Str 10 (Strong core and legs but no real upper body strength so probably balance out to average)
Dex 12 (Trick skateboarding, downhill longboarding, juggling, slacklining are all things I am good at.)
Con 13 (Rarely get sick, have a mildly ridiculous pain threshold, can run 5 miles without much effort and skate extremely long distances (skated down the UK a while back))
Int 13 (Currently doing a masters in physics and hasn't been challenging so far.)
Wis 10 (I make bad decisions a lot but I can be pretty intuitive)
Cha 9 (I'm really not good with people.)
My luck is either super good or super bad, never seems to even out. I seem to always have a broken limb or something but then I'll get a bursary out of the blue that I didn't apply for as a kind of karmic recompense thing. Kind of a pain but does make for an interesting life.
I killed my computer and only just got it fixed. This has been fun. Had it out from under my desk to clean the dust out but turned it back on to check something online. Turned around and managed to knock a glass of water straight off my desk and mostly through the fan hole in the top of the case.
Have had to buy both a new motherboard and new processor and spent the week computerless as I disassembled what was left and left it to dry while I waited for the new components to turn up. Like I said, it has been great fun.
Yeah, we're allowed to use maple and mathematica and things like that for most of the nasty stuff and then when we have to do horrible integrals and so on in exams they'll provide standard integrals to make it a bit easier. I generally do a few nasty example calculations for each thing though just to make sure I've got the hang of whatever it is.
Oh but this isn't technically maths! It is applied maths! In this case applied to angular momentum calculations for 3 extended bodies which all interact. It is rather good as long as you are allowed a computer to do the nasty bits for you and less so if you have to do them yourself.
We could swap if you want? I'll read some delightful text books and you can have a go at these matrix calculations I've been avoiding all day. I think I'd like the change of scenery/pace/brain-screwery.
No idea of actual marks yet but they seemed to go well.
The only one that may end up being subpar is Quantum Mechanics, had a complete brain fart on one of the questions which may have cost me about 10-20%. All the others went dandy though.
Galaxies was just a case of brain dumping all the things I'd revised for the course into the exam paper, not much thought or any complex maths involved really.
Waves was quite tough in places just because some of matrices involved were unpleasant.
Photonics exam was part memory and part calculation but nothing too taxing.
Energy and the environment is pretty much a doss course, a mix of a level physics and geography and the exam lived up to expectations and was super simple.
Linear algebra again not hard, I had done so many practice questions and past papers by the time I did the exam that I could answer most of the questions with out even really thinking about it.
Nah don't do that. If the the party gets too overloaded with people Corvax can wander off to the nearest tavern (provided he can get off the island) and disappear into a haze of alcohol. Only fair really, I'm the one who vanished and had to be replaced after all. And curses on the heart of pulp falling over thing, it was rather slow but I did enjoy it.
Hello. I disappeared. This disappearance has an explanation. The explanation is my innate power of procrastination and 6 exams in a 2 week period. This is the first time I have been on the paizo forums for about a month. Installed one of those programs that limits your internet use to a few pages (in this case wolfram alpha and my course websites) and then got my house mate to change the password to unlock it and not tell me. They only gave me the password yesterday. It has been a fun month.
If I've been replaced in all the games I disappeared from I totally understand, I feel really bad about up and vanishing. Came back to explain where I went really.
Hello again, I appear to not have missed a huge amount? Good timing I guess. Anyway, best Christmas/New Year ever, my grandma apparently won a load of money on the premium bonds. Only told her daughters and between them they organised a surprise ski/snowboard family holiday for the week after Christmas. First everyone else knew about it was plane tickets in christmas cards.
Just spent the last week in France messing around in the snow.
Woop! I am done with Uni work for the semester! Well.. I still have to do all my exams after the Christmas break, but still! I have at least a week of freedom. Yay!
Oh joyous day, just discovered my bike has been stolen. They sawed/bolt cuttered their way through a massive chain motorbike lock, a flexy steel link thing and a d-lock. If I wasn't so pissed off I'd be impressed.
The game slowing down thing from further up the page; nothing to do with Skyrim, haven't played it at all this week. Uni is just hectic and I spend all my time outside lectures either working my ass off or sleeping.
Followed up my weekend concussion with the most evil of University surprises, the surprise week long group research project. I've spent four days learning how to program in Python and then staying up until 3am writing simulations. So many errors, so much coffee, more hours in the library than I spent there the entirety of last year. Just left the Uni library 2 hours ago and have finished writing up my part of the project. Hardest week of University so far by a long way.
Oh and I have Skyrim, just haven't been able to play it yet due to the aforementioned concussion. I look forward to it greatly, played oblivion for well over 100 hours before I called it a day.
Guess what I did over the weekend! Gave myself concussion! Yay weekends.
That yay isn't even sarcastic, funniest way to get a concussion ever.
Went to a meal/party at a friend's house on Friday. Went upstairs to use the bathroom, coming back down the stairs I jumped the last 4 or 5 steps because things like that are fun. Their stairs have a big wooden bannister and I managed to hit my elbow (or more accurately the nerve in my elbow) on a protuding bit of wood. Entire arm went numb, and I don't remember anything from that point to about a minute later.
Apparently I walked into the room next door, stood there for a few seconds and then just keeled over and headbutted a coffee table super hard. Woke up with my face covered in blood, a load of people crowded around me and a pounding headache.
Went to A&E to get the cut glued back together and I was still all woozy so they kept me overnight for observation. Got home Saturday morning after spending the whole night awake because of headaches and spent the day asleep. Sunday I sat around not doing much because I wasn't allowed to skate with a concussion and reading or looking at a computer screen brought the headache back. Feeling a bit better today and the headache is gone so yeah. Odd weekend that.
Never read the Dunwich horror but have read a few other Lovecraft stories. And that wasn't what spiked my interest in the door at all. Just thought it was odd to find a gert huge iron door on the second floor of a family home and odd is always interesting.
Hello! I am back from the maddest few days I've had in a while.
Went on the last skate weekend thing on Saturday and Sunday (think I mentioned it way up the thread but maybe I should have made it more clear where I was disappearing too). Managed not to hurt myself skating but the universe decided to balance that out quite neatly.
Saturday evening I was sat next to a campfire with a load of other skaters and someone dropped another log on the aforementioned fire. This caused a smaller branch to flip out of the fire and come flying at my face. Kind of instinctively caught it and then threw it away, but quite a few of the embers stuck to my hand and I ended up with a lot of small nasty burns all over my palm and fingers.
So there was that.
Then on Sunday everything gets even better when the guy giving me a lift home managed to land pretty much back of his head first on the road (wearing a helmet) and gave himself a pretty hardcore concussion. Blacked out, blurred vision, vomiting, all that good stuff. Got myself temporarily insured on his car and drove him to the hospital, stayed there until 4 in the morning. Drove him and myself home and got back to Southampton 6am. Skated home, ate some food and then had to go to Uni for the entire day.
Got home and pretty much went to sleep in my clothes. Woke up Tuesday morning to my burnt hand throbbing and swollen, decided I should probably go to the doctors. Spent a few hours in a waiting room to be told it was infected and be handed some antibiotics. Then spent the rest of the day catching up on all the work I didn't do over the weekend with a painfully swollen and stiff writing hand. Again collapsed and slept without turning my computer on.
Today I only just got back from University and it has been the first time in the last few days that I got a chance to actually use the internet.
So yeah, that is where I've been for the last few days. Not dead, not dropping out or anything, just very very tired and a bit battered.
Think I might back out of the modules game, been trying to come up with a character idea that I like and that'll actually work in the party and can't quite come up with anything. Might just sit back and watch the madness unfold.
Holy crapping hell Batman! So we have uber cleric and hulk ogre now pretty much destroying anything and everything in their path, the Pathfinder equivalent of a medic and heavy team up in TF2, but on steroids.
Also, Shifty wins with a 55 point buy, bumping the average up to 37 and the range to 33. Madness
Out of interest I worked out the point buy equivalents for each set of ability scores in the new group. Average of 35 point buy (Tark wins with a point total of 47!) damn this is going to be a scary group.
Looks like Humans are going to be the minority? Or possibly there will just be no majority, a party made up entirely out of the under represented races. Does sound fun.
I was just going to be a Human Alchemist but with such a freakshow party forming I may as well join in. First thought after reading about Shadow Absalom is to create a Fetchling Ninja but depending on what kind of rogue Feytharn creates that might be stepping on some toes a bit.
If so I'll most likely create a Tiefling alchemist and eventually go into Master Chymist for the full-on daemonic ancestory strengthened by the years of chemicals and magic taking over every now and then. That seems like fun.
Well obviously I meant other than the campfire games I am playing in already! I meant before I joined one of your games, only real module type thing I'd played in up until then was Expedition to the Demonweb pits (which I thoroughly enjoyed).
My timetable this semester isn't at all bad apart from on a Monday (8am-8pm, no lunch break) so I'd probably join another campaign if there was one going.
Hello! I am back from my extended weekend of exhausting activities.
A short description of said weekend:
Spent two days camped just north of the Brecon Beacons in Wales. It rained constantly and hard and the road we came to skate turned out to be narrow, have an average 19% slope and be surrounded by great swathes of nettles and piles of sheep crap. While I got very wet, extremely dirty and mildly injured it was great fun.
Then drove to another bit of Wales and spent a day climbing the walls of a gorge and swimming the rapids at the bottom of it. Again camped in the rain and got very wet, dirty and slightly battered.
On the last day we left Wales, drove back to the south coast and went to Portland (near Weymouth if that helps) and did some sport climbing and bouldering. Also skated down another steep and remarkably narrow road that leads up to a prison built in an old WWII fortress. Topped it all off with a night swim on Weymouth beach and just arrived home.
My entire body aches and my hands are blistered and cut from all the rock climbing but I think it was one of the best weekends of my summer.
And now I'll go catch up on all the posts I missed before collapsing and sleeping for about a day.
Sorry for disappearing for another day. Was my birthday so I spent a lot of it doing fun things and generally not being near a computer.
I'm also not going to be able to post from Tomorrow until either the evening on Tuesday or Wednesday morning. Going to Wales for a downhill race and then spending two days driving around to various nice rock climbing places and doing a bit of climbing.
Forgive the random changes of tense, kind of wrote this all out pretty quickly. I am going to be on a plane tomorrow so any questions might not get answered until thursday.
Concept/History gubbins:
Righty ho then, concept in a nutshell is a Carunsil ex-maezulin from the Autumn maudre who has an deep connection to the woods after a run in with the fabled green man of the Mosswood.
I imagine the green man to be something similar to the swamp thing from the DC universe, a nature/plant elemental protector of the forest. With the orcs slowly burning and cutting their way into the great trees he saw a reason to heal a mortally injured elf and in the process set him on the path of becoming another elemental protector of the woods to help him in his task.
So yeah, Arandion (name subject to change) gets healed by the green man, instructed in his duties to protect the forest and then unceremoniously dumped on the outskirts of the Mosswood (green man is known for liking his solitude). Goes back to work as a ambusher, scout and what have you for the Autumn eretha and does well. Sometimes hears whispers in the rustle of leaves and creak of tree branches and learns to listen as they unerringly direct him to the location of orcish scouts and raiders.
Also finds it much easier to blend into the woodland and a few times even surprises his squadmates. As time goes by however the whispering of the trees becomes more and more common, until it is a near constant background noise in his head. He also begins feeling what the trees feel, the delightful nourishing warmth of sunlight or the slow joy when a new set of seeds/nuts are ready to be released into the world. Unfortunately with these new shared feelings come problems, distantly and weakly at first, but with ever increasing strength he can feel the fear and pain of each tree the orcs fell, each sapling that is ripped up at the roots and used to feed their fires.
When the his erethor is assigned closer to the fields of ash and blood, the pain increases tenfold and the whispers become roars of pain, anger and anguish. Very quickly Arandion is unable to sleep, unable to think, unable to function. His squadmates dragging or carrying him as he screamed and whimpered at the shared pain. After no more than a fortnight of this it was decided by the erethor commanders that Arandion should return to Caradul for reassignment.
As he moved away from the ravaged forest the pain and noise faded but not quite to the level it had been before. He still found it difficult to sleep or to concentrate on any task. He sought out the green man, hoping that he would have some way to help him, but after weeks in the Mosswood he found no sign of him and eventually had to give up.
After some discussion between his family and the lord who commanded the Autumn maudre it was decided that he would be assigned a placement with the Erunsil, far away from the destruction that tormented him.
Arandion travelled to the Veradeen a few years ago and has grown used to the coldest wood. Leaving the trees of the caraheen had finally silenced the cries and pain that filled his head and the trees of the Veradeen were mostly quiet, not wasting their precious energy on speaking to an elf not even born of their wood.
He misses the Caraheen, the sunlight and the great trees but fears to return with the memory of the cries and pain still fresh in his memory.
Is the rewrite of the wildlander coming after the fighter? Wouldn't really mind just using a straight pathfinder ranger with the trapper or Skirmisher archetype to get rid of the spellcasting or possibly converting said casting into toned back channelling.
Right then, just in case Lyj comes back and takes up the rogue position I'll stick with an Erunsil or Carunsil wildlander. But by the looks of it a lot of the old group are coming back so I might just sit and wait to see if all the places simply fill up with old players.
"Comrade goat lover has good point. English should stop shouting at man in sky and go kill bear with bare hands, then he be real man and not have imaginary friend like crazy child."
