Concluding Neverwinter season II

Wrapped up Neverwinter for the year last night, with the party taking on Maugrim and Aribeth in the Archmage's chambers in the Host Tower.

They managed to take down Aribeth, before Maugrim teleported away with her body. It was a very frustrating and anticlimactic battle though, as most of the party were trapped in Evard's Black Tentacles and unable to do more than roll futile escape checks on their turns.

Next year will conclude the campaign, scouring the warring North to beat Maugrim's agents to the artifacts he is searching for and then (barring disaster/TPK) taking on the ancient awakening serpentine power he (and now Aribeth) serves.

Hopefully I've learnt some lessons from the problems this year which I can apply to making next years game run more smoothly and more fun for all.

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As selected by xenogram. Comment to propogate meme or if you'd like me to talk about one of my other icons.

My userpics represent the topics, contexts or moods of my posts.

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My cat, Racky. Used for posts talking mostly about him. From a photo I gave my Grandma one Xmas after she'd moved and he'd stayed here, and is now on top of my bookcase.

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Originally used to flag meme posts (flying frivilously free) I also use it occasionally for joyful, uplifting posts or KAOS Expeditionary Army related posts.
I'd rather have the kea than the kiwi as our national bird, to be honest.

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This is one of my miseryguts icons, used when I'm feeling particularly gloomy or angstful. Instantly recognisable to most of my friends as being from the Sisters of Mercy. I cropped the icon out of a favorite computer wallpaper :)

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Currently my default LJ icon, taking over from the blue knight as that developed a more 'professional' connotation for me. I've had it just as long (clipart preloaded on my first computer), and I regard it as a friendly, inquisitive sort of picture.

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I've used this image tiled as a wallpaper in the past. It's a step up from the SoM icon on the miseryguts scale, representing 'a little depressed/unhappy over here' rather than straight-up angst or bitching.

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This is my "Evil DM" icon, usually associated with posts about games I'm running/planning or ideas I'm throwing out there from a DM perspective. I actually did an LJ poll to finalise the choice.

I may occasionally use it for other posts involving conspiracy or manipulation.