[OOC] Almost, But Not Quite, Entirely Unlike Tea [Trials of the Young King OOC Thread]

[Makenshi]

Originally Posted by SpatulaOdoom

So we're going with "He was never there in the first place"?

Pretty much, he didn't really influence anything while he was around afterall, and I've already got three PCs to deal with as it is.

As you said, Amandus will probably ge into some kind of trouble, while I'll probably have Syltar's family involved in why he has to go.

As for Tyyryk's spelling, there is a reason for that . 'Y' in the Tyyrykan language functions as either 'i' or 'y' in English, while 'yy' is pronounced "ee" (as in tea), so Tyyryk is pronounced "tea-rick". The Alyyryk brothers would therefore be pronounced as "al-ear-rick". But yes, the Tyyrykans are widely regarded as a pain in the arse because of this, so mispellings of their names, country, places, etc. are actually pretty damn common, so don't worry about it .

~MTWC

[Blue]

Oh well. I can't help but find it kind of funny that after all this, Nevh and Morgan will now be the only PCs to have met Zilira.
New PCs will join and they will have to wait another chapter or something before they get a chance. Oh well.
At least we can count on Misa and Didina's constancy. Even with only the two of us, we're still a standard sized party.

[Makenshi]

Well, technically no, Misa is actually Didina's Cohort, she's not a DMPC really .

~MTWC

[SpatulaOdoom]

Two quick questions.
How are you planning on doing XP in this game? It's obviously not going to be via combat as we'll likely be engaging in less of it than most games.

Second did Morgan get anything with his Analyze Dweomer in the private thread?

Another thing I think I screwed up on Morgans character sheet and shorted him 6 skill points
Int 17 to start +1 for human means from level 1-3 6 skill points per level 6x6 is 36
At level 4 int increases to 18 for 7 skill points per level from level 4-11 7x8 is 56
at level 12 int hits 20 for 8 skill points per level 3x8 is 24
24+36+56 is 116 while my character sheet says I spent 110. It's possible the sheet randomly unchecked a class skill marker (I think it's done that before)
Unless you have an objection I'm going to put 3 points into decipher script and 1 each into Knowledge nature, geography, and history.

[Makenshi]

Xp is mostly going to be for furthering the plot, though I'm a bit behind on that (partly because of the MIAs). I'll be giving you two some xp tomorrow though, but it won't be enough to level up or anything, not after only the prologue and chapter.

As for Analyze Dweomer, I'm quickly beginning to hate those sorts of spells as a DM, since it means I have to check and determine all the numerous aura's that people are going to have, which is very annoying and time consuming (but it's also pretty damn useful and all). Anyway, I'll get back to you on that either tomorrow or the day after (got a busy day tomorrow and I want to update the main thread too), since it'll involve looking up a lot of stuff.

As for skills, go for it.

~MTWC

[Makenshi]

Right then, I've decided to award you both 1500xp for the Prologue/Chapter One etc., as well as an additional 1000xp (so 2.5kxp in total) for both of your attempts to push the story forward outside of the main threads, as well as for sticking with the game, cheers .

~MTWC

[SpatulaOdoom]

Well it looks like we'll shortly have another person joining us. Welcome DoubleL

[Makenshi]

Indeed, that's why Im stalling a little at the moment, but I'll post sometime this weekend at the very least to give you guys some more stuff to do (though I'm pleased to see you two bouncing off of each other).

~MTWC

[DoubleL1987]

Thanks for the welcome - I'm looking forward to getting into the game, and I can promise some vaguely amusing interactions once my character drops into the story

[SpatulaOdoom]

What got altered in Blues post was the word Day.

[Makenshi]

Word of the day? I know it's an april fools prank done by one/a few of the Mods, but I don't remember reading anything about a "Word of the Day".

~MTWC

[SpatulaOdoom]

The words that were changed to GYGAXGYGAXGYGAX included "Day" "fool" "April" and "joke" I'm pretty sure the thing you were referencing in Blue's post is Day.

[Blue]

Spatodoom has it right. Day it is, and edited. I thought it would revert back to the intended word after Ap's Fools seeing how every post I ever sent got these words changed to GIGAXs but it apparently didn't.

[SpatulaOdoom]

*cough* *cough* *cough*

[Makenshi]

Sorry about the wait, I'll try to get something up tonight but I've got an early day tomorrow so it might have to wait until then. I wanted to get DoubleL a little further along before sending the pair of you off to Shali (unless you want to RP your respective private trips).

This week in general will be a bit hit and miss, as I won't be visiting my dad (who has the stable internet) and I'm working every morning (and 3/4 full days) so it'll be early nights for me (which I'm really out of practice with after being unemployed for 9 months).

~MTWC