Question for the group, cause I really can't remember: did I fix everyones Rings yet? I know I did Carver+Dryssa+Cetaen but I forget if I fixed the rest.

Uhh... Fixed?

Also, i'm not rolling, the +5 to DC for me bumps them all over 10, and i don't have those Knowledges. Guess we're out of the Savage North again :P

….shit

What, was it something i missed, or..?

Fixed? Sorry, no idea what you mean :(.

In reply to Carmen Gorgon (msg # 974):

Same problem as Nothing. I have no clue what you mean with fixing?

In reply to Ashaia (msg # 979):

I think the fact that all players aside from Carmen asked what she was supposed to fix makes it clear that she didn't fix anything (Lilah asked as well, just in PM). Luckily, nothing worrisome has been said in character, so it shouldn't matter! Right? ;D

I will not say here because it really is in-character info but officially next time we're all together Carmen needs to . . . explain something.

In reply to Carmen Gorgon (msg # 981):

Well, we're in the same room and the mental link is active, so....?

It… requires contact.

Raj is secretly an Illithid, and from prolonged exposure to the mental link we all run the risk of turning into Mindflayers without the proper layers of protection? :P

A quick mental message should work in at least having us arrange something to be in each other's presence. How long would it require contact, can it be done via handshake or is it a ten minute ritual thing?

....fair point Ill post.

Afraid I don't really know what to post at the moment. I think my last two posts kinda got buried as no one really responded to either of them, so I'm feeling a little lost.

I think Ashaia's arrival overshadowed your penultimate message (where you pointed out to Adrika the highly likelihood that what she'd seen in the graveyard wasn't anything religious), and I think the last one was worded so that it was addressing directly only Carmen and Nothing, and that was overshadowed by the revelation about Thorn's rings.

I'm sure nobody wanted to ignore you, Carver, it was just a bad confluence of factors. If nothing else, Carmen and Nothing will need to discuss what you're going to do next eventually, and you'll be integral to that decision no matter what.

That being said, you can probably just insert yourself in the current conversation about Ashaia's next action or what to do with the rings; this is my best suggestion right now on how to be more involved in what's going on, and why I didn't have any of the NPCs engage with you (since your words weren't aimed at any of them). Well, in addition to pointing out to the rest of the team that, yes, they did overlook you a little bit, even if I can understand how that came to be and that it wasn't intentional.

If you're talking about the graveyard, Knowledges aren't exactly my strong point and i relayed that the laughter at the end reminded me of Cackle already so i didn't have much to add there, and the second i did indeed see as you discussing among your group what approach to take.

Sorry if it came across as ignoring your posts, that was not my intention :/

I similarly don't have too much to add right now - my last post ended in a question, anyway.

Forgot to say this earlier but I’m away this weekend with limited time so sorry if I take forever

Also sorry for ignoring you Carver

Apologies I haven't made a post yet, I've been feeling writer's block of late... Nothing really feels right or I just have no idea what to do.

In reply to Carver Merling (msg # 991):

Well, since you need to wait one day for the Iverson to be back and carry out your intended plan, the best thing to do would be to look for information, try to learn as much as you can, in hope that doing so would let you find new possible ways to approach the problem.

As for how you should go about collecting the information you need, I'll leave that up to you to figure out; I understand that it might seem a daunting prospect, but really, all you need to do is try and learn more about things, and I'm sure you'll find out something useful. The method you choose will really only decide what you learn, so you don't need to overthink it, just pick a method of information gathering and go from there.

I have an idea, but I don't know if the others want to do it? Basically volunteer at the soup kitchen and listen to the gossip that comes in.

Similar to Carver, I don't really have too many ideas right now beyond what I've already previously suggested - I'm built more for stealth-stealth than social stealth, so basiaclly I'm sticking to "follow the others around and act all meek and quiet whilst avoiding physical contact with anyone". Once we get to creeping around in the dark and trying to mess people up via creepy darkness I'm sure I'll have more suggestions :D.

Playing second fiddle at the moment, but that's all proceeding as expected (not to mention a situation of my own making) :P

Unless spoken to, Adrika will just be standing by while Ashaia and Travismere talk given the difference in (apparent) social status.
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While that is perfectly acceptable, the meeting with Travismere wasn't really that long, so if you as a team would rather have Adrika meet with the wizard first, I can have somebody stop Ashaia in the middle of the road, so that she is otherwise occupied and then you can make the decision IC for Ashaia not to go there since Adrika will be trying to get a job there and, if successful, would thus be better suited to investigate the place. And, of course, Nothing was already booked (by miss Roth) for the Monday painting lesson, so if neither of you two manages to get anything out of the wizard, they still could.

Overall, it is a strategic question - if multiple member of the team devote their attention to the same place, then you'll keep stumbling on the same hooks (such as, with every single team going to the church, you naturally all found the "Hekkard Roth" connection, which makes it seems as if I'm trying to force it on you, whereas the reality is that you all haven't investigated any other place; there are no railroads here, you just keep going back to the same station and expecting the lines from it to lead to new places), so I thought I'd get ahead of you and try to help you with spreading your attention to multiple fronts, to expand the amount of opportunities presented to you.

Yeah, once Ashaia makes it past Ekkhart into Balentine that should spread the playing field quite a bit, with Carmen focusing on the Church, me the locals and her group in Balentine scouting the place out.

I suspect we'll stop tripping over each other after the first couple of days :P

Just making a note that this thread is close enough to the 1000 posts limit that I'm putting an end to it and opening a new one. We can continue the discussion about your plans on who should meet Scaramian the wizard there.

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