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Slice Me Deeper, Tiny Dancer - Rd 1
Patry is HASTED 1/12 RDS

23 Justin: Fire Wall
23 Choreographer: Dance of Death
21 Merle: Cast Haste 12 rds duration
16 Hamar: pending
16 Alessia: pending
15 Mel: Casting Weapons Storm
11 Dancers:
6 Karrin:

K(arcana): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20

Mel frowns and shouts out

"I have no earthly clue what the ever-loving donkey dong these things are! If they are golems, they are likely immune to level drains and magic though! use area stuff!"

He takes a swat at the passing blur of golden fury

Mel's AoO: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (5) + 12 = 171d8 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13 (2d6 vs evil; undead will save DC14 or instadeath)

His mace comes nowhere close. He curses loudly in what the party can only surmise is ancient Sueloise. He begins chanting. His Mace suddenly becomes five maces, the others hanging about him in a loose formation of floating steel

Casting Weapons Storm - will hold off until other go to run attacks

Ack! I should have waved at you too Mark! waves belatedly . Although you were in Kansas. So many New Yorkers in my games. I should schedule a pick up game next time I have to spend six hours in JFK LOL

On my way to Guyana. On a layover in NYC as I type this (waves at Max). I have no idea about connection, but I might post. We’ll see.

I will be traveling for the fourth. Just putting that out preemptively. I might be able to post, as long as it isn't too complex.

Folks, I have been thinking about some stuff lately, and how technology has been changing. For instance, I have always not liked the PM system here. So, I am proposing that for communication since I no longer use any social media platforms outside of LinkedIn, I would invite you to my personal Discord server. There you can notify me of anything through DMs by friending me, I can post art or maps or anything else and if we have conversations we can reference them without the annoying parsing that comes with the system here. So here is an invite link. It will be good for seven days as of today - so up to 7/5 iirc

INVITE

I know Shadow you mentioned you hate it, but you have my phone number, so you can just text me ;)

Hi folks. Sorry for the prolonged silence. My bad. I was trying to be better with my communication, but I failed. I actually went on vacation, and just got back. I don’t have a good excuse- I should have mentioned it, but I got spun up with everything that needed doing as I got prepping. However, I hope to carve out some time for some updates today, including- just maybe- reinvigorating my photoshop suite. We shall see.

Stay tuned and stay chill!

Patrick Curtin wrote:

He might need the assistance of someone who is immune to necromantic energy tho

I mean, sure, but she might need someone to calm her down first...

One two three NOT IT!!

This combat has the best rolls I've ever had running Vampire, ever.

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Geoffroi, you are now on the 48 hour clock as Round 3 is winding down.

Hah. Fended off both a Gangrel and three lawyers concurrently! Huzzah!

BTW, you can reach me if needed at

patrick[underscore]curtin[at]yah00[dOt]c0m

Apologies for the attempt to dodge the AI scraping spidders- but you’re a meatsack, you’ll figure it out.

Mel looks thoughtful

“I don’t think so. This doesn’t have that sort of … malevolence to it. Those lightning bolts are not good, but it’s more like elemental negativity. A sort of natural phenomenon “

He looks in on Alessia smashing up the room

“I mean, you did kinda go sticking your d!ck in the meat grinder there “

The sun eye winks out for about 30 seconds, then sputters back

Venice by Night - Sunday - April 6, 1309

Streets of Venice - Alessandro, Geoffroi, Lorenzo, Michele, and Ranerius. NPCs Onfroi , Andrew and Lydia

Geoffroi nods to the others as he rejoins the party

“It is good to be back amongst allies”

Merely pretentions. Let’s see if I can post regularly for six months or so

Hi Again!

Sorry folks, the new year has begun with a bang as my new job has taken my stress level up to 11. However, I have a long weekend coming up, and I hope that I can find time to post during this period.

I am trying, honest! :O

Janet has been afk recently, and I know she has some stuff going on. I’ll tell you what. The ring is a ring of protection +1. That’s all.

Hey everyone! Just wanted to drop this picture of Solnes in her bridal dress for the FAWTL Family. She sends greetings and good wishes to those who remember the original days. Have a good one FAWTLies!

For those perhaps confused by Alain’s cryptic saying:

ALL THINGS SERVE THE BEAM:

All things work in harmony with the greater tides of fate. All events serve a greater purpose, even if we can't understand what that purpose might be

Folks - I will be traveling on Thursday to Key Largo to see FAWTL alumnus Solnes get married. From there I am heading to Maine to vacation with my mother and daughter. I will check in and I can certainly do social-type posts, but anything combat-heavy will have to wait.

The good news is my time is starting to get better, so hopefully more consistent posts.

Folks - I will be traveling on Thursday to Key Largo to see FAWTL alumnus Solnes get married. From there I am heading to Maine to vacation with my mother and daughter. I will check in and I can certainly do social-type posts, but anything combat-heavy will have to wait.

The good news is my time is starting to get better, so hopefully more consistent posts.

Yeah, I had a week of tough illness in there. And it’s a busy time in the yard/house/etc homeownership game. Plus , a lot of elderly relatives are dropping. And, still working two jobs, AND trying to get to the gym, AND dealing with drama at all levels of this …

Sigh. Can I just be retired and play games and watch tv all day? Is that so much to ask?

Pours out a drink of fine Scotch for the fallen

Until we meet again in Gamehalla, Gary

Wow. This hit hard, as I always considered the PMG the ‘face’ of Paizo. He was the one who rode herd on the cantankerous cat swarm that occupied the Off Topic Board. I remember sitting with him at the 2012 PaizoCon dinner, and it was such a treat to finally hang out with him and some of the other folks I had only known by posts prior.

Good luck on your next adventure Gary, whatever that adventure might be. You left the world a better place for you being in it, which is all anyone can ask for in the end.

You could always take the spikes off and open it ;)

Justin looks at where Alessia points.

"Ah. Right. So we either go Right, and AVOID where more traffic goes, OR we count on the more-used path being where the Portal is anchored?"

Justin: …I can deduce that more danger lies in more tracks so I obviously cannot take the left hand path. However, the other way leads downwards, and all good adventurers know that going downwards leads to greater danger, so CLEARLY I cannot take the right-hand path. . However, I have studied the origins of language, and I know that sinister is an ancient word meaning left, so clearly I cannot take the left path. However, I have also studied the works of great adventurers, and in studying I have learned that on should always go left in a maze, so I cannot take the right handed path! Karrin: Now you are just stalling. Justin: YOU’D LIKE TO THINK THAT, WOULDN’T YOU?!?

Consider butt saved! Also, everyone else - you have 1 hero point

Narl grits his teeth against the pain and shakes his fetish at the cipactli. A hissing, whispering sibilance fills the air and the crocodile shudders, as its bones vibrate madly in its body. It releases Narl and roars, a gout of blood erupting from its mouth. Bones can be heard snapping within the large beast, which thrashes and howls in pain. It stills, stone dead

Good job. It’s dead

It was actually from Kobold Press. They don’t seem to have the Pathfinder edition still for sale, but this is the 5th edition version

Venice by Night - Friday - April 4, 1309

The Business of Michael Santos - (NPCs) Lydia, Onfroi, Xing Shi & Andrew the Hard

Onfroi sighs, "The Beast allowed him to justify their deaths for his greater ends, I presume to rescue or find his family in Paris. Do Mortals not do the same? Did we Crusaders not use much the same logic to wage war on the Saracen and they upon the Infidel? I do not believe this is the Beat within Cainites but the very same Beast that beats in the heart of every man".

Geoffroi nods

“Ruthless pragmatism is hardly the sole provenance of Canites. I saw it in our Crusader kingdoms, where any weakness was often a death warrant. I saw it in France, where the king used the Templar’s weakness to overthrow us and loot our coffers and confiscate our property. If either had a use for blood, there would be a lot of drained corpses scattered from Brussels to Jerusalem “

Write it down as 500x12 = 6,000 GP worth of raw gold

"Come! Come! Follow Jakun! We shall take villainss from behind! Let ssleeping Crocss lie! It cannot follow into tunnel!"

Taishe calls out to his friends.

The kobold then continues to dash forward towards the circular room, and hopefully to a path behind their ambushers.

Narl as Taishe runs by

Nahuatl Ti gets a flank from the dire rat.

On rd 2

So, I had had Jakun out of melee, but now we will have to sinter everything together. This is what I see using the main initiative tracker as the baseline:

RD 1: Jakun had headed out to the tunnel, and went to check the door
RD 2 Jakun is first sneak attacked then the first round of attacks
RD 3: Jakun’s attack on extra guy

So, IF Anyone wants to go towards Jakun’s position, this is where they’ll be at by round. I know the timeline is bumpy, but I didn’t think this opportunity would have happened like it did.

We spent five years in the FTC getting that settled. Whatta mess

Yeah, I had a couple of people fight me over the beads. However, I let them go because, they are FNCKING BEADS! Amirite? Life is too short to get twisted up about some cheap plastic beads. I mean we got all this without much effort.

Patrick Curtin wrote:

I have yet to see any flashes. I Feel betrayed by the

Media :(

UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, good news: there were bewbs on display later on in the evening. Bad news: mostly they faced the bead tosses so you only saw them from the back. Although one woman was completely topless in the crowd which was a daring choice.

So my adventure with the New Orleans thieves guild:

In the crush of Bourbon Street, a man and woman who seemed to be drunk, plowed into me. They stayed pressed very close, like I couldn’t get them off me. Then I felt a man go for my back pocket. Fortunately, being a paranoid soul I had moved my wallet to my front pocket. I would have shrugged it off to possibly just my imagination, but ….

Five minutes later the same trio tried the same thing AGAIN! Literally plowing into me and the dipper going after my back pocket a second time. I guess they were upset their first try came up dry and they figured a fat merchant-looking guy like me had to have a coin purse bulging with gold.

But after my initial anger, I was fascinated by the classic distraction/restraint/dip method they used. I’m sure there was another person in the crowd to hand my wallet off to if they had snagged it.

Hey folks. Just as a heads up I am off to my Mardi gras adventure today. I’ll be spotty in posting for about a week. Have a good one!

A Vampire game set in Venice

Alessia rips into the formless ebon ooze that swallowed Justin, fighting side by side with Karrin. She advances up the short stairs leading to the now-empty pool the horrors had hidden in.

Just having you take a five-foot step to free up space for anyone in the hallway who wants to fight

Two of her sword cuts hit home, although this ... thing is tough. However, its rancid life force does flow into her. She is granted several visions - ranks of misshapen humanoids worshipping at a mountainous outdoor henge, screaming people being consumed by fire in a statue's hollow belly, a formless swirling chaos that opens into a giant aphibianesque eye. The feeling of this life force entering her system is .. greasy.

It’s a bold strategy Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for her

It’s a magnum Opus, dude. I relish those posts as a DM. When you guys finally got to the Orcus reveal in Erelhi Cinlu, that was so cathartic.

I think we all sync so well in that we use this format to scratch the frustrated writers itch. This format is the only way I have found to consistently get around my writers block. I enjoy writing, but I have a hard time putting a whole story on paper. Dave got me to do my last one I managed (a creepy story about a girl discovering her disturbing family legacy)

I love our collaborative story. If you all didn’t post as much as you do this game would have likely dried up and died long ago.

The DM twitches his prehensile tail and blinks the 4th wall back into opaqueness

Merry Yule all!

Today on this shortest day of the year, I’d like to wish you all peace and success in the coming Winter season.

I’m headed on the road for the Yule weekend, so posting might be spotty. At this point you can possibly do some RP with Coyote coming into the scene. I’ll be back full bore by next Wednesday

Merry Yule all!

Today on this shortest day of the year, I’d like to wish you all peace and success in the coming Winter season.

Unfortunately we have started a new combat just as I am headed on the road for a Christmas trip. But, we should have an opportunity to get our first round moves called out. I will have a fairly lax week next week. I will get a map done then.

Hey all. Bit of a hectic week. You may see I have updated some of my threads, but I have run out of time. Fortunately, I should have time to get everything square Tomorrow, In Shah Allah

Hope everyone's Christmas/Yule/Chanukah/Kwanzaa/Festivus preparations are going swimmingly!

Hey all. Apologies for the silence. A confluence of bad things, work issues, and holiday obligations conspired to keep me off the boards this past week. However, I should have some time available Thursday-Friday to update. Stay tuned.

Coyote Jones walks along the blacktop, his scuffed boots crunching the drifts of leaves collected along the shoulder. Occasionally a car blasts by, hurrying on its way to somewhere. He can hear the drivers’ thoughts like snatches of distant radio

… i told him not to fnuck with me ….

… that b!tch has a smart mouth but she is fine…

… kill kill anger anger revenge….

… i want a hamburger, no i want a cheeseburger….

Long experience allows him to let the thoughts become background, like the songs of the birds in the trees. He looks up at the sky, judging that he doesn’t have long before night falls completely. Judging from how many drunken thoughts he’s picked up from drivers before, he reckons it’s a good time to get off the road.

He adjusts his backpack and slogs on. Ahead a sign reads,

Adam’s Pond Comfort Cabins. Established 1955

Judging from the leaves on the side road, it didn’t get a lot of traffic. He gets a hunch this is the way to go. If not, there might be an unoccupied cabin or shed he could bunk in for the night. He heads off the highway.

After a short walk in the darkening gloam, he arrives at a small group of cabins on a lake. It looks fairly abandoned, but one cabin is lit, and there seems to be a trio of people standing about something near the center of the campground

Everyone can describe themselves. What does Coyote see?.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Dinner was a success. Everything made it into plates without burning, drying, melting, or falling. I hope everyone else’s went well too.

We’ll pick up tomorrow!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Dinner was a success. Everything made it into plates without burning, drying, melting, or falling. I hope everyone else’s went well too.

We’ll pick up tomorrow!

Thank the gods I backed that post up! The site ate it.

Well, we were at an “all inclusive “ resort. It was nice, and the drinks were inclusive too;)

We did a night cruise to see bioluminescent algae, which was pretty neat. We also went snorkeling and climbed a cool waterfall, and also did touristy things like attend shows, get a massage, etc.

The trip was great! Jamaica is beautiful, but I think I would appreciate it more at a later time period, like February. Still, lots of fun and nice to relax. I could have done without catching COVID in the airport. I will definitely be traveling with. a mask next time, it was hubris to think I could traipse all over without protection