Carnifex's Story Hour (Updated January 20th, "The Union")

[Broccli_Head]

sigh....If I hadn't read the events as they had unfolded in the PBEM, you know that I'd be commenting on this story over and over. It's super. Lots of characters...and intriguing story arcs.

Of course, more maps would help....hint...hint and I need to re-read all the world background from the story site.

Just wanted to encourage you to keep it up for those who don't read the PBEM!

 

[Stinky]

Acro rocks

I was glad that you included part of Jeremy's post-
""Do not say such things," Cord said, still facing the direction of the approaching figure but clenching Burl's arm tightly with concealed strength. "And do not take a single step that you are not prepared to withdraw. Children have a knack for surviving, young wizard. Tread lightly when you claim to have no other option but to kill a young child."

That was some perfect elder dwarven monk-y grandpa speak. Good stuff. I have Kale think and say a lot of things, but there's nothing more poetic than the character's just right thing, said at just the right time.

Oh, and readers: enduring the crazy combats that Carni is throwing at me, it's getting harder and harder for me to find way sto 'break the rules' Props to the person who comes up with a sneaky tactic that I can use in combat. We have to stay one step ahead of the executioner!

 

[hbarsquared]

Thanks there, Stinky. ;-)

Half the reason I chose a grandpa monk was so that I could have some of that elder, cryptic dialogue. He hasn't been talking much, lately, but I hope he will again soon. It's a bit of a challenge, to "say just the right thing, at just the right time." Darn near impossible, actually, but I try.

As for Kale's tactics . . . you seem to always come up with great stuff, I can't see you ever running out. Hehe. I figure that eventually, when he's grappled, weaponless, naked, at 1 hit point, alone, and blinded, Kale will spit in the guys face, snag a critical, somehow manage sneak attack, and win the day again!

I love this campaign.

 

[Carnifex]

Piratecat - I love the picture! As an aside, I have OSM myself and think it's an excellent adventure; these poor PC's may end up being run through a heavily modified version (so it fits both my campaign and considerably higher-level adventurers) at some point

I'd also like to say that in the most recent encounter the PC's once again got ambushed in a tavern (it's the 3rd time this has happened for one of the groups ).

 

[Carnifex]

Oh, and Jeremy, I've stolen what you said in your last email as a quote for use in my sig

 

[Carnifex]

I'm currently copy/pasting the game text off the game board and onto a disk so I can write up some more installments for the story hour. Now that the players have moved from the 'epilogue' part of the game and have started the first proper 'Chapter', an adventure called The Arcanist's Tower, I may actually start a new story hour for the game, with a lot more crunchy content of stuff like more spells, beasts and PrC's from the campaign in it. I've yet to decide whether to do that or keep this thread though (if I do start a new one I'll need to archive this thread because it's a useful resource for the players, I bombard them with so much info during the game they need some way of keeping up with it all ).

 

[Carnifex]

sigh....
Of course, more maps would help....hint...hint and I need to re-read all the world background from the story site.

Well, if anyone would be willing to draw me maps I'd be happy to provide, but anything done by me would be pretty poor quality - I'm not up to much when it comes to map-drawing

 

[Carnifex]

Well, the campaign has moved on quite significantly now; even as I type, the party is embroiled in a fierce and tough batloe deep beneath the streets of the capital city of Naseria; there's a lot for em to write up and post. However, I've just recently moved into new accomodation and all that story hour to write up is quite an intimidating amount at the moment, so it may be a while before I next a)update this story hour or b) begin a new story hour following on from this one.

 

[Carnifex]

This is just a post to say that I do indeed still exist, I've just been distracted for a while!

I amy, before too long, be once again bringing installments of Acrozatarim to you

 

[Carnifex]

A merry Xmas bump!

And a vague promise that I'll actually update the story hour properly at some point... maybe that should be my new years resolution...