Thralls of Thrune, Part 1: The Sunless Citadel (Inactive)

Game Master Mike Kimmel

Should have said in my post but Eion would have to drop his dagger before drawing his sling. Also his 5' step would be away from 'dem bones to D5.

Now slightly confused if we're into the next round or not. If we are, then Teral, unable to get past the rest into melee, will take a (terrible) shot at the last skeleton with Acid Splash. That's at a -4 from a lack of Precise Shot, mind, so the chances of actually hitting aren't great. But it's what he's got, so there we go regardless.

Bellicus hasn't acted in either round. That could make a difference!

Mike: Not sure about etiquette in PbPs: Will you have our PCs act if the player is absent, just to move things along?

I have been skipping people (assuming a "delayed action") when they don't post after more than a day or so. I could post an action for them instead, if that would make things easier to track.

Sorry about my lateness. Two days ago was the last day of school, so I just finally crawled out of a whiskey bottle.

Mmmm... whiskey...

Now I want a Manhattan.

Hah. Been a while since I've gotten a 0 on an attack roll.

My apologies on my absence. This week's been brutal.

No prob!

On that note, I'm going on vacation tomorrow for a week, and probably won't be able to post more than once or twice until I'm back.

Mike: I think I've established Val's personality well enough. Feel free to run her as an NPC as needed.

Five more uses of Channel Energy today.

Just want to note that Elion is making me laugh so hard with his posts.

Just want to note that Elion is making me laugh so hard with his posts.

Tks. Now if he can survive pissing off Bellicus... :-)

By the way, I've use the technique of interrupting a potential fight with an inane question in real life and it works pretty well. It takes a little while for most people to work themselves up to a fight. An interruption takes the wind out of their sails and they have to start all over. Most of the time they seem to decide that it's too much effort and they break it off. It might help that I'm a 6'1" guy with a bead and 25 years military experience, Elion doesn't have that advantage.

I've got a remove fear spell prepped-- would that help calm down a future confused Akshara?

I have to say I love how that conflict defused; Anton's use of handle animal was priceless and made a lot of sense in-character; thanks for allowing that to work, Mike.

Good stuff, everyone. I will post some treasure soon (woohoo!) and you all can discuss what happened and what you are going to do next!

Yeah, OOC, your posts are comedy gold, Elion! Someone's got to be the straight man in the group, though, and Bellicus will gladly take that role.

I'm a bit sleep deprived right now (new puppy), apparently it brings out my whimsical side.

Agh! Sorry about not posting the last few days - I've headed out for vacation with most of my extended family, and the internet has been weird. I'm assured that the internet is going to be more solid for the rest of the time, but obviously, I'm still going to be distracted by being here, so my posting will be spotty at best.

Hope everyone had a fun 4th. I wanted to let you all know that I'm getting married this weekend and won't likely be posting much until the 17th or so when I get back from my honeymoon. I want to encourage you all to continue posting during that time and I think enough has happened lately that you certainly have enough to talk about in-character. Let's see some more character development! :)

I would also like to reward you for this continued posting, so those of you who continue to post regularly will get a hero point or something. Or if you need a break, that's okay too.

I'll try to post your treasure tomorrow, but no guarantees. (I am working on a spreadsheet, which I use for all my games. It'll be cool.)

Questions?

Best of luck, Mike! I'll be performing a wedding next weekend so I'll be in and out a bit too.

Congrats, Mike! I hope everything goes perfectly. Over here it's sweltering, so in particular I hope the weather's nice.

I'm around. Considering those fights probably took place within less than five or ten minutes of each other, I'm sure Leynus would love to take a seat and talk for a while.

Congrats, Mike!

My spouse and I just celebrated our 19th anniversary this week (which is one reason we're on vacation).

I wish you as good a marriage as I've had!

Noooooo!... don't leave me alone with the crazy people... pleeesse!

Ahem, seriously though, congratulations and may your spouse be at least half as understanding as mine is.

Glad to hear things are going well for you, Mike. The timing on this is good, as I'm largely incommunicado for the weekend. I'm sure we'll wrassle up some inter-party dialogue in the interim ;)

Congratulations to you and your spouse, DM! I wish you all the best!

And, wait, we have to talk with each other again? GAH! ;-P

Congratulations, Mike, wish you and yours all the best - we'll try to have something entertaining waiting for you when you're ready to roll again.

In other news, I'm back from my trip, and good to go.

It's not like you don't have enough to do Akshara. Your Quest for Arcadia thread is crazy busy!

Just checking in-- I've been at an outdoor music festival all weekend, and was not using the Internet. Guess I didn't miss anything here!

Yeah, Mike's still out I think. We've been on hold for a little while.

Val, that's me next weekend in Newport. But I'm around!

Okay, it's taken me a little longer than expected to get back in the swing of things, but we should be moving again soon! Thank you for your patience.

Welcome back!

Welcome back, GM! Looking forward to jumping back on this one!

Glad to have you back, don't feel rushed at all :)

Val, that's me next weekend in Newport. But I'm around!

Newport Folk Fest is amazing! I've been, but the last time I was there was the early 1990s. I was at the Grassroot Festival. I was hoping to get to Falcon Ridge, but it doesn't look like it's in the cards this year.

My third year running. Love the environment, very easy going.

Just popping in to keep myself paying attention while we get back into it.

So, yeah. Rawr, or something.

I'll post the treasure here when I get a chance - there isn't much so far - along with the system we'll be using to divide it evenly.

Welcome back, Mike, and congratulations again!

I'll post the treasure here when I get a chance - there isn't much so far - along with the system we'll be using to divide it evenly.

My money's on chainsaw duels.

Mike the GM wrote:

I'll post the treasure here when I get a chance - there isn't much so far - along with the system we'll be using to divide it evenly.

My money's on chainsaw duels.

Um O.K. Bellicus gets all the stuff :-)

Welcome, back, sah, and congratulations again.

Moving right along - any chance of an updated map anytime soon?

Liking the chainsaw duels idea.

I added a "dungeon map" - see the top of the page. I'm thinking later I may label it with room #'s and maybe a "you are here" indicator, but for now it seems fairly straightforward. You are in the southern room with the stone door. So, what are you going to do??? :)

Hey, didn't you promise us loot? (nice map though!)

Mike-- Out of curiosity, what tool are you using to make the maps?

Akshara is going to follow Bellicus' lead and stay in the front. She'll wind up wherever he goes, but I think their plan is to find the source of the scuttling and make it non-scuttling and more squeak-dead.

To be technical.

We seem to have ground to a halt here - are we waiting for us to press forward, or...?

I was waiting to see if more folks would post what they're doing in terms of the rubble/stone door/big wide room, buuuut... I think we'll just move things along... time to get this ball rolling again!

Valeria - I am just using Photoshop for the maps. The floors are all scans I took of some tiles I have. Is it the best way to make digital maps? Maybe not. But since I already have Photoshop it's the cheapest, and it doesn't involve learning anything new. :)

Just a general heads-up, for the month of August I won't have much weekend posting time. I'm in crunch-time on a Pathfinder project that needs to be done at month end and packing/preparing to move at the beginning of Sept (provided the apartment is ready and it doesn't get pushed back again x_x).

Just wanted to give everyone a heads-up on that! :)

Thanks for letting us know. Weekend posting has been and may continue to be rough for me, as well, to be honest.

We're about to get to one of the (in my opinion) most fun parts of the module though, with plenty of role-play opportunity and lots of awesome decision-making. So I'm looking forward to that!