Too bad Elentari! Bye bye. We'll dispose of Airelome. See below:
Outline for The Fall of Greenwood the Great:
Once the elves have gathered by the riverside and
Arien gives the go-ahead, Ceros will lead the fellowship into the forest.
A few days into the trek (which will be summed up in one post) we start a fire and attract spiders—though we don’t know they’re spiders—and Airelome goes to investigate and doesn’t return. Whether that’s by the spiders of something else we’ll never know.
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Spiders: It is the multiple spawn of Shelob that infests Greenwood during the infestation of the Necromancer. I’m going to assume that the spawn of Ungoliant was present in Greenwood, but extremely rare. Therefore the company can believe that giant spiders are a myth until they are proven wrong.**
Then we begin our journey towards the south of Mirkwood—Dol Guldur.
Four days after they loose Airelome, a black mist covers the forest with its web that even the elves cannot see through and they stumble into a spider web.
After their escape they come upon a river, rushing too fast for any to swim and to wide for any to jump. They must find a way to get across.
On the other side awaits darker things that were not able to cross the river into the brighter parts of the realm. They are immediately attacked by orcs.
After a narrow defeat, they find sanctuary in a cave before torrential, black rains pound the forest. This floods the river and causes more problems for the elves that they circumvent only just.
They are now very close to Dol Guldur. It is now only a matter of days...
We will decide when the time comes what they find or do not find at Dol Guldur.
If you want to add some more obstacles for us to encounter post your idea here and either Arien or I will approve and add it to the Outline.
Try to read all you can about Greenwood during the infestation of the Necromancer so that you don’t post in the wrong.
Here is a good site:
The Encyclopedia of Arda
There's also a fantastic book out there called the
Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Core Book. It's brilliant. I bought it months ago for $40 (I'm kicking myself now) because it's on sale for $5.95. Yeah, feel my pain. Anyhow, Barnes and Nobles are selling them and they WILL go on sale. heh
Eladain Moruviel: If you can hurry to our Barnes and Noble that's where it is! I think I'm going today so if it's still there I'll pick it up for you. And we have to fence!!
Okay that's all. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
-Maikafanawen
[ July 18, 2003: Message edited by: maikafanawen ]