Pasha's Epic-Level Coliseum Morpheuon Campaign

Game Master Pasha of the Nightsands

@Arc Zeon, Meadyri, Vulpiano: Thoughts on my previous question? No rush, just wanted input to help figure out which approach to go with moving forward.

Generally speaking, 48hrs should be enough for me. The only times that won't be the case is when I have busy weekends. Last weekend was one such, and this weekend might be too. *Sometimes* that carries over into the following Mon/Tues(albeit rarely), but should usually be good otherwise.

Seems like the general consensus is more or less yes. I'll leave it a bit open for now in case Maedyri and Arc Zeon have different stances. Well, time for me to hop in and post then!

Sorry, got distracted by my dog barking and I had to take her out for a walk, then I got a bit hungry and decided to fix some food after getting back in the house. Hence the two hours between posting here in discussion last and posting in gameplay.

48 hours is fine. Always best to focus on continuance of the game over all else.

I also have to apologise for the lack of posting, I had a couple bad weeks irl.

48 hours is fine.

Fair enough! Just wanted to make sure everyone was fine with it since we've yet to discuss that sort of thing in an official capacity. So it looks like the '48 hour for everyone to post before we move on' rule is in effect universally.

@Maedyri: I understand how things can go sometimes, so no worries. Hopefully everything is going better for you now. Just let me know if you ever need me to bot Maedyri for a few days while you decompress things.

Why did I make it take so much work to come up with how The First Flame speaks?

Oh right, because it's fun too. XD

@Vulpiano, Arc Zeon: Sorry about moving forward before you two had the chance to introduce yourselves, I just figured it was the best course of action to keep help things run smoothly. If there's an issue with it, I can edit something in a spoiler.

@The First Flame: Hey, I'm enjoying it! I'll admit that it does make in-character communication a little odd, but I generally like odd things, so I'm not complaining.

Sorry, very busy, but very awesome weekend. I'll make an intro post momentarily. You can just post any sort of reply in a spoiler in your next reply, if you feel ya need to.

Also, would it be okay to assume Vulpiano is pretty much always taking 10 on Knowledge checks, unless I say otherwise? I have the Eidetic Recollection talent.

That would give him a static 58 on all Knowledge checks, save for History which would be a 62.

@Vulpiano: That's fine. While a roll would normally be a necessary formality, you choosing to Take 10 allows us to bypass that. Anything higher than 58, or 62 for History, you will need to roll on as normal though. Realistically, that means you passively succeed on about 75% of all the Knowledge checks in this game without having to roll a single die, which is pretty nifty in my book.

Also, don't worry as much about having a busy weekend. Most of us have had at least one week where we kind of dipped for a few days since the game started.

Just FYI, I'm leaving on an extended vacation tomorrow morning, and I'll be away from my computer for almost two weeks. I will have my phone and I will try to keep up with what happens in my games, but I may be less engaged than usual. My apologies in advance for any slowdowns. :)

I'll probably give things another 24 hours or so, after which I'll assume everyone steps through the portal unless otherwise noted.

@Duskashae: No worries! Enjoy your vacation.

*bump*

Guys, I left a private message for Pasha. Hopefully he will see it and post further.

Unfortunately Pasha doesn't seem to have posted anywhere on the boards since May 28th. Hopefully they're doing okay.

In happier news I got some art of The First Flame. :)

Alright everyone, let me explain where I've been, where things are at, and my plans moving forward.

Let's start with where I've been. A family member of mine developed a rather serious issue with osteomyelitis (hopefully I spelled that right) which is basically a serious bone infection. It began when their toe began swelling up and turning purple in the course of a single day. I had it in my head to post and let everyone know what was up that night, but obviously didn't do so. What followed was the bone infection causing things to turn necrotic, a (comparatively) mild case of sepsis, and emergency surgery. I've been with my family member nearly this whole time and, since getting back, have had to basically catch up on everything I've missed and help them out as well. It's been physically and mentally exhausting experience, and I honestly just haven't had the energy to do much of anything besides sleep.

Now let's get into where things are at. I've mentally processed everything that's been on, got most of the duties I had to assume handled, and have gotten things mostly stabilized. There are still three things that need doing before I can get back into the groove of things: cutting up and disposing of two trees that were uprooted and fell in the yard during the storms a few weeks ago, fixing my home air-conditioning unit that sprung a leak somewhere (hopefully the refrigerant line and nothing more major), and replacing my well motor which has been slowly petering out and making popping noises whenever it pumps water (I have determined that it is NOT air in the lines or a dirty filter, so it's probably the whole motor). I can see now why one of the most reviled curses in the East is, "May you live in interesting times". That will take a few days at least, though I can't really give a clear time table because I'm certainly not a trained professional at handling any of those three things.

Now, for where we go from here. I'm still willing to GM, assuming you guys will still have me. I know I screwed up big time not letting people know what's been going on and I don't know how to remedy that, but I want to try and make it right by pushing forward and delivering the experience I intended to before all of this. I would, ideally at least, like to see about maybe finding a way to allow us to communicate so you guys have a direct line to me in case life throws more curveballs my way; probably Discord, although I haven't used that app in so long that I'll probably need to make a new account for it.

I've greatly enjoyed my time here as your GM despite us not having even reached the first combat yet. You folks are all great and your characters are absolute cinema. My absence has hit you guys the hardest and seeing the concern, well-wishings, and such in my messages has been a humbling, moving experience. It sounds dramatic and overly sentimental for as short a time as I've known you all, I know, but it's how I feel about things. I do still want to continue on; to let you guys sail across the radiant waters of the Slumbering Sea, to guide you through the incense-filled alleys of the Tarnished Souk, to run things like the a naval battle on brazen triremes in the Molten Sea surrounding the City of Brass or the race against time to secure the crystalline codex of a dead world before it is reclaimed by the Void.

So what say you? Will you take a chance on this fool of a GM once more?

So what say you? Will you take a chance on this fool of a GM once more?

YES!!

Ooof, I was afraid it was some kind of family emergency. :( No worries about not giving us notice, it's hard to think about anything else when something like that is going on.

I'm certainly still excited to play The First Flame!

Very glad things seem better, and that we can continue! I'm absolutely onboard to keep playin the good(evil) Doctor, lol

I'm still down to play, if you're still down to GM.

Thanks guys, that's excellent news!

I'm honestly glad that we've got a minimum of 2/3 of the group who's fine with continuing on already. I'll admit that I was worried enough time had passed that people had kind of buried the campaign in their mind. But you all banished that particular anxiety I had, and in spectacular fashion, I must add.

Like I said, I'll probably need a few days just to get everything pulled together around here. At bare minimum I need to fix the AC unit since it regularly hits 90 degrees farenheit around here this time of the year and it's been miserable the few days I've been back. Running the computer makes it even hotter in here. But I am 100% down to resume GM duties once that and the well are fixed. Ideally I'll have the trees cut and moved by then, but if not, those are much less of a problem in the pyramid of needs since they're mostly just an eyesore and didn't hit anything but grass, dirt, and red clay, which I'm quite thankful for.

I'm willing to keep playing too, GM!

Wait we're not dead?

Woooooo! Party hats for everyone.

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