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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 459094" data-attributes="member: 114">{edited for format and fragment in Q10}OK, I'll try to give some answers for my Kyri Campaign storyhour...1. How many sessions deep are you into your story?I've probably written up about 30-40 sessions so far (most sessions being broken up over several posts)2. How much do you value reader feedback?Reader feedback is like a rare pearl, much appreciated. I don't get much feedback (apart from the occasional burst) but the occasions when someone chimes in to say that they liked something is quite uplifting!3. What percentage of your own players read the story, would you say?One of my players comes here and reads the storyhour, and that is just in the last month or so. None of my other players do.4. Do you value the page views column on the main page? If so, do you feel like jumping from a bridge when you see Piratecat's views? I value the page views column immensely. I don't pay  much attention to PC's or others page counts... the key thing is that I know that even if nobody is responding, people are reading the thread. It eliminates the "talking in a void" feeling that I used to sometimes get in the older forums with no page views.5. What's the worst in-game moment you've had to write up?Probably the occasion way back in the "depths of rage" scenario when there was pretty much a TPK... and one of the highest level PC's bled to death because the lilly-livered druid hid in his obscuring mist until the spell expired, and totally wrote off the possibility of trying to help the dying. Set the campaign back about 3 months with so many new 1st level characters coming in (they had been 4th-5th level)6. What three things (single sentences each) would you say are most important in a good SH?Personally I like: Characters with character, interesting situations, not too wordy.7. What "three" things (single sentences each) would you say are most important in a good SH writing style?Personally? Short paragraphs, appropriate humour, good visuals8. How many sessions behind are you in your writing, compared to where the campaign actually is, in-game? I'm one and a half sessions behind, hoping to get caught up by my next run which is on the 24th.9. Have you ever tried to turn events (discouraging a certain course of action, cheesing a rule, etc.) in-game for the benefit of the story hour? If so, have your players called you on it?No, never.10. paste here what you would want as the first-page teaser. Azrin sums up the situation – Syl is weakened, K’tan has no power left and can only use his crossbow, and M’ir is still brain-locked. If nobody goes to Dala’s aid, the young sorcerer is doomed. Without any more thought, and with bravery that the young librarian would never have imagined when he left his cloistered halls last year, Azrin tumbles down from the opening, landing behind the goblin and landing a solid blow against it, knocking its crown off.Thimdrul the troll thing stalks nearer, and the huge claws turn two dimensional and impossibly sharp…Lysander finally takes down the barbarian goblin who had been hacking at him, and his remaining gnoll opponent.Azrin, having distracted the goblin prince, backs off and starts to cast a spell – but he underestimated the trollish reach of Thimdrull, and as an AoO a casual swipe tears his head clean away from his body, slicing neatly through his garments and bones with equal ease. Blood fountains from his neck as he falls.Dala casts defensively and blasts the trollish figure with lightning. Syl and K’tan both fire their missile weapons and K’tan shouts out “He’s a METAMORPH” Galvanised into action, Lysander picks up the magic sword which the goblin barbarian had been using against him and charges in to attack Thimdrul with the unfamiliar weapon. Likewise, the stabilised Trajan gulps down a healing potion and rises from the floor swinging his Harthar-wrought sword into action. Electricity and lawful energy flare as both weapons strike home.Thimdrul swings back at his attackers, but is somewhat off balance and misses wildly, gouging furrows in the copper plated floor. Nevertheless, some of his wounds heal while they are watching. The goblin prince runs across to Azrins body and grasps a wand, attempting to use it against Trajan and Lysander – but holds it by the wrong end and burning flames lick out and end his miserable lifeDMsnote: he rolled particularly badly on his “use magic device” and I’m quite brutal when someone does this with wands – normally explodes in their face  Several of the remaining gnolls and goblins have started running for the exit where the mummified dragon body is – and Dala whips out his recently acquired fireball scroll, launching a fiery pellet into their midst which blossoms into a scarlet flower of death, scattering their bodies.Thimdrul doesn’t like the way the odds are going, and suddenly shifts form into a small bird – flying up and over the heads of his attackers, being clipped by their swords on the way, he speeds back into the concealing darkness by the head of the dead dragon.Battered and bloody, the company assess their situation. Darra in particular looks across at the body of Azrin, without whose sacrifice he would certainly have died. Then grim-faced they turn to look at the remains of the dead dragon in the next room...11. Give us a link, pookie. part 1 (Sunless Citadel, Depths of Rage, Candlemakers Fire, Speaker in Dreams) <a href="http://test.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=122&perpage=10&pagenumber=1" target="_blank">http://test.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=122&perpage=10&pagenumber=1</a>part 2 (RttToEE) <a href="http://test.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4070" target="_blank">http://test.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4070</a>part 3 (of Sound Mind, Dragon hunt, Tower of Evil, the Standing Stone and onwards) <a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6689" target="_blank">http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6689</a>Cheers!</blockquote>

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