Land of Darkness Discussion Thread - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Himaran · 09-10-2004, 07:10 PM

There has been a lot of confusion... perhaps this will clear things up. I hope!

Morning: The company ran into the orc army.

Morning-Midday: Everything going on right now, the fight, the Nazgul, and Dwali getting off the path.

Midday: Dwali starts he way back towards the mountain passage. The company has escaped from the orcs, and is at or has passed the mountain passage.

Late Afternoon: The company is still resting. Dwali continues, eventually passing out. This is where my last post ended!

Midnight: The company is about to move off. Dwali awakes, and completes his journey to the mountain passage. Finds the company about to leave... or perhaps leaving?

2:00 am-ish: Dwali meets the company, they move off.

Himaran

Fordim Hedgethistle · 09-10-2004, 07:29 PM

Himaran and I have refined the timeline via PM -- please everyone use the following to figure out what's going on:

Morning to Midday: party ran into orc army; Nazgul, Dwali getting lost, etc

Midday: Dwali heads back to path; company rests in the mountain pass for the rest of the day.

Afternoon: Dwali passes out, company still resting (and talking I hope!)

Evening: Dwali awakes and struggles to the path, goes up it for a couple of hours until. . .

Nightfall (full darkness): Dwali finds company at their resting place, just as they are getting ready to leave.

Onward!

Novnarwen · 09-11-2004, 10:35 AM

I just posted. I hope I got most of it right.

Fordim - I didn't cover everything we'd discussed. When writing, I thought continuing would kill the excitement. So, I was thinking to post the continuance after someone else posts. I hope that's alright. If not, I'll edit!

Cheers,
Nova

Aylwen Dreamsong · 09-12-2004, 02:53 PM

I just posted, and it's been a while since the last one, I know, and for that I apologize. If anyone wants editing within my post, let me know and I'll be glad to make any changes.

By the way, great posts everyone!

-Aylwen

P.S. Peeling potatoes = ouch!!

piosenniel · 09-13-2004, 04:26 AM

A gentle reminder - there is one week remaining for game-play.

~*~ Pio

Fordim Hedgethistle · 09-15-2004, 07:56 AM

All Right All: strap in, cause we're almost done.

I have put up a rather substantial post in which a lot of things happen. Most of what is in there I have been working out with the involved players via PM so I'm not simply highjacking the story (mostly. . .)

At any rate, I am sorry to have been so. . .firm. . .in moving the game along in the last while, but as Pio's last post indicates, the game will be over on Monday and I wanted to make sure we had time to finish the game in good order.

So here we are, at the final battle. Get in there and mix it up! If anyone feels that it would be dramatic for their character to die and/or change sides (and be killed) then now is the time to do it!

The fight with the orcs will continue uninterrupted until the weekend, at which point I will perform my last act as a dictatorial Game Owner and conclude the battle in order to send the prisoners on to Ithilien where we can all spend Sunday/Monday setting up our final posts of the game.

Aylwen Dreamsong · 09-15-2004, 07:11 PM

Oops!

I had a post for after Aman/CoD's posts, but before Fordim's major-event post! I meant to place it on the game thread last night, but I had AP homework (sorry for excuses!) and decided to put it up tonight. It came too late, though.

In any case, would someone kindly place the following post on the game thread? I suppose it would work best at the end of CoD's post, post 157 on the game thread...

Aylwen's Post ------- EDIT: POST PLACED AS ABOVE ~*~ PIO

“What about you, Jeren: where will you go, now you are free?”

Jeren thought on this, and at first nothing came to him. It was a question that he did not know the answer to. How many times had this happened to him? Too many for his liking, especially since he had been made prisoner by the power that he had once served. Too many questions had been left unanswered.

Where will I go?

The Southron had never actually thought about where he would go, for he never knew any home other than the one as captain of an army. He was always the leader, and he never needed a home as long as there were loyal soldiers behind him… following and listening to him. He hardly recalled the land his family once roamed, or if family would be there and remember him at all. It had been far too long for him to return to that home. There was nowhere for him to go.

“It hardly matters if I am free, for I have no where to return to. There is no where for me to bask in new-earned freedom,” Jeren finally replied to the question posed by Raeis. His voice remained steady and level, as Jeren refused to show his uncertainty and sorrow at his own words. “The things I have done make me undeserving of such freedom. I have no place to return to and that is how it must be,” The Southron added as an afterthought, the volume of his voice lowered so it came out just above a whisper.

Surely that is how it will be in the end…

“Yes. We rest. But only for two, three hours.” Jeren looked up as Grash began to speak in his usual choppy manner. “Then we must go – the path goes down soon, down to green land. Green land with trees and cool breezes, and waters. Freedom. Freedom at the end of the path.”

Turning back to Raeis, Jeren sighed, letting out all his self-pity in the exhale. What about everyone else? Raeis had hardly answered his question in a manner that satisfied his curiosity. Something about the group, though, and the way they came together in a most unusual way made Jeren hopeful for all of them. “I have certainly learned the value of comfort, on this journey. Not just being comfortable, or not being comfortable…but being able to live and go on and appreciate it anyway. I do not know you very well at all, Raeis, but somehow I know that you will be able to make home encompass one more elf…you will learn to make home within your own heart and strength, and not let it depend on someone else…”

Jeren paused, looking around at the rest of the group for a moment.

“Hopefully we will all be able to do the same. Maybe we will all find home.”

--

And now I'll get to work on another post!

Thanks guys!

-Aylwen

09-10-2004, 07:29 PM	#2
Fordim Hedgethistle Gibbering Gibbet Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Beyond cloud nine Posts: 1,844	Himaran and I have refined the timeline via PM -- please everyone use the following to figure out what's going on: Morning to Midday: party ran into orc army; Nazgul, Dwali getting lost, etc Midday: Dwali heads back to path; company rests in the mountain pass for the rest of the day. Afternoon: Dwali passes out, company still resting (and talking I hope!) Evening: Dwali awakes and struggles to the path, goes up it for a couple of hours until. . . Nightfall (full darkness): Dwali finds company at their resting place, just as they are getting ready to leave. Onward! __________________ Scribbling scrabbling.

09-11-2004, 10:35 AM	#3
Novnarwen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: In your mouth... Eeeew, by the way. :P Posts: 517	I just posted. I hope I got most of it right. Fordim - I didn't cover everything we'd discussed. When writing, I thought continuing would kill the excitement. So, I was thinking to post the continuance after someone else posts. I hope that's alright. If not, I'll edit! Cheers, Nova __________________ Scully: Homer, we're going to ask you a few simple yes or no questions. Do you understand? Homer: Yes. (Lie dectector blows up) AUS Blog Last edited by Novnarwen; 09-11-2004 at 03:44 PM.

09-12-2004, 02:53 PM	#4
Aylwen Dreamsong The Melody of Misery Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: The Island of Conclusions (You get there by jumping!)... Posts: 1,147	I just posted, and it's been a while since the last one, I know, and for that I apologize. If anyone wants editing within my post, let me know and I'll be glad to make any changes. By the way, great posts everyone! -Aylwen P.S. Peeling potatoes = ouch!! __________________ ...Come down now, they'll say. But everything looks perfect from far away - Come down now! But we'll stay.

09-13-2004, 04:26 AM	#5
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	A gentle reminder - there is one week remaining for game-play. ~*~ Pio __________________ Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.

09-15-2004, 07:56 AM	#6
Fordim Hedgethistle Gibbering Gibbet Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Beyond cloud nine Posts: 1,844	All Right All: strap in, cause we're almost done. I have put up a rather substantial post in which a lot of things happen. Most of what is in there I have been working out with the involved players via PM so I'm not simply highjacking the story (mostly. . .) At any rate, I am sorry to have been so. . .firm. . .in moving the game along in the last while, but as Pio's last post indicates, the game will be over on Monday and I wanted to make sure we had time to finish the game in good order. So here we are, at the final battle. Get in there and mix it up! If anyone feels that it would be dramatic for their character to die and/or change sides (and be killed) then now is the time to do it! The fight with the orcs will continue uninterrupted until the weekend, at which point I will perform my last act as a dictatorial Game Owner and conclude the battle in order to send the prisoners on to Ithilien where we can all spend Sunday/Monday setting up our final posts of the game. __________________ Scribbling scrabbling.

09-10-2004, 07:10 PM	#1
Himaran Ash of Orodruin Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thangorodrim Posts: 777	There has been a lot of confusion... perhaps this will clear things up. I hope! Morning: The company ran into the orc army. Morning-Midday: Everything going on right now, the fight, the Nazgul, and Dwali getting off the path. Midday: Dwali starts he way back towards the mountain passage. The company has escaped from the orcs, and is at or has passed the mountain passage. Late Afternoon: The company is still resting. Dwali continues, eventually passing out. This is where my last post ended! Midnight: The company is about to move off. Dwali awakes, and completes his journey to the mountain passage. Finds the company about to leave... or perhaps leaving? 2:00 am-ish: Dwali meets the company, they move off. Himaran

09-15-2004, 07:11 PM	#7
Aylwen Dreamsong The Melody of Misery Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: The Island of Conclusions (You get there by jumping!)... Posts: 1,147	Oops! I had a post for after Aman/CoD's posts, but before Fordim's major-event post! I meant to place it on the game thread last night, but I had AP homework (sorry for excuses!) and decided to put it up tonight. It came too late, though. In any case, would someone kindly place the following post on the game thread? I suppose it would work best at the end of CoD's post, post 157 on the game thread... Aylwen's Post ------- *EDIT: POST PLACED AS ABOVE ~~ PIO** “What about you, Jeren: where will you go, now you are free?” Jeren thought on this, and at first nothing came to him. It was a question that he did not know the answer to. How many times had this happened to him? Too many for his liking, especially since he had been made prisoner by the power that he had once served. Too many questions had been left unanswered. Where will I go? The Southron had never actually thought about where he would go, for he never knew any home other than the one as captain of an army. He was always the leader, and he never needed a home as long as there were loyal soldiers behind him… following and listening to him. He hardly recalled the land his family once roamed, or if family would be there and remember him at all. It had been far too long for him to return to that home. There was nowhere for him to go. “It hardly matters if I am free, for I have no where to return to. There is no where for me to bask in new-earned freedom,” Jeren finally replied to the question posed by Raeis. His voice remained steady and level, as Jeren refused to show his uncertainty and sorrow at his own words. “The things I have done make me undeserving of such freedom. I have no place to return to and that is how it must be,” The Southron added as an afterthought, the volume of his voice lowered so it came out just above a whisper. Surely that is how it will be in the end… “Yes. We rest. But only for two, three hours.” Jeren looked up as Grash began to speak in his usual choppy manner. “Then we must go – the path goes down soon, down to green land. Green land with trees and cool breezes, and waters. Freedom. Freedom at the end of the path.” Turning back to Raeis, Jeren sighed, letting out all his self-pity in the exhale. What about everyone else? Raeis had hardly answered his question in a manner that satisfied his curiosity. Something about the group, though, and the way they came together in a most unusual way made Jeren hopeful for all of them. “I have certainly learned the value of comfort, on this journey. Not just being comfortable, or not being comfortable…but being able to live and go on and appreciate it anyway. I do not know you very well at all, Raeis, but somehow I know that you will be able to make home encompass one more elf…you will learn to make home within your own heart and strength, and not let it depend on someone else…” Jeren paused, looking around at the rest of the group for a moment. “Hopefully we will all be able to do the same. Maybe we will all find home.” -- And now I'll get to work on another post! Thanks guys! -Aylwen __________________ ...Come down now, they'll say. But everything looks perfect from far away - Come down now! But we'll stay. Last edited by piosenniel; 09-15-2004 at 11:32 PM.

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