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Hello everyone!!! I don’t believe I have played with any of you before so it’s a pleasure to meet you all!! I am very excited by the premise of this game and can’t wait to get started :)

Same! Definitely excited

My plan is that we have a short 1-on-1 session with each of you, to establish you as a Waterdeep citizen.
Then we fade to black and you wake up in space all together, and we take it from there :)

I love that idea! I have been making a character sheet today instead of doing homework haha, so I should have it done today or tomorrow to submit

Hi all! Looking forward to this game, and to playing with all of you.

I like the 1-on-1 background session idea.

I'll be working on the sheet later on. I'm a teacher/librarian and this week has been packed with meetings

Glad to join the group! I appreciate the arrangement to sync our characters with the world and then hurl them far, far from home.

I ran Dragon Heist for my IRL group, so I went through the book to find some Waterdeep images for inspiration and now each of your Session 0 treads has a mood-setting image. I'll try to make it a habit :D

By the way in 0: Lopeiros meets Senobia I have implied female frontal nudity (mostly inspired by and awesome Firbolg image I found online). I have no intention of taking it any further than that, but I will ask if there are any triggers or taboo subjects that we should avoid.

I am, for good or for bad, a product of the American entertainment culture so sex or violence does not offend me.

I'm not easily upset or offended. So you should be all good.

Now that I have admitted to my more baser instincts, let me not put my mom totally to shame with a lack of manners. Pleased to meet everyone. I truly adore weaving stories. Both the expected but satisfying plot like when the guy gets the girl and then also that occasional twist you that you never saw coming.... I think we will create a bit of both.

Yeah I would not be offended or upset by very much, but I would prefer to keep nudity and sex implied rather than explicitly described.

And welcome CherokeeWind!

Yep, this is my preferred way also.

Nice to have you with us CherokeeWind!

I am using Adams GP addon. That means that I easiely acces you character sheet and make rolls for you. I will roll some skill checks to discern how much to tell you and initiative and other rolls for the sake of expediency.
Galdr's character has a modifier to his skill, and kadeton's character properly has expertise in some skills. If you write your final modifier directly after the skill name, i.e. Arcana +10 then that will overrule the default Proficiency Bonus + Int Mod that the chracter sheet provides.

Here is an example from one of my characters



Its an awesome browser addon, and if you install it you will see the games background image as well

Nice shout for Adam's GP plugin. I've added the Expertise bonuses to my Stealth and Sleight of Hand skills.

Thanks, Runekyndig! Updated the arcana and included passive boosts in line with the appropriate skills.

I can also see this dope pirate ship as the background in your forum that I couldn't see before. Not sure if that's a detail Rune included that others haven't in their games or something Adam's extension provided Rune the ability to do. Either way, very cool art. B)

Look at the Game Details. You will see this pice of code. That is was adds background images to the game forum.
If you add this code bit to your character discription, you can add a background image to your character as well

Rune, thanks for the coding heads up. I wondered what the string of code in the Game Details was. Very cool.

I need a little more from Turner and Lopeiros, then I will round off the session 0'es

I'm with family today and tomorrow, so I won't be super active

I'm sorry, guys, I'm not feeling well. Maybe tomorrow.

Thx for letting us know, and don't worry about it :)

sorry I have my irl game today and tomorrow is my birthday, so I will be sporadic

Happy birthday!

I'm having back pains at the moment. At the end of the day, I am pretty much spent. I'll try and catch up and answer all your questions this evening

Back pain is no fun. Take care of yourself!

Sorry to hear, Rune! Rest well.

Feel better Rune, I hear you. Back pain is exhausting

Ughhhh! Chronic pain sucks! Sorry to hear.

This is the day that Nirion wild surges a fireball in the command deck. :’D

probably!

Hey guys, just a heads up, I am moving this weekend and I am starting an internship on Monday. I’m not entirely sure how it will affect my posting rate yet while I’m getting acclimated to the new job, but I will try my best to keep up! :)

Congratulation!
And thanks for the heads up.

Thank you! I’m excited!! :D

I'm having a root canal tomorrow (Saturday) not sure how much I will.be able to post

Then don't!
We will slow down for a few days.

Good luck, aquafina, with the new place and job! Talk about shaking your life up all at once!

Librarian, I wish a speedy recovery. Remember to NOT drink through straws as dry socket can be a....

CherokeeWind is unable to think of playing at the moment. How would you suggest that we proceed?
We could wake up the last sleeping person and invite another player?

I'll leave that up to the group. I want to apologize for my relative silence yesterday. I had a migraine all day at work, came home, and promptly slept until about an hour ago.

I am okay with inviting another person, just make sure Cherokee knows that they are always welcome back whenever they feel that they are able to come back❤️

I agree with Aquafina.

I had a quick chat with her on discord


Turner Page will still be on the ship but will participate in any way. That includes feeding spellslots into the helm.

I have invited deadpool_qc. I have played with him before, and know him to be a solid player. His character will awaken in the last bunkbed. When he does, you can have an in-game session where you introduce yourselves and catch him up on your discoveries

Hi everybody, I'll be reading up on where you are and the characters you have to try and tune my character to fit well in your party.
I saw you had a discord group, if you all agree, I'd like to join up there as well.
If you have any questions about me, feel free to ask and I'll answer as best as I can.

Welcome, Deadpool, to the spelljammer dead pool!

I'm good with Cherokee's character going into a stasis. Given the bands, perhaps she volunteers or suffers a reason to reenter stasis and provide her spell slots to the party (I know you said she wouldn't participate, but an option). Or becoming the replacement for the ship's "doc" may be a solid option to keep her as a mostly off screen entity until her player can resurface.

there's a discord beyond the usual gp one?

Welcome! And I think that was just a one-on-one chat with Cherokee, there is not separate discord group unless at least half the party isn't in it haha

I feel like I have painted myself into a corner, by having no pushing mechanism at this moment. You guys have to explore the last rooms and get the ship moving before I can introduce something new.
You have the captain's quarters that have yet to be explored (on top of the artificer's workshop).

I welcome feedback, public or private. Is there anything we should tweak, alter, change?

Everything is good imo! I guess I was just kinda waiting to give deadpool space to introduce their character before we got wrapped up in whatever the next room holds :)

I've been having a hell of a last few weeks, but I am really enjoying things so far

I haven't been pushing forward as much as I normally would for the past week, sorry about that. Definitely curious about the captain's quarters though. I think the game is going great.

I had my aunt's funeral on Friday and my brother's celebration of life yesterday so I will try am pick up writing again. I'm sorry everything is bad timing for me but I'm leaving for a week in Mexico on Saturday. I don't know what internet will be like or if I will be coherent with a beach and margheritas available so we will have to see. The game and company have been delightful so we will work to get this ship sailing so the GM can introduce new scenery.

Sorry guys, my ex-wife's mother went into surgery last thursday (she's ok now), and I went to take care of my kids while my ex-wife went with her mother to take care of her. Just got back tonight so I'll be posting tomorrow.

I found this image, and I love to put it in the artificer's room. Unfortunately, it is inconsistent with the lore.

An aberrant aberrant is what an arcanist illithid is, so who knows what brain the mindflayer drained to gain its aberrant arcane...

I have every intention of coming back. Please bear with me for a few more days. The wind was taken out of my sails and life is keeping me from picking up a paddle.

I went on vacation to ...idk to carry on and my husband passed a kidney stone while out of the country so paperwork and my sweet mother in law who was watching my children drove through my garage door so paperwork and repairs. Yesterday when I was going to take her home she had a heart episode and is now in the hospital.

Yikes. As someone who has had kidney stones in the past, my sympathies to your husband. It sounds like things are really rough for you at the moment, but hopefully life will get a bit more under control soon! We look forward to having you back when you're ready.

Cherokee, I grieve to hear incidents of pain and hardship continue to compound for you and yours. I am praying for you. Take your time coming back online.

Wow CW! When it rains, it pours! Hope that your sky will clear up soon, and you can have some sunshine.

No worries CherokeeWind! No rush, and whenever you're ready, we'll be here. Take as much time as you feel you need :)

I wanted to ask if you have a preference on how you would like me to reenter the game, Runkyndig? I was considering either Turner could have been so absorbed in mounting and attuning the gun that she was lost in her own world and now that she has completed the project comes out of it or she simply could have been in the background of all the scenes.

Turner was in her bunk. And now she is back from her nap

Deadpool, I'm sure you simply overlooked Turner stating her name for your benefit but I thought it a post of interest to roll with it. That seems like a bit of heat to deliver without us previously playing together so I wanted to clearly state it was only a bit of drama for the game.

Lol, don't worry, I'm the type of guy you can actually throw anything at and I'll go with it.

Ugh! The ER for the third time in two weeks! Trying to clean the garage and inventory damage for insurance landed a fish hook in the hand!

At the beach with limited connectivity and time behind a keyboard, but I'll get a post in either over the weekend or at beginning of next week.

I should have made an armorer artificer who never takes his helmet off. Next we need to escort the sole surviving frogfolk to their kin on another sphere. ;)

:D

Now I have to incorporate a giant delicious egg into the story :D

Khezzik is not quite as cute as Baby Yoda though. :)

You are all playing your characters well, and I commend you for that. If you don't have inspiration all ready, then add it now by all means.

That being said, I really feel that this group is missing an alpha among all the omega's.
Who is the captain of your vessel? Who is the leader of your group? It seems to me that your characters are all waiting for someone else to take the initiative and it slows down the momentum.

We have players who are dialing down their activity due to real-life stuff, and I respect that and try to accommodate it. But I feel that the game is slowing down to a crawl.

My first idea for a remedy was to invite more players (as you are in a place in the story where it would make good sense to add to the party), but I am no longer sure that is a good idea.
My second idea is that I take more control over the narrative, but then I risk railroading you, and I'm not a fan of that myself

What do you think?

Apologies for the delayed posting rate. Takeshi doesn't mind taking the helm, so to speak, and would seek to guide the group toward what is necessary to get them home. However, I can see this wizard becoming more and more enamored with the prospects of becoming an interplanar archmage. As such, he has no bones in taking charge to see the group succeed.

I think Turner was our natural dynamic go-getter of a leader, unfortunately. Khezzik has no desire or ability to lead, Nirion lacks confidence and experience, Tonik seems content to see where things go and fiddle with stuff along the way. That leaves Takeshi, who is also the oldest and the most powerful mage, and has previously placed himself in the role of mentor and teacher, as the best fit for leader.

If Gladr is okay to take that on, and can work around the issue of not particularly wanting to return to Waterdeep, then I'm happy with that. Otherwise, I'd be fine with adding another player, or some light railroading.

(I would be happy to post more, but in the current situation Khezzik doesn't have much to say, especially in front of the dwarves. I check in multiple times a day and I'll let you know if I won't be around, so if I'm not posting it's because I have nothing to add. I wish we had a little "like" button or some indication of who has read each post!)

Waterdeep has a special place in the wizard's heart, if for nothing more than his home and stuff are in it. :D

I am good progressing to being on/near the frogfolk's planet. Perhaps the wizards or sorcerers would conjure up better questions, but this is a good learning opportunity to do something as a group "in action."

I also look forward to when the artificer and Khezzik decide to disarm the reality bomb.

Im happy with whatever everyone chooses. I never built Nirion to be a leader. He would make a decent one as he would be cautious (since he's afraid of things exploding on his face) but he also is super naive. that doesn't lend itself to leadership role. That said I'm really enjoying this. I agree that Takeshi would be the best candidate

Yeah, Leo isn't really a leader either unfortunately, and I'll freely admit that I haven't been pushing the story forward much with him. He's been more reactionary because I have been so busy irl, and I honestly don't see myself gaining any more freetime any time soon. I have either had to quit or put on hiatus most of the games I was in/running.

I am not looking for pity or reassurances or anything when I say this, but if you would like to add someone new to the game who might be more active/play a character with a leader role, I completely understand and I am okay with Leo and I leaving the group or at least taking a small break from the group, perhaps staying behind on the dwarven stronghold to study for a while lol. I do not want to drag this game down. (I know that's not what you were implying, but still).

I have been impressed at how the characters really have been richly developed and well played. With the cast of current characters, I believe the elder wizard to hold himself in a manner of a wise leader and if Galdr is willing to become a driving force pushing us forward when we lag then he has my vote too.

I'm sorry my health has been a barrier to my full participation and I am grateful everyone has been a peach letting me play when I can. If the consensus is to add another player then I am for it. I am also fine with light railroading. Anything that keeps momentum from dying as you have put a great game together, Runekyndig.

I'm glad to see you still around, Cherokee, and I pray your health improves. I can keep us driving forward, but I am fine with the offered alternatives. I'm not sure one more player would increase the pace, but strong scene transitions may help from time to time. This setting and story is one I've looked for in a game since coming back to D&D.

I'll write up how you travel with a guide to the next planet. Tomorrow

Oh, welcome somebox! I did not even realize you were added to the group haha :)

Surprise, I am in this game now!

Hi! Nice to meet you! Welcome!

hey! good to see you

Welcome, Somebox!

Hey, sorry for the delay, life has been crazy busy lately and I’ve had barely any time for GP :( , I will try to have a post up tonight.

No worries. Just in time for Crab claws. :

Rune, I recorded the spell slots expended for levitation. Thanks for clarifying.

Levitating a canoe is trick I learned from an old friend who regaled me with his 2E antics.

That is the beauty of our hobby. I (or the published game) pose a challenge, and you the player come up with a clever way to get around it. I love your solution.

Becoming ill dampened the romance....🤔 I can't imagine why! Hehe

I feel like I'm missing some context

Tonik's excellent little side-ramble about brewing himself a potion of charisma and yarfing on his date. :D

Which I meant, and forgot, to respond to, sorry! I'm a bit under the weather at the moment.

Get to feeling better, kadeton!

testing the die roller

Woah, TIL that clicking on the dice results sorts them in ascending order. I'd never noticed!

Hey guys, I’ve been trying to delay the inevitable here for a while, but I think it’s time to recognize that I am not able to keep up with this game anymore. My irl life is just getting too busy and I’m having to pull out of a couple games because I don’t see it slowing down in the foreseeable future. I have thoroughly enjoyed this game tho, and only ask that I am able to remain in the game just so I can read along when I have time, if Rune is okay with that. Thank you all for being so wonderful and thank you Rune for allowing me to play in this game for as long as I have :)

Take care of yourself, aquafina! It was a pleasure playing with you.

I kind of read that in the stars.
The game should be public, but nevertheless, feel free to stick around. :)
I would appreciate it if you would withdraw your character, so it doesn't show up.

No problem :)

Am I moving too fast or is the story uninteresting or is it the format?

A ceiling collapse and (minor) car wreck has derailed my posting. Post inbound!

I am sorry that my slowness to answer seems like disinterest. Health is elusive with a new round of double pneumonia on top of other concerns. Sorry to hear everyone is also dealing with their own struggles. Best to all of you.

It's the same for me, I am fascinated by the game but a combo of RL and my character being so passive is slowing my posting. I was super excited for this game and don't want it to die.

I'm in Legoland with my wife and my 4 year old daughter for a few days.
So I won't start the encounter before I'm back home

Lol, that's a lucky daughter you have !! Have fun with the family !

I am exhausted today will post updates this weekend

I'm so sorry to hear about your family, Galdr. Hopefully full recovery will be right around the corner.

Thanks, Cherokee. My wife's condition had me most concerned, but I think we healing from the worst of the virus.

Hi everyone! I am a teacher/librarian and this our first week back at school. I have a packed course load this year so I may be slow to respond. Would it be better if I left for now and possibly return later?

We will drag Nirion along as an NPC as long as you don't have the mental capacity

Thank you! I appreciate it

I'll get you underway tonight

I have covid

That's awful :(

Wishing you all the best for your recovery. Hope it goes easy on you.

Oh f*ck! Wish you a speedy recovery with no lasting sideeffects

Yes, my lungs were already compromised so this couldn't be a worse development. I am taking medicine, getting an infusion and was vaccinated...I hope it will be enough.

Thanks for thoughts and prayers.

Yikes, hope you get better.

I am starting to feel better! Hopefully it won't be long until I make my triumphal return!

Happy to hear that

I would like to end our game as I feel that it has run its course. You have found your way home. The question is just how much trouble are you going to get into before you get there.

I hope you all had fun. We can continue as I have a few ideas, but I feel it just delaying the inevitable.

I'm sorry, I admit I haven't been really active recently, but if the game continues I would really like to stay. Tonik was going to ask the team if he could dismantle the portable hole missile, at least until he saw that huge creature eating a tarrasque... He then realised how useful it could be lol.

I would be happy to continue playing, as I really enjoy these characters. But I do understand that we've reached the end of the original scope of the game - if you'd prefer to just end it there, that's totally okay.

That's too bad! I'm still adjusting to my new curriculum at school, so I wouldn't be able to jump back in yet, but hopefully someday we can explore these characters again!

Rune, that's understandable if lamentable. Between home repairs and grad school assignments, I've been unable to post in games. This is likely the cycle ahead for the next few months, so I will bow out as October and November will demand more of my writing time to complete research. I have really enjoyed this game's reskinning of Candlekeep and other realms into spelljammer adventures. I hope you get to play through your world you've made. It's a great one.

Well I didn't get to stick around for too much of it, but thanks for having me runekyndig.

Thank you, runekyndig! Excellent game!

To my fellow players! Thanks for the memorable characters. It was lovely to play with everyone and hopefully I will catch you all in another game sometime.