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Yeah, Denethor should have a clue- after the party, mind you. Maybe he goes up to Finduilas after her speech and is like "What was THAT??" and she tells him and Ecthelion. Ecthelion runs off to plan a campaign and Denethor, for now, is proud of his wife. The last posts will cover the wedding, and the very last one could be one of the ladies hearing Ecthelion tell Denethor WHO´s going to work out the plan attaking the corsairs. The lady could go "Well that should prove intresting..." to herself. End of game. How does that sound??
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This is great, Manardariel, perfect way for Denethor to still be informed, to keep things nice between him and Finduilas, but still leave room for Denethor's later conflict with Thorongil.
Cami- I'm still not quite clear on whether Thorongil would be kicking around the court at this time for Finduilas and the other ladies of all groups to comment on, or would he be somewhere else at this time? For the women to really know about T. and D.'s "conflict" he'd have to be around wouldn't he?
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A masked ball could be interesting…do you think Tolkien would really mind? It would make for an interesting party before the wedding – maybe Groups A and B aren’t entirely convinced that the double agent is telling the whole truth, and use the masked party to try and get some proof out of ECL, since ECL wouldn’t realie it was really Finduilas or one of her maids. Maybe a little complicated, or unnecessary detail, but it’s an idea.
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I love the idea of a masked ball. I don't know how plausible or Tolkien-true it is either, but my first thoughts were on the Scarlet Pimpenel, another excellent masked ball scene. I'd *love* to see this work out.
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One question: Will the spies be revealing who they are to the reader of the RPG, or will they keep these thoughts hidden away even from the reader until a certain point in the game??
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I really like the latter idea. The reader should be suspicious of group C's manipulativeness, but not know who they are until further in the game. I think it would be more interesting for the reader to watch the spying and such without knowing all the answers.
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I suppose this could be done in two ways, if we needed to know that spying was being done, but not who was doing it, it would be very difficult, as Manardariel suggested, because "the woman" would have to remain unnamed so that nobody would know who she was, but then when it came to interacting with the other characters you still couldn't use her name, or the reader would know that she was the spy, because of who played her.
The other way it could be done is Alak's suggestion, that nobody knows anyone is spying at all until later in the game. I suppose that could work, but I think it would be more interesting to show the spying as it takes place. I think my vote is for the reader to know about ECL from the beginning, or at least very early in the game.
Cami, I'll be checking my pms [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
Sophia