This has been an interesting, unusual, happy, and sad period in the campaign.
PLAYERS & CHARACTERS
First the happy. The game was rejoined by Liam S in the last session, on Sep 4, which was well-attended and a successful venture with no PC casualties.
Now the sad and unusual. The second unintentional fatality in downtime occurred this period when Josh L's character was stricken by a terminal case of stomach parasites. The character was fully paid on his upkeep so he had no penalties, but sadly the dice rolled meaningless, undeserved death.
As to the interesting parts, some of the characters are involved in developing situations as seen in this period's orders results, but even more interesting is the jockeying on the Leader Board. Adam M has surged from last to 3rd place, and Josh L and Cole W pushed ahead of Liam S in downtime even though all three had the same downtime rating for this period. For the record, Josh L's rating will stand at 2.31 even though it's listed as N/A until he has a new character enter the campaign at which point he'll have a non-zero ratings count again.
SCHEDULE
Our next game is tomorrow at my house, starting around 17:00 when the game date will be October 21, 1479.
TIPS & TRICKS
This tip may be a day late and a dollar short, but perhaps it will benefit characters in the future. Normally it is not permitted for a player to transfer wealth, belongings, etc. from one of his characters to another. Two notable exceptions are for henchmen, NPCs being (mostly) controlled by the player, and heirs. If you've read "SUCCESSFUL ADVENTURES" on pp 107 & 109 of the Players Handbook, you'll have seen this passage:
At the same time preparations for the upcoming expedition are underway, each player should see that his or her character has made proper preparations as well. These preparations include the safety of henchmen and/or goods which are to remain behind, wealth safely hidden or placed, instructions as to what to do if the character fails to return left with a trusted person, and a "will" of some sort written out so that the DM will not balk at the arrangements made to assure the smooth transition of goods to the devoted "relative" of the defunct character if those sore straits should ever come to pass.
To date, no players in this campaign have registered a will for the disposal of any of their characters' wealth should they fail to return from an expedition. It would be wise to do so.