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Sanguinus_Draconis and Ange de la Nuit are in a rough spot because Anna's mother had to finally be disconnected from life support where she aspirated in her trachea tube about a week or so ago. As far as I know, they will be absent from the boards for a while. So they are not having the best run of things. As for myself, I have gotten my anger under control and have gotten past my depression, so I am doing much better. Let me tell you, frontal lobe damage sucks.
Hello everyone, I'm back! Is everyone still up for gaming?! :D
I will post after I get back home today. One of my professors is being sort of a d*** about my absences since I've missed a whole week of college. The way I see it, they can deal with it.
Sorry for not posting everyone. Wrecks will do that to you. I will be posting sometime today. I may get my girl to type, since it might be hard to type with one hand. No worries, I still have both hands! Stupid casts suck. I'm probably rambling a bit due to the pain medicine and for that I apologize. It's almost 5:30 A.M. here, so I will probably go back to bed soon, assuming my blood pressure/sugar/whatever doesn't have to be checked soon. If you would like my cell phone number in case some other crap happens like this, please PM me. I can include pictures of the wreck, if you ask me for them. Anyway, I do sincerely apologize for massive inconvenience that I have put you all through with this. As a note, Sanguinus_Draconis will be returning soon, hopefully, but he has decided to drop the games he is a PC in. I will try to find a replacement for him, so no worries. EDIT: The last sentence is irrelevant to this campaign. Sorry, just did a blanket message for my campaigns.
I will be at a couples luau tonight with my girlfriend, so expect a post late at night or early tomorrow morning!
Ok, I'm back! It looks like we've all had a weird time of things the past week or so. Getting popped with a project due after Spring Break and the dorm net being down before Easter kind of threw me for a proverbial loop. That said, I am ready to begin! Out of curiosity, is there any among you willing to be a leader? I will direct Lady Satha's attention to you if so. If not, she will name her foppish majordomo as the expedition leader.
I will be absent from the boards today, due to an awesome party that is occurring tonight. I will try to post in the early morning hours for you all!
The Baroness responds to Tazennin, "That is better, my pet, much better! It feels good to be in one's proper place, does it not?" Lady Satha purrs out, "Oh, but of course every subject is valuable to me in some form or fashion. Some are valuable in how expendable they are. I do not particularly care how many must be sacrificed to take the city if need be, although I would PREFER casualties to be minimized. More living subjects means more tribute sent up the chain of command, no? As for how long it takes, just get it done as soon as possible, as efficiently as possible. I hope this will not be an issue?"
She motions to the group, "Is any among you willing to take this man's place as leader of the expedition? I have lost any faith in him being able to competently lead this expedition. Perhaps one of the ladies wish to speak up? Don't be shy!
I'm sure our resident bard would step up! She seems the type that would.
I remember what you said, I am just roleplaying her accordingly. She likes subjects who are polite, subservient, and capable, hence her answer to your question. I am curious as to who will step up.
Lady Satha's eyes narrow as she responds to Tazennin, "Reward? Yes, that is quite appropriate, I suppose. Tell you what, if you succeed you may remain my subject and NOT be fed into the mushroom slurry pits and be made into food for our Kobold slaves. My offer is most generous to you, yes? If you do exceptionally well, I might even give you your very own Svirfneblin slave to change your chamberpot!" She lets out a light chuckle, a smile drawn across her lips like a wicked dagger. Lady Satha straightens up at Kolaiah's questions, "Ah, so at least one of you has some manners after all. It is most pleasing to see someone who knows their place!"
She looks around, "Was there anything else?"
You're raising him right, Kolaiah! I can approve such parenting. :) Hey Hurkkagg, pets are children too! As one of my exes once said, they're our 'fur babies'!
POST UP! The '5-15 minutes' took a little longer than expected, due to a few reasons, but I hope the result is good!
As you approach the throne room, two Drow bodyguards, dressed in ornate armor and wielding a tower shield etched with runes in one hand with a wickedly barbed spear in the other, eye you suspiciously, as if waiting on you to make a false move. One of them turns and pushes open the large black doors, motioning for you to go through. You walk through the doors and take in the sight before you. This large and imposing chamber is composed of black stone walls as barbed and baroque as the exterior of the tower. The ceiling rises to a high vault, twenty feet above the tiled floor wherein stand almost a dozen fully armored Drow warrior.. The room is ringed by high friezes adorned with imagery of the Drow standing victorious over a wide variety of enemies: Elf, Duergar, Deep Gnome, Aboleth and others. Against the western wall is a throne made of jet and crimson stone, adorned with demonic iconography. Above the throne is a stylized image of a great drow metropolis and a carving that reads “Mighty Taaryssia, forever triumphant”. Sitting upon the throne is Lady Satha, reclining upon the throne like the queen she imagines herself to be. While ravishingly beautiful, possessing all the sinful curves and elegant features of the typical Drow noble, she only wears a relatively modest silver dress and only has a few pieces of tasteful jewelry done in black mithril, etched with silver and encrusted with rubies. It is obvious that she no longer has complete access to her family's coffers, even if she is likely wealthier than every person in Vothys combined. She converses with the scantily clad servant at her side, who is wearing little more than a simple spidersilk shift, before turning to speak to you in a seductive, yet thoroughly mocking, tone, “Ah, so you have finally arrived, my subjects! I have an errand for you which, I trust, should be well within your capable hands. Let me be blunt: the Deep Gnome quarrytown of Fasturvalt has two things I desire – stone and slaves, both in ample supply. You will seize them for me. I have assembled an army of a hundred fine warriors, which I put them under your command. That should be more than enough soldiers to brush aside their pitiful defenses. Even better, my spies have confirmed that their ruler, Lord Geirni, is a simpleton who believes he can placate us with treaties and supplications. To say that the man is a moron is to do a disservice to the word, because he has all the political savvy of lump of stone, only half the subtlety, and once sold a royal title to a commoner for a box of surface sweets! How ridiculous is that?." She motions to her servant, who nods and picks up a small box made out of some dark fungal planks with a bit of lacquer on them, who then steps forward to you all and opens the box, revealing three small, intricately cut gemstones that glow like fire, as well as six flasks of some green vicscous substance. “My generosity at gifting such knowledge and tools for use in this task does not cease there, however. I have a few gifts for you. These jewels Zohjii are giving you have the power to summon forth small beings of elemental fire for about a minute, or so I’m told by our alchemist, such matters are a tedious bore to me. You can either shatter them and command the elementals directly or set them as traps. Amusing little toys to be sure. You can use them to burn the burn the Svirfneblin armory and it should make it easier to deal with them, since their weapons and armor would be quite useless if burnt and melted into slag or, if things go skyward , have a few walking fountains of flame to help incinerate the little insects. The potions I had placed in the box will keep you in good health, for I would be positively mortified if something happened to your lovely persons. See how much I care for you, my honored subjects?” she finishes with a smirk. Lady Satha leans to the right, resting her elbow on the throne and her chin open her closed hand, "So, do any of you have any questions before you embark on this great quest for your Baroness and for Taarysia? Make it quick, because I have a few 'distractions' waiting for me in my private quarters that I am eager to get to."
Xodar, FOUR days of labor?! I'm sure you all are exhausted! Congratulations! Kolaiah, that shirt, and the baby in it, are just too precious! Does his grandparents do the whole old-school cheek-pinching? Since posting has slowed down tremendously, I am going to assume PC interactions are done and am going to post in like 5-15 minutes. :) EDIT: I might be getting a PS4, Infamous: Second Son, and Thief for $250! My buddy is wanting some money to finalize the move with his girlfriend and is selling his stuff! Pretty awesome if I do say so myself! The me getting all that for so cheap part, not because he has to sell it obviously. :)
I hope everything went well though. When everyone has their fill of feeling out each other's characters, let me know and we can proceed.
Cool stuff! Hope your day at the hospital goes exceedingly well, Xodar! Perhaps you will have a little screaming bundle of joy by day's end!
In case you have read the book and know the intro, yes I changed it to accommodate for more roleplay. You can almost never go wrong with more roleplay!
Long have you lingered in this frontier outpost, forsaken and forgotten. You have, at last, been summoned before the Baroness, Lady Satha of Vothys, and immediately can tell that it is a trap, having seen her summon countless others to her throne room that have never returned. But would you dare disobey her summons? Rumors have been swirling around the outpost for weeks now that the Svifneblin town of Fasturvault has fallen under the Baroness' envious eyes, given the number of inquiries sent forth and forward scouts that have been coming and going for months. So maybe she has legitimate cause for calling you after all... maybe you have been chosen for the task of annexing the Svirfneblin city. You hope so at least, so you can get away from the boring backwater outpost that is Vothys. And so you choose to put your head into the figurative noose and make your way to the throne room. You wonder along the way, as you pass through halls lit by rocks ensconsed in the glossy black stone walls that shed a crimson light, if she does send you on such a task, will the only thing that greets you upon your return be a sharp blade to the back or a poisoned meal? Given her past record of discarding tools shortly after using them, you are certain of that. Regardless, you decide to go hear her out, for to refuse means certain death. As you walk among the glossy black stone hallways of Vothys, you encounter some of your compatriots, or at least those that seem the least likely to knife you in the back for petty gains.
Crap, I must have missed it! Very well then, time for me to post in gameplay!
Well, I was gone most of the day as well, but kept checking to see if the last confirmation was in.
Just waiting on Tazennin to confirm!
Kolaiah, it's no biggie! Trust me, I'm a wild card GM. :P
Indeed, that is why Razor Coast and Throne of Night were my top 2 picks on what to run on these messageboards, because they have a lot of roleplay opportunities. If I hadn't already ran Way of the Wicked like 3 times, I probably would have been much more amenable to run it on these boards.
Good point Akor/Maybryn. And yes any of you may apply for Razor Coast, if you so wish.
I did and when it posted, it was all good. Then, when I edited it and added some more, it hit word count and spitted out not even 5% of what I had type.
2/3 complete! Also, I apologize if I get terse and clipped with any of my comments for the night. My text in the Razor Coast campaign I am recruiting for just got cut from about 20 pages of setting material material to about 2-3 paragraphs because of a word count problem and I'm quite angry about it. They should at least have some option to undo those changes if there is an issue with the Wordcount or maybe even a warning before proceeding! I want to seriously just /sunder the whole notion of word count with a +999 bastard sword of 1,001 apocalypses and 333 incurable STDs that has a gallon of pit fiend poison on it and has been lit on fire with radioactive napalm.
I know Kolaiah. So, that's probably 1/2 of you done by tonight. Excellent!
I'm just waiting on everyone to give me the word that they are finished revising stats, backgrounds, ect to begin. No rush, of course! *Brandishes hot iron poker for a moment for all to see before pocketing it in a fireproof bag of holding*
Congratulations Xodar! As I stated before, situations like that need no posting on the day that they happen, so don't worry about it.
If all things go according to plan, you will be in a good spot for the auto-piloting of your character.
Gott kvold, Akor'maybryn! Get eg findig glas af hvitvini? Sorry for the off characters and missing symbols, my keyboard is Engrish-only! Kolaiah, you have no idea how amusing I found that!
Xodar, your stats are fine formatted as is. It is not necessary to include the stats in your entry, although it would save me probably a grand total of 5 seconds if you format it similar to Kolaiah, Hurkkagg, Tazennin, or Faeryl. Mostly your saves, AC (Touch and Flat-footed), HP, Initiative, Perception, and Darkvision range are what would be great timesavers. Kohlaiah, why do I picture you talking in a traditional Southern preacher voice? :P Hurkkagg, that is great, because I love that in roleplay! 'Snik da Dwur'='Stab the Dwarf'!
Ok, so everyone has dotted the gameplay thread and is now listed. So far there is one post notifying me that they are 100% ready, so that is 1/6 complete.
*Casts Detect Poison, uses Dispel Magic, and uses Purify Food and Water on the wine* "Cheers, Salacious! To your health!" One can never be too careful with those Drow! Lurkers, feel free to lurk about the thread and observe the campaign! Fighting Chicken, the thread WILL be up today! Sashin, I'm sorry. The final decision was EXTREMELY difficult to make, if that is any consolation whatsoever.
A GM could scarcely ask for better PCs! Hurkkagg, that may have been the point, though one may wonder, yes? :P Everyone make a post and confirm that your character is 100% finalized whenever it is so. Anyway everyone, I'm about to go get some sleep in a few minutes. Pleasant dreams!
Here is the OOC discussion thread!
Ok all ye would-be conquerors of the Azathyr! The time of selections of nigh and the eternal darkness of the land below engulfs the thread! Who will be left standing after the horrors of the Azathyr have their way? Keep in mind that this list was, most definitely, NOT an easy one to finalize! There were so many good applicants that it was nearly impossible to select only 6. And I am aware that I initially stated selecting 4-5, but I decided that there simply must be one more PC! Those of you not selected, I hope to see you all in my upcoming Razor Coast recruitment, because you all are great writers and are just the sort of PCs I look for in games! Slot one... ME! Because I'm the GM, obviously! How can the campaign be run without moi? Now, for the PC slots! 1. Zahir with Koliah, servant of the Ruby Prince whose word is Tyranny itself! 2. JAFO with Faeryl Dusk, child of two worlds and two dark bloodlines! 3. Black Dow with Hurkkagg, deadly and unflinching right hand of his mistress! 4. Sixteenbiticon with Tazennin, renegade soldier of fortune! 5. Joey Virtue with Xodar, disciple of the Order of the Jet Star! 6. Drayen with Akor'maybryn, poised hand of dark vengeance! And there is our group! I'm quite interested in seeing how the interparty dynamics work, especially with such divergent beliefs and lifestyles! This will be an interesting exercise in how Drow make their society work, albeit on a microcosm. Those of you selected, finish up your backgrounds and such, for soon you march to CONQUER!!! EDIT: Those selected, remember to dot the gameplay thread!
Since there is much clamoring for it, the selections will be done VERY EARLY on Wednesday morning, likely 2:00-3:00 AM EST. Those selected will have time to finish their characters. Sound reasonable?
PG-13 is just my way of saying keep it light on the details. There's no need for a 2,000 word description of how a Gnome was flayed, because many people, a category which does not include myself, squick out about graphic depictions of torture. As well, there are some things, like rape, that should not even be used in a campaign. My old PCs even shied away from things such as that last subject even when they were doing an evil campaign and using the Book of Vile Darkness to get a lot of their crunch from and trust me, they were EVIL! Some things are just less tasteful in an environment like PBP unless everyone has worked out that they are ok with it. If you want to add a torture scene or even a (consensual) sex scene, you can spoiler it. As for licentious talk, that is nothing to even consider blocking really, unless it somehow gets awkward. I usually do not put a PG-13 rating on campaigns, as I am fond of incorporating mature subject matter tastefully, but in an evil campaign it can get out of hands with all the ids (I know Freudian theorem is discredited, but you get the point,) running rampant. As a seasoned PBP GM, I have seen it get REALLY uncomfortable, so I try not to let it go that far. Just thought I would clarify that it does not necessarily mean that PCs have to be Saturday-morning cartoon villains, but that PCs are expected to not make each other feel uncomfortable.
Did you post before the cut-off date for applicants? If not, then unfortunately, recruitment is closed. Also, good PCs would be VERY hard to play in this AP and would slip to evil, or at best neutral, very quickly.
An interesting point Kolaiah, but not all mobsters were that way. There are far too many examples of the 'mad dog mobsters' to portray them, to a man, as the Corleones. This is coming from a man who had relatives in the mafia/mob. There were many that were otherwise upright people who just happened to be mobsters, but unfortunately, the bad seeds ruined that image by going on kill sprees, being needlessly cruel, and such. That is pretty much the image most people get when they think of it, even if I disagree. Hence my response was primarily keyed to the image that they have, not necessarily the reality and that depicted in movies like The Godfather. One day, I may link the 'Cosa Nostra: The Young Turks of Mia Famiglia' campaign, which was a great d20 modern campaign where the PCs were up and coming mobsters back in the golden days before everything went downhill for the Mob. The interactions were interesting and between the babbos mucking up good schemes occasionally and a comare of one of the PCs turning snitch after she found out his real job, it was full of interesting complications, especially since one of the characters had a crisis of faith along the way! Eventually, the PCs claimed the positions of Don, Capo Satto, and Capo, becoming the leaders after an intense shadow war went on that ended with most of the higher-ups being slaughtered. It was a GREAT campaign! And yes, I'm a shameless old-school mafia fanboy! Tirion, that sucks to hear how real life was for you this weekend, but it was wonderful for me because of the Dragons of Tarkir Prerelease and all the good cards I got from it. I sincerely wish you a much better upcoming week!
Will do, Arcanic Drake.
Redblade8, I would say so, because they're almost as a rule vicious, greedy, power-mongering psychopaths in one form or another. Arcanic Drake, you did not make it in time for the cut-off for new applicants, BUT I am creating a Razor Coast campaign, so you may apply with the Occultist there after I finish getting the recruitment ready.
No rush! *Brandishes a red hot poker to force a bit of haste into applicants* :P
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