[pnpgm] Game Update #17 - File #50 - Z'leyra's Death
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HT Aliaver/Player Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex
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R1.John Haight...........Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Alfar Ma
--.Tobie Bonahoom........Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry Fe
R3.Mark Murtha...........Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human..Ma
R1.David Sanders.........Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human Ma
R4.J H Hooten............Raban.Usherwood...Bard....Normal/Human..Ma
W4.Wout Broere...........Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human Fe
R1 John.Stowman..........Will..............Hunter..Normal/Human..Ma
R4.Alex Koponen..........Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human Fe
Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra, Squirt (Ferret) Kell
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Game Update #17 in sequence (file #50)
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[Recap]
From Alex: [Re: Z'leyra's death]
Hmmm....Well the odds do catch up with you even when you do
what you can to maximise the odds of good and minimise the
odds of bad.
So what kind of character do you want my next one to be?
I am thinking perhaps a Dwarf and hopefully Runelord (maybe
even natural Magician!...Yeah, fat chance). More into fighting,
less into casting.
Other folks seem to be decent healers, so not major need for
that as there was when I created Z'leyra.
GM: Ack. :< :<
From Kiet: [Re: Z'leyra's death]
And you guys wonder why Kiet is hesitant to fight!
I call dibs on the manor house!!!
GM: Ack. Gee such lovely sentiments. :)
From Kell: [Re: Z'lerya's death]
Bummer on that. You sure she's didn't stage it and is
hiding out to enjoy life somewhere?
Dwarven tanks are always excellent. That would be fun.
GM: Ack.
From David: [Re: Death aftermath]
Gee...whoever finds her first will make themselves rich
looting the body...
GM: Ack. Maybe it will be Jensen :)
From Wout: [Re: Z'leyra's death]
Sorry to see her go. Z'leyra was a walking fortress with all
her items, but a central figure in the power play style this
group has developed.
We will see what kind of character returns and what new
playing style we will adopt over time. we have lost our
military strategist to castle duty and our healer saviour to
a RE.
A dwarf runemaster would be fun (although, with my current
sideline addiction to dwarf fortress the definition of dwarven
fun is not what you expect.)
GM: Ack. That darn RE monster! THe most vile well aside from
the dwarves that work for me.
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Actions? Comments?
Next Update....Next email!
GM: Ok. Blame the Dwarves. They said it was 4/1 some
odd holiday like that green day with the good luck
charms and such. They whined and demanded a good
joke. So I tried. :) No. Z'leyra didn't do. Came
close at least twice but her luck worked. Sigh.
I'll try next time. At least one person got the idea
it was joke right away (saw your email to Alex). At
least one in chat also figured it was a joke so I'l
give you half credit. But looks like two were fooled.
Blame the dwarves!
GM: The next 3 Updates are part A-C of Z'leyra's IBT. When
you see it you will realize how long it took and why
its in 3 parts. I split it up into IBT1, IBT2 and IBT3.
Yes she basically did 3x the IBT of everyone else. In
fact she cast well over 700 spells which is about twice
as much as Arawn did. But in her defense the number
of spells could've been higher. I actually expected
at least 300 more. On a IBT to IBT time actually Arawn
and Z'leyra had the same number of spells for the period.
But she did 3 IBTs so it helped. Now the next 3 posts
are huge. The file was 3400 lines. So I did it roughly
in one thousand chunks. It takes about 2 hours to read
the full iBT so skip the updates until you can at least
devote 2 hours to it. Just a warning.
GM: Next plans - Are to post this last IBT. Then edit
Alex's sheet with him online. It will probably take
2-3 hours doing it. So it may take a few nights
of work. Then we are done with IBT time. I'll
work on a final outline of adventure and that may
take another week. Then hopefully in a week or
10 days we can begin the adventure! Sorry it took
this long. I had estimated over weeks ago but
did not work.
GM: Encounters - Monsters are easy. But when it comes
to Humans I use two charts. Book 4 city encounters
to figure out location like Main Road or Tavern and
then roll to figure out who. I then roll on the
motivation chart that Burton or someone did. That
helps me flash out the encounter very quickly. A
guard wishing to avoid would do just that, etc.
For the other events like in the hills I use
the gm screen encounter tables. To figure out
the number and then roll depending on day/night
to figure out who then do the motivation stuff
again. Sometimes it might say Character which is
generally a PC but why not a npc. So in this case
I rolled up Jensen which if you see the pbem pc file
on the site will have a bit of info on him. I
simply randomly figured out who based on who is
in Marentia.
GM: When you read the IBT pay attention to the Earth Giant,
Sith and Scorpion encounters. She came very close to
dying on the Giant and Sith battles. The only reason
she lived in the Giant is because of her mistake. She
flew with eagles that also flew in the area. When you see
it, the encounter will make a bit more sense. The sith
was a mistake on dice which saved her. If that mistake
didn't happen she would be dead now. The sith was
the first for the entire party as no one has encountered
them at all.
Now enjoy!
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