OOC Discussion thread

[dna1]

Sorry for the delay 
Thats probably a really terrible way to un-retire a game lawl. Annnnnyways... Im actually waiting for a reply from Linklord about Something.

Also I was reinviting professorgear since we lost players. He is probably a no go. I was considering letting one of the other original applicants for the game jump in. But now Im thinking the smaller party might be nice. It could help with game speed and what not.


So as of now its phae, brujon, link, ksb. 

I'll get that recap posted within a few days and we can start again. I'll probably just move the game ahead a day or two from where we paused. But more on that later.

[brujon]

Great! I just hope Mythweavers still has my sheet.

[ksbsnowowl]

I'll probably just move the game ahead a day or two from where we paused. But more on that later.

IIRC, we were at the local trading sector, talking with a freakshow carnival, and had just started some disturbance over the mistreatment of a ... bear?  We were planning to hop on a boat at the docks to slip out of the domain without the domain lord noticing us...

[phaedrusxy]

I'll probably just move the game ahead a day or two from where we paused. But more on that later.

IIRC, we were at the local trading sector, talking with a freakshow carnival, and had just started some disturbance over the mistreatment of a ... bear?  We were planning to hop on a boat at the docks to slip out of the domain without the domain lord noticing us...

IIRC, the problems with hopping a boat was that the only boats leaving were either going in the wrong direction, or were under the control of the domain lord...

[ksbsnowowl]

Could be.  That was a long time ago 

I'll try to go back and read through everything in the next few days.

[dna1]

Alrighty, so I finally finished up all my xmas shopping and crap. I also dug out my laptop.. I've been posting on my phone the past couple weeks haha.

K so I'm going to break this down into sections. More detailed descriptions, and pictures of pretty much everything can be found in the game threads. I would highly suggest going back through and looking at some of the pictures and stuff... I just did and its helping refresh things quite a bit for me. Anyways here goes..

General game info

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Firstly, Valrin and Punka, professorgear's characters turned out to be spies. They betrayed the Kargat and were selling information to the were-rats of Richemulot.  You killed punka but Valrin managed to escape. K moving on..

The players are part of an elite secret police called the Kargat. When stolen from your homelands 4 years ago by the mists of Ravenloft (which I will abbreviate with just RL), you were brought to the Domain of Darkon. Because of your potential, you were taken into the service of the Darklord Azalin and joined the Kargat. Although none of you have ever seen the Darklord, you all gained rank rather fast. After 2 years of service you were given the opportunity to work with a man named Snorri, who is one of only a handful of people to work face to face with the Darklord.
Your team travels the continent of RL in search of a means to escape. Snorri has set up shop in Richemulot at an ancient sunken library, where he has discovered what he thinks could be a way to leave RL.
(If you remember, Pont-a-Museau - The Capital of Richemulot was massive. Less than 20% of the metropolis is actually inhabited. The original builders identity's have been lost to the Mists. They must have been advanced though because the city is spectacular. It has giant sky-scraper like buildings made of stone. Huge monuments, and ancient secrets rest here.)

Two weeks ago Snorri first informed the group about finding information of a small sect of adventurers that disappeared in the domain of Barovia. He has sent for more Kargat replacements and decided to send you, the strongest members of his team to investigate. Since then he has been continuously divining and researching. The short passage Snorri discovered mentions three holy shrines dedicated to the saints, as well as two powerful artifacts. One is a holy symbol thought to be a part Ravenloft it self. The other is said to be the power of the Sun. He has been able to determine that all of that information is true. The Mists have prevented him from seeing where these items may be found, but he is certain they are there. Since he must remain at the Maison Soulombre, he has arranged for his personal assistant Gevyen to follow and help you. The trip can be extremely dangerous though. Many Kargat have traveled to the Southern Core only to never be seen again.

Now you are on your way to Barovia.

Mott- The Pale Bastard of the Kargat.

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K I'm giving him his own spoiler here because so far his encounter with you guys has been one of the more important things to happen. You're encounter with him started on chapter 1 pg 3, and combat thread page 1.

Alright what you found out about Mott is as follows (this was originally a PM to Mercutio, but he told you all the info later anyways.)

"You have the sudden realization that you have heard of this person before. Long ago in Darkon, after you joined the Kargat you recall being told of a controversial high ranking officer.

He had lots of nicknames, the filthy bastard of the kargat. The pale inquisitor. Baron of executions. There was many things he was called. What you do recall hearing though is that he was one of the higher ranking Kargat members and he had a tendency to be rather vicious. His methods were contrary to the norm of the Kargat. He was known to frequently cause trouble by "testing" lower ranking members. Often resulting in fatality, and in-house fighting.

He had caused such a disruption in the capital that Azalin had reassigned him. The day he was reassigned is when you heard all of this, it was a big commotion at the time. He was ordered to take a small team of Kargat and explore the mists. Searching for any possible clues to escape. This was 3 years ago. Suddenly it dawns on you, that you have even seen this man before while you were in the capitol. His name dances on the tip of your tongue. You sure you remember it somewhere deep down inside."

Aside from that, you know he despises your master Snorri, and all of you now as well. When you bested him and he was forced to escape you managed to get his weapon from him, a interesting dagger.

What you were doing when we quit:

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Your companion Zero had complicated things by deciding to launch a surprise attack on the slavers in the Market area. Due to some quick thinking after a brief scuffle everyone managed to flee the area and headed to the docks.
The team reunited, and after a brief scolding to Zero you started to try and figure out a way to get to Barovia. There were several possibilities that you discovered. Gypsies, the Carnival Freakshow, Slavers with boats, the darklords ship.

Mercutio found out some info on the boats. Then Kwah-yah and Mercutio went to speak with the Freakshows owner(who was not present the first time Mercutio went there). Leaving Alphonse, Zulketev and the npc Gevyen in the Market. Also Reik and Zero are technically there.

[dna1]

K so I'm going to move the game forward 24 hours. Meaning you have had some time to work out what your doing. Before I actually resume the story though I want everyone to re-familiarize themselves with the game.
When I get the ok from all 4 of you we will start. Then I will gather rolls, send out some PM's and deal with Zero and Reik's leaving the game.

[dna1]

Welcome back Josh, aka professor gear.
Firstly let me clarify when his previous character betrayed the group, that was actually me logging into his account because he had to quit. We know eachother IRL so thats not as weird as it might initially seem.

Secondly, to answer your question josh regarding the game delay, is actually because I was waiting for the other players to give me a final go ahead. I can only assume they misunderstood that part in my last post, and were waiting on me. I was going to start afew days after the holiday, but I ultimately just decided to wait until you were ready. I'm probably just going to do some retconing and say you were there the entire time, in the place of Reiks character...

That being said I think we are about ready to start. Does anyone have any more questions about anything, or is anything unclear?
I would like it if everyone could just post one more time here saying if you are good to go or not.
Thanks

[professorgear]

All systems go!

[brujon]

Welcome back Josh, aka professor gear.
Firstly let me clarify when his previous character betrayed the group, that was actually me logging into his account because he had to quit. We know eachother IRL so thats not as weird as it might initially seem.

Secondly, to answer your question josh regarding the game delay, is actually because I was waiting for the other players to give me a final go ahead. I can only assume they misunderstood that part in my last post, and were waiting on me. I was going to start afew days after the holiday, but I ultimately just decided to wait until you were ready. I'm probably just going to do some retconing and say you were there the entire time, in the place of Reiks character...

That being said I think we are about ready to start. Does anyone have any more questions about anything, or is anything unclear?
I would like it if everyone could just post one more time here saying if you are good to go or not.
Thanks

I'm all good, the summary you posted i believe is enough to get us going again, i think, and i just need to get accustomed to D&D/My character again. He's pretty much a one-trick-pony so i don't expect it'll be overly hard to get the ball rolling again. On the plus side, hey, i forgot almost everything about Expedition to Castle Ravenloft.

[phaedrusxy]

ir hr

[linklord231]

Ready, Freddy

[dna1]

ir hr

lol does this mean " I'm ready, hella ready "   ? 

[phaedrusxy]

ir hr

lol does this mean " I'm ready, hella ready "   ? 

It means I was typing with a baby in one arm. (ir hr = I are here)

[dna1]

Haha yea I figured it was something similar to that.

Two things,
First: I will probably post the starting here within a few days. It's just been super super cold, like -54 at my house this morning. Thats 54 degree's BELOW ZERO. My car barely starts and the internet is rather fickle at these temps. I happen to work out side most of the day, and when I've been getting home I'm just too drained to start the game so far.
The news is saying the cold snap should only last for a few more days, it's been about 4 days now. Which is actually really nice, where I live (fairbanks AK) it is usually -40 below for about 2 solid months lol.... So we have had a really mild winter technically.. Side note: Where I live is actually in the world records book for most extreme temperature change between seasons. Summer is about 90-100 degrees on average, and the winter average is around negative -40.

Second thing, is there adds on this site now? My add muncher keeps blocking things. I'm not sure if it's an ADD or something actually important.

[professorgear]

That's some insane cold. I haven't noticed adds.

I'm ready when you are.

[dna1]

weird... yea I tried downloading some bullshit the other day and it had some hidden garbage in it. Now I'm getting like odd adds everywhere. Josh do you have any chat program or anything? I don't think I do ATM. But I would like to be able to chit chat with you a bit here and there..  Do you have a steam account? I'm guessing not..

edit: k I think I took care of the Add bullshit. Somehow some Browser Shop crap found a chink in my computers armor.. so to speak. Anyways its gone now.
I'll start working on the game shit here asap  

[ksbsnowowl]

Ready to jump in when things get going.

[professorgear]

Well, I use gmail, but as I recall you don't really use it.

Roll20 has excellent tools, from posting and chatting to voice and video. There's almost not even a reason to use Myth-Weavers since Roll20 has introduced character sheets, though that does require a $4.99 monthly subscription. I'm going to look into whether there's a way that I could get a subscription and my players could use character sheets though. At some point, I will be running a game on Roll20, but I'm still running the preliminary Deicide campaign.