I'm going to Bellingham for the weekend, so I might not post again until Monday.
Please don't kill my character until then, if you can avoid it.
I keep ryhmin' and shit, distracting the guards and any passers by, for as long as I can. If shit's going down, though, I think we all know what I'll do.
What's my name?
Dave, Fist of Odin!
What do I do?
Clobber! Clobber!
I say - bitch, what's my name?
(Dave, Fist of Odin!)
What do I do?
...
ad nauseum.
Hey Rob, I consolidated the Player's Reference with the Campaign Reference. Send a summary, and I'll put it up.
I put a list of the main characters on the Campaign Summary Page.
Oh, and note the new link in The Known World.
Yeah, I get the hint. I just don't got the Silence.
I can whip out a Dust Devil or a Hold Person.
Cool, rhymes though.
Rob-Yeah, I will combine the Campaign Reference into the Players Reference Page. Just give me the summaries, and I'll put them up.
Silence is a nice spell.
Silence is a nice spell to cast on things, too.
Crossbow bolts are nice things.
You get what I'm sayin? I dunno if nice works for you, though, and I'll tell you - it's a bit of a stretch for me. The niceness, I mean. I'm the motherfuckin Fist of Odin here!
So, if we really are trying to get people to read this blog, I think we need to add another link on the sidebar: an 'executive summary', with three parts: 1) what's going on in the campaign now, 2) one page summary of everything that's transpired, and 3) brief description, maybe with jpgs, of all PCs and major NPCs (Vrill, Gregolas, etc).
How the fuck did one-line joke Gregolas Half-Elven become a 'major NPC'?
Anyway, maybe it'd also make sense to combine the player reference page with the campaign ref page, why do we need two pages instead of one? Then turn the 'campaign ref page' into this one page summary. I'll write the summary if you'll set it up Mark.
Yeah, although I think that I have the long odds, I'll take that wager just for the fun of it. $5 bucks when the clock strikes 12.
Do you mean that the Ad link wouldn't let you view the page? Hmm...
It let me do it. Adsense hasn't approved us yet though, so maybe that has something to do with it. However, Google says that the Ads should be relevant to our site content. That intrigued me enough.
Heh, the 'click link banner' thing is just a little window that says "You are not authorized to view this page". I don't know what's there, but Mark, I'm trusting you, I'd like it not to be something like "Hot or Not? Is she? Vote!" or "Chicks with dicks get nasty!" or something.
And I'm not really too worried about, uh, copyright violations. I mean, the name of the blog is 'Descent into Depths', and we spun some Usher and Biggy Smalls lyrics without proper citation, so, glass houses and all that, or something.
Care to make a wager? Five bucks sez that by New Years, no independent website will link to us. No fair pulling more Kip Whipple stuff either, I'm talking pure strangers actually reading this thing.
What say you?
Cut the ribbon, DiD has gone commercial.
You will notice two new things on the main page. First, you will some Creative Commons stuff. It is just a copyright that allows people to copy and redistribute the DiD text, but not for commercial use. Not like the previous copyright thing had any impact, but since we put our RSS out there, I figured that we might as well get up to date with blogging and syndication.
Second, yeah, we have an ad banner. We can earn money by people clicking on it. So click, click, click! Actually, I bet that they take unique IP's into account. Still, I think that we should put all the money towards something like a satellite. You can now get your own mini satellite launched for 40k. We should have an Infinity Group Satellite. Maybe I will put a goal bar under the ad.
That, or we could put it towards conference expenses. Maybe we could get a #1 meal and an apple pie.
Man, that Kip Whipple is great.
I submitted our feed and our URL to some bulk submission websites. I guess it worked.
So I found another thing that 'reviewed' DnD:
http://www.planetadnd.com/toplist/index.php?a=stats&id=54
There are a couple other things like this, notably one in which 'Kip Whipple' reviews the DnD blog. Kip Whipple, huh, sounds like a pretty cool guy.
Mark, did you just go nuts linking our blog to other sites? Because a shitload of, I don't even know what to call them- like blog clearinghouses or something- a shitload of those things point to DnD and come up on google.
I don't think that any "outsider" could actually survive the vetting process. I mean players such as the likes of us a few and far between.
The Technorati thing is just an effort to get our RSS out there for syndication. I am not surprised that we don't come up under 'D&D'. However, I think that 'Brogg' should grab us, I don't know, it is either that it has yet to add us, or that I need to add 'Brogg' as a keyword. I will check it out. Mostly, I just like the name 'Technocrati'. It sounds so Orwellian.
Hey Mark, what's that Technorati thing? Went there and did a blog search for 'dungeons and dragons', 'D&D', and 'Brogg' and our site didn't come up.
Hey, so what happens if other people start reading this? What happens if someone actually, uh, wants to join?
anybody else have an alignment? and yeah monks don't get shit. Next level I can talk to animals I think, yeah!
Except that you read it wrong. Ed and I already went over this. It's not "15 or higher", it's "higher than 15." "Greater than," not "greater than or equal to." Unfortunately, Brogg and Cinder both have 15s. But you're right about Dave. Dave, consider yourself xp bumped. And Brogg, I guess you have a 17 ST, so your fighter xp is bumped too.
And monks don't get anything like that.
Hey, if we are deep old school, then Dave, Ed and I all should be earning +10% xp as we all have 15's or more in our primary attributes. This is the word of Gygax. -Amen.
Nice freestyle, Ed.
Descent into Depths is sort of like Tolkien, but with rap instead of those gay poems.
-Word.
Hey all,
I'm moving to Portland tomorrow. My internet connectivity will be spotty until I get settled somewhere, so I dunno how posty I'll be gettin' here. But I figure Paul can let me know if there's some intense Clobbering action that Dave, Fist of Odin needs to get in on.
Hey Mark, thanks for all that stuff. I guess I never really knew what newsfeeds, RSS, all that crap was. The blogger search thing is fucking awesome though. Long time coming, and god do I love horrible blogs.
So, in case you guys didn't know, I've been 'blogging' for some of the NPCs too. Not like I got a lot of free time, and it's really pretty indefensible and worthless. Vrill's blog is potionguild, and his apprentice's blog is apprenticesteve1000. Druid Smallwood has a blog that is, well, I won't spoil it just yet. Anyway, I posted some 'blogger gems' up on Steve's thing if you want to check it out. Steve inherited sort of a narrow range of interests, and damn was I surprised how much owlbear shit was out there. Everyone really does love owlbears, it's only a fraction because I can only do that shit for so long. Of course, we're not the only ones gaming like this, and there's some MI-TEE FINE gaming blogs goin' on. As far as I can tell though, we are the only ones doing a propa sendup of 1E; I'm pretty surprised, although I guess the game Hackmaster is itself a sendup, and there seem to be a couple HM blogs.
So I just wonder though- does anyone read this and give a shit? I doubt it... I love DnD, but it kinda seems like one big inside joke to me, so I wouldn't be surprised if other people scanned it and shrugged. However, it might be nice if 'visitors' want to comment on shit; I really am curious if anyone has read this crap. I can't bring myself to have a 'guest book' because that is SO SOOO LAME, but, well, maybe something like that. Kinda nice to work so much on something that others can enjoy. I mean, it's just downright unfair to keep these rhymes chained:
climbin walls, pickin locks
gettin paid, buyin stocks
stole some bling from the king
now he's down by the docks
my name is gregolas half-elven
and I'm livin in this dwellin
with some zombies and a felon
so it's time to hear my yellin
(Some of my finest work, IMHO. Hey look! I'm a fucking INTERNET DORK.)
Well, I have gone a few extra steps to put DiD out there for "The People". I spent the better half of my afternoon submitting our RSS feed to a number of indexes.
If you don't know, you can see our RSS at: http://descentintodepths.blogspot.com/atom.xml
It's a simple text file of our content that is used by spiders and such.
I guess we can watch the counter and wait.
BTW, what do you think about DiD going commercial if we do get readership? I can sell some banner space and maybe we could put the money towards some totally insane goal like a moon probe or something?
Yeah, we could even have one of those meters with a goal: "Just $29,999,987.65 from our moon probe!"
Hey guys, I don't know if you noticed, but Google launched a blog search engine.
I made sure that we were in it.
Also, you can now search within our blog via the bar up top.
Well, I just updated the DiD from the Beginning! PDF. All 329 pages of it.
You know, if we could only harness this geekdome... we could move freaking mountains, guys.
Enjoy.
Oh, yeah, and Rob, have you had any luck with viewing it?
Well, I was just going to write with the PWEI lyrics, but Rob answered his own question first, so I guess I don't get the 500xp prize.
Ah, well.
Hey - I got no magic weapons here. Any way to feeb the cheese on that? Punching with magic armor; Aid spell; summoned critters?
And Ed - it's Wolvesbane for werewolves. Garlic for Vampires.
So I remembered where the lyrics are from, it's a PWEI song, "Wake Up Time To Die"
I've felt worse but I've felt better
A human see-saw to the letter
Etc.
My brain tends to have a one day delay on remembering song lyrics. As a practicing neuroscientist, I say 'what the fuck?'
Happy Sept 11 y'all.
Hey Rob, the PDF problem that you are having might have to do with your firewall. I can download it just fine at home, but I have never been able to do so at work.
Did you try rerouting the encryption codes?
And, no, I don't really have so much time to break this thing into Chapters right now. I am actually a bit behind in updating it as it were. I have been slowly printing it out at work and it is about the thickness of an introduction to Biology textbook.
Maybe someday we can edit it though, and make some use (money) out of it.
-Yeah, let's see what the Wolfman has to say.
Hey - you know, this wolfman's just doing his job. I don't have the hatred towards him that I do for Vrill or the GMoF. I mean - put him down, sure; but fists can be used to incapacitate as well as kill, you know? We've got enough enemies in the world - if this is just a guy who got dealt a bad hand, let's see if maybe we can get him back on his feet. If he's attacking Zombies, instead of villagers, maybe he's not such a bad guy.
Not to dis the zombie thing, of course. Mike, our Zombie Friend, is certainly a stand-up guy. I'm just saying that this guy might have a story, and I'd want to hear it - unlike that Vrill bastard, who can just go suck it as far as I'm concerned.
Hey Mark, a couple times I've tried to download the pdf file, and about 1/3 or so the way into it, it crashes, with some strange error message. I think the file is too big for the file server you're using? Dunno. Anyway, maybe it'd be nice to divide it up into the actual modules, 100 page chunks, or something like that, if it's not a pain in the ass.
And really, I hated to dunk the dust devil like that, because it's one of my favorite old UA spells, but that's the way it went.
I don't know why, but I laugh so hard every time I read this:
Brogg:
A wolfman?
One part incredulous, one part just sorta curious.
Unless those rationalizations come with a Pilsner Urqell I ain't haven none of it. Monks making us attack each other, sure they must have been what 4th level. Heh....ok. Immune to magic. Are you sure we were fighting monks and not a demon say with 8hd and low hitpoints. Come on......whatever. I guess I'll fight that Wolf and get 20exp
