I sort of assumed finishing school/graduation time would add some extra chaos to life :)
Ironically, no.
I'm about to go on a trip for a week. My intention is to keep up with posting from my phone, but please don't hesitate to bot me if I'm struggling.
FYI: I am going away this weekend on a camping trip and will be away from computers. I will likely have signal but limited ability to post on my phone and with little time to do so. I will check all of my games before I leave and since it's just the weekend I hope for minimal disruption.
I will return early evening on Sunday (US/pacific) time and catching up and resume posting.
I make no promises that I’ll be able to post today; got a bad case of insomnia last night and my brain is completely scrambled.
Sorry to hear. Sleep debt is no laughing matter. Take care and rest up!
FYI, Kolgradd, you can prepare two cantrips from your wizard archetype, not just one.
FYI, Kolgradd, you can prepare two cantrips from your wizard archetype, not just one.
Noted thank you! This trip is proving more intensive than I anticipated, sorry about that. I'll be back on Sunday and will be able to catch up.
Whoops, should've posted something about it yesterday. My bad.
Hero Points reset in 6 days.
Moving out of the college dorms; next couple days will be pretty busy for me.
Hope it goes smoothly!
I don't know how well this is going to work, but I am aiming for a fruitful de-escalation. We can figure out what matters in this room, and hopefully be a safe distance away when the illusion fades.
So, I do have to ask: are people deciding to just walk away from the addled guards? Y'all didn't see an angel statue in there (which is what you're looking for), so you could just take the effort to move away from them.
Jevar is attempting to search to find things exactly like that. Is it possible, and then could he use stealth/thievery to pilfer it and then sneak out again?
There is nothing of the sort in there. Pulling the screen back: this is a 100% optional encounter; you get no fun reward for defeating these guys or anything like that.
Okay, then this was the perfect spot to use that illusory wall and now we can skedaddle :)
Next round, Jevar will traverse the wall again, round the corner and drop invisibility to quietly report finding nothing to his teammates. But, we are still in rounds, so.
Kolgradd will be on board as soon as that plan is reported to him. Illusionary shenanigans, huzzah!
If it helps, I posted Jevar's next-round actions. GM can determine whether to fast-forward to them or not based on others' actions.
I also meant to do this before: Hero Point to Jevar for helping me out with the botting.
Ty! Mental note to use 3 hp within a couple of weeks :D
Okay, I’m going to ramble for a bit because I feel a bit of communication is in order.
Yeah, I’m gonna have to replace Shohreh as soon as this combat is over. I’ve been communicating with their player behind the scenes for a while to try to get an understanding of the nuance of the situation. While they haven’t been communicating with the rest of y’all as much as I would have liked, they have been communicating with me.
I’m not at liberty to disclose everything that’s been going on in their life, but I will say that it’s been a bombardment of really nasty, uncontrollable stuff that made THEIR life extremely difficult. They have not been acting in bad faith whatsoever, so I’ve been accommodating them because I know it’s just a series of bad situations.
Then…they vanished. I haven’t been able to communicate with them at all this past week and…that’s where I have to draw the line. I don’t like having to be the *sshole, but I feel I have no other choice anymore.
And to add on to all of this, I have not been going through great times either. I just graduated college, am still unemployed, have developed sudden onset insomnia, have been having medication issues, need to get a new therapist, need to jump through red tape for a new government caseworker. And to top it all off, I just got news that my gaming group of the past 7 years just lost a player.
So I’m currently in a major inflection point in my life, and it feels like my life is falling apart around me. I still want to play; Pathfinder is a major source of joy in my life and cutting it out would certainly do more harm than good. I’m explaining this because I want to be open about what’s going on and where I’m coming from.
Human error: Performer’s Heart means Boodiddly’s success is a crit success, so he’s not stupefied at all.
Alright, I now have to officially declare Shohreh as being off of the table.
So the game is gonna have to go on a very brief break as I need to go about finding a replacement. Luckily, I have some people on my other PbP table that I’ve been playing with for years that I’m sure at least one of them wouldn’t mind jumping over.
The primary difficulty, though, is that a) the new PC actually can’t be one of the amnesiacs Lowls betrayed, since the narrative has already establish who exactly those people were. Similarly, the rest of y’all (the amnesiacs) have both a bonus class feat as well as an apex item, which makes the narrative-construction for this new PC having those things (so they’re not inherently punished for not being around since Book 3) is going to be…interesting.
Anyways, I’m having to declare a pause on this game for a bit. I doubt it would last more than maybe 3 days.
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I mean, we’re already amnesiacs. Who’s to say we didn’t forget something else - like a whole person - as well? XD
Just who was Dark Shoreh suppressing and hoping we didn’t uncover in this dungeon :)
Right, Paizocon. Forgot about that. I'll check back in with everyone on Monday regarding stuff moving forward.
First of all, Hero Points reset in 5 days
Secondly,finding a new player turned out to be a lot more difficult than anticipated. I'm not sure if any of y'all happen to know of anyone that would be interested in joining in, but I've pretty mmuch used up my avenue of resources for finding such a person.
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I will iterate through my avenues, and check with my solid co-players/GMs. I have some good options if they have bandwidth and interest.
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Hello everyone!
It looks like I'm your new replacement player. I'm in a couple other games with Jevar, and I've been playing PbP here for several years now.
My experience with 2e is very thin though, so starting at 11th level will be something of a challenge. I'll probably need to go with a character type that's straightforward and simple so, from what I've heard at least, not an Oracle or Alchemist for example.
I hear you've lost a Cleric, and that's a class I wouldn't be against. Are there any particular gaps or needs the party has at present that might help me decide on a class and so forth?
I scanned back several pages through gameplay but I couldn't figure out where in the world the group is now. Are there any things about the party's current location or circumstances that might give me some hooks to work with in figuring out what kind of character might be crossing paths with you?
I scanned back several pages through gameplay but I couldn't figure out where in the world the group is now. Are there any things about the party's current location or circumstances that might give me some hooks to work with in figuring out what kind of character might be crossing paths with you?
Nethysian library in Qadira that got broken into and the defense wards are going so haywire that the whole building is on lockdown. The PCs are being sent to go to the deepest portion of the library to perform a factory reset on the defense wards.
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A Nethysian library? Just got out of one of those in Osirion in Mummy's Mask. They're such awful places!
Hm, it seems like there would be a narrow subset of people who might be strolling around in there randomly? Is the idea that I would join while the party is in the library, or after they're out?
A couple of thoughts on characters:
Since it's Qadira, a Cloistered or Warpriest Cleric of Sarenrae wouldn't be out of place at all. Or a Redeemer / Liberator Champion of Sarenrae for that matter, depending on whether spells or melee is in greater demand.
Or, an archer Investigator with Alchemical Sciences or Forensic Medicine Methodology if healing and skills are needed?
I would like to apologize that things here have gone off the rails and there hasn’t been, well, anything in the past week. I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to get things figured out and I’m just really bad at communicating the behind-the-scenes things at times.
I’m still here. I’m still trying to make things work. I just tend to run out of energy and forget to let people know WHAT behind-the-scenes stuff is going on.
Welcome aboard rdknight!
Don't worry GM, I'll be here when we kick things off again. Unless it's between now and Sunday because I'm at the UK Games Expo all weekend :)
I owe everyone an apology. It's been a real hell of a year for me, and that's made it difficult for me to keep to my commitments, but that means I've been letting you all down and I am deeply sorry for that.
Xavier managed to get back in touch with me, and we had a long discussion about the whole situation and whether or not I'd be able/willing to return to the level of activity that is necessary for the game to move forward. I asked for some time to answer, because while I certainly love this character, the game, and playing with the rest of you, I needed to think on whether I could do that, and what I would need to change for it.
I came back with some ideas, and he asked how likely I thought they are to work, to which I had to truthfully say "No idea! But I'll try my best." Or, at least, I'd like to, if y'all are okay with it. We also agreed on a pretty short timeline to see if it works and, if not, that's okay, too.
But I also don't want this to be just something between me and him, cause obviously you've all been affected, too.
I think it's worth trying and I hope it works :)
Hero Points have reset
And yeah, I will admit that I'm probably being a bit too forgiving after a lot of the stuff these past couple months, and I'm also willing to admit that it's for almost entirely selfish reasons (introducing a new player halfway through the campaign is difficult). I just think it would also be unfair to keep this conversation between Shohreh and myself.
(And I'm also waiting to see folks' reactions to this before I proceed further)
This is an FYI that I'll be away in nature next weekend, June 8-9. As this is a weekend I expect minimal disruption and i will return to resume posting Sunday evening (US/Pacific time).
I’m glad to see you again Shohreh! Not that you wouldn’t be welcome too RDKnight. XD
Goodbye again RDKnight, and welcome back Shohreh! I hope your life is free of stress from now :)
Not free of it just yet, but I'm better at managing it, lol.
Boodiddly harmonizes.
Okay, I DID start writing before Boodiddly posted, and DID notice Boodiddly had posted, I Delayed Boodiddly until after Shohreh like his post said, and I even have the write-up where I gave Boodiddly the result of his Recall Knowledge. I have NO idea what happened to make it so that I posted the version of my last post where I was botting him.
Whatever, I'll just put the Recall Knowledge thing below:
This is very self defeating to bring up, but can Shoreh target Jevar with that spell when he is invisible? I don’t know how obvious it is he took mental damage but we could assume he and Kolgradd grunted (maybe that helps w invisibility too, but if so then it helps red). It appears he maybe have picked the wrong foe for invisibility :/
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I'll allow it.
I...forgot you were invisible. Oops.
For the record: there's a local convention this weekend (starting on Friday), so I make no guarantees about posting between now and Monday.
Sounds like fun! Enjoy it!
FYI, if that lightning bolt was from a scroll from Scroll Adept, you'd need to have it in hand to cast it. For now I'm gonna assume you did just to keep things moving, but I don't think it was previously established one way or the other.
Arg, good point. I'll make a point to spend an action on retrieval next time.
Dreamlands Lore (dunno when you became trained in that, but alright)
I forget what level it was, but in the end Jevar will have less expert/master/legendary skills.