Okay, choppy-choppy over and I'm feeling a little better.  Let's have a look at what's what.

...no plans for a pool, here, I live in an apartment.  :)

Great, I come back right when we're face to ooze with Jubilex.  O_o

Is this Castle Greyhawk?  ^_^
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Welcome back, V. :)

Skald, I don't envy you that experience. I have had the pleasure of being a pool-owner - it was great when the kids were young but in the end I spent more time cleaning it than swimming in it. I once had to check the neighbours' backyards to find where our pool cover had blown off to during a storm. But a dead kangaroo in the pool? That's next level stuff!

Pleased you're back with us and doing better, Violet !  :>

Our pool is stubbornly refusing to get well - I've got PH right, but Total Alkaline is still high, and Total Chlorine is good, but Free Chlorine is still not registering ... and while the water is much less green, it's still cloudy, despite all the clarifiers, phosphate killers, and algaecide we've been throwing in.

Also, our cleaning equipment keeps breaking - both the vacuum brush and heavy duty vacuum head seem to have suffered from plastic rot (on reflection, keeping them out in the sun, not used, for 10 months might not have been the best plan).  Need to buy replacements next time I'm at the hardware store.

So ... I think we're at the stage where we need Qvar to Bless it.  Or maybe an exorcism !

Ah, I've no doubt we'll get there eventually, but suspect summer might be over before that happy day ! <ROFL>

I would like to see deer out in the paddocks, though !  :>

Sure, Qvar casts Remove Jubilex on Skald's pool :-)
Can also Summon Jackdaw Swarm to shade the pool if that helps...?

Season's Greetings from Baby Yoda ... er... Cthulhu!

Oh, how cute! The monster that ate the Grinch that stole Christmas!  ;)

Google translation: "In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming"

... all through the house not a creature was stirring ... not even Cthulhu, fortunatetly.

Happy new year, all!

Happy New Year!

And a Happy New Year to you, too. Let's hope 2024 will be a wonderful year for all of us. :)

Yeah, 2024 just sounds like a more optimistic sort of number, eh?  Even, lots of factors, ends in two dozen.  I'm excited.  HNY everyone!  :-)

...one can always hope!   :D

And back !   :>

Sorry about that ... afraid "no rest for the morally challenged" beat out those lazy Merry Gentlemen.  Wish I knew just where all my time went over the last three weeks.  OK a large portion of that was daily battles with the dreaded pool, which despite Qvar's best efforts remains possessed, though it IS geting better.  Slowly.

2024 !  Year of the Dragon swiftly approaching !

<consults Wandering Dragon Table>

<casts aside Wandering Dragon Table in favour of Wandering Dragon Armada Table ... oooh !  A natural 20 !

Not dead yet, so 2024 seems okay so far.  *thumbs up*

No ranged sneak attacks off flanking?  :P  That's sad.

Dragons would be a welcome sign of life in this place.

Liked Violet's description of Haste spell.

Not dead yet ... maybe we'll live on forever as part of Jubilex.

And back !   Sorry about that ... again !

Big storm blew through the regions Tues PM doing a fair bit of damage (luckily we were fine on that front) ... and not only taking out the power for three days, but also taking phone and internet down with it !   Weather was on the warm side at 40+ centigrade which didn't help.  Luckily the power came back on before the generator ran out of fuel, but phone took a bit longer and internet another day.

Of course, by then all my computers were screaming at me because the internet security software had expired and with the outages I hadn't been able to update them ... so I've been working on that (just the 8 devices between us, now 7 cos my tablet had developed the dreaded battery bulge, though THAT then meant I had to wipe it).

Hopefully that's all behind us now ... though we do have a planned outage on Wednesday (some infrastructure work in the vicinity) so fingers crossed that doesn't go pear-shaped !!  :>

Pool ... is actually looking a bit better, so seems some of Qvar's prayers were answered (the connection between the Demiplane of Dread and Elsyium might be a bit patchy).  Finally registered free chlorine, so was able to hook up the new chlorinator and put the cover on ... alas chlorine levels nosedived again in the power outage, so I'm trying to get them back up again, but at least it all looks good and my wife bravely went for a swim and hasn't developed any curses yet, so it might be properly exorcised now.  <grrrins>

So, situation fairly normal for round here !  ;P

Life wasn't meant to be easy, right? Mother Nature certainly seems to think so.

Fortunately those storms were well north of us and just gave us a spectacular lightning show.

40C weather, yeek.  It's -20 here, and that's Global Warming in action (should be lower).  Glad to hear things are looking a little better, though.

So I roll a 26 and I miss?  Yikes.  Okay, I'm not hitting this guy on my best day!

Looking forwards to 46C next week !  Won't that be fun ...  ;P

Yes, seems climate change is making itself a lot more noticeable everywhere.  :<

To be fair, your arrow only missed by a whisker ... but yes, it's disturbing.  Well, for everyone except the GM.  <evil grin>

Well this is all very grim.  I thought Ravenloft would be fun! :-)

Have to say, Caesius' battle hymn is perfect for such a dire battle.

On the positive side, I like the new RPoL format... and no one was swallowed whole by the pool.  Yay!

Dire !  Dire !  I thought the battle was going great !  On the cusp of victory and all that ...

... oh hang on, you mean for your characters ?    Ah ...   ;P

oops  sorry  :-(

Just updated XP etc in the Character Status thread ... and congratulations to everyone as you've all levelled up.  Huzzah !  You can update your character sheets now, as you will, and those who gained new spells can memorise them next time you rest/study/pray.

I allocated the unclaimed items you found in the Chapel of Ravenloft as follows: amulet in Zertin's haversack, platemail armor in Caesius' haversack.  I believe the Raven statue was left on the altar.  Let me know if that's entirely wrong, of course !  ;>