The Orc is clearly from the east.  The others looked like Sauscons based on their features and equipment.  Aside from the Priestess' brooch everything the had appeared local in style.

I guess I'm confused. Are we on the day after the fight? Or the one after that? Now there's a plan to try and catch any more of the bandit crew that might show up, but I'm not sure how long after the fight the group is planning on staying?

From what I gathered, it has been a few hours after the fight. The tavern Is about to open for new guests. The others still need a full rest. Aina only needed 4 hours of meditation. The group was going to rest for one more day/help out in the tavern. The group was going to leave the next day.

Aina will pay for the room again. It was just a plan for something the character will do as the others rest. It might be pointless and the game will go on to the next morning.

The inn is already open, they just don’t expect any overnight guests until the end of the day considering traffic patterns on this road.  But I believe the plan is yes for the group to leave the next day.

Also, Ania only needs 4 hours of sleep, but a long rest is still 8 hours even for her.  Long rest isn’t not equal to 8 hours of sleep.  It is 8 hours of sleep and/or light activity which includes reading, meditation, etc.

Will advance to the next day later tonight.

What the actual hell? Who hurt you, Aina?

I was already on the fence before, but I think I'm going to pass on continuing on where my character is going to get viciously thought-sniped for no good reason every time they say something or appear.

Sigh....there is a reason the character is stand offish to clerics. Burning at the stake much? Also, your character needs a hook. Joining a party where they allowed a hostage to be killed, then allowing a defenseless to be killed.

Not all party members get along at first. Trust is built. If you can not handle some role-playing then maybe this game is not for you. I am sad you are leaving and you wasted your time. :(

Remember please that no matter what antagonisms may develop between characters, something I prefer not to happen in any case, they should not be written to seem like snipes at other players nor taken as such by those players.  We don't have any context (tone, body language, etc.) that the characters have and so off-line discussions are necessary to sort out character v. player interactions.  If that can't be done then perhaps we need to reduce the amount of internal monologues.

Been a while since anybody posted here so I just wanted to let people know that I’m still here and still committed.
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Still here.

Sound off on a roll call if you are staying in the game, and please state which way the group is going next.  South towards the mountains (either the underground dwarf road or the mountain passes) into Capelnegra and further to the Sidonian Empire; or West to te Kingdom of Rousset (through the Grand Duchy of Sauscony, which you are already in); or East towards the Grand Forest and beyond the Mountains of Shadow and Rozalia, eventually the Kolian Empire.

Staying on to play; Lightbringer was headed east with entourage to investigate magic drainage- presumably under guise of something military or diplomatic and Gralphus still plans to go west to watch the man's back and investigate the kingdom for further signs of issues/corruption while on his way to his grandfather and mother.

At least that is how I have seen it. Was I wrong?

Here and following the half orc.

In reply to Gralphus Grakus (msg # 506):

You are not wrong in that we are in a sandbox-style stage.  Choose where you wish to go and why and I will provide hooks to things happening int hat area.

I sort of created my own hook for the character. Everything needed could be found in a library. The group came along to help her own goal. Even if they do not expect it. :)

Lilly is a simple creature really, she has decided that Gralphus is both interesting and funny, and is perfectly happy to follow that path wherever it goes.

Radu officially withdrew, his character will continue on his own path.

How local is local garb? Like the kingdom or like the town/city?

It might be weird to have travelers in small scale local garb.

You guys are weird anyway, but these guys are dressed in the Sauscon style, same as in the city but more casually worn (Anchorhead was a staid and stodgy place among 'respectable' people, one reason Caelyn stood out.)

Greetings my boon companions!
DM has graciously demonstrated his charity, and permitted me to join the merry band.

Along that vein, I'm looking to establish some links (if folk are so amenable!) to make the entry a little more organic and less forced about why the party would accept a stranger into their midst to trust with their lives :)

Jimothy is a cleric of Deus, hailing from the Rousset Kingdom.  Although from the aristos of the kingdom, he has also spent much time with the full population.  I deliberately fashioned him rather broad of interest to hopefully link up w/ peeps, but magic, history/ruins, spirits, familial responsibility are all central pillars.

Any of those regions/interests/skills resonate as connections with any of ye illustrious folk?  Something we could explore/firm up in PMs.

Greetings and welcome.

I look forward to roleplaying with your character. Here is a small hint: Do NOT piss off the halfling.

I already have a wealth of short jokes - all set. :)

Hi! nice to havre you here, priests of Deus don't seem to last very long here but I'm sure you'll make it third time lucky.
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Perhaps I should have taken that Luck domain :)
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Gralphus is a little greener but a lot younger than his Baron grandfather (literally and figuratively) who has recently decided to recall him from the mercenaries he was sent to like an orphan.

He grew up with a lot of violence and tempered of the not quite two decades of beatings when one gets out of line. He is headed west to at least hear out the man responsible for near single handedly wiping out his father’s tribe to rescue his mother, then sent him off like an orphan, then had him fired(honorably retired from the front return home is what the documents say even though it is practically a world away and he has never actually been there)from the people who raised him.

Gralphus is actually known in mercenary circles as the Beast of Tarshin Pass- though many more know the legends of The Beast and not Gralphus personally- coming back from more field work and bringing the more teammates back with him than anyone else in the company(who isn’t quite old). He feels a little ridiculous about his kill count and bounty success among civilized folks. They aren’t the best numbers in the camp history but they were rising star kind of numbers and they should have hated to lose him.

It isn’t uncommon for ‘well born’ kids to get real fighting experience by spending a few years with Black Legion or a lesser known outfit for earning a rank and learning what a real fight looks like. Gralphus has a Field Lieutenant rank. If you were a healer at one of the walls or gates for a time you might have been there when he dragged himself and one or two other terribly wounded people back in from a week of hunting goblinoids. Possibly a near death experience led you to forsake a previous path and take up the priesthood. Maybe a sibling was saved by The Beast and so while not expecting Gralphus you do not mistake him near the blacksmith.

There are also hooks related to the fading of magic from the west that the whole party is privy to but Gralphus tries to hide those connections. It is possible that you knew of Sir Lightbringer and had a scroll or letter that told you to wait at a place at a time and it has two or more of our faces in relief on it suggesting that falling in with us would eventually lead to answers about things.