There is the trend where dec till Feb games loose big swathes of players anyhow. Same with the summer period for some reason.

Then there is the trend of ever more people just never really committing to a game and not even bothering to say they are bowing out. Hell even GM's seem to just poof without a word more often then not nowadays and the number of active games on the site is steadily going down. And yeah the number of games closing because of health issues feels overly abundant. Im down to like 5 games from 20ish and nearly all had a GM with health issues and 3 im in do still have one who has health issues.

More health issues. Been in hospital for past 11 days. Transitioning to rehab soon. Will update when I can.

One thing I'll tell you guys is I've been playing with the GM for several years straight, and while he has health issues I can vouche and say he never ghosts or anything.

GM...rest up! We'll be here.

So while I was stuck in the hospital bed for two weeks, I wrote and rewrote this post in my head several times. Don't remember any of it now, so here's the newest version.

THE NEVER-ENDING STORY...

The Missing Chapter: when I was discharged from the hospital back in January, I was sent home with a Foley catheter, which was more of an annoyance and handicap for my home rehab at the time. Managed to get an appointment with the VA  urologist two weeks later. He thought I should never have been sent home with it, but it was time to get it removed. Took a week of scheduling shuffles but finally went home without it on the following Thursday.

That Friday night when getting ready for bed, I lost my balance while setting something on the floor and fell over on my back onto the concrete floor. My housemate helped me get up and everything seemed fine once I was back out in the recliner. Nope. Come Saturday, I was in excruciating pain across all the muscles in my chest and back. Doan's, Aleve, Tylenol didn't help at all. Monday added a heating pad... better. Wednesday, switched to BenGay... better, but still couldn't sleep, so Thursday went back to the VA for some stronger pain meds.

That doctor saw the previous records and thought I might be having a pulmonary embolism and immediately did an ambulance transfer to the ER. 6 hours later the ER doctor decided that wasn't the case and sent me home with vicadin. Didn't do anything but pharmacy was closed so had to wait till the next day to get more.

After that, everything was fine for a few hours. Mid-afternoon, I suddenly couldn't move my legs!

EMT/PD shortly had me back in the ER. MRI of head and neck revealed a tumor in my C2 vertebra. Had spinal surgery next morning! Being the weekend, it took 4 days to get the pathology back which identified it as prostate cancer. Caught it early and getting chemo, and now in rehab to walk again.

Other than that, I'm in great health (for my age)! Probably 4-6 weeks in rehab before I go home.

Oh man that sucks big time. Good to hear they found it early. My father inlaw was diagnosed with it and though he still gets testosterone treatment he literally crawled out of his grave with that treatment.

No F-ing way on all that!

Really? Cancer and Spinal surgery at the same time? That's ridiculous!

Although absolute props to you for keeping your chin up through all of this! Just take it really slow and easy so you can recuperate!

GM (or anyone) can you please tell me more about what aliens or group is chasing us for the artifact (or did they want our portal, or something else?)

And what are Veskarium? Alyn is gonna know due to his condition way more than his player does.

In reply to Alyn Reed (msg # 392):

We are being hunted by the Vesk so their big lasers killed the ship. Why they are hunting us we do not know as we never stayed long enough to ask em. But we carry a teleportation circle straight to our home world and are on the hun for a lost planet with now 2 of the puzzel pieces and they also might get their hands on those.

Good summary, Rev!

Can you tell me more about what the Vesk are? And is there any story summary about HOW they came to start hunting us?

https://aonsrd.com/Races.aspx?ItemName=Vesk or Starfinder Core Rulebook pg. 52

And cause we need a badguy for the story and they volunteered. Such nice guys aint they?

Just not up to doing a deep dive on the old threads, and can't find it with a surface scan, but the StarHawk encountered the Vesk ship at some point.

Essentially, the Veks want whatever it is they think you have. They may have the intel on the aiudara, but what they really want is Golarion! They think you know where it is and they want your intel.

Thanks guys this helps.

I definitely don't want anyone doing a deep dive on old threads but just having like a few sentence summary over a post or two just like you guys have done has been great.

If I recall don't they want the starfinder we have?

And likely by now, probably Phelar if they investigated that temple she was found at.

It's thought that they have their own Starfinder, which is how they are tracking you. It's always possible that they know you have one, too, and believe it is superior to what they have.

It's not like you've been sitting at a bar and gossiping with the Vesk.

True. :)

Phelar did postulate in character at one point that they wanted her.

BTW, for the PC's the last time Phelar acted like this she had a vision. I think only the older PC's seen her have one.

Okay guys i looked up differential energy. and its a bomb!!!!

Woohoo!! Water bomb!

Is 'across' 100 miles the short way or the long way on this planar shard?

Happy Easter everyone. Don't cuddle to much bunnies

The children have already devoured a few… :)

Happy Easter!

Apologies for no update but really didn't think there was one.

Still paraplegic trying to recover mobility at a poor rehab facility with bad nursing and half-horrible food until...

Developed a sore on my butt from laying in bed 24/7 that didn't get treated properly and turned gangrene, so now I'm back in the hospital with surgery scheduled for Tuesday.

Recovery to go home was still about a month away. Don't yet know how this new problem will affect that.

Low energy levels at rehab have left me with a one-track mind--just have trouble shifting gears between game systems right now.

My OCD stubbornness is still keeping me from pulling the plug on my games. I really have fun running games and it really bums me out that I can't keep them going right now for all of you. For those of you who are still sticking around waiting for the game to restart, I sincerely apologize for the delay. For those of you who have moved on, no hard feelings here--I completely understand.

Anyway, Happy Easter to everyone!

You focus on getting better. I think its safe to say the people that hung around till now either got nothing better to do or just are willing to wait for your recoverey. Spring is coming and that usually helps with recoveries some.

Yeah, get better. We’re here for when you’re back in full swing. :)

You have enough of a pain in your ass for us to start on you now!

Yes please take it easy, and take a break if need be but please see to yourself and your health first and foremost!