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You had =much= better luck than I did Dugan!! <g>

Right, away again this week. Even more gas engineering training!! They really really want to make sure you don't blow anyone up or poison anyone. I'll be back at a desk on Friday.

Ummmm ... have they explained why that is important?? <g>

So everyone survived training, and now that I'm qualified to work on any liquid petroleum gas system I never want to see another one as long as I live.

Meanwhile, next week I'm in Dusseldorf, back at the desk and posting on Monday 5 Sep. So as I've written it, Chandan can be side-lined for the Agatha encounter.

I'm away again on 24 Sep, to Portland USA for two weeks. I think I'm staying at the Hilton so if I don't have a desk in my room, I should be able to arrange one, np.

You are =THE= proverbial 'busy boy' ... aren't you. Be sure to find time to relax!!

If need be I'll use Action Surge to deliver that last bit of obsequious flattery. No point keeping anything in reserve at this juncture.

From tomorrow I'm away and unlikely to be posting until 8 Oct. Iirc, Nep is also away over this time, so it shoud work out surprisingly convenient!

You guys are just such slackers!!! <g> Hope you have fun anyway <wink>

I am going to have to withdraw from the game. My new job has me too wrapped up and I need to cut back. Sorry guys, Balthazar had fun

We'll miss you, Ken. Hope the new job is a spectacular success.

Agreed! Good luck with that.

Sad news indeed <sigh> But hope things go well for you anyway <weg>

Best of luck Ken. Thanks for trying to struggle through.

Nep- With Nivek and now Ken dropping, is it time to consider combining groups into 1 party? I am sure you and I could work out how to continue to co-DM.

Best of luck with the job Ken!

And Zeim that sounds like a good idea!

Best of luck Ken!

Just been thinking, the two groups, how do we explain that we have both spoken to the banshee, both killed the orcs, both talked to the Red Wizard etc. If indeed we have. Not been reading the other thread.

Well we =could= try to rationalize some reason for us to run into each other and 'join forces'. Another possibility is that we just put the two groups together and move on.

I haven't been reading the other thread, either... I guess the co-GMs would just have to crush the two groups together and file off any of the parts which too obviously do not fit.

Other group has not spoken to the Banshee. They went to Thundertree to find the Druid (which the other group did not do), so actually the two groups each have different pieces of information that they can share.

The beginning stuff (Goblin cave and the Manor in town w/the Redcloaks) would be duplicated, but <shrug> we could just ignore that and move on.

I do need to chat with Nep about it. Best option might be for Lingo and Kallista to leave (there are easy in-game reasons they could do that) and then Nep and I share Balthazar as an npc (otherwise the party has no mage).

We'd have 2 fighters, a ranger, a rogue, a cleric, a druid, a monk, and an npc mage. Alternatively either Kriv or Luminmorn becomes a mage and we let Balthazar go.

Again, I need to chat with Nep, but just out of curiosity, Pande/AJ, are either of you interested in switching class to a mage/warlock/sorceror type?

Although, actually, we might be OK, magic-wise, since Kriv has Mage spells and Luminmorn has Clerical spells, so not having a pure mage is not critical.

I am pretty much OK with what ever works for the group <g>

Not only Kriv but Jaliera have spell access. It will be interesting to see if having two non-casters with their respective caster option can fill the caster space.

Good point.

Yeah, I'd collide the groups.

In-continuity, both groups are fast forwarded back to Phandelin and overnight at the inn.

The next morning they wake up as the new group. We pretend that the groups have always been working together, the absent characters had planned to leave early to pursue X objective.*

So none of the remaining characters are surprised and we can move on at full speed.

*"X objective" could be to escort Iarno back to Neverwinter, or pursue some urgent quest from Princes of the Apocalypse, which is basically a sequel to Lost Mine of Phandelver as illustrated in this flowchart.

Fast, seamless, makes sense in-continuity.

What we COULD do, is have them meet up. All it takes is for the N-Group to switch gears and instead of going to Phandelin, go to Thundertree. They can all meet there.

Thoughts?

Oh, and as far as co-DMing, Zeim and I are also co-DMing for our FTF pals. I think that when he's DMing for them, I'll run and when I'm DMing for them, I'll run.

Preparing for FTF is much more intense because we're playing high level and the module is very sand-boxy. Requires lots of prep.

If we want to start right away, I can cross off this current encounter and get the group to Thundertree.