"Its a good life, logging.  Been a logger since my fifteenth year.  My father was a logger, and my father's father too.  And some day, son... someday you'll be a logger too.  We'll start teaching you the craft when you're a little older..."

-- Bosel of the Axe,
Logger"

DM: Jack Butler

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Move Frequency: There will be two types of game moves in this campaign: game moves and story moves.  Game moves will occur as often as they need to, usually in response to a player action.  Game moves will cover such things as the results of skill rolls, combat, spell results, and so on.  Compared to the story moves, the game moves will be short and to the point.  All in-game responses sent by the players count as game moves.

Story moves are those moves which advance the overall story.  They will contain an edited recap of all game moves sent that week, plus the next part of the story.  Quite often, story moves will also contain story foreshadowing in the form of scenes that the player characters have no way of being aware of, but make for a more exciting and complete story.  They will be sent out every Friday.

Players should attempt to respond to both sorts of moves as quickly as they can.  If two story moves are posted with no response from the player, or three game moves that the player is involved in are posted with no response from the player, he will be removed from the game and a new player found to replace him.  If four game moves are posted with no response from an involved

In order to tell the two types of moves apart easily, all story moves will have in their subject line a tracking stamp using the following format:

Imperial Year-Adventure Number-Move Number - Adventure Title

For example, "5137.1.1 - The Difference Between Wanting and Getting" indicates that the story is taking place in Imperial year 5137, and that the story move in question is the first move of the first story, amd that the title of the first story is "The Difference Between Wanting and Getting".

When responding to a story move, please delete the adventure title and replace it with your character's name, as follows:

5137.1.1 - Theobald

Setting: Escape from Wychcross will begin in the Kingdom of Calafia.  Depending on player action, it will most likely range up and down the EasterSea Coast and beyond.

Campaign Specifics: Escape from Wychcross will be an entirely serial campaign.  The characters will remember what has gone before and so will the NPC's.  If enemies are made, they will be kept.  The same for friends.  All will generally work out for the best, but there are inherent dangers to a character adventuring.  The DM will not make extra effort to preserve a character who is played recklessly.

I'm going to aim at having an adventuresome story filled with thrills and occasionally spills, and might even throw some humor, tragedy, or romance into the mix.

Submissions: The Escape from Wychcross campaign is no longer accepting submissions.