elanya

*hugs*

We all have off-nights once in a while. Also, don't be so hard on yourself - this was only the third session you've run, and your second D&D combat. So how do you know what you "normally" do? I think you probably just bit off more than you could chew - I know I would never want to have that many characters to deal with during an online combat. Even if some of them are only "token", they still take up your time and energy. It's not like in tabletop, where you're only responsible for your NPCs - because it's online, you're doing a lot of rolling and so on for the PCs as well, and that's where your concentration needs to be most focused, because making mistakes there has greater consequences (wrong damage, for instance, is potentially fatal).

As for the non-combat portions of the session, I found that there was just not much for my character to do. Being unable to communicate with Dalibor (even in the rudimentary fashion that some others were able to) left me with nothing to do for that whole scene (which, as I know you know, went on quite long). As for the scene at the inn, I tried to involve myself, expecting that there would be something plot-related/useful conveyed there, but instead it seemed more like killing time. Killing time is necessary once in a while, of course, but in such a short-term game, I do feel strongly that each scene needs to have a deliberate point, much more so than in a long-running campaign. We haven't been together as a party long enough to expect to fill much time with random chatting, nor would it be desirable with so little time to go.

Anyway - it was far from the worst session of anything I've ever played in. Don't beat yourself up over it, but try to look on it as a learning experience :)