DM Munroe / DM Narration

[Munroe]

I am based on the US East Coast so my time online tends to reflect US Eastern evenings, sometimes starting in the afternoon and/or running late into the night.

I am also running a PnP campaign locally (depending on if the group holds up) so I'll also be scheduling around our occasional sessions.

I've been on intermittently during the late night (US eastern) with vampires throughout Cormyr and the Western Reach. Vampires attacked Isinhold in force on the eleventh day of the Claw of the Storms (11 April 2008). There was a siege of Isinhold beginning on the eleventh but the town was not destroyed. (Claw of the Storms, or Tarsakh, is the fourth month of the Faerunian calendar.)

The main event I am currently running is a vampire plot which had its 3 year anniversary in February 2009. That having been said, most of the time I am active when it is nighttime in-game.

I have cut back severely on my time spent in the DM Client this year and I usually am only found in the DM client late on Friday or Saturday nights.

2008.12.14 -- I'll be picking up my vampire plot again here in the coming weekends. For those involved before when it fell off, I'll be trying to get you back involved and pick-up mostly where we left off. For newer folks, I'll be spreading stuff around so don't assume you're safe.

2010.01.21 -- The vampires are on the move again and it seems they are attacking Greatgaunt again. Why again? That's an in-character question. Find out in-character. At any rate, the attack is going to be on 6th Alturiak 1374. (That's 06 Feb 2010 for those of us on Earth.) I have a lot of available time at present so I'm hoping to open this thing up again. As to what hour on the 6th? Well, I expect it to be many hours.

2010.10.25 -- I really should update this more often. The vampires have been relatively quiet for the past few months. There are still sightings occasionally in Suzail, Valkur's Roar, the King's Forest, Eveningstar, Skull Crag, and elsewhere, but they're quiet. The villagers and the cityfolk still seem aware of a threat, but they have acclimatized to nighttime with vampires.

2013.09.20 -- As the weather grows cooler and the nights grow longer, vampire activity in Cormyr is on the rise again. Most common sightings of vampires occur in recent years in Suzail and Valkur's Roar, though there have been reports of them elsewhere, including occasionally a very pale woman or man asking questions in Greatgaunt about current events.


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Events currently running:

VAMPIRES
Number of players required: Many
Number of players currently involved: Fluctuates. Less than 5.
Suggested character level: The weakest encounters are about EL 4, if that helps. Most tend toward EL 6 or 8, though others go much higher.
Event progress: Been running forever. Plan to finish eventually. Maybe. It CAN be concluded.
Notes: Vampires are like cockroaches, but undead, smarter, and much better dressed.
Vampires are undead. They can take the form of wolves but they aren't really wolves. Crazy.

Werewolves
Number of players required: See Vampires.
Number of players currently involved: See Vampires.
Suggested character level: See Vampires.
Event progress: This is really just a subset of my vampire plot but may become its own in time.
Notes: The vampires used werewolves for their attack on Isinhold so clearly there is some dealing with werewolves going on.
Werewolves are shapeshifters. They can take the form of wolves but they aren't really wolves. Crazy.

Worgs
Number of players required: A few
Number of players currently involved: approximately 6 0
Suggested character level: 7+
Event progress: Thematic. I'm not sure if there is a conclusion.
Notes: Worgs are Magical Beasts. They look like wolves but they aren't just wolves. Crazy.

[Munroe]

Note: Players are welcome to post in this thread with the caveat that I may delete their post later, depending upon its continued relevance to the posted schedule.

Hmm... It's been almost a year since I started this post and the vampires are still around. I'll be posting updated information for the Isinhold issue soon.

[Munroe]

beertrot said:

Id (Artemis) like to get in on the vampire action! Where do I sign up?

I'm an opportunist. When I am on as DM, if I see a player somewhere that I think they might encounter a vampire and I can reason why the vampire would be there, then the player might encounter a vampire.

I don't have sign-ups. Participation is based on whether you're present when something happens and how much initiative you take afterward. That having been said, I'll keep an eye out for you. You never know, you may happen to be in the wrong place at the right time.

[Munroe]

I've updated this. Still no hours posted, because I never know what hours I'll be doing something. Except for the 6th of February. I'll be doing something a lot of hours on the 6th of February.

[Munroe]

My current job is 8 am - 5 pm Monday through Friday.

I haven't been on the server at all this week except for 15 minutes or so just now as a player.

My current plan is to DM in-game one night of the weekend every weekend and maintain activity on the forum during the week.

If past experience is any indication, I tend to log-in at midnight (US Eastern Time).

Since I'm working dayshift now, that may mean my weekend hours become earlier too, but I'll have to wait a month to see how my patterns change before I can say for sure.

[Munroe]

Apr 17, 2010 5:40:22 GMT -5 Munroe said:

My current job is 8 am - 5 pm Monday through Friday.

I haven't been on the server at all this week except for 15 minutes or so just now as a player.

My current plan is to DM in-game one night of the weekend every weekend and maintain activity on the forum during the week.

If past experience is any indication, I tend to log-in at midnight (US Eastern Time).

Since I'm working dayshift now, that may mean my weekend hours become earlier too, but I'll have to wait a month to see how my patterns change before I can say for sure.

Eh, nevermind. As a temp, I wasn't told how long the job would last. It didn't last very long. I'll be around more.

[Munroe]

Apr 25, 2010 12:33:42 GMT -5 Munroe said:

Eh, nevermind. As a temp, I wasn't told how long the job would last. It didn't last very long. I'll be around more.

I've still been working intermittently at the same job. Worked all last week but this week I only work today (Tuesday) and Friday so will be around during the week a bit more. (Yes, as of this posting it is 3 am and I have work today. I'm bad at this.)

I do want to start picking up steam again but I never feel like I have enough time.

[Munroe]

Jun 1, 2010 1:55:44 GMT -5 Munroe said:

Worked all last week but this week I only work today (Tuesday) and Friday

*grumble grumble grumble*

As of about 3:30 PM yesterday (Wednesday), I'm also working today (Thursday). Yes, it's 3:49 am when I write this. Yes, I have to be at work in four hours. Yes, yes, I'm going to bed.

*sighs*

Well, at least I got a day off.

I really hope they don't want me to work at all next week.

[Munroe]

Now that worgs have been resized, I need to do more with worgs.

[Munroe]

Just letting you all know I'm not dead.

If I DM on the weekend, it's usually somewhere between 6 PM Saturday and 2 AM Sunday EDT/EST.

If I DM during the week, which is less common, it's usually more like 10 PM to 1 AM.

My activity level varies, but if I'm on, the time windows above are my most likely hours.

[Munroe]

Aside from the fact that the hours posted above are generally still the likely hours to run into me, I'll be out of town this weekend, beginning tomorrow.

(Not that people were banging down the doors to reach me, but Highknight posted so I figured I may as well.)

[Munroe]

May 24, 2012 8:37:20 GMT -5 Munroe said:

Aside from the fact that the hours posted above are generally still the likely hours to run into me, I'll be out of town this weekend, beginning tomorrow.

(Not that people were banging down the doors to reach me, but Highknight posted so I figured I may as well.)

Turns out I was wrong, we're leaving Saturday morning.

[Munroe]

Been forever since I updated my activity, but I assure you I'm not dead. My ever-growing post count on the forum should be enough to indicate that. I'm less active in-game than some of our staff, but there are dark shadows moving in the night at my behest and blood still flows fresh into undead veins.

I still wish there were a way for me to turn on and off the in-game clock so I'm not limited by it so much. But regardless of that, I tend to be most active in-game late Saturday nights/early Sunday mornings. For the past year, I also run a Pathfinder RPG game IRL every other Saturday night, so I'm more likely on alternating weekends.

[Munroe]

Sept 20, 2013 18:33:56 GMT -5 Munroe said:

I tend to be most active in-game late Saturday nights/early Sunday mornings.

Once again pointing out that I am behaving to a certain pattern. I make no promises I will be on, only that I am most often on as a DM during this time.

As I've said before, there are dark shadows moving in the night at my behest and blood still flows fresh into undead veins.

I've been getting the urge to pick my vampire plot up again for a bit. The cold weather always makes me want to run vampires. There's a great vampire short story I read in Stephen King's Night Shift that involves vampires in a snowstorm. Nights are also longer in the winter, so more time for the nocturnal undead to prowl.

[Munroe]

I don't keep this thread up to date, as you all may have noticed, but I still feel it's the best place to leave notice that I will be out of town for most of this week.

Leaving around noon tomorrow (02 July) and returning on Thursday evening (06 July).
I will not have guaranteed access to the Internet during this time.  Anyone tagging me in posts, directing any DM Q&A inquiries toward me, or PMing me will not receive a response until at least Thursday evening, and probably later.  For anyone wishing to inquire with me directly about something, my advice would be for those inquires to be sent after I return.

My sister and I are going to visit my brother in Manhattan.  He's been living in the city since January; this will be our first visit to him and to New York City.  It happens that we will be there for the 4th of July, so here's hoping that it is a safe and happy 4th.  My father is concerned about having all three of us in NYC on Independence Day.  I do not own a smartphone* or laptop, and I do not expect to have access to my brother's computer, so I have been advised to bring a book for the down time.   (I'm taking a novel and a collection of vampire short stories.)

Long story short, I'll see you guys around here next weekend.  If I don't, feel free to be worried.


*I don't own a smartphone.  I am a hold-out member of Generation X; I still often think of PIM/PDA devices and cellphones as items for the use of the ultra-rich.  Yes, even though they're all around me.  The fact that I remember when they were called PIMs probably dates me.  Also, when I was in school, they taught us that two spaces follow a period.  HTML doesn't support multiple spaces in text by default; any more than one space is ignored when the HTML is rendered.  So the HTML standard is a significant reason why periods usually only have one space after them in most contemporary writing.