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Sorry, I have been absent. It has been a whirlwind of a weekend. I am in Mountain Time. I looked it up, and I am in GMT-7.

I was a bit slower getting that out today than I'd hoped.

An FYI, I will be travelling this week. I'll have internet access, so it shouldn't affect posting.

Regarding the timezones, I'll try to put together a little "time wheel" diagram, which should give an indivation of at least day/night cycles for each of us, and when we might generally line up (IRL commitments not considered of course).

Well, she speaks the black tongue and her patron is The Vile One.

Okay. So she wears it on her sleeve then. :D

Early days, but how are things going so far? Are people waiting to see the outcomes of certain posts before contributing? I haven't wanted to accidentally squash anyones contribution by chiming in too quickly with a result of an individual's actions (when I can).

It’s all got a very natural feel and flow, in my opinion. Speaking just for myself, I tend to respond as soon as you’ve posted, not waiting for others to chime in. Trying to keep that "we’re always in initiative" mindset from Shadowdark…

I think it's going good. I got a little swamped with some personal stuff this weekend so I have been a little slow to post, but it's been fun.

I'm having fun playing Shadowdark again, thanks for running the game. ☺️ I've missed playing this system lol

Hey Team,

Just and FYI, ShadowDark does not have a mechanic for passive perception or investigation. So, just because you walk across a space carefully and don't die, it doesn't mean it's safe. >: )

Not speaking of anything in particular, just that I'm only going to interpret you actions as written. Having a look around will only spot obvious things and points of interest only. Or perhaps your backgrouds might note something as "interesting" to one person which might not illicit a reaction during a look around from anther person.

For example, Borgo is "checking the anvil", but for what? And how is he doing so? I'm just assuming he's having a look around for anything obvious. If there had been a trap along the side, I would have determined he tripped it, though depending what kind of trap it was I would have given him advantage on his save, or setup a scene where triggered the trap and would have to extricate himself somehow or bad stuff.

That's how I figured my actions were being interpreted as well. I assumed there was no trap on the way or immediately on the anvil so I didn't say I was explicitly looking for traps on the floor or on the anvil. For now I'm taking this room to be a ritualistic space.

Great! I've been playing PBP on and off for a few years, but I still feel like a newbie at this kind of disjointed communications. So I want to try to make sure, I'm not misinterpreting things and we're all on the same page expectations-wise.

No worries, I will make sure to indicate when I'm actively looking for something. And I won't complain when, given my descriptions, you decide that I was not looking for a specific kind of threat.

Ciao! It looks like we've lost DropBearNation (Albrecht). DropBearNation hasn't had any registered activity in 9 days. I'll write Albrecht out shortly. After you guys decide what your next steps are in the pond area.

Dhakhan, I'm a little turned around in the adventure. Is there a map that we could look at? Just the rooms we have seen thus far?

Two, if you don't include the hallway. :D I was wondering if I should breakdown and make one. I'll throw up a mud-map here and try to put something a bit nicer up in the Game Thread.

Okay! Here we go! Your party came into the location from the stairs on the right. You encountered the skelies in the main room with the big design on the floor. You opened the door to the right of the stair (as if looking into the room from them), and enter the the hall and the Anvil room with the two pools of water and the recess with the big ol' anvil.

Sorry the shape of the design is a bit wonky.

Looks great! Thank you!

@Dhakhan This new map is amazing! Did you draw it yourself or use a website/program?