I mentioned I have four campaigns running. That's a little misleading, as one of them is the same campaign with two different groups, but that's still a lot of updating and dice rolling. Anyway, this is what is happening to them all right now. Note that PbP time is not time as we know it. Halls has been running for nearly two years, Tombs I and II just over a year and Rune Stones for three and a half years. In game time, mere weeks have passed, if that. Oh, except for Rune Stones where a trip to the Feywild took twelve years.
Halls of the Mountain King - the party have just started their climactic final battle with Mammon and his forces. They have been exploring a mountain full of cursed gold and done rather well so far. They've even managed not to get cursed themselves, despite being in the presence of more gold than any of them have ever seen. To put this in perspective, adventurers everywhere ALWAYS need gold. They need it to to buy cool stuff, which is a way of keeping score - since in RPGs you don't really win, you just don't die. For this group to pass up the chance of acquiring enough gold to buy pretty much any magic thingbob they could ever want is nothing short of amazing.
That said, the battle is not going that well for them and they may yet die horribly, if heroically. I'm hoping my team (the monsters) continue to roll well and make them suffer for their victory. Or preferably wipe them out and leave Mammon grinning as he starts to take over the known world from his new base in Mount Rygar.
Tomb of Horrors (I and II)
Group I have been behind Group 2 for a while but both are now in Skull City. Group I came under serious fire and came as close as they've ever been to a TPK (Total party kill). They're recovering and hunting for a safe place to rest for a while. Such will be difficult to find, given that they're in the middle of a city full of fractious undead factions. Group II are finding out about the undead up close and personal elsewhere. One of them has contracted a nasty disease in the process.
Rune Stones
This has been evolving for a long time and the plot is multi-layered. Due to player loss, the group are meeting their new front line fighter and making plans to invade a mine infested with crazed giants.
All in a days work for RPGs. The only place on earth you'll hear someone say something like "Akahale searches the squalid bedding for bones" and it will make sense rather than assuming a psychiatrist is needed immediately.
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