The Northlands Saga - Spears in the Ice OOC

[Ghostfoot]

Shopping list
-cold iron short sword (20gp)
-compass (10gp)
-rations (6 days, 3 gp)
-fisshook and line (1sp)

This is all fine - cold iron is available :-)

[Farmerbink]

Hey! So... some things happened.

On Friday, my wife had an emergency C section. Mom is healthy, baby is healthy- but will spend several weeks in the nicu until they feel like he's finished cooking. That will eat lots of time for visitations, of course, but it's generally good news.

Today, I underwent knee surgery to fix a torn meniscus. It went well, and I'm ALLLLL jacked up on narcotics. It doesn't *appear* to be inhibiting my thoughts, and the knee doesn't hurt, so I'm down. Unfortunately, I'm *literally* down. No pressure on the leg for at least 2 weeks. It might make it easier to get time to post, but everything else is gonna be harder than it needs to be.

Just wanted to provide a little context for the last weekish of silence. Hopefully I'll be getting back into the swing of regular posting now.

Unrelated: it seems PeacefulOak may have bailed in earnest. I don't think he's posted anywhere on the forums since early August? :-\

[Ghostfoot]

First things first - congratulations to you & your wife! Amazing news! So cool.

Hey! So... some things happened.

On Friday, my wife had an emergency C section. Mom is healthy, baby is healthy- but will spend several weeks in the nicu until they feel like he's finished cooking. That will eat lots of time for visitations, of course, but it's generally good news.

Today, I underwent knee surgery to fix a torn meniscus. It went well, and I'm ALLLLL jacked up on narcotics. It doesn't *appear* to be inhibiting my thoughts, and the knee doesn't hurt, so I'm down. Unfortunately, I'm *literally* down. No pressure on the leg for at least 2 weeks. It might make it easier to get time to post, but everything else is gonna be harder than it needs to be.

Just wanted to provide a little context for the last weekish of silence. Hopefully I'll be getting back into the swing of regular posting now.

That all does sound like busy times for you. I can relate to the emergency C part...we ended up having several both planned & unplanned. It can be very stressful and I can only imagine more so with ICU and your own surgery on top. I hope that you all recover swiftly & can get everyone home to a new normal soon enough.

Unrelated: it seems PeacefulOak may have bailed in earnest. I don't think he's posted anywhere on the forums since early August? :-\

Yes I think we've lost PeacefulOak, for the timing being anyway. He has dropped out for a couple of months previously while busy - we'll just put DDW to one side and can reintroduce if/when he resurfaces. I've emailed and messaged to check in.

[DrK]

Congratulations on the new Baby! Enjoy the time with the feet up whilst you can

[farothel]

Congratulations on the new Baby! Enjoy the time with the feet up whilst you can

And remember: you spend the first two years to make them walk and talk and then you spent the next 20 years to make them shut up and sit down.

[Farmerbink]

I'm extremely unsure that much enjoying will be going on right now.

I've recently discovered how spectacularly effective nerve blockers are- because it has worn off. This really, really hurts. Kinda no matter what. D:

[farothel]

Time to start visiting the forests I think. Styr is waiting for us (well, probably not, but that's his problem).

[Starbin]

Ditto to the congrats and condolences for the knee. I'm back and sorry for the delay. let's go find this bastich!

[Ghostfoot]

Cool, will aim to get us out into the forest tomorrow :-)

EDIT: Halfway there but too tired to finish the post tonight...tomorrow

[Ghostfoot]

Posting an update tonight, all going well...

[farothel]

I'm not sure if it's relevant, but I have knowledge(history) and knowledge(geography) (also engineering, but I don't think that's applicable here). If Bjorn knows something about this Donar, his usurper or that glowing stone.
(1d20+2)[18]

[Ghostfoot]

Donar is another name for Thor, God of Thunder.

The rest of it sounds suitably vague & prophetic...

[Farmerbink]

The rest of it sounds suitably vague & prophetic...

Lol, classic. I'm gonna at least give Starbin a chance to broach the subject in character before assuming that he does.

[Ghostfoot]

Things have been a little hectic in the run up to Christmas/ holidays, but I think I'm through it now. Aiming to update tomorrow.

[Farmerbink]

Relatable. Holy cow, relatable. Lol.

My greatest blessing right now is that I can more or less walk again. Life is still crazy with a newborn and a 2-year-old at home, but it's a much more manageable crazy than before.

[farothel]

Bjorn takes the last watch, so it's first Heltinne I guess. If the glow is still there when he comes on guard, he will ask the person on guard what it is and if it is dangerous. When he hears it's harmless (at least for them), he will not do anything but keep an eye out.

[Ghostfoot]

Cool. I'll make a note that standing watch order is Freyja>Thalli>Signy>Elissa>Heltinne>Bjorn

[Farmerbink]

Yeah, if the lights don't approach, Elissa will just wait and point them out to the next person on watch. At the very least, then we have the benefit of two people being awake to consider our options.

[farothel]

Well, then I guess you tell Heltinne, who will tell Bjorn.

[Ghostfoot]

Cool, let's see what Starbin/ Heltinne wants to do.

[farothel]

Couple of things. First, Heltinne had volunteered to take the last watch (to greet the dawn) but not a big deal. Second, I never saw an answer on whether we were fully healed up. [/i]

Bjorn can then take the middle watch. I didn't know who had which watch anymore, so I may have made the mistake.

[Starbin]

No need to change ... in the future that’ll be her MO. Of course, depending on how long each shift is, we may end up doubling up anyway (with twice the opportunity to fail a Perception check!)

[Ghostfoot]

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope that you & yours stay safe & well this festive season.

It's a Lego & boardgame feeding frenzy here at Chez Ghostfoot this morning.

Holiday time here for me now, so lots of time for gaming for next 2-3 weeks .

@Starbin: Sadly with your Perception & Sense Motive rolls you're not going to get much info. Knowledge check indicates 'feels like fey' but that's about all since untrained.

Re: healing, I think it's been ~2 sleeps since the big fight now so yes, everyone can be fully healed

[Farmerbink]

Heya, folks!

I noticed earlier today that Farothel and Starbin are already both on a small Discord server that I "manage" for out-of-character, text-speed communication. Often, it's random chat, but it can occasionally be very helpful to discuss minor concerns or discrepancies faster than an OOC forum thread tends to allow.

To that end, I wanted to throw out the option for anyone else (perhaps especially Ghostfoot) to join us. Feel free to follow this link for an invitation to the server. If you don't want to, no harm no foul- I like having it available, but that doesn't mean everyone else does, too.

[Ghostfoot]

Hey FB,

Thanks for the invite.

I'll try to keep anything that needs a record kept in the OOC rather than Discord as I find info easily lost there. Also for politeness if we're not all on there, I'll be posting here.

[Farmerbink]

agreed in both cases. :thumbsup:

[farothel]

Bjorn is shaken, so he's a bit 'weirded out'. I haven't made him go all berserk, as I thought that would be a bit much. But when confronted with the unknown, his first thought is to reach for his weapon. The cold iron sword in this case.

[Ghostfoot]

when confronted with the unknown, his first thought is to reach for his weapon.

Said like a true Northlander, if not a long-lived one!

But hey, the goal is to die in battle and go to Valhalla, right?

[Farmerbink]

Hey, anything else we can add to help you move forward, Ghostfoot?

[Ghostfoot]

Hopefully in a few hours. Sorry, was travelling and got back yesterday. Thought I would have more time while I was away.