Land of Darkness Discussion Thread

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

OK *whew*

I've put up my LONG post in which the prisoners are finally freed. I do so now, rather than later in the day or early tomorrow, in case anyone wants to post about the orc fight in light of what I do in my long post. As you will see, I have put up a save for any such posts so they can go before mine.

Now, I have used quite a few other characters in my post -- PLEASE tell me what needs editing!! I have also killed off two more characters -- Sarin had to pull out of the game for personal reasons last week, and Durelin gave me permission to do as I wanted with her character some weeks ago. As a result, I have killed off Zuromor and Jordo.

So now you have until Friday to write posts for the following events:

1) the orc fight, leading up to our rescue -- feel free to 'overlap' your posts with mine; I will edit my post as needed to match up with any others.

2) also, waking up in Ithilien, the passing of Sauron, and our newfound freedom. What will everyone do? Where will they go? etc.

Thanks, all, for bearing with me on this last rather rushed leg of the journey. This game has been tremendously fun, and I'm sure we'll make a terriffic end for it!

[Amanaduial the archer]

Fordim: I'm very sorry for my absence over the last few days. Due to work and my suddenly inconveniently emerging social life, I have really rather little time left for the internet, and so haven't been actually been able to come on since Thursday. I will catch up directly.

Regards and thank you for your patience,
- Aman

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

Zuromor Zombie?

Hmm. . .this needs clearing up pdq. I thought that I had killed off Zuromor, but in Aman's post he seems alive and kicking. . .

herm. . .hoom

For the time being let's say *poof* Zuromor is alive. In my post, Grash only saw him go down and made the mistake of thinking that he was dead. . .yeah, that's it. . .

Another discrepancy -- Aman negects to mention Dwali, who is also very much with us. To recap:

Dead and gone are:

The Perky Ent's Dwarf (name escapes me at the moment -- bad game owner bad: no donut)
Morgoroth (CoD)
Rhand/Aldor (Nova)
Jordo (Durelin)

Remaining alive:

Grash (me)
Darash (Bethberry)
Lyshka (Alaklondewen)
Jeren (Aylwen)
Bror (Kransha)
Dwali (Himaran)
Raies (Aman)
Zuromor (me? now, with Aman?)

Hope I got all that right.

[alaklondewen]

Fordim or Pio, would either of you mind placing this post into Fordim's SAVE for battle posts? Thanks in advance.

* Post Placed *

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Alaklondewen's post for Lyshka

Exhaustion overwhelmed the Easterling woman. Her muscles ached, her eyes drooped, yet she continued to fight. She would not survive if the battle came to hand-to-hand combat. Luck, if she believed in luck, had saved her from the orc army. It would not happen again. Darash had begun gathering smaller stones, but Lyshka continued to work on the larger boulders. Her chest heaved as tried to rock the massive stone. The rock’s surface was cool against her sweating back as she pushed with her long legs against the worn path. Finally, the boulder budged beneath her, and she was able to get it moving down the path toward the enemy.

The enemy was getting smaller. Many had been crushed by the falling stones, but several had escaped by dodging the debris. Lyshka saw the dark elf fighting fiercely, surrounded by the beasts. As she watched from high on the path, time seemed to slow. A rusty blade thrust forward, piercing the immortal’s stomach. The Easterling woman cried out in despair as his body slumped onto the ground. “Dad-esh!” Lyshka shouted the Amazon woman’s name and pointed to the fallen. Darash paused and lines creased her brow as she met the Easterling’s saddened gaze.

Another noise took Lyshka’s attention immediately. It was the sound of dozens of more feet stamping against the cold earth. New shouts of war were lifted up, and the woman slowly turned to see the new Orc-arrivals streaming onto the path. They came from all directions, up the path and descending the walls on either side. The foul beasts were surrounding them and forcing them away from their destination of freedom. Lyshka pulled the small knife Darash had provided her from her vest and prepared herself to what she thought would be her final battle.

[Amanaduial the archer]

Sorry Fordim, my fault. From your post, I assumed that Grash had seen Zurumor go down but that he was no necessarily dead. Bearing in mind this assumption plus the fact that you had said there were seven left, I missed out Dwali. I'll edit now.