Red Flows the Sirannon Planning/Discussion Thread

[Boromir88]

And Boromir, my dear chap, my dwarf's name is Bror...not Folwren.

Sorry about that, I obviously wasn't thinking when I was typing.

Some should be friends for each of us. (We can all invent a battle buddy - no need to write a bio for them.)

I think I'll use the chap Orin ran into earlier. Good idea. Everything else sounds good to me.

[Arry]

I've filled my SAVE.

I won't be on tomorrow (or rather today, I guess, since it's after midnight now). Will be able to put up a post the following day as needed.

-- Arry

[Folwren]

By Pio:
Some should be friends for each of us. (We can all invent a battle buddy - no need to write a bio for them.) That way when we meet the Orcs, some Dwarves can be badly injured and perhaps 2 or 3 die who are our friends. It should fuel our anger even more.

Oh, that's an excellent idea! Both having friends and having some people dying. That's kind of depressingly warped to say it's a great idea to have dying friends, but oh well. I don't think that all three of our people's different friends die. That would be drastic to have all three RPer's people's friends go down at once. If there was a general favorite and you wanted it to be really sad and really infuriating, then we could have that one guy die and that would be thought.

Other than that, I've no other comments or ideas at the present.

[Durelin]

Pio needs to patent this Battle Buddy System of hers.

Just a note to Alcarillo: I see that Cainenyo has made his way to the *silversmith part of town*...hopefully Narisiel and Maegisil will run into you?

[Alcarillo]

Originally Posted by Durelin

Just a note to Alcarillo: I see that Cainenyo has made his way to the *silversmith part of town*...hopefully Narisiel and Maegisil will run into you?

I somewhat doubt that unless they decide to walk about town for a bit. However, Fëaglin's shop is right across the street from where Cainenyo is going to. Perhaps Celebdur will be too busy to take Cainenyo's request? I'm waiting for Esgal to post to see what Fëaglin's doing at the moment.

[Folwren]

By Boromir:
This is something I've done (although no one has to or even agree with it), but the first RPG I did "Ungoliant's Children" I actually had my main character die and my supporting character (his brother) ended up living. Kind of an interesting twist that I liked.

lol! That's a very interesting twist! I have actually considered that to be Bror's fate, too, but then I always consider killing off my main character in some part of the developement of the story and rarely do.

By Mithalwen:
Ah well it is hard now... I was hoping not to name them but with a year wait for reinforcements and becoming a refugee it is clumsy to keep on saying "her brother...... " but now they are turning in to people and oh dear... they say you shouldn't name an animal if you are going to eat it....

That is down right funny that you say that. Not that it means anything different to me in that saying, it just sounds...humorous. And it realy depends on if the animal you name is cute. We named our two steers that we ended up slaughtering and I tell you, we were not in the least sorry to see them go.

[Boromir88]

I filled in my save. I'm sure the two brothers still around will be able to weigh in...

P.S.- I made sure I typed "Bror" this time.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Folwren

Oh, that's an excellent idea! Both having friends and having some people dying. That's kind of depressingly warped to say it's a great idea to have dying friends, but oh well. I don't think that all three of our people's different friends die. That would be drastic to have all three RPer's people's friends go down at once.

Oh don't be so sentimental... I created an extended family just to have people to kill when the battle hots up

[Folwren]

Originally posted by Mithalwen:
Oh don't be so sentimental... I created an extended family just to have people to kill when the battle hots up

It's not sentiment...it's having to do with coincidence and likelihood. Consider an outside reader...he knows there are four people writing about these dwarves and each person picks up a friend. Come battle, all four people's characters' friend dies and everyone gets to write about angry, grief stricken dwarves. The likelihood is slim, especially if the three brothers and uncle remain unscathed (or even if they're wounded), and it just wouldn't seem right. Now, I can see a universal friend getting killed and then everyone being mad for that reason, but not for each. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind killing off a few extra people to make the story more intriguing and full of feeling, but I don't think that we should kill everyone at once.

I would wish your extended family good luck, but I guess it's useless when I'm not the author.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Folwren

It's not sentiment...it's having to do with coincidence and likelihood. Consider an outside reader...he knows there are four people writing about these dwarves and each person picks up a friend. Come battle, all four people's characters' friend dies and everyone gets to write about angry, grief stricken dwarves. The likelihood is slim, especially if the three brothers and uncle remain unscathed (or even if they're wounded), and it just wouldn't seem right. Now, I can see a universal friend getting killed and then everyone being mad for that reason, but not for each. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind killing off a few extra people to make the story more intriguing and full of feeling, but I don't think that we should kill everyone at once.

I would wish your extended family good luck, but I guess it's useless when I'm not the author.

Ah well it is hard now... I was hoping not to name them but with a year wait for reinforcements and becoming a refugee it is clumsy to keep on saying "her brother...... " but now they are turning in to people and oh dear... they say you shouldn't name an animal if you are going to eat it....

[Boromir88]

The likelihood is slim, especially if the three brothers and uncle remain unscathed (or even if they're wounded), and it just wouldn't seem right.

This is something I've done (although no one has to or even agree with it), but the first RPG I did "Ungoliant's Children" I actually had my main character die and my supporting character (his brother) ended up living. Kind of an interesting twist that I liked.