Faelyn's Untitled Campaign (Inactive)

Game Master Faelyn

Nestis Tassi, travelling musician, storyteller, and now refugee. At the service of his fellows, to liven spirits and help however he can!

I am working on my Goliath now: I should have it finished tomorrow. I am making a Barbarian Outlander who is something of an outcast from his people because he doesn't follow the spiritualism that most of them do: he believes that the world is for the living, not the immaterial.

Looking forward to these builds. Nestis... we need to find you a Yuan-Ti avatar!

As am I. :) And Nestis very much looks like a normal Alerian. :D

Here is Vrog's submission, ready to go!

Please don't hesitate to ask questions should the need arise.

Awesome. I'll look over Dawncaller sometime this evening and spitball a few ideas, then hopefully have this show on the road shortly!

Great to hear. Looking forward to playing. :)

Sorry on the delay. Lot of craziness going on the last few days with sudden vehicle issues and lots of extra overtime at work has delayed me a little bit. I'll look to update things over the next few days.

Cheers for the update.

Looking forward to it...

Posting this to all my games, so sorry if you see it multiple times:

This week both my office and I personally are going to be moving. It's been crazy busy and I am not going to be able to post until Monday at the earliest. Please bot me if I am in your game, and if you are in a game I am running, I will get a post up as soon as possible.

Thank you for your patience.

Hey guys, I'll try to get a new post up today. This holiday season has been extremely busy for me this year. Two months ago I picked up an extra specialty through my department as a School Resource Officer on top of my normal patrol officer duties. That means I'm working an extra 5 shifts a month either on my days off or pull doubles when I'm scheduled to work the afternoon patrol shift. On top of that, my wife's job has been putting more and more work on her plate so that leaves me to help pick up the slack at on the home front.

So on top of all that, it's also the holiday season which always mean an increase in workload due to the increase in criminal activity and overall problems that come with the holidays. I just want to say thank you for your patience in this!

That is understandable! I appreciate you explaining. Stay safe.

No problem...RL, first.

Merry Christmas everybody! I'll be traveling to Canada tomorrow and will be gone until after the new year. Hope everyone has had a good winter and will check back in when I return.

A merry Christmas was had. :) Enjoy Canada!

So I am posting from work:

Apologies about not posting sooner, but I have been down internet wise for roughly a week, and will not have internet back up yet for a week or so.

This means that I haven't had internet for the last 4 days (as we had 4 days off at my work for the holiday).

It's been...an experience where I learned that I use the internet more than I thought I did.

With all of that being said, I will try to post from work as I can, but if I am in your game, please bot me as needed.

If I am running your game, please bear with me while I try to post when I can. Hopefully, sooner than better, but I want to be up front about this issue.

again, I apologize about the delay.

Hey all,

I'm still here and the game is still alive. I apologize for the lengthy delay. This time of the year is always very busy for me and this year was busier than the usual. I'm planning on looking back through my notes and ideas for the PCs to get this rolling again.

Well, we need to integrate the new additions with those already underway.

Certainly, on both counts. I'm still keen to play.

Mmhmm. Still here.

Can I just get a quick roll call from everyone that's still interested? Clearly I still have Attryn, Cole, and Nestis still on board! Perette and Hulgruum, are you both still around?

Still hanging around.

Excellent! Glad to hear it, Perette.

You may have to directly message Hulgruum. I used to have a moderate amount of contact with him but not anymore now that he's moved.

Thanks for the info, Attryn. I'll try doing that and see if he is still with us.

Hey GM, is it possible to get a general description of the staging grounds?

I know we have the area where the civilians are, the Eternal vigil which seems to be the walls and wherever the lords/commanders are, is there anything else?

Is anyone besides me in Dressen?

Cole, you are the only one in Dessen currently.

Attry, so the Eternal Vigil is actually in a different area. The staging ground is essentially a quickly erected refugee camp. It is a tent city with some ramshackle lean-to here and there, but it muddy and smelly. The conditions are not good, but could worse as the folks in charge are doing their best to keep folks safe and fed. Nearby the refugee area is a massive stone archway covered in runes. That is the portal which is being used to transport people away and it is constantly being tended to by magical folk. The civilians are kept away from it as a precaution to prevent any attempt at sabotage. As far as the lords and commanders, they are also in tents... albeit nicer ones than most as befitting someone of their station.

Thank you, that helps a lot with the image in my head. In that case Attryn is planning to head to the military commander tents with Nestis next.

Then, if there's time, we'll probably try to head to vigil, although given a message for someone else I suspect things will be getting underway shortly.

Attryn, you actually don't know about the Eternal Vigil. At least, not yet.

Well never mind. To the commander tents it will be.

Just checking in again.

Same.

What exactly is the hold up. This PbP adv as nnces in spite as nnd starts. I expected some level of consistency when I signed on. Is this the normal pacing?

The history thus far is that there will be one or two updates, then a lengthy silence, then one or two, then a month of nothing.

Right...not sure I can hang on for that...

A lot of GM's put down that they'd like you to post 1/day during weekdays and generally allow for slower response times on the weekend, but in my experience they keep that up for about the first month or so, then they slow down quite a bit.

I hear you though, it does make it hard to hang on to a game where the momentum comes in such short bursts. But it's much easier when I have a character concept I really enjoy to just wait. It's also not like it really hurts me to just have the game hanging out in my cue until it does pick up more momentum.

When things start to get too slow for too long I just start looking for a new game to try and petition for. One of my friends has about a dozen or so games he just has on his profile screen and gets to them whenever they update and he has time.

I love the concept for this game, but it's far from ideal to only get to play it occasionally. I have plenty of other pbps on the go, so it's not such a big deal for me.

Hey everyone, I understand your concerns and recognize that my involvement here has been lacking quite a bit. When I first started up this idea, I had a lot more time available to me to devote to it. Then things slowed down a little as we lost some folks, found replacements, then lost more, found replacements.

Since that time I've acquired a lot more responsibility at my job, on top of all the other extraneous outside of our normal 40-hour work week that we have to do. For at least until this upcoming fall (when my kid starts full-time kindergarten) I do not know that I will be able to be consistent and prompt in my posting here. I will leave up to you guys if you want to continue until then or put this to the wayside. I will not take it personally or be upset if any of you wish to drop out. I would like to apologize for my part in this.

Let me know where you all stand, please and thank you.

I'd be willing to wait. Perhaps put this on inactive once we decide, then pm when you're available?

I will hang in there until things get more consistent.

That's fair, but I'm also willing to wait. If you need to take more time until things become more stable, then do so. I'll be around.

I appreciate you guys sticking this out with me. I think I'll put Gameplay on hold for a little bit while I figure out who is still with us for this and the mold the story around a little as well.

Hey all, I’m sorry to drop this on you so suddenly, but I just lost my job today unexpectedly. I’m going to have to end this campaign. I have to focus my energy on supporting my family and locating a new job. Again, I’m sorry that this happened so suddenly. If I end up finding the time and energy in the future to pick this up again I will extend an invitation to each of you.

GM Faelyn

That is terrible news!

Obviously, you should focus on your personal situation without hesitation.

I wish you the best of luck in job seeking.

If and when you return to running this game, absolutely feel free to contact me but there is of course no obligation.

Again, good luck!

Best of luck to you!

Oh man, so sorry to hear that. Best of luck!