Still,... OUCHIES! ;P
Glad you are getting better!
I'm much better, thank you. The bandage contact lens should be removed today, and I can finally see well!
Well, that sounds decidedly unpleasant. Glad it's relatively easily handled and that you're mostly recovered.
*peers around*
Yeah!
Hello?
<echos> Hello,... hello,... hello,...</echoes>
I know MY life is a hot mess right now. (And not JUST because it's friggin SUMMER in the down-south!) ;P
But I hope the radio silence means that everyone is enjoying their summer? And not because of RL (bad) issues??? O_o
FYI, Im having (another) friggin surgery next week, Thu.
(July 11)
Hopefully they wont mess THIS one up like they did the LAST one! >_<
So if I vanish (again) it's just recovery. And/or pain. And not ignoring anyone. :)
Happy week all!
Still kind of waiting for someone to tell me what they're doing so I can adjudicate that.
Waiting for Sahar to interview the healer. Eloen might be making a circuit to look for further clues, pending Merlan saying it's worth doing so.
Sorry, RL has been a little TOO real lately.
Let me re-read the last few posts and see if our chatty-wizzie-wannabe can do a verbal push. :)
SO, before I forget to tell everyone and vanish mysteriously,
Tomorrow, Thursday, I am going in again for another surgical procedure to 'fix' me after the major cancer removal almost 2 years ago now.
This will be the second attempt to 'fix' the issue.
(Here's hoping they dont mess THIS one up!) ;P
It is considered 'minor' and out-patient, but I will be in pain and out of it for a few days at least. And literally not able to sit in a chair for who-knows-how-long. (2 weeks at least)
I will respond and keep myself in the loop as much as possible, but you get a break from my novel-length posts for a while! ;)
Since I'll be out of it, Happy weekend all ! :)
~Rags
Sooo... we still goin'?
Oh I am glad to see a post!
I was afraid maybe the site was acting up again.
(You know, NOT showing new posts on an active thread) :)
I'm still here.
DM, can we make some intelligent assumptions of action to move things along a bit?
I'm here!
(OK, OK, not MENTALLY, but 'Present'!) ;P
RL is kinda bein' a 'pain' (cant actually type those kinda words, they just get !@#$% out) to everyone lately it seems.
Start of University Semester insanity. The usual.
Meaning even MORE of 'the usual' than usual.
It will calm down once we get started again.
A little. MAybe. ;P
I'm starting to worry that our DM has vanished :(
Thats scary,
I thought it was his job to make the PC's vanish! ;P
(Seriously, I hope he and everyone is OK. RL has been handing out beatings like candy at Halloween lately. So I hear.) :(
Sorry, folks. I came in here to post a "huh, where is everyone" only to find that you're looking for me and that I stopped getting updates.
That said - we seem to have the three of you still actively posting, but Treppa has largely vanished and DSX seems to have fallen into a metaphorical pit.
I'm all for moving forward and rebuilding momentum (including by being clever about stuff, as Fiona suggested), but I do worry there's a lack of critical mass here -- so, I'm not really sure what the best next steps are.
Yeah,...
RL stinks, generally speaking. ;P
My own IRL recently (if 'recent' is the last 2 years!) has been a series of 'one step forward, two steps back',
But WITHOUT the attractive singer/dancer and cool animated cat! ;P
I DO hope everyone is ok! (?!?)
I'm open to options. :)
Well, we can either try to follow up on our investigation one scene at a time, or try to grab a fourth (or fifth) player from the small remaining base here on the boards.
I've always liked 5, personally, but that's a me thing.
But if we're going to try to bring in new blood to get things moving, we need to make sure that those of us who are still here want to do that -- that is to say, that they want to continue, that they want to pick up the pace, and that they're willing to change the party composition/dynamics to do so.
Hey, I'll try anything once.
TWICE if I like it! (That's what gets me in trouble,...) ;P
I'm easy, I'm good with whatever we decide, new blood, make sure old hands are Ok and if coming back? all of the above?
Just let me know.
(Character-wise, I'm not entirely certain that Merlan would notice if the tall-folk swapped out. He's mostly looking at their knees after all!) ;P
Tilnar does seem to run fairly complex storylines (from my sample size of two). We seem to be kinda stalled out on this because we aren't sure how to really "prove" that the murder was committed by a faerie instead of by the elf-kin boy, and we keep running into the wall of just not knowing where to look or what to look for.
To be fair, that was sort of what everyone agreed to at the jump (way back when) - of course, people were also posting multiple times a day back then. ;)
In terms of the current situation, I can certainly be more prescriptive about potential things you could do in cases (i.e. - "so, do you want to go in and look for evidence, try to find the trail and track it or go to the loft?") in order to keep things moving, it's generally been more a matter of not wanting to put people on rails/in boxes.
And I Do appreciate the 'not railroading'!
(I like to THINK I'm smart and creative!) ;)
But in PbP, I ALSO really like hints and reminders of what the options are. :D
Sorry about posting fall off, been a REAL 'hectic' IRL recently.
(Putting it politely) >_<
Is it just me? Or does RL seem to be hitting EVERYone in the 'feels' recently?!?
Just me?
Well, other than getting COVID again a few weeks ago, life's mostly ok around here in terms of the actual happenings (well, other than being forced back into the office 4/week. That's less good, too, especially after the promises made over the previous years.. But hey, still not wealthy enough to quit, so what can you do?).
That said, hectic does seem like an apt term, nonetheless.
Well, other than getting COVID again a few weeks ago, life's mostly ok around here in terms of the actual happenings (well, other than being forced back into the office 4/week. That's less good, too, especially after the promises made over the previous years.. But hey, still not wealthy enough to quit, so what can you do?).
That said, hectic does seem like an apt term, nonetheless.
Ooof, sorry to hear that Til.
(From experience, I can verify that the 'Antibody Infusion' DOES work. Like magic. The earlier you get it once you realize you have "C", the faster and better it works.)Yes, my own job is becoming more stressful VERY recently. (SHOULDN'T be, but others seem to be determined to make my life miserable)
I will not lie, it is getting bad enough I am thinking of looking at other job possibilities within the same university system. So I can keep my benefits at least.
I certainly am not rich enough to quit! (If I can just hang on another 2-3 years, I can take retirement, at half my current cruddy income. Yay?!?) :(
'Hectic', Yeah,... I was being 'polite' in my phraseology. ;P
There are other words I would MUCH rather use.
But I'd probably get banned if I tried to type them out here. :D
To be fair, that was sort of what everyone agreed to at the jump (way back when) - of course, people were also posting multiple times a day back then. ;)
In terms of the current situation, I can certainly be more prescriptive about potential things you could do in cases (i.e. - "so, do you want to go in and look for evidence, try to find the trail and track it or go to the loft?") in order to keep things moving, it's generally been more a matter of not wanting to put people on rails/in boxes.
I'm not opposed to "open world" questing, but I feel like we have stalled out on a murder mystery where we are sympathetic to the people involved and we don't want to just up and go somewhere else and leave this village to get divided and conquered. So, we are kinda spinning in circles because we want to help these people, stop the orc horde, and catch the real murderer/prove the innocence of the young farmboy, but we do not seem to have any way to approach any of these goals.
Yes.
What Eloen Said.
Much shorter than how I would have said it. :)
(Aw yes, the drawbacks of playing a Genius-IQ toon, with a
'less-than-genius' RL IQ) ;P
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Hi all. I know I’ve been quiet. Life has been busy, and I don’t check in here as much as I used to.
I think I’m going to continue to have difficulty being here regularly and following the game, so I think it is time that I bowed out.
This has been a lot of fun, and I appreciate everything you have put into it, Tilnar! I am sorry that I am not able to continue.
With the total lack of forward, the vanishing of Treppa and DSX, and now CH bailing...
...that kind of feels coffin-nail-ish to me.
That said, if people feel otherwise and want to try to recruit (and we can figure out a way to make an entry point that isn't a total maze), then let me know -- otherwise, I'll mark this one dead next week.
Well, boo.
Sorry to hear that.
I hope Treppa and DSX are ok?!?
I can see that a lot of folks are not as active as we used to be.
(I blame RL for that!)
I'm sorry. :(
I mean, I want to play, but I don't know what to do at this point, and it feels like nobody else does, either. :(
That's one vote to keep moving - of course, I'd prefer if there were a few more before figuring out the right way to move to a good new entry point.
I agree, I want to play,
but RL has been kickin' my tushie recently. :P
Im open to options, continuing, stopping for a while, shutting it down,
let me know what you think.
Not sure how to move forward if a others have vanished from the boards?
(I mean, other than recruiting again, which almost feels like starting over after almost finishing the first chapter of a RPG video game) ;)
It would require a new recruitment, and skimming forward and sideways enough that new folks could follow along and not be drowning in mystery.
* glub glub *
heh, yeah,...
What, exactly, makes you think that we're NOT already drowning in mystery here? ;P
If I had known we were gonna be playing a murder mystery, I woulda' made one of the Scooby gang!
Probably Shaggy.
As an Alchemist variant w/ the alchemy-powered wagon/vehicle.
The potions and infusions he makes are the scooby snacks. :)
Just a thought,...
Heh. Well, if we manage to snag a recruit, I hope they can make better sense of this all than I can. ;)
Well, it's not like you don't know it was the Quickling, You're just looking for a way to prove it. And it's also not like you don't have access to divination magic that could (potentially) help - even if you'd need to sleep to regain them (or, for that matter, that you mightn't find at least enough evidence that it wasn't the kid either inside the room upstairs or where the body was found).
The actual mystery you folks are facing isn't so much a murder mystery as wondering what's got the orcs worked up - and what's got the townfolk worked up (beyond their natural distrust and generational feeling of abandonment by the folks you represent), now that you're pretty sure that the answer to #2 isn't just the orcs, as the nice people back at the Castle told you (and Rickan thought was the case when he asked for help).
Which isn't to say there's not enough going on to get some nice web-patterns as you connect the pushpins with yarn and try to map things out - but that was sort of the point of this part of the adventure, so that you could all feel good as you (a) nailed the quick little jerk and (b) figured out what was happening and stopped it.
However - all that being said - if we choose to move forward with a recruitment (which I'm not sure there's really enough interest for, nothing against the two of you who are still here, but that's less than half) - we would have to move things forward (or at least diagonally) so that you'd have a better idea of what's going on - something we could do with a few narrative posts (think of them as cutscenes) so that everyone coming in has some solid ground under their feet (though we wouldn't necessarily have the whole bridge built just yet).
Thanks. I think things on my end were hurt by the combination of (1) coming in late so I'm missing context for some pieces and (2) the general slowdown, which made it hard to keep relevant info in my head. I would try to keep going if it's possible, I just feel a little "in the wind," like I know what we want to do, but have no idea how to do it (or even if we can).
LOL, True,
It;s like, we KNOW the butler did it. We just cant PROVE it. Yet. ;P
And I apologize for my often slow posting. , (I know it wasnt just me, but I didn't help)
I think this is one of those scenarios where it would be awesome around the table. But sadly, as good as this plot is, they do not always translate well into PbP.
I thought, maybe it was just me ? I feel like I've been really mentally dragging trying to keep up. And I'm a reader! You'd think this format would be perfect for me to keep track of things in! ;P
(When I have too much time to think, I also tend to OVER-think, and make things more complicated than they really are.) :D
I was (am?) probably still trying to make it more a mystery than it really is. (Scooby gang looking for the realtor/land baron when it's a real ghost!) ;P
Look, PbP's are hard to get rolling, and harder to keep rolling. And RL has just been dishing it out lately it seems.
(Hit me again just today. Lets just say that my son and I are not on best of terms right now) :(
Iam willing to try and keep going. And I won't be offended if we decide to pack it in, or try again later.
Let me know what you want to do.
And let me know if you hear from the others! I mean I know we all drop off occasionally, but vanishing isn't usually like Treppa and the others.
Thx