Sorry for going AWOL. I'll be catching up tonight.
Good to hear from you. Feel free to catch up!
Ok, I am caught up. Just making sure that that everyone is cool with me being back.
Fargo, you knucklehead, just get in thread and post.
:)
Just to let everyone know, tomorrow night I'll be attending a work holiday party, then Sunday I leave to Florida for a week. I'll try to make sure everything's as up to date as I can before the party tomorrow, but after that probably won't be able to post until at the hotel Sunday night. I should be able to post every night while in Florida, but if there's a delay it'd be work related. I come back next Friday if I completely disappear during this time for some reason.
Sorry no post last night, didn't get back to hotel after 10 (work dinner). Tonight it might be similar, not sure if I'll have time to post, followed by early flight tomorrow. So if you don't hear from me until Friday night, that's why, though I'll try to manage one tonight if I can.
So, some questions. Is the crew going to collect water while Odenkirk takes us hunting? If so, is he also posting some guards? Or do we need to cover that?
Odenkirk plans to have two men guard the boat, two men fetch water, and the rest to go hunting with him. He has 4 small craft to use for this, each able to hold 4 people. With him and 7 of his men, they'll take up two boats. The boats don't require any kind of checks to sail (simple rowboats) unless attempting something complex to do.
Alright, so are we ready to move on?
I've got to head to work for a couple hours (revision training from when I was gone) but I'll move along when I get back. If someone could post a list of who's going and who's staying (or doing whatever else) it would be appreciated.
Teon wants to hunt.
Xanos will stay with the boats. The time they're gone will be good for crafting scrolls and properly preserving hands.
@ Cain
I checked your character and I am not sure how you could get a 26 sense motive DC without rolling. On another note, reading your character discription again and just having finished A Memory of Light, Cain sounds like he looks a little like Demandred
Sorry, I should have been more specific. I was referring to Odenkirk's Sense Motive spoiler with a DC of 4. I actually missed your spoiler.
I just started the book myself, I'll have to watch for that. :)
Finished a Memory of Light myself while on the plane. Was a pretty good ending. I'll avoid spoiling anything though.
I appreciate that.
I'm letting my wife finish the book before i really get going on it... don't wanna fight over the book and all that.
Oh, come'on... that murder/suicide ending was totally ridiculous.
Dont' make me unfriend you on Facebook, Price.
:D
I got it for my birthday and I am trying to coerce my wife to continue with the series, she is currently stalled near the beginning of book 2. I saw the murder/suicide coming but the cliff hanger for a fourth age series was annoying. The instant aging of Rand's kids was also lame.
I'm going to hope you're pulling my leg. Not because of what I want to happen in the book, but because i haven't read the final book...
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I got it for my birthday and I am trying to coerce my wife to continue with the series, she is currently stalled near the beginning of book 2. I saw the murder/suicide coming but the cliff hanger for a fourth age series was annoying. The instant aging of Rand's kids was also lame.
Don't forget directly accessing the True Source through Tel'aran'rhiod and using that to gain access to the Architecht and remaking the world in the image of the First Ones. I mean, does any of that even make sense?
Of course it was pretty cool when Matrim al'Thor brought the OnePower Star online and went all Alderon on everyone.
I &^*&*ing LOVED that part!
I read somewhere that Perrin was dead all along... WHAT A TWIST!
Do not forget when Perrin killed the Dark one with an arrow that he pulled out of his own back. I was disappointed when Egwene was stilled for violating the Prime Directive of the Aies Sedie though.
And I have not a clue what everyone is talking about.
That's because you haven't bought the whole series yet. ;)
The Wheel of Time series. The last book was released earlier this month.
It's the follow up to the seminal classic One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
I started reading it about ten years ago. I have a buddy who started twenty years ago, with The Eye of the World.
@ Gwyn
Then you need to work on your geek cred. It is probably the most influential fantasy series in The Lord of the Rings.
Go to bed, wake up, find this, suddenly feeling like going right back to bed...
I started with Eye of the World when it first came out. It was in my Easter basket. Was that really 20 years ago? Ugh.
I think it's a good series conceptually, but Jordan really needed a good editor. It started out really strong, but somewhere around Fires of Heaven of Lord of Chaos, Jordan seemed to start loosing his touch as a writer. I gave up on the series right around the time I realized I'd read about 600 pages of characters I didn't care about doing things in places I could barely remember, and 200 pages of characters I did care about going nowhere and literally talking about the weather.
The sad thing is that Jordan dying was probably the best thing that could have happened for the story. Now that Sanderson is ghost-writing the ending I want to read it again (because Sanderson is amazing).
I'm just not sure I can start over and chew through ten thousand pages of stuff I read as a teenager just so I can get to the good part.
I will agree that Sanderson is awesome. I haven't managed to get through Elantris, but I loved the Mistborn Trilogy. Lately I've been reading some of Prachett's Discworld.
AS for my geek cred. I know that Lord of the Rings was released in the 50's and 60's and pretty much inspired a lot of the fantasy stuff today, including DnD/Pathfinder and The Wheel of Time. I've heard of it, just never read it.
Geek Cred aside... Lord of the Rings was written in the 30's-40's and published in the 50's. But you aren't giving it enough credit. It didn't inspire fantasy stuff. It created the entire genre and nearly everything that has come since then either borrowed liberally from it or was a reaction to it. There would be no fantasy genre, no D&D, etc. were it not for Tolkien.
I agree that the middle of the series definitely was dragging and was much to slow. I think the low point was Winter's Heart, which only details about thirty six hours of time and did not really advance anything. I think he realized the problem though, because after that, things picked up again after that and he started moving the plot forward again and bringing some of the different plot lines back together.
I remember back in high school I read the first six books due to losing an initial bet with my then-DM. But I won the follow-up bet in that I wasn't hooked after six. So he then had to read six books that I chose. I was a merciful victor in that I did not match them in page count.
I think I'll pass on the horn. Its nice, but that's a lot of cash that I don't have. I'm going to remember that Narwhale horns are good at taking magic though.
Do we still have those mithril cobras? At 200%, surely Xanos could get that horn plus a load of (undervalued) gold for us all, right?
Just for an FYI regarding the Narwhal horn. It's not narwhal horn's themselves that possess this property so much as this narwhal horn. Mentioning it to help prevent the extinction of the narwhal ;p
Fargo will throw in his masterwork morning star. Teon thinks we should kill all the rest of the narwhals anyway.
We do still have them, yeah. I had forgotten. One of those is worth a lot of cash. Even broken, they still cost thousands in raw material. If they pay double for mithril and consider gold half as valuable as it actually is, we should be able to trade a cobra for the horn, and get back the difference at a 4-to-1 value.
It's at least worth a shot, right? See if we can't get ya that horn, after all.... and get everyone a nice pay-day in the process. :D
Where are those things? Did we leave them at the mansion or take them with us?
I know where they're at, hehehe.
I assumed they were in Xanos' chest. We went to a lot of trouble to contain them. Hope they didn't get loose.
That would be... bad.
uh. oh.
This is bad.
You say bad, I say funny. FYI, for the next week my posting might get spotty as I move and turn off my old service.
Naw. The tribesmen want mithril after all. They can handle 'em. :)
So the plan is for one of us to try to negotiate a good deal on one of the mithrail cobras, then?
I'm assuming we don't want Cain making that attempt? :)
Though if you guys want me to, I'll happily make take a swing.
Could let Gwyn do it. +9 Diplomacy