Volcano's Land - Unknown Depths (Inactive)

Game Master Miner Cotren

Nempura - since you are a member of the Swem, please add to your character sheet languages: Tendril Benthic (which is basically undine underwater sign language). This is a highly stylized mode of expression, and I'm sure that your training (like knowledge nobility) would have included this.

Sure thing!

Hmm, if Freya dies (not that I'm planning to get her killed) I'm probably going to switch to Illiya.

Their relationship is complicated, Freya sided with her sister against their parent's will, saying that Illiya should be free to find her own path in life, but she's still not sure she made the right decision. Especially with the way Illiya's had difficulty finding work. She trusts her baby sister, but is not certain she's going to make it.

Illiya, on the other hand, has an inferiority complex with her sister. She hates her, and hates herself for it. She's never found her calling, and fell into petty theft to make money. She lies to her aunt and is actually dreading her reunion with Freya. As the game goes on, she might get tied up in the crime families of undine, pushing her to be on level with the party. Probably a Rogue.

While the rogue trying to fill her paladin sister's footsteps sounds interesting, so does a paladin digging into the dark secrets of her own family. I have no plans to switch unless Freya dies.

Just finished a 730am to 11pm day of work - I'm fried - I'll catch up tomorrow. Sorry about that.

No worries! RL always comes first.

Novalie - no worries about being busy lately.

I think I mentioned it before, but just so that it's clear what I'm doing - my policy is to bot anyone who hasn't acted in combat within 24 hours of a round beginning, otherwise combat grinds to a halt.

Let me know if you found any of my actions on Novalie's behalf unreasonable - I figured she would continue fighting to put the monster down, even if injured :)

You are all now level 2!

If you have the time, I appreciate the gist of what you have gained (doesn't have to be a complete breakdown, but new abilities and spells in particular are appreciated)

Here is my level up information:

+1 BAB, +1 Fort/Will
new spells: Ray of Enfeeblement, Burning Hands
Ranged Spellstrike!
5 skill points: Know (Arcana), Know (Planes), Intimidate, Perception, Spellcraft

I may switch my Knowledge Arcana to some other knowledge if you are taking it, Iryani, just so we have more things covered.

I have no issues with that - we're still ironing out "final" versions of these characters.

+1 BAB +Fort/+1Will
Divine Grace +Charisma(3) to all saves
Lay on Hands Heal 1d6 1+(3) times a day.
Health +8 (6+2)
Skills +4: Diplomacy +1, Kn:Religion +1, Handle Animal +2

I don't think anyone else is going for handle animal, so I'll pick it up.

I actually have +9 handle animal through versatile performance.

I'm so jealous of your divine grace :P

Okay, sorry for missing a couple of more days - we had an incident at work.

The long hours on Tuesday were due to a production outage (I'm in tech). We had been working to get the service to pass an audit by next Friday. The production issue last week triggered off another bug from another service that made things worse, including some data loss.

We are trying to fix everything by this Friday so we pass the audit. Failing the audit is not an option. That's why we've been working so many hours the past week. Tomorrow, we'll be waiting for a lot of data to transfer - so I'll have time to catch up.

Sorry, again, for the delay.

Truly appreciated that you took the time to tell us. Sounds like a very rough time, sorry to hear it and hope things will be getting better through the week.

Thank you for your patience during this time.

One person on the team worked 24/7 for 4 days. Made himself sick.

Nothing like your multiple billion dollar a year company being on the line to motivate people :D

We have the audit issue in hand and will finish in time. Recovering the lost data from the other issue is still uncertain.

I shall be returning to normal posting from now on. My part is this is over except advisory at this point.

And it appears we gained a level, I will play with that this evening, post the update here and the new sheet.

+1 Level
+1 BAB
+8 HP (6 + 2)
+1 Fort, Will
Skills: +1 K(Religion), K(History), Sense Motive, Perception
Spells: Protection From Evil (default memorization)

And the ability I've been waiting on :D
Fervor (1d6) (3/day):
* Touch a creature to heal it of 1d6 points of damage. Using this ability is a standard action (unless the warpriest targets himself, in which case it’s a swift action)
* As a swift action, a warpriest can expend one use of this ability to cast any one warpriest spell he has prepared with a casting time of 1 round or shorter. When cast in this way, the spell can target only the warpriest, even if it could normally affect other or multiple targets. Spells cast in this way ignore somatic components and do not provoke attacks of opportunity. The warpriest does not need to have a free hand to cast a spell in this way.

Now I won't need prep time to cast defensive spells to make Novalie more survivable.

Good to hear you're back! Hopefully things have stabilized for the future.

If Nempura has handle animal covered, then I might shuffle my skills bit.

No worries about tweaks to character here and there. I think level 3 might be where I ask for things to be more permanent, but for now it's all good.

I was originally building Freya to be more of a healer (shocking I know), but if everyone has access to healing, maybe I'll try branching to other things. I'll have to consider my options.

She's also more cautious than I initially thought, though it makes sense if Novalie is the reckless one that her friend is the one pulling the brakes.

I would prefer to branch away from healing, so if you still wanted to go for healing, that's great.

I feel like I'm just not warming up to the setting. I think I'm withdrawing.
I'm sorry you need to find a replacement.

No worries - I appreciate that you told me rather than leaving us hanging. See you around the boards!

Freya, Novalie, and Nempura -

I've had more luck in the past finding replacements by asking my players for suggestions first.

So out of curiosity, do any of you have a suggestion of a poster from another game around here that might be a good fit? It could either to be taking Iryani's place directly, or stepping in as a new PC from the village.

Let me know! If nothing works out, then I'll put a post on Recruitment instead.

I could always ask around or ship you some player names to see if you like their characters and roleplay.

I'll ask around my other games, see if what I get.

Cool, let me know if either of you get any interest.

Might have someone. He should hopefully contact you soon.

Great! I'll be on the lookout for a PM.

I'm not in any active games other than this right now - the last one ended a while ago. Sorry.

No worries! We'll see if anyone PMs me with interest from Freya or Nempura. If not, opening a re-recruitment isn't a big deal.

I'm enjoying the conversation, so by all means continue!

Just wanted to say I love all your characters, and continue to appreciate the small touches of the language you use, your point of view, and interactions together.

Happy Father's Day to all of you who are dads!

I got a new computer last night - I'm sorry I forgot to post. I'm checking up now.

Sorry I didn't mention it - I'm fine with full HP, etc after a good rest. I just don't like book-keeping. This is subject to change under stressful/bad conditions, but for bed rest full HP is fine.

I'll wait for Novalie to respond before proceeding downstairs and replying fyi.

sounds good :)

Nempura, I'm going to assume the reply from Novalie will be just a good morning and such, so feel free to response to Kapelo and Freya.

We can always hold the Novalie conversation "in the past" while we are having the current one if there is something important to cover.

I suppose so.

Yes, yesterday I spent 17 hours working on my architecture proposal for the CTO this morning. I kind of forgot anything else existed.

Great news, he liked it. He read it for 10 minutes and then just wholesale approved it without questions.

No worries! Very happy to hear it went well!

Like I said, you can feel free to interact a little with Nempura in the "past" too

Oof, Freya is a bit too headstrong for her own good. Sorry Nempura, she's probably not helping the situation.

She's used to it.

I had one PM from a potential player, but it's been over a week since I've heard. They are still welcome to join (pending a character submission), but I'm also opening it re-recruitment.

Alrighty :)

The other alternative was Freya punching him in the face.

Hi All,

I ended up recruiting 2 players to our game: Ohkwarikó of the Nightshade and Badhbh. Welcome!

You can see the basics in the recruitment thread and their profiles:

HERE!

Hello everyone. I am looking forward to playing in this unique game world!!

Hi all.

Looking forward to playing with you all.

I hear Freya in particular has some views on sylphs...

Maybe ;p It's good to meet you all! Freya's personal experience with Sylphs is limited, and as a faithful family, she's not heard the best things about the godless. On the other hand, her brother Valen is a silversmith in Light. So you may have tangentially met her family.