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<blockquote data-quote="Tellerian Hawke" data-source="post: 6854740" data-attributes="member: 6790669"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Greyhawk: The Golden Era CY 963 -- RESTORED BACKGROUND INFO THREAD</strong></span></p><p>[gm]</p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><strong>September 21, 2016: 08:5 AM: </strong></span>This is the restored version of my first campaign thread, which was reconstructed after what I like to call <strong>"The Great ENWorld Crash of 2016."</strong> When the crash occurred two days ago (September 19, 2016) the database was corrupted to such a point that I lost my second campaign thread completely; my first campaign thread, which I posted in March 2016, lost all of its replies except for the first 8. (The original number of replies: 162!! That's so depressing, ha ha.) Thus, I lost 154 posts by myself and my players, which had been posted over a three month period, during June - September 2016.</p><p></p><p><strong>But hey, crashes happen, and life moves on. </strong>So I went to Google, and looked through the cached pages, and found about 90% of the text of those posts, and saved it to a flash drive. I'm not going to re-post all of it. I will simply re-post the background materials that I think the players would like to have access to, and then I will re-create the second campaign thread from scratch, and summarize the events to the point where gameplay can continue. And of course, from now on, I will make periodic backups of these pages, so that I will not be forced to repeat this experience in the future.</p><p>[/gm]</p><p></p><p>[ooc]</p><p><strong>This game runs 3.x rules;</strong> it is a combination of <strong>3.0</strong>, <strong>3.5</strong>, my own house rules, and bits and pieces that I have integrated from other systems, such as <em><strong>Pathfinder</strong></em>; It will start on June 20, 2016. In the meantime, players should make accounts for the following websites:</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>1)</strong> <strong><a href="https://rolz.org" target="_blank">ROLLZ</a></strong> (This is the official online dice rolling system that the game will use. You should join dice room <strong>GTGE_Chap7</strong> to make your rolls.)</p><p>LINK: <a href="https://rolz.org/dr?room=gtge_chap7" target="_blank">Roleplaying Dice Roller · Rolz</a></p><p></p><p><strong>2)</strong> <strong><a href="http://www.myth-weavers.com" target="_blank">MYTHWEAVERS</a></strong> (This is the official online character sheet system that the game will use. You will need to share your sheet with <strong>TellerianHawke</strong>.)</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>NOTE:</strong> The dice room on Rollz will change at the end of each chapter. New dice rooms will follow the same pattern (such as GTGE_Chap8, etc.)</p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><strong>Please add color to your posts!</strong></span> You can use whatever colors you like.</p><p></p><p><u><strong>My personally preferred colors are:</strong></u></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">~Thought texts are enclosed with the WEAK APPROXIMATION (~) symbols, like so.~</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #8b4513">"Dialogue is enclosed in quotation marks, like so."</span></p><p></p><p></p><p>Descriptive text is simply text without any enclosing marks. You can make descriptive text<strong> bold</strong>, if you want to emphasize something. Or you can use<em> italics</em>. <em><strong>Or you can do both. </strong></em></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><strong>The campaign will start in the Free City of Dyvers. </strong></span>The mayor of Dyvers is a reclusive lord, rumored to be an elf of ancient age, and albino complexion, known as<em><strong> Margull The Pale</strong></em>. Other rumors exist about Margull as well; some say he is in fact a demon, while others say he is an undead abomination. Of course, there exists no proof of the allegations, at least not that anyone has been able to discover. But since Dyvers has prospered greatly under Margull's rule these last 338 years, no one has bothered to complain about his longevity. (Margull was elected ruler of Dyvers by the Landed Gentry shortly after the sudden death of the former Magistrate, who bore a similar name [Margus] in CY 620. Margull requested a 5-year leave of absence "to tie up loose ends," before beginning his duties, and the Gentry granted it, appointing <em><strong>Larissa Hunter</strong></em>, the city's Knight Captain, as interim Magistrate.) <em><strong>Margull assumed the office of Magistrate in CY 625</strong></em>, and changed his title to Lord Mayor in CY 628.</p><p>[/ooc]</p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><strong>CURRENT TIME AND DATE AT START OF CAMPAIGN:</strong></span> <strong>Patchwall 9, CY 963, 5:00 AM (Just before dawn.)</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"><u>THREAD LISTING:</u></span></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488545-GREYHAWK-The-Golden-Era-CY963-A1-P1-S2-RESTORED-CAMPAIGN-THREAD" target="_blank">Restored Campaign Thread (Combines 1st and 2nd Chapters, Reconstructed After The Crash</a>)</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?502134-GREYHAWK-THE-GOLDEN-ERA-CY963-CHAPTER-THREE" target="_blank">Chapter 3 Campaign Thread</a></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?576068-GREYHAWK-CY963-GOLDEN-ERA-CAMPAIGN-HEROES-OF-DYVERS-CHAPTER-4" target="_blank">Chapter 4 Campaign Thread</a></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?589856-RESPEN-S-GAMBIT" target="_blank">Respen's Gambit (Side Adventure Thread, Connected To Chapter 4)</a></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?611069-HEROES-OF-DYVERS-CHAPTER-5" target="_blank">Chapter 5 Campaign Thread</a></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?646049-The-Heroes-of-Dyvers-Chapter-Six" target="_blank">Chapter 6 Campaign Thread</a></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?657160-THE-HEROES-OF-DYVERS-CHAPTER-7-CLARE-S-ERRAND" target="_blank">Chapter 7 Campaign Thread (Current)</a></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tellerian Hawke, post: 6854740, member: 6790669"] [CENTER][SIZE=4][B]Greyhawk: The Golden Era CY 963 -- RESTORED BACKGROUND INFO THREAD[/B][/SIZE][/CENTER] [gm] [COLOR=#0000ff][B]September 21, 2016: 08:5 AM: [/B][/COLOR]This is the restored version of my first campaign thread, which was reconstructed after what I like to call [B]"The Great ENWorld Crash of 2016."[/B] When the crash occurred two days ago (September 19, 2016) the database was corrupted to such a point that I lost my second campaign thread completely; my first campaign thread, which I posted in March 2016, lost all of its replies except for the first 8. (The original number of replies: 162!! That's so depressing, ha ha.) Thus, I lost 154 posts by myself and my players, which had been posted over a three month period, during June - September 2016. [B]But hey, crashes happen, and life moves on. [/B]So I went to Google, and looked through the cached pages, and found about 90% of the text of those posts, and saved it to a flash drive. I'm not going to re-post all of it. I will simply re-post the background materials that I think the players would like to have access to, and then I will re-create the second campaign thread from scratch, and summarize the events to the point where gameplay can continue. And of course, from now on, I will make periodic backups of these pages, so that I will not be forced to repeat this experience in the future. [/gm] [ooc] [B]This game runs 3.x rules;[/B] it is a combination of [B]3.0[/B], [B]3.5[/B], my own house rules, and bits and pieces that I have integrated from other systems, such as [I][B]Pathfinder[/B][/I]; It will start on June 20, 2016. In the meantime, players should make accounts for the following websites: [B]1)[/B] [B][URL='https://rolz.org']ROLLZ[/URL][/B] (This is the official online dice rolling system that the game will use. You should join dice room [B]GTGE_Chap7[/B] to make your rolls.) LINK: [URL='https://rolz.org/dr?room=gtge_chap7']Roleplaying Dice Roller · Rolz[/URL] [B]2)[/B] [B][URL='http://www.myth-weavers.com']MYTHWEAVERS[/URL][/B] (This is the official online character sheet system that the game will use. You will need to share your sheet with [B]TellerianHawke[/B].) [B]NOTE:[/B] The dice room on Rollz will change at the end of each chapter. New dice rooms will follow the same pattern (such as GTGE_Chap8, etc.) [COLOR=#0000ff][B]Please add color to your posts![/B][/COLOR] You can use whatever colors you like. [U][B]My personally preferred colors are:[/B][/U] [COLOR=#ff0000]~Thought texts are enclosed with the WEAK APPROXIMATION (~) symbols, like so.~[/COLOR] [COLOR=#8b4513]"Dialogue is enclosed in quotation marks, like so."[/COLOR] Descriptive text is simply text without any enclosing marks. You can make descriptive text[B] bold[/B], if you want to emphasize something. Or you can use[I] italics[/I]. [I][B]Or you can do both. [/B][/I] [COLOR=#0000ff][B]The campaign will start in the Free City of Dyvers. [/B][/COLOR]The mayor of Dyvers is a reclusive lord, rumored to be an elf of ancient age, and albino complexion, known as[I][B] Margull The Pale[/B][/I]. Other rumors exist about Margull as well; some say he is in fact a demon, while others say he is an undead abomination. Of course, there exists no proof of the allegations, at least not that anyone has been able to discover. But since Dyvers has prospered greatly under Margull's rule these last 338 years, no one has bothered to complain about his longevity. (Margull was elected ruler of Dyvers by the Landed Gentry shortly after the sudden death of the former Magistrate, who bore a similar name [Margus] in CY 620. Margull requested a 5-year leave of absence "to tie up loose ends," before beginning his duties, and the Gentry granted it, appointing [I][B]Larissa Hunter[/B][/I], the city's Knight Captain, as interim Magistrate.) [I][B]Margull assumed the office of Magistrate in CY 625[/B][/I], and changed his title to Lord Mayor in CY 628. [/ooc] [COLOR=#0000ff][B]CURRENT TIME AND DATE AT START OF CAMPAIGN:[/B][/COLOR] [B]Patchwall 9, CY 963, 5:00 AM (Just before dawn.) [COLOR=#ff0000][U]THREAD LISTING:[/U][/COLOR] [URL='http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?488545-GREYHAWK-The-Golden-Era-CY963-A1-P1-S2-RESTORED-CAMPAIGN-THREAD']Restored Campaign Thread (Combines 1st and 2nd Chapters, Reconstructed After The Crash[/URL]) [URL='http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?502134-GREYHAWK-THE-GOLDEN-ERA-CY963-CHAPTER-THREE']Chapter 3 Campaign Thread[/URL] [URL='http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?576068-GREYHAWK-CY963-GOLDEN-ERA-CAMPAIGN-HEROES-OF-DYVERS-CHAPTER-4']Chapter 4 Campaign Thread[/URL] [URL='http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?589856-RESPEN-S-GAMBIT']Respen's Gambit (Side Adventure Thread, Connected To Chapter 4)[/URL] [URL='http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?611069-HEROES-OF-DYVERS-CHAPTER-5']Chapter 5 Campaign Thread[/URL] [URL='http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?646049-The-Heroes-of-Dyvers-Chapter-Six']Chapter 6 Campaign Thread[/URL] [URL='http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?657160-THE-HEROES-OF-DYVERS-CHAPTER-7-CLARE-S-ERRAND']Chapter 7 Campaign Thread (Current)[/URL][/B] [/QUOTE]
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