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Flame of the Ainulindalë
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Yeah. Is Adnan "a man"?
Or some others sharing his stature? A mod-decision here would be worthwhile as we close the action / meeting...
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Reflection of Darkness
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull.
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Anyways, let me see if I can get to what I'm trying to say.... ![]() Quote:
Remember, these ex-slaves are the most radical of slaves. Slavery is a horrible lifestyle, but at least as long as a slave is obedient, they have a chance to survive. By escaping, all these ex-slaves put their lives on the line. Though few may be skilled in weaponry, because they managed to escape in the first place, almost all the slaves should be capable of fighting. Exceptions are but not limited to the oldest of the ex-slaves, the youngest, the injured, the mentally incapacitated, and of course, those who aren't willing to participate (which would most likely be more women than men). Anyways, I apologize if I just rambled- it's a bit late, but hopefully I did make some sense. Just my thought on the matter.... ![]()
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Tumunzahar/Nogrod
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Nogrod,
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Yeah, there might be a few rebels who wanted to be totally on their own. But those people would probably choose to live a life of wandering.
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: You'll See Perpetual Change.
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Estelo dagnir, Melo ring
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Everyone has excellent points here, and I think the solution is simply to choose, since we determine what is appropriate for Mordor's inhabitants at this time in ME history.
Trust me, I can be quite the feminist, but I'm also often a stick-in-the-mud realist when it comes to roleplaying and storytelling in general - and right now I'm just trying to figure out what could be 'realistic' in the Fourth Age of ME Mordor. ![]() At any rate, perhaps the wisest way to go is to say that all of the slaves will play a role, all will be armed with whatever they can find, but, the older slaves, the women who are not accustomed to fighting or would not like to fight (or who simply volunteer to look after and guard the children), and the younger children will be in charge of the traps and decoys we must plan. The men, women who are quite fine wielding a weapon, and the older children (which could range from even 13 or 14 on), will be taking up the 'better' weapons available, and being the core of the slave fighting force. What those numbers are is relative, I think. But I think it is safe to assume that the majority of the slaves will be fighting. We could make it simple and approximate 40:20, or even 45:15, to get an idea. Does anyone (or everyone) feel we need specific numbers? I don't know if that's quite important. |
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Thanks for the answers to my question - I only wanted to get an approximate idea of the numbers of women and children who might be along.
So, I've filled my SAVE. And been vague about the numbers of women and children. There are two characters I used/made up: Gwenith - @ 11 y/o girl and Nia who I see as @ 16, and so a 'woman', really. Granny and the women and girls gathered about her will certainly able to offer some defence if attacked as you can read in the post. Hope this serves. ~ U
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This looks good Undome!
I hope you don't mind if I will make Hadith to call for the females so ready alredy... We need to have an organised defense for the the slave-escapees anyhow. They would be stupid indeed not to pay attention to any common effort...
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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My save #195 is filled. I'm sorry it took so long; RL has really been catching up with me lately and writing time has been scarce this week. I promise my involvement will pick up after the next two weeks or so. A lot's happening right now and I really wish I could post more.
Concerning gender ratios: I don't think it's ultimately important. The same goes for age; unless it becomes important for some reason, I'm comfortable going for now with general guidelines such as about twice or three times as many men than women, and most of the people are probably between 15 and 35 years old. But that's me. |
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