Got a deal on hotel in Atlantic city this weekend.  See y'all Monday!

Glad to have you back Mellar but as for the IC: Lonhro is fine (for now). Mordred, on the other hand, is dieing. Would you like to be as brave to save someone who isn't your brother? :)

Sorry. Totally read that wrong.  I corrected my post. :-)

It seems important so I thought I'd give an update on the action this round:

Mellar will be hit, and almost critted for 8 damage - that was really really scary when I popped up a 20 on the AoO.

He's not taken out though which means he does get his heal spell off on Mordred which will bring Mordred back to 5hp (he was at -3 this round). So Mordred, you can take actions this round, which is good.

Lonhro's attack will hit, the beasts AC is 13 so that will do some solid damage even with its DR.

Ok, Mordred, Ealga, Radoslav - do something great before I have a TPK on my hands!

I can't believe this but Radoslav has successfully tripped the large and strong owlbear skeleton.

So for Ealga's attack it will be prone. It's very late here so I'll give Ealga until tomorrow morning when I wake up and get to my RPOLing to post an action and if not I'll act for her again.

I figured it was a long shot... perhaps I should invest in some Luck feats for him... =D

A problem seems to be that Ealga The Bear was last on Thursday 8 July and she has not posted since Wed 30 June. Could you npc her attack?

My thoughts are we should boot her immediately. We were obviously duped by her. The delay has gone paast ridiculous and is now into the offensive zone.

Rpol games are too fragile to hang onto utter non-posters in the hope they right themselves. They almost never do.

I tend to agree. We needed a combat character, but if they don't post we get ripped apart on encounters where we need them.

Feelings seem pretty strong on this and its basically the way I was going to go anyway seeing as I've given two PM notices and got nothing. The last logon is not so much the problem (by my time standards it was a Friday and the possibility of weekend + after weekend RL issues could easily explain that) as the long time since actually posting despite logging in. I prefer players to get involved.

I didn't NPC her when I last posted because it was 2:00am my time and I wasn't up for doing any more posts anyway so I figured I'd make it a last chance kind of situation.

About last round: I forgot the owlbear's actual attack! It lashed out at Ealga but missed.

Seriously guys, keep Mordred alive! Between his spells and that wicked staff of he has certainly dealt with more than his fair share of the baddies!

And I'm not sure you guys need another tank with your seriously beefy bard in the mix!

Oh, and Mordred - you picked up a Masterwork Quarterstaff didn't you? Don't forget that adds +1 to your attack rolls.

GM EDIT: Moved this to the OOC instead of IC for Mordred.

You are right. I forgot to add it in. It is so strange having a Wizard with a strength bonus!

Ok folks,

I sent an rMail to Ealga's player and removed them from the game. I've also finally removed Dena's player from the game too. Strangely enough Dena has actually been logging in a few times over the last week but has continued to ignore PMs and rMails, including offers to come back or even just be moved to lurker if they no longer have the time to play but want to keep up with the game. That frankly annoys me so anyway, they're both gone. We are again back to just 4, and a currently NPCed bruiser.

I'd like to suggest that if you again want to try for another player that we offer one of these characters to the player who wanted to take over Dena the first go around. I suggest this because that person is playing in another game of mine (the pathfinder one I started at the same time as this for the extra players who wanted in to the Whiterock game) and is also GMing there own games or is GMing at least one game here that I'm playing in myself. The person isn't a blazing fast poster or anything but I'd put them in the category most of this group seems to be: steady and reliable. Likely to be fast and frequent at times and slightly slower at others but unlikely to disappear on us as the last two fifths have.

Another option, if the group remains against a take over (and hey, I understand, not a big fan myself), if I could make a character for this player, with input from you guys on what you'd like to see in your party's fifth.

Or we could go back to one of the other replacement candidates and see if they're still interested, though at this point I'm finding myself in less faith in adding unknown elements to what is, I think, a very nice group.

Sorry to be long winded, GM necessity  sometimes.

Oh, and let's not let this slow us down. You've just won a very scary combat that almost killed at least your mage and cleric!

I just want someone good at stand up fighting. My robes are just not plate armor when it comes to swords and claws. Whatever works for you is fine for me. We have a good group we just need it filled out!

A key problem with rpol are the folks as players and GM who just stop posting. It gets very annoying and leaves the other players stuck waiting for them. In the last 4 months I was in 5 games where the GMs just disappeared - sometimes popping in again and again and never posting. I've also been in several games that just stopped because players disappeared and can't be bothered to give the GM a note that they are leaving - which is rude.

BTW, that fight nets you another 120XP, which brings you to 795xp, actually to give you some extra hope I'll top you up with your RP bonus for this level so that gives you 845XP total.

I should point out that the RP bonus is for good roleplay and is above and beyond the the xp you get for dealing with things like traps, non-combat encouters and challenges, and completing various story and side-quest objectives or events.
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:56, Thu 15 July 2010.

What xp did we get for the first fight with the Monks - I must have missed it?

In msg 174 on page 8 I gave out XP for all the events up to that point. It was 675xp, I don't blame you for missing it there was a bunch of stuff happening at the time.

So that plus the owlbear skeleton plus the RP bonus brings you up to 845xp, you're almost to the next level.

I definitely missed it! Thank you!

I am flattered you think me beefy, but my beef won't really scale up that much as I level up unless I steer away from my current bard build and pick up some fighter (a chance I suppose). I would still therefore like to see a biffer in play. I don't mind what you want to go with, DM. If you think your friend is reliable and will post consistently (which for this group I think means within 48 hours of a DM post), then by all means add him in. I don't mind if he picks up Dena, but I would check with him and ask him what he prefers. I'm not fussed on picking up existing characters myself and maybe he, too, would prefer to start a new character. My only request is that it be a frontliner (which Dena is already) :).

Looking forward to this next level!

:)

L

Just to clarify, this person (who I think is a lady) is not a friend of mine outside of RPOL so I can only vouch for what I've seen in the other games. But the game she runs seems steady enough and she's pretty reliable as a player in the Kingmaker game.

She sounds good to me!

I rerolled your search for you Lonhro, came up bad.

Just wanted to remind players about the options for take 10 and, if you want to spend the time, take 20.

I just got out of a meeting with my boss.  They are closing the site down where I work. The deadline is as of now, January 1, 2011.  It's generally regarded as an unresonable deadline, and is expected to be extended to July 1, of 2011.   (The company has leases on most of the buildings through the end of June 2011.)

However, my boss is proceeding from the position that some or all of us may need to be in new positions by year's end. He believes that while the employees may be out by year's end, our IT company, which has 2 years left on a 3 year contract, may be here to close the doors.  But not all of us will be needed for that.

If they officially close in June, the site firm will only have defaulted on 10 months of the last year of the contract.  Which they may just settle, rather than pay rents on the buildings for another year.

Anyway, what my boss wants is for us to concentrate on training, getting certified on as many things as we can.  Which means little to no goofing off anymore.    I'm going to have to quit this game, and several others I am in on this board.

I'm sorry, but that's how things have to be for now.  I have to focus on my certifications.  Sorry guys.  I don't have the time at home, and now my job skills need to take priority over the next 5 months.

Matt

Wow, that's terrible news for us (you're a great addition to the game) more so for yourself of course. But obviously this is just a game and you've got a family to take care of. Being employed certainly helps with that. I'll just say, I hope things work out for you. Also, if 5 or 6 months down the road you are able to pick up some hobby time again drop me an rMail and hopefully we can work something out. Also, you certainly don't have to use it but I'll switch you to lurker access so if you ever feel like a quick pop-in to see how things are going or just to say hi, well you'll have that option at least.

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As for those of us left behind, this certainly puts a serious crimp in our game. I was going to offer the bruiser spot to my other player/gm but obviously now we need a whole other character. I mean, four is certainly fine to continue the game but I assume you'd like a cleric around. Of course, healing potions and wands can certainly help fill some of the gap but divine magic does more than that and turning undead can be nice too.

One thing off the top of my head is I could go to the same well for water twice and offer another player from the Kingmaker game (who originally wanted in to this game) a spot. There are 4 active players in that game but one of them is an off-line friend who I ran through the Whiterock campaign in our table-top group, so he can't join. Of the other three there is the one I was already going to ask and then the other two. They both seem like nice enough people, I just figure I'd offer this spot to the more frequent poster first.

We could go the advertisement route or back to some of the previous applicants but my thought is that going for the known qualities first best ensures getting a good player for the game.