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Dire Lemming · 14th February 2009, 09:03 AM

Hey you guys! You wouldn't happen to need a monk would you?

... Guess not if you already have 4 of 3.

moritheil · 14th February 2009, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Dire Lemming

Hey you guys! You wouldn't happen to need a monk would you?

... Guess not if you already have 4 of 3.

As you surmised, we're kind of full right now, but I'd be happy to hold on to your name as an alt

Dire Lemming · 14th February 2009, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by moritheil

As you surmised, we're kind of full right now, but I'd be happy to hold on to your name as an alt

Aw shucks, I just know I'll miss the good parts...

Thanks though.

moritheil · 16th February 2009, 04:07 AM

I'll post a round summary after everybody posts actions. Also, for this combat, it's likely you'll get a fair number of attacks of opportunity. I'll assume you're going to take them unless you specify otherwise.

moritheil · 17th February 2009, 03:58 AM

As it turns out, the rats suffered heavy losses and did not stick around. A dozen rats are an EL 2 challenge, but I can't realistically imagine them fighting to the last rat against clearly superior foes.

I'll give XP incrementally because Grimm might want to use his crafting feat at some point to make scrolls.

crazy_monkey1956 · 17th February 2009, 04:01 AM

You betcha!

Grimm is going to be one of those wizards who is always about a level behind the rest of the party because he keeps spending his XP on item creation.

moritheil · 17th February 2009, 04:18 AM

Well, good! That perfectly fits his image as a craftsman.

I think we'll see party reactions to the combat and then I'll show you the results of ransacking the lair (assuming you search for the glint of metal that you saw before.)

Or, of course, finding out whatever spooked the rats might be more pressing at this time.

moritheil · 18th February 2009, 11:19 AM

I waited an extra 12 hours before posting to see if anybody else had any particular actions they wanted to perform, but it looked like that was it.

Enjoy your search results and second encounter!

moritheil · 21st February 2009, 12:29 AM

Waiting on one more initiative and action statement

Incidentally, you guys have been really great about posting frequently and your actions are very flavorful

moritheil · 23rd February 2009, 06:14 AM

I'm friends-listing everyone.

Still waiting on OnlytheStrong to post for Teal; if he doesn't post in another 12-18 hours I may go ahead and roll initiative for him to keep things moving.

OnlytheStrong · 23rd February 2009, 06:28 AM

Sorry about that...... Apparently I'm a moron..... Posting now

moritheil · 28th February 2009, 12:22 AM

So, combat could be over, but if you wanted to get in any last shots, now's a good time. I'll wait another ~12 hours for actions and then post some sort of wrap-up to that.

moritheil · 28th February 2009, 04:20 PM

Here is my plan, for inquiring minds: we will finish Combat II, I will assign Combat II exp, and then I'll distribute a nice present of bonus XP for RP. You can also do your appraise checks or painstaking searches then

Blackrat · 28th February 2009, 07:06 PM

I think the others should smack down the remaining zombies, so that they won't come haunting us later. Dzax can't move near them or they snap out of it, but the others can give them a beating freely.

moritheil · 28th February 2009, 08:38 PM

I'd be very happy to see some in-character discussion of this

moritheil · 2nd March 2009, 07:13 AM

Well, nobody wanted to change their actions, and we need to keep things moving.

Total XP to date: 90 (combat 1) + 120 (combat 2) + 200 (RP) = 410

crazy_monkey1956 · 3rd March 2009, 05:34 PM

My apologies to the DM and the other players, but Monkey is going to have to bail out.

This isn't any sort of negative comment against you, moritheil, I'm just finding the game to not be my style.

Thanks for having me and good gaming everyone!

moritheil · 4th March 2009, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by crazy_monkey1956

My apologies to the DM and the other players, but Monkey is going to have to bail out.

This isn't any sort of negative comment against you, moritheil, I'm just finding the game to not be my style.

Thanks for having me and good gaming everyone!

I'm not really sure that we've seen enough of the game proper to judge it, as this is just the intro side-quest . . . but certainly that decision is yours to make. Will you give your character a reason for bowing out?

crazy_monkey1956 · 4th March 2009, 05:38 PM

Well, he's suffering from "5 minute workday" syndrome at the moment (out of useful spells already).

I don't have a good IC reason for him to bow out other than something based on that.

moritheil · 5th March 2009, 04:47 AM

Well, we could say that this has gotten far too complicated for his liking - he started out to rescue some kids and now he's dealing with undead kobolds and the like.

I want to point out, for all the players, that I am now considering whether or not this is a flaw of my style: I tend to introduce the setting of a world and the main story of a campaign in two different parts. Somehow it always feels wrong for me to introduce both setting and story simultaneously.

It's not that the kidnapping story arc isn't related at all to the eventual story (it is, though whether or not your characters will put it together is in doubt), but "realistically" speaking, it seemed more natural for the party to gain the trust of the city by doing a first adventure, and then get moved up into more crucial roles. I figured the party could work out how to do combat, divide duties, what the interaction between different members would be like, etc. in this time.

I also am used to PCs who examine everything very, very carefully, and continually posit theories about how things are related; in a case where people aren't happy with being given puzzles and no clear answers, I can see where my storytelling might fall a little flat.

If you have feedback, I'll happily listen to it.