Bladedancer/bladesinger are indeed very similar... at least thematically.

If you haven't looked at it, you may want to look at the Bladesinger class stuff.

Thanks for all of the awesome work, Eol.

Nervious?  Psh, I invited (begged) you for a reason!

Halfway there!

The man is doing WORK.

No doubt!  With a plan and everything!

Ho ho ho!

Game thread, Q&A thread, recruitment thread are all done in terms of name swaps.  And I swapped a few back in this discussion manually so that it made more sense.

Welp, just ran the replace on the Q&A thread.  May make this most recent conversation look a little funny, but the swap seems to have worked great.

On to the game and recruitment threads.

They can get away with a shorter period than other species.

And we're just happy to have you!

I  you, Captain Backup!

I can restrict the find/replace to the three game threads.  I still think I'll do the name, just not the pronouns or whatnot. 

If a staff member ever gets crazy industrous, they could manually edit those. 

I'm gonna say with three votes for (and only two other players), and in the interest of making the new player as comfortable as possible, we'll go with the retcon.  I can't imagine somebody just making this a deal breaker objection. 

Yup. 

I'm tempted to do a big SQL update to the back end, with a "find/replace" of "Aranwen" for "Aranwen", just for reading continuity.  Like, if we're gonne retcon, let's really retcon. 

Of course, you do get the he/his in the old posts still, and you can't just brute force replace those... so it may not be worth the effort.

A'ight.  Does anyone object to a retcon of "Arancon" to "Aranwen"?  I imagine this might have changed some interactions in the past a bit... but meh.  If it works for you folks, it works for me. 

The only issues I see with a retcon are the facts that "Arancon" is a male name, and that he hooked up with Davena back at the Inn. 

But then again, I don't guess that the latter is an issue.  It's not like we can't retcon Davena's sexuality so that the encounter still happened. 

No kidding.  It's bad enough to NPC Midge, but he's had so little life breathed into him, anyway, that it's not as big of a deal.  Arancon has been played the entire time, and is the party leader... I hated to reduce him to an NPC.

To get a player of Reralae's caliber is a boon I hadn't even dared to hope for.

Ladies and gentlemen, for our remaining performances, the part of Aranwen will now be played by Reralae.

I'm am beyond stoked! 

It's a bus, not a tank!

A bit of a faux pas, skipping directly to the triple dog dare.

Let's see if I can get a post up here.

I concur.  Step by step would be super interesting.

Alive?  I don't think Ohio is THAT dangerous...

Love the van! 

I'll see what I can do about sharing some beer.  A word of warning - Canada customs kills packages of beer.   

Wow!  Look at the talent at work, here!

I have made a red several times, as a matter of fact.  It's one stye that I keep tinkering with, as I  have yet to be 100% happy with what I've done.  Had one that tasted great, but wasn't red enough.  Made some changes, red was pretty perfect, flavor was off. 

You're too kind.

I need to send you some beer now that I've gotten better at it. 

As some of you know, I brew my own beer.  After eight years of doing it, some of them even turn out decent. 

This past weekend, I had a tent at Auburn's Oktoberfest.... and man, did I ever have a great time.  I got so much incredible feedback on my beer, including having representatives from a pro brewery telling me how I needed to find a sugar daddy to help me finance opening my own operation - and offering to help me out if that day ever came. 

Yeah, they were probably just being nice to the hobby guy, but it still felt really good.

If you'd like to read about, see pictures, etc... I did a blog post on the subject.

I have reaced out to an outstanding player from the Inn's past to see if she might be interested in taking up Aranwen's role. 

I've flaked on her as a DM a couple of times, so she maay tell me to get bent... but it's worth a shot.

Aranwen has communicated with me via PM that I should NPC Aranwen "indefinitely", as he has too much going on.  He didn't use the words "I quit", but he thanked me for the chance to play and doesn't seem to think that he will be returning - it reads very much like a goodbye. 

Davena is tough to read.  Dating back to your experiences with her in the inn - she carries on conversations easily, but gives few to no tells about her actual feelings.  Aside from her interest in Aranwen, Kith is not sure that she has ever been able to pick up on any of the woman's actual motives. 

I can't speak for party members, but neither Garn nor Davena seem to care what happens to the corpse or his belongings.

Ch'dau may have more luck than the average bear in estimating numbers based on footprints.

Hard to say re: who killed the priest.  It was a blade, the cut is clean - indicating one stroke.  Perhaps even from behind.