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[Rex]

Gotta learn sometime.

[grokkngrognard]

I've started on my character sheets. I know I'm late to the dinner table, but I had a tiny health scare to deal with. Give me another day or two!

[AleBelly]

No worries we are waiting on others. Hope you are OK!

[Keehnelf]

Oh wow, this is an opportunity for irl introductions what. I don't remember if I've ever done anything like that here before.

My real name is Hnelf...wait, no...it's Shaun, and bizarrely I just met another Shaun here in my tiny town who happens to be the dad of my 10-year-old's new best friend. We commiserated over how often folks get our name wrong.

I'm in my mid-40s and moved a couple of years ago from urban Oregon to the very furthest reaches of Eastern Maine (like, I can take a quick trip to Canada from my workplace if circumstances require) to be closer to family and pursue new and more fulfilling work opportunities. I work here as the Director of a local popular education and community development non-profit and it's been an amazing and life-giving change from working in institutional higher ed (I was at the University of Oregon before and it was fine when I started but just got worse and worse with time).

One of the coolest things about my job is getting to run a weekly D&D game for the students who attend our high school program, and it's weird and cool that I actually get played to run a roleplaying game through this job! (the work still needs to get done elsewhere, though...making for some long evenings).

[AleBelly]

Wow, what a gig! Glad you're enjoying yourself in a beautiful part of the world. Are you near Bar Harbor? It's one of my favorite places.

[Rex]

I can walk into Quebec from my house in Northern Vermont. We are pretty rural but I know that area in Maine and it is even more rural. Beautiful country.

[Keehnelf]

Wow, what a gig! Glad you're enjoying yourself in a beautiful part of the world. Are you near Bar Harbor? It's one of my favorite places.

Drive about 90 minutes east from Bar Harbor and you'll get to my town.

Drive another 20 miles east and you'll get to my job.

If I showed you on a map, it would be hard for you to tell that I'm not in Canada, honestly.

And yeah, it's a very cool gig.

Rex: yeah, super rural. We have a population density out this way of about 12 people per square mile. We're the oldest county in the oldest state in the country, and our population is steadily declining by about a third of a % every year despite hundreds of people moving in from away annually. It's a weird place with very specific problems and strengths.

[AleBelly]

I can walk into Quebec from my house in Northern Vermont. We are pretty rural but I know that area in Maine and it is even more rural. Beautiful country.

I spent a really nice week up there about 12 years ago. Are you near the Jay Peak Ski Resort? Another location I'm jealous of...

[Rex]

We have the same problem with population. Those born here are leaving and slowly being replaced by out of staters, but population is flat or declining in most areas. The town I live in is very dairy oriented, about 5 cows per person. That isn't counting steers for cattle which has been increasing here. Mostly grass fed. The terrain is not really suitable for growing crops, but great for grazing. The town between me and Jay has the states largest goat farm, it is a dairy farm primarily but the meat is good too. Fun to watch the goats climb all over stuff you wouldn't think they could.

I am 2 towns west of Jay Peak. In the foot hills of the Greens, I am at just under 1000 feet elevation.

[Keehnelf]

When we moved out this way, we looked at houses in northern VT too. A couple spots in Derby, Newport, and Canaan.

[Rex]

That is a beautiful area. I spent much of my youth camping, hiking, and hunting in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont (Newport is the western edge of the Kingdom). Lots of great memories. I also lived for a year in Maine, did search and rescue work as a Wilderness EMT there. Now a days I spend most of my outdoor time in the Adirondacks which are about the same distance for me but my wife is from there so I have access to a place to stay and NY has longer hunting seasons and I need all the help I can get, LOL.

[AleBelly]

For the new batch of players, I'm waiting on one more to post their characters. Hope to kick off this weekend/early next week. I'm traveling today/tomorrow so responses may be delayed.

[GreyWolfVT]

No rush on my part. My fodder gets to live a bit longer for now

[AleBelly]

That elf of yours, wow! Best candidate for a meat shield I’ve ever seen.

[OGRE MAGE]

I will be heading out shortly for the Founders and Legends convention in Lake Geneva this weekend. https://foundersandlegends.com/

I should be back in full force on Tuesday, unless we decide to just stay there through Gary Con next week.

Enjoy the weekend everyone!

[Keehnelf]

I love that the "Incarnate Tournament" at that con uses versions of the same characters from across "all editions of D&D" in...four sessions.

:O

$20 I can guess which edition will be missing.

[AleBelly]

I will be heading out shortly for the Founders and Legends convention in Lake Geneva this weekend. https://foundersandlegends.com/

I should be back in full force on Tuesday, unless we decide to just stay there through Gary Con next week.

Enjoy the weekend everyone!

Sounds like a good time. Have fun!

[AleBelly]

Rimilda, Wenyld, & Nordman

Nordman screams in agony as he is chomped in two.

Wenyld attacks D2.

Staff [1d20]=7 to hit [1d6]=6 damage
She will spend a luck if it will turn a 7 into a hit.

Rimilda attacks D1.

Club [1d20-1]=5-1=4 to hit [1d4-1]=4-1=3 damage
She will spend a luck if it will turn a 4 into a hit.

Not rolling very well at the moment.

Yeah, you all are getting some bad rolls, and the skeleton dwarves are rolling the opposite. Their test macro rolls all sucked (all missed) but unfortunately can't use those.

[Rex]

Just how the rolls go. I am notorious for rolling bad as well.

[grokkngrognard]

I hate, hate, hate doing this but I’m withdrawing from this game. There’s a lot going on right now so it’s just better for me to drop out than later.