The Fellowship of the Fourth Age: A New Beginning Planning Thread

[Child of the 7th Age]

The land around the volcano might also be fertile - but there would need to be some sytem put in place to bring water in for irrigation.

That raises some interesting possibilities, especially if there has at least been a slight increase in rainfall.

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The historical section on Orcs is up....and I am working on the draft of the first post of the game.

[Child of the 7th Age]

One more Orc issue that needs ironing out.....are these the kind of Orcs that prefer night and are blinded by the light of the sun? Or are they the Uruk-hai?

[piosenniel]

Durelin

This needs to be filled out for the proposal form:


Durelin's major character

NAME:

AGE:

RACE:

GENDER:

WEAPONS (No magical, super-hero, mithril weapons. Just good solid Middle-earth weapons and armor only that is appropriate to the race of the character and the time period.):

APPEARANCE:

PERSONALITY/STRENGTHS/WEAKNESSES: (No half-Elven characters. No mixed-type characters. No super-heroes. No assassins. No one all powerful, martial arts proficient, or having any magical traits. Just regular characters with normal abilities for their races only):

HISTORY:


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Durelin's MINOR character description VERY BRIEF/NO POST NEEDED

NAME:

AGE:

RACE:

GENDER:

WEAPONS (No magical, super-hero, mithril weapons. Just good solid Middle-earth weapons and armor only that is appropriate to the race of the character and the time period.):

APPEARANCE:

PERSONALITY/STRENGTHS/WEAKNESSES: (No half-Elven characters. No mixed-type characters. No super-heroes. No assassins. No one all powerful, martial arts proficient, or having any magical traits. Just regular characters with normal abilities for their races only):

HISTORY:

[Durelin]

Looks great!

I was wondering: would it be kind of *off* for me to play an Ex-slave as my Major Character? It would be taking the only Major Character of that type, and it would mean I wouldn't have a Major character among the Gondorians...

Or, I can make it simple and just have my minor character be more of a major character.

So, just put me down for an Ex-slave minor character please. I've started working on my bios, so hopefully I'll have something very soon.

Unfortunately, I will be gone pretty much all of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (I might be able to get online on Sunday).

I was wondering, Child: What will your first post for the game cover? Because I was thinking that perhaps, if you were going to cover the stuff going on and Gondor, that I could write a post that would cover the stuff going on in Mordor (or vice-versa).

And that brings up another question: We are starting the game with the group from Gondor already hooked up with the Mordor group, right? Would the first post(s) be prologue-like, then, at least covering the Gondor group's being sent out and journey to Mordor?

That raises some interesting possibilities, especially if there has at least been a slight increase in rainfall.

Might are final destination change? I can only imagine an irrigation system and man-orc colony at the foot of Mt. Doom... Would enough time have passed for the land to become very fertile, though? *shrugs* Worth looking at, I suppose.

One more Orc issue that needs ironing out.....are these the kind of Orcs that prefer night and are blinded by the light of the sun? Or are they the Uruk-hai?

Hmm...good question. I suppose the Orcs had to adapt to a new lifestyle once Sauron was destroyed, or does Sauron's darkness still linger there? It was dark there most of the time, wasn't it? And imagine it would at least be hazy from all the ash in the sky from the eruption of Mt. Doom. Hmmm... I'll have to come back to that one.

Have to head off pretty soon; I'll be back when I can.

[piosenniel]

Durelin

I'll just put you into group A and B.

[piosenniel]

Child, Durelin How does this look to you?


WRITER/CHARACTER LIST


Major Characters

Each poster should select one major character from list A or B below.


A. Group Sent Out by Aragorn

• Child of the 7th Age – Lindir, Noldor Elf BIO/POST NEEDED
• Durelin – Man of Gondor BIO/POST NEEDED
  
  
• 1 Man race – PLAYER NEEDED
• 1 Man race – PLAYER NEEDED
• 1 Hobbit (preferably a farmer) – PLAYER NEEDED
• 1 Dwarf – PLAYER NEEDED

**Each of the above characters should possess one or more skills that would be needed by the refugees to help establish the new settlements: scouting, working with stone and/or metal, soldiering/hunting, teaching, healing, farming. If anyone has thought of additional skills you'd like your character to have, please run these by the game founders.

***The healer and teacher skills may be female; others should be male


B. Inhabitants of Mordor

• Durelin - Ex-slave 2ND CHARACTER - BIO ONLY NEEDED
  
  
• 1 Ex-slave (male) – PLAYER NEEDED
• 1 Slave escapee (male) – PLAYER NEEDED
• 1 Slave escapee (male or female) – PLAYER NEEDED
• 1 "Rebel" Orc (male) – PLAYER NEEDED
• 1 "Rebel" Orc (female) – PLAYER NEEDED

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Minor characters

Posters are encouraged to carry one minor character, generally one of the inhabitants of Mordor. You are free to pick and choose. However, if the list become too lopsided and everyone requests one character type (Orcs, for example), we may ask some writers to consider a different choice.

• Child of the 7th Age – Radagast BIO NEEDED
  
  
• AND ETC FOR THE REST OF THE PLAYERS . . .

[Durelin]

Ah, looks great. Thanks, Pio!

I hope to be able to support both characters fully, though I do have a college search and job to worry about.