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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3142836" data-attributes="member: 29014">(OOC: I just want to say that I don't have any lingering resentment over this.  You're a judge in one of the hardest positions possible--trying to pick up a game for a vanished GM.  That is to be commended, and I don't think I could even manage to do it if I had to.  On the other hand, I will admit that the exact 'gotcha' thing you mention above is exactly what it feels like to me.  At this point, we've spent months in character dealing with a very easy encounter and then come out apparently outsmarted by counting to three <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  That makes me feel that we've already ruined this adventure to an unrecoverable unfun point due to a misreading/misunderstanding.But what makes me saddest of all is that I've seen problem PbP players and, well, this situation is making me start to act a lot like they did, and that upsets me--I want everyone to have fun in a PbP game, and I definitely don't want to be making anyone else have less fun in their game...so before I do that (or maybe after, but I hope not <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />) I feel it is the right thing to do to bow out.As an aside, and this isn't even entirely related to just this adventure (LPNN is part of it too), I admit I feel a bit stymied too--Zaeryl appeared on the scene at about the same time as a particular influx of characters, and due to a series of misfortunes with GMs and recovering adventures, he has been more-or-less unable to have many fun adventures or progress  despite equal play time (some of them are as high as level 6 to Zaeryl's 3, with 3 or 4 completed adventures).  I have had some interesting RP moments with Zaeryl in this adventure, and those were fun (except with Michael because beating up on other people's PCs verbally is never fun <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />), so I'm happy for those at least.)</blockquote>

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