Eol posts mostly about his dog, his home improvement projects, and rum. 

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Egad.

Well, well.  Four posts now, including Team Leader.  That should be sufficient to move this forward.

Hey, it's getting better.  I don't have to blow the AC wide open on the drive in now.

My glasses still fog over almost instantly when I get out of my car in the afternoon, though.  90+ degrees and 155% humidity does that. 

It still hits the flipping mid nineties every day.  Summer just will not go away.  It hit 97 on Saturday.

They claim - CLAIM - 80s next week, and 70s the week after. 

I do not believe them.

Tell me about it.  It didn't even hit 80 degrees until like 8 AM today.  Sheesh.

Gib asks about Davena and Garn's knowledge of the undead.

"If I may ask," he begins. "when and where did you learn of this undead activity and the possible location of its center? Any knowledge that you can share now will be highly useful to us as it would appear that we have a mutual goal."

Garn glances at Davena, but allows her to do the speaking, as is his custom. 

The blonde woman answers.  "We heard tell of the walking dead as we traveled the road, and were persuaded to investigate.  As for the center of the activity... the dead man you searched is not the first priest of the death cult that we have encountered.  I believe their information to be accurate."

Garn wears a bit of a sneer.  It is not voiced, but the implication is that information was extracted - likely via torture or the like - from these priests.

Davena shakes her head.  "I have heard tales of human sacrifices before.  I am surprised, though, that these cultists would be so bold as to send wandering packs of the dead to terrorize the countryside.  I do not see the benefit." A ghost of a grin touches the corner of her mouth.  "But then, I do not pretend to know the mind of such a cultist."

Her gaze falls to Aranwen.  "Tell me, brave warrior... I hear that your folk are immune to the grave paralysis of these ghouls.  Is this true?

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The morning passes without incident.  The sticky fog hangs oppressively still, the forest remains deathy quiet.  No animal, bird, or insect sounds can be heard. 

Sometime after midday, you reach the edge of the woods and come upon a series of cliff faces.  "I expect that our caves will be there," Garn observes. 

As the group scouts, Ch'dau finds a trampled track leading down into the caves - from the looks of it, this is a commonly used pathway for several people. 

Ugh.  I had an awful week.

Better luck this time!

Bengals
Texans
Ravens
Titans
Bears
Panthers
Vikings
Patriots
Eagles
Saints
Chargers
Packers
Chiefs
49ers

Love seing Cedric brought to life.

I'll post when you do. 

So, let's talk about "teams".

I consider myself to be pretty open minded; I honestly didn't think that the whole "other team" thing was offensive, just a silly term.  If it does offend anyone, I apologize, I certainly meant no offense.

I will confess to a moment of stupidity, though.  When Reralae first suggested retconning Arancon to Aranwen, my exact thought process was "okay, no problem, no difference in game mechanics... oh, wait.  Arancon hooked up with Davena, I don't want to pretend that never happened!"

Because I was... what?  Unaware that two women can have sex?  (insert facepalm emoji)

I mean, good grief.  If we're changing someone's gender and character retroactively, it's not like we cannot change the sexuality of another make believe person.  Durr. 

I figured that out pretty quickly, but that was my embarassing knee jerk reaction.

As for tolerance?  Those of you who are my facebook friends have seen me rant about this a couple of times.  I identify as a Christian... who doesn't comprehend how people can justify turning a blind eye to other sexual stuff but fixate on people who happen to have the same gender.  It's utterly private business to begin with, why does it concern me any more if they have the same junk?

It doesn't.  My job as a Christian is to love people.  That's it.  

But back to the game, if we're going to have the very realistic situation where two consenting adults have casual sex, how can we only accept that if they are opposite genders?  That's just silly. 

As a final note, in case we ever need this to be stated - the Inn's official policy has always been that everyone deserves to be treated with respect.  I don't care what race, gender, religion, political affiliation, sexual orientation, etc, etc, etc you identify as - you deserve to be treated respectfully.  Hate speech of any sort means that you have no place in this community, period. 

Lol, other team...

It happened.  It's a legit plot point.  If we're retconning,  no reason Davena can't like girls.  

Welp... I may try this a couple more times...

I've had three people post.  Anyone else care to give it a shot?

I'm so stoked.  Dying for Brom and Raven to post, over here!

Yep.  One tiny bt of luck in all of that was that the blade came to rest on a zombie's corpse, technically not hitting the ground.  So it is still usable, else I'd have mentioned it. 

Yay posts!

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.