[Child of the 7th Age]

The four orphans are continuing on to the horse pens. Roka will have them go quietly and in hiding. Remember also the fog. They will not be noticed by anyone. However, since they are so small, they will certainly not be able to make it too far. Since Cami has 225 children to get out, the orphans' absence will not be recogized until all the other children have left. Then they will realize there is a problem.

Helen has said that she will defer to you in the outline of the rescue. Make whatever changes you need.

However, I think we are having some problems of omission because Helen is not here, and also because I've had no access to a computer. I know this is going to be a headache but I feel I need to bring this up.

The early planning sessions in the tombs focused on two things: liberating the locks and making weapons. I can easily do a passing out the weapons post and have Mith paste it in at some early point in the rescue. Helen or I can also do an early post regarding Phura cleaning out the guards from the smithy and the Locks (a la Helen). I think this is important. We've followed this character for pages and pages so we should see what he's doing in the rescue.

However, I do see several problems with the way we've structured the Locks. There are big differences between our story line and what actually happened in the rescue. Specifically, that Gamba is not there and that we used the guards' key instead of the ones that the hobbits discovered (Daisy was supposed to pass this to Gamba the last night). Also, Anee did not fight and Daisy did not pass out the daggers which have been smuggled into her.

Finding the keys was a big chunk of the early story line. It was linked to finding the hole to the men's prison as well. If you prefer to keep this version of using the keys from the guards, I will go back and delete or edit all the other posts connected to this (about 5 plus some incidental references elsewhere): 1 post where Gamba found the key in the storeroom, 1 post where Daisy discovered them hidden in the bread and buried them, 1 post to the Hobbit Council where Gamba gives his report, 2 more posts which involved the discovery of the hole in the storage closet and which allude to the question of the keys. There are other posts connected with smuggling in the daggers which will also need to be deleted.

My biggest problem, though, is Gamba. Where is Gamba? He has been working for a while in the Locks and has a personal connection with the people there, especially that old lady Pansy whom he looks at and remembers his mother. Unless he's incapacitated somewhere, he should be back there fighting. (If he's incapacitated, we need to know about it.)

(Remember he is the one in the hobbit meetings who did all the Locks planning and reports.) He has gotten the keys from Daisy through the grate. Their cells were supposed to have been unlocked by Gamba, while you guys took out the guards. Then Daisy was supposed to pass out the daggers which she has hidden in the ground to folk like Anee who are in on the plot.

Please advise what you would like me to do. We need to resolve these differences one way or another.

sharon

[ October 30, 2002: Message edited by: Child of the 7th Age ]