Four Flavors of Heaven (Inactive)

Game Master Timespiraled

I hope you had a fun time!

I did! Feels good to be home again, though.

Also new profile image, been wanting to change it for a while now.

Looks good.

Where are we keeping track of party treasure? If there is a "treasure sheet" I forgot to bookmark it. ??

I think we've mostly just been keeping it on our sheets.

I'll have to take a day or so break, first day of work is tomorrow and that means today is "Buy Out Staples" and prepare like mad, day.

You've followed the lead as far as you can and learned something vital; Taicho even landed upon it without my help.

Taicho was pulling a lot of stuff out of his bumm, can you identify which part was what he 'landed on'?

So is there any reason not to believe that the wall climbing thing didn't carry the prisoners down one by one and we brought Katala up to soon?

I was freezing!

Timespiraled wrote:

You've followed the lead as far as you can and learned something vital; Taicho even landed upon it without my help.

Taicho was pulling a lot of stuff out of his bumm, can you identify which part was what he 'landed on'?

Sure, I didn't want to directly say it in case that was giving away too much. Your reasoning that the creatures wouldn't have bothered bringing the captives all this way alive if they were going to be fed to something is correct. There's something else going on.

And as far as you know, Suofang's Yi wouldn't have survived the cold temperature.

ninja'd by the GM, but will leave the post as is

Curiously the gm didn't have you take damage, so the freezing may have been theatrical not deadly.

I just think the humans were taken below to be slaves, I don't thing they were brought here alive to be tossed over the cliff to die. It would have been easier to kill them, then brought them here dead and toss them over.

Are we going to explore the area more for another entrance to the lower area or are we going back. I doubt if this will be the first and only encounter with these things.

edit So is it possible the creature carried them up over the ceiling and on to the other side? But we didn't see another side. I guess there could have been cave entrances to the sides if we climbed laterally. don't know.

I chose not to deal damage and give you the chance to pull Katala out in time, yeah. I was going to start rolling if we'd gone down deeper.

There's nothing across the chasm. The faint traces indicate whatever took the captives headed down into the deeps.

There's not much left to explore within this passage.

So damage would happen, maybe something came up and took them. too many unanswered question.

I'm good with waiting, I'm good with going back to the shrine whatever you all want to do.

Don't mind me, I tend to process information better via discussion so I tend to ask a lot of questions.

I'm still getting out of vacation mode and should be able to post tomorrow!

Week and weekend's started pretty busy, so post will be tomorrow. I've been doing an adventure with discord friends through discord (ironically enough its also Dragon's Demand, Lung xD) and I can tell you, it's so much easier to check and reply there than on forums. Might never come back to forum posting after this if discord stays that easy.

I've enjoyed a couple of games on Discord. Nice to have it with me on my phone to keep up. However, for details posts I have to log in on my computer, and the editing and text formatting options are a bit annoying. Many times I forgot that you have to hold shift & hit return to go to the next line without posting....

As a check, the Discord group did the same amount of posts in 14 days (and that's even with a few days no posting) that we did here in 63 days.

Not that we need to, but would anyone here be interested in switching to Discord?

I don't know discord well enough to attempt it. I tend to check the boards here at least six times a day.

The fastest (and only) AP I've finished was "Reign of Winter." With 7,155 posts in game and 5,163 posts in discussion, from Nov 6, 2016 to Oct 4, 2017. So 336 days at an average of 36.6 posts a day with four players and the GM.

So I'm not sure the difference is in the method of posting.

As you've noticed, I sometimes don't even get alerts on Discord. Some of my games have been on there in the past, and I don't mind it if I actively check it, but I'd prefer to keep things here where I have my character sheet handy.

I don't know discord well enough to attempt it. I tend to check the boards here at least six times a day.

The fastest (and only) AP I've finished was "Reign of Winter." With 7,155 posts in game and 5,163 posts in discussion, from Nov 6, 2016 to Oct 4, 2017. So 336 days at an average of 36.6 posts a day with four players and the GM.

So I'm not sure the difference is in the method of posting.

That's some legendary posting. Reminds me of a Skull & Shackles PbP I was following on here; they did the entire AP in a few months.

So no worries, we'll stick to the Forums. And that's true about the character sheets. I just need to check the forums as frequently as Discord.

I'm fine with either. I don't check here 6 times a day even when I'm at home and not busy. (2-3 maybe....)

That said, I'm not as young as I used to be, and this 20" computer screen is much easier to read than my phone. And while threads can be created for a character sheet, it is easier to use what is already set up.

Maybe the next game can be on Discord.

I have had a few deadlines and so both spots, Discord or Paizo, have been hard to keep up with. But yeah, Discord would be fine by me :)

"Some things that go into the frozen places of the world are transported into a sort of sleep where they do not die," says Lung thoughtfully. "I agree, Katala, all hope is not lost."

All I could think of when Lung said this is "Oh so it's like the Matrix."

Or, you know, like T'Challa when he was put in the snow by the Jibari!

Gonna be a bit slower until October 8th. My teaching contract is slowly coming to a close (a few days later than planned) and some deadlines for student work and correction are creeping in. I also need to finish drawing out the Spring's map. I want to do this place justice, something I failed to do in the undersea caves.

I am enjoying it regardless. I will be on vacation from Oct 14th to the Nov 7th. I may have internet and the ability to post, so it might not change stuff, but just a heads-up.

That's cool, take all the time you need.

I am enjoying it regardless. I will be on vacation from Oct 14th to the Nov 7th. I may have internet and the ability to post, so it might not change stuff, but just a heads-up.

Thanks for the heads up. I've really appreciated everyone being so accommodating as I finish this teaching contract. The amount of correction is pretty wild.

Contract is over, we're back on track as of tomorrow morning!

Took the time to update the Setting Guide's Recap section to put us up to date.

Lung peers at the boot marks. "The missing brother, do you suppose?"

How quickly the tables turn. From prisoner to mastermind???

My thoughts exactly. Maybe the blood was to throw us off the path.

Sadly, my Discord PbP game of Dragon's Demand has had to shut down due to my players' lack of time, so I've gone and fired a new Discord PbP recruitment for The Wild Beyond the Witchlight.

If any of you are interested, here's the link:
https://paizo.com/threads/rzs43ien?The-Wild-Beyond-the-Witchlight-5E-Discor d-PbP

I have made sure commitment-wise that this will not impede progress on FFoH.

I may have four people already interested so I deleted the recruitment thread. I'll put it back if it looks like any of them can't make it.

I'm booked up and shouldn't take any more. Enjoy the Witchlight!

I've been very excited to play it. It not being homebrew saves me so much time.

so how much ice is there between the crew and the carp?

You climbed down... roughly 20 feet? So about that much.

so would it be easier to dig from the top?

I'd say yes, but what from Lung's discovered, digging may not be possible at this time.

As you do so, the ritual circle itself cracks, and from the frozen lake-bed, three ice-covered creatures draconic in form claw their way from the icy earth.

As they slowly claw towards you, you can sense the spell slowly becoming undone as small rivulets of meltwater begin coursing down the sides of the slowly unfreezing spring. You sense you still have time, though not an infinite amount.

So Taicho is still down the well in the tunnel, the others are above ground and the three ice covered creatures are clawing their way out of the 'earth' so outside the frozen pond above ground, is that about right?

Girlfriend just got back from a trip so I'll be posting tomorrow. Take care!

Anyone heard from Lung recently?

No, I haven't seen him on any other boards. Did you reach out to him on Discord? I believe for some, it is crunch time for school to get projects and stuff done before the holidays. Many of my games have slowed down because of it.

Alright, if he doesn't pop up by tomorrow I'll push on. Sorry for the delays friends.

Sorry, I keep having terrible deadlines at work--it's gonna be bad until Thanksgiving. I'll try to stay on top of the game better!

It's cool Lung, don't worry about the game too much. This is where the stress is supposed to get reduced from RL deadlines not made worse. Take care of things at work, were not going anywhere.

Thanks. :) <3

Helping the kids move back in to their home. No Internet connection yet. Hopefully tomorrow.

No worries, thanks for the heads up!

"Taicho, hand me your wand!"

I'm not showing a wand in Taicho's inventory, who is carrying it?

editKatala had it here