General conversation/OOC commentary

I'm sorry folks - it was an EXTREMELY busy day today. I will post first thing in the morning.

No worries - but thx for letting us know

Since it's been a week and a half, I'm going to proceed with Woody's turn; @Eyes you can adjust the turn any time up until your next turn.

youur good

Question about notifications: I've noticed in some games that people are having a hard time noticing when they should be posting. I'm not sure I understand the nature of the problem (and it might not be only one problem). For my part, I just keep a tab open with the "Latest Game Posts" page open, which I reload each day, and that seems to work pretty well.

But I also want to ameliorate any difficulty in the games that I'm running. So far, I'm trying to do that with listing the initiative in each post (so if you're reading the posts each day, you know when your turn is coming) and mentioning @names of the players when it's their turns (so they get a notification in e-mail as well as a notification on the GP top page). All that said, is there more that I could be doing that would be helpful?

I always like to make sure if it's my turn, so whenever you do the @names it really helps me. Nothing more you need to do on my end, you're doing awesome!

I try to check daily, but sometimes I have an issue of the time difference. I noted I got the @ when it was like, midnight my time. And then it was a work night so I couldn't get to it until just now. But if my work day goes real crappy, sometimes I don't have the energy to check the forum. I try to anyway, but I've had a few days here and there where I just did not have it in me (like the day my 50 min light rail commute became a 2.5 hour bus/stranded/train trip). The @ helps me because it pops up on my landing page. I think you're doing awesome.

I check more than once a day. I like that you are using the @ to indicate whos turn it is, cause that is sometimes the biggest issue, being unaware that ppl are waiting for me

Another side benefit of posting the @ names now is that you get SOME kind of notification, now that the "read/unread" and "updated posts" features are broken (everything is currently showing up as unread, which may break your normal workflow if you use the site like I do).

Oof. This encounter is getting a lot simpler.

LIKE

Don't jinx it. A simplified encounter could also be 3 guys with wands of fireballs, just bombing the party to ash.

Mostly I was referring to Aviculara failing her save and dying (not to mention all of the severed hands that were destroyed).

I know, but still ;)

Okay Mr. This Just Got Easier.

Zin's rolls are true chaos.

RNGesus is fickle, and holds a grudge.

I think we're close to ending this chapter, so close that we are likely to start the next chapter, 1-5, in the next day or two.

Unfortunately (from the perspective of this game), I'm going to be on the road 4 - 9 July, so my ability to post will be greatly curtailed. I'm just letting you know, as it's probably going to feel like a lot of momentum and then a big slow-down.

Also, I think that, with this 4th chapter, I'll finally be able to hand out some of the achievements I teased back near the beginning.

Eeeeee! No worries about missing a few days if you need. Real life is important too, I guess. (No, but really it is.) I'm excited to see what comes next!

Not sure if you had ideas on how to pull Eir out of the narrative while my friend is dealing with real world stuff. I was thinking it could be as simple as she needs to return home to manage the hunt from there because maybe their knighthood put Zin a bit too much in the spotlight. Or perhaps the family thinks they have the trail and Eir is going back to lead the focused search and (intentionally, secretly) bungle it. But if you have other ideas from the DM side, I'm happy to hear! Or not hear, if you think it's better that way.

Played around with an AI to update Faiths avatar, now she is Dame Faith

@Redamancy - I have a couple of ideas of broad approaches I could take. Let me run them by you.
For everyone: as Eir is leaving, is it OK if I invite another player to make a 4th-level PC to take the sixth party slot?