The King's Players - Discussion/Planning Thread - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Mnemosyne · 02-18-2011, 10:45 AM

No, no, the Witch-King was riding the dragon in, and Eowyn had to slay it before she slew the Witch-King, and he nearly scorched her to death, because that's what did Theoden in, you know? (never mind his tombstone)

Or there were FIVE DRAGONS guarding Barad-dur when Frodo the Halfling went there to challenge Sauron to single combat, and while he was there he tricked them into setting the tower on fire and blowing it up and only survived because an eagle happened to fly by at that very moment...

Formendacil · 02-18-2011, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Mnemosyne

No, no, the Witch-King was riding the dragon in, and Eowyn had to slay it before she slew the Witch-King, and he nearly scorched her to death, because that's what did Theoden in, you know? (never mind his tombstone)

Or there were FIVE DRAGONS guarding Barad-dur when Frodo the Halfling went there to challenge Sauron to single combat, and while he was there he tricked them into setting the tower on fire and blowing it up and only survived because an eagle happened to fly by at that very moment...

Wait... didn't the Battle of the Five Dragons take place in Dale. I could've sworn... :-p

For what it's worth, having the playwright/original troupe members originate in Dale could help explain why they know so little of the original story.

Lariren Shadow · 02-18-2011, 01:17 PM

Wow this sounds really cool. I've been talking with Fea and thought "wouldn't it be funny if some of the fake inspiration came from the movies?" I think this should happen.

I would also greatly appreciate a cameo as Éowyn, since talking with Fea makes me really want to do this.

Dimturiel · 02-18-2011, 01:28 PM

Ok, after much thinking I've come up with the following character:

NAME: Harrenon

AGE/GENDER/RACE/WHERE FROM: 21, Male, Man, Gondor, more specifically Lossanarch

APPEARANCE: He looks younger than his age and is not as tall as the usual Gondorian although he claims he still has time to grow, despite his age. Has long black hair that sometimes stands in all dirrections and brown eyes.

BITS OF CHARACTER/HISTORY YOU FEEL MIGHT BE HELPFUL IN DEFINING THE CHARACTER: Is a bit over-enthusiastic and tends to get excited easily. Has periods of shyness although he secretly dreams of being adimred one day for his acting skills. He is much too young to remember the War of the Ring and the only things he knows about the events there come from rumours and vague reports. He watched a few representations given by the King's Players and was immediately taken in by their style, which is why he one day asked to join them.

Well, that's it, so far. Let me know how it looks.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 02-18-2011, 06:34 PM

NAME: Therian

AGE/GENDER/RACE/WHERE FROM: 25, male, Man of Dale

APPEARANCE: Light brown hair, cropped close to his head. Clean shaven facial hair. A thin build. He walks with an exaggerated swagger.

BITS OF CHARACTER/HISTORY YOU FEEL MIGHT BE HELPFUL IN DEFINING THE CHARACTER: Therian believes that there is no place for women in a traveling show. It is not that he believes women are incapable of performing; it is that he believes that a household cannot run without women, and a woman that leaves her household and her noble and natural duties to be an itinerant performer is making statements about herself that would shame any man that cared for her and her future.

He plays a shieldmaiden for the King's Players, and is not particularly enthused about the role's existence.

Mnemosyne · 03-01-2011, 01:03 AM

NAME: Rollan

AGE/GENDER/RACE/WHERE FROM: 29, Male, Man, from Dale

APPEARANCE (very brief physical description/or as detailed as the player wishes to be): Darkish hair, brown eyes, nothing special to look at until you get to know him (you know the type). Nearly always has a smile on his face; wears age makeup very well.

BITS OF CHARACTER/HISTORY YOU FEEL MIGHT BE HELPFUL IN DEFINING THE CHARACTER
(again, as brief or detailed as you wish): Rollan was always a bit of a prankster/trickster growing up, and only avoided becoming a serious troublemaker when a clever relative got him to direct his energy to the theatric way of making people laugh--comic songs, slightly horrifying slapstick gags, but, most importantly, taking on the comic relief roles in the yearly festivals in Dale celebrating the defeat of Smaug.

As Rollan aged, he had to learn to become serious enough to convince Brinn that he actually loved her and was not leading her on for a colossal joke, and once he succeeded the two of them were engaged to be married. It was around this time that Brinn's father was commissioned to make a new dragon, and the two of them and their friends came up with the idea to do a travelling theatrical troupe together.

The rest, as they say, is history. Rollan has been travelling with the troupe ever since, gladly taking on all the comic roles (as he's aged, he's gotten particularly adept at the Doddering Old Fool). He is fairly easygoing, but thinks that Branor needs to be taken down a notch, or several, and is more than happy to volunteer for that job. He can be very unpredictable, though, if he doesn't have an opportunity to play the roles he loves best and make people laugh, alternately sulking, getting angry, or getting even.

Mnemosyne · 03-01-2011, 01:09 AM

Brinn's husband is up; he'll be a minor character. I don't know how often I'll play him, and if anyone needs to write him for anything I'm more than happy to share him.

Pitch, your bio looks good--DORWINION!!! *grin* Are you going to be able to commit to the full two weeks, or is he a minor character?

Once the phantom gets his stuff up I think we can shift into planning the wrong play in earnest--if he's the playwright, he'd conceivably be the one negotiating all of the individual players' wants and needs in a script. I'm thinking (if Dol Amroth means that he's a late edition to the group) that we handed him our old script for the War of the Ring play, and he's been trying to make his changes ever since, but a lot of us have been too stubborn? What do you think?

Then, once we know more or less what we have wrong, we can start to get an idea of how much we can try to make it right. We don't have to have every day planned out in detail, but I'd like for everyone to be able to figure out what their character will need to accomplish, personally, by the time the game ends so that we have a somewhat cohesive story. But since the Measure of Success thread posters warned about planning things so much that no one actually wants to write, maybe we want to keep a level of spontaneity? Or do we think that knowing what our problems are, and what our characters are, we'll be able to figure the whole thing out in-game? That's certainly also possible.

Pitchwife · 03-01-2011, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Her Mnemosity

Are you going to be able to commit to the full two weeks, or is he a minor character?

I'd love to commit for the full monty, but that sort of depends on whether
1. Foley's WW game (which still needs a few players, btw [/recruiting advertisement] is going to start and end before we're done with the planning phase - knowing myself, I won't be able to do justice to both; and
2. we agree on 'real time' (1 Day = 1 day, to borrow a WW convention) or 'half time' (1 Day = 2 days), which I don't think has been settled yet. I think I can post regularly on weekends and probably most other days, but I'm not always that inspired after a long working day, and RL, that jealous bitch, may demand attention at times. I'll try my best though.
Of course, if anything untoward happens, I can always get involved in a bar brawl with some pure Númenórean racist idiot so the guards have to lock me up for a few days...

Feanor of the Peredhil · 03-01-2011, 03:35 PM

Do we have a start date in mind? I ask because people's commitments change over time, and though planning is beautiful, so is playing.

Mnemosyne · 03-01-2011, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

Do we have a start date in mind? I ask because people's commitments change over time, and though planning is beautiful, so is playing.

I didn't, but was going to wait until we had enough people on board. Since we do... let's get one in mind, then! When is everyone thinking?

(Also, we should probably wait long enough for the Phantom to get his character sheet in before plunging in... but that should be pretty soon, now.)

Thinlómien · 03-01-2011, 04:54 PM

A question (I'm kind of planning my character) - how long has the troupe been in Gondor?

As for starting date, everything's fine for me, given that I intentionally took a kind of minor character.

Mnemosyne · 03-01-2011, 05:21 PM

Five or six years, I'm imagining.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 03-01-2011, 06:51 PM

The sooner, the better for me. Though after this weekend would be pretty ideal.

Mnemosyne · 03-01-2011, 06:57 PM

I'm fine with starting next Monday, then. Does anyone else want to weigh in?

Inziladun · 03-01-2011, 07:01 PM

I've got a minor character, so no real worries on time.

Formendacil · 03-01-2011, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Mnemosyne

I'm fine with starting next Monday, then. Does anyone else want to weigh in?

If Monday means it's permissible to not actually weigh in until Tuesday, then it's perfect. Otherwise, whenever, with the caveat that I'm out of town this weekend (Fri-Mon).

Mänwe · 11-09-2012, 06:40 AM

And fortunately the premise of a moderator is such that unintroducing a character such as yourself is equally easy...

Inziladun · 11-09-2012, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Mänwe

And fortunately the premise of a moderator is such that unintroducing a character such as yourself is equally easy...

"It" deserves Angband for raising my hope of a revival of this RPG.

piosenniel · 11-09-2012, 02:47 PM

Spammer banned....

Any hopes that this RPG will be brought to a conclusion??

piosenniel · 05-29-2015, 05:36 PM

~*~ Moving this thread to Elvenhome ~*~

Today is 5/29/2015 - last post to this thread was 11-09-2012.

Bêthberry · 02-18-2011, 02:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mnemosyne

No, no, the Witch-King was riding the dragon in, and Eowyn had to slay it before she slew the Witch-King, and he nearly scorched her to death, because that's what did Theoden in, you know? (never mind his tombstone)

Or there were FIVE DRAGONS guarding Barad-dur when Frodo the Halfling went there to challenge Sauron to single combat, and while he was there he tricked them into setting the tower on fire and blowing it up and only survived because an eagle happened to fly by at that very moment...

Sounds far more canonical than my scheme to use, very unTolkien-like, a helpful, good-guy dragon.

02-18-2011, 10:45 AM	#1
Mnemosyne Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Between the past and the future Posts: 1,159	No, no, the Witch-King was riding the dragon in, and Eowyn had to slay it before she slew the Witch-King, and he nearly scorched her to death, because that's what did Theoden in, you know? (never mind his tombstone) Or there were FIVE DRAGONS guarding Barad-dur when Frodo the Halfling went there to challenge Sauron to single combat, and while he was there he tricked them into setting the tower on fire and blowing it up and only survived because an eagle happened to fly by at that very moment... __________________ Got corsets?

02-18-2011, 01:17 PM	#3
Lariren Shadow Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Where the day meets the night Posts: 607	Wow this sounds really cool. I've been talking with Fea and thought "wouldn't it be funny if some of the fake inspiration came from the movies?" I think this should happen. I would also greatly appreciate a cameo as Éowyn, since talking with Fea makes me really want to do this. __________________ Choose treachery, its more fun!

02-18-2011, 01:28 PM	#4
Dimturiel Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2005 Location: the road less travelled by Posts: 910	Ok, after much thinking I've come up with the following character: NAME: Harrenon AGE/GENDER/RACE/WHERE FROM: 21, Male, Man, Gondor, more specifically Lossanarch APPEARANCE: He looks younger than his age and is not as tall as the usual Gondorian although he claims he still has time to grow, despite his age. Has long black hair that sometimes stands in all dirrections and brown eyes. BITS OF CHARACTER/HISTORY YOU FEEL MIGHT BE HELPFUL IN DEFINING THE CHARACTER: Is a bit over-enthusiastic and tends to get excited easily. Has periods of shyness although he secretly dreams of being adimred one day for his acting skills. He is much too young to remember the War of the Ring and the only things he knows about the events there come from rumours and vague reports. He watched a few representations given by the King's Players and was immediately taken in by their style, which is why he one day asked to join them. Well, that's it, so far. Let me know how it looks. __________________ Is this the end? No more the hunt, the journey and the goal? That terrifies me most: no more the goal! -Ray Bradbury, Leviathan '99

02-18-2011, 06:34 PM	#5
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	NAME: Therian AGE/GENDER/RACE/WHERE FROM: 25, male, Man of Dale APPEARANCE: Light brown hair, cropped close to his head. Clean shaven facial hair. A thin build. He walks with an exaggerated swagger. BITS OF CHARACTER/HISTORY YOU FEEL MIGHT BE HELPFUL IN DEFINING THE CHARACTER: Therian believes that there is no place for women in a traveling show. It is not that he believes women are incapable of performing; it is that he believes that a household cannot run without women, and a woman that leaves her household and her noble and natural duties to be an itinerant performer is making statements about herself that would shame any man that cared for her and her future. He plays a shieldmaiden for the King's Players, and is not particularly enthused about the role's existence. __________________ peace

03-01-2011, 01:03 AM	#6
Mnemosyne Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Between the past and the future Posts: 1,159	NAME: Rollan AGE/GENDER/RACE/WHERE FROM: 29, Male, Man, from Dale APPEARANCE (very brief physical description/or as detailed as the player wishes to be): Darkish hair, brown eyes, nothing special to look at until you get to know him (you know the type). Nearly always has a smile on his face; wears age makeup very well. BITS OF CHARACTER/HISTORY YOU FEEL MIGHT BE HELPFUL IN DEFINING THE CHARACTER (again, as brief or detailed as you wish): Rollan was always a bit of a prankster/trickster growing up, and only avoided becoming a serious troublemaker when a clever relative got him to direct his energy to the theatric way of making people laugh--comic songs, slightly horrifying slapstick gags, but, most importantly, taking on the comic relief roles in the yearly festivals in Dale celebrating the defeat of Smaug. As Rollan aged, he had to learn to become serious enough to convince Brinn that he actually loved her and was not leading her on for a colossal joke, and once he succeeded the two of them were engaged to be married. It was around this time that Brinn's father was commissioned to make a new dragon, and the two of them and their friends came up with the idea to do a travelling theatrical troupe together. The rest, as they say, is history. Rollan has been travelling with the troupe ever since, gladly taking on all the comic roles (as he's aged, he's gotten particularly adept at the Doddering Old Fool). He is fairly easygoing, but thinks that Branor needs to be taken down a notch, or several, and is more than happy to volunteer for that job. He can be very unpredictable, though, if he doesn't have an opportunity to play the roles he loves best and make people laugh, alternately sulking, getting angry, or getting even. __________________ Got corsets?

03-01-2011, 01:09 AM	#7
Mnemosyne Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Between the past and the future Posts: 1,159	Brinn's husband is up; he'll be a minor character. I don't know how often I'll play him, and if anyone needs to write him for anything I'm more than happy to share him. Pitch, your bio looks good--DORWINION!!! grin Are you going to be able to commit to the full two weeks, or is he a minor character? Once the phantom gets his stuff up I think we can shift into planning the wrong play in earnest--if he's the playwright, he'd conceivably be the one negotiating all of the individual players' wants and needs in a script. I'm thinking (if Dol Amroth means that he's a late edition to the group) that we handed him our old script for the War of the Ring play, and he's been trying to make his changes ever since, but a lot of us have been too stubborn? What do you think? Then, once we know more or less what we have wrong, we can start to get an idea of how much we can try to make it right. We don't have to have every day planned out in detail, but I'd like for everyone to be able to figure out what their character will need to accomplish, personally, by the time the game ends so that we have a somewhat cohesive story. But since the Measure of Success thread posters warned about planning things so much that no one actually wants to write, maybe we want to keep a level of spontaneity? Or do we think that knowing what our problems are, and what our characters are, we'll be able to figure the whole thing out in-game? That's certainly also possible. __________________ Got corsets?

03-01-2011, 03:35 PM	#9
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	Do we have a start date in mind? I ask because people's commitments change over time, and though planning is beautiful, so is playing. __________________ peace

03-01-2011, 04:54 PM	#11
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	A question (I'm kind of planning my character) - how long has the troupe been in Gondor? As for starting date, everything's fine for me, given that I intentionally took a kind of minor character. __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

03-01-2011, 05:21 PM	#12
Mnemosyne Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Between the past and the future Posts: 1,159	Five or six years, I'm imagining. __________________ Got corsets?

03-01-2011, 06:51 PM	#13
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	The sooner, the better for me. Though after this weekend would be pretty ideal. __________________ peace

03-01-2011, 06:57 PM	#14
Mnemosyne Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Between the past and the future Posts: 1,159	I'm fine with starting next Monday, then. Does anyone else want to weigh in? __________________ Got corsets?

03-01-2011, 07:01 PM	#15
Inziladun Gruesome Spectre Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Heaven's doorstep Posts: 8,039	I've got a minor character, so no real worries on time. __________________ Music alone proves the existence of God.

11-09-2012, 06:40 AM	#17
Mänwe Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: May as well be the Arctic Circle Posts: 283	And fortunately the premise of a moderator is such that unintroducing a character such as yourself is equally easy... __________________ "I am, I fear, a most unsatisfactory person." - (Letter #124 To Sir Stanley Unwin)

11-09-2012, 02:47 PM	#19
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	Spammer banned.... Any hopes that this RPG will be brought to a conclusion??

05-29-2015, 05:36 PM	#20
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	*~~ Moving this thread to Elvenhome ~~* Today is 5/29/2015 - last post to this thread was 11-09-2012. __________________ Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.