Apolyton D&D: SF's PBEM.

[Skanky Burns]

When did you become a deity btw?
Its little wonder that you have though.

[Skanky Burns]

This is the Postfix program at host mail.messagingengine.com.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.

For further assistance, please send mail to

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the message returned below.

                        The Postfix program

: host mercury.cc.oberlin.edu[132.162.1.220] said:
    550 5.1.1 ... User unknown (in reply to RCPT TO
    command)

Well, that explains why UR's email wasn't received by Snowy.

[SnowFire]

Well, yeah, the Oberlin account is dead. The AT&T account is still up and running though, so as long as that's in the email, it should get through.

And no, private conversations don't need to be cced, although they probably should be if you're doing something important. From previous PBEM experience, chatting with others and then putting together a unified email of the result of your discussions to send to the group often works well.

[Urban Ranger]

I also got the bounced message this morning. Ah well, didn't look closely before I sent.


Skanky,

Yeah, I am an evil spammer BTW, you are the first person who noticed the change, or at least bothered to mention it.

[Skanky Burns]

Congratulations then. I didn't remember seeing it mentioned anywhere. To celebrate you should post your character's background! You have written one, haven't you?

[Makeo]

just a check did everyone get an email from me today?

[Skanky Burns]

Yes. Well, I did at least.

[SnowFire]

Hey, sorry folks, but I've been quite busy lately and my sleep schedule's been yoyoed back and forth some. Hopefully I'll be able to send out those promised emails tommorow.

Argh.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Yes. Well, I did at least.

None from you, though

[Skanky Burns]

Copy SnowFire's post above, but cross out his name and replace it with Skanky. I just sent out a bare-bones plan for Dorlin's next moves, but more actions will probably be added later retroactively. Probably Monday, I'm working 16 hours over the weekend too (as usual).

[Bosh]

Heya all.
I'll be off hiking for a good bit of next week but after I get back in about a week I can be a replacement if one is needed. I've got a 10:30 class to teach and then one at 2:00 so I've got a lunch break on steroids that's perfect moping around the apartment time (and coincided pretty well with the late end of american internet prime time). I played AD&D 1st edition a loooong time ago and will probably do OK after a quick
refresher. In any case stick me on the observer mailing list.

Anyway, if you need someone else I'd like to run a goblin charactor named Daztur (have always been partial to humanoids) who could possibily be picked up by the group as an interpreter for non-human tribes (which would make for interesting results as Daztur only speaks common) or a mess cook. He was the main character for some short story fragments I wrote a bit over two years ago and I rather liked him so I thought I'd give him another run:

Name: Daztur
Gender: Male
Age: 13
Profession: Escaped kitchen slave (fighter/thief?)

Appearance: Remarkably short, even by goblin standards, with thin bowed legs and long wiry spindly arms ending in quick-fingered hands well-callused from years of vegetable chopping. His face is rather less attractive, as it is graced by one long pointed ear that is not terribly well matched on the other side of his head by the burned remains of a rather unfortunate frying pan accident, a wide frog-lipped mouth, remarkably large plaque-encrusted teeth, an impressive array of pimples, and eyes wide enough to make people who see Daz wonder what the hell he’s staring at. The pungent odor of none too fresh garlic does not improve matters much.

Alignment: Being fed is good, other things are rather less good (chaotic nuetral?).

Personality: Daz’s personality is centered around an all-consuming desire for stew and an utter lack of motivation to engage in acts that do not immediately result in said stew. This is tempered by a childhood of slavery (since his abduction from his tribe by slavers at a young age) which has left him with of an ignorance of all things non-culinary so pervasive that it would be a rather good idea for him to listen to other people, with a rebellious nature that makes him completely unwilling to do so. However deep down Daz just wants to be loved (don’t we all?) and he expresses this in an endearing manner that reminds many people of those small hyperactively friendly dogs that love nothing better than a good crotch-sniffing. This, combined with his astounding short attention span, inability to know when to shut the hell up, utter lack of common sense, and the manners of a pudding-spewing two year old makes Daz the endearing creature that he is.

Backstory: Daz was taken from the Shadowclan Goblins by slave traders so that little goblins culture remains to him besides a thick accent and the conviction that goblins are the kindest, bravest, warming, most wonderful race anyone has ever known. He then had the misfortune to be sold to Fander Leck of Fander’s Stew Shack where he washed dishes until the rat incident and then chopped a wide range of vegetables into quite small pieces with his beloved cleaver, Ratclomper. He also served as general scapegoat and mascot of the kitchen staff who tormented him mercilessly. With recent relative maturation, Fander has been increasing Daz’s workload, much to his dismay, and he has thus hatched a plan to escape…

[Wraith]

I haven't seen anything since Friday. Are we just moving slowly, or did my address get cut from the cc:s?

Wraith
1.799 x 10^12 furlongs per fortnight. "Tis a good Idea, and it doth be the Law"

[SnowFire]

Moving slowly. We did a lot of cleaning around the house this weekend, and I was otherwise distracted by some... complications. Basically, two things about this mission occurred that totally threw off my original plans, and I've been lazy about coming up with a solution.

However, on my honor, the promised emails shall be sent out tonight.

Boshko: Well, if you can fix the "killed on sight in most southern towns" part of that character, I'll consider it should we need one.

[SnowFire]

And so it was done.

Despite asking the fact that asking for the meaning of jokes generally kills them... what's the reference in that last sig, Wraith? I'm too lazy to start converting furlongs to other units of measurements and see if I can find something familiar.

[Wraith]

The speed of light.

Wraith
I have not yet begun to procrastinate