by Idran1701 » Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:51 pm
Hammergrim
The party passes through the tavern with more than a few looks, largely ignored by the six. Walking (or in Shawn's case, riding) across the room, they get to the stairs down without hassle or obstacle. And heading through the darkness-cloaked doorway at the far end, it isn't long before they're standing on the landing of the Infinite Staircase once more, floating in the midst of the swirling fog.
And one thing to say about the Staircase; though trips up might be a bear, trips down are much easier.
Infinite Staircase
The party heads down, with Shawn once more heading off from the group for her hourly restroom breaks. And after a 4 hour trip, almost half the time heading up, the party finally returns to the Planewalkers' Guild. The Guild currently looks to be around evening-equivalent time, but it's still plenty active, and they seem to have arrived just for the tail-end of dinner.
It may have been a comparatively short trip, all told, but it wasn't bad for a first go at it. And the payment won't be half bad either, once they collect it.
Well, then! It looks like your first trip was a success. Thus, everyone gets the following XP:
200 XP apiece for killing the spiders
500 XP apiece for recovering the amulet.
In addition, a bonus 200 XP for making a solid attempt at keeping up posting, or keeping up with the thread, by Jak, Bes, and Shini.
As for party swaps, we'll be losing three people here. Doug, unfortunately, has requested to be swapped out for now due to schoolwork bearing down on him. Bes'll be swapping out as well for now since he's taking on a lot of RP responsibility as it is, and this'll be one less concern for him. And I'm afraid I'm going to have to move GC to the alternate list, mostly because he seemed to have quite a bit of trouble at keeping his posts up here. No insult to you, GC, and if in the future you think you'll be able to make a better attempt at holding that up, I'd be willing to consider swapping you back in. Gus, you are starting to get on the border of this too, I'll warn you. But I know you've had a lot of extenuating circumstances over this adventure, and when you have posted I've seen a lot of effort at making up for your absences, so I'm keeping you for now.
As for who's replacing these three, that's up in the air for now. I'll be checking availability of the current alt list to see who might be free. Current options for players are Kelne, Seethe, Neb, and Spleen, and I'll be trying to contact each of them. And of course, I do remind all four of you (and the people swapped onto the alt list) that while the party's on the Infinite Staircase, all players can post ICly in the thread, both current and alternate.
Of course, there is the matter of returning the amulet itself, but that won't require the entire party. Those characters that will be doing so, go ahead and post to that respect, and I'll handle that with an in-thread side quest once the entire still-current party's weighed in.
And for all six of you that went through this, congrats! The first trip's been completed!