Gods and Monsters and Heroes (Inactive)

Game Master Daxter

Welcome new guys!

Sorry I'm late, weekends and all.

I can carry the cleric items, and I'm good with taking the extra pearl.

So that's:

Pearl of Power 1
Scroll of Lesser Restoration CL3
Wand of Cure Light Wounds (CL1) (28 charges)

Although, others can use that wand! If someone can use it, but doesn't have one, maybe they should take it.

Nik - always a pleasure mate, been too long :)

I was saying the same thing only recently. :)

We are just waiting for you guys to progress in the story further so we can join up :) I can't wait!

Pleasure to meet you too Varocles.

Are weekends generally slower in this campaign? I noticed the posting rate was supposed to be 1-2/day, but has this game slowed down a bit?

Weekends definitely slower

All campaigns start off with lots of posting and then slow down. This one is still going strong.

All campaigns start off with lots of posting and then slow down. This one is still going strong.

That's true. I'm just trying to understand the lay of the land. My point in asking was because many of my games slowed due to Covid and the additional stresses/time restraints of having the kids at home. I was just clarifying if we are in that similar situation here or if we should be shooting for 1 post/day or more as the original recruitment post stated (except weekends it seems). I have a lot of free time to post, so I don't want to swamp the board with posts if you all are drowning in life responsibilities. I can post slower if needed.

Part of that is on me. For a few reasons I haven't been as motivated, plus I've gone through a few bouts of writer's block as well. I need to endeavor to post more often. I don't want to encourage someone to post less, so feel free to post often and I will keep up.

Well I've been reading through the game and getting backstory and I'd have to say you've been doing a wonderful job, so don't lose heart! Keep it up! Maybe watch some Greek-themed movies! (Troy, Immortals, Clash of the Titans, Jason and the Argonauts, Helen of Troy, Wrath of the Titans, Wonder Woman, Hercules, and so on and so forth). That usually puts me in the mood!

Yea, I tend to take inspiration from TV since that was my childhood. So stuff made by Sam Raimi or Disney is in my head usually. :)

You can't go wrong with the old Sinbad movies either with the Harryhausen monsters!

+1 on the old Harryhausen epics, plus any Swords and Sandals classics!

+1 on the old Harryhausen epics, plus any Swords and Sandals classics!

The Kraken in Clash of the Titans was Harryhausen's work I believe.

Indeed it was, and Bubo the mechanical owl.

I laughed at the Bubo reference in the newer one.

I recently showed that movie to my 10 year old son. He enjoyed it.

Awesome!

Just be advised, you all aren't waiting on me. I'm waiting for you to progress further. I'm just letting you all know so you don't feel you have to sit there and wait. That's just prolonging the time I get to join, however, feel free to take as long as you wish to progress the story naturally. Enjoy your conversation IC. I'm patient and okay waiting and reading for the time being.

My logic is Cyrene heard them say "Let's rest before we go in" and she thinks they're stupid men with no common sense in their heads (And she's right!)

I love the initial interactions so far guys and am so far glad I picked who I picked. Just letting you know that I'm taking it all in and letting you guys do your thing and that I'm not ignoring you guys.

I will be out of town potentially three days without the guarantee that I can post. I will try, but if I am not posting, that is why.

Busy weekend on duty rota - head's burst. Will try and post on the morrow.

Work has wiped me out this week guys, been a long weekend of duty calls and after action meetings. Likely to be closer to Friday before I'm in position to post. Please bot Poly as/when required.

No worries. Thanks for letting us know.

Hey folks - apologies for my absence over the last week, as I touched on previously was burned out with work.

Bad news is things are continuing to ramp up over the next month here in my Ops role, and I’ve a bunch of front loading to do ahead of my planned seasonal family vacation to Dubai for 2 weeks from 12-29 Dec.

Knock on has been I’ve been mentally wiped and struggled for motivation and impetus. I’ve always taken pride in being a player who didn’t just post for postings sake, and enjoy the role-play as much as the roll-play.

As such I’ve came to a hard decision that I’m in a real period of creative inertia and cannot (at present) give the games I play in the input and investment they so richly deserve.

With the exception of a couple of (very) long running games I’m taking the very, very tough decision to drop out of the majority of the pbp games I’m in.

Want to take the opportunity to thank you all for the creative collaboration, and particularly our illustrious GM Amazing Red who I must vex with a passion.

My hope is down the line in 2021 that I’ll be recharged and refocussed enough to resume indulging this amazing hobby of ours on a broader scope. As/when that happens I hope to be lucky enough to game alongside some of you again.

Meantime I sadly will bid you adieu, and thanks again for the patience, understanding and most of all fun and drunken memorable moments in the Age of Mythos.

We wish you the best Poly!

Agreed! Take care of yourself, it was a pleasure gaming with you

No hard feelings, Poly. Glad you're taking care of yourself.

I think Circe will miss you, despite what she said. :)

I am sad to see you go, but I understand. For the record, you were not vexing, I am always entertained by Poly's antics. Your spot will be here when you come back.

Although I didn't know your character fully yet, I did want to experience him. I'm sad to see you go. I understand ramping craziness that can consume your time, so I don't have any hard feelings, but please, if you do free up your time and wish to come back, please do so!

Side note: I just noticed this is a catfolk avatar. I thought it was an elf in a fancy gold mask! Am I the only one?

Since we are down a player, are we reopening recruitment?

Do we need one? We've got 5.

@Aikaterine: I did notice that it was a catfolk, but I didn't think anything of it. I think Poly's avatar is technically a half-elf so just use whatever you think works best.

We're good with 5. I originally wanted only one, but I recruited the both of you because I liked both of the characters too much to make a decision. But we are good with what we have.

This is one of those non-taking 10 moments, but that's okay.

Fair. I had a GM once who ruled that you can take 10 in a situation like this because the PCs aren't distracted or aware of any immediate danger, so their action would be the same average effort whether or not a danger is present. But I forget that it was just one GM's ruling.

Fair enough, I should be more transparent when I think taking 10 isn't appropriate.

Oh drat, I forgot about the fact you can't cast again when you have a held spell. I suppose I should have done a vanish spell and moved. Are you okay with a retcon? If not, that's fine, I'll try to tumble through but will probably fail with how big he is.

Yea that's fine. I like the new avatar.

Thanks! Me too!

Yes, I like the new avatar, also.

Amphytrion, I keep forgetting if we've formalized this or not, but Kyronai has the "ward" hex, and I just want to state that he will always have it up on Amph between combat.

A witch can use this hex to place a protective ward over one creature. The warded creature receives a +2 deflection bonus to AC and a +2 resistance bonus on saving throws. This ward lasts until the warded creature is hit or fails a saving throw. A witch knows when a warded creature is no longer protected. A witch can have only one ward active at a time. If the witch uses this ability again, the previous ward immediately ends. A witch cannot use this ability on herself. At 8th level and 16th level, the bonuses provided by this ward increase by +1.

So, at the beginning of a combat, it's always active. Until you get hit or fail a save.

Forgot about that! Thanks. :)

Sorry to be a bother. I'm just trying to understand! So where I saw our figures first off, was in the room with the beds. We went down the right passageway. Then you directed us to go through the door on the left, which would bring us to the chapel looking room, not the animal room.

If you meant right, then that would make sense, but then we also (it seems) passed by two doors that lead to the room I've marked with the big red circle. Have we been that way? Can you help clarify? I tried to mark the path with a red line.

No worries. To speed things up a bit and to avoid the normal pitfalls of doing a dungeon crawl via PBP, I had to make some executive decisions. Yes I had you skip the room with the big red circle, and the route in red is what you guys went through.

Okay, then we'll check that room with the big red circle. Gotta see everything. If there is nothing of note, then we can move on. You can feel free to roll perception checks for traps along the way in secret if you wish. Aikaterine is having her eyes open for them. Alternatively, if you wish for me to roll at the door I can.

Alrighty, will update in a bit.

Guys?

I'm here!

I'm here and would have posted yesterday. I was just waiting to kind of hope that someone else would post as well. I guess I will just post...

Waiting on you guys.

As am I. Waiting for someone to take the note and read it other than Varocles and I. It's been since the 19th that anyone else has posted. ??

Amphitryon, I believe Varocles healed you to full after the zombie Triceratops fight with some channel energy bursts.

I'm just checking to see if it has been the full duration of her shield spell or if she will need to recast this?

Your shield spell will still be up.