I'm doing better, in some sense, Randall. My medical issues caused me to have to quit my job, but I'm surviving. Have to admit, the Discussion thread has provided me with quite a number of laughs.
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He's very good at trying to kill characters. I know from past experience. Sometimes the characters even help him along with the process.
No dying! I'm the only one allowed to die! Says so in the fine print!
Just wanted to pop in and wish a happy holidays to you all and hope you all have a great new year. Maybe at some point I'll be able to join in a game with you all again.
Hey folks. Just wanted to update and let everyone know I'm alive, that soon I may have a new job with better hours and wages and everything; health hasn't improved at all; marriage is finally at an end (she's moving out on Friday & we'll be signing final paperwork early next week). So...maybe one day I'll rejoin this crazy bunch of gamers.
Huggy Boo Boo? But yeah...life's gonna be changing again, at some point.
I've had ups and downs. I need to find a whole new job that's completely different from the one I'm in, because working 50+ hours a week and having health issues...not good. I do have a doctor's appointment that's in October, that should get me a true diagnosis. It's frustrating, and I don't think it's going to work out right as far as my job. So I just...I don't know.
Hairball is only allowed to totes be a cavalier, if they totes goats.
So, more updates! Saw the lung specialist and I have adult onset asthma. He also did an X-ray and showed me that my pain is heightened (but not caused) by my spine being completely straight from tailbone to about my shoulder blades and then it drastically curves forward. AND since he's part of the same medical group as my GI specialist and my regular doc, he told me that there's inflammation in the biopsies. So....it sounds like its a real good chance of Crohns. So asthma and I should know 100% about the Crohns on the 15th.
Well, folks, got my tests done today. They gave me a bit of info on it before I left today. They've done some biopsies of my intestines, as well as an ulcer they found in the lower GI test. The only thing they've found (as possible) is that there's like a 20% chance of Crohn's. They're gonna, of course, test everything they biopsied, and I'll be seeing them again on the 15th. So, at least I'm on solid foods again! Yay!
Yet another update. GI specialist appointment tomorrow at noon EST. Here's hoping for a diagnosis. And dang do I miss being on here with you lot.
Well, good news! It's NOT a heart attack. They sent me home, but told me to go right to my general practitioner. They did a breathing test and APPARENTLY my airways are restricted (I was wheezing), so they did a breathing test. ...And I failed it horribly. Good news is they gave me a breathing treatment in the office and tested again. Still failed, but my lung function was double what it had been before. So I'm on an inhaler for two weeks, at which point I go back to the doctor, and they do another breathing test to see. They also told me I'm off work until Sunday, and that I'm required to take it easy at work, for the next two weeks. So that's a plus. But yep, so I'm alive!
Just updating you all. I got released this morning after a heart attack scare that led to an ER visit, and now I'm at my main doctor. -shrugs- Not sure what's going on, except that it at least Wasnt a heart attack, so that's a plus.
Our dear leader can definitely describe the benefits of Mad Monkeys. >.> Just sayin.
Then he'd be halfling sized!
So...I've had some serious talks with our friendly DM Oladon, and I've had to come to a difficult decision. As some of you may know, I've been experiencing some major life issues, work issues, and health issues, and they are taking their toll in every sense imaginable. It is with a heavy heart, then, that I'm going to have to drop out of several PbPs, this one included in that group. I'm just not able to keep up, and I know that I've been dragging the group a bit, so I'm going to kindly bow out. Oladon, it's up to you whether I continue through this combat, or whether Antal just dies. I want to say, though, that I have had such a wonderful time with you all, in this game and in the previous game. I hope that, at some point down the road, I can return during another AP and really have the energy to enjoy it all.
I'm probably not gonna be posting today, on any game. Pain levels are really high today and I've got a long ass work shift.
Fighting off the confuzzlement, Antal grows quiet, his entire body wreathed, momentarily in the chill of the darkness between the planes. With great swiftness, the cold shroud appears on the strange creature, surrounding it and freezing all it touches.
Antal growls low, getting into good position for slinging his curse at the thing first.
Antal growls low and decides to give the thing a taste of its own medicine and fires a bright beam of life at the creature.
Antal grimaces at the burning pain, trying to shake the spit from his eyes as he draws the cloak of darkness around himself. It is then that he stumbles back, trying to get away fromt the creatures.
A multi-hued field of energy surrounds the grinning halfling, as he prepares for the creatures before them.
"But if we run, they'll be at our backs."
I definitely need to look into some AOE options as well, cause I've felt myself useless when it comes to several fights.
Antal shivers, thinking of the bugs. "I, for one, will be struggling to sleep, after all of those crawlie...things..."
I may need to be NPC-Ed until tomorrow evening because of hectic work schedules.
Antal retches at the feel of the nasty bugs all over him, as he too bravely runs away away. "Oh gods...disgusting! Worse than the time we saw Njord naked!" The bugs tear at his flesh and leave him barely standing.
I am crashing, folks. It was a rough night, physically, and a rough day too...:( Thankfully this weekend I'll be able to do a lot more, but right now...gods...I'm all kinds of hurting. Bed and a half ton of pain meds, here it come.
Antal thinks of taking a step back, but realizes there is no choice in this matter. The little halfling's hand flares up with dark, necrotic energy as he reaches out to touch the troglodyte.
[ooc]Edited, cause I had a special moment.
Antal groans, feeling horribly ill from these creatures, as he reaches out at the trog, his fingers cloaked in deep chill.
Antal grimaces, feeling the severe burn of the acid across his skin. His eyes close for a moment, and when he opens them again, those same eyes are bright and glistening like gems. His hair glistens and shines like silver now and his chuckle is almost like celestial music. A slight swirl of color goes over his skin, as he stretches. "Now the real battle begins."
Antal coughs but continues on, knowing that now is the time to try and take this creature down. His hand reaches out, this time cloaked in dark, necrotic energy as he tries to take this creature down a peg or two.
Antal's hand glows angry red, the mace in the monster's grip turned the same heated red, the metal radiating palpable heat.
After being crispy fried, Antal's hair stands wildly on end and his body shivers. The little halfling raises a quivering, scorched hand, and a bright white ray shoots from his hand. [/ooc]As long as there's a clear path for the ray to go.[/ooc]
Antal grimaces, checking his own wounds. "Tell me about it. Even my abilities had a dang hard time on these things. Disgusting and tough. Not a good combination. Kind of like a mother in law." He taps himself with his own wand twice, and then rechecks the wounds.
Ouch. Good luck.
Just got off from work...In pain and symptoms flared....Today sucks....
Antal decides its time to step in and close the gap, his hand now wreathed in the icy cold grip of the void. He reaches out to strike the skeleton that the group seems to be targeting, striking with precision.
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