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Fordim Hedgethistle · 08-09-2004, 05:43 AM

Hello All

Sorry about the delay in getting my post up, but I am on vacation myself for the next couple weeks, and while I am not going away, I will perhaps not be able to be at the BD as much as I'd like. Still, there is a post up now.

At any rate -- these stones. I would like to leave their precise effect up to each writer to explore. but in general, everyone who passes between them will have an 'internal' struggle with the will of Sauron. Now, please, I don't intend to suggest that the company will be contending with Sauron directly, none of us could succeed in that, but with the "memory of his will". I kind of imagine the stones as having an effect akin to the effect of a Ring of Power. They will attempt to imprint the will of Sauron onto everyone. So have fun with this -- will you be seduced or tempted by the stones? Overwhelmed by despair? Overcome by hatred? Whatever -- go nuts. This is where we can all explore our characters' deepest fantasies and desires.

Once we are all through the stones, it's onward and upward to the Dead City!

08-09-2004, 05:43 AM	#166
Fordim Hedgethistle Gibbering Gibbet Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Beyond cloud nine Posts: 1,844	Hello All Sorry about the delay in getting my post up, but I am on vacation myself for the next couple weeks, and while I am not going away, I will perhaps not be able to be at the BD as much as I'd like. Still, there is a post up now. At any rate -- these stones. I would like to leave their precise effect up to each writer to explore. but in general, everyone who passes between them will have an 'internal' struggle with the will of Sauron. Now, please, I don't intend to suggest that the company will be contending with Sauron directly, none of us could succeed in that, but with the "memory of his will". I kind of imagine the stones as having an effect akin to the effect of a Ring of Power. They will attempt to imprint the will of Sauron onto everyone. So have fun with this -- will you be seduced or tempted by the stones? Overwhelmed by despair? Overcome by hatred? Whatever -- go nuts. This is where we can all explore our characters' deepest fantasies and desires. Once we are all through the stones, it's onward and upward to the Dead City! __________________ Scribbling scrabbling.