as well.

Still working on filling out the party.

And making some decisions about how to start us off. Where we left off, the party was split - some people were meeting with the toymaker‘a assistant, while others were observing the lycanthropic transformations of Tybalt and Andrzej.

My gut inclination was originally to summarize the meeting in the cafe and dive right into the toymaker/serial killer plot. But that leaves the wererat question unresolved.

Given that Tybalt’s and Andrzej’s players are presumably not rejoining, will anyone feel cheated if I handwave their whole lycanthropy question, rather than send you all on a quest to cure some ex-PCs of lycanthropy? Curing lycanthropy is a meaningful quest when it’s a PC - but when it’s not it feels like a distraction from your main quests.

Thoughts?

Wow! I can't believe it has almost been 3 years since Res said

He takes a sip of the coffee and winces. "Arg, nothing like the coffee brewed at Lastwall, praise be Gorum" he muses to himself.

I'm very excited to rejoin everyone. I miss you all. I hope you are all faring ok during this strange year.

Still working on filling out the party.

And making some decisions about how to start us off. Where we left off, the party was split - some people were meeting with the toymaker‘a assistant, while others were observing the lycanthropic transformations of Tybalt and Andrzej.

My gut inclination was originally to summarize the meeting in the cafe and dive right into the toymaker/serial killer plot. But that leaves the wererat question unresolved.

Given that Tybalt’s and Andrzej’s players are presumably not rejoining, will anyone feel cheated if I handwave their whole lycanthropy question, rather than send you all on a quest to cure some ex-PCs of lycanthropy? Curing lycanthropy is a meaningful quest when it’s a PC - but when it’s not it feels like a distraction from your main quests.

Thoughts?

I'm ok with handwaving the wererat story. Maybe the urgency of resuming the chase leads us to leave Tybalt and Andrzej with an NPC who can work on a cure. That way if either of those characters makes a return in the future, it will be easy to explain their reappearance.

Celestial Healer wrote:

Still working on filling out the party.

And making some decisions about how to start us off. Where we left off, the party was split - some people were meeting with the toymaker‘a assistant, while others were observing the lycanthropic transformations of Tybalt and Andrzej.

My gut inclination was originally to summarize the meeting in the cafe and dive right into the toymaker/serial killer plot. But that leaves the wererat question unresolved.

Given that Tybalt’s and Andrzej’s players are presumably not rejoining, will anyone feel cheated if I handwave their whole lycanthropy question, rather than send you all on a quest to cure some ex-PCs of lycanthropy? Curing lycanthropy is a meaningful quest when it’s a PC - but when it’s not it feels like a distraction from your main quests.

Thoughts?

I'm ok with handwaving the wererat story. Maybe the urgency of resuming the chase leads us to leave Tybalt and Andrzej with an NPC who can work on a cure. That way if either of those characters makes a return in the future, it will be easy to explain their reappearance.

That's probably how I'll handle it. I might try to kick this off tomorrow.

Patrick, if your character is not ready, that's okay. I don't think you will have to jump immediately into combat - but we will probably get there soon.

Does that work for everyone?

Yeah I'm still trying to find a thematically-appropriate class I like. Nothing has really leaped out to me.

If anyone has suggestions for a Herbert West/Maddish-scientist obsessed with undead (As experimental subjects- not making them) I'm all ears.

Here's my guy. No class thoughts yet, but I'll do some searching

I know I had mentioned Alchemist and Investigator, but let's crowdsource some other ideas!

I know I had mentioned Alchemist and Investigator, but let's crowdsource some other ideas!

I went through the alchemist lists. Nothing grabbed me.

Hello, first of all wanted to post to indicate that I am here. Second a non-alchemist but Herbert West esk class might be the occultist. It's more magical that scientific but has similar vibes (at least in my mind)

Interesting idea, and this could be a great campaign for an occult class.

Hmm. I’ll delve into that tonight