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Sorry for the long silence a lot been going on and after getting pinged on Discord I wanted to drop a note in all my games. I'm actually doing a lot better now, pretty much fully recovered. However, my wife has been really sick, last month she was in the hospital for a week and I'm sitting in the surgery center now waiting to see how things turn out on a few hour procedure she is currently in. Depending on how invasive the surgery is I may be dealing with a lot for at least a month or so taking care of her and the kids and working. On top of that with the holidays coming and the normal delays that revolve around that I am going to say that it's going to be at least January before I look at picking things up again. Maybe if things get better sooner I will try jumping back in before that but I feel like early January is going to be more realistic.

If you need to move on without me I understand feel free to set my character aside or find a replacement if needed and when I check back we can go from there. Sorry for all the absent time, these last few months have just really kicked my butt first physically, then mentally and emotionally. Hope you all are keeping safe and have a good Thanksgiving and Christmas for those who celebrate.

Hey, I wanted to drop in and give all my games an update. I'm still alive, obviously, and I've managed to stay out of the hospital and off a ventilator. However, I'm still not fully recovered. Even though I'm outside my two week symptomatic/infectious period by over a week there are some lingering issues that are still weighing on me (continued shortness of breath, getting light headed, overall fatigue). I doing my best to push through it but it is barely just enough to get me through work everyday and doesn't leave a lot of time for anything else. I would like to give a hard and fast "I'll be back and up to playing again by this time", but sadly at this point I can't. It could be a couple weeks or it could be a couple months for me to get used to this new (hopefully temporary) norm on top of a few other things going on.

All this to say, I'm ok, I'm trying my best to manage, but I can't give you a hard "this is when I will be back". I understand it has been awhile as it is, between this most recent struggle with COVID and my past slowness with finishing up my graduate stuff so if you need to move on without me I completely understand and I'm just sorry that right as I was getting back into things again this whole virus thing came along and knocked me back down again. I'll check in again once I feel I'm up to playing with everything else I am balancing.

Earlier

With the group slowly wittling down the massive owlbear, things begin to start taking a turn for the worst as Chrysa gets knocked to the ground and Vincent almost meets the same fate. Just out of the beasts reach he quickly casts a spell as a brilliant puff of glitter explodes in the things face causing it to be blinded temporarily. It buy the group just enough time to coordinate and put an end to the threat before things become all too dire.

Now
After exploring the rest of the place and finding whatever loot they could, Orri heads back with the others to Orrville to finish dealing with the wreckage that the beast brought down upon his kingdom. He is happy for the help of anyone that wishes to offer it, but doesn't want to hold anyone up either understanding they all have their own kingdoms to attend to. Either way it is going to take some effort to return things back to normal after what happened.

Dropping a note in all my games. Finished up with school yesterday, just waiting on the audit for me to officially be done and graduate even though there are no commencements with the whole virus thing. Wife is doing better after brief stint in the hospital. Looking at starting to get back into my games and get posting again sometime this week. My work is really crazy as first kids were coming back on the 17th but now everything is going to be virtual for an indeterminate amount of time, but teachers are coming back still and there is a lot of questions floating out there so bare with me as I ease into catching up on things and getting back into a regular posting routine again over the next week or so.

Slogging through the wilderness, following the trail of what must be a massive owlbear. He is quiet during the whole trip. Hundreds of things racing through his mind, the most pressing of which were how did an owlbear even get that big, what would have drawn its attention to his lands, why didn't he setup the army he had been planning earlier, how was he going to fix this?

The last question was the easiest to answer, kill the beast that wreaked havoc on his lands. Luckily, it didn't take the group long to find the cavern the creature called home. Once they found the room where the owlbear was napping, the group stepped back preparing for the fight ahead, using what magic they could in order to bolster their chances of winning. Once all were ready and in place for the fight to begin Orri looked to Sophie to enact her plan and start what was bound to be a tough fight.

Before next turn, just a reminder that we'll be starting a new year. This is my recommendation on the spreadsheet.

1) Copy the current treasury accounting and rename it to 4710AR. (Hide it if you like)
2) Take your Total from Kuthona and add it to Starting on Abadius on the regular treasury accounting sheet.
3) Clear out the rest of the treasury accounting sheet.
4) On the Kingdom Stats set the year to 4711 AR.

Then you are good to go for the new year!

Quick note. Somehow on Turn 4 I put my starting BP at the wrong number. At the end of Turn 3 I was at 30 BP. So obviously that messed up my turn 4 and 5 BP. Just wanted to explain before people wondered why my BP suddenly jumped so much.

Ending Balance = 33 BP
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As the temperatures drop in the Stolen Lands with the cold of winter setting in Orri is focused on making sure his people have the food they need to survive the winter months. He continues construction on his road system, and expanding east, but back home he builds a stockyard so that the fields, pens, and ranches can all be more productive in getting their food to market. Some of the people living directly in the captital aren't all that happy about it, but after sending the Royal Enforcer around to smooth things over, everyone seems to appreciate the forethought and as the taxes come into for the month they are as full as they have ever been.

After some discussions with Sophie via courier Orri sends out a missive to the others requesting that they join him and Sophie to explore some of the lands near his kingdom to the south and east. He offers Ipmeek some aid to do the same in his own lands, assuming the others agree to help.

Ending Balance = 27 BP
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After the harrowing ordeal of being locked up in Sophies basement. Orri was glad that Ipmeek and Sophie were willing to keep trying to help him recover from this. A week after they found another supply of wolfsbane and set to work on trying to cure Orri once again. Luckily, thanks to the loaner cloak they had found, Orri was able to kick the disase with the help of the poison. Happily thanking his two friends for their help.

Promptly returning to Orrville he sends out letters to all of his adventuring companions letting them know the disease had been dealt with and would no longer be an issue. He also asks that in the coming months the group get together to explore a little bit of the last to the east of both his and Ipmeek's lands so that they can plan further development.

Figure we do three hexes to the east and south of Orrville for me and 3 hexes to the east of Ipmeek that should give us some room to grow for a bit longer and that would only be 6 days of exploration (assuming those are all still hills terrain). With travel time we should be able to that in 2-3 weeks time no problem still leaving time for our kingdom development.

After sending the letters out to everyone, including Victor, he returns his focus on his kingdom. Expanding to the north he no butts up against Ipmeeks territory and as such begins construction on a system of roads hoping to connect his lands to Sophie's and Ipmeek's in the near future, as well as others when he can. He also keeps adding more cisterns for drinking water for his people. It isn't elegant but it is functional.

Orri was surprised but very happy when Chrysa arrived unannounced before he set out to Sophie's lands. He was quite, obviously concerned but travelling with Chrysa definitely helped to ease his mind to some degree.

With Sophiel

Orri hesitates but eventually gives her a nod. "I trust you and I would really rather not hurt anyone, so do what needs to be done, just... try not to kill me. That... I wouldn't appreciate." He offers a weak smile as he attempts to joke somewhat about the situation he finds himself in.

@GM Any insight on reading the journal?

Ending Balance = 22 BP
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Before things get crazy Orri goes to work on making sure his kingdom is in order before he needs to set out to the old bandit fort. Even with things weighing heavily on him of what is to come in the days ahead he does a solid job at continuing to grow his kingdom. Claiming more land, setting aside more farmlands and opening another mine. He continues to build more cisterns in the city to give people clean drinkable water and his people are happy, paying their taxes on average as expected.

A few days before the next full moon Orri makes his way to the old bandit fort, now Sophie's capital, in hopes that her and any of his other friends will help him keep others safe should he actually turn into a werewolf.

Orri gives Vincent a slight shrug "Any are welcome. I did ask Chrysa to come along for a couple of things before she heads back to her own land and Sophie just brought something concerning to my attention that will likely need to be dealt with. I believe Bella and Anna are heading home." He looks to them for confirmation one way or the other.

Orri winces a bit when Bella jokingly calls him Papa, but then when Vincent says it too he shakes his head and spins on his heals toward the boy "Nope, that's not going to work. You want to give me a pet name use Uncle Orri, but most definitely not Papa. Don't want people getting the wrong idea." He lets out a frustrated sigh before turning toward the east and slightly north and point "Orrville is that direction. Not too far."

Orri is a bit shocked at first but quickly nods along to Chrysa's suggestion "Uh yeah... I think Chrysa's idea maybe works best..."

Orri runs over to the rail when the boy flops backwards off of it but when he sees Vincent is just fine down below he just shakes his head. He hurries to catch up to Chrysa and moves in close as he speaks quietly to her "Hey, maybe you can come back to Orrville with me for a bit before heading back to your lands? We still need to look over that journal and figure out what all happened here and with Vincent coming along with me, an extra pair of watchful eyes would be appreciated."

Later, downstairs

Orri eventually meets back up with Vincent and he goes over to note "So... you should probably try and act a little more... human when we get back to more civilized places. Other people may not be as understanding of your differences as we are, at least not until they get to know you."

Orri looks at the boy with some amount of pity as he tells his tale to Ipmeek and then lets out a brief sigh "That sounds... well I'm glad we could help you even if we didn't know that we were."

He hesitates for a moment before offering "If you have been stuck here for that long perhaps it would do you some good to see the surrounding lands and get to know some more people. I don't pretend to really understand what you are, but you don't seem to be like your father so as long as you can act within the bounds of our laws and not harm anyone, you are welcome to come with my back to Orrville, just to get out of this dreary tower."

Orri glares at the 'boy' who is apparently almost three times his age, assuming he meant he has been here those 60 years as well, but then he takes a deep breath and hesitantly nods, especially as Chrysa seems to be willing to give him a chance. "Very well. Just know you bump up to the borders of some of our kingdoms, I welcome you as long as you have no ill intents towards us or our people."

Orri finally chimes in "We were just exploring the place as it was close to a number of our borders. We had no fight with your father until he made one with us. As to you claiming this place, aside from your father just claiming it do you actually have anything that places it officially under your families control. I'm not interested in stripping your inheritance if it is truly yours, but if we are to be new neighbors I think we will need to get to know one another better."

Orri spins around when he hears the new voice and has all sorts of questions but the others seem to be on top of it already. He moves his hand to his whip ready for the worst, but awaits the boys answers.

Orri goes around healing his friends as is needed to return everyone back to full health or as close to possible, not interrupting as the others talk.

Eventually he gets to Chrysa and holds her hand gently as he heals her wounds and notes "Do not be so hard on yourself. As Sophie said, it could have been any of us, we know that was not you, that you would never do that. I'm just glad I could end this mess before it was too late for y... for us all. Sadly though, now I have no more tricks to save us in the future so we can only rely on one another."

Orri grins as Chrysa wakes up, then slowly stands and helps her to her feet. He gives Sophie a nod and notes to Annalla "Presumably he is gone, banished to the first world, hopefully forever. Though I suppose we shall see. I couldn't let him win and hurt you all so I used my last wish to get rid of him, the golem and the wisps that had been bother us. We should be safe here now. Let's finish searching the place and then get out of here."

I can heal people if we don't want to expend wand charges. I have up to 10 CLWs I can cast

With the threat over Orri quickly takes Chyrsa in his arms as he casts a healing spell.

CMW: 2d8 + 5 ⇒ (5, 3) + 5 = 13

Orri's eyes go wide as he sees Bella take down Annalla and then turn her attention on him just as Lord Maridos blocks off his escape after knocking out Ipmeek, all while Sophie is getting crushed by a golem and Chrysa lays at his feet bleeding out. Things were looking pretty dark and he refused to let things end this way, especially when he was the one that asked for the others help in exploring this place.

He stands over Chrysa defensively, trying to figure out what he can do and then something comes to mind. With a sly grin he promptly pulls up his sleeve as he glares at Lord Maridos "I told you that you would regret it if you hurt my friends..." He starts to rub his arm over the number one tattoo as he says "I wish Lord Maridos, his golem and all these damn willow-wisps were taken from the material plane, never able to return, sent to the first world to be play things for the fey for the rest of their existence, unable to harm anyone or anything else again, while having no ill effects on myself, Isabella, Ipmeek, Chrysa, Annalla or Sophiel."

Seeing Chrysa fall, Orri rushes over to her side, glad the golem is tangled up with Sophie right now and tries to drag her away from the vampire hoping Ipmeeks' bomb does its job and blinds the fiend.

(Move is purple line, drag is red line)

Orri reaches down and touches Ipmeek as he intones a spell, filling the kobold with healing energy in hopes he can save himself.

CMW: 2d8 + 5 ⇒ (6, 6) + 5 = 17

If he sees Ipmeek perk up from the healing he will move into the room ready to fight.

Ref: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17

Orri is ready to run in after the others to help in the fight, but the beams of fire hit Chrysa and Ipmeek and the little kobold begins to fall from the sky. Quickly he turns on his heels, says the command word for his whip so the acid dissipates and flings the end out toward Ipmeek, wrapping it around his legs and then pulling it hard.

As he yanks it Ipmeek descent stops just over the edge of the railing and Orri braces himself, the whip in hand, holding up the kobold for now from falling to his likely death.

Seeing Chrysa over to the side he calls out "I'm going to need some help pulling him up!"

More than happy to get away from the splintering door, Orri moves to the west where he heard Sophie call out before.

Double move, I can see everyone again!

Orri barely missing getting hit by the golem, steps out the door, bringing his lights with him and promptly shuts the door behind himself. He then calls out to the others hoping for some guidance on where he should go "Where is everyone?"

As the light comes back from Chrysa leaving Orri sees the door next to him, no one else in the room except the golem. He steps down to the door, opens it and then quickly casts another spell on himself to heal some of his burns from the ball of fire.

CLW: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

Stops his performance since no one is around anyway.

Orri can't see a damn thing when an unnatural darkness comes over the area. Knowing Chrysa is coming he tries to put some space between himself and her while keeping up his inspiring words to the others and then casts a spell.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (4) + 14 = 18

Casting invisibility on himself. Not sure if he provokes from the move but he wouldn't provoke from the spell

Ref: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

Orri is blind sided by the flames that singe him pretty badly, right about now he was thinking it would have been good to still have the ability to send healing to everyone but alas that wasn't an option.

When Chrysa moves and stabs Bella in the back, nearly dropping her he exclaims "CHRYSA! No... what are you doing?" As everyone seems to continue to focus on the man and not deal with whatever has taken control of Chrysa Orri calls out to her "Leave her alone, if you want to fight someone, come and fight me!" He hesitates a moment before saying something he would never normally say and really hopes his dear friend isn't in her right mind "I doubt you can even stand against me and I'll put you down like the traitor you are!"

He unfurls his whip, speaking the command word as he moves next to Ipmeek hoping to get some cover from any further spells. He continues his inspiring words hoping to help the others deal with the fight.

Intimidate: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (17) + 15 = 32

Antagonizing Chrysa to attack me. Sorry, I know we are all suppose to be attacking the vampire, just not what Orri would do given the situation.

As Sophie jumps to action to attack, Orri is not far behind already not trusting this guy, I mean how trustworthy is someone that would have a golem made out of flesh...

He pulls out his whip and begins his inspiring words "Let's clear this place out! We've beaten everything else now its time to finish this and rid this place of the evil that resides here."

Inspire courage up. Remember your +2 to attack and damage and saves vs charm and fear

Orri looks confused for a moment when Chrysa seems to imply the issue is with him not believing in her, but lets out a deep sigh as Chrysa insists she'll be careful. He looks deep in her eyes for a moment and then gives her a nod. "We'll wait just downstairs for you then if you think you will be ok. I... I just don't trust him is the problem... If there is trouble you scream and we will be right up to help you."

Orri turns and glares at the man about to say something just as he begins to speak. When he sees the fangs his eyes go wide momentarily "Wait..."

Orri is waiting to see how Sophie reacts to the new development.

Orri immediately steps forward, putting his hand on his whip when the man tries to dismiss them and talks about talking to Chrysa alone "No, sorry that won't do. We are a team, together, if you want to talk to one of us you talk to all of us..."

Orri keeps quiet initially as Sophie and Chrysa seem to have things handled. He looks the two new potential enemies over trying to get a better idea what exactly they might be. He is somewhat shocked when Chrysa relates the details of her past, a sad look in his eyes.

Know. Religion: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24
Know. Arcana: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25

However, when everyone starts giving introductions to appease the man he does the same "I am Orri Lebeda, I rule the lands to the east of here. Forgive our intrussion but we only knew the willow-wisps were here and we were hoping to deal with the threat they posed to the surrounding lands as one stole and tortured a child not too long ago."

Diplomacy aid auto-succeeds

Orri notes to the others "The writing on the floor is definitely magical, I'm not sure what it is specifically, but let me try and figure out at least the strength and type of magic." He continues focusing on the auras to get a better understanding.

When Sophie points out the writing Orri will detect magic to see if there is any while he attempts to discern its purpose.

Know. Arcane: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

Orri chimes in "Maybe whatever is in there isn't hostile if it hasn't already tried to attack?"

Dropping a note in all my games. I am hoping things won't change too much, but wanted to forewarn my games that there may be some delays in my posting. My work schedule is usually busiest over the summer months and while it is slow right now I know at some point it will get crazy busy when I start getting shipments in of hundreds of new computers for a rebuild of one of my schools I manage. On top of this I am finishing up my dual MBA/MSIS this summer with three classes in a condensed 8-week semester.

All of this to say, I will do my best to keep up and if I know of major delays I will try to notify people (like when it is finals week), but if I do end up disappearing for a few days here or there just know it won't be long term. All the craziness I have going on over the next couple months should primarily be wrapped up near the end of July.

As always, if you need something quick you can generally ping me on Discord.

As the massive skeleton falls Orri just shakes his head as he asks to no one in particular "How did that thing even get up here..."

With some room to move up Orri steps up next to Bella, as he unfurls his whip to strike out at the giant skeleton. He continues his inspiring words hoping to help everyone finish the fight quickly.

Attack, IC, Flank?: 1d20 + 11 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 11 + 2 + 2 = 22
Damage, Acid, IC: 1d3 + 1 + 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 1 + (1) + 2 = 7

Ugh, why couldn't I get min damage on the 1d3 and max on the 1d6 instead :P

Orri winces as the thing tears into Bella. "Be careful! If you need healing move back..." He pauses and then decides to maybe be a bit more inspirational instead "No, you know what, we've got this! It is just a really big skeleton, work together and this won't be a problem at all!"

Inspire Courage +2 to attacks, damage and charm/fear saves

Orri simply follows along with the others for the time being, wondering what could have gone so wrong here.

Orri quirks a brow at the mention of 'guests' he wants to flip through and look for other references to find out what is going on but stops and looks to the others "Do you think it would help if we took this and figured out what happened here before continuing, or should we soldier on with the magic we have at the ready now and worry about figuring out the details afterwards?"

Earlier

When Chrysa asks about the key Orri shakes his head "Not particularly but being a follower of the Master of the First Vault myself, I couldn't just leave it here for someone else to steal or degrade further."

Orri shows the cache he found to the others. When Chrysa confirms there aren't any traps he will spend a bit of time cleaning it using his magic (prestidigitation), trying to fix the defacing before removing the key to take back to Orrville, instead of leaving it in a place such as this.

Orri gives Sophie a nod at the explanation then goes to start searching the room as she suggested while the others take a breather.

Perception: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28

Orri frowns seeing some of the others so depleted when he managed to get away unscathed this time. "I am unharmed, at the very least we should maybe check the rest of this level and see if there aren't any resources that could help. Is there anything we could have done differently to have avoided those things surprising us like that?"

He looks to Sophiel since she seems to know the most about them.