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Excellent points Drama, well made. Regarding the hordes I will always do my best to ensure that your chosen action is used in the most logical way depending on the circumstance, so if three of you all decided to fireball the incoming army, I'd make sure that you spread them out.

Also, you would see your fellow players actions as they post, so you'll have some idea of what they plan on doing even if you're not sure of the exact initiative order. But yes, I am anticipating some pretty chaotic fights. Hopefully, this thread will help to keep things tidy as you can post your questions or ammend your actions here if you feel like I've misrepresented what you want your character to do.

I think using spoilers to convey information like results of checks and other things that everyone would hear if we were sitting around a table makes sense. It will keep us all in the loop and save players from having to decide or remember to share information.

The pace of the game seems pretty good to me so far.

I'm definitely ok with spoilers instead of notes. I think the pace is good as it is, I can't say I've posted every day, but things have been very busy lately. Weekends are usually very busy, so I can't promise to always post then, even in combat times. I do think Oma could easily get distracted by a particularly good looking plant, even in combat times.

But in general the flow feels good. I am excited to see how everything develops:-)!

I am definitely fine with how this has all been progressing. Everything about the pacing has been parfect so far. Keep it up!

Sorry I've been out a couple of days! My wife is like 8 days overdue for our baby, so it's been hard to focus on other things. But I'm all caught up now!

As for notes vs spoilers, I much prefer sharing info freely in the party, unless there is somebody who is absolutely against it. I'm also capable of roleplaying my character just according to the knowledge she has. Even if it's something that doesn't involve my character at all, I enjoy being involved in what's going on in the story. So I'm all for spoilers!

I feel a little silly that Tinwë's gone flying off, but she's got legitimate reasons to be curious about Ryestro. If he turns around to go back, so does she, but if not then she's sticking with him.

I am in agreement on the question of spoilers to convey information. I trust everyone to keep IC and OOC separate. Even if Omlelop gives an order that might be...weird...

Not much to add, I'm all in with the spoilers also.

I'm open either way, they both have their merits

Yes. You have all shared your knowledge. What are you confused about?

I'm continuing this, attuning to the crystal to figure out what my magic fuels.

I see. I was confused about the implication of lack of curiosity, I guess. It made me wonder if there was an assumption that the PCs weren't sharing what they'd intuited.

Nah, it was more that you were discussing a lead box and Oma wasn't willing to give up this chance to uncover more information^^

Ah, I see! I think people were worried about having their casting blocked during an attack. Of course, it's possible that anyone who attacks us will have some of these crystals with them for exactly that purpose, so neutering the one we have probably won't help.

Yeah... If a lot of the people attacking us have crystals like this we're fucked... Well Oma is useless then, that's for sure...

I have a question about the workings of the crystal! I'm silently crying a little about the fact Oma can't fly anymore, but how about teleportation and going through the plant portal thingy, would that still work? If Oma should find out for herself, I still kind of want to know so I can incorporate a possible failure immediately in my post so we can keep things going^^!

For now, goodnight, and I'll write the super excited and slightly sad Oma post tomorrow!

Well done, @ae_dd!

A couple of interesting points.
1. If Oma Salie is casting the spell then no problem. If someone else is casting the spell then it will fail the moment she comes within range.
2. Now that you have access to the crystal and you have some idea of how it works you think that you might be able to, with practice, penetrate a similar field with your offensive spells.

Hey, let's make a timetable for the watches because I'm not sure we're all on the same page?

1. Anwin + Pyrrha (?)
2. Aetoris + Rolana
3. Oma + Kuz(?)

Kuz said he wants the middle watch, but Aetoris and Rolana sort of picked that one too and since he's already asleep I'm assuming he wants to join Oma for the last watch?
Pyrrha didn't say which one she wants but the only spot left is on the first watch.

If Kuz wants the last watch I'll leave the perception roll up to him since he has +6 and I have +1... Let me know if I'm wrong in the timetable/if I need to roll perception myself^^

I put Pyrrha on the last watch because it made the most sense. She has no darkvision.

Also, are we going to roleplay out each watch? Personally, I think we should - I think we could squeeze some really good roleplaying and dialogue out of it. Or do you guys just want to move on with the story at large? Either way, I'm game.

I think you're right, Remus. Roleplaying the watches would give us a chance for some good PC interaction.

My only general concern with roleplaying the watches at large for every night we're travelling will make those nights where nothing happens take forever. For example, we spent two days on 2 rounds of combat. With the potential posting schedule, full RP of a watch where nothing occurs other than talking could add 3-4 days of real world time on its own.

I'm all for having good meaningful PC interaction, but it would be nice to keep the story advancing at a reasonable pace as well. Beyond that, having two awake people RPing back and forth in a game where we have 8 players means while they are interacting and the others are asleep/meditating/whatever, you have 75% of your group without any real ability to interact with the game once the actual watch periods start.