Here it is; a new thread for the new game.

Everyone good so far?  Happy to be moving forward?  Like the thought of playing with me?

yah I lik the thought of playing with you, I've just been a little busy these last couple days. Funny how while all of the games I'm in are stalled I have hours of free time to spend and when they seem to get started up stuff happens and my free time goes away. It's like I'm being teased.

lol... I know what you mean!

Anyway, not to burden you all, but I guess I wrote something that set a few people so off, and I guess they must have been influential people, because I'm banned from the DML, even though I DM 3 games.

I have ideas about how it all came about, but I don't want you to get inolved.  If you wanted to help me out - and really, I don't think you want to get involved - but if you wanted to help, you could simply PM DM BadCatMan and say

'I don't know what's going on, and don't need to, but Fred's a fine GM.'

or something.  That should keep you out of it, and that way, you'd only be talking about what you knew - my experience with you as a GM.  No one can fault you for your experience with me as a GM.


Regards

Fred

Great another rogue DM.
LOL
Best of Luck Fred.

Don't worry about the PMs, I'm watching. :)

jeez, you'd think there wouldn't be any of this kind of silliness on a message board like this. I mean honestly I don't know what's going on, but kicking someone while they are running active games just because they said something seems like junior high crap. Unless you did something that broke the terms of use of whatever they have for RPOL or are running you other games like a jackass and are just screwing with your players I don't see why someone not liking you or what you said should get you banned from anything other than maybe another DM's game.

Flik, I appreciate your sentiment, and agree wholeheartedly.  I do, as I believe that many do, speak 'off the cuff' sometimes, and can understand how some people might be initially inclined to take something the wrong way.  What I can't understand is why someone might let their unwillingness to discuss or understand a person, or that person's position, cataput them into full-on hostility.  I can assure you that while my writings may not always make sense to some, my writings never broke any TOU of RPoL or RoA, and my writings never singled out a particular DMs game.

Would that I could say the same of those who so glibly wrote to me.

So anyway, I'm in some sort of holding pattern.  I feel an obligation to my players, and to my gms.  I feel that there is potential for RoA - to reach higher, or only to aspire to its former greatness, I cannot say.  But as one might expect, my contributions to the whole are limited if I am segregated to a section.

Over the short run then, Flik, Lilian, and Zorlax, I intend to keep posting as I am allowed by the sprites of circumstance.  But the fates are fickle, and I cannot promise more than I can do.

Should you want to keep playing with me as a fellow game-player, I would then encourage you to do but one thing:

Post!

Naturally, there are ways that you could come out in favor of all those cast into my perdicament, but I will not tire your ears unless you'd like to reach me personally.  My email is already available - fbaker4@yahoo.com

Thanks again for your patience, your time, and your characters.

I'd like to wait for Lilian...to speak frankly, it was her character's inclusion that prompted the confusion of the bubble-region...because she tended to the evil side of the spectrum, tho' it weren't the virulent kind of evil, it was evilnontheless.

So hang loose for a day or so?  Because once we set sail, we can't easily add PCs.

We could fish them out of the sea or rescue them from an adrift ship.

true.  it seems, though, it Lilian is KMAGYOYO; i think we'll start our sail, but we three can think about what we want to do longer term.  On a vastly dumber note, I might get banned from RoA for completely specious reasons.  So if i dissappear for no reason, that's why.  Oh - I'll be away for most of 9th - 14th.

well if you are going to be away from the 9th to the 14th anyway we might as well wait around for a new player or two.

The issue is neither dumb nor specious, and DM fbaker4 is not being banned or asked to leave. If he chooses to leave that will be for his own reasons, and he will have the opportunity to say his farewells if he chooses.

What?

kmagyoyo

stands for 'kiss my ass george, you're on your own

and of course, BCM is right.

I am back, but need to dig out.

question: Any place in the inner sea that you'd like to go?
This message was last edited by the GM at 10:53, Thu 16 Aug 2007.

Some place warm.

where ever is fine by me.

fbaker4 has chosen to discontinue DMing for RoA, as he found himself incapable of being polite, patient and getting along with and tolerating others.

We are glad for his loss, but sorry for yours. We shall of course seek to find you guys a new DM.
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:49, Mon 20 Aug 2007.

actually I think it's time to let this region die. This is what the fourth set of dm's for it so far that has left? Can we move our characters to a different region?

I'll second that. This region has been cursed.

That would probably be for the best. We don't have many spots open at the moment, just Kool's Moonsea

We do have two new DMs coming in. One of them might decide to take this game, but more likely they will start a new game (this game being so cursed and all), so you two should be able to jump in one of them.

I don't suppose one of those dm would be interested in the Savage Species Bubble?

DM Darkchylde will be taking Savage Species after DM Mike is done with it.

Mayhap it takes a DM born upon the cursed day of Friday the 13th to de-curse this region.  The Sea calls...

:D

Honestly though if you would all like to give it but one more shot, I'll do my best to give you all a game worth playing.  What do you say?

I'm game. But we probably need a couple more players.

I don't know, what exactly would we b doing and how would you handle it?

Well, without going into details I had a nice little idea for a good solid pirate adventure - depending on your characters I can twist it into near anything I want it to do.

Pirate good or pirate bad? I don't care (I prefer pirate wide open, but I can do bad) Flik leans toward good and Lilian leans toward bad. BTW is Lilian still here?

Lilian vanished about a month ago. Fbaker4 removed her and made the character an NPC. When I removed him, I restored Lilian to her player. She's still not been around though, or might not have noticed since she'd been removed.

[Private to DM Greensocks: A PM to Lilian Espaireith will get her attention. She was set on hanging around the last time we saw her, so she may still be interested.]
This message was last edited by the GM at 13:20, Fri 24 Aug 2007.

Probably wide open Pirate, if necessary we could play around with either a group dynamics (preferably) or you all could operate out of a town with your own crews.  Quite frankly I've got a lot of ideas, but the game is built for the players - the players don't show up for the GM, they show up to have a good time.

So what is it that you'd all like to do?

[Private to DM BadCatMan: Will do, I'll see if she's still around, otherwise I go headhunting]

Wide open pirate is fine. Flik can handle a little bad, especially if the bad is done to the right people.

Lets just go sailing and see what happens on us.

alright, I'm going to open up a new thread titled Sea of Fallen Stars IC

We'll probably need about 4-5 players to get underway though.

Well you just earned a few bonus points for picking Chris Lightfellow for your portrait.

Just as a role-call how many people do we have currently?  I'll open an advertisement if we only have the two.

I think just Flik and I.

Advertising I go then!

avast we'll be started yet!

Still here, although only partially.

After the whole baker started I had to up and move cross country, have since then been getting settled and starting a new job at a major airline. Who are then gona ship me off to florida for 7 weeks worth of training. As off now I have no idea how my connection status is going to be in the near future.

But I'm still game for pirates, thats what I signed up for initially and thats what I made Lilly into.

Heya!  That's three down playerwise, any of you have any RPOL friends that would be interested in a good old fashioned pirate game?

I'm asking mainly because I find old friends from other games or such to be the best general kind of party feel - and thus more of a group comraderie than usual.



I think I'm going to have to create an event to bring a feel of 'fresh start' to the whole setup, everyone can remain using the same characters and I'd like to ask only one thing - would those coming into this game give me a little idea of what eventual goals or things they'd like to see happen?

I shape the world, so it's better if I shape it with the players desires in mind.

Is everyone alive?  I'm going to try and start up the IC thread now with (gasp) actual information in it.

Characters can stay the same unless something really jumps out at me, but otherwise - welcome to the Bloody Ayn!

Press ganged huh? That won't go over well with Zorlax.

I wouldn't think it would :D

By the way I need always at least two people to post before I respond.  Otherwise that allows one fast poster to build up a crazy amount of posts really quickly.

So if you want things to get moving quicker, poke your companions.

Remember, poke your comapnaions if you want the game to run faster.

LOL, now what do I do? Back off and let the cook give me fits for however long. Or web the clown and see if that brings the captian????
Hmmmm.

Try not to get the natives to riled up, although I might be able to calm things down if you can stall long enough for me to show up. That is if you want my help so things don't turn bloody.

Yea, come on and join the standoff

Oh no, it won't be a standoff. Quite the opposite really. Both of you are going to become good friends... Well actually more like you two won't be tearing each other's throats out at any ate.

Great idea. That should be fun.

Anyone planning on posting?

I was waiting for the whole zorlax thing to finish. I mean he said he fainted, what happens after that? does doc throw him overboard? does he drag him down to the kitchen? Until that resoleves itself and Flik is reasonably sure that zorlax is fine or well beyond any help he's just going to watch the exchange between the two.

Same here, Gildor is just waiting to see if there is going to be a fight so he can swoop in and save the day!

AAA my heros.

Did we lose another DM?

He logged in yesterday, so I think you lot are fine. A week or two is the time to start worrying.

And a month is time to give up. Sigh. This place really is cursed.

We will seek a new DM for you guys. Please hold on.

In the mean-time, can I please have role-call of everyone who's still in this game and interested.

I also suggest you consider relocating to one of our other games that are open and active.


Just stashing this here:

I'm out.

Im, here if it starts back

Still here, and now fully in it as I'm back in the real world
This message was last edited by the player at 23:03, Mon 22 Oct 2007.

Hello, I'm considering picking you guys up, and I'd like a recap of the current situation players and story wise. What characters do we have, and what is afoot, and how easily can we get to a point to start a new storyline?

Frankly we've not really done much of anything for a long long time. The last incarnation of the game only lasted a couple of weeks. We started out on the sword coast, south of Amn, but with a new DM relocated and started our latest incarnation of the game (try three) in Cormyr where we pretty much got press ganged onto a ship. I wasn't around for that one though, as I had a slight hiatus to the US for school.

As for characters I can only talk about mine with any authority.

Lilian or Lily is a pirate scum, of the blackest and most foul sort. (since that was what I joined up for I made that). She might be a black hearted villain but she's a far cry from stupid. Loyalty and teamwork are things she puts great weight in, although she'll prefer it from other people than giving it herself. She's an able sailor, having been on a ship since she was old enough to run powder from the stores to the gunners.

She's found a niche for herself as a midship man, mostly due to her ability to yell at people in a manner that gets things done (yes her bardic perform ability is yelling swearwords). She's a Nelanther, and thus piracy is in her blood.

She's not a good person, in anyway, shape or form. And frankly this is probably the only place thats good for her, Piracy bubble region.

You seem to be all we have, Furyou Miko and I are going to pick up the game.

Ahoy.

Aiya... the pirate talk is going to make my head hurt, I can tell. ><

Hey. I'm a Co-GM, and since I know my port from my starboard (or at least my gin), and since Bunny asked so nicely, I'll be helping out in this region... beware my scheming. :p