I like Tarphrex and Razkiv sees him as the blood of dragons worthy of deep respect. I really like that Tarphrex doesn't really know how to react to that.
Sode note, please don't kill Loth
Sorry Guys, Had a bit of Life Boil Over. I think It is better, Looks Like I missed a lot I'll catch up
I had to put my kitty to sleep today. Rest in peace Missy May.
I'm sorry to hear that. I still have my first cat's collar and tags. I hope your memories turn from sad to fond soon.
*sadness*
You want to tell us about Missy May?
My condolences :(
My BFF and I are hitting the road to celebrate the latest of many anniversaries. If you feel it necessary to bot Tarphrex, please do so.
You know, it sounds like a week off may be called for.
Its Memorial Day, 2 days later is my kid's birthday (and my dad's).
Razkiv has been busy IRL.
Zenaida is grieving.
Tarphrex is travelling.
And I'm deciding on the new player. And we're paused action wise in the game.
So why don't we take a week and come back.
A week off works for me. I love all of my forum games, but it's hard to get in the right mindset for RP right now.
You want to tell us about Missy May?
She was the sweetest, most affectionate cat ever. She liked everybody, but I was her person and she was happiest when she could sit on my lap and purr. Always up for being petted, I could keep it up as long as I wanted and she would never get overstimulated. May was extremely vocal. She yelled for breakfast and dinner, for attention, or just because. We would have whole "conversations" where she meowed at me and I talked to her.
I have another kitty, Felix, but my place is still so lonely and quiet without Missy May and her loud meows. Mornings are especially hard. She should be screaming for breakfast, and the silence is deafening. She should be purring on my lap and kneading me in the evenings.
Sorry to hear about Missy May, my heart goes out to you,
Greetings everyone. Welcome back to another exciting week of Play-By-Post Pathfinder. We'll be rejoining our intrepid adventurers as they work their way through the house known as The Misgivings. After a few accidents, the party is still going strong and looks likely to finish that way. But there's still two floors left, that they know of, and a lot can change. Let's go to Sandra out in the field. Sandra...
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Thanks Rick. I'm here with a swarm of crows outside the house. They watched the party enter, but were deemed an unnessecary contrivance by the GM. Here's what they have to say.
Yeah, well, we were originally written more as known threat than anything else. A flavorful plot device to stop the party from entering and exiting the manor house to to high of a degree. So we're still fullfilling that function. And hey, like I told the boys, we're gettin paid either way. So no feathers off our tail if we ain't got to fight.
Fascinating. Thank you. Back to you Rick.
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Great job Sandra. Later on, we'll have an interview with the newest member to join the party. Details are still confidential, but rumor has it they're just waiting for the perfect moment in the story to introduce a new PC. Who are they and what do they bring to the table? Tonight at 10.
Poll for you four. Two choice about newest PC joining the party.
1) Wait for it to make sense naratively.
-OR-
2) Hand wave, Krug metls and reforms and you carry on as though they had been there all along.
Maybe the new PC was captured by His Lordship and we can rescue them! With their equipment conveniently nearby, of course. I actually had the DM introduce my character that way once.
Either way works for me but the very visceral image of Krug reforming in front of our eyes and then being memory-holed out of existence is an amusing one.
I think had wave, or rather in this quantum state this PC was always here.
I am good with whatever you and the new player are willing to go with. Rescuing them, having them follow us in after hearing reports, something else.
Hi!
This is your new healer, reporting in! Linnea the Diviner I know from the other game, but nice to be meeting the rest of you as well!
Reverend Blake is more of a debuffer who can heal well, than a fully committed healer. But I hope he'll be keeping you alive and well.
First touch to RPGs was some 30 years ago, and since I've tried several different game systems (including all versions of D&D). Past 8 years, mostly Pathfinder, however.
And I still prefer PF1e over PF2.
Would anyone like to give a short summary of the adventure so far, especially of the latest events? I try to start reading the gameplay thread, But there's a lot to read in there :)
Tervetuloa! (I know maybe 8 Finnish words)
I'd give a summary right now but i'm posting this in between work, if I have time later and there's still a need of one, I'll type one out.
I'll let the players fill you in on what they think the pertinent details are. It'll more accurately reflect what Blake would know coming into the adventure.
Welcome aboard, Karma! Dark Tapestry mystery, very nice. I look forward to seeing how that plays out. Definitely fits the horror vibe we have going on right now.
Loth, our intrepid rogue, and Razkiv, our fierce druid, are the only two who have been around from the beginning. Zenaida, our stalwart war-priestess, and Tarphrex, our kobold who dreams of being a dragon, are relatively recent arrivals at the beginning of the current story arc. Zenaida and Tarphrex have been friends for a while.
Sandpoint has recently suffered a spate of murders, which come with a side of ghoul fever. Even more worrying are the menacing notes addressed to Loth, signed only as "His Lordship". Apparently His Lordship is behind the murders and wants to recruit Loth to commit dastardly deeds with him. Loth has no interest in being recruited, thank you, and would really rather be left alone. Capturing and interrogating one of the ghouls revealed His Lordship's base of operations, the old Foxglove Manor, but not the identity of the party responsible for the murders and/or animating the ghouls.
So now we're exploring a literal haunted house. Just like all the horror movies tell you NOT to do. I'm sure none of us will be separated from the group and brutally murdered!
Oh, and there's the Sihedron sigil we keep coming across. Coincidence? Or maybe not...
@GM Sphen: Can we give Krug's wand of CLW to Rev. Blake? IIRC, we all chipped in to buy it.
@Zenaida: Most def. I'll check back with other goodies when I handle the introduction of Blake into the game after the weekend.
Tervetuloa! (I know maybe 8 Finnish words)
Kiitos :)
And thanks for the recap, Zenaida. That helps a lot. I think I found the beginning of book 2 in the gameplay thread, so I'll try catch up from there.
Ideas for hot-inserting Sherman into the game:
1) Krug gets separated from the group and brutally murdered! On the same room there's Revered Blake, about to get brutally murdered but the group comes to the rescue just in time.
2) Alternate history timeline, where Krug parted ways with the group before entering the manor. And the group found a new healer in local parish.
3) Melt and reform, as discussed above.
Benefit of number one is that my character doesn't know any more than I do, what the group has been doing.
But I'm fine with whatever the GM comes up with.
Just a reminder... at least I hope it's a reminder ... from weeks ago at least.
I'm on vacation next week, so posting will be spotty and later than usual when it does happen. Just FYI.
Do not worry Tarphrex, I usually have no issues in understanding english. It's just that sometimes when I write, I'm not sure if a word or expression really means what I think it means.
Also, Midsummer is approaching. And it being a big festivity here, I might not be that actively online until Monday.
Enjoy the festival. We went through Mammoth Cave yesterday, which is apparently the longest cave system in the world at over 400 miles.
We of course did not walk that far.
Have fun at Midsummer!
I have no experience with Midsummer Festival (I hope you have a lot of fun!), but I have visited Mammoth Cave. We have been known to check out caves that happen to be along our vacay routes.
You folks have made me start giving my IRL players character info as written notes. This is because of how well you all do with putting things in character terms.
Aww, thank you! Always nice to hear that you're doing a good job roleplaying.
I concur, that’s cool to hear.
As some of you may know/seen me write about before, I am part of an actual play Pathfinder podcast. Specifically, I run a segment called Shop Talk Show where I have conversations with others about TTRPG's at a meta level. We discuss things like different types of leveling systems, pantheons, homebrew, etc. Would any of you be interested in being on the show?
I have dreams of such and am absolutely terrified of the prospect. Thank you for the offer, but I don't think I want to deal with the stage fright, silly as that might sound.
Sounds cool!
Although I wonder if the session would be at any reasonable time for me :)
(Note to self to check out your podcast, in any case)
Sounds like fun, but I'm not sure I would have much of note to say, being a very casual enjoyer of TTRPGs!
@Tarphrex: Understandable. No worries.
@Sherman: I do these on weekend nights. 9 pm central time zone or later. So if we could coordinate a Saturday night for me with an open Sunday for you, that might work.
_____ The podcast is called Shield Bash. I'm not on the ongoing, actual play episodes as of this last week due to time commitments. But there's almost a hundred with me in there on top of this other segment.
@Loth: That's fine. I do group conversations all the time and some of them there's one person who barely says anything. And I try to get a topic that everyone feels they can contribute to.
I'm flattered that you would ask, but I'm really not comfortable with that sort of thing. It's hard enough for me to do regular voice chat without knowing a bunch of strangers can hear me. Sorry. :(
I’ll be honest, I totally want to do it. I just have no faith that I wouldn’t freeze or that I would have anything to say.
If you'll have me and we can coordinate something (I'm one hour earlier than Sherman timezone wise, so it should work out) I'd love to!
Cool, european aliens theme :)
Looks like I’m eight hours ahead of you. Earliest I could utter full sentences would be 7am-ish, which would be 11pm central time, I think. ( and 6am for Loth)
Would work at daytime at US, so evening in Europe?
The complication is the afore-mentioned (I think) kids. That's why I usually do it at night. I was looking at some time in August for this since I only do one a month. I can ask the missus when they'll be back in school and we could do it one of those days.
How would that sound?
So classes for the kiddos start August 17th. That would be the first day I would have a quiet enough household for recording one of these in the morning.
So the 19th (Friday) for me would be the 20th (Saturday) for the two in Europe. How does that sound>
That should work fine for me! I can keep that day freed up
Unfortunately I'm out of town that weekend. The next one (27th) should be free, if that would suit you.
I like the idea of being on a podcast, but I lack the time, and I suspect I would not have much to add.
Hey, if you want to be on, you can be on. And that goes for all/any of you. You don't need deep insights or award winning expierence. And if you sit there for 90% of the conversation and only say like 2 sentences, that's just fine.
The 27th would not work for me. Since that would mean doing the recording on my wife's birthday.
So maybe out to September before we can get you all on.
I’m very interested. I might talk too much once I get warmed up. You’ve been warned.
September sounds good for me.
Also, I'm on vacation, and start slowly making my way toward the Arctic Ocean. I try to check the threads daily, but in case I miss a day please bot Sherman as a umm.. healbot :)