Can I still see the party, but not who they’re talking to, or can I see no one?
Should be clear from the image I just posted.
EDIT: but just in case, you can only see the party.
I’ve gone ahead and deleted my post in the SOP thread regarding marching order, if you’d like to post the new order there.
Waiting for a couple more responses before continuing… although it’s a long weekend in the US and Canada, so the next couple days may be a bit slow.
Sorry, I had another business trip last week!
Oops. And just realized, while updating my character sheet, that I never bought food. Elf is hungry!
No worries! I went light this weekend, as it was a long weekend in the US and Canada. I’m working on a post now.
It’s currently not a problem, as there is at least one inn in Orlean. Assuming you stay there and pay for food, of course.
Sorry, the next post regarding the Baron is taking a bit longer to write, and I’ve been offline just about all of today due to the holiday here. The post will go up tomorrow. Again, sorry for the delay. Also, check your PMs.
Question: If this was a live game, I’d likely be doing some OOC conversation about what we’d ask of the baron, and we’d then elect the highest CHA PC (Kerrick) to be our speaker.
I think we’ve been doing OK with the more natural conversations with low-priority NPCs; do we want to have any sort of pause for collection of thoughts in the sorts of situations where we may want to have a ‘representative’, of sorts, in the future?
(this is the first PbP game for me, so I’m still sussing out differences in a approach between this and live play)
I am purposefully being deferential to the high CHA leaders for this reason.
If there are important questions, or a particular approach you want to take, it’s definitely worth doing, and I am always willing to wait for that to happen. I haven’t really been waiting long thus far, as you are just at the stage of sussing out what is going on, and I want to keep things moving. As I’m sure you’ve noticed, you’ve wandered into the least immediately combative, and least straightforward of the rumours from Castle Blackmarsh. This is killing Alex, clearly! Back to koewn’s original question, the Baron seems to have reacted favourably (or at least neutrally) to the party, not really showing preference for any of you in particular, and it doesn’t seem crucial that only Gwydion (with his high Charisma and aura) speak to him, for example.
Note that I’m not the DM of this game. In my experience, the most critical thing that determines the success of a pbp game is maintaining momentum. You want to try and do everything possible to keep the momentum going, and nothing kills momentum faster than waiting on one player – who might be sick, bogged down at work, without internet access or simply dropped from the game without saying anything – to respond to a post. Therefore, I’ve found it best to simply apply the best Charisma modifier of everyone present during social situations. That way, if you’ve got four players with no or negative modifiers and one with positive modifiers who happens to be a slow poster the game can continue without waiting too long.
Yeah, that’s reasonable. As I said, I only really wait on truly important decisions. With what’s happened so far, I’ve simply gone with whoever has responded first.
I seem to recall somebody suggesting that we go after the goblins. In fact, we could still do that, if desired.
Oh, don’t let me make decisions for Alex! Aria has just been making some rather…pointed comments.
Okay, so this is one of those points where the party needs to decide what to do, and I’m willing to wait a little. Keep in mind that you need not all do the same thing; I’m perfectly willing to handle several groups.
As a player I’m more immediately curious about the Solist temple, but I agree with the in-character thread that we need to talk to some residents as well. Hengist may find himself distracted in town if it looks like a majority of the party are heading straight to the temple.
Did the baron ever eat in front of us? If not, Gwydion is starving.
No, the Baron did not eat in front of you.