The Meridian Parallel - Cursebreakers

Game Master Uret Jet

I am 3ish hours East of home, with my 27 year old daughter in a neurological ICU.

She is supposed to be in observation for 24~48 hours. Beennworking this issue since 0500 local this morning. I make no promises about posting on my phone through this.

Anything we need to be Co corned over? I dearly hope there's nothing serious going on.

That sounds very rough. Good luck.

Yikes! Best wishes. As we say in Hebrew, Refuah Shlema, complete healing.

Our thoughts positive vibes are with you!

Best wishes!

Home for a "quick stop" tonight. Going back to get the daughter's car tomorrow, so, another 7 hours on the road for the round trip. <shrug>

Life should be almost normal for work on Monday, and after.

Do I still have Alasyn and Trifoni?

Oops, didn’t realize I was holding things up. I’ll have my action up soon.

Classic Alasayn

We're in the middle of moving, so Trifoni will be along in a bit I'm afraid.

Right, I'll get a post up in a few hours. Apologies for my delays.

Alright. I think I need to ask for some honesty, here. And you're free to voice however you may, I won't be offended. Is this adventure not working for you people, overall? We had a pretty strong start, then we suffered some hardships which I don't think we've ever really managed to recover from. Is there a lack of direction, perhaps? Am I not quite making things engaging enough? PbP is a tough medium to crack, I understand how much it can drag on for how little is actually happening.

Perhaps I'm not the best at this, even if I've been running this for as long as I have. With the lack of activity, I've had some doubts as of late regarding if this campaign is really still... Viable. This is likely the fought of my own ability, and for that I apologize.

Are there any thoughts you might be willing to add, as my players? As friends, if you'd be so willing?

Start/stop gets frustrating, but if things get picked back up it is easy enough to keep going.

As the player who made the last post, I tried to get a reaction from the character to having her horse run away from the fight while still trying (poorly) to win the fight. Nothing followed for almost 2 weeks.

I don't know if you were waiting on something from someone specific, or if we're waiting for you. There was no communication on the point, so I doubt anyone else knows for sure, either.

EDIT: With the number of games I have that are stalled right now, with my last post being one of the final 3 posts in the gameplay thread, I've stopped doing much more than looking to see which games have posts and trying to play them.

I've usually reacted by waiting for all players up to go before posting a complete narative reacrion, but perhaps the game could benfit if I react per each nrw post? Or at least the momment I notice new ones in the turn.

Not even after every post, if once a day, or on a regular, slower, schedule. Predictable.

Similar to Hildeborg, the start/stop gets to be a bit frustrating. Keeping the pace is definitely a good way to go.

Hmm... I see. Would it help if I give playwrs a hard time limit between my posts as well? Two days, perhaps? Unless I'm told a play is busy other wise, I could automate or delay their actions til the next turn if within combat.

Ouch, seems I'm the offending party... I'm not sure how I got lost (my fault) but I like the game and wish to continue!

Cadence-wise, I agree that it's difficult to keep it turn based (meaning every player chime in - before GM).

Every couple of days would be great.

Looking back, I think combat slowed me down (ironic) as when I check on my phone... it's not as easy to look up all the bonuses situational, etc... char sheet, basically.

I shall double efforts to stay current. I personally think you're doin well running this and have been very patient.

Botting in combat is pretty standard practice for keeping the momentum up. I totally agree with Kaliban that the story and world has been great so far, and I really want to see where this game is taking us.

Enjoying the game, just horribly distracted by real life. It's mostly calmed down now - we're moved in an getting ready to finish off the old place to hand the keys back in - but things are still hectic, and Trifoni's player just had surgery on her jaw, so she's still not quite with it.

Understood all, thank you. I hope she recovers well by the way, jaw surgery soubds very intense.

Jaw surgery sounds pretty scary, I agree.

Make sure she focuses on recovery.

Kaliban, I'll give you some time until I do a GM post tonight.

I'm still up for it. Honestly my work life has been insane this year (our 2nd and 3rd busiest months ever were April and May) and my personal life has also picked up. So I just try to go on and look at what's happening and see if it's time for me to do something.

I think requesting a post once every two days is reasonable; that was the rule in my games, once upon a time. We seem to have slid a little in that as well (largely on me). In any case, if someone hasn't gotten back by that point, it would be fair to do something their character would rationally do on their behalf, I think.

And your DM-ing and story have been just fine, from my perspective.

Also, surprise rounds, confuse the heck out of me... turn wise, especially when I thought I had a crossbow (but javelins, instead).

Can I assume they are within melee reach (of Kaliban)?

Yes, you may as well.

Actually- Combat is now over. Funny, it only had a couple actions left in it and we let it drag on that long... I'm sorry about that. From this moment forward, I'll be keeping to the two day minimum unless informed of absences beforehand.

Don't eat vultures, people. Seriously.

It's finnnnne, Plant's don't get food poisoning.

Okay. All set for me to get us going then?

Sounds good.

Fine by me.

Had some things I needed to help out with, I'll get things settled here for you guys right quick though.

Congratulations, Werecamels are now a thing.

You've given Dawn the power of creation. That will end well.

Oh my god Hilde, you don't just ask someone if they're fish-people.

;]

Sorry I missed all the posting this weekend. We had no power for 39 hours, and then no internet for another 7.

Ouch, get stormed on?

Different kinda storm... had the kids for the weekend, although Elsa did give us a kiss and hug!

Ouch, get stormed on?

Yeah, we had a really powerful thunderstorm roll through. Usually blows north or south of us, but this one decided to roll right down the middle of the St Louis area and break a lot of stuff.

Hey folks, I’ll be camping for a week starting Thursday. I may have signal where I am but I wouldn’t expect being able to post. Please bot me as necessary.

Waiting for somethin', folks? Need clarification? You are, of course, under no obligations to actually help them out.

Hmm... Kaliban is being quiet as he approaches, while Emma is being musical... I'm seeing a slight discrepancy here.

We're just free birds...

I do like the comedic effect of the dice.

The dice gods speak, and I obey.

The werecamel bit is one of the times I've laughed the hardest because of a PbP.

Yep, now that was a great momment.

Think I just noticed I never actually updated his sheet, dear lord. I'll work on that tonight for real this time.