Tapestry of Dreams, Part 2 Discussion

[littlemanpoet]

Not me. Not tonight. I gotta go to bed. I'm dizzy from all these alternate possibilities.

[littlemanpoet]

Nuru, it is good to have you back writing again. That was moving! Rather than rusty and weak, I would say it was (emotionally) raw and strong. Good stuff.

[Celuien]

I'm terribly sorry that I haven't had time to write. Things have picked up yet again - I've already worked 40 hours this week and it's only Wednesday.

Unfortunately, this means that I won't be available to write for at least the next four weeks. On top of work, I have to find time for the important people in my offline life, which leaves no time to come here when I'm working 70+ hour weeks. And so, with apologies to everyone, I will have to withdraw from the story.

Best wishes to everyone, and I hope this doesn't cause too many problems.

[Imladris]

I'm sorry to hear that Celuien.

I hope that things settle down for you.

Take care.

[littlemanpoet]

Because Celuien has given fair warning earlier than her latest post, I think plans are in place to negotiate her character's departure from the rpg. We will still miss her participation.

[mark12_30]

Celuien: we will miss you; but better we should miss you than your family miss you! It is good to see that your priorities are firm; God bless you for that.

Farewell wherever you fare, and may your eyrie receive you at your journey's end.

[littlemanpoet]

I've had a too busy week, and tomorrow morning I fly to California. I may have computer time while there, I'll have to see. I'll try to post something here today.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Just chiming in to let you know I'm alive and keeping up with the story.

We'll miss you, Celuien, but better us to miss you than your offline people.

[mark12_30]

Where to with Mellonin? SHould we rest a few days, or should she climb onto Roeryn and struggle onward? And who is going with her? Ravion & Liornung? Somebody needs to save/ rescue/ guide the stubborn, but first reckless and then helpless, girl. Nor is Avarien much of a planner. THey both need somebody with some sense. I think even the orse has more.

Mellondu may be sniffing Nimrodel's presence or he may be THaronwe's dupe--- or, perhaps, both. I think I like both best. Amroth is restless, partly because Mellondu can't figure out what to do with him, and Amroth senses a chink in the wall, and Amroth is wondering how on earth Mellondu has found something of Nimrodel's essense drifiting on the wind somewhere when he, with all his searching, could not. Maybe that's why fate led him to this particular boy. Who knows.

Anyway what's next? SHall we wake Ravion's group? WHere shall they go?

[mark12_30]

ANd precisely what characters have we got moving forward? Somebody check me & holler if I missed someone:
Bergil
Indil
Raefindan
Aeron
Erebemlin
Mellondu / Amroth

Mellonin/ Avarien
Liornung
Ravion
Rudh
Good old Jorje
Roheryn

eeeeeeewTharonwe

Nimrodel
MIthrellas
Gwyllion

[Nurumaiel]

Helen, I'd have no objections to sending Liornung along with Mellonin. As a matter of fact, it would be nice to put him into an active role so I have something to keep me occupied. I don't want to find myself disappearing again!

lmp, when were you planning to send Leafa and Ædegard on their way back home? Liornung will need to say his proper farewells, and make sure Bella goes with them.

And, by the way, whether you're flying out this way for business or for pleasure, I hope you enjoy your stay! Whereabouts are you going to be?

[littlemanpoet]

Originally Posted by Nurumaiel

lmp, when were you planning to send Leafa and Ædegard on their way back home? Liornung will need to say his proper farewells, and make sure Bella goes with them.

You're leaving that totally up to me? How do you want to do it? I didn't feel like it was quite time for that to happen.

And, by the way, whether you're flying out this way for business or for pleasure, I hope you enjoy your stay! Whereabouts are you going to be?

My sister lives in San Jose and promises lots of site seeing to Yosemite, San Francisco, maybe Carmel, and a few other places. Heck I just want to see her. The touring is an extra.

[mark12_30]

Originally Posted by Nurumaiel

Helen, I'd have no objections to sending Liornung along with Mellonin. As a matter of fact, it would be nice to put him into an active role so I have something to keep me occupied. I don't want to find myself disappearing again!

Good! THis should be interesting: they are both introspective. And so is Ravion. We'll have to work hard at keeping the action moving-- too easy for them all to stop and brood! I'm glad Liorning is cheerful. I'm also quite glad Ravion and Mellonin/Avarien will have at least one chaperone.

[littlemanpoet]

What needs to happen next? What is Roheryn waiting for? What do you want to happen next, Helen?

[Imladris]

Well, folks.

I shall go straight to the point. I have decided to withdraw from the RP. Aeron is not so important and I believe Gwyllion has played her part. Please feel free to do what you will with them.

[mark12_30]

Ack??? Why? I was trying to work them both in. What did I miss?

Roheryn was waiting for Avarien to call him, or for something to happen in the cottage. Or for Rugh to notice him. Or something.

[littlemanpoet]

The following is from a recent planning exchange between Helen and me, and we decided it's worth posting here for other active writers, especially Fea since it impacts her character plenty.

The fact of Indil/Angela complicates things for Raefindan/Imrazor rather mightily. That Fea chose that particular character was a rather powerful plot twist in its own right. Let me explain.

My theory on Roy Edwards, in terms of my own story, is that his journey into holiness results in his final disappearance from Ælde as he shifts into Eden/Paradise; at the moment of this shift, he detours into Middle Earth for this adventure of the Tapestry of Dreams. And so does Angela (which technically doesn't make sense because Indil is 7 years old and Angela has only been dead for 5 years, but we don't need to worry about that). But Roy has this amazing history he hadn't been aware of (which can remain localized to this rpg and need not enter my own story) such that he was Imrazor, and therefore partly Eldar, about to be reunited with Mithrellas! She will recognize him right off, and he will finally "get it", but Angela/Indil is right there too.

Roy will of course ask, "why?" And he will be tugged in two different directions, to what end I can't foresee yet.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Ack.

My brain is melting. I should most probably wait for morning to think about this for so many reasons...

I knew that pulling your Angela into my Indil would offer plot complications for Raefindan/Imrazor, though I probably should have taken more into account your original plan for your original story. I also should admit that it's been a rather long while since I've perused your xanga account and read the work you've posted, so a lot of my ideas are pure whim with forgetfulness and lagging to account for.

I'm not sure... did I ever specify Indil's age? I know it was never solid in my mind, so I'm quite fine with negotiating it for continuity, however that might work.

Another thing, I never really meant Indil to be a main character. It just happened, the same way it tends to happen when I start writing with others. I probably should have foreseen. Since she now is, what happens to her becomes rather critical.

As a descendant of Mithrellas, she has every right to her dreams of the woman, and of Imrazor. As a human who has experienced trauma, I can explain away her nightmares and hallucinations, and the wall in her mind.

Her tie to Angela is what concerns me right now. Everything else I can shrug off and deal with, but Angela was originally yours, Elempi, and I don't want to do anything that messes with what you've got going on.

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

She will recognize him right off, and he will finally "get it", but Angela/Indil is right there too.

Roy will of course ask, "why?" And he will be tugged in two different directions, to what end I can't foresee yet.

Would it simplify matters for we writers and add to our story (I tend to strive for both at once, if you follow) for Indil/internally-located-others to die before this Imrazor/Mithrellas reunion takes place? If so, how. If not, what do we do with the little girl.

I'll think about it more tomorrow...

Until then, sleep is so important to me...

[littlemanpoet]

Don't worry about any harmonies with my story, Fea. I consider the two things to be quite divorced, even though I can still play with the fiction that the characters are the same.

And don't let's kill of Indil! All I'm doing is thinking out loud about what this rpg promises for interesting plot twist. I'm looking forward to it. I love having characters in very complicated emotional/relational spots; it helps define them. And it's a heck of a lot of fun to figure out how to write the story into a resolution of such knots. So worry not, and let's have at it.

If you want to have Indil be 5 instead of 7, that's cool.

So far your ideas of pure whim have worked out great. I have interpreted the "opaque" part of Indil's mind to be Angela herself.

And I like it that Indil has turned into a main character.

If you write anything Angela-wise that really doesn't work, I'll let you know. That's a promise. I appreciate your sensitivity. But I'm not worried.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

If you write anything Angela-wise that really doesn't work, I'll let you know. That's a promise. I appreciate your sensitivity. But I'm not worried.

Awesome.

[mark12_30]

Yes, awesome. I like whta is hapening here; lmp, thanks for the encouragement on all sides.

TO explain my recent Mellondu post: Having 'hosted' Amroth for so long, and having watched Amroth's remembrances of Nimrodel, and being a youthful dreamish boy-- Mellondu is trespassing; he has fallen for Nimrodel. Twas to be expected but is a heinous trespass nonetheless.. How and whether he survives al this remains to be seen.

Just another twist/ braid/tapestry thing.

Which is, as lmp points out, what makes this game such a fun one. We keep talking about Unraveeling; but really, the point is to "ravel"; all these weavings are what makes this work.

TIme for some more dreams, somewhere.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by mark12_30

TIme for some more dreams, somewhere.

[littlemanpoet]

Yikes, Fea! He's nastier than I thought. Kreepy!

Now I'm just wondering, did I see a new whim just crop up, a new possibility, that Mithrellas = Angela = Indil/Eledhwen?

Wow!

That is, they are somehow all the same entity? That's making my brain chugachug and the gears aren't quite grasping the sprockets, if you take my meaning.

Can't post now, will have to wait until later tonight or next day or so.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

Now I'm just wondering, did I see a new whim just crop up, a new possibility, that Mithrellas = Angela = Indil/Eledhwen?

It's certainly a possibility that's been running through my mind for awhile, but it's by no means finite. Just an idea, you see, that can grow or shrink as needed or desired. Because I like the possibilities that evolve with so many strong personalities floating around ME.

And I find it wonderful and fascinating that I got the idea of the three of them being tied to each other from you, yet you seem not to have had it at all until I wrote it.

[littlemanpoet]

Cool post, Formy! You did slightly differently than I had expected, but it turned out better. Or worse - for Raefindan/Roy, I should say. Wow! Plenty of grist. I hope to get a chance tonight to post.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Hey, just throwing my head in to say I've been sickly and busy, but I do plan on posting in the near future. Not today. Maybe tomorrow.

[littlemanpoet]

I got a plot twist of a post. I'll put it up now.