*evil glare*
In summary: Cassandra Blackmoore, Davor Wolfriel, Professor Faradir Rokannon, Tamarie Lialda & Vivian Deberth arrived in the sleepy town of Ravngro in the Immortal Principality of Ustalav on the afternoon of Toilday, the 23rd of Calistril, in the year 4710, Absalom Reckoning. They had traveled to this rustic burg at the behest of their mutual comrade, Professor Petros Lorrimor, who had recently died & named them all as persons to be present at the reading of his will.
Upon their arrival, they made their way to Ravengro's Cemetary, called the Restlands as Ustalav is a land strong in the faith of Pharasma, lady of Birth, Death & Fate. Joining the funeral party, they found themselves, along with Professor Lorimorr's daughter Kendra, acting as pallbearers for the deceased. While carrying the professor's coffin to his intended place of repose, they found themselves accosted by a small mob of villagers, included among them Gibbs Hephenus & Faethor Grimmas. Gibbs Hephenus proceeded to declaim against the late professor, proclaiming the Graveyard was no place for a 'vile necromancer' to be buried. Though several harsh words were hurled back & forth, Vivian was able to calm matters sufficiently to allow the pallbearers to continue on their way & Professor Lorrimor's body was finally laid to rest, after which time they were invited by Kendra Lorrimor to the family abode to rest & hear the reading of the will.
At the Lorrimor abode, the five witnessed the reading of the will, including the mention that they were not the only person's invited, merely the ones to arrive in sufficient numbers to achieve a 'quorum' for the purposes of the will. After the reading of Professor Lorrimor's will, the five examined a number of documents which had been given to them in trust, including the Professor's journal, which contained notes implying that the circumstances of his demise were not so accidental as they might have believed...
In response, the five occupied themselves well into the night making use of the late professor's study & the books therein to research this hidden threat, only concluding their investigations when weariness overcame them.
Only to be awakened the next morning by a most unseemly pounding at Miss Lorrimor's front door!
Upon the door's opening, they witnessed Faethor Grimmas in the company of Ravengro's town Sheriff & the councilman who had, on the previous evening, read Professor Lorrimor's will. The three informed them that some vandal had defaced the town's memorial to the tragedy of several generation's past & that Faethor Grimmas had rather vocally blamed the town's recent visitor's Cassandra, Davor, Faradir, Tamarie & Vivian!
Upon investigating the location of the desecration, the five witnessed a rather excessive display of force on the part of the sheriff against Faethor Grimmas in preventing Faethor's possible escalation of hostilities, however they found little in the way of evidence as to who was responsible for the defilement of the monument, though they were able to confirm that it was not an irreversible act, requiring only the application of sufficient water & effort to remove the offending filth.
Returning to the Lorrimor's house, Davor, Professor Rokannon & Vivian asked Kendra to introduce them to Ravengro's priest, Father Grimburrow, in the hopes that he might answer certain of their remaining questions from the previous night's investigations. While the four of them made their way to Ravengro's town church, Cassandra & Tamarie remained, only to be joined by a belatedly-arrived additional companion of Professor Lorrimor's, brother Zander Drax, of the church of Shelyn.
At Ravengro's church, Davor, Professor Rokannon & Vivian found less than they had hoped for, but did inadvertently acquire the potential for more aid in the future as one of the lesser priests procured a handful of vials of holy water which he delivered to the Lorrimor house in their absence. Upon their return to the Lorrimor residence however, they were greeted by two surprises, neither entirely welcome, for though brother Drax expressed a desire to join them in their efforts, miss Blackmoore evinced trepidation & apologized to Kendra before leaving Ravengro to return to her own home.
That evening, Tamarie & Vivian enticed brother Drax to accompany them for a mild carouse while Davor & Professor Rokannon continued their attempts to glean greater information from the documents the late Professor Lorrimor had left. As Vivian & Zander became better acquainted & also succeeded in somewhat countering the townsfolk's sour attitude towards the visitors, Tamarie excused herself to return to the Lorrimor house, just in time to assist Davor & Professor Rokannon as they respond to a most unusual interruption. A spectral raven!
Though the three are unable to pursue the ghostly raven, they do see a stealthy figure attempting to slink away in the darkness of the night. Pursuing, they catch up to & eventually capture a filthy tatterdemalion of a madman. Returning with the madman to the Lorrimor residence, all are soon joined by Vivan & brother Drax and the madman's disordered rambling, while still as seemingly senseless as before, begins to reveal several possibly pertinent details.
I have taken the liberty of adding links to certain pertinent prior posts within this one. I will also be adding this post as a 'Story so far' to the Campaign Info tab, for future reference & will be attempting to keep it updated.
Professor Rokannon, please give me an Intelligence of Wisdom check, DC 15.
Thankies for this recap, Boss!
Yes, thank you for this.
Now let's get out there and find... Something! :D
Ok guys, Real Life (TM) just hit me hard. I have a family emergency which I seem to be the only effective adult for, so I suspect it is going to be several days to a week before I am in a position to post again.
Okay dm, take your time..
Gang, in the meantime, can we do something? Like an "evening meal talk", so we get to know eachother?? What you reckon?
sure, as long as you wash the dishes. *winks*
Alright, I am back but of course now I have no internet access at my place...
I will have a Gameplay post up tonight.
*knock on the door* is there still someody here, or am I alone on Hallowwen's night?
I have had a number of connectivity issues over the past few days, I apologize because they will quite possibly be on-going. I am going to try to have a Gameplay post later this afternoon/evening.
Bump
Bump.. are we to assume it's dead, Jim?
Bump bump....
hope it's not....
Can we try to cast a "Raise dead thread"?
The DM was active (as a player) last Saturday in a game I play too with another character, maybe all hope isn't loss...
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Perhaps, but the game started in March, over 7 months ago, and we haven't even hit 500 posts. I know it has had to undergo a change in GM, and then a replacement recruitment, but even with that, the pace is very difficult to manage, especially for a lovecraftian murder mystery that it seems to be.
It seems to me that the GM is spread very thin, and it may be a blessing for him to end this so he can focus on other things better.
The game is not dead unless you guys want it to be. I apologize for a lack of posts on my part, I am still having the problem of a severe lack of Internet, coupled today with scrambling to enroll for all my classes for next semester & making certain they are properly payed for. Tomorrow I should have a Gameplay post up.
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I'd like the game to continue if you think you can handle it.
Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I prefer a game that is less descriptive and in depth and progresses at a nice clip over one that is very detailed and every word carefully analyzed for meaning, but progresses at a snails pace.
You clearly put a lot of effort into your game updates, and that's good, but it may be easier to post updates more often if it didn't take an hour+ for each one. Just trying to think of ways to help out and get the game going again.
A valid suggestion. How do the rest of you feel?
I'm of the same opinion as Zander regarding game speed.
I'd prefer more posts involving dice rolls and story progression than posts that just involve chit-chat and role-playing. I've never been big on the role-playing side of these games. I'm more interested in playing and advancing through the campaign.
I'm fine with anything, even with Tamarie.^^
Well, I prefer going through the story :-)
Maybe Zander has a point in that it will be easier for you to write shorter pieces because they take less time. That way the story will continue on.
Diifference between tabletop and playbypost ofc :-)
As much as I wish the pace could be faster, as a GM myself I understand it takes as long as it takes. The more combatants, the more hidden information, the more complex the environment, the higher the level... well, the longer it's going to take.
One mechanical device I can suggest for faster results; if your players trust you, you can just roll the attacks and damage on your tabletop rather than set up the diceroller equations in your posts.
True that.. You can just roll the real d20 and give us the results..
It's rolling behind the screen either way, no? :)
Sounds as though it is unanimous. I will focus on shorter, tighter posts.
Anything to make your life easier, and keep the story flowing :-)
Are the two of you going to try not to wake him, or just trundle him along?
Either way.. He's bound and shackled, right?
Of course as soon as I get internet access back at home, now I have something funky going on with my computer...
I will have a gamplay post later today.
It seems the internet troubles got the best of our DM....
Hope he will come back!
Yup, exactly.
We'll wait and see :)
I feel like poo for this, but if I don't get a post from Davor by tomorrow, I will be advancing the round.
edit: Ha HAH! Got me, didn't you!
Huh, I would have sworn you got to add your Ability Modifier to that check...
Can't tell I rarely play casters can you?..
SR no, concentration yes :)
I didn't see that in the description of Judgements. I will double-check, but if that is the case, yes, you did do more damage. I will make an update post.
edit: Now that I re-read the class ability it is clearly there in the first sentence...
Ignore my post saying I was going to shoot at the creature, I either misread the post about the Acrobatics check or it hadn't yet been edited when I posted. I'll take another swing with my melee weapon and hopefully knock it back down to the ground.
Yeah, sorry about that. I am still working on reducing the 'busyness' of my posts & they can be kind of abstruse still.
Strike 'can', replace with 'are'...
Hope you guys are enjoying yourselves still.
Professor Rokannon, do you have a list of spells in your Spellbook somewhere? I didn't see it on your character sheet.
Spellbook is in now!
Thank you.
Grumble grumble grumble. If I hadn't switched from my greataxe to my morningstar we'd probably have had that creature killed before it got away. Grumble grumble grumble.
Are we not doing party experience?
Don't want to be exp hoe but Tam was made as a survivalist (out there), but wouldn't survive in this town without Vivian and Zander :-p
Yes, I am using party xp. Unfortunately, everyone else had acquired over 750 xp prior to Zander joining you, so he is going to lag behind in leveling. Not by a severe margin, but it will be noticeable.
My theory is that the creature we were fighting was the end result of the "foul spidery things" the Whispering Way forced the madman and his love to ingest, and the bird he was talking about was the pet crow mentioned on the Posting Pole, which may very well have belonged to the little girl we just saved.
My theory is that the creature we were fighting was the end result of the "foul spidery things" the Whispering Way forced the madman and his love to ingest, and the bird he was talking about was the pet crow mentioned on the Posting Pole, which may very well have belonged to the little girl we just saved.
Ding Ding Ding!
We have a winner!!!
thumbs up to Davor (and maybe thumbs up to Tamarie if she manages to sink that last arrow!^^)
I'm here to collect that thumb of yours, Vivian! :-D
where? ;-)