Nice.
I don't draw. People. Anymore. ;)
I never did really, mostly drew comic-like series of space ship battles. :)
When it came time to draw the persons, I discovered that I stink at drawing hands. ;P
I've just never had that particular skill.
I've commissioned drawings of some past characters - but not in a long time.
I have no talent but some hard-won (and expensive) basic skills. Hoping those techniques carry over from plants to people and furry beasts. :/ Might as well try it, since the pandemic has tanked my last year of classes and will push back my portfolio year. Grrr.
And Rags, everyone stinks at drawing hands.
I am great at drawing. I can beat most 3-4 year olds at stick figures the majority of the time. That is about the end of my skills.
And Rags, everyone stinks at drawing hands.
LOL! Oh goodie, I was afraid it might just be me! ;P
Just a note - I didn't provide values for the stones and jewelry and trade goods here - because I'm rather assuming that you basically stripped everything that looked valuable, then used DM to figure out what was extra-snazzy, passing it around if needed if there was a failed identify.
Technically, since I don't think any of you have profession hunter or tanner, without appraise you wouldn't know the value of the hides -- survival will let you skin something, even doing it well, and knowing that they have value, yes, but not the quality and market for resale.
Also, because none of you have appraise, I have at the moment assumed that your actions with regards to the loot have been limited to stripping, detecting, testing weapons, and inventorying stuff to be dealt with later.
In no small part because I also assume your attention is mostly on the blocked burrow. If, on the other hand, someone is planning to try to appraise, or study items to try to figure out their origin/manufacture/etc while still "out on the field", as it were -- please let me know so we can make the appropriate rolls and adjust the passage of time accordingly (either delaying everyone or kicking certain people out of the current discussions).
Hrm,... When conjuring creatures with a template, like Celestial/Fiendish, does speaking THAT language allow you to communicate with them?
Not as difficult at higher levels, when the creatures are more intelligent than a dog or whatever. ;P
Just wondered, Cuz I've always presumed that even if you couldn't communicate difficult instructions, you could give them simple orders, 'Attack', 'Guard', 'Stay', 'Pick up rock',...
;)
It's one of the few losses in PF - the template in 3.x granted the language, so you could learn Celestial and given them orders.
Now, either they auto-attack or you'd need Handle Animal to push them - (or speak with animals) -- otherwise you'd need something like the small elemental from Summon II (and the ability to speak an elemental tongue)
Unless Knowledge (arcana) or Spellcraft will help identify the liquid, there's not much Lani can contribute. She has very few skills, alas!
Sorry for the slow posting. RL has been really busy.
No worries Tirion, RL been kicking me when Im down lately. :P
Stupid RL,... Getting in the way of my FUN time! ;P
I guess that's how to avoid rewriting a whole post. :)
It occurs to me you meant to ask about Kelish, and not Kellid (which isn't a language, but a people who actually speak Hallit). Anyhow, there is a written Kelish tongue (but not Hallit, which is where I went).
I'd actually think staging the combat would be less disguise and more a mix of survival and bluff -- so my suggestion would be that Xia rolls Bluff (bumping her to 18 from the higher modifier), and can be aided by anyone with Survival.
(There could be circumstance bonuses/penalties, of course, if you tried to leave behind evidence, etc.)
FYI, (im trying to remember to post this in all my PBP, but I prolly missed one) ;P
I'm dodging hurricanes. Again. SO I may be gone for a day or three. (At most. I hope.)
So If I 'vanish' without warning, um, wait, THIS is your warning! ;P
Warning is taken - wishing you the best of luck for storms that miss you (and, preferably, lose strength too)
Thx. I made to Okie-Homa fine.
NOW waiting to see what the storm actually does,.... ;P
I will be on vacation from Saturday 10/10 until Monday 10/19. During this time, I won't have much chance to post. GM, please bot me if necessary.
Sahar value study. So. Slow.
Sahar value study. So. Slow.
It would literally take me decades to do anything close to that, and even that's only true if I can assume that I'd eventually luck into something useful à la million monkeys on keyboards.
(Seriously, well done)
Sahar value study. So. Slow.It would literally take me decades to do anything close to that, and even that's only true if I can assume that I'd eventually luck into something useful à la million monkeys on keyboards.
(Seriously, well done)
Sadly, that's preliminary work. Haven't even touched the final piece of paper yet. Art is grueling!
I've never really drawn skin or fabric, so am getting the hang of it. Skin is like flower petals and fabric, oddly enough, is like bone.
(EDIT: And thank you.)
Shocking! putting me to shame with your drawing skills :P
Did you use a picture to base it off? Or just sort of imagination?
Shocking! putting me to shame with your drawing skills :P
Did you use a picture to base it off? Or just sort of imagination?
Pictures, totally. I have no imagination. And we were trained to draw from life first, then pictures. That's 3 years of skill points!
I should try to draw what I had nightmares about last night. >_>
Not that I can draw... At all.... I mean, other than flowers and bunnies to impress a 3-year-old.... But..
I've always said that the inability to upload or link to a custom avatar is my biggest complaint about the fora here (well, other than stability after the "big" outage last year and the more recent flaky gateway things) Maybe it's my own failing, but no matter how many times I read a character's description, I still mentally picture them as whatever 'close enough' thing they grabbed from the list.
Which can also kick immersion in the teeth when you're in multiple parties with the 'same' person or persons, but they're not themselves. ;)
Oladon made an extension that allows you to put your own avatars up, but it's restricted to your browser - nobody else can see what you see. Still, it's a step up!
Nice work Treppa!
Yeah, I can still draw. A little.
SPaceships. ;P
FYI, still stuck in OKlahoma,
Far as I can tell my home should be fine, but has been without power for 4 hours now? (Unusual. I live on a Hospital grid.) :P
DUe to continuing rains tomorrow, and reports of flooded interstates, etc, I probably wont drive home til Sunday now. :(
Just glad you're safe, Rags. Keep it that way.
I might be a little less responsive this weekend myself, what with the (Canadian)! Thanksgiving and all.
Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving then! :)
BTW,
OK, So I'm driving home Sunday.
My house has power, but Im getting a lot of reports that peeps who have power still dont have their cable/interwebs services. So,...
If I 'vanish', thats why. :)
Good luck, Rags. Monday is a holiday for some US folks anyway, so maybe you'll be back online by Tuesday.
Investigations!
I tried to summarize what we've found and speculated about and learned and wondered here in an Investigations section of the Wiki. We have a ton of data picked up piecemeal. Hope this helps organize it and show gaps we need to fill.
Good luck, Rags. Monday is a holiday for some US folks anyway, so maybe you'll be back online by Tuesday.
And 100% of us Canadians, though I suppose I have to use a "royal we" to get the plural.
Investigations!
I tried to summarize what we've found and speculated about and learned and wondered here in an Investigations section of the Wiki. We have a ton of data picked up piecemeal. Hope this helps organize it and show gaps we need to fill.
I thought some of that stuff might end up in the rumours and stories section of the wiki -- but whatever makes the most sense for you guys - it's your space, after all.
Still, seems there are quite a few possibilities.... and you still even haven't had breakfast. ;)
Sorry all — roadtrip yesterday, and slept most of the day today trying to fight off somethin'.
Should be back to mostly-normal posting tomorrow.
Unless there's a major objection, I'll have Merlan's stomach drag you to the tavern for your breakfast in a late post tonight -- I'll allow a bit of last-minute "I do this before before we go eat" retconning - or we can just have those actions happen on a full stomach.
Wow, that was a wonderful scene.
But it was so full of stuff to work with, I dont even know where to begin!
:)
(ALso, I have a headache, so not up to my best tonight. Apolgies) ;P
Why thanks, Rags. I do aim to please.
...and then drive you all mad. ;)
Is it possible to drive someone mad if they are already there?
Sure. It's just a nice scenic round-trip. ;)
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you ca’n’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
Oh great, now I have White Rabbit stuck in my head. :P
Happy to feed your head. :P
I'm trying to ride the free association game to get to Don't Come Around Here No More, but then in mad as a hatter.
Very true - and it's a little tricky, I'm trying to strike a good balance of setting the scene and having things happen without spending a week on breakfast, as it were.
That said, since Taran's generally just hostile grumpy and really didn't get into a "tirade" until the last bit, I didn't think the rest of the scene was too concerning in terms of there being something to respond to, other than a dirty table (though I guess some of you may understand Dwarf, which might change that person's reaction a bit...)
If someone really wants to stop Taran after her little complaint before going through the door, I'm certainly willing to make a small change to the end of that, though she'll probably just let you deal with Norfin.... Who, really, you could speak to at any time. I mean, he's only a dozen feet away, though he is out of sight.
I'm just glad we're rolling again. It was a long pandemic weekend spent (mostly) killing a deathclaw with a pistol.
I'm just glad we're rolling again. It was a long pandemic weekend spent (mostly) killing a deathclaw with a pistol.
Hopefully only baby deathclaws - big ones can even tear through power armour.
No changes needed — and apologies if that came across as a complaint; that wasn't my intent. More intended as constructive feedback and an explanation of why it might take me longer to post a reply than usual. No hard feelings meant (or hopefully earned?). :)
Wasn't taken as a complaint - was just trying to explain my mentality/reasoning in doing that. Certainly no hard feelings in any way. I mean, I'm an evil, nasty GM, sure, but not a fragile or petty one. ;)
(To be fair, some of my concerns about moving things forward may also have been somewhat triggered by the "long pandemic weekend" vibe, as Treppa said.)
Obviously, it's all a work in progress, and I'm sure we'll all get used to preferences (and I'll probably settle down a wee bit about beating the "go" drum -- though, at the same time, 17 levels over PbP is a long-term investment - even as I streamline out a bunch of it).
I'll give people some time to talk amongst themselves and/or plot and/or consume the food that is suddenly much less sketchy before moving towards the after-breakfast and arrival in your rooms.
I'm just glad we're rolling again. It was a long pandemic weekend spent (mostly) killing a deathclaw with a pistol.Hopefully only baby deathclaws - big ones can even tear through power armour.
Nope. The legendary one in Concord. Fusion core was out, minigun was out, grenades out, laser out, shotgun out. Me, leather armor, pistol, much running. And the guy on the balcony yelling advice.
"Come back later when you've leveled up" the game says. Pssshh.
I'm just glad we're rolling again. It was a long pandemic weekend spent (mostly) killing a deathclaw with a pistol.Hopefully only baby deathclaws - big ones can even tear through power armour.Nope. The legendary one in Concord. Fusion core was out, minigun was out, grenades out, laser out, shotgun out. Me, leather armor, pistol, much running. And the guy on the balcony yelling advice.
"Come back later when you've leveled up" the game says. Pssshh.
Yeah, I don't love the way that it starts - between the giving you power armour and that -- although if I recall, there were at least a few other people shooting at it.
I admit that I explored the area around before going to Concord, so I may have been a little higher level - but I was certainly throwing explosives and hoping for the best at the end of that particular battle.
LOL<
yeah Merlan being,... well, ME, there was a lot there to 'work' with, but I figured even those of us who understand Dwarf would probably just let it go... then talk about them amongst ourselves. :P
FYI- Sorry I vanished for a day. Went to Dr yesterday because after 2 weeks ear was bugging me to no end. Yep. Ear infection.
>_<
(SeriouslY?!?! I mean I survive 6-7 months without catching COVID, but get backstabbed by an EAR infection? Stupid body.) ;P
Apparently anti-biotics make me sleepy? :P more likely my body just wanted rest from fighting this infection.