Out of Character discussion:

Movie was ok, so were the books on tape of the first two trilogies (my fav rendering). I thoroughly enjoyed all the books thirty-ish years ago.

I can do 5e, which I run for a group of kids, and Basic. I’m completely unfamiliar with anything beyond AD&D 1e, and really only 1e only got on my radar after OSE brought up the Advanced Rules.

I absolutely hate crunch, and basically anything from AD&D 2e and beyond was just too much unnecessary crunch for my style. I actually play a lot of the Baldur’s Gate video game franchise, and that’s all 2e, and mostly I have no idea what the hell I’m doing every time one of my party levels up. I can’t grog 18/100 ability stats to save my life.

2e was just 1e with proficiencies really, thac0 was already there, they dropped the initiative segment system for casting spells... Hard pressed to think of anything else. 2e did eventually get a bunch of splat material... 1e is more pure in that way ;)

I should have something posted tonight, or 100% by tomorrow. Things at my hotel maintenance job (my main job) have been ridiculous. I haven’t had any time for forking around or surfing the internet.

My gym job doing pool/hot-tub maintenance after hours has been slightly busy (more than normal, but not much).

My funeral home job doing body removals after hours has been pretty slow recently. That’s pretty good for everyone as a whole who light be worried about dying, but bad for money since my side-hustle of removing dead bodies from places arguably pays more than both my other jobs combined on bad months for sick people, but I popped hot for weed last week on a piss test, because I’ve been using cannabis before bed to sleep since my son died, so now I have to piss clean at the end of October. So I have 30 days to stay clean, which is basically 30 days without much sleep, which means I make lots of mistakes at my other two jobs, and everything seems to take 4x longer on account of me having to fix mistakes, make single trips two or three trips, and mostly just being shitty at all my things because of sleep deprivation, and unfortunately this has shit up my time to invest in this campaign.

I’ll definitely jump on making sure a post is made tonight/tomorrow morn. Unless I figure out a solution to this piss-test conundrum, I anticipate operating on the bare minimum of sleep until my "fix-it" piss test on 10/26. I’ve been told by my doctor that Im a prime candidate for a rX card, because I evidently have PTSD , which is why I can’t sleep or have an appetite, so I also need to sort that out.

But mostly I expect I’ll have to keep my shit together until the 26th, puss clean, get some goddamn sleep, and move forward. In the meantime, I hope to get back on track with daily postings, and hopefully my sleep-deprived ass can keep everything on track.

As a PbP Dm, I love and also hate that the only holdup for this campaign has been on me, mostly since Luke killed himself. Usually its the DM waiting on players. It’s also rude as hell for a DM to not 💯 be putting in the work, and I’m very humbled that you three continue to tolerate this, considering I know I’m having trouble doing "better", and knowing I would generally expect more from someone like myself.

Goddamn dude, I fkn die inside every time I read that. I'm so so sorry for what happened to your son. Shit yeah PTSD bro, you should definitely get that weed RX. Look into kratom if you need an until fix, doesn't show up on chem 5/10, takes a special test to detect and it's legal. Go easy on it though, a tablespoon in water is like taking a Norco.

Take all the time you need! You've been through plenty, don't worry about little ol' us! I know I'll be sticking around.

I’m usually the first out the door if a game gets slow! But I love this game and these characters. And I want to see Gilly reach Godhood.

You take all the time you need. You’ll see no complaining from me! Hope you can get into a place that you’re satisfied with in the near future.

Gilly would be belligerent, but buying the chicken is easier than stealing it. How would Eltrezar go about this?

Images of "he left us this note to give you." And reveal the secret correspondence the mute man had on his body!

I think Eltrezar is going to be snide and condescending. "He's back where he tried to betray our company at your orders."

Bring me one of them chickens…

"Are you going to die for some chickens?…"

"Someone is."

"If any more words come pouring out of your c*nt mouth I'm gonna have to eat every chicken in this place."

Classic barbarian.

I think I'm going to take Eltrezar down the path of consuming chicken for protein and some weight lifting. Swole-trezar.

🤣

To those I just brought along for a TPK, I'm sorry. I've always been a player of action!

We can take them! We can take them!!!

Our DM has gone zzZZ. Though the 26th is approaching! Hope it all works out!

Yeah, I figured October was out for the reasons stated before. But we're definitely thinking of you, and wishing you the best!

Gall dang… I did not expect you all to still be here.

Figured you’d all said enough was enough by now.

Things are okay. Our daughter that wrestles has had a lot of anger issues, and we had to find the right means for her to work with that positively. That was a big fight, as she resisted a lot towards any movement that would require her to open up. That was a lot of work.

Wife and I are working on things because I wasn’t really brought up to be open about my pain, and she definitely was and now we had to find a way to start working on one person that needs to speak their pain all the time and one that internalizes it and guards it with a giant wall of stone, and figuring out how to find a medium where she says her pain when she needs and I’m not just a goddamn golem in response, which has been work for both of us through therapy, but we were told this would be an issue.

Winter is now here in Montana, and as far as weather goes with my job as a Recovery Technician doing body removals, work comes way more in abundance when the seasons get darker and colder. So work removing bodies has been unfortunately busy. The money’s good for financing my angry daughter’s wrestling endeavors around the country (she has a few good colleges hunting for her), but I’d gladly give up the income, and find a different means to finance her, if it meant the people I remove from places would have found a way to find help. Winter though…. And someone has to do the job, and I’m told I’m good at it despite the circumstances regarding the similarity of them and my own.

I’m just really surprised you're all still here. I was sure you’d all have boned out by now…

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Gall dang… I did not expect you all to still be here.

Figured you’d all said enough was enough by now.

Things are okay. Our daughter that wrestles has had a lot of anger issues, and we had to find the right means for her to work with that positively. That was a big fight, as she resisted a lot towards any movement that would require her to open up. That was a lot of work.

Wife and I are working on things because I wasn’t really brought up to be open about my pain, and she definitely was and now we had to find a way to start working on one person that needs to speak their pain all the time and one that internalizes it and guards it with a giant wall of stone, and figuring out how to find a medium where she says her pain when she needs and I’m not just a goddamn golem in response, which has been work for both of us through therapy, but we were told this would be an issue.

Winter is now here in Montana, and as far as weather goes with my job as a Recovery Technician doing body removals, work comes way more in abundance when the seasons get darker and colder. So work removing bodies has been unfortunately busy. The money’s good for financing my angry daughter’s wrestling endeavors around the country (she has a few good colleges hunting for her), but I’d gladly give up the income, and find a different means to finance her, if it meant the people I remove from places would have found a way to find help. Winter though…. And someone has to do the job, and I’m told I’m good at it despite the circumstances regarding the similarity of them and my own.

I’m just really surprised you're all still here. I was sure you’d all have boned out by now…

Try a jump back into?