Yeah, I agree with this in principle and it's just kind of lucky that Brady's diminishing interest happened to dovetail with the clusterfuck that occurred.

I'm not sure how to enforce this otherwise, though, since it's pretty unlikely for anyone to volunteer to sacrifice themselves for the good of the party and I'm a bit hesitant to have somebody killed on an eeny-meeny-miny-moe basis.

Don't bring it out until someone dies, I guess.

I suppose that makes the most sense.

Zerg killed Gareth, so Gabe's up.

Uh, I do to? I didn't want to leave for the longest time because the game was fun and I wanted to do more in the setting, but at the pace of maybe one round a day at best we don't exactly do much of anything. Ever since your character got taken out in the spiderswarm clusterfuck my heart just hasn't been into it, and it's just not fair to have this long list of people waiting to step up while I don't care anymore.

Plus I'm gonna be living with people who like to play D&D so I gotta think about making a Barbarian character.

Sooo, since he's being retired anyway, how should Argy go out? Blaze of glory, food poisoning, or retiring as a simple farmer? :3:

I put a cow in the dungeon for a reason, Zerg.

I've been kind of hacking away at making the fights move a little faster without making them cakewalks but it's an ongoing process (as we've seen with the current mess). The brain fight, for example, went fairly smoothly and would have gone even faster had some people not gone into full retreat in the face of what was essentially a tutorial fight.

Just so people know this shit is being worked on and the game won't continually grind into month-long slogs like the one we just had. There's really nothing I can do about the one-round-a-day issue, but I can try to cut away at the total number of rounds.

I SAID: "GABE'S UP"

Gonna take that turn in a second, but PMing you about a rule clarification first.

Hey, can Orion confirm that his character will be bang up for making deals with underworld spirits and organised criminals?

Also thank you Pang for not killing all of us off this time. I'm not entirely sure how that managed to go so badly, although my propensity for rolling low, single digit attack rolls hasn't helped any.

I got you out of harm's way, but the only one with any healing anything is Soggy.

He better go find you and pour that healing potion down your throat, but he needs to catch a fucking break soon.

Yeah, but I doubt very much the fight is going to last that much longer.

Orion got back to me and as it turns out he's busy due to the BSC so we move to the next in queue, LeHah. I am sure he won't have an issue with various infernal contracts.

I threw a fireball at Lissa hoping to hasten her retreat, not piss her off (And because I didn't have the range to hit the gnome).

Lucky Garrmondo was there to soak up that crossbow bolt eh?

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Just because Soggy's a cripple, doesn't make him useless!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ypJnDZ0QDk...Bum-tagged.jpg

I am sickeningly aware of that.

I'm waiting with baited breath. Will Soggy ever walk again?

Let the newbies carry him around in a sedan chair.

Zerg, I appreciate your roleplaying. I honestly do.

But you need to tell me what the fuck you're actually trying to do, "squeezing the piglet" just seems like an unfortunate euphemism.

It's a dangerous world, and there's no room for dead weights on sedan chairs.

Why, I bet in Brigid's day, the weak and paralyzed are left to their own devices, so as not to burden the living. Nature is a harsh mistress, but such is the circle of life.

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Pang, Arg is grabbing the gnome and restraining him, in a crushing bearhug of course. My intention is to damage AND make the slimy little boss more susceptible to attacks...

(I guess I should be more specific eh? During the last turn, I intended him to carry off Lissa, while dragging Mots to the other room by his beard :tpg:)

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Pang, didn't VV teleport to the ladder or something, based on your account?

That's within five squares of Argy ._.

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Eh, that Gnome is history and I doubt I'm getting another turn as Arg. It's been fun butting into the Horde for a while. Pang should just assume control and write him out any way he sees fit.

Is LeHah going to play a burly Arab then?

http://zoharproductions.com/images/palanquin.jpg

Alright, that's it, start fluffing my pillows.

Let's have me sit on Args' shoulders, and just fuse both characters into one massive, horrifying Thunderdome reference.

knk, the fight is over

the immobile condition automatically ended when the fight did

your long nightmare is at an end

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to.

Could he not eat you then have you push through his stomach in some sort of hideous Total Recall reference?

Yes he can!

With the battle over, I see no point in my continued control of Argumentus. You folks go ahead and give him the glorious sendoff he deserves :tpg:

Have him punch another minotaur in the face. Really hard.