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Game Master Tacticslion

Sorry! Headaches, distraction (kids, awesome wife, and life stuff), and busy meant that I knew I was missing something, but I wasn't entirely sure what.

When I can, I'll respond to the mephit-thing, then progress us forward, if we're ready!

(I've not read the other thread, yet!)

Eternal Seeds as well - would like to know what ES thinks about heaven. We're working like a democracy here so we need to count da votes.

I was just waiting to see if the dragon had a name yet...

Knowing draconic names - even if she did, we'd need to shorten it or be unable to pronounce.

WELP. My birthday is happening again (it just keeps doing that)! It is unlikely that I will have free time to update until tomorrow! Sorry! (Wife and kids is keeping me dry busy!)

:D

Inarus: got your PM. I've written a response, but don't know when I can send it!

Don’t bother TL :P I swear I was drunk yesterday – except I hadn’t touched a drop alcohol. Maybe drunk on something else then…

As I told Robert before, the idle mind is the devil’s workshop…and that’s what I came up with when I have too much free time.

I’ve actually decided not to do it, since I detect there is a mismatch in what the GM is expecting, and what I want to do. I mean hey, I’m not here to win DPR contests you know(which seems the way of the other applicants), and it pretty much bores me.

And your Bdae and mine are really, really close to each other, TL.

Oh wait. Your PM got to me already :P

Happy Birthday! :D

Happy Birthday! :D

I'm so confused...

It's my birthday. Though how TL found that out... I have no clue.

So you and TL share a birthday? Or at least the birthdays are really close. I feel so left out I had mine already.

So you and TL share a birthday? Or at least the birthdays are really close. I feel so left out I had mine already.

Happy well-after-your-birthday!

Also, it appears that hers is on the 11th, and mine the 10th!

Also...

It's my birthday. Though how TL found that out... I have no clue.

Uh, like, right here, you noted,

And your Bdae and mine are really, really close to each other, TL.

... so I just wished you a happy birthday the first chance I got, figuring I'd get it "really close." XD

Actually mine's on 12th yours - well yours on 10th, but the way timezones go onto...it more or less worked out.

Urg. Storms rolling in - no internet; again.

Mañana is TKD (and other things).

Okay. The plan: if I can get the spare time, update will be made on Tuesday.

Blarg! I want this to go forwarrrrd...

Sorry to hear about Internet problems.

Shameless bump.

Care for some solo adventures, TL?

We could get Riderch killed in all kinds of amusing ways!

*amused grin*

I don't think I could get through a Fighting Fantasy game book without getting killed once. Even Lone Wolf game books, it's chancy business.

so you all vote to see which way your bard is going?

... bard instead of fighter... cats, what can you do...

Yeah somewhat.

Meow! Scientific studies have proven that in Plague Lords of Ruel, trying to do things the hard way only gets you pulverized by Giganites.

We shall not talk about Freeway warrior series, where combat is even more skewed against the character. Any fight is best avoided.

Fighting Fantasy series also - going to confront the BBEG without the necessary required quest items = splat on the ground.

Wow, did my GM just justify metagameimg and min-maxing???

;-)

Shaddap. *looks embarassed*

I also picked the bard so I could meta game, since don't bards hear stories from everywhere?

So if I decide not to eat/drink whatever someone's offering the bard could have heard of a story where someone was poisoned after taking in food offered to him by monks...

If we only have 3 life gems, we gotta make them count, right?

My opinion is its too few(fighting fantasy really gives some wtf deaths you'd never think about), but you live with whatever cards you're given.

Freeway warrior

How many times you can die and thats only in the middle of the first book ^^

Note the fight took the character from 20 to 3 hp

And that's for someone with almost best possible stats for close combat.

Yeah, my statement stands, don't run around picking fights.

I'll be honest: I'm rushed! I haven't had the chance to check out any of those links! I'm planning on it... but this is not that day! XD

Anyhoo, I've manage to kludge this together over the course of the day! Hope it looks nice!

Changed my avatar to better reflect what I've become. Updated stats too.

AWESOME NEW AVATAR INARRRRUUUUUUUSSSSS~!

(Also, the name is "Iya-iya" - pretty close to "yah-yah" with a bit of a soft "ih" sound before each 'y' sound. Sorry about the hard-to-read-text!)

Also, also: my dudette, you can totally use your rods. You have a method of being corporeal for limited amounts of time per day! It's up to you how you use it. ;P

I'm curious, though, about you inquiring into the name...

In any event, I'm probably out for the night!

If anything happens to the mephits, I'll say I told you so.

Nah, I'm saving my corporeality for special occasions =)

Though TK should allow me to open doors and all that...

since you are incorporeal you can sneak ahead right? See what there is to see, that way the Mephits can stay safe.

Hey! I'm a ghostie! This is ghostie abuse! If it goes bad, I'm hiding in your armor.

And I don't do the rogue thing!

So... should I mention, again, that it's supposed to be Iya-iya, with two 'y's instead of two 'v's, or should we change her name?

XD

I will get it right this time. Blame my human, I copied his spelling.

Oh wait. He copied me. Sorry. I blame typos on phone.

hey, I just copied and pasted...

edit: I must have read what I copy and pasted wrong because I have 'Iya͠-̧iy̕a̕ on my sheet, so when I type again it will be right!

I apologise for auto correct on my phone :)

Don't mind us - we like tweaking each others noses.

I apologise for auto correct on my phone :)

Don't mind us - we like tweaking each others noses.

Hey you have no proof that I have a nose!

I'm sure you have a nose. Don't humans?

does it count if it doesn't work?

Mine doesn't... I mean, I smell stuff all the time, but only when I don't want to! XD

I am sorry your nose doesn't work. But a not working nose is still a nose.

Fine, I admit it, I have a nose...

headed to work shortly, I will past a little later...

Belt test tonight at TKD - not sure if I'll be able to do it, though I will try! Tomorrow should be free enough to that there will be no problem (hah! I actually said "no problem" - no, thanks, everyone, I'm totally good enough at jinxing myself!).

Oh my god I just started *trying* to play Fighting Fantasy - the Diamond key. The story line is certainly compelling but lets not count the number of times I died horribly...and some of it was through bad dice rolls. Like the opening fight >.<

Then there was once I got to the BBEG. Then died horribly. Basically Fighting Fantasy I think is a major treasure hunt. It's not how fast you reach the BBEG, is how many quest items you accumulate before you hit the BBEG.

And oh, I sided with a vampire instead of a human. My not-human side is showing.

Now I'm cheating and just reading the book because I want to see all the various endings etc...too curious kitty!

And it sort of rewards risk taking - you need to take some pretty crazy risks to get the stuff you need to defeat the BBEG.

Instead of having you all roll multiple saves throughout the tunnels, I moved things forward, knowing that, barring exceptionally unusual circumstances, you will all first succumb to the elements of the tunnels, then throw them off with a will save (even if it's a natural 20 at some point or another).

This allows us to move forward with the story, since, in the end, all that would happen is a page or more of posts with you making saves that you'll eventually succeed at, and, as it turns out, there were no random encounters that would otherwise take advantage of your weaknesses.

As it turns out, there is no particular need for warding against cold - it can be uncomfortable, but it's not actually damaging.

For clarification, everything is slightly slick and damp, but not dangerous, so far.

Each of you currently has at least a couple of mephits on you - even Inarus, as some have acquired some of the blue ice used throughout the tunnels, which allows them to contact you. Said mephits are easily enough removed, though they mostly just snuggle and hold on, harmlessly. If more amorous advances are refused (which, I presume, given this party, they are), they simply fall into happy snuggles.

Though you can't see the other side of the enormous circular tunnel of undulating folks, it's clear that the two tunnels go to the same place (at least, presuming nothing else changes on the other side you can't see).

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Hah! Sounds fun!

Snuggle is fine. I don't have leanings in Mephit directions...so anything more then that nuh-uh.

Yes, I hear Hotel California, but I'm also about free will...maybe too much.

Well, I'm not saying, in specific, that said song was running through my mind when I was writing stuff up...

*cough*

Of course, I'm also not saying, exactly, that this helped inspire the scene in which Iya-iya burned a hole into the next layer...

>.>

Gimme a bit to respond. I'll need to digest.

Gimme a bit to respond. I'll need to digest.

... heh. XD

So!

Just in case it's not clear, or been forgotten due to my anarchic posting schedule (sorry), I figured I'd take this opportunity to remind the players and clarify for them, out of character.

Here we go!

- 1) you've been moving about and between three different layers, destroying the "final bosses" for those layers (as it were), and effectively taking partial control over them for yourselves (though, functionally, this means little, as you haven't spent the requisite years learning how to, you know, actually do anything with that influence - like a newborn, you might try to flex your muscles, but good luck doing anything)

- 2) the layers you've been through have been fire/wrath, air/gluttony, and now cold/lust.

- 3) the presence you are discussing things with seems to be both representative of all those that live on this layer (or at least those that are...engaging within the circular tunnel) and whatever "power" is in charge of the layer

- 4) as the latter, it seems to be of the opinion that there is a physical entity of some as-yet-undetermined-by-you type that once became the "power" over this layer, and has been waiting to be devoured by one of you, ever since (do note, though only Usawoti was directly referred to as "half-dragon" all three creatures can be thought of as "half dragon" in some way or another - a part I think I was unclear on in this post, as I'd made it a few times before that never came through is that the prophecy refers to exactly a creature fitting that particular description - a half-dragon touched by the layers of burning fury and oblivious vapor would also become the inheritor of cold passion); EDIT: after talking with my wife, I realize I should clarify: the entity is only expecting one of you to become the ruler, not expecting you all to do so, though I suppose you could always try and split it among you, somehow or another (just because NPCs aren't thinking of something doesn't mean you shouldn't)

- 5) said entity is willing to allow this to happen, despite having a vague desire to continue one

- 6) whichever one of the three accepts the power over this layer (if any one of you three do) and devours the current 'head' will not be able to leave this tower, though with differing restrictions on what, exactly, that means, and differing eventual fates for the entities involved (the guessed-at results of your collective choice being explained as clearly as possible by the entity that is giving a very-well-educated and highly-experienced guess)

Hope that helps!

This is a kind of "placeholder" for games and events for any future PbPs I run.

While technically a recruitment page, I'm mostly just exploring how to start a campaign again, and set this up for future stuff.

Game on!

dotting?

Hah!

... not what I was expecting or intending.

... but I totally should have known. XD

Anyone is very welcome to dot in, but I am not actively recruiting at this time.

I have something lined up to use this campaign, but I'm unsure if this will get used. It may get quite... boring.

EDIT: first to switch to the correct alias, and then to note that I edited my post!

HOLY CRAP IT'S TL

Hi TL!

Hai-hai~!*

How's it going?

Er, I mean, carp-fish-carp~! This is neither FaWtL, nor my thread!1!one!1!

Get thee to one of those at once~! >:I

(Unless you don't feel like it. In which case, don't.)

* Is... is that, like, kawaii, or just creepy? It's hard to tell when you're a mid-thirties dude on the internet. Not posting under my GM alias, 'cause... this post ain't. Also: don't use "ain't" kids - it's a terrible word. Use proper American**!

** Hee. I'm so bad, sometimes!

This is a kind of "placeholder" for games and events for any future PbPs I run.

Ugh, terrible wording is terrible. This is "... any future one-off PbPs I run."

That is, this isn't for all PbPs, just one-shots, one-offs, experiments, testing, and the like.

I have something lined up to use this campaign, but I'm unsure if this will get used. It may get quite... boring.

Huh. This is already more lively than anticipated... and we're only five posts and three hours in!

How'd this come in?

*Pokes head in and meows*

Ah the disappointment... D:

I fear that somehow my skill as a GM has become greatly exaggerated, if people are disappointed at missing my stuff... but, uh, this wasn't exactly a real recruitment, either...

Nonetheless, you're welcome to chat here? Though, actually, probably not: FaWtL would be much better for that! Join us there!

I have to admit The FAWTL have always been scary to me, and perhaps I just wanted for you to favorite all my campaing posts :P

Hahahah! FaWtL is literally, "Start where you are, post what you like (no religion, sports, or politics); post at the top of the page is presumed naked until otherwise noted."

No need for background! If you want a recent "What's up?" ask and he shall receive (though lrobably humorously distorted).

:)