Chapter 1: Awakening

Cold wind crawls across your body as you lay motionless on the cold, hostile stone flooring. Your vision blurs as you slowly start to come to, your body frigid from the absolute lack of any decent clothing on your body or fireplace within the room.

You eventually become conscious enough to begin to pull yourself up from the floor and gain a decent look at your surrounds, The lighting is very dim mostly contained to the corners but you don't need to see well to realize you aren't alone.

Three others are in the room with you. They don't seem familiar however are not immediately hostile, You begin to shake off your blurry vision and realize you are in a dimly lit medium sized room with scare furnishings aside from a odd crate or barrel and four doors leading out of the room leading into each compass direction.

Looking at your person you realize your gear has been stripped and you don't have a single physical weapon on you, Unnerved by this sequence of events you are only left with one direction. Forward

(Everyone give me a investigation roll to search the room for anything useful to get you started, make sure to vote on which direction to go in and resolve RP before going forward. Your choice will dictate your encounters ahead)

Hey all. Dropping in here to say I'm still around its just crazy rn with what's going on in life and in the holidays and I'm gonna update soon

Do you have amnesia?

Yes you do

Do you have your focus?

Also yes, things like focuses and the wizards spellbook are deemed necessary carryover.

No hurry on my account, hope everyone is well today.

In here for the long run anyway. This campaign will take a bit to run. I'm still lack a investigation role from @crazybirdman I believe.

I will return tomorrow. I'm headed into work right now as I type this, been really tired from my shifts so haven't been doing much of anything and my boyfriend just had a emergency with his mother. Might lose her :(

Thinking good thoughts for your boyfriend and his mother.

Things had a turn for the worst, it wasn't even a day and she became brain dead. They left her on life support for a bit to harvest organs since she was a doner but now we found out she has no life insurance and will have to sell her house and pay for the funeral out of pocket.

All my best to you.

I'm so sorry to hear that!

After fully waking up and realizing the situation you are in you start to pick through the surround area. Not much was able to be found but one of you managed to find something decent.

The following items are:

1x wooden club

1x broken iron shield (-1 AC when equipped)

1x iron shortsword

3x common healing potions

1x acid vial

It wasn't a very through search, as some of you took quite a long time. You would search for longer but it seems like the encroaching darkness in the room is beginning to move closer.

Condolences.

make sure to divide up the starter gear amongst yourselves, it needs to be in someone's inventory or you'll leave it behind going forward

also im back. things are returning back to normal so i can begin to focus on other things now

gesturing towards one of the doors*The below only pertains to kairos*

Gesturing towards one of the doors you manage to catch a glimpse of a faint green light on the other side of one that's slightly ajar. it appears that the light is heading in the opposite direction and seems to head around a corner deeper into the labyrinth.

I need a marching order from the party. Who's in the front, middle, and back?

Quick update on the game. We just made it past a huge freeze down here in the south that took my attention for a bit cuz multiple people I know lost water and needed help.

Starting next week I'm promising to be more active in this with a minimum of 6 posts a week.

Thank you for letting us know what's going on. I hope you and yours are all well.

Marching down the corridor the strange situation you find yourself in begins to fill you with existential dread and you feel as if the shadows are already clawing at your skin begging to be let in. Heading through the darkened halls you soon find yourself in front of a opening to a large room with a series of faint green lights about. Upon further inspection it seems to be a series of 7 flying skulls surrounded by green flame providing a sort of dimlight into the room.

One of the skulls flys past the archway directly in front of you but doesn't seem to take notice of your presence.

The room layout seems to be 4 pillars near the center of the room with random piles of stone debris good enough to either hide behind or use for cover.

They seem like normal humans skulls however they do not possess a mouth and have pure white eyeballs

As you walk into the room the skulls continue to fly around randomly seemingly paying you no mind and sometimes bonking into walls or into the four tall pillar like stone constructs in the middle of the room which seem to be spread evenly across the room (about 15 feet apart and across creating a square in the middle of the room) and you think you can spot something in the middle of them.

As you look around another skull flies by dangerously close to you. You can see the milky whites of its eyes which seem entirely devoid of any and all life and the heat coming off the fire feels cold. It does not acknowledge your presence.

remind me. does your character have dark vision?

She does not. :)

In that case i will be needing a perception roll, someone with dark vision may assist

im gonna go ahead and say it. im sorry for not being here for multiple days at a time but i hit a point in my life where keeping up on everything is really hard. between work and always being tired 24/7 and trying to take care of all my adult stuff i just can't do many of the things that i really wanna do. i dunno my creative ability is just gone and i can't really amount to much but sleeping all day

Trust me, I get it. Running a game is a big commitment, far moreso than just playing. And real life is far more important than a game. I've been tired for probably 15 years, and not a tired that a few more hours of sleep will fix, so... I sympathize. I really do.

This is true
This is also true, especially where your health is concerned.

I've recently hit a wall myself where I've had to drop almost all my pbp games. There's no shame in making this a low priority.

that's basically what happening until i can get myself out of this slump im in. i have ideas and i would be angry at myself for not letting them be realized but rn im just tired af and having difficulty with getting out of bed

Sounds like depression. Have you spoken to anyone about it?

i've spoken to my partner about it, not really much i can do about it really just having to ride the storm out and see if things get better

I'm no therapist (and I don't know if your partner is) but some things that have helped my friends are journaling, exercise, volunteering, and just making sure they spend some time in nature. Pretty standard stuff, but often recommended because they do work for some people.