New work schedule has me working days for the most part and then workin with my recruiter doing PT and everything, I have just been busy. I have got word that I am now good to go for Basic Training, I will be leaving you all come the beginning of February. Asides, Alyssia can also bother Draven when it gets dark and they have to camp. Nobody will be able to bother them that way. She tries not to be impulsive and would rather think things through before confronting someone.

Just to make things clear: why are you telling us that, Vesper? So that I can NPC Alyssia once you've gone in February? Or for another reason?

Or maybe I'm not really understanding what you mean?

Let me inform all that if Elessarae did not have a wand of healing she would be dead 3-4 times over. Since the beginning of my little side adventure I used up about half of my new Wand of Cure Light Wounds.

Thanks for the XP Almerin. I know I paid for it with my blood, sweat and tears.

yep, it was an understatement

Draven's just going to linger about the forest eaves. Smoke his pipe...whatnot. This is...as most of the group should know..common of him. He does it every time they camp or stop for a bit.

The only reason im saying this, is to ensure noone thinks hes storming off to try and continue without them.

As I have already explained to Almerin, our most fearless leader in gaming and stuff, I've decided to resign from this game.

The reason? I've come to the assumption, as much as this sentence sounds weird, that I simply don't feel comfortable as a player and I am just going to remain a GM.

And I probably could've just said 'I quit' and be done with it, but instead I made a speech.
Yay for me.

Yep, it's definately regretable, but Vidar's story-line was going slower and slower. It's a good decision. Too bad... I would've liked to see him kick some Aboleth behind

(didn't know if you realized what you were up against exactly, but there it is. Would've gotten you some FAT xp)

Anyway, I'm not going to find a replacement for Skari or Vidar. We're far enough in the game to know who's involved and who's not. We'll keep the group as it is. Unless somebody speaks up and shows interest.
The less seperate story-lines we have, the better my posts per time will be (hopefully). The seperate lines have lasted way longer than I expected anyway (not that I'm complaining, FAR from that ). I just thought everything would join together sooner.

Well, Skari, good luck with your other games!

Yes, please do npc her and keep her from dying if you can. I'll be gone for just over three months without access to a computer (pouts just momentarily). But I have worked for this for a few years, disqualified for this and that, fighting through the beuarucratic (??spelled right??) tape and everything.

starting when? Now, or starting in February? Things are just getting juicy between Alyssia and Draven.

I'll do my best to keep her alive

You wrote Tondrek and Geim found dead magoots and signs of a fight. Besides the dead maggots wat are , if any, are the signs of the fight?.

I just can figure out the time line. HE was climbing up when door open. we went to door check on Draven and then went in to see tower. SOmehow he got in upstairs and then got downstairs a floor or two hilled all these maggots and disappeared before we got the the room with the nest. Is that the correct assumption.

In my last update I wrote: "(OOC: Brianna, I will update soon what Geim finds in the tower.)"

I didn't assume that you would all be posting so much (although I'm very very happy that you did). I also wrote in that post that you all burned the two bears first, and that took a lot of time. In that time Malius has had time to go through the tower a bit.

You can see that it was a fight by several indications:

1: the maggots are dead and piled up, as if centered around one bipedal being.
2: there is blood on the floor and on the maggots. Clearly they have been nibbling on something recently.
3: their guts have been burned and pierced with a sharp object, such as a blade.

You also find one particular maggot in the pile, after searching, that is not covered in their usual slimey skin. Instead, it has got little stubs that on closer examination are the beginnings of hairs. All maggots have mouths with sharp teeth, but this one's are covered in fresh blood.

Man, I should've included all that in my update. Thanks for asking clarification!

WTF! How are we going to roleplay Alysia and Draven without Alysia's miiiind? Guess Als gonna have to do it....or you could get Fantasy to! Either way...um..Vesper you'll prolly have to spill everything about what she wants/plans/feels when it comes to draven and whatnot so he can properlly play her...a lot can happen in 3 months.

It's not clear to me yet when Vesper is going to leave. I certainly hope he'll be able to finish at least this conversation with Draven. After that keeping her alive is simple.

Now everyone leave Almerin along so he can get our posts done for tomorrow.

Dragon Mistress, that was one fantastic post there. I could not have better concluded Elessar's first journey myself. She has matured into a real bladesinger, and when it is time to level up, she has deserved her prestige class fully