Dahn - Away for a couple of days next week (Tuesday morning to late Thursday) - can you take care of Irirangi and the gang for me if needed?
Since it may be the first and last combat these characters ever see, take your time Dahn. And try and have a good Christmas.
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I'm back! yay! First successful combat is over, thanks to a solid whallop by Merreck.
Now is the time for me to admit that I never intended for you all to go to Delphis' home. It's all been off the top of my head, more or less, but I wanted to reward you for some excellent sleuthing and roleplaying, so i built this house up for you guys.
Though you all have homes, or home-y places, in Sharn, I thought having a home base away from home would be interesting. There's enough space for all of you (and friends) to camp out for as long as you'd like. It's certainly better than staying in an inn. Especially if tending to the space would net you a little bit of income.
Included with the notes, and journals, and ledgers of Delphis' personal collection is all of the information you would need to take over his quite profitable alcohol and distillation project. The orchards that are part of the property help produce a very fine spirit that goes for a considerable price in local markets. All of Delphis' contacts for selling the stuff are there in the books.
The best and worst part of this, however, is that Delphis is dead and few people know about it. As will soon be revealed, there's enough information about the fellow to impersonate him quite successfully. An edge that you certainly did not have going into the heist. Thanks to all of your snooping, you have an alternate trajectory in terms of the bank job.
Also, there are plentiful notes on his little constructs. If any of you would like to take either of them on as a kind of familiar or companion, we could work that out as well. There's more than enough parts and materials to get them up and running again, under a new master.
Sillas has a warforged butler, Starlan has a Glidewing and Iri has strange voices in her head. She could quite fancy a dog construct to help out. Anything is bound to be more effective in combat than she is.
You have to realise that in her own mind, Iri sees herself as rather dull and scholarly, so fixing up constructs to help out would be right up her street. Hmm. She's got large amounts of Craft(Alchemy). Can she make the dog/humming bird spew out acid or fire or frost or something useful like that?
Or - better yet, can she somehow install a tanglefoot bag either of them to be spat out at will?
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We can probably work out some kind of possibility in that regard, either in the realm of the mechanical or magical.
You could either load the thing to fire out 'alchemical preparations' (tanglefoot bags, alchemist fire, etc), with some necessary additional cost and modifications.
Or we could work out a more magical approach. Perhaps, an x/day kind of effect like burning hands (or an acid version). This would also require some modification, and I think you would need some third party assistance with either modification. But it would certainly make sense, especially if someone like Iri supplied the pint of blood necessary to align it. It would definitely drive home this whole 'magic is in the blood' thing i've been yammering about.
More on that later...
She'll give blood.
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Ok guys, I really hate to do this. My life is slightly impossible right now, and I can't have the PBPs looming over my head. I thought I could keep these going, but evidently it's too much. I can't find the time to update, and I'm running around as it is!
But I really love this game, and you guys, and I don't want to throw it away. I can foresee a time in the future where I'll have some time to myself again, however.
So what I would like to propose is a suspension of indeterminate length of this game. I still have lots of ideas, plans, and schemes for you, but I don't have the time to bust them out now.
I'll understand if you're done with the game at this point, but if you're around, I'll be sure to give you all a heads-up when I start it again!
I just want to make it clear that it has nothing to do with any of you; you're awesome, I'm not. This is the sound of the ball dropping.
Sorry Rev, you'll see this message twice.
Dahn, stuff happens to us all. It's never predictable. All you can do is deal with whatever is happening in whatever way you can.
I'd imagine I'll be around, and if so, you know well I'm happy to play mad games in your worlds.
Understandable.
It's much better being up-front about it like this than just letting it peter out,
as often happens in the anony-web.
Well, if you say this suspended animation thing works,
then Starlan is up for it, and hopefully things'll be just as great when we start up again!
I understand life getting out of hand, and I've really enjoyed this group and the game. So when you have time to get it going again, I'll be here.
*YAWN!*
Whoa! That was a long nap! Feels pretty good to be up and stretching my bones!
*CRACK*
Err...Well, I'm back, at any rate. (haw haw)
Now seriously folks; we left this game on pause as a 'just in case' I came back and had some time to run the game again. Well, consider this the official "I'm back and if you are too, I have all my old notes and maps still and I'd like to press 'play' again" post!
I'm going to post it here and in the game threads, give me a shout if you'd like to start it up again. We'll gauge interest, and if you people are still around, we'll go from there!