Hello folks and welcome to the non-human group!

This thread is for OOC discussion relating specifically to this group. Please keep ALL OOC talk for the group in this thread and not in the IC thread, with the ecxeption of dice rolls which may go in a private line to me IC, or in any form in this thread.

I'll be posting up a choice of starting locations here soon and would like you to vote on your preference. 'No preference' is a valid vote!

Whether your characters know each other or not will depend a little on where you start, though I'd like at least two of you two be acquainted.

If anyone has any long-term goals do let me know here or in a PM so I can corrupt set them up for you. Otherwise, I expect you'll develop some as we go :)

Right then, here's your choice of (rough) starting locations and (vague) position there. Please vote here for your choice or choices in order. Also feel free to request something if you've got another idea :)

Option 1
Location: A city-state in Tern
Ideas: Some or all of you are employed by the authorities of the city-state to do basic protection and clearance, and possibly some dirty work. Will come with a salary, occasional extra rewards, but the shackles of being tied to an employer (at first at least).

Option 2
Location: A village in Casson
Ideas: Some or all of you are members of the militia (service in Casson is compulsory but not full-time - it's not paid either). You'll spend some time looking out for the local community in various ways, and your free time however you please.

Option 3
Location: A lake-side village in Alasch
Ideas: You're travellers or natives from the local area, which is on the edge of the wilderness. You'd be free to explore and look for trouble, or settle down in the area for a while.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, don't feel confined to the starting locations or group - you're free to separate or join other groups when it makes sense IC.

My preferences: 2 - 3 - 1, in this order.

3, 1, 2, in that order for me.

3-1-2 in order of preference.

3-1-2 for me.

Siliwen would not be part of any city or town militia to star with unless I just got a job there,  She comes form a noble's estate, no she is not noble she is one of the commoners whose parents were employed there.

Looks like we're going with the village in Alasch!

I'll sort out who's local and why the others are in the area in a little while.

Militia service is only compulsory for men, of course...! And not at all in Alasch, so no problem.

When might this group start.  I keep looking for  psosts because there is a red new meassage on my stickly list only it is never for us :(?

I was hoping to have sorted out the village you're starting in last night, but ended up watching Buffy with my fiancée...can't refuse her! So, should be tonight :)

That sounds good to me! I'm really looking forward to this.

This knowledge should be considered OOC for Haruuna, and to an extent Milo. These are the details for the village you're starting in (and hopefully sticking around for a while :P).

Garstone Shore
The village of Garstone Shore is so named because it lies on the southern shore of Garstone Lake, which is itself at the foot of the Garstone Hills. The population is a mix of human and gnome majorities, and is almost two villages - the humans have built close to the lake, whilst the gnome community is built traditionally half-into the slopes of the hills to the south.

Fishing and arable crops are the main sources of food and income; there are few pastures.

The human homes are of traditional wattle-and-daub single-room construction with a central hearth. Those of the gnomes are of similar construction, but in all cases are of better quality and are at least partially underground.

There are three noble households. Lord Leonidas is the lord of the manor and maintains a small staff of three men-at-arms. He's a young lord, newly inherited from the Lord Julius, and is still learning the ropes. The day to day governing of the town is done by the town council of elders, currently led by Elder Delsean. The gnome community is seperately ruled by Lord Albin and Lady Quintana. A knight, Sir Buronnius Elderwyr, also has an estate here. The noble homes are all constructed of stone and are unusual in that they have two storeys. Several folk of the village are employed by the estates as cooks, chambermaids, and so forth on the estates.

There are three churches, two dedicated to Pascha, and one to Tressayn Slowhand. Mother Reina, a local herbalist, provides healing and care for the village, as well as (un)welcome advice.

Two other villages lie around the lake - Garstone Top is close, to the east, and Carenthel lies farther to the west. Both villages are part of Lord Leonidas' holdings. Garstone Top is to some extent a mining village, while Carenthel is much like Garstone Shore, though it has some pasture land where sheep and a few cows are kept.

Garstone shore is known locally for it's tolerant attitude to those of the Lesser Races - this attitude is fostered by Elder Delsean.

Rumours

Divided by character in private lines. They're just what you've heard locally or by travelling, so they may or may not be true! None for Haruuna as you're not local - sorry!

[Private to Lyra Duphaneus:
The elder is near death's door.

The Garstone Top fishers have a monster at their end of the lake.

The local Earl is planning to build a castle on the site of the village.]

[Private to Siliwen:
The elder was poisoned - by Leonidas's staff!

There's treasure under the lake.

The Queen's Lancers are coming to look for potential recruits.]

[Private to Milo Neek:
There's someone living with dogs out in nearby woods.

Brigands driven out by the army are heading towards the area.]

IC thread is up - will you get involved in the dispute or just watch? Let's find out!

I don't know where Lyra's got to...

Now is a good time to make a point - when you're interacting with the world rather than just each other, I will allow roughly a day for everyone to post before I move things on. This is because I'd like to keep the game going at a decent pace. If you're just talking amongst yourselves I'll wait until you're all ready before moving on.

Sorry, was out of town guys.

Had some personal matters to attend to.

No problem, thanks for letting us know you're back :)

Yeah.  I usually let the DM know before I get going, but I wasn't able to.

Well, I'm back so I'll be catching up.

Did you want us to post our dice rolls here, or is it okay if we post them IC, Mr.DM ?

Spot Check: 2
Initiative: 18
Melee attack roll(disarm attempt)- 7(Natural 1)
This message was last edited by the player at 07:58, Mon 18 May 2009.

You can post them IC in a private line to me, or in this thread, either in a private line or in public.

Anything OOC beyond actions or rolls to go in this thread, however. (Your note about defense was fine in IC thread for example)

I'm breathing a sigh of relief that you both realised that lethal force isn't called for...!

Siliwen is a sane, rational person, and hurting others unecessarily is not her way of doing things.

Glad to hear it! Sane and rational have not typically been characteristics of the tabletop group I run.

I see a game as a mini slice of life in a different setting.  People need to mostly work together to get things accomplished. Even Heros can't always do it alone. and woe to them that think they can.  Evenough goblins in a mob can take doen just about anything. and dagger in the eye slit of a well armored knight, kills quickly.

You'll fit in just fine here ;)

The players in the tabletop game are slowly learning to think like you do - the odd death here and there has certainly helped.

Death by stupidity helps some see the error of their ways.  Some never seem to learn but in the game I play death by stupidity has penalites to the next character they create.

I'm sorry that I was unable to post one more day than I thought, but I'm back now.

Welcome back, and no problemo - as long as you let us know when you're away more than a day it's not an issue :)

How far away from the poachers are we? Is this going to take a few days, or can we come and go from the woods to the town in no time?

You have no idea ;) Milo will tell you the woods are deep and you could travel for days in them.

Just in case anyone was waiting - in party conversation there's no need to wait for everyone to post. If someone is a little late they can just reply to several posts at once. It's only when actions are taken that we need to be polite and allow time for others to state theirs - in which case it'll be a day or so.

No word from Milo, so I'll move things on - it seems you're all quite happy to head out there without much prep other than fetching your gear.

we use back posting a lot in one game I am in  That is what it is call

Backpost in Inn

Jason came out of the inn last having to take care of a few things to do ......

Backposting in stable.

Jason wa upset to find his horse in a samll walled off corral and not in a stall.  I paide good money for a stall.......

Current post

Jason meet up wiht the others as they road out of town her has had to hurry though the crowds and had unfortunately pushed a few pwople out o fhis way.......

Yeah that's what I'm talking about, though I wouldn't include the bits saying 'backpost', I'd just describe what happened.

Watch order? If anyone wants to chat whilst you're walking, feel free to 'backpost' that :)

Edit: Forgot to mention, I posted as Milo as we haven't heard from him for a while.
This message was last edited by the GM at 13:37, Thu 04 June 2009.

Hey guys, I'm sick so I may not be on.

Feel free to post as me if that's what's needed.

Ok, thanks for letting us know - and get well soon :)

I went ahead and got a post up.

I got hit with a double wammy, first stomach flu, now cold, though I think I've got strep or some other infection of the throat because this is the worst sore throat I've ever had..

I'll try to be around.  And thanks, I hope to start feeling well soon.

Take care drinks lots of fluids and rest.  Hope you get well quickly.

Thanks.  I'm feeling better today.

I was going to post yesterday, but I was just too tired to convey what I was thinking into the post, so I settled with juts waiting.

Glad you're feeling better :D Don't ever feel you have to post, by the way - recuperation comes first ;)

Quick vote please - move on or continue your conversation?

PS I haven't heard from Milo for a while. I'll allow until the end of the week or so, after which he'll become an NPC, but I'm hopeful he'll reappear!

We can always talk some more later, and it doesn't seem like anyone's posting.  So I vote for making camp.

I hope Milo hasn't left us... Did he give you any word of his leaving?

We've already made camp, so if we move on it'll be...well, moving on!

He didn't. I stumbled across the same character in another game but I forget which one so I can't be a spy and see if he's active there.

Oh, well, I'm satisfied with midwatch to let the others sleep.  So if we're gonna be moving on, just assume I take mid watch.

I'm for moving on.

On another note, my internect connection could get cut.  I don't know.  I'll still be able to go down to the public library and use their computers (if I can get my PIN number off the librarians), but hopefully it won't come to that.  Anyhow, just letting you guys know.

Hide check please Siliwen.

Lyra - glad to see you're still able to post :) Thanks for letting us know you're having trouble with your connection.

Indeed.

I'm not too sure if my connect will get cut, but it looks like its heading in that direction.  We got the bill two weeks ago and I think we have three to four weeks to pay it.

And spot and survival from Lyra.

WOW! Man, what sucky rolls.

Spot: 7 (9-2)
Survival: 9 (11-2)

Why are you having -2 to those rolls?

Anyway, regardless, you don't see a track - you weren't following one to start with, which doesn't help. The forest is not well travelled.

That doesn't stop you trying to make your own way around the rise though in order to flank.

-2 for being untrained in Survival.

Spot, though... I forgot about the +1 I get for being Half-elf.

You don't get -2 for being untrained - you're thinking of weapons :)

So your spot check was actually 10 - you still don't see a trail (there isn't one - rare moment of DM being transparent there).

Oh snap.  All these years I've been adding -2 to my untrained skill checks and no body ever corrected me.  MAH!

Though it's partly due to my laziness.  When I'm getting bored with what I read. I just skim over it... I'm not that patient.

Or... I think it was a house rule that my DM, my buddy, decided would be a good idea to incorporate into DND.  So we actually all played with that rule and I'm just so used to doing it that way that I forgot about the real rule.  Well, anyway it's still good to know that I wasn't doing it right.

In game, how far away from me would the rest of the group be if I stayed put? I really don't wanna be the one to get us found out.

I think it'd be far less risky going in loudly by myself than trying to go in stealthily with a bunch of sneaks.

I'm counting on them on relaying information to me.  And there's not a clear line of sight? so they can't see? So is it fruitless waiting for them to tell me how many there are?

About 100ft to where Milo and Siliwen are on the rise. It's fairly clear to them; that's why Milo chose to stop there, so he can signal to the party.

Okay.  I'll just wait on everyone else.  I've got some stuff I need to do, so I'll probably post later on tonight or in the evening.

Hey, Siliwen, if you want to maintain stealth, you might not want to follow me.  I'm not moving silently. (I've got -5 on the check)  :)

Unless you're just good at hiding, then you can hide right next to me if those guys try and spot you.

I'm planning on just going out there and being like, "Hey, what's the deal? "

No trickery, no guile.  (well not much anyway.  )
This message was last edited by the player at 00:29, Sun 21 June 2009.

Revised.

Siliwen moves stealthly to a closer hiding spot at a range that her bow will be effective at if it becomes necessary.  Using Stealth and Move silently

OOC:  I did not realized Lyra was so far away from Sil.

Siliwen, please roll Hide and Move Silently.

Group update will be later today. A new player is nearly ready to join you. It'll be clear who he is, please don't kill him :P

Hey guys, just an update.  I'll just say I had a pretty bad day.

My toe's pretty much mangled after a fight with the car door.  Needless to say, car door owned my toe.  Yeah...It pretty much snapped like a twig, literally, that's what I heard.  Bled everywhere, it was gruesome.

So, I probably need to get x-rays, blah,blah, all that BS.  So don't be surprised if I don't post.  Just lettign you guys know.

Bright side.  I'll probably get narcotic meds... Oh yeah, I get to actually have a good night's sleep for once.

Wow - 'argh' is all I can say to that! Have fun healing! Where's cure light wounds when you need it? :P

Why do you do things like that, anyway? You should be old enought o know that it hurts! ;-)

Get better fast!

Hey, guys! I'm new. And improved. But mostly new.

I'll be joining your group soon, let's all get along~. Catching up now.

Hello Alan!

I'm back! It's nothing to be worried about, everything's taken care of.  So now we're waiting on an update, it looks like.

:D

Yep, I'm being slow :P Too busy at work, and too tired when I get in! Soon though, very soon...

Take your time.  It's all good.

What's the difference between this guy and a bunch of poachers, now that I think about it? Don't they both hunt game in the forest, just one doesn't have permission to do so?

Also, so much for all getting along. :(
This message was last edited by the player at 02:05, Wed 01 July 2009.

Siliwen is a bit crusty with good looking men who seem to be full of themselves.  Once bitten twice shy  She is a nice enough person, once she lets down hr defensive reactions.   I promise

We get along just fine, don't you think?

A few teething arguments, that's all ;) Besides, you don't have to like each other to work together - just don't try and kill/maim/sabotage one another please :P

I am not that sort.  LOL  I bite. painful but not permanent.

I dunno if I'll be able to make any posts this weekend due to some family stuff, so apologies in advance if I vanish.

No worries, thanks for letting us know :) Weekends are usually fairly quite here on RPoL I find.

No fourth of july for me.  It's too hot, there's a burn ban where I am, and we're under stage 2 drought conditions.

On another note, what's gonna happen to Milo? Is he just gonna fade away? Or are you gonna kill him off next chance you get, Mr.DM?

Hmm, kill him off...I hadn't thought of that!

We shall see - he'll probably just go home, since he's semi-local.

My unofficial policy is that if someone disappears with a word for two weeks, they become NPCs. If after a further time they haven't contacted me to explain the had some unexpected RL issue, the character disappears somehow. Unless I like the character enough to steal it for use as an NPC that is!

If a player tells me they're not going to be with us anymore, I'll usually kill of the PC when ever I can.  Or just NPC him until he dies.  The only problem is sometimes they just don't want to die....

I'm going to be pretty busy.  There's a lot of personal stuff going on right now, so if I drop off for a few days, or if I'm holding the game up, just NPC me or something.

I'll try and get posts in when I can.  I'm not expecting a stable schedule for the next couple of weeks, so just letting you guys know.

Eh, no need to make death cheap. NPCing them and moving them off the screen somehow's good enough.

Noted, Lyra :)

I'm still busy.  Right now me and my family are moving so that's why I've been gone, there's some other stuff, too, but I'd rather not mention it here.

Let's see if I can get a post up.

No probs, I've noted you in the absences thread as being unavailable for a while. Never going to be a problem as long as you let us know, which you have :)

The whys and wherefores are for you to worry about, not us :)

Thanks for understanding.  I've packed my DND books away, but I think I can still post some RP stuff.  Heck, I've been playing so long that I could probably battle without use of the book anymore.

I certainly don't always need the books! Also the SRD is handy - I use it when at work.

Yeah, same here.  There's some things that I might be rusty on, but I really don't need to books unless I'm leveling my character up, or DMing.

I don't use the SRD.  I really never need to.  But I guess I may need to now, with my books being packed.
This message was last edited by the player at 11:15, Tue 14 July 2009.

My favourite SRD:
http://www.systemreferencedocu...r/dnd35/soveliorsage

I use it all the time. After 3.0 became 3.5, I had no desire whatsoever to buy the new set, so the online SRD was a godsend.

True that.  I was using my friend's books for the 3.0, and I went down and bought the 3.5 a few days after they released them.  I would've been pretty angry if I'd bought the 3rd edition, and then a few days later they released the 3.5.

I'm still pissed that they discontinued the 3.5 books. I still needed COmplete Arcane, Complete Scoundrel, and Complete psionics! And I also wanted the Races of Dragon and Wild book, too! BAH!

Thanks for the link.  :)  What was the coat of arms link you told us about a while back? I usually draw these things myself, but with no way of getting them onto the computer, I'd rather do it this way.  It'd be much easier.

It was a couple of months rather than a few days, but that's what happened to me. I still don't own the 3.5 books - I just use my gaming group's copies. We often club together to buy rulebooks. Think we ended up buying two extra PHBs as we needed them so frequently around the table!

I didn't know they'd discontinued the 3.5 books! There are quite a few I would still have liked. Though I get just as much use from 3rd party books, which I tend to buy in pdf form as they're hard to get hold of here in the UK.

Here's one link:
http://inkwellideas.com/coat_of_arms/?page_id=8

That one works online and will output to .png. It can be a bit quirky but is generally handy!

I know, but I was very close to buying the 3rd edition books just days before the 3.5 came out.  I didn't know about the 3.5 edition, of course, so I would've been pretty screwed.

Yes, they discontinued the 3.5 books in favor of the 4th edition supplements.  Screw 4th edition, they took the Half-orc and Barbarian out of the core PHB, and put them in an accessory book!

The coat-of-arms creator is proving harder than I'd first expected.  I'll make one eventually, though!

Actually it's classed as a core book now - but I know what you mean. One of my tabletop group refused to try it until the Druid was back in. It now is, and I have to say we're finding it a lot of fun so far, and it hasn't really made much difference to our play aside from allowing us to do more in an adventuring day...

Yeah, the coat-of-arms thing is tricky. If you get totally fed up with it you could describe the design to me and I'll try and replicate it.

Yeah, it just makes me mad that I spent all that money on the books I have now and they discontinued them, and that I have to spend more to get an extra book for a class that should be in the first book.

And it angers me that they took the Ranger's Animal companion away. Atleast that's what a buddy told me.

I'll get the coat of arms thing up eventually, and if all else fails then I'll describe it to you. :)

I made a knowledge nobility and royalty check to see if I recognized that name that Nal just mentioned, but I think I failed horribly.  (Natural 1)

As I posted in another game lately, they're seperate games, one shouldn't compare directly. I sympathise though, I like animal companions!

I'm away for a week from tomorrow. I'm going to leave you as you are, talking into the evening - you seem to be doing some good character development and interaction :) If you get to the point where you'll sleep, that's fine, there are several comfortable enough spots around the clearing.

Okie dokie! Have a good week. :)

We'll just carry on until you get back, and if carrying on fails, we'll just sleep. :)

Waiting for all to announce they're awake/ready to move on before we do so!

Edit: Except for Haruuna who is away.
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:53, Mon 27 July 2009.

Here ready to go.

Actions? Waiting is a perfectly valid action by the way ;)

That looks like two votes for going the long way round, and one for sneaking through.

Haruuna is away (though still logging in!? Possibly using a phone like I did when on holiday), so unless Siliwen can convince the others to try the stealth approach, you'll be takin' the long way.

I'll go for sneaking through if it doesn't seem too dangerous, although given Lyra wears armour...

Yeah, I'd probably fail horribly with that armor.

And I'd just slow you guys down if we had to run, being that I move twenty feet and you guys probably all go your full thirty.

Running away is one of my least favourite parts of D&D - most people run at exactly the same speed, and worse, most monsters move faster than 20 feet per round!

Incidentally, real well made armour doesn't hinder the wearer much at all in terms of speed and agiity, but it certainly would cause more fatigue.

Yeah! That's the worst! I usually play barbarians or rangers, so I really haven't had to worry about armor encumbrance.  And it's not that bad compared to full-plate.

It's too bad masterwork doesn't reduce the speed penalty, then.  :D

Heh, speed increases are more the order of the day for you then!

I would actually argue that only badly made armour might reduce speed - but its not something I'm going to houserule since it's one of the tradeoffs for heavy armour and it's just a quirk of D&D rather than something that makes a big difference to the setting. Start messing with armour like that and I might as well overhaul the whole armour/HP system...which wouldn't be a bad thing but is too much work ^^

Yeah, I know.  It's a good trade off.  You're harder to hit but slower moving, and if you're in armor like that you have ways to get around the speed reduction.  The easiest way is to get a horse, or if you're up there in the levels, to get mithril.

You know, what we could do is toss Milo's souless husk into the den of spiders.  Let him be the fodder, then we'll all just run! ;P

MW armor should in all truth well fitted well made  armor is much less combersome and affects dex. less that than just plain armor.

I'm sure I read somewhere recently that taking armour heavier than medium is usually quite sub-optimal, or at least that a better idea is to focus on dexterity. But then again, I really don't like optimisation - people are varied!

Aye Siliwen, that's why MW armours get reduced check penalties.

Worth noting that I consider some magic weapons and armour to just be like master-masterwork items in a sense - I don't buy into the idea that the magic makes you a better fighter; it's just that because magic has been used to make or to better balance or sharpen the weapon or armour, it's easier to use.

Initiatives please! I will resolve actions in iniative rather than post order; please consider describing more than one rounds worth of actions, with conditions.

Siliwen is around 160 feet ahead of the group at this point.

Ack!  the Dice roller hates me

die 20 +3 = 6   init

Me too.

8 initiative....

Edit: So should I roll several attacks, or what?
This message was last edited by the player at 04:42, Fri 31 July 2009.

Oh don't worry, it's just evening things out - usually it loves the players and hates me!

I didn't make that clear, sorry: if any of your actions need a roll then yes, please feel free to roll in advance, including damage if needed.

Up to three rounds worth of actions is a good amount - if you post fewer than that you risk losing a round or two if everyone else posts more actions. However, if the situation changes and isn't covered by something like 'if I kill the one I'm attacking, I'll move to protect Bill' then I'll allow a chance to catch up.

Also if you roll in advance the rolls only apply if you do end up taking those actions, no storing up natural 20s ;)

Sorry for teh short post.  I would've doen more but I'm very tired and I have a head ache.  So...

Damn, and I just so happened to get two crits...and failed the confirm critical.

1st round: Sprint toward Siliwen as fast as I can.  (If I can't draw my weapons I'll do so as I get there.  )

2nd Round: Use my Shield Block on the first enemy to make itself apparent, and then attack and try and cover Siliwen (Or spend a movment to try and get to her If havent already and the conditions allow for it). (natural twenty for this round's attack, confirm crit 7; Damage 8)

3rd round: Either attack, or retreat if the odds look good to do so.  Probably be better to attack.  (critical, 19+5=24, for this attack, confirm crit 12; Damage 5)

ahhh, done.

Ah, I put all my dicerolls in a private GM message. Basically I'm trying to circle around the movement so I can get a clear shot at in, and then, if it's hostile, shoot it repeatedly.

Not sure if it's a valid sneak attack or not, if it isn't I would lose 3 damage (or could just reroll the dice.) Got a crit on my first attack and missed the others, natch.

21:15, Today: Siliwen rolled 19 using 1d20+6. To hit.
21:16, Today: Siliwen rolled 2 using 1d8+1. Bow Dmg.

[Private to GM: By the way I had forgotten my familiar.  Perhaps I just let her crusie a bit on her own, or should I just call may familiar later?]

Ouch.

Two fortitude saves each please from Siliwen and Lyra.

Damage to the two of you in PLs.

[Private to Lyra Duphaneus: 19 damage total]

[Private to Siliwen: 14 damage total - 10 then 4]

Siliwen you actually have another two rounds of actions, so please post those before we continue.

Siliwen, if you go ahead and cast two spells you're going to suffer two attacks of opportunities.

[Private to Siliwen: And you don't have many hit points left.

Also please make your two fortitude saves.]

Silwen withdraws, she needs to keep form being attacked

[Private to GM: 13:24, Today: Siliwen rolled 7 using 1d20+4. Fort.
13:24, Today: Siliwen rolled 14 using 1d20+4. Fort save. ]

PL

[Private to Siliwen: Take 1 point of strength damage]

[Private to Lyra Duphaneus: Take 5 points of strength damage (ouch!)]

Nal, you can get another two shots in before Siliwen and Lyra reach the others.

23:15, Today: Alan Ryland Trakli rolled 6 using 1d6. damage 2.
23:14, Today: Alan Ryland Trakli rolled 4 using 1d6. damage 1.
23:14, Today: Alan Ryland Trakli rolled 15 using 1d20+5.
23:14, Today: Alan Ryland Trakli rolled 22 using 1d20+5. bowshot 1!.

I doubt they're valid sneak attacks, so yeah.

Ooh...That hurts. 5 strength damage.

Those spiders got me good.  I'm glad I decided to take the option of 3rd level Knight instead of 1st.

Looks like you've scared 'em off.

Any further actions?

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This encounter was fruitless, and now we *still* have to take the long way. :V

I have no healz or anything, though surely our cleric does?

Oh I don't know, a shared bonding experience or something...but as far as achieving your goals goes, yeah, fruitless. I have to say the encounter did go in your favour quite a bit though...



Yes, when I update you I'll be using Haruuna to patch some wounds. Count yourselves lucky there - she's the only cleric in the game and magical healing is hard to get.

PL

[Private to Siliwen: It's very easy to forget about familiars! What is yours? COuld be it's been following at a distance, in your backpack, orjust hasn't been mentioned yet!]

PL
[Private to GM: She is an Eagle Owl, A Very large horned owl with massive talons, Can hunt nocturnal and even diurnal.  No  she cannot be hidden in my backpack  She could have been away on a mating flight or just hanging around.  LOL  I knew where she was and knew she would find me as she stayed not to far off.

Or, I can call her now and that would make it easier to work in.

The Eagle Owl is a large and powerful bird, smaller than the Golden Eagle but larger than the Snowy Owl. It is sometimes titled the world's largest owl.  The Eagle Owl has a wingspan of up to 138-200 cm (55-79 in) and measures 58-75 cm (23-30 in) long. Females weigh 1.75-4.2 kg (3.9-9.4 lbs) and males weigh 1.5-3.2 kg (3.3-7 lbs). In comparison, the common Barn Owl weighs about 500 grams (1.1 lbs). It mainly feeds on small mammals, but can kill prey up to the size of foxes and young deer (up to 10 kg/22 lb)]
This message was last edited by the player at 02:28, Fri 06 Nov 2009.

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[Private to Siliwen: AH yes I recall now. Best to say she's been nearby but not with you then.]

Sorry guys, I've been having some internet troubles.

Let me see if I missed anything.

Alright, internet may get cut this coming saturday so if I don't respond for a little while, you guys know why.  If I can I'll let you know friday whether or not it gets paid.

Alright guys, I fear that my lack of posting is just going to be slowing you guys down.  I regret having to say this, but I'm going to be saying my farewells to you guys.

I'm just too busy to play anymore.  I'm sorry if I kept any of you guys up.  It's been good playing with ya'll.

Thanks Mr.DM for making this game and allowing me to play in it.

Aww.

Anyhow, let's negotiate from a position that forces them to pay attention to us! We're not on a courtesy call here, we're here to tell them that if they don't comply they're very likely to get arrested and probably die

good cop bad cop should work nicely. Although I can't say I like the Leonidas guy much.

Hello, group 5 - please post if you're still here and wanting to play. I can add a new character or two if needed!

In reply to Mr. DM (msg #126):

 HERE

Is this game going anywhere.

The game is - doesn't look like the group is.

Is there a place in another group?

Group 2 could use you - but they're a long way away. However, I could see about moving time on and having you meet up. Then I can merge groups 2 and 5.

How about a convenient trap that trans[prt one somewhere else.  LOL

Too magical, I really would have to advance time to meet you up - or see if anyone wanted to make a new character (unlikely!)

Then advance time,  I do want to play.

sTILL HERE HOPING TO START PLAYING SOMETIME SOON.

Knock, Knock, any signs of life here?

Yep, I'm just really busy, sorry.

I'll get to you, worry not!