General conversation/OOC commentary

Talked to her. She seems down to play; just hesitant because she is unfamiliar with pbp but she basically already does it in the RP Discord channel for our current campaign together. I told her to create her account and I’ll send her the link soon as she gets set up.

Also, just to put it out there: I start my new job on Dec 2. The first two weeks are in-office daily and I’ll be looking at potentially 14 hour days so I might be a little slower to reply during that time but I will be doing my best to check in on lunch break or before bed. After the first two week training, I will be hybrid office/remote on a 2/3 split so it will be easier for me to post because I won’t have the crazy commute three days a week.

Congrats on getting that new job!!!!!! So good to hear you landed one.

Thank you!! Was a stressful year not having a job or insurance since April, but I have good hopes for this new place. I think it will be really good for me and the family. Very excited to get back to some sort of structured routine. Now I just gotta fix my sleep schedule …

@spaceseeker19 Can I get the link for my friend to join?

She's registered as idylliceffie, and I've sent her an invitation.

Just a scheduling head's up: I have a busy weekend this week, and may not manage to post every day.

Huzzah! We had a chat the other day about Elysia. She may be making some small tweaks to the rogue's appearance and such, just to make the character truly her own. I didn't see a problem with it since Sia's visual traits haven't been established as anything specific like Zin's.

No worries! Thanks for heads up.

I can easily handwave away that she changed her appearance - Wound not even mind if she changed rase for that matter

If she wanted to change race, she'd be limited to either human or full elf ... easily explained away as their dad being an unfaithful husband. I know it hasn't come up in the game yet, but I think everyone knows Zin and Sia are secretly sisters.

I've updated Adran... like twice now. Gimme a little time to decide what I'm settling on. I keep waffling between Sharpshooter, Durable, and just an ASI. Decisions, decisions...

Some things to note now that the party has retrieved the artifact:
- each PC should be gaining a level in the PC Advancement thread, including Elysia
- @idylliceffie can join in at any time, as soon as she submits the character sheet for her version of Elysia
- as soon as the party has a chance to rest, they will become aware of the Orb's many powers. This isn't attunement exactly; it's more a function of being oathbound by and with the Orb.
- I'll be updating the Secrets of the Greenwold campaign tracker soon.

Finally, a question:
The next chapter begins as the party returns to the surface and the City of Grayhaven.
How do you want to handle the transition?
It seems to me that there are several ways we could go about it. For instance, we could...
...play it out much as we did coming in, with a series of encounters, retracing your steps. This would draw out Chapter Three, but it would allow you to interact with the outcast tieflings again, or potentially experience some of the other random encounters
...just hand-wave to say that party returned "off camera" and then just start Chapter Four
...have each player contribute a vignette of something that happened on the way back to the surface, and then start Chapter Four
There's certainly many other ways we could approach it. What would you like?

I like the vignette idea. It gives everyone a chance to say as much or as little as they want, and it moves us along faster. That was a loooooong chapter because of that insanely epic fight that took like 3 months. Would be nice to get back onto moving the plot for a bit again.

I like the vignette idea aswell - I would properly have Faith meet with the outcast tieflings just to touch base with her heritage.

A question for the group, GM included
I was planning to keep Faith away from the paladin track for a while, while she came to grips with har sorcery shadow magic, but she just took a holy oath :DMy question to you guys is: What kind of paladin subclass do you think fits this Twilight Sentinel the best?

Devotion or Watchers maybe? But we have very limited options to choose from if I recall correctly, so Devotion seems best maybe…?

Devotion is probably the best fit, but it is not a perfect fit. Still better than all the others I have been reading through

Yayy! I am helping her set up her char sheet because she is new to the forum style. And still getting her up to speed on all the character relationships.

I’m also helping her tweak the character just a little so it feels more natural and less like she has to try to fit someone else’s build. Just minor details that will help her step into the role while still feeling like she has creative power. That said, she is changing her name. Mainly because "Elysia" is the name of my character in the campaign she and I are in outside of the forums and it’s just too weird for her to not envision my warlock when that name comes up.

I am on board for vingettes. Zin has an admirer she needs to stop and say bye to before they go to the surface.

I was also going to say Devotion is probably the most fitting, @runekyndig

Do we roll for hit points? I can't remember, and can't find it in the advancement page.

It's a knotty choice. Devotion is probably the best all-around. It's interesting that that is the case, because it feels like the Tenets of the Ancients most closely align with Faith's oath (defending the light from darkness), while the Channel Divinity of the Watchers or even Vengeance more closely align. I think Devotion is a pretty fair compromise, and probably the best compromise of all four available Oaths.