I'll take watch one. Cudberct would be keeping somewhat regular hours that way. Though he has horrible spot and listen, it'd be a time while his horse and hound would likely be most awake, and they have decent spot and listen.

Quote from: Sir Wulf;600625The HORROR of the WEREBADGER claims another victim...

Werebadgers are serious business. They'll mess you up!

Current MARCHING ORDER:

Rank 1: Lady Jastian
Rank 2: Haddon/Ashur
Rank 3: Winthrop

Middle: Gileus
Tanthius: Second to last rank

Still Need Position: Llewellyn, Aminda, Hasor, Certh, Cudberct

Current WATCH LIST:

Watch 1: Cudberct
Watch 2: Winthrop - Gileus
Watch 3: Hasor
Watch 4: Ashur/Haddon

Not necessarily complete, but there's at least one person on each watch.

You have to give me a terrain or situation so as to determine marching order.

What is this for?: open plains on horses, forest scouting with bows, cave spelunking in light gear, walkable ruin or dungeon in heavy gear, etc.

Having the dude with the highest HP always in the front doesn't always help; situations affects gear which affects tactics which affects order.

We haven't even planned anything about where we're going, how we're traveling, and what should we prepare for.

Eh, I think Justin is just looking for a general in dungeon 2 wide order. I imagine it won't be set in stone and can be adjusted at any point, it's just there to speed things along.

I think it makes sense to have probably Llewelyn in the front with Jastian, since she's more likely to trust his prowess at this point in time. Then having Cudberct as rear guard would make sense, if he's okay with that - he seems the cautious, hang back and make sure nothing goes wrong type.

Quote from: Josh;600860Eh, I think Justin is just looking for a general in dungeon 2 wide order. I imagine it won't be set in stone and can be adjusted at any point, it's just there to speed things along.

This, as described in post 179: Standard dungeon marching order.

It can be trivially changed at any time. But having default procedures for a forum game will speed things up tremendously. As evidenced by the last four days, haggling this stuff out takes time. Doing it every time you want to walk down a hall will kill a forum game pretty quick.

I've recruited a replacement for DonEsteban to play Aminda Scroppings. Normally at such an early juncture I'd just let the character go, but she's ended up getting closely connected to several of you.

Welcome Fenyx4: I understand he'll be making an introductory post shortly.

Now if we can just figure out what happened to StormBringer...

Hiya!

I'm still working my way through the threads. Lookin' forwards to joining you.

Ahh, dungeon hallway, two players wide? OK, I have context, I can work with that.

I have shit for spot and listen without my animals for help. Yet bringing a dog or horse underground doesn't sound as wise as leaving them to help guard the cart. So a rogue or scout at point would be best for such checks.

If the dungeon area is walkable, I'd likely be in heavy armor with a tower shield. That'd make being second rank the better tactic. That way any scouts and rogues on point can get behind Lady Jastian and I before we set up a shield wall.

However, I can play rear guard; I have an extra medium shield. Perhaps Lady Jastian or Sgt Llewellyn would be interested in borrowing my tower shield while holding the front. But we're going to need Sgt Llewellyn soon to see if he's running on NPC autopilot or not.

Ahoy and well met, Fenyx!

Yeah, SB has been gone long enough I had to look at the first page to remember that was Sergeant Llewellyn's player. If contact can't be made, Gileus could maybe be promoted?

Yes, welcome.  

Losing players before you start is always unfortunate, although I'm sure more common in online games such as these.  I'm somewhat an advocate of just starting the adventure, if missing players arrive in a reasonable time then no problem, otherwise retcon some of the other characters up to appropriate levels?

Sorry, everyone!  I am here, got some end of semester chaos to deal with, but I think it is settled.

Marching order:

Rank 1: Lady Jastian/Sgt Llewellyn
Rank 2: Haddon/Ashur
Rank 3: Winthrop

Middle: Gileus
Tanthius: Second to last rank

I can take first rank alongside Lady Jastian to provide front line coverage for missles and magic from the rear.

Watch list:
I will stand with Hasor on third watch.

Watch 1: Cudberct
Watch 2: Winthrop - Gileus
Watch 3: Hasor/Sgt Llewellyn
Watch 4: Ashur/Haddon

Certh would probably go in the front lines.  He's eager to test his mettle!

CURRENT AGENDA[/u]

With Sgt. Llewellyn entering the common room, I'm going to let that play out a bit to get him properly hooked into the adventure.

ON SUNDAY: We'll either be re-framing to a brief sequence on the next morning as you set out (say 72-hours for back-and-forth roleplaying). Or we'll just do a hard re-frame to the Citadel and plunge in. (Depends on how this scene at the inn finishes out with Llewellyn.)

STARTING SUNDAY: Check the threads at least once every 48 hours (preferably every 24 hours) and post something. (If you're still in the inn's common room, start doing this now.)

This shouldn't take you more than 5-10 minutes, but it will keep the game moving forward: Make a witty quip. Take an action. Ask someone a question. Describe your silent reaction to whatever is going on.

If we all do this, then we'll all have something to respond to when we do our daily check-in.

Also: If you click "Thread Tools" at the top of the screen you can click "Subscribe to This Thread" and then select an e-mail notification update. It'll help remind you to drop by and take part. (I've personally been leaving the threads open in my browser so that the first thing I do whenever I hit the internet is check in. But whatever works for you.)

CURRENT MARCHING ORDER[/u] (5 ft. between ranks)

RANK 1: Lady Jastian - Sgt Llewellyn
RANK 2: Haddon - Ashur
RANK 3: Winthrop - Certh
RANK 4: Gileus - Hasor
RANK 5: Cudberct - Aminda

Does anyone have any objections to this?

WATCH LIST (4 hours per watch)

Watch 1: Cudberct
Watch 2: Winthrop - Gileus
Watch 3: Hasor
Watch 4: Ashur/Haddon

Does anyone have any additions/objections to this?

Aminda will join in on last watch near the end of the watch she will begin preparing breakfast (as long as she judges Cudberct to be alert).

Lady Jastian may find herself with an extra cut of meat or an extra scoop of mashed tubers...

And I'm good in the last rank of the marching order.