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I'll be away for 48 hours--hold the Spire until I return!
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FYI, I'm away again this weekend--role-playing a search & rescuer through eight scenarios--but when I return covered in fake blood, I'll be ready to roll some (virtual) dice!
You are always off doing fascinating things. Hope it is fun. :)
Agreed with Zharis here, sounds fascinating.
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GM Jhaeman is solely responsible for keeping Australia from sinking beneath the sea.
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Hello everyone, folks!
It's been a long time, guys, more than two months. I apologize for such a disappearance. I've always said that this can't happen to me. And every time I've said "never" in my life, life itself "taps me on the nose" and shows me that "never say never».
Roughly speaking, there were two emotionally difficult moments in my life that happened at the same time. One is breaking off the engagement and canceling the wedding (on my initiative). The other is the sale of my parents' house, the place where I grew up. The place where I remember my parents alive and young, and whose walls still bore the marks of my childhood vandalism. The second was a long and difficult process. Take the parent library to the warehouse, sort out the mother's things and give something to charity, then find a buyer and prepare a bunch of all sorts of documents, and so on and so on… Well, the first one added fuel to the fire, and so I emotionally burned out and shut down for a couple of months, and I had to put a lot of important areas in my life on pause. Including the PbP. I just didn't have the strength to do anything else, the internal processes consumed all the energy. However, meditation and psychotherapy work wonders, and now I'm back in the ranks.
So. If my slot is not occupied yet, I would discuss with you the possibility of my return. There is a serious nuance here. I can play with you for two weeks, and then I'm going away for a month on a retreat, yoga and meditation, and I'll be there completely without communication. After that, I would join the game again (I think I've already left like this a couple of times during this campaign, it just used to be for 2 weeks). And here, of course, the question is whether you need a player who first disappeared for 2.5 months, then appeared for two weeks and disappeared again for a month. The answer "no" would be pretty fair. But if the answer is "yes", then I'm ready to come back. I love this story and I would be sorry not to know how it ends (no matter how many years it takes). I plan to stay in just two campaigns for now, including this one, which I've been playing for several years, and finish all the other PbP games until I'm sure that everything in my life has improved enough to withstand the previous PbP load.
Well... Anyway, I'm glad to post here again .)
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I will leave any decision up to the GM, but as for me, I would be happy to have you return. And glad you got through some real-life trauma okay.
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@Tulgram: Great to have you back! Yes, you're more than welcome to rejoin. I've put you into Gameplay. Long story short: the group has ascended to the top of the Spire and are battling it out, with the psychic resonator in the center of the room, a salamander and fire giant in the way, and a dragon flying around outside battling anassanois Protector chariots. If you have questions on anything to get caught up, we'll happily help. Sorry the past couple of months have been so hard for you, and I'm glad you made it through. (and no worries about going away on your monthly retreat--we'll just assume that curse Tulgram is suffering from has nasty side-effects)
@Everyone: It was great fun, and the team certainly learned a lot. We didn't win (it was a rescue competition), but on the plus side, we didn't *really* accidentally kill anyone role-playing an accident victim either :)
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Thank you, GM Jhaeman! I read your message and involuntarily a smile appeared on my face! I am very inspired and extremely grateful.
Zharis, thank you too .)
@Tulgram: You're very welcome! You're up in Gameplay :)
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Ir would be hard for xylian to be the only PhD on the expedition
- Giant Bear, PhD
- A celebrity
- A fanatical cultist
- Massive armor and a supped up hailcannon.Certainly a group we have.
Ahem.
Yes, Tulgram, glad to have you back. Can you break curses?
- Former slaver/doctor duergar.
No one noticed how Tulgram, who seemed to have gone to guard the escape route, came back. He could talk about a lot that happened from below. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion bright as magnesium... C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate... But now his comrades are very busy, and not only at the molecular level, but also on a more explicit level.
It's not that Tulgram didn't particularly like giants. This is the problem of the light dwarves, damn them, our guys mostly had complaints about drow and troglodytes. But... When you can hurt a big guy, why not?
It's not pleasant to be cursed, but it's better than dying like that, isn't it, boy? Tulgram thought about this as he delivered a painful blow to the giant's kneecap and sprayed a poisonous chemical there, causing the big man to grimace in pain, receiving more blows from the biohacker's allies.
Once upon a time, a knee injury put an end to Tulgram's wrestling career, and a giant knee injury will lead to truly gigantic consequences in his life.
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PS
- Former slaver/doctor duergar.
There are no former drug addicts slavers, there are only drug addicts slavers in long-term remission.
"There's no such thing as former slavers, only current ones, and dead ones." might be a line she spouts if she gets the chance. The concept is fine to bring up, just I'm playing someone very viscerally opposed to it. Not even on moral grounds even, just because it's pure unfettered law.
Man getting into the weird mindset she must have aside from linguistic obsession has been a blast lmao.
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Hi, guys. I'm already on retreat, and I'm giving my phone away tomorrow. See you in a month.
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Intermittent posting for a few days, I'm off to experience the exotic wonders of . . . Utah.
Ha ha. I am in Utah now. We do have some cool national parks. :)
But they’re presently employee-less, right? :)
Oh, yeah, probably. But that doesn't necessarily mean they are closed.
Heck. There might be a range increment or two since she's using the frost projector. She'll smartly keep to her rifle when the dragon is that far.
I'm back, I'll read 66 new messages for me within a day, and I'll be ready to return to the game as soon as it's convenient for the GM (no rush with this, we can wait for the logical moment).
Xylian has one 1d8 healing serum...
I think Amhesha has a few healing serums? I'd have to check upwards in the thread.
I have a few Mk.1s. I was hoping someone had something more powerful.
I have 5 Mk Is.
I have 12 MK1s, but Tulgram was the only one with anything bigger. Ones we picked up I think. Those giant healing potions cost too much. If you see anything on the loot sheet, it's yours, but I haven't searched it recently.
Cool. That almost tops Xylian's stamina off.
Awww yissssssssss! We might make it boys and girls! So the dargon has taken... 112 damage? Has Amhesha used Miracle Worker yet?
Anyways, we need to get our sniper a laser pointer.
Yeah, anything to improve accuracy on the higher KAC targets is going to help. That's a damn 17 she missed on. 1/4th chance of even hitting the bugger every time.
The one Xylian has is effectively +8 Dex the vast majority of the time. Baddies always have cover.
Does Theo get the temp HPs from our fuzzy captain as well?