Yeah, just move it back to active when you're ready to pic things back up again.
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Damn, sad to see you, and the game, go. I'll definitely be here when you are able to pick it back up. Can you mark the game as Inactive until you're ready to start up again?
So what are we going to do with Endrian in the mean time? Ithriel has brought it up in game. Is he now an NPC? Has he vanished? Will he be killed in battle or leave the group? Maybe become an officer in the main unit?
Leon takes the time to replace the heavy stone over the trapdoor before following the others.
Brushing his hands off and tucking the crowbar away into the outside straps of his pack, Leon looks in the direction Tim points. "Hmm. Jevon and and I didn't see anything when we looked around a moment ago. If they were hidden, why reveal themselves now?" Frowning, he nodded to himself. "I don't like the feel of it. How long until the column reaches the position of the smoke? Maybe we can move up on their position unseen and get a look at them. If they are ambushers, we might be able to turn the tables on them."
Leon and Jevon make their way down to where the others are huddled around the trap door. Opening his pack and fishing around for a moment, he pulls out a rolled toolkit and retrieves a well-used crowbar and hands it to Sir Baster.
"Yeah. Glad we're alone out here. Wonder what happened tot he folks that were here before us." With a shrug, Leon followed Jevon back down the hill.
"Nothing beyond the obvious."
You're going to make Jevon cry.
Leon nods and starts up the hill with Jevon.
Leon shrugs at Baster's question. "Honestly, M'Lord, I hadn't ever planned on laying my hands on it myself. I just wanted to help. To me the most important thing is to make sure the wrong people don't get their hands on it. I'm going to walk up that big hill there and take a look over the land. People have been here and may still be camped nearby, but we'd never know from down in there. Feel like joining me?"
My whole life I did things because I was supposed to. It was easy. I knew what things needed to be done because they were obvious. Fields need planting. Crops need harvesting. The cow needs milking. By the time all the obvious things were done there wasn't any time for anything else. Definitely no time to worry about lost crowns and old quests. Now though... What things are obvious to a seer? Do I act on them even if I don't understand them? I want a drink..."
He's an elf. He's a seer. He's my friend. I can't just not trust this. I know he didn't read the book. He just knows... Leon sighed. "Guess it might really be true then. I was kind of hoping it wasn't."
Leon winced at the question and shrugged. "Well my grandfather seemed to think so and taught me a lot of things based on that, but I never really..." Leon stopped mid sentance and stared at the elf. "Wait just a minute... How do you know these things?"
"Of course, Ithriel. What do you need?"
"Looks that way." Leon said with a shrug. "I guess it makes a certain amount of sense. We don't know exactly where the rest of the force is, but we do know where they are headed. Taking the other route might put us behind them if they've made good time. Not real reason not to take the route straight to where we were headed in the first place. It's not like this way is any more or less dangerous than that way, right?"
As a character, Leon would rather take the slow and safe route. That's the kind of guy he is. As a player I think getting swept away by a storm and still managing to get to our destination ahead of the main force is awesome. Story-wise I'd much prefer that. Leon doesn't have much of a sense of direction, so right now he doesn't even know that there even are two choices. If someone he trusts to know where they're going points them down the faster route, he'll probably never know any better. :)
Leon can't help but laugh.
"I can't decide if those two have uncanny hearing or if her voice just doesn't care much about little things like distance..." Leon says quietly to Ithriel.
Leon does not ask. He simply smiles and adjusts the heading of the column.
Me too :)
Leon nods and changes course, not even bothering to ask the blind elf how he knew what direction anything was in, let alone the right one.
"That's an understated way of putting it." Leon says with a half-amused nod. "Adventures seem a lot more exciting when you read them in books. From the inside they're basically just miserable."
Leon walked at the head of the column letting those more suited handle the scouting. He was quiet and tried to keep his eyes scanning the horizon, but he was feeling introspective. If anyone had told me a year ago what my life would be today, I'd have laughed in their face. Hope gone. The farm gone. Traveling with elves and dwarves. Befriending bug-eyed madmenn who command things out of nightmares. Facing dragons. Falling out of the sky. This is madness. What am I doing here? Blinking, he glanced back at Ithriel. How in the world did he figure out where we needed to go to get on track again? He's mostly blind. How'd he even figure out which way north was? I guess that's no more amazing than knitting flesh with a touch. I don't think I'll ever get used to this. Sighing he laughed to himself. Just my luck I finally buy the horse of my dreams and then I'm separated from him the next day. And then I have to walk through the middle of nowhere with a hundred pounds on my back.
"Amazing." Leon says with a grin, only wasting a moment on being impressed before his adaptive pragmatism took in the new situation. Giving a few quick directions to the newly healed group, he pointed out where they had gear and supplies staged to leave. Somberly he looked to Endrian and Ithriel. "I suppose all that's left to do before we leave is hold funeral services."
"Endrian, that is simply amazing." Leon says in awe.
Looking at Ithriel with surprise and a bit of wonder, Leon raises an eyebrow. "You sure? Alright. Can you check the wounded and give me an idea of how long until they'll be able to travel? We need to figure out if we should head to that cave or just build litters now." How could he know which way to go after that storm? I guess it's silly to ask how an elf knows anything. He's an elf. He's probably forgotten more than I'll ever know.
Leon is up at dawn, not bothering with his usual morning practice and exercises. Instead he's busy taking inventory of the supplies that made it through the crash and the storm and checking on the status of the wounded.
Oh Jeeze. Leylyn has Antagonize? I can't decide if this is terrible or amazing...
Leon nodded in agreement. He was obviously exhausted but still stood tall. "It's too dark to move the wounded. We should bed down. I'll take first watch. Who feels like joining me?"
Don't worry about that with me. Everyone has my permission to assume non-combat actions from Leon. He's a pretty helpful guy and I think everyone has a good enough handle on his character to be able to describe him pretty well. Besides, it's really fun to see how other people write you, and what you look like through someone else's eyes.
Leon blinks and shakes his head in amazement, then shrugs. "Well, we didn't get enough done to be able to get away from here tonight, and now it's too dark. We're going to have to stay the night here. That means a double watch all night in case more trouble shows up." "Tomorrow we are going to bury the fallen, haul supplies to the waterline, build shelter and move the wounded. We're camping there until everyone's well enough to travel."
"I think I see movement out there, but I can't make it out. Is that our people or more trouble?"
"I'd be more worried about infection. This thing smells like death."
Leon watches the bear fall for only a moment before turning to face the darkness and looking for other threats. "We need light. Endrian how are you doing?"
More than a week without a polite "I'm out of town" or something like that is pretty unacceptable to me.
wow, we're just cruising right along, aren't we.
Leon recovered from his momentary panic and drew his sword and shield, standing over Endrian's fallen form as the bear towered over them. As Ithriel's healing energy washed over him, knitting up the last of the wounds he had taken during the crash, he steeled himself to take the next hit so others wouldn't have to. Seeing Endrian wake, Leon covered his friend with his shield as he rose, stepping to the side to make room. Driving his sword forward in a powerful thrust, he prayed it would get the beast's attention.
bear stuff Leon has no idea, and as a player I was making assumptions until one of the smart folks corrected me. :)
Dex based characters have little enough going for them as is. No need to nerf one of their few advantages.
I vote no. It's rarely problematic enough to matter.
There's a lot of reasons someone might be too surprised to react properly. The game isn't trying to model them all. The meta-game just decides the basics of how your character reacts. It's up to you to decide and describe why. I'm totally with you in terms of the initiative rules not handling two boxers in a ring who are aware of each other and ready to go. Neither of them should be flat footed, but one of them will be. In this case, I think it's completely understandable for Leon to be briefly paralyzed with fright because of a giant charging deathless bear. The rules aren't trying to treat combat realistically. Not even close. Think about it. When was the last time you thought "with a little more experience I could totally take that bear"? The rules provide a framework for the narrative. They tell you the what, not the why. If you're fighting the rules, you're going to be frustrated a lot. If you get what they are trying to do you can bend them in really impressive ways. I don't mind being flat footed. It makes the story better.
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