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[Sparkie]

Well, this is a hard thing to say, but I suppose we all saw it coming. My last post with Rydh will be put up tonight.

Before anyone makes any assumptions, I'll preface this by saying that this is a matter of RP. I'm not having Rydh leave because of any personal vendetta or hurt feeling on my part. Basically, it comes down to this: There's no way I can justify Rydh staying on after the recent in-game events that have transpired. I don't think there's anything he or any other party member can do to stop this eventuality.

There is a line of logic he's using here. I won't use a lot of detail to describe it, but I'll try to sum it up. First, to understand why he's doing this you may want to read this post first: http://mythicscribes.com/forums/dragons-egg-rpg/7263-dragons-egg-act-ii-59.html#post97166

Rydh has killed someone he liked in the past in a duel. In the culture he was raised in, dueling is how differences are resolved if the two parties cannot get through with words. However, Rydh is afraid to duel again because of the result of his last duel. He does not want to accidentally kill Mauve, even if she were to accept the duel. He's aware of how angry he is (which is due to the 'vision' he experienced when the harpy charmed him), and his anger is what led him to take the life of his former Commander. It doesn't help that there's still some part of him that likes Mauve in a romantic sense (hard to believe, I know).

So Rydh is faced with a situation with which he can find only one answer: Self-imposed exile. He knows of no other way to resolve the conflict, aside from injury or death. That's about it.

Don't get the idea the I'm quitting Dragon's Egg! I'm still here, dammit! I'll keep following the threads and throwing out comments or critiques when I can. If at some point Our Feline Overlord will allow it, I'll step back in to play with a new character. Until then I'll take a break, read the game posts, and get to work on some of my personal projects.

Again, I'm not doing this to spite anyone or get back at anyone in any way. It's a character thing.

Meantime, good luck with your rolls, everyone!

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

For #1, I'm not sure if the added control should completely negate the penalty as the dominant hand still has a mid-swing adjustment to the grip, which is why I threw out half penalty as a possible compromise. But since the game assumes you swing the weapon with one hand all the time, maybe the extra control for holding the sword two-handed could be close enough to full control with one hand that the penalty need not apply.

I'm overthinking something that's not my call--that's not lost on me. I was just curious and thought I'd share what's going through my mind. It's actually interesting for Cadell since all three options have pros and cons. If it's a -1 penalty for #1 and the spiked gauntlet does 1d4+1 damage (higher die for metal punch, +1 for spikes?), I would see all three options as being just as good, personally (assuming the shield is +1 AC).

 

[Ireth]

Out-of-character I'm okay with it, but expect Cadell to try and dissuade him in-game. ^^; The company really does need him, after all.

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

Well, this is a hard thing to say, but I suppose we all saw it coming. My last post with Rydh will be put up tonight.

Before anyone makes any assumptions, I'll preface this by saying that this is a matter of RP. I'm not having Rydh leave because of any personal vendetta or hurt feeling on my part. Basically, it comes down to this: There's no way I can justify Rydh staying on after the recent in-game events that have transpired. I don't think there's anything he or any other party member can do to stop this eventuality.

There is a line of logic he's using here. I won't use a lot of detail to describe it, but I'll try to sum it up. First, to understand why he's doing this you may want to read this post first: http://mythicscribes.com/forums/dragons-egg-rpg/7263-dragons-egg-act-ii-59.html#post97166

Rydh has killed someone he liked in the past in a duel. In the culture he was raised in, dueling is how differences are resolved if the two parties cannot get through with words. However, Rydh is afraid to duel again because of the result of his last duel. He does not want to accidentally kill Mauve, even if she were to accept the duel. He's aware of how angry he is (which is due to the 'vision' he experienced when the harpy charmed him), and his anger is what led him to take the life of his former Commander. It doesn't help that there's still some part of him that likes Mauve in a romantic sense (hard to believe, I know).

So Rydh is faced with a situation with which he can find only one answer: Self-imposed exile. He knows of no other way to resolve the conflict, aside from injury or death. That's about it.

Don't get the idea the I'm quitting Dragon's Egg! I'm still here, dammit! I'll keep following the threads and throwing out comments or critiques when I can. If at some point Our Feline Overlord will allow it, I'll step back in to play with a new character. Until then I'll take a break, read the game posts, and get to work on some of my personal projects.

Again, I'm not doing this to spite anyone or get back at anyone in any way. It's a character thing.

Meantime, good luck with your rolls, everyone!

Sad to see your character leave, but I did notice a darkness seeping in him. If it's RP that leads to a break from the game so you can focus on other things for a bit, that's cool. Good luck with your personal projects!

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

Out-of-character I'm okay with it, but expect Cadell to try and dissuade him in-game. ^^; The company really does need him, after all.

Yeah. Healing will be missed. (Um... the challenge does take the healer or lack thereof into consideration, right?)

We might wanna go pick some berries after the rest period.

 

[Ireth]

Just a heads-up for everyone: I start at my new part-time job tonight, so henceforth my posting will be a little limited -- not as much as it would with a full-time job, but even so. I'll do my best to stay caught up with things. ^^

 

[Nihal]

Sparkie, I feel bad for you and the character. Mauve has her (wrong) reasons to be furious... She never really got what was up with him, and what was an initial suspicion and fear grew and became hatred. He rarely said anything nice to her, being condescending, criticizing/offending her or just being cold, and though she noticed a glance or another he usually seemed angry (with himself, but she had no means to know), giving her the notion that he despised her. She has this tendency to answer to violence with doubled violence...

I may know what Rydh feels, but she doesn't. The time she tried to talk with him, she was called a coward, and it was a terrible moment, for she was frail and depressed—yet she wasn't giving up from the Taint, only from them. She never got over his reaction.

I understand it's for RP reasons, Mauve almost did the same, however, she would keep trying to investigate the Taint. Will he just give up and leave? I find a little odd that you would need a new character to come back to the game, for Rydh wouldn't change his mind; he sounds too inflexible, as if nothing in the world affected him in any way but to worse.

And sorry, party, for making the healer leave. ^^'


P.s.: If he's leaving the place we have a boat problem... ._.

 

[Keitsumah]

Yeah. Healing will be missed. (Um... the challenge does take the healer or lack thereof into consideration, right?)

We might wanna go pick some berries after the rest period.

I'll try having Keit learn some healing spells, though I'm not sure how much a Druid can do

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

I'll try having Keit learn some healing spells, though I'm not sure how much a Druid can do

Goodberries is actually an awesome spell. You can stockpile them a day ahead, then after a full rest, we'd have goodberries plus first aid (to save people bleeding out). It may be smart to go berry-picking soon.

 

[Steerpike]

Hey guys, I've been on the road since about 6:30 this morning due to an issue that arose at work late yesterday afternoon. I'll update the thread when I get home tonight, and reply to PMs etc.

 

[Keitsumah]

Goodberries is actually an awesome spell. You can stockpile them a day ahead, then after a full rest, we'd have goodberries plus first aid (to save people bleeding out). It may be smart to go berry-picking soon.

fun fact that i just found out! dogs and wolf's saliva has healing properties! lol, though i doubt anyone would tolarate a tongue bath from Batos, they might allow Keit to tend to a wound if she got the spell to turn into some kind of canine.... hmmm...

 

[Ravana]

fun fact that i just found out! dogs and wolf's saliva has healing properties!

Well, antiseptic, not "healing": at best, it would be a low-end substitute for the First Aid spell's ability to prevent infection. But if you're out of mana points and someone needs it, by all means, have the dog lick the wound. Way better than wrapping it up without cleaning it first.

And if the dog's out of spit, lick it yourself. Human saliva has similar, though weaker, properties… and worst case, you're leaving the wound cleaner than it was before. Unless you've had something truly vile in your mouth recently, at least. (If you really want this to work well, eat a couple cayenne peppers immediately before you lick the wound.)

 

[Ravana]

Well, Rysh does have that spiky gauntlet... if they find a way to keep it secure on Cadell's stump, and just curl the fingers manually so it can grasp the rope (and probably get them secured in place as well), Cadell might find a way to climb. Just slide the stump-arm up or down along the rope while climbing, while the other hand works normally. As long as the gauntlet doesn't let go.

I imagine that would depend on how well someone climbed with two (non-dominant) right hands.…

[I don't see any place where it says this is a left-handed gauntlet… suppose I could have missed it, but I did go looking. Might want to make sure of that before making too many plans for it. ]

The only thing of note on the bodies is on the half-elf. One hand is covered by a steel gauntlet with spikes formed where the articulated joints bend to form knuckles. The metal looks to be in decent shape, if somewhat tarnished, but the leather that holds the gauntlet in place is old and cracked.

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

Hey guys, I've been on the road since about 6:30 this morning due to an issue that arose at work late yesterday afternoon. I'll update the thread when I get home tonight, and reply to PMs etc.

I rolled an 18 STR check to secure the child and grip the rope while Alin and Mauve lower Baldy tied to another rope. I figure between the die roll and precautions, we're good to go (if the kid allows Baldy to hold her, I mean). But we RP'd since the roll, just because we were having fun with dialogue and couldn't get off the ledge without GM confirmation that the harpy girl is calm enough to be held. Mind if the roll is treated as a readied action?

 

[Ireth]

I imagine that would depend on how well someone climbed with two (non-dominant) right hands.…

[I don't see any place where it says this is a left-handed gauntlet… suppose I could have missed it, but I did go looking. Might want to make sure of that before making too many plans for it. ]

Here's what Rydh had to say about that:

The gauntlet looks interesting. It needs relining and repair, but it should make for a good off-hand option. I'll have to remember to ask the dead half-elf about it.

I think it could easily work for Cadell, since to my knowledge Cadell is the only southpaw in the company. Rydh's off-hand would be his left.

 

[Ankari]

I think everyone needs a little chuckle tonight. Step on over to this comic and read a few of the resulting posts (clicking on the comic will take you to a forum). They fit with Ankari's situation in the last battle.

 

[Ravana]

Rydh's off-hand would be his left.

True… though he also said that in the post immediately after it was first described (the one I quoted above, in which its handedness does not get mentioned). So unless Sparkie PMed with Steerpike in that interval, it still hasn't been stated authoritatively which hand it was. I'd like to think he would've been corrected if he'd been making the wrong assumption, but you never know. I was just thinking it might prove embarrassing to try fitting it over the wrong limb.…

By the way, you don't need both hands to climb a rope. It would probably be slower with one hand, and require a fair amount of practice before it became comfortable (assuming you're comfortable climbing a rope in the first place—I never was). However, most rope-climbing techniques do not involve merely pulling yourself up hand over hand: you actually do much of the work with your legs. In fact, you can do pretty much all the strength work with legs alone; all your hands do is hold you in place while you bring your legs up… and wrapping the rope around your arm will do that better still, though you'll have to spare the extra second to unwrap it each time you reposition it. Look up "break and squat" technique.

That having been said, someone who can climb using only hands will be faster than someone using hands and legs. But those people are rare.

 

[Ireth]

Well, I figured Cadell would need help, since he also had trouble with the rope to get down into the tunnels in the first place (or maybe that was the GM's call). Either way, it's been established in the game that his missing hand does give him difficulty.

 

[Ravana]

Difficulty, sure… but, as mentioned, that's a question of practice. I doubt most knights spend a lot of time practicing rope climbing. (And am positive their mounts spend even less. ) Whether or not you can at all is a different story.

 

[Sparkie]

Sparkie, I feel bad for you and the character. Mauve has her (wrong) reasons to be furious... She never really got what was up with him, and what was an initial suspicion and fear grew and became hatred. He rarely said anything nice to her, being condescending, criticizing/offending her or just being cold, and though she noticed a glance or another he usually seemed angry (with himself, but she had no means to know), giving her the notion that he despised her. She has this tendency to answer to violence with doubled violence...

I may know what Rydh feels, but she doesn't. The time she tried to talk with him, she was called a coward, and it was a terrible moment, for she was frail and depressed—yet she wasn't giving up from the Taint, only from them. She never got over his reaction.

I understand it's for RP reasons, Mauve almost did the same, however, she would keep trying to investigate the Taint. Will he just give up and leave? I find a little odd that you would need a new character to come back to the game, for Rydh wouldn't change his mind; he sounds too inflexible, as if nothing in the world affected him in any way but to worse.

And sorry, party, for making the healer leave. ^^'


P.s.: If he's leaving the place we have a boat problem... ._.

I won't tell you how to feel, Nihal, (because I hate when people do that to me! Don't feel bad, don't get mad, ect.) But I hope you don't feel badly about this. You didn't do this. I did. You RP'd Mauve the way you have in the past, one thing leads to another, and it is what it is. No hard feelings here.

When Rydh rides off into the sunset, he won't necessarily give up investigating the Taint. The members of this little party of adventurers can't be the only ones trying to put an end to the Taint, can they? Even if Rydh goes it alone, he won't give up. He'll likely die doing investigations of his own, seeing as the world of Dragon's Egg is a dangerous place.

Oh, and about the boat: Fish-Mauve can always swim over and tow it back, no?