The Gossip Board

[Anastasia]

Tonight or tomorrow at normal game time?

[Dracos]

Tonight.  :)  Next time I'll use bold type ^_~

[Dracos]

mmm, very drowsy day.  Might not be at 100 percent tonight, though will be there.

[Anastasia]

Good session all.

I don't have much to say, most things stand on their own.

[Dracos]

yarr...  so moving ahead we're chasing Rogue across Arborea.  We're coming to a compression point on quests as it seems there's a lot of impetus just to cut the hardsoil bit off.  Or at least, enough of it that I'm having trouble spinning any goals on it since the resounding message seems to be "No, stop that, leave hardsoil".  Maybe I have hearing problems :P

anyhow, I'd see a big goal on the next chain would be to re-expand the quest hook library.  We have 'go after Rogue, Mari's gemstone, go to the lich finale' in there right now.  Not really much in the way of choices.  And Mari's gemstone is practically locked off, so that leads us on a straight line toward Rogue.  Boring.  But we're traveling, lots of things to encounter, we just had a cool one with the fairies.  Rogue can be annoying and hard to find.  We could have to go help some of the folks in the elven cities.  We could find shattered friendships that were the leftovers of rogue to go deal with.  We could have the standard go-to that a dragon decided to fly around and give someone trouble.  It's all cool, but I'd like to see us grow that short term list back again so we have meaningful options that aren't 'finish Knight's quest as fast as we can' :)

[Sierra]

It's more like I just felt like wandering on a new plane for a while before getting embroiled in city defense. I mean, we just got here, I want to look around! This is pretty much purely an OOC decision though, I have to admit, but I don't see anything wrong with taking a break to go exploring.

[Dracos]

From an OOC perspective, I rather would like to get on off of hardsoil.  From an IC perspective, I feel obligated.

I don't mean one person though, I mean both DM and as a team, it seems after that first session where we talked with tam about defense, that the overall direction has been 'not really your problem, stop involving yourself so much'.  I dunno, it does bother me that our actions spun off a war (Cool, world reacts) but for the general sake of the campaign, there's a heavy push not to be stuck there at least a little bit as part of the cost of getting it going.  eh

[Anastasia]

For my two cents I'm trying not to get involved in this. This is really up to you guys and the direction you're going in. I get the vibe that some of you feel that securing help has done much to absolve your responsibility to Hardsoil.

[Carthrat]

It's entirely IC for me to stop worrying about Hardsoil once someone tells me I don't have to anymore. Which is what Tam pretty much did (and shut down any commentary I could've made on tactics, which saddened me because I'd been thinking about it quite a bit!) Without impetus from other members of the party Knight just isn't going to think going back there is necessary. As she's said a billion times though she'll gladly help out with anything other people think is important, so.

I guess this is worth mentioning, but whenever we put something to a party vote, Knight is always going to pick the obvious option. She'll supersede her own desires to do other things! But whenever she's directly asked what she wants, well, no prizes for guessing second.

I feel that both Rogue (hell, cards in general, they reek of moral dillemas and strange setups and who-knows-what, no bias at all here, nope) and the lich offer ample opportunities for related sidequesting, really, never mind the default 'do good things' that you and Adail have going. Have some faith!

[Dracos]

Overanalyzed. :P Let's go get rogue and have fun.

[Carthrat]

Let's act as we would IC. And IC, I would advocate chasing Rogue barring other events popping up.

[Dracos]

Tonight is game night.  Yaaaay.

Kam does not have a pegasus that can stand on one leg. ;_;

[Dracos]

Why is there days between next session? :P  I dunno :)  hmm, I should probably stop tweaking board posts and go to work.

[Anastasia]

Decent session. A few points from the chat discussion that I'd like to elaborate on:

1. Confusion: I had the chase scene be disjointed like that on purpose to control information as Knight ran away. Did you think it was worth it?

2. Grapple. It really dragged everything down and was really suboptimal. It has a time and a place but I think we all want to avoid it for a good long while.

3. PvP: Yeah, that pretty much sucked. It wasn't helped by the grapple issues but it was a two hour block of general disinterest.  If you guys wanna beat each other up, do a combat demo or something.  I got largely negative opinions from this 'cept from Rat.

4. Rogue. There's a whole lot to say here, so I'm gonna ask: What do each of you think on reflection about the situation?

[Anastasia]

Addendum: As I mentioned to a few people, Rogue is a paladin of freedom. He was thus immune to Kam's intimidation since paladins are immune to fear! But, paladins of freedom lose that and gain another power in it's place. Whoops! He's not immune to fear, just as he's not immune to DM retardation!

Not my best session.