OOC

[Jop]

Post #500... Bravo.

[Black Plauge]

Oh, and Jop, Skasa is currently mounted (as is the whole party). Is he dismounting to perform the action you descibed or directing his mount to cover?

[Jop]

Dismounting. Sorry.

[Black Plauge]

Hmm... In that case, he won't be able to reach any cover this round by moving towards the source of the bolt. It's a MEA to dismount (while wearing armor Skasa can't make the fast dismount DC, even on a roll of 20) and the closest tree in that direction is 45 ft away (and back wards on the trail somewhat). Do you want to modify your action?

[Jop]

nope. it's good like that.

[Black Plauge]

Soltlak's turn.

And it seems that I'm going to have to take more precautions when trying to ambush you guys. Manweh'mato's spot check is ruining the suprise.

[My Fellow Gamers]

He is a great hunter of his clan!

Maybe you just also rolled high.....

[Vaniver]

Sorry about the delay, various things make me unable to check this as much as I would like.

[My Fellow Gamers]

How much info can I divulge my fellow party members as a free action or to help my party members see where it is?

[Jop]

Looking at the combat thread... Siad is quite the coward... He's packed up and left for the past few combats!

[Vaniver]

I expected as much for Meat... but it's not like Soltlak would care :P

[Black Plauge]

Manweh'mato and tell them what he sees (so long as you don't make it a soliliquy). He can't, however, do anything to help them see what's there beyond telling them that something is there so that they keep making Spot checks (who knows, they might make one eventually).

[Black Plauge]

Aethyc, I'm waiting on Sara's round 2 action.

[Black Plauge]

If Aethyc hasn't posted by noon I'm going to assume a reasonable action for Sara and move things forward.

[Black Plauge]

Back to the top of the order. It is Sara's turn for round 3, but I'll assume an action for her once everyone else has posted their round 3 action if Aethyc doesn't post one for her before then.

[My Fellow Gamers]

I have updated my rond 3, do you mind if I leave my former actions BP? It makes it easier for me to substract arrows spend and other things this way.

[Black Plauge]

Not a problem. So long as each round's action is labeled so that I can tell what your action is for this round. You've been doing that so far.

[My Fellow Gamers]

Great, thanks a bunch.

[Black Plauge]

Time for round 4.

My dice seem to want you guys to see this guy all the way through. He hasn't had a decent Hide roll yet.

[Aethyc]

Sorry guys, I've been busy with moving into college among other things. Should be back to posting regularly again. Hope I didn't cause too much of a delay.

[Black Plauge]

No major delay, as I've been acting for you.

Oh, and it seems that my habit of slicing the map to make it as small as possible has led to some confusion about the size of the lake (as evidenced by Skasa's comment). I've reposted the map, this time sliced so that you guys can see the full extent of the lake. I'll give everyone a chance to take a gander before updating round 4 actions.

[Black Plauge]

The point Manweh'mato was delaying for has arrived. If you'd append his actions, MFG.

[My Fellow Gamers]

If all he does is hide, I will not fire. If he looks like another bolt will be shot, I will fire. So I guess a ready action to attack him if he attacks any of us.

[Black Plauge]

Okay, I need Soltlak's action. If Van doesn't post one by the end of the day, I'll assume that he's making the logical extension of what he's been doing so far. Namely, he'll dive into the water and swim across the lake to continue closing on the minotaur.

[Black Plauge]

Round 5

[Vaniver]

I will continue to make overly optimistic predictions of what Soltlak can do :P

[Black Plauge]

Given the holiday weekend, I'll give Aythec until Tuesday to post a round 5 action. At that point I'll push things forward again, with or without him.

I hope everyone has a good Labor Day weekend, the last hurrah of summer.

[Black Plauge]

My apologies for not having updated yet. It's been a busy first week of school and this completely slipped my mind. I'll start working on the update now.

[Black Plauge]

Jop, Wambli is an animal companion, not a familiar. Skasa doesn't have any mental bond with him.

Also, the barkskin spell will cease to effect Wambli once he's further than 5ft from Skasa.

[Jop]

Edited.
I can still handle him as a free action to seek? right?

[Black Plauge]

Yes, that is one of Wambli's known tricks and he is your animal companion.

[My Fellow Gamers]

Go Wambli!

[Black Plauge]

Since the minotaur and his hippogriff mount are now airborne and clearly visible to all parties, I'm giving Manweh'mato and Soltlak a chance to edit their actions if they want to.

[My Fellow Gamers]

No edit for Manweh'mato. I keep my readied action to attack if he attacks anyone.

[Vaniver]

Soltlak has been edited.

[Black Plauge]

The combat thread has been updated, but I haven't posted the IC post yet. I've got a dentist appointment that I have to get ready right now, so I'll do that later today. If you could leave up anything about your Round 6 action that you want to make it into the IC thread, I'd appreciate it.

[Black Plauge]

Why is it everytime I say I'll do something later in the day I manage to forget about it?

Anyway, I need Round 7 actions and don't need Round 6 ones anymore.

[My Fellow Gamers]

I have posted my same old same old ready action for round 7 and 8.

[Black Plauge]

I think I know what Soltlak's action for this round will be, but I'll give Van until tomorrow to post one. If he doesn't, I'll have him finish his swim.

If the rest of you could add your round 8 action to your post without deleting your round 7 action, it will speed things along.

[Jop]

BP: Although it might not change much... my 1D3 eagles should have appeared on my turn and have acted (i.e. immediatly).
http://srd.dndonlinegames.com/spellsS.html#summon-natures-ally-i

[Black Plauge]

Casting time for the summons spells is 1 full round. The eagles appear and at the begining of your next turn (after you finish casting the spell) and act immediately on that turn.

[Jop]

Ok... Not my interpretation... but OK.

[Black Plauge]

Check the rules on casting time. To quote:
A spell that takes 1 round to cast is a full-round action. It comes into effect just before the beginning of your turn in the round after you began casting the spell. You then act normally after the spell is completed.

[Black Plauge]

Sorry I didn't post continue with the combat yesterday like I said I would. My mother came in for a visit and my afternoon was suddenly much busier than I anticipated.

Anyway, I need round 8 actions now. Also, since Manweh'mato's readied action was triggered in round 7, he'll need a new action for round 8.

[Vaniver]

Only wimps would call this a lake. Back in the swamp, we had real lakes.

[Black Plauge]

Call it a pond if you wish, but for it to be a river it would have to be moving, and it's not.

[My Fellow Gamers]

I am ready for round 8.

[Vaniver]

It's moving since I'm moving through it. Soltlak spawns rivers with his wake.

((Sorry, I'm compensating for not having a ranged weapon :P))

[Black Plauge]

Only Soltlak remains for Round 8. I've got to go to class, so assuming that Van's current presence means that he's updating his action, I'll be able to finish round 8 after class.

Man, areial combat is hard. No wonder I started this thing on the ground.

[Jop]

Ok... So Wambli keeps firing 1's, and the hippo, keeps doing 7 damage... Why roll???
Anyways...

[Black Plauge]

Sometimes the dice just don't like certian characters.

This appears to be one of those times.

[Jop]

Stupid Eagle hating dice!
Well... now there are a bunch of them for the dice to hate!

[My Fellow Gamers]

If we keep it up, Siad will get to act in round 13. ;-)

[Black Plauge]

I'm out of town for the weekend. The next update will have to wait for Monday.

[Vaniver]

Updated underwhelmingly.

[Black Plauge]

Round 9 actions please (for those of you that haven't already posted them).

[My Fellow Gamers]

Is the mount considred large size for D&D purposes?

[Black Plauge]

Which mount?

The hippogriff and horses are all large. The warpony and riding dog are medium.

[My Fellow Gamers]

I was wondering about the hippogriff. I could have checked my monster manual but i make it a point not to when I am a player.

[My Fellow Gamers]

What are we waiting on? With the numbers of games I am now in, I lose track sometimes.

[Black Plauge]

Sara's action. Though I think that given the amount of time I've been waiting for it, I'm just going to assume an action and post an update without it.

[Black Plauge]

Before anyone posts Round 10 actions, I'm going to come right out and say that the minotaur is fleeing the fight. As a result, if instead of posting a single round's action you would post your philosophy for how you want this fight to end (chase the minotaur down until you take him down or he gets away, let him go, etc.), I'll wrap up the combat in one more post.

[My Fellow Gamers]

I still want to go full attack on the mount, Manweh'mato gave him a chance to talk, he declined and then fired on him a little later.

I will not pursue more than a few rounds however.

[Black Plauge]

What about the rest of you?

[Jop]

I'm going back to the group and not attaking.

[Vaniver]

Soltlak is unable to attack, so sees no point in chasing the minotaur down.

[Aethyc]

Edited my 10+ rounds; midterm exam week is done! (wohoo!)

[My Fellow Gamers]

Looks like I am the only one still fighting, a rare occurance with this PC.

[Black Plauge]

MFG, can you define for me how long is a few rounds? Your bow has a max range of 10 range increments (1000ft) so you can fire for a maxium of 5 rounds if you don't move before the hippogriff is out of range.

Moving on foot won't help this, but would reduce the range penalties on some of your shots.

Remounting in round 11 will lose you a round of fire, but able you to keep firing for 5 rounds after that (a total of 6 rounds of fireing). You'd suffer the penalty for firing while your mount is making a double move, however.

Which option, and for how many rounds, are you willing to keep this up? Also, are you rapid shotting each round, or just in round 10?

[My Fellow Gamers]

for 3 rounds. staying on foot. rapid shot everytime.

[Black Plauge]

Staying on foot and moving to keep the distance as short as possible, or staying put?

[My Fellow Gamers]

staying put right next to Katonka

[Black Plauge]

Back to IC posting.

[Black Plauge]

So, you going to actually do anything now, or just talk about what happened?

[Jop]

I'm ready to go!

[Black Plauge]

Watch order?

[My Fellow Gamers]

Manweh takes middle one.

[Black Plauge]

That implies at least two more.

If other people aren't going to volunteer for them would somebody please assign them (or should I)?

[My Fellow Gamers]

OK, I will go for Skasa first and Soltlak last. The most injured ( I think Sara was) should rest the most.

[Jop]

Fine by me.

[My Fellow Gamers]

I'm sure vaniver will agree so we have our watch order.
Skasa
Manweh'mato
Soltlak

[Black Plauge]

Sara didn't take any damage during this combat. Siad and Manweh'mato did.

If you want the injured to rest then Manweh'mato shouldn't be on watch and Sara should be.

[My Fellow Gamers]

I still want Manweh'mato to take a watch, even with the injury.

[Black Plauge]

As you wish.

[Vaniver]

Sorry, I've been out of things. Soltlak doesn't really care about the watch order, and so will act as directed.

[My Fellow Gamers]

Dang. We lost a horse. Soltlak will surely take it the hardest, mch less meat for him to eat.....:P

[Black Plauge]

You haven't necessarily lost it yet. Depending on the actions that get taken over the course of the next few posts, you might be able to catch it before it gets to far.

Of course, Soltlak has to realize that and do something about it, even if it is just to wake up one of the more animal competant member of the party.

[My Fellow Gamers]

So we lost a horse..........hahahaha.

[My Fellow Gamers]

Wake us Soltlak! Wake us....... ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz.

[Vaniver]

Sorry, I've been swamped lately. I don't know how frequently I can update over the next week.

[Jop]

Hehehe... The LIzard is Swamped.

[Jop]

Skasa would have tried to let his brother sleep after his watch and volunteered himself to go get the horse so his brother could rest.
Might change Manweh`s actions...

[Black Plauge]

Post it IC. I'll give MFG a chance to reconsider.

[Jop]

So Skasa will go after the horsey.

[Black Plauge]

Since Skasa is the only one in this combat (at least for now) I'm going to keep it in the IC thread rather than switching to the Combat thread. If things happen such that the others get drawn in, we'll switch to the Combat thread at that point.

[My Fellow Gamers]

Roger. If it is that Minautor again, I am having soup and his brains as my next meal.:dead:


Oh and now I wish it had been me going.....

[Jop]

Is it therefore my turn?

[My Fellow Gamers]

Come on Jop, show me what you can do with an angry druid......VADAN VADAN! (inside joke)

[Black Plauge]

Yes. It's Skasa's turn.

[My Fellow Gamers]

I have to admit, that was rahter unexpected actions from Skasa. Jop, Jop, Jop, will you ever stop surprising me!

[Jop]

Nope! I will not! Wait until saturday... when we play LIVE!!!

[Black Plauge]

Jop, the kneeling's not a problem. What are you going to do next?

[Jop]

I'm looking around, waiting to see if I get shot at again!

[My Fellow Gamers]

My bro is getting shot and I am sound asleep......Manweh'mato will be pissed when he wakes.

[My Fellow Gamers]

If he ever does.........

[Black Plauge]

Sorry. Forgot about this. That's what I get for switching back and forth between two computers.

[Black Plauge]

Uh... Jop... When does Skasa prepare spells? As a druid, the default is dawn (though you can choose any time you want) which hasn't happened yet. That would imply that you should be running on the same spell bank as was left after the fight with the minotaur.

Now, if you want, you can specify that Skasa has a night time preperation time, in which case you would have a new slate of spells for this encounter, but we'll need to be consistent about that going forward.

[Jop]

Sorry. The timeline threw me off. I thought we were at least 1 day after the Minotaur... My bad.
I'll re-post.

[Black Plauge]

Are you taking the mounts with you?

[Jop]

Yup.

[My Fellow Gamers]

He better, that was the whole point! (joking)

[Black Plauge]

Time units! (http://online-roleplaying.com/forums/showpost.php?p=133703&postcount=3)

[Jop]

You know what? I forgot! Too many games, all with standard time. Never even crossed my mind.
Sorry.:∙

This is probably a crazy long stretch... but lets say Skasa thinks it's the Minotaur...
He'll be looking up a bit more knowing that he was flying about before.
Could he have recognized the bolt he was hit with?

[Black Plauge]

He could have, if he had taken time to study the bolts from the first encounter and if he had taken the time to retrieve the bolt from this encounter. The bolt hit Skasa (dealing damage) but didn't stick in him (if it had, you'd have been dealing with Con damage and be in much worse shape).

If you want to recover the bolt from this encounter, you'll have to venture back out of the copse to get it. You still don't have a basis for comparison, but you can start developing one.

[Jop]

No thanks. Just checking.

[Black Plauge]

Skasa's still on his way back to camp at this point. By his reckoning, he's got a half-dozen or so dakika's of travel left. Of course, he doesn't know what's happening at camp.

By the same token, those in camp don't know how far away Skasa is.

So, what's Soltlak going to do now?

[My Fellow Gamers]

Is this a plot thing that we have to lose the horses??

[Black Plauge]

No.

[My Fellow Gamers]

Good, I was afraid I'd have to part with my animal companion for a while.....

[Black Plauge]

Given the holiday weekend, I'll give Aethyc until Monday to post for Sara. If he hasn't posted by then, I'll NPC her to keep things moving.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

[My Fellow Gamers]

I wouldn't hold my breath to get a post. Aethyc's last 3 posts were 8th of august, 27th of august and october 5th.....I say push ahead. I think this is now a 3 player part once again.

[My Fellow Gamers]

Hum.....BP?

[Jop]

I guess he's holding his breath.


BREATH BP!!! FOR GOD SAKES BREATH!!!

[Black Plauge]

Sorry, the first few days after the Thanksgiving holiday proved to be much busier than expected. I'll post later today.

[Black Plauge]

Since Aethyc isn't posting at the moment, I'm going to allow Sara's adventure to take place off-screen. If he shows back up I'll bring it on screen, but until then (or until enough time passes in game for her retrieval of the horse to finish), those of you in camp are on screen to do what you want to do.

[My Fellow Gamers]

Manweh sleeps.

[Black Plauge]

What about you other two?

[My Fellow Gamers]

I guess Soltlkak stays on guard duty and Skasa goes back to sleep but that's just me.

[Jop]

Yeah... Sorry. Thought you were talking about the "others"...
Skasa goes to sleep.

[Black Plauge]

Van, care to confirm Soltlak's action?

[Vaniver]

He'll stay on guard duty.

[Black Plauge]

Morning. Wish I could say it was "good".

[My Fellow Gamers]

If this is a way to make Sara "disappear", let us know and we will not push the search too much. We are progressing slowly enough as it is.

[Black Plauge]

No, I'm just taking advantage of Atheyc's disappearence to add some extra spice to this encounter. I'll let you know when I'm making Sara "disappear". Chances are Siad will go at the same time.

[My Fellow Gamers]

Oki-doki.

[My Fellow Gamers]

Dang. We followed the wrong tracks!

[Jop]

BP... By that Xbow bolt, Is Skasa to assume that we are now where Skasa found the first horse?

[My Fellow Gamers]

Very very likely my brother........

[Black Plauge]

Assume what you wish. The location does not look familiar to Skasa, but it is now light out and it was completely dark when Skasa found the horse.

Also, Manweh'mato hasn't seen any riding dog tracks other than the ones that Skasa's mount is making right now.

[My Fellow Gamers]

Hmm, interesting. Does Manweh'mato know about the bolt? Can I post as if my bro told me?

[Black Plauge]

That's fine by me. I doubt that Jop was planning on having Skasa hid the bolt from Manweh'mato.

[My Fellow Gamers]

With Jop, truly, you never know. Trust me when I say this......

But I will post anyways in this case.

[Jop]

Hehehe... He's right... you never know!
But yeah, I would have told him about the bolt immediately, and that I assume we're in the same place I got attacked...

[My Fellow Gamers]

Jop, do you also think the red color is blood? I cannot imagine anything else......

[Black Plauge]

I need to know more about what Wambli is being asked to do. I need it in terms of Wambli's tricks.

[Jop]

I'll post tomorow morn...

[Jop]

Seek is what I'm asking...

[Black Plauge]

Target for the Seek?

[Jop]

Uh... A horse.

[Black Plauge]

Oops. After rereading the description of the Seek trick, I see that it's one that doesn't require a target. Sorry.

I'll post an update later today. I have a test shortly.

[Jop]

Ok.
That's what the "uh" was for... I didn't think it required one... but anyhou... Carry on.

[My Fellow Gamers]

Sorry for the delay, I was quite busy the last two days.

[Black Plauge]

S'alright. We're all guilty of that from time to time.

[My Fellow Gamers]

I've got nothing to add IC for now.

[Black Plauge]

Sorry. The semester's wrapping up and I forgot I needed to update this in the rush of work. I'm headed to bed now, but I'll leave the browser open to the IC thread so that I remember to update tomorrow.

[Black Plauge]

Interesting choice as to who does what. I would have thought to do it the other way.

[Black Plauge]

Ideally I'd like to be updating Soltlak's combat at least at the same time as I update the action around Manweh'mato and Skasa, if not more often (as I managed to do for the first few rounds). This will help keep things mostly synchronous.

As a result, I'd like Van to post his next set of actions before updating again.

Oh, and Van, if you want to post more than one round's worth of actions, go ahead and note the sequence of events you expect to follow in your post.

[My Fellow Gamers]

I can do that for him. Round 1 I spot my target, round 2+variable I get to my target by any means. Round 3 +variable, kick his sorry butt all over the map. Round 4+variable, eat some of him and grin.

How's that?LOL

[My Fellow Gamers]

BP, did you contact Vaniver via PM to let him know he needs to post actions?

[Black Plauge]

No, I haven't. Normally I catch him in AIM to do that, but I since I'm at my parents, I haven't been logging on to AIM all that much. I'll PM him.

[My Fellow Gamers]

Okay, all my games are currently at a crawling pace so I am trying to encourage people to post more.

[Jop]

I was starting to think it was just me!!!
Nothing's moving!

[Vaniver]

Sorry. I'm assuming you want me to post in the combat thread, although it doesn't seem to be set up for combat.

[My Fellow Gamers]

No, pretty much all the game I am in as a player haven'y had a post in about 10 days when not more.

[Black Plauge]

I blame the holidays.

Van, I'd like you to post in the IC thread for this combat. I'll use your Combat Thread posting this time, but since you're the only PC in the combat, I think it's just as easy for everything to be handled IC.

Expect an update tomorrow. I'm heading for bed now.

[Black Plauge]

Okay, so I spent the day under my parent's house helping my Dad put in some insulation, as a result, I'm now beat. The update will have to wait until morning.

[My Fellow Gamers]

considering that Skasa herself is more than twice as tall as either of the halflings and the horse is even taller than that.

I know you meant Sara but I could not help chuckle and picture Gimli on the horse in LOTR: " It was deliberate!"

[My Fellow Gamers]

Forgot to ask, when we found, how far did we think we would be from the others?

[Black Plauge]

You've been searching for Sara for about a saat and a half and could return to the campsite in about half that time.

You know that the others are limited to Soltlak's walking speed, so while they'll have a 2.25 saat head start on you from last night's campsite, you should be able to catch them by the end of the day.

[My Fellow Gamers]

Got it. Thanks for the explanation.

[My Fellow Gamers]

Are we on hold for much longer?

[Black Plauge]

I've actually been waiting for you guys (though mostly Van, since he's in combat).

However, given that it's now been just over a month since the last IC post, I'm considering letting this game go. It seems obvious to me that we've lost Van and it was established just before the long gap started that we'd lost Aethyc and Reuben. That means we'd essentially be trying to start this all over again, for the second time. Given the way things have gone, I'm not sure that it's worth it.

On top of that, my concept of how I want Dünya to be has changed significantly since I started this game and I'm kind of losing track of exactly where this game is. It's hard to keep things consistent when your mindset for the world has undergone a radical shift.

[My Fellow Gamers]

So you are canning this?

[My Fellow Gamers]

Could we not restart the game with perhaps ony Manweh'mato and Skasa back closer to home, I really like him as a PC and Jop and me both post very regularly.

[Jop]

That would suck for the others... but if BP is willing, I am too. I've only really got one game going strong right now... OUT OF 5!!!!

[My Fellow Gamers]

The thing is I do not want to stop.

[Black Plauge]

So if the two of you want to keep going, where do you want this game to go? I've been giving you guys total free reign to determine what you do next and you have suprised me a few times. I think that's at least partially responsible for my feeling of losing track of the game. If I had something a little more definate to plan for, it might be easier to create something that actually moves forward in a more definative manner.

[Jop]

I'll let MFG take this and give us direction...

[My Fellow Gamers]

A restart at level one is actually what I had in mind. I think something closer to our home clan would be the best. A little problem with human settlers perhaps.

What I like about Dünya is that we help build it a bit. We should aim for small parts first and go further as we gain levels or when plot needs arise for it.

[My Fellow Gamers]

Never mind. I am ready to let go of this game. Feel free to can this BP.

[Jop]

Major clean up there MFG? Hehehe...

[My Fellow Gamers]

Yes. It was time for winter cleaning.