Looking for a new GM!
Perhaps reading too deeply in this AP will leave you rocking on the floor, muttering incoherent blasphemies and shrieking with terror at your insignificance in the universe. It would explain the disappearance of several previous GMs. But if you wish to brave that risk, there is a party of intrepid souls that can give you a solid and engaging game.
The party is currently level 3, and is exploring the asylum. If you can take over, I can summarize which rooms we have explored and which things we have encountered so far.
Dervak was originally in another Strange Aeons game that folded, then started over with this one and survived the original GM vanishing into the fog, and then a second GM vanishing into the fog. He is hoping to one day make it through Book 1, and then who knows?
The PCs are:
Dervak, half-orc Aberrant bloodrager (hasn't raged yet, but is dreading when he has to)
Mara bint al-Katheeri, half-orc Speaker for the Past shaman
Theophilus Carter, human Cartomancer witch (also from the prior campaign)
Julius Anderson, half-elf Inspired Blade swashbuckler, who vanished into the fog but has since come back... or has he?
Here is the campaign.
I am another one of the players. I'm looking forward to getting the game started up again!
Only one question, "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
"Because it can produce few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front!"
Just an interesting historical footnote. I believe Lewis Carroll's original answer misspelled never as nevar (ie raven with the wrong end in front)
Personally, I like the answer
'Because Poe wrote on both'
Mara joined as a replacement character. She woke up in a room with a young girl named Sara (I envisioned Newt from Aliens), who had supposedly found Mara walking around in a daze, and helped her hide. I suspect that Sara might not be in the published AP, and could have been added by the original GM. She later disappeared when the second GM took over, with the hint that she might have been a ghost.
As a replacement GM, it would be your call as to whether or not to include Sara as an NPC. If you decide to bring her back, Mara wants to buy or make her a doll, because she said she'd never had one.
Dervak has a voice in his head - the Dark Whisper - that gives him his Aberrant power. It is a Dark Tapestry entity. Possibly a rival, minion, or ally of the entity behind this AP (or even that entity itself). Neither GM told me specifically what it was (of which I am glad), but it could be a fun thing to play around with.
He tries to resist giving into it, and my hope is that he will find an in-story way to retrain his bloodline to Arcane or Destined. He hasn't raged yet, and I'm hoping it to be quite the dramatic moment if and when it does happen.
A few more tidbits:
Mara carries two ancestor dolls, representing her mother and father. She communes with them at the same time that she communes with the heavens spirits to memorize spells. When faced with a difficult decision, she will take them out and talk to them.
She calls out to one of her parents when casting a spell. Which one depends on the type of spell:
Mommy (Orc) Spells: Enchantment (compulsion) combat buffs, Conjuration (healing), Evocation (except light), Necromancy, Transmution (Bull's Strength and Righteous Might)
Daddy (Human) Spells: Abjuration, Conjuration (non-healing), Enchantment (all other), Divination, Evocation(light), Illusion, Transmution (all other), Universal
Hello? I seemed to have misplaced my hat!
Seriously tempted to run for you. I'm a little intimidated by the amount of catch up I'd have to run through though (800+ posts). I started a Strange Aeons that just got through the Argus Wall when it imploded due to reasons not directly related to the game.
If you want me and you'd be open to it I'd like to grab one or two people from my prior game.
I'd be open to adding people from your previous game.
I will need to acquire more materials for making more hats!
We would be grateful if you are willing!
Fine to add more people!
I could try to write a summary for you so you wouldn't have to go through all 800 posts. If that would be useful, I could get it together in a couple of days.
I could try to write a summary for you so you wouldn't have to go through all 800 posts. If that would be useful, I could get it together in a couple of days.
That would be immensely helpful.