dm littlewing! Howdy! (uhm, you may wanna vacuum your couch) :PPP

Has anyone heard from Silifrey's player?

I haven't seen a post since the 23/08/2005 and the player hasn't logged in since the 25th. Did she mention she would be away?

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I apologize for my absence but IRL issues kept me busy for last couple of days.

Me too. An ER visit turned into a week long stint in the hospital. I was just released last night, but am ready to get back in the swing of things. Sorry for my absence.

I know you must all hate me now, IRL has me beat and I can hardly find the time to check the posts much less make one. I don't when things will return to normal so I am contemplating turning over the region to another DM.

Would this be all right with you guys or should I tough it out and post when I can?

I certainly don't feel like I have played in the game long enough to warrant giving an opinion. I'll let the others chime in.

But the thought of me hating you is simply silly! :)

I don't know.  I've enjoyed having you as our DM, but if it's putting additional stress on you over and above the already impressive amount you seem to have, then I wouldn't fault you for the decision to turn it over to someone else.  And I wouldn't hate you in any case.  I'm sure you're doing the best you can, and these are just games, after all. :)

Real life catches up with us all in the end.  If you can no longer participate, tehn so be it.

I'm fine either way.

I hate you, I hate you! But seriously, DM Darkchylde, do whatever you think is best.

Is it safe to assume at this point that this region is dead?  And if so, does anyone know of other ROA regions that need players?  From the looks of things in the thread on DMs and their Regions, everything is pretty much full.  Oh well.

You assesment seems to be correct, but I'm afraid I do not.  Which is too bad, because I enjoy Silifrey's chracter a great deal.  I will look for another region ro even another game for her when I have some time.

Hello all. My name is as you can see DM Capn_Chord. It appears that RL has gotten the better of your DM and ROA is currently in shortage of these wonderful volunteers. We are sorry for the interuption in your game and if there is enough here with interest to continue, I will talk with DM Mike about myself picking up the region. Just let me know if everyone would like to continue. Hopefully this will just be temporary as we would like to see your current DM back with us as soon as they are able to return.

Hi all,

DM DarkChylde, who runs the Rashemen, Silver Marches, and Dragon Coast regions for us in RoA was suddenly stripped of internet use around the 24th of September.

We first got word from him this week about his situation, and he's very sorry he had no way to contact anyone here -- his players or his fellow DMs.

When he can get regular internet use, he'll be back DMing on RoA.

For now, we'll try to get DMs to fill in for his regions.

We'll keep you posted on his status as news comes to us.

Thanks!

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Players are allowed to join into any regions currently accepting PCs with NO cost of Day Units, loss of XPs, items, etc.  Just take your PC sheet with you when you request to join another regions.

However, if you decide to sit things out a bit and wait for either DM DarkChylde to come back to the game or for us to find someone to take the region over until he can come back, you'll get 75 XPs per week of waiting.

So if you decide to stay here, you'll get 225 XPs for the three weeks you've already waited so far.

If you move on now, you don't get those XPs.

And if you move on in a week or so, you'll have them, plus another 75.

But we hope to have someone take over the region by then.

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ROLLCALL! Who is still here?  Who plans to move on?

If a player does not reply by 10/19, it will be assumed they are no longer with this region.

Thanks again, all!

I'll stay and wait.

I will wait as well.  It was the not knowing that was getting difficult.  I hope his 'net access gets back in order soon.  Thanks, DM Mike.

I'll hang around. Way too many of the games I joined ended up floundering, I'd like to see at least this one pull through.

For information on a new region opening up, see my thread in RoA: OOC about the RoA One-Shot Adventures group.

Thanks!

I will wait as well. I don't think I'll be leaving too soon. I just got started and wish to continue.

Hi guys and gals,

DM Dart will be taking over the region until DM DarkChyld can make it back.

He should be ready to play later this week (after Thursday, 10/20).

To help him out, please post a re-cap of the current adventure, plus plans on where the party was going, where the adventure seemed to be leading, etc.

Thanks!

(100 XPs to the best re-cap post, and 25 XPs to others who fill in the gaps, help DM Dart get a feel for things, etc.  DM Dart will award those once he starts play.)

The bare bones of things seem tobe as follows:

A large horde or montrous humanoids is rampaging across the Silver Marches (wow, colour me stunned).  IN consequence of which, several of us, myself included, were captured by the uncooh creatures, onl;y to be rescued by the other members of the party.  FOllowing that rescue, which also involved the slaughter of dozens of goblin minions, a contingent of Silverymoon's famous Knights in Silver showed up to congratulate us and salve our wounds.  They also informed us that travel into SIlvermoon has been restricted as a security precaution, and that we had best come with them, or we mgiht enver get in, perticularly as the forces of darkness (TM) are lible to be there in a matter of days, if not hours.  That, of course, was a problem, because there was a bit of unfinished business to take care of first (see below).  Having thus forged mighty bonds of friendship through our shared adversity... or posssibly just realizing that the metaplot would be shot all to hell if we said thanks very much and resolved to go our seperate ways... we have all banded together to accomplish two things.  The first thing is to help Calathra with a lycanthropy problem.  It is this mission, in which we all resolved to particiapte (and take our chances on being able to get into the city afterwards) which forces us to part company wiht the knights who saved us... or most of them anyway: Mister Blackrin is a Knight himself, and vollunteared to join us and assist our mission on behalf of the city military at the insistance of his commanding officer.  Apparently (I don't know the details of this, but there seems to ahve been a previous encounter in which the veteran members of the party participated) she was infected with Lycanthropy by a where-creature named Oliver, and must now slay him before the rising of the next full moon in order to avoid being afflicted.  Also, I have the impression he's rather an evil bastard who deserves to die for purely altruistic reasons.  We have tracked Oliver to the farm where he and some of hsi dire-rat minions are hold up.  We are, in point of fact, in the midst of combat with him.  The plan is to kill him, take his stuff (naturally), and return with all possible haste to the viscinity of SIlverymoon, and hope that we can either sneek in, or that one of us will have sufficient status and/or savvy to talk us past the guards and their "admit none" orders.

Oooh, that was really quite good. :)  I think Silifrey did a wonderful and entertaining job of summarizing, but maybe I can add a couple more things about Oliver, since Mourn's player and I are, I think the only ones left from those many months ago.  Oliver was a halfling wererat, who was being tortured by some goblinoids in a ruin that the then-party was searching for three artifacts.  The whole artifact thing seems to have been largely forgotten in the DM changeovers, and we've moved on to other plotlines, but the then-party freed Oliver after we'd killed the goblinoids, thinking he was just a normal halfling, and he the proceeded to wipe the floor with us and infect Cala with lycanthropy.  We then went through some mini-quests to try to find a cure for her, along with some other mini-quests that I didn't quite understand, and don't remember that well and don't really seem to be connected to the current plotline as it stands.  She did get some kind of potion made by this old witch who had a basilisk as a pet, that was supposed to keep her from changing for one moon cycle if she drunk it at the right time, to give her more time to kill Oliver and break the curse.  I'm getting a little weary of chasing Oliver all over the Marches and I think Cala's probably hogged the spotlight long enough, so I'd vote to wrap things up and move back to helping the Marches with its ever-present evil humanoid problem, or something less Cala-centric. ;)

Silifrey and Cala have most of the basics down. A couple of extra details. In addition to our oft changing cast we have been joined by Arthas, an elven cleric (NPC) sent our way by the dragon Silverwing, who saved our hides after our not-so-successful attempt to attack the horde and promised he'd find Oliver for us. Also Oliver stole a wand of Cure light wounds from Colmar, which he would dearly like to get back, along with healing Cala of course (us short ones have to stick together).

Well, I haven't been here that long, so I don't feel to bad about Calathra's story-line, but IC, Silifrey is undoubtedly racked wiht guilt and doubt: she is the doughter of one of Silverymoon's noble famillies, and it pains her to be doing something else while her homeland is in peril.