Scarburg Meadhall Discussion Thread

[littlemanpoet]

Originally Posted by Firefoot

I think it's time to figure out what Scyld's been up to lately, as well... quietly observing things in the background, I imagine.

Anything "Scyld" is eagerly anticipated.

Firefoot, has Scyld revealed himself to Scarburgians yet? I'm thinking not, but could be wrong. ???

[Firefoot]

Nope... he's still Nydfara to them. And the only other person who knows anything (Erbrand, I think) is gone.

[littlemanpoet]

Originally Posted by Firefoot

Nope... he's still Nydfara to them. And the only other person who knows anything (Erbrand, I think) is gone.

I really think Rowenna has to stumble into him somehow. Just feels like it's meant to be.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Oh, that looks just very interesting, but just as I predicted, the storm of events comes just when I am not available... I had barely time to read this, I am now just popping at the computer for literally few hours and it looks like I won't be able to post basically until close to the end of August. Well, let's see how it goes - I can always post just some retrospective evaluation of stuff on Hilderinc's part. However then I should be able to post normally and since by the close of August I'll be spending most of my time with studying for philosophy exam, I surely would use good breaks and could get on some posting spree myself.

[Durelin]

Not that I am in the middle of the action here or anything but wanted to let everyone know that I will be gone from the 14th-19th.

So, Foley, I would really like to have Coen and Thornden interact here just as Eodwine has returned (and Coen is in the hall with the men so it'd make sense) but it'd have to be brief otherwise I'll leave you hanging for a while... I'm sure there will be time later, I won't be gone that long hehe.

[Firefoot]

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

I really think Rowenna has to stumble into him somehow. Just feels like it's meant to be.

Agreed.

It doesn't look like I'm going to be able to get anything up tonight, but definitely tomorrow I'm going to get posts up for both Leof and Scyld.

[Folwren]

Durelin, I agree that it'd be fun to do some interaction between Coen and Thornden. If you get a chance to post before I have, go right ahead. I don't know when I'll get to post - this week at camp is really crazy. I wanted to today, but didn't get a chance, and who knows what tomorrow will bring. Maybe if I wake up early and can't get back to sleep, I'll post. Don't hold your breath. Sleep is a precious commodity around here.

EDIT: Never mind all that fuss. I actually just bit the bullet, stayed up past lights-out time, and wrote a post. I have no doubt it is poorly written, and I may revise it in time, but I'd thought I'd through it up so that if you have itme, Durelin, you can post. The conversation is open enough, I figure, Coen can get in somehow.

-- Foley

[littlemanpoet]

Poorly written my foot.

Obviously, I must identify with Eodwine a lot - Thornden's good thoughts about him just about choked me up.

Firefoot - I thought so - starting with post 198 there has already been an exchange between "Nydfara" and Rowenna, and others. Might want to check it out. I will in more depth too.

[Folwren]

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

Obviously, I must identify with Eodwine a lot - Thornden's good thoughts about him just about choked me up.

Ah, how sweet.

Firefoot - I thought so - starting with post 198 there has already been an exchange between "Nydfara" and Rowenna, and others. Might want to check it out. I will in more depth too.

I thought so. I seem to have remembered it quite clearly. Didn't she slap him?

[Lhunardawen]

Originally Posted by Firefoot

Next thing he’d be fluttering and sighing (or crying, as had been the case lately) over the hall romances like the kitchen girls.

Ouch. Nothing stays secret in the kitchen, huh?

I'm so happy to see Scyld again.

[littlemanpoet]

Tolkien placed Rohan in the same kind of latitude as southern France. The White Mountains serve Eorling climate pretty much the way the Pyrenees and Alps serve southern France. Of course, Rohan has no Mediterranean so the winters might be less temperate.

[Thinlómien]

Hiya all, again sorry for my absence but I have been and will be busy. Anyway, Lhuna and LMP managed to get me to write a pm post with them so I wrote a little something for Modtryth today, and will try to keep up with stuff then (Modtryth seems to have been quite busy while I've been away ). Also, next week I will write for Wulfric and/or Wilheard, reveal what became of Wulfric's thoughts to go see Faramund and probably have them return from a hunting trip or something like that to Eodwine's homecoming - and also hopefully write a little something for Cnebba as what I wrote for Modtryth implied the boys have been up to some mischief again...

[Folwren]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Hiya all, again sorry for my absence but I have been and will be busy. Anyway, Lhuna and LMP managed to get me to write a pm post with them so I wrote a little something for Modtryth today, and will try to keep up with stuff then (Modtryth seems to have been quite busy while I've been away ). Also, next week I will write for Wulfric and/or Wilheard, reveal what became of Wulfric's thoughts to go see Faramund and probably have them return from a hunting trip or something like that to Eodwine's homecoming - and also hopefully write a little something for Cnebba as what I wrote for Modtryth implied the boys have been up to some mischief again...

Excellent. I am excited about everything above, Lommy. I was curious about the boys, too, but didn't feel like coming up with something. It would be amazing if you did write for them. Is Javan amongst the mischief makers?

I am also impatient to see this co-post that keeps being spoken about, between Elempi, Lhuna, and now you! It is a million pages long by now, or are you all just taking your time about writing it?

-- Folwren

[Folwren]

Firefoot, that post was amazing! Your talk among the men was so realistic it made me mad.

I decided Thornden wouldn't sit nearby and let them talk about Saeryn like that, so please work this in between these two paragraphs of your post somehow:

“Hold your tongue,” Thornden said severely. His eyes clapped onto the last soldier who had spoken. “If you cannot speak respectfully of Lady Saeryn, then don’t speak at all.” He glanced about the table, taking them all in. “Another word in a similar thought, and I’ll see the man outside.” After a pause, he turned again to Coenred and they took up their conversation once more.

“Enjoy it better if you weren’t sick,” someone chimed in, and the laughter rose louder. Léof felt distinctly uncomfortable hearing the Lady Saeryn discussed this way, and he wished he had a way of turning the conversation back to Eodwine. Fortunately, someone else did it for him.

“What I’d like to know is, why didn’t Lord Athanar formally accept Eodwine’s pledge? He said they had many things to discuss. That sounds to me like it’s not really over.”

[Firefoot]

Folwren - paragraph inserted. I like the flow of the post a lot better now - it was really missing that.

I also switched out the word "fealty" for "loyalty."

[Folwren]

Elempi,

If you would like, you can go ahead and have Saeryn tell Rowenna what has happened, if that will help you further your post. In my post, I considered just going over it very briefly, in a couple of sentences, saying Saeryn told Rowenna what the problem was. If you want to go ahead and have her do that so that Rowenna can more fully answer her, that's fine.

-- Foley

[Lhunardawen]

Elempi, I have taken quite a few liberties with Eodwine's actions in my post. Feel free to slap my writing hand (lightly please) and make corrections.

[littlemanpoet]

Not in the least, Lhuna. He's very much in character. Nicely done.

[Folwren]

The post I just posted is a co-post between Elempi and I.

[littlemanpoet]

Back to you Foley.

[littlemanpoet]

Now we need someone to take up the thoughts of Athanar's group. Oh, I suppose Quin could do that now that the cat's out of the bag. Poor Léof.

I have three posts to write. But not tonight. Bed time soon since I'm working at least 10 hrs a day. Sorry.

[Durelin]

Originally Posted by LMP

I got a kick out of this. Durelin, you could really have Coen catch Thornden in his words here if you wanted to....

Yea Coen reacted quite strongly when I read that haha... There still opportunity to respond? I know I've been gone a bit... If so I'll try to asap, running off a few hours sleep atm...

[littlemanpoet]

Well, I wasn't sure if I could bring Rowenna round to supporting Saeryn's view on this, ambition or no ambition. Turns out Rowenna's calculating nature may be getting the best of them both. I hope you're happy, Foley.

[Folwren]

I really regret holding people up, but I may not be able to post until tomorrow evening. There is a slight possibility I can post within the next thirty minutes, but if that does not happen, don't expect a response for another twenty-four hours or thereabouts. So sorry.

-- Foley

[littlemanpoet]

Originally Posted by Folwren

I really regret holding people up, but I may not be able to post until tomorrow evening. There is a slight possibility I can post within the next thirty minutes, but if that does not happen, don't expect a response for another twenty-four hours or thereabouts. So sorry.

-- Foley

Don't sweat it, Foley. We all have real lives. A day or two won't hurt anything.

[Folwren]

Hey, Firefoot...I kind of feel bad about having Quin high-tail it out of there like that, but I didn't know what to do. I felt really bad for him and Leof, and ... I lacked inspiration. Maybe I should not have posted at all until I thought more about it....I dunno..........

It occurred to me in a healthy situation, they would have sat and talked it out, but I felt that there would be hostility there that would be better left resting. At least, that's what Quin thought. If you would like to keep other men questioning Leof, I am willing to help you play that out, taking on random NPCs like Scyrr, etc.

-- Folwren

[Firefoot]

No worries, Folwren - I think that's great. Nothing like a bit of (un)healthy conflict.

Leof probably won't really stick around either, after he realizes just how badly his comment is going over. Or maybe he'll stick it out... this is where it would be good to either have more played soldiers, or more clearly defined NPC's... maybe I'll try making a couple more up.

For reference, here's Legate's write-up of some the NPC's he made up. Also there's Hylath. I think I made use of three more unnamed soldiers in my last post that involved a number of them.

I don't know. I'll think about it and read up on some of these soldiers and probably write something tomorrow night.

[Folwren]

That sounds great, Firefoot. I like conflict. I figure that's probably pretty obvious.

-- Folwren

[littlemanpoet]

Firefoot, another amazing piece of writing. I'd rep you but I have to spread it around.

[littlemanpoet]

Firefoot, where would Scyld go to work when Coenred gives the order to vacate the Hall?

Foley, where would Quin go?

[Folwren]

I think he's going to see if there's any manual labor he can do - is there any building going on that day? I think he'll pitch in with that.

-- Foley

[Firefoot]

Thanks, Elempi.

Scyld would probably also go help out somewhere. I don't really have a good feel for what the day-to-day activities are for the men of the hall, and I'm really not sure what Scyld's going to be doing once the new hall is completed... he doesn't really have a trade.

[Folwren]

I'd like to put out there, for those of you who've read the post already, that I just edited my last post a little, adding something that Elempi wrote and then replying to it.

-- Foley

[Folwren]

Question for Nogrod: Is Athanar going to talk to Eodwine soon, and is he going to tell him what Saeryn said in the hallway?

[Firefoot]

Folwren, sorry if it seems like Leof's going in circles... I just realized I left this post in much the same place as the last one. But maybe there's something new in there for Thornden to respond to.

[Folwren]

No worries, there is. Leof needs to work some stuff out, that's all.

-- Folwren

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Folwren

Question for Nogrod: Is Athanar going to talk to Eodwine soon, and is he going to tell him what Saeryn said in the hallway?

Game-terms: he's not in a rush to do that; he has other worries (the coming winter and the preparations for it) + he thinks Eodwine should have time to settle down himself meeting all his friends etc. without him disturbing it. They'd have time to discuss later...

RL-terms: Squatter, Oddwen, Estelyn, Hookbill, Pitchwife, Shasta, Rikae, Macalaure, Kath & Skip are coming to visit us from Saturday onwards so I have little or no possibility of posting in the near future.

The Mead Hall: We'll have a big banquet in the evening (Athanar would have called for that as soon as he heard Eodwine is coming back) so anything preceeding that should be done now - as I see you're admirably doing. And don't hurry... the reunions are an important part of this story I think.

And I still hope to steal time to post for Stigend and Garstan to approach Eodwine as well.


Dury, Firefoot & Lhuna: so great to see you back onboard! Just love it!

[Folwren]

You're having a regular party at your place come Saturday, aren't you? Hope ya'll have fun.

Your plans sound good regarding the Mead Hall.

I have a quiz for you all...is there a guard named Osmond at the Hall?

-- Foley

[littlemanpoet]

I expect to have a chance at some point to post for either Rowenna or Eodwine - Rowenna if Lhuna has no chance to write for Ginna beween now and then.

[Lhunardawen]

Lhuna has been drowning in drugs and will continue to be for the next few days. Anyway, last I looked I thought Eodwine had been called away, or was I just imagining things? I'll get a post up as soon as I can.