Scarburg Meadhall Discussion Thread

[littlemanpoet]

Thornden staying - fixed. I'm glad you were okay with the "you stink" part. Guys will talk like that to their friends.

[Durelin]

So I posted a sort of general reflection/catch up post for Coen.

As for him finding out about Thornden hiding something...well, he suspected Thornden at least of wanting to protect Erbrand (and Lithor), but he had a fairly high opinion of Thornden at first so doesn't really want to think he's hiding something very specific, other than that he has a lot of sympathy for the two and thinks they have been mistreated. Which is enough to make Coen angry!

I suppose he does suspect him hiding something, though he doesn't want to. Apparently he's a strange combination of idealistic and bitter. Or rather he decides what he thinks about someone within a couple moments interaction and then it takes him months or years to change that image of someone even if it's wrong.

Anyway I'm rambling. So if Hilderinc or someone else spoke to Coen about it and got his suspicions going...well, if it was Hilderinc he might go straight to Athanar cause he trusts him so much. If it was someone else he doesn't trust as much, he'd go confront Thornden. But he also might feel he needs to confront Thornden and make *him* tell Athanar. Kind of like dragging a kid who's done something bad to apologize.

Er...anyway...I guess those are my thoughts. I see that you wanted to try to fit the reveal in possibly to the dinner the previous evening... I suppose Hilderinc could find Coen in the stables and inform him? That is if you both want to go through with that. It is up to you, Legate and Foley. Or we can hold off and keep building whatever tensions...

[Folwren]

Durelin, I'm so excited that you came and posted! Your post was really good. I like Coenred a lot.

It makes little difference that Coen and Hilderinc didn't talk the previous night. It can happen whenever. It happening this morning would be fine, or later. Legate, what do you think?

I wish I could post something tonight, but I can't. Besides that, I don't even know what I'd post about. Maybe Thornden asking Athanar if the messengers can stop by Garreth's smithy, but we've already said that'd be fine here on the discussion thread so I thought that maybe would be superfluous. But if others think not, maybe I'll post that. I dunno.

Anyway, I'll see about things in the morning. G'night, all.

-- Foley

[Nogrod]

Nice posts!

But I noticed a problem... Looking at the situation, lord Athanar would have wished to send the messengers to Edoras asap, meaning sending them into the back of the night (which I indeed wrote there in the thread), but now it seems people are asking about who goes and where in the morning!

The whole idea was that the messengers should go as soon as possible. What kind of a lord is that which gives the outlaws 12 more hours head-start?

Originally Posted by lord Athanar on the thread adfter his specch yesterday

"Tell them to meet me here in one and half hour to pick my letter to the king - and as I know anyone would be reluctant to go riding through the night, especially after this kind of a day, tell them they will have a day free tomorrow in Edoras and they will have to report to me they're back only in the evening meal of the day after tomorrow. That clear?"

So how about you lmp & Foley changed the time-setting of your posts making them meet in the late evening, like before going to sleep? That would also make Mnemo's post in it's due place... Dury's post I think would be unaffected.

It's a kind of a logic issue. If Athanar says in the evening "let them come here in one and half hour" - and we start to think who they are and what they would do the next morning...

EDIT: I thought of writing a short post for Athanar but will now withold it for a moment until you answer to my proposal so as not to write anything I'd need to edit heavily afterwards...

[Folwren]

Oooh. I missed that. For some reason I though tthey were leaving the next morning. Okay. Should I just delete my post, as it's set in the morning? It'd be just as easy to write a whole new one as rewrite this one.

-- Foley

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Folwren

It'd be just as easy to write a whole new one as rewrite this one.

Well, there are two of you posting about the morning, so I'd think just changing the setting into the late evening would be easier... but whichever you think is done with less effort... I mean I have no problem with the posts as such (they're nice indeed!), only the timing of them goes contrary to what should have happened.

[Folwren]

I actually think that what would be more likely is if Harreld didn't know that the messengers were going that night and he missed them entirely. But that's Elempi's call...plus, if Harreld misses this chance of sending a message, it'd be tough to come up with a reason to send a third rider to Edoras. UNLESS Harreld decides to take a holiday while the men-at-arms are off tax-collecting and he goes to Edoras himself.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Durelin

So if Hilderinc or someone else spoke to Coen about it and got his suspicions going...well, if it was Hilderinc he might go straight to Athanar cause he trusts him so much. If it was someone else he doesn't trust as much, he'd go confront Thornden. But he also might feel he needs to confront Thornden and make *him* tell Athanar. Kind of like dragging a kid who's done something bad to apologize.

Er...anyway...I guess those are my thoughts. I see that you wanted to try to fit the reveal in possibly to the dinner the previous evening... I suppose Hilderinc could find Coen in the stables and inform him? That is if you both want to go through with that. It is up to you, Legate and Foley. Or we can hold off and keep building whatever tensions...

Originally Posted by Folwren

It makes little difference that Coen and Hilderinc didn't talk the previous night. It can happen whenever. It happening this morning would be fine, or later. Legate, what do you think?

I think I can make it happen like you said, Coen and Hilderinc meeting in the stables. Indeed I originally wanted to write about it as part of the previous evening dinner-talk, but then I decided that the course of events was a bit, hmm, rushed for that, with the messengers being sent and stuff. But I think I can post it now - as it's getting late here, I am probably going to post sometime tomorrow my time.

But it really looks like you all did a wonderful job here, and I like all the posts, and looking forward to see what comes further

[Firefoot]

For clarification - are the Scarburg folk riding out to the homesteads of the local lords, or are the local lords coming to Scarburg again? I feel like I missed something.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Firefoot

For clarification - are the Scarburg folk riding out to the homesteads of the local lords, or are the local lords coming to Scarburg again? I feel like I missed something.

I was under the impression that we are going after them, to their own homesteads.

And I have posted, seems at last it is out. Dury, let me know if I have handled Coen incorrectly, or if you want me to edit in some way his words - I wanted to post only as much as I needed to keep the conversation running the way it should. I have ended my post with the assumption that Coen will also figure out what had happened (or at least part of it, that is, that Hilderinc saw either Lithor or Erbrand or both riding away), and I made Hilderinc realise it himself too (as I wrote it, I thought that it seemed logical, it would be pretty dumb of Hilderinc not to realise at least the basic possibility). If there is a different way you want the things to unfold, or, more like if Coen reacts in some unusual way or does not react at all, I can edit the ending...

That said, I think it is not so bad yet, and in fact, the subject is already outdated, but this is upon Coen to handle now...

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Firefoot

For clarification - are the Scarburg folk riding out to the homesteads of the local lords, or are the local lords coming to Scarburg again?

Scarburg folk are riding today.

I'll try to make a post today... not to send us riding as yet, but to continue preparations...

[littlemanpoet]

Friends, you may notice (or maybe not) that my posts on this rpg tend to a certain type of language pattern, or "sense". I do this because I want my characters to sound like Eorling folks. When I write for this rpg, I "hear" the language of the post in my head, trying to make it sound authentic.

Here's my offer. If you would like me to offer word choices or phrase choices to help you make your posts more Eorling in style and sense, please say so. I will limit what I do to making suggestions, and it's entirely up to you whether you use them. You will not hurt my feelings if you choose not to take me up on this, and you will not hurt my feelings if you ask for my aid and choose not to use my suggestions. In fact, I think I'll probably have fun just offering the suggestions if you use them or not.

I will not offer my opinions about your posts unless you ask me to, because the last thing I want to do is offend a fellow rpg'r.

Just let me know that you'd like to have some suggestions from me, and either tell me which post you want help with, or if you prefer, I'm fine with PMing also. And if nobody responds to this post, that doesn't hurt my feelings either.