Treachery of Men Discussion/Planning Thread

[Child of the 7th Age]

Was not the hunt Khandr's idea? How can he just go wandering off without consequence? Surely this is not in keeping with the way things would have worked? Sorry for bringing this up late, but it's been niggling at me for days.

Yes, I see there is a problem. However, my character has a major dilemma. How can Khandr remain where he is when he believes he will be murdered and the hunt would seem to be the easiest way to do something like that? If you had just been told of your own death and you truly believed what the person was saying, perhaps because you had already sensed that things were not right, would you docilely go forward with the hunt when you think there may be an ambush waiting around the next tree? I would not, even if I was the individual who had arranged the event. When I set up the hunt, I had no idea that someone was going to tell Khandr he was about to bite the dust. This was simply presented in the story as a fait accompli and now my character has to react to what happened. (We had initially planned that Khandr's death would drop down out of the blue with Jord as the killer.) Sometimes plans are "rearranged" in real life by things happening out of the blue, and the same holds true for rpgs.

Khandr believes what was said to him. He is certainly not feeling too kindly about Uldor and crew since he thinks one of them is about to murder him. Would you really have him stay and wait to be murdered? That doesn't make sense to me. At the very least, he is going to go back to his first wife and speak with her, just as he has spoken with his second wife.

As to what to do with the hunt, that is up to you. If it's easier to deal with, I will be happy to have Khandr speak with one of his servants to carry a message to his hosts and apologize that something unexpected has occurred so that he is drawn away and will rejoin them later at the after-hunt "brunch" which he will have waiting in the courtyard at the front of his house. I am putting up a save. Let me know if you can live comfortably with that.

[Folwren]

I can live comfortably with that. In all honestly, host or not, Uldor wants to go on the hunt, now that he's all prepared for it, and if Khandr sends someone to say that he can't come but go ahead, Uldor will do it.

Sorry, Elempi.

-- Folwren

[littlemanpoet]

No need for "sorries". The explanation from Child makes a lot of sense; so much sense that imho it would make a cool rpg post to see Khandr figure this out on the run.

If Uldor is fine with just going on the hunt with absolutely no explanation from the host of the hunt for his absence, that's Uldor's business. Ulfast, however, not smelling murder in the air, and hoping to use some kind of potential alliance with Khandr to his advantage against Uldor, will not stand for it and will send a trusted retainer to Khandr's house to find out what's up. I'll post that up when I get a chance.

To Lachrandir, this all looks like petty human nonsense and he cares not.

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

Ulfast, however, not smelling murder in the air, and hoping to use some kind of potential alliance with Khandr to his advantage against Uldor, will not stand for it and will send a trusted retainer to Khandr's house to find out what's up.

That's bad indeed!

But good. Makes the story a bit more complicated.

Now this only makes me wonder whether Fastarr should see that retainer and get suspicious. If he'd see it while he's still having a meeting with Embla somewhere between Khandr's house and the fields it would be stuff for a schitzophrenic post: to find and protect Khandr (who may be dead anyway), to go after the other retainer or to stay with Embla and advance an affair...

Poor guy.

[Noinkling]

Pio

So, I've filled my SAVE and got us to Dag's house. I've heard nothing back from bill_n_sam about whether she will be continuing to write in the game.

Shall we just carry her characters for now? I'd like to advance the little part of the storyline we were developing.

I'll leave it to you to decide what Dulaan gave Fálki and to whom and how he presents it.

[piosenniel]

Alright, that sounds like a good plan. I'll try to get a post up tomorrow.

hmmmmm......now what has Granny D given Fálki? We wonders, my precious.....

~*~ Pio

[littlemanpoet]

Hmmm.... I am reminded (by looking at the rpg thread) that I have a SAVED post waiting to be written. I have not yet done so because I'm waiting for Child to write hers first. Is it true, Child, that you are waiting for someone to write Jord's character in order for you to write Khandr? Or is there something else keeping you from writing your post that I'm not aware of?

[Folwren]

Hiya, everyone. I've PMed two people about possibly taking Jord's character. I'm hoping I'll hear back from one of them sometime shortly.

In the mean time, the hunt should be gotten under way...

Pio, are you still planning on finishing that part of the post? The hunting part in the last post you posted on the game thread?

I will see about posting possibly later this afternoon. Right now, I'm actually in the middle of figuring out a new program...heh...bad me for taking a BD break in the midst of that.

[littlemanpoet]

Gwathagor, welcome!

I'm preparing a post for Thorn.

I mean for Thorn and Jord to have a confrontation at some point. I had expected it to precede Khandr's murder, but that now looks unlikely. No matter. It can occur after the murder, which would make it an interesting exchange in its own way.

Let me know, Gwathagor, when you're ready for such a confronation.

EDIT: post is up and very short since it's just one part of a conversation.