CCC-UK-4: Bourne of Candles (Inactive)

Game Master Aeshuura

Haha, well, we try to break that. I always put RP over, as long as I am running, and am super happy that I have found like-minded people here in the AL circles.

How's the eye?

Played the Season 10 preview, and had a load of fun! It looks like the Season 10 rules might be tweaked again. It seems like we will be keeping the hourly gold, but the leveling may be getting adjusted, at least in regard to the mini adventures.

This morning, I played one of the 1 hour mini-intro adventures for Season 10, and we were instructed that we do not gain a level until we at least complete two, which would be about 2 hours.

I had a blast, this morning. The only gripe that I had is that it was too easy to talk over each other and it ended up causing moments of dead air, while everyone waited to see if anyone was going to step forward, then everyone started talking at the same time! >.<

I was the only one that was playing someone originally from Ten Towns, and so that helped with some of the lore stuff, like when we ran into some Reghed tribesmen...

I am excited for the upcoming season! The fact that the new story is heavily inspired by John Carpenter's The Thing, and other psychological horror films, adds an interesting twist...

Cool, so aberrations?

Maybe! In today's adventure I met an awakened walrus named Mother Tusk!

I'm watching the DnD Live 2020 event, and today's games are amazing! Earlier today, Chris Perkins ran Brandon Routh (Man of Steel), David Harbour (Stranger Things), Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy/Nebula), and Pom Klementieff (Guardians 2/Mantis), which was HI-larious!

Right now is Kate Welch running the Game of Thrones cast: Iwan Rheon (Ramsay Bolten), Natalia Tena (Asha the Wildling), Gemma Whelan (Yara Greyjoy), Kristian Nairn (Hodor), and Daniel Portman (Poderick Paine) and there is a lot of laughing on this one, with characters like Untrustworthy Alan, Woody Elftree, Puff the Magic, and Barbara Bladeboy! They will be posted as individual videos on YouTube at the end of the day, but right now is on YouTube live...

Sounds great, can't wait.

Sorry, lots of personal things going on that I couldn't take care of when I was recovering from surgery.

No worries, buddy.

Guys terribly sorry but I really need a break from the boards, I'm going to step away for a few months and clear my head.

Sorry to hear that, buddy... You can check in for your logsheet info at the end. I will look at what the ruling is now for leaving the table early.

Take the time you need and I hope we see you again soon!

See ya dude. Good luck.

Has anyone did an insight check on Vigs or the lady lately or at all?

Just passively, the woman seems genuinely confused and scared. Vigs, being further away now, is a little harder to read, but based on what interactions you had below in the tower, you didn't see anything that would lead you to think he was deceiving you...

Sorry, been cleaning and rearranging my room at home, need to get rid of old carpet and get tile installed. We have no idea how the school year will start.

Just doing a wellness check-in here. We lost Zdravko to life pressures, and Quen Pah has been dealing with both recovery from surgery and work pressures.

How is everyone else doing?

I have had a few games cancelled over the past couple of weeks, but still in relatively good spirits. My (and my fiancee's) application for U.S. Customs and Immigration application for Alien Fiancee visa got approved, and now we are waiting for the National Visa Center to let us know the next step, so I am pretty stoked!

I hope everyone else is doing well!

Aloha!

im doing good despite what is going on.

Still here, ever fear!

I work from home because of the pandemic (yay tech job), balance Gorum and our two dogs with chill time, procrastinating everything I wasn't doing before the pandemic, life's pretty good for us considering everything else 2020 is throwing at the world. Actually things like this help me to de-stress, so am happy we're still rolling.

That's awesome about the visa! My coworker's wife finally got her green card after many years of waiting, and I get to hear about all the stress of her trying to become a citizen so yeah, that's gotta be huge.

The Immigration System is a mess

Thanks! It is a big step and a lot of waiting. Our first step is to get her that visa so that we can take that big step!

It must be good to be able to work remotely, but I would do terribly at that, as when I am home, I do find myself getting distracted more easily... :p

Oh, distracted is a good word for it. I have been home for a couple months now, May be going back to work soon but I ho knows for how long. If things get bad again, I may find myself right back at home. Other than that, we’re doing ok.

We are supposed to ve getting ready for a hybrid model of teaching with groups of kids veing at school 2 days a week and rorating days so groip 1 would be Monday Wednsday abd group 2 would be Tuesday Thursday.

That's one way to do teaching. I'm in digital publishing (I work for McGraw Hill), and have oddly several friends who are teachers. Lots of ideas being floated around out there, all far from perfect. Hope that hybrid model works out and is safe for everyone.

Honestly I worked from home once a long time ago and failed at it. This time, it's all good. I think because the job was already well established (8 years!). I get distracted being in an office, there are less distractions at home. Anyways, I'm really digging this work from home thing. Would be great to go into the office some of the time, and be home some of the time. We'll see!

And yeah, the immigration system could use an upgrade or three.

It's funny, but alot of the companies I worked for in the past were very anti work from home, but I believe that all of them now have aggressive work from home policies (one of them I think is going completely to work from home).

It's a question of control. Companies don't trust you to do your work, without supervision. Now, they are concerned about liability and lawsuit. There are very few large companies that truly care about their workers.

Of course, that is only my opinion. ;)

It is terrible how U.S. companies treat their employees.

^_^

My currently company treats it's employees fantastically. They had a work from home policy in place that triggered when more than a handful of cases appeared in a state, they made wfm mandatory. Fortunately my state has lower numbers of cases overall, so we have only had a few cases occur company wide (and the subsidiary that I work for has ALOT of employees).

It's part of the reason I was so busy for like a month and a half: we were getting everyone set up for work from home.

Going back to school in a few weeks will be interesting.

You are lucky, my friend. I wish we could have more companies do that.

@Quen, yeah, school is going to be something, alright.

Ya, I didn't realize how badly I was treated at some previous jobs until I started working at my current job.

That is good to hear. I love my peers here, (which ironically is in Higher Ed textbooks, looking at you Io!) but my admin, not so much. ^_^

Yeah I am super lucky to be with McGraw Hill. I'm technically a contractor there, almost their whole digital department is, but even then they still treat us well and we get many of the same perks as their real employees. And it's always been hey if you can't make it to work (dentist appointment or something) or you don't feel well, work from home. We all have laptops. They are a good company - not perfect, but very progressive and flexible. Transitioning to WFH was we were at work on Thursday, and at home that Friday. If you wanted things like extra monitors or peripherals, they got those people set up in a hurry. My "dual monitor" set up is work laptop and home laptop side by side lol.

It's interesting, because Cengage Learning was going to purchase McGraw Hill, then the deal fell through. I am glad that they are doing better. The contractor model makes much more sense in terms of keeping spending under control. The Big 3 are so expensive, though... Right now, I am having frustrations with Pearson.

Are you involved in the IDAP (Inclusive Access) group?

Just about everything at my school is Pearson.

My governor just ordered all businesses to deny access to people not wearing masks. We have almost 14000 cases in New Mexico with 500 deaths. The Union is sending a memo to public education department asking for a delay in school start times until after Labor Day

John Oliver put out a video on Pearson, and that company is garbage (after watching the video, I got curious and decided to read some of their horror stories, and they are indeed terrible).

You won't have any argument from me!

They made alot of money off NM

Ya, the fact that they have a monopoly on testing in quite a few states would be worrying if they were a good company.

Pearson is not a good company.

Are you involved in the IDAP (Inclusive Access) group?

Nope. I'm in DPG, and I'm on a little team that supports the K-12 digital production. We help both the authors building the content, and the developers who maintain it (and often don't know precisely how the front end works). There are some amazing people I work with - musicians and artists and former teachers - and there are some people I just, well, I do love my job let's just say that.

Yeah that whole Cengage thing was...weird. Not sure what I am allowed to say about it, so I'll just say it was gogogo then nope whew that's over. Uh, okay.

MGH (McGraw Hill) has a lot of former Pearson people who really did not like Pearson at all. I personally only know about the company from them, and from the news. It seems Pearson is more product-forward shall we say, without much concern for the people building or using it. MGH feels like hey we're doing this cool thing for kids, let's do our best to make it awesome with the time and money we have (which may or may not work out), and oh hey be sure to take care of yourselves employees.

Like I said, I feel pretty lucky.

Good to hear. I am happier to support them, knowing that. Higher Ed books are still pricey though...

Do youbhave aby good sources for online Latin?

Can't think of any online Latin sources offhand. I'll ask around tomorrow at work.

Thank you.

does anuobe else use the dice roller on D and D Beyond?

I also teach psychology and world history.

does anuobe else use the dice roller on D and D Beyond?

So far it's nice, but no one can see your roll except you. I hope that down the road, they allow at least the DM to see them, if your PC is in their Campaign.

That would make sense.

In case anyone has a little disposable income to make a charity donation, there are some certs for Leonin and Satyr for Adventurers League up for auction!

+1 certs are starting at $30 (count as your +1)
certs for race without +1 start at $200!

Link

I guess it might mean something if I knew who these people are.

Leonin and Satyr? Or the DMs that are auctioning a place at the table?