But there's so many good ones!

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I always laugh reading this scene.  Pisca getting Liseth drunk during the first dinner with Foxglove.  So classic!

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Or Cato actually FINDING a gobbie in Aeren Barett's closet!  That was fun, especially after Amelle walked in!

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Kerr getting fit for his armor, Kellan did a great job describing wearing armor to him.  And the rest of the scene too!  Getting my new dress from Savah's armory, and then that mean Cerlynne Scarnetti!

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Oh, here's where Elsbet blows up at Liseth and then BOTH girls wind up ambushing Kerr while he's in the washroom!  Liseth is such a magnet for drama!

I'd forgotten about the washroom scene!  Kerr was SO VERY uncomfortable.  And confused.  So confused, lol.  That was a good one.

One of my favorite scenes happened super early--Das Korvut's Ogre Stomp!

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Das Korvut was a lot of fun to write, and I think it's where we really established the relationship between Kellan and Alergast.  And Kellan's rolling?  Perfection.

I also greatly enjoyed the meeting with Vorvashali Voon

The return to Sandpoint, with Pisca's reaction to Shalelu's "jackanapes" and then Quint and Santo's (love those guys!) dramatic recap of the Battle for Sandpoint and Alergast's Charge.

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The epic battle with Tsuto in the Glassworks was a lot of fun.
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Any of Pisca's interactions with Vhiski.  Loved that relationship.

Kellan finding out that Shayliss didn't REALLY have a rat problem, and then Ven showing up!
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Cato helping Brodert take down Veznutt Parooh and Ilsoari Gandethus
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You're right, Liseth.  So many moments.  :)  And who can forget Nisk Tanner?  :D
This message was last edited by the GM at 06:52, Thu 05 Mar 2020.

After all that, explain to me why y'all ain't picking this game up again?

Gotta say, Shayliss took me by surprise.  That was indeed an excellent moment.

How did Orson Wells put it?  "We shall make no wine before its time."  Something like that.

I just looked it up, and I like mine better.

I'm just a dumb hillbilly.  I don't know what that means.

Sorry.  Must be my age.  It's from a series of commercials for Paul Masson wines.  The first link below actually captures the sentiment quite well.  The wiki link tells you more about the whole series of commercials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSs6DcA6dFI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...asson_advertisements

No, no... I'm old enough easily to remember the commercials.  I didn't know how it applied to my question.  I could be missing some context.

Ah.  What I mean is that when - and I suppose if - the game is ready to start again, then it will start again.

Ah...  I thought there was some super-secret code thing going on.

Just a nod to the organic flow of things.  The digestive movements of the universe with plenty of fruits and veggies and fiber rich foods.

Heh, yeah. Racon is something of a perfectionist.

While I'm sure we would all love to continue this story, we did set the bar pretty high I think, and resuming before everything (and everyone) was "ready" would just do it an injustice.

Yeah, we'd all need to be able to commit some time to it.  If I was to restart it I'd probably ask everyone to designate a week a couple of months later where they could commit to being available to posting for most of the day.  I think one of the things that really kicked us off well at the beginning was the high volume of posting we were able to do right at the beginning.  I think we'd need that again to "prime the pumps," as it were.  And the couple of months would give everyone time to reread things and get a sense of their character and where we were.

But as I said before I'd also need to have enough free time to do it justice.  And I'd need a commitment from everyone that they would make it a priority.  :)

Good thing I just finished reading everything!  I don't think I'd need too much of a primer get back into Liseth; she's like a second skin to me.  Certainly wouldn't hurt though.  Racon is right that everyone would have to be on board and ready to commit; Racon especially!  Being GM is a lot of work.

I started up my Echoes game again, with Pisca and a few other players.  Just getting things off the ground and one of the players had to bow out already.  The GM life is a life of frustration.  And fun.  Funstration.

I woke up with this idea this morning ...

I know:  Uh oh.  Right?

What if we took the story up a few years later?  Maybe 10 years.  I remember a bit - I think it was in one of the OoC threads - where we were talking about Liseth and Kerr as an old married couple.  I found the idea intriguing.  How would the characters change in ten years?

Then, rumblings of the case that they had left ten years ago begin to resurface.  And once again they come together to face the peril they walked away from at that time.

That's an intriguing idea.  I don't know how well that would work with the adventure path though.  I have specifically avoided reading any spoilers about Rise of the Runelords the published path (it's killing me!) but just from piecing together events in our game it looks like things are meant to proceed along a timeline.  Everything is so sudden and needs attention right away, or EVIL WINS.  Mua ha haa!

Besides, 10 years?  I don't know whether happily married Liseth with 2 beautiful babies could find the time to save the world!

Yeah.  I hear you there.  There would have to have been some plot convention that put the evil plans on hold for ten years too.  Until now .. bum bum buuuum.

And part of the dramatic tension would be these normal lives that everyone would have waiting for them.  More at stake.

Just an idea.

Now I have to wonder exactly what Pisca's 'Normal Life' entails.

I would need to reread and set aside the time personally. It is doable however, and I would be happy to make the effort.

I do like the "priming" idea. I think that would actually work.

That was a question I had too, Liseth.  The biggest problem for me would be addressing the longer lifespan of gnomes.  I've tried to address that a bit with Pisca by asking another question: How does 50 years of experience NOT equate to 50 years of human maturity?  And, after reading the Pathfinder description of gnomes for the forty hundredth time, I decided that a gnome matures when he or she discovers his or her first obsession.  Until that time, they are energy without direction.

One avenue that I'd considered was having Pisca attempt her library in Sandpoint.  At this point, she would discover that setting something up is not as simple as making something happen.  And running a library is not as simple as collecting books.  There's community outreach and building.  There's fundraising.  There's human resource management - both paid staff and volunteer.  There is ... Responsibility.  (With a capital Response.)  This changes her.  Caring for Lunk changes her.  How?  I'm not sure right now.  I'd have to play it out and see what she becomes.

BTW, this might be a good way to handle this Priming concept.  Rather than jumping right into the story where we left off.  If I recall correctly, there were some sticky decisions to be made, which could bog things down.  Free creation of ... THINGS.  That is to say, anything.  Doesn't have to be this ten year jump thing, but anything that brings us together to collaboratively flesh out our characters could provide a good venue for daily - if not multiple times daily - posting.

I do think there are some elements that could help us get off on the right foot again, should we commit to a restart, which is still not certain by the sound of things. This is mostly just throwing stuff at the wall to encourage us.

- A complete re-read, just to sort of absorb is all again.

- A separate short summary of the game so far, broken down by Chapter. (Liseth might be our go to for this given she just read it all again). We can even put recognizable "side quests" here like Cato's relationship with the Hell Knights.

- The creation of a character and location index for reference (This might be useful for Racon in the long run as well to help keep everything straight. Rather than rifling through the entire story, we can at least remember their name, basic appearance and role at a glance.)

- Some time to find the character "voices" again for consistency, sans combat, without any big decisions. Something like a communal version of the wildly successful "intro" threads at the beginning of the game.

- Lot's of team encouragement. I seem to recall that Racon was big on positive reinforcement and asking people to bring up aspects of writing or character development we enjoyed. Just like a fitness regime, having other people involved to keep up motivation could go a long way.

If we can commit to even a solid week of "mass" posting, I think we could have a real chance at regaining momentum. That is of course is Racon is in a good place in his life to resume the mantel (and the burden of commitment). If he is not, we should continue to hold off I think.

One of the reasons I originally put all of my RPoL games on hold was that my (then) new job blocked access to RPoL at work.  However, now I'm teleworking at least half the time, which means I can post at home, and posting at night is easier the older my kids get.

*Edit: Though in some ways, this was the game I was most involved with.  I think I changed jobs back in the fall of 2017, but the last post here was June 2018.  This game going on hold was the reason I stopped checking RPoL often and bowed out of my other games.
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Was that only 2018?  It seems longer.

Time is a funny thing.  No wonder gnomes laugh as much as they do.  Except for the ones who don't.

I will commit to twice as much effort and work as I put in before!

Hope you guys are all staying safe in these crazy times.  I'm hunkering down here in California; no one I know seems to be sick so that's a blessing.