Wilderness, Weathertop, and Wild Things Discussion Thread - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Alaksoron · 10-26-2004, 03:25 PM

Evinyatar, if Aidwain cannot retrieve your horse, as rutslegolas cannot post for a while, I'll have Osric do it. He already found his own horse. I'll include Aidwain in that post.

Envinyatar · 10-26-2004, 03:28 PM

Alaksoron

Thank you for the offer - but I am planning on using Aidwain in a more extended post. So I will write the retrieval of the horses.

Again, thanks for your offer.

- E -

Nuranar · 10-26-2004, 05:41 PM

My save is filled, and here's the plan for the rest of the journey:

Wednesday, October 27 - Thursday, October 28: Travel along the East Road
Friday, October 29 - Saturday, October 30: Skirmish past the Last Bridge (Stone Trolls area)
Sunday, October 31 - Monday, November 1: Flee past the Trollshaws
Tuesday, November 2 - Wednesday, November 3: Skirmish at/before/over the Ford of Bruinen
Thursday, November 4: Arrival at Rivendell

Quote:

Originally Posted by Meneltarmacil

Oh, and at the Stone Trolls I was planning on (with Kransha's approval, naturally) killing off Bubkur after a huge battle, then taking the poisoned arrow from Kransha and being incapacitated for the rest of the game.

And from earlier in the thread:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Meneltarmacil

Saurreg PMed me earlier about if I could get injured while saving Andas Loudewater, so I decided to work around that. When we've reached the Stone Trolls, we'll get attacked by orcs, and Kransha (the orc Kransha named after himself) will be among them. We'll be fighting as usual, and I'll see him aim an arrow at Loudewater. I'll run up, push him aside, and take the blow myself, leaving only Menecar standing between Kransha and Loudewater. (Dragon Elf said he wanted to take on Kransha, so that's why this situation would develop.) My right arm would be crippled, and the arrow will most likely be poisoned.

Meneltarmacil, Kransha, and Saurreg: Please finalize what is to happen. This skirmish will occur beginning FRIDAY, so make your plans or I will make them for you.

Kransha, Fordim, and Prim: Please come up with a plan of battle. I've sketched out the places and real times for the skirmishes, but as the baddies it's your call on how you attack and how hard. Go ahead and plan here on the thread - considering our tight time schedule, everyone needs to know what is going on. Thanks!

Depending on which skirmish is harder-fought, I've decided to kill off Menecar. Nothing against either the character or Dragon Elf, but he's now merely a carry-along character, and in the nature of this game, it's highly unlikely we'd get through without somebody dying. Right now I'm leaning toward him dying in the battle at the Ford... but that's in absence of any better ideas. Suggestions?

Envinyatar, have you given any thought to how we're going to end it up? I did some more thinking, and the nature of the battle at the Ford will have a lot to do with it. Namely, the state of the enemy's forces when it's over.

One last announcement: The battle at Weathertop got a little confusing for me, with lots of people posting, the timeline jumping back and forth, and the same combats being re-told. So I'm making 2 requests:

1. Baddies, please specify up front - BEFORE the skirmish starts - how many orcs and trolls will be fighting and WHEN they will be entering the scene.

2. Everyone, write 1 or 2 battle posts ONLY. I don't want to see 4 different 10-sentence posts from the same person. If you want to write more, make your 1 or 2 posts longer. Write CLEARLY so the other writers know what's going on and minimize how much you take the current timeline back. (If the person before you ends his post halfway into the battle, try not to start yours at the very beginning. Pick up where he left off, if you can.)

Meneltarmacil, I just saw your post. It seems to fit in right after my save, and since Envinyatar will get us moving the next morning and Prim will carry on for the baddies, I'll pasted it into the end of mine. Is that all right?

I think that's all for now. Carry on!

Nuranar

Envinyatar · 10-27-2004, 04:09 AM

I've gotten us 2 days down the road - about half the way to the Last Bridge. The road is now passing through an area of the country that affords the Trolls and Orcs a little more in the way of hiding places.

It is late afternoon, camp is made, as is the decision to set two companions for each watch.

Orcs and Trolls should make themselves known with some sort of harassment of the group during the night - scare the horses for fun, steal some food and supplies, push a few downed trees across the road, etc . . . baddies having a little fun with their quarry.

The companions can then deal with the problem quickly (no battles here - just recover the horses or whatever and get on the way again). By Thursday, someone should bring the group to the Last Bridge, which is where the East Road crosses over the Hoarwell River.

Primrose Bolger · 10-27-2004, 04:21 AM

I'll get something up a little later today.

Kransha, Fordim - is there anything you'ld like your Orcs and Trolls to be doing right now? You can use my SAVE if you need to.

Saurreg · 10-27-2004, 09:46 AM

I will see what Primrose has to post before posting mine.

Fordim Hedgethistle · 10-27-2004, 02:29 PM

I've gone ahead and put up a post that follows the horses having been spooked. I hope that it will fit with whatever you have planned Primrose -- if it does not, just let me know and I will edit accordingly. . .

Well. . .only if the changes don't preclude Arrald's plan to flatten a certain hard-to-kill she-Elf!

10-26-2004, 03:25 PM	#1
Alaksoron Haunting Spirit Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 73	Evinyatar, if Aidwain cannot retrieve your horse, as rutslegolas cannot post for a while, I'll have Osric do it. He already found his own horse. I'll include Aidwain in that post. __________________ Whether the wolf beats the bear or the bear beats the wolf, the rabbit still loses.

10-26-2004, 03:28 PM	#2
Envinyatar Quill Revenant Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Wandering through the Downs..... Posts: 849	Alaksoron Thank you for the offer - but I am planning on using Aidwain in a more extended post. So I will write the retrieval of the horses. Again, thanks for your offer. - E - __________________ ‘Many are the strange chances of the world,’ said Mithrandir, ‘and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.’ – Gandalf in: The Silmarillion, 'Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age'

10-27-2004, 04:09 AM	#4
Envinyatar Quill Revenant Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Wandering through the Downs..... Posts: 849	I've gotten us 2 days down the road - about half the way to the Last Bridge. The road is now passing through an area of the country that affords the Trolls and Orcs a little more in the way of hiding places. It is late afternoon, camp is made, as is the decision to set two companions for each watch. Orcs and Trolls should make themselves known with some sort of harassment of the group during the night - scare the horses for fun, steal some food and supplies, push a few downed trees across the road, etc . . . baddies having a little fun with their quarry. The companions can then deal with the problem quickly (no battles here - just recover the horses or whatever and get on the way again). By Thursday, someone should bring the group to the Last Bridge, which is where the East Road crosses over the Hoarwell River. __________________ ‘Many are the strange chances of the world,’ said Mithrandir, ‘and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.’ – Gandalf in: The Silmarillion, 'Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age'

10-27-2004, 04:21 AM	#5
Primrose Bolger Wight Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Near Bywater Pool Posts: 196	I'll get something up a little later today. Kransha, Fordim - is there anything you'ld like your Orcs and Trolls to be doing right now? You can use my SAVE if you need to. __________________ . . . for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth . . . are quick of hearing and sharpeyed, and though they are inclined to be fat and do not hurry unneccesarily, they are nonetheless nimble and deft in their movements . . . FOTR - Prologue

10-27-2004, 09:46 AM	#6
Saurreg Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: In self imposed exile... Posts: 465	I will see what Primrose has to post before posting mine. __________________ "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. " ~Voltaire

10-27-2004, 02:29 PM	#7
Fordim Hedgethistle Gibbering Gibbet Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Beyond cloud nine Posts: 1,844	I've gone ahead and put up a post that follows the horses having been spooked. I hope that it will fit with whatever you have planned Primrose -- if it does not, just let me know and I will edit accordingly. . . Well. . .only if the changes don't preclude Arrald's plan to flatten a certain hard-to-kill she-Elf! __________________ Scribbling scrabbling.