Personally, I always have a lot of trouble starting IC so long after I've made my character, unless the GM immediately throws in some strong hooks. If IC starts immediately, my head is still swimming with half formed ideas and personality quirks to throw around, but so long after, there's just not much left to provide hooks.

The downtime did have some positive effects, at least in terms of where the story is going, but losing a player seems to be an exceedingly steep price to pay for a better backstory.

Shall we skip ahead to a minute later (in terms of outside time) when everybody is finished getting their tattoos?



Time: it is now the morning of day -1. At midnight it will be day 0: spellcasters who prepare spells will be able to decide their allotment for day 0. These are the spells you will take with you through the portal.

Just past midnight, at the beginning of day 1, you will start going through the portal.

Once there, you will have about 12 hours (as people go through one at a time, and the portal rests for over an hour after each person goes through) to use (or write down, in Archmage Sider's case) the spells you allocated on day 0.

After that, you will need to let 8 hours elapse before you can prepare your spells for day 1, so that you do not incur the penalty for recent spellcasting; however, if you have a ring of sustenance tattoo, only two of those hours will actually need to be spent resting (rather than, say, crafting magic items that do not require you to cast spells, such as a Pearl of Power or another item worth 1000 gp or less, which would mean it can be made in only 4 hours).

In terms of rest, a single Keep Watch spell will allow the entire party to stay awake while resting: that's story time! Is everyone ready with their first story?


Incidentally, I don't think Archmage Sider will have enough hours on the first day to write down his entire allotment of spells: even Zhorr needs almost 13 hours, and that's considering that he only has spells up to 6th level and almost all of his 1st and 5th and 6th slots will be spent rather than written, which means he only really writes half of his available spells.
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Let's skip ahead. I for one have long been ready for going through, so why wait ?

Please post your plans for day 1 in the PPP thread so that we can organize the arrival schedule. At the moment, I would logically have Archmage Sider come in second, Mirelinda third, and then either Dekar or Pale.

I'm pretty sure we permanently lost Tilly.

Hi all.  As I told the GM, the game hasn't really been that interesting for me.  I think the weeks of discussing mechanics sort of slowly killed my creative interest.  It'd probably be better if you advertised for another Tilly or looked for a replacement.  It shouldn't be hard for this kind of game.

What do you all think?

Merry Xmas, everyone. Enjoy the holiday season now that you don't have to worry about the presents ;)

Tilly, I think part of the issue is how would we, as players, create characters that would be able to develop a new world in the specific setting that the DM has created. Some of this is cutting edge as there are no mechanics for what we want to do. Part of it may also be that as characters, the world may be set up as the show "Survivor" and we have to make do with what skills we bring with us.

Doing "Survivor" with 8 Green Beret's, Spetsnaz or SEALS would not be worth the time as they all would be able to survive.

Greetings fellows; just letting all my games know that I'm going on a camping thing for three days, starting tomorrow. There's a goodly chance I'll still have internet access but I may not, so I thought I should let you all know in case my posts slow down.

Happy new years, everyone!

Happy New Year in advance everyone!

Happy new year, everyone. We will go back to your regularly scheduled RPG soon enough :)

Happy New Years from Florida.

And back.

Welcome back. I was about to post a short description of how the works are going to proceed from the point of view of the outside world, but I realized you never actually told me f you want to do that.

Specifically, the idea I had was that Sider would open  portal to the mountaintop, and everyone would leave except him, Mirelinda, and one other person, who would then get his or her tattoos.

A few seconds later (outside time), the first vict... Beneficiary of Mirelinda's attentions would leave, and another would come in.

Lather, rinse, repeat, until everyone has their tattoos. Then somebody would have to approach Pale about the money - somebody with good people skills :P

Okay, I've decided to give this another go.  I'll be posting tomorrow!

Excellent news... And seeing how nobody objected, I'll go ahead and post the scene as I had foreseen it to move things along a little.

I'm not entirely dead yet :P Plan: one scene with Pale, for the kit idea, then we rejuvenate everybody, two days of waiting, and we cross the threshold.

Expect one long post with everything Zhorr is going to do once on the other side. I expect you will have long posts of your own with the description of your first day...

So what were these tattoos anyway?

So what were these tattoos anyway?

Still al1ve. Busy with work mostly but got to go to a convention in Gainesville, Fl over the weekend and play Pathfinder. (I miss regular FTF gaming out here in the middle of nowhere.)

Tilly I was going to want two of the Casters (6th) tattoos in the  Ring slots(L/R), along with the spell ones  Fly (Hand), Water Breathing (Wrist)

I thought Tilly had a tattoo... My mistake.

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/...tattoo-item-creation

They can emulate just about any magic item, and there is a unique item that can only be made with tattoos:

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-.../r-z/tattoo-caster-s

So we are waiting on Pale?

I'm still here, for the record, there's just nothing of note for me to do quite yet.

We are waiting on somebody to talk to Pale. Somebody good with words. 30 Charisma would probably be a better starting point than, say, 16...

Heyo. Sorry, was out all day. Forgive me for not completely understanding, what are you requesting of Pale?

And if you roll dice against Pale, be careful he doesn't roll them back; fear the +35 diplomacy!