The Fellowship of the Fourth Age (Part 1): A New Beginning Discussion Thread - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Child of the 7th Age · 03-06-2007, 02:45 PM

My save is finally filled. I have liberally used your characters. Please let me know if something should be changed or I neglected anyone who should be in the scouting party.

We can either leap ahead to the scout's departure the next morning or play out more events from the evening (like the funeral pyre). Anyone with preferences here? Especially those who are staying in camp....

I am also hoping to hear from Nogrod about the question that Durelin raised.

Durelin · 03-06-2007, 02:49 PM

I think, to help get things moving again, jumping straight to the departure is perhaps best. Characters can always reflect back on the evening.

Child of the 7th Age · 03-06-2007, 02:57 PM

I can do a brief post kicking the scouts out of camp and getting us on the outskirts of the slavers' camp sometime tomorrow, but did you need to reply to Athwen first?

Nogrod told me he'd be on later today to fill in the orc save, so I'm hoping we'll get an answer then to the question about Beloan.

Durelin · 03-06-2007, 03:08 PM

Yes, sorry; I'll put up a save, at the very least, tonight, for that. And if Nogrod doesn't mind, if you'd rather I can move on to the scouts leaving from Beloan's point of view.

But if people would prefer to play out the evening a little, I'd be fine with that to continue some stuff with Vror.

Nogrod · 03-06-2007, 03:30 PM

Durelin: Feel free to take Beloan with you. I might use him every now and then, at least as a platform to bring at least this giant Qat-npc along. If no one else wishes to be rude to an orc I could figure Qat could do that (I'm having more time to write for a while again as I have gotten rid of the exams and being killed by the Faithfuls in a werewolf game...).

About the general timetable & the orcs: So the party leaves in the morning? That will make the orcses situation a bit more troublesome as they seem to be drunk in the middle of the night. So they sleep their drunkenness off when the party comes, but how about those non-drunk males? I mean the females have been witty and gotten off. No problem with them as they can hide around. But as Ishkur, Makdush and Gwerr all are now worried about the slavers coming back (how little do they know!) why would they just run away from the camp without a reason or at least without an effort to save the others from this threat they recognise unlike their drunken mates?

If they just run for the females in the middle of the night we have no motive for them to try and rescue the others after they get caught... So maybe we just let the time go and decide that where the orc-posting now stands we are already talking about the early morning hours there? Then they could just hear the noise of the party (as it sets on) and run away as they have no other choice. That would also make it believable that they would try to come back and save their mates?

I'm leaving my save unfilled before we have some shared idea about this (I might as well delete it if it becomes totally obsolete).

Durelin · 03-06-2007, 03:47 PM

Well, if the orcs are real partyers and drink into the early morning (so we could just say they continued?), they should be out for a while. I wonder if hungover orcs are more dangerous than normal ones, though...

The scouts will just have to leave really early.

Nogrod · 03-06-2007, 04:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Durelin

The scouts will just have to leave really early.

Rise'n'shine humans vs. the drunkard-orcses!

03-06-2007, 02:45 PM	#1
Child of the 7th Age Spirit of the Lonely Star Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 5,133	Finally..... My save is finally filled. I have liberally used your characters. Please let me know if something should be changed or I neglected anyone who should be in the scouting party. We can either leap ahead to the scout's departure the next morning or play out more events from the evening (like the funeral pyre). Anyone with preferences here? Especially those who are staying in camp.... I am also hoping to hear from Nogrod about the question that Durelin raised. __________________ Multitasking women are never too busy to vote.

03-06-2007, 02:57 PM	#3
Child of the 7th Age Spirit of the Lonely Star Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 5,133	I can do a brief post kicking the scouts out of camp and getting us on the outskirts of the slavers' camp sometime tomorrow, but did you need to reply to Athwen first? Nogrod told me he'd be on later today to fill in the orc save, so I'm hoping we'll get an answer then to the question about Beloan. __________________ Multitasking women are never too busy to vote.

03-06-2007, 03:30 PM	#5
Nogrod Flame of the Ainulindalë Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Wearing rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves in a field behaving as the wind behaves Posts: 9,308	Durelin: Feel free to take Beloan with you. I might use him every now and then, at least as a platform to bring at least this giant Qat-npc along. If no one else wishes to be rude to an orc I could figure Qat could do that (I'm having more time to write for a while again as I have gotten rid of the exams and being killed by the Faithfuls in a werewolf game...). About the general timetable & the orcs: So the party leaves in the morning? That will make the orcses situation a bit more troublesome as they seem to be drunk in the middle of the night. So they sleep their drunkenness off when the party comes, but how about those non-drunk males? I mean the females have been witty and gotten off. No problem with them as they can hide around. But as Ishkur, Makdush and Gwerr all are now worried about the slavers coming back (how little do they know!) why would they just run away from the camp without a reason or at least without an effort to save the others from this threat they recognise unlike their drunken mates? If they just run for the females in the middle of the night we have no motive for them to try and rescue the others after they get caught... So maybe we just let the time go and decide that where the orc-posting now stands we are already talking about the early morning hours there? Then they could just hear the noise of the party (as it sets on) and run away as they have no other choice. That would also make it believable that they would try to come back and save their mates? I'm leaving my save unfilled before we have some shared idea about this (I might as well delete it if it becomes totally obsolete). __________________ Upon the hearth the fire is red Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet...

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03-06-2007, 02:49 PM	#2
Durelin Estelo dagnir, Melo ring Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,063	I think, to help get things moving again, jumping straight to the departure is perhaps best. Characters can always reflect back on the evening.

03-06-2007, 03:08 PM	#4
Durelin Estelo dagnir, Melo ring Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,063	Yes, sorry; I'll put up a save, at the very least, tonight, for that. And if Nogrod doesn't mind, if you'd rather I can move on to the scouts leaving from Beloan's point of view. But if people would prefer to play out the evening a little, I'd be fine with that to continue some stuff with Vror.

03-06-2007, 03:47 PM	#6
Durelin Estelo dagnir, Melo ring Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,063	Well, if the orcs are real partyers and drink into the early morning (so we could just say they continued?), they should be out for a while. I wonder if hungover orcs are more dangerous than normal ones, though... The scouts will just have to leave really early.