[D20 CoC] Beyond the Mountains of Madness Campaign - Recruiting Alternate Players

[Job]

I am sadly disappointed by the disappearance of over 4 months of our writing efforts.

Having said that, I'm considering how to proceed from here. I do not intend to re-write all of those scenes, and may provide a summary, but this really destroys the story (sad, sad). I also have concerns that we might spend a year investing in our game only to see this happen again.

Let me know if any of you would be willing to continue.

Thanks,
Job.

 

[Watus]

One can only hope that after this experience the database might get backed up more than once every five months.

That said, I'm willing to continue.

 

[Morpheus]

Hopefully, they will be able to use the May 8th database backup-but I'm still in either way.

 

[Watus]

Nope. There is no May 8 backup, after all.

 

[Job]

I've gotten over my terrible disappointment over losing months of effort and, after thinking about the situation, here's what I'm considering.

1) My biggest disappointment is that someone reading our game will now have a large gap in the story, so I feel that I absolutely need to post a summary of the missing events that have happened since this past December. I'll start on it tomorrow, but I expect it to take a little time. I may post a quick draft that'll get us back up and running within a week (not up to my usual standards of writing, but enough so that everyone can see where I'm going) and I'll revise it over time as I re-read it and have other ideas.

2) My second biggest disappointment is that I (we) spent a lot of time working on the scenes for verifying the ship manifests, and all of you were patiently going along with me. Those scenes were not very exciting, but I felt that they were very important for introducing our main "NPC", the USS Gabrielle ship, and also to introduce a number of other NPC's (Pierce, Nils, Gunnar, etc.). I felt that it was going well, but now it's lost and it would be too tedious to rewrite all of that. Hopefully the summary will help, but I just loathe the thought of re-starting in the middle of that tedious sequence. SO, I've decided to move our story forward in time and restart our game at a point in the story AFTER we've finished checking the manifests. This will not only position us at a point when the action picks up a little, but it'll give me more motivation to start writing again -- it'll feel more like a "fresh start".

So be sure to read the summary when it's posted -- it'll explain the end result of the manifest activities.

3) I now will be diligent about creating backups and also plan to start a hardcopy binder and print out our story as we go along. Years from now, it'll be fun to re-read our exploits.

Stay tuned. And thanks for staying with me.
Job.

 

[Drowned Hero]

just want to say the we are here, my brother former Anatomist and myself.

 

[Job]

*chuckles softly*

I just love this. Sometimes the god of chaos can be blamed for rather mundane failings.

Time rippled. Omnicient eyes winked. A gaping hole opened and consumed the thoughts and work of mere mortals who are chained to the continuum of reality.

OOC - Dread Azathoth, Primal Chaos and Daemon Sultan, mindlessly writhing, breathed across the EnWorld library and obliterated months of writing. Herein is a summary of our intrepid team's activities from December 31, 2005 to May 14, 2006, just as they begin their pre-expedition meeting and preparations.

Job.

 

[Job]

To my players:

Hooray! I'm almost done getting our campaign back up and running. I loathe rewriting something that I've already written, especially when I worked so hard to get it right the first time. Thanks for being patient.

Job.

 

[Job]

I have now finished writing summaries for Chapter 1 to a point beyond where we left off. I apologize for the length of time that this has taken, but it took quite a bit of cross-referencing of my memory with sections of the book and with stored maps, pictures, and manifests.

Even though I have not yet writen sections that describe the final outcome of everyone's checking of manifests, you are free to jump back in and write actions for your characters from now on.

I have not yet written a summary to describe the lost writings in the Prologue, but plan to take some time next weekend to start that work.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Job (the tortured one).

 

[Job]

For anyone reading this thread and interested in playing in a modern horror adventure, my game entitled "Angst" has just finished the prologue and is just kicking into gear in chapter one. This would be an excellent time to join that game as I am recruiting 2 to 3 new players and the characters (pre-generated with amnesia) are now being assigned. I invite you to take a look and ask any questions that you may have.

As with this "Beyond the Mountains of Madness" game, my "Angst" game is played at a leisurely pace of about 3 to 5 posts a week.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: A modern campaign wherein our heroes and heroines struggle to piece together their past before a twisted reality and the worst of humankind destroy their lives. Exploration, Mystery, Danger, and Revelations await.

Here is a link to the game --> Angst Modern Horror Game

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Job (the tortured one).