The Fellowship of the Fourth Age (Part 1): A New Beginning Discussion Thread

[Durelin]

*peeks in*

Sorry, I am alive. I can give excuses, but...why bother.

I'm kicking my butt back into gear in the RPing world, so I'll do my best to get posting again...

I absolutely love this game, and I too could not give up on it.

I need to have Khamir react to seeing a little Orc kid, and I'll do that very soon, promise.

[Nogrod]

Is there anyone around anymore?

What do you think if I make a post to get this going?

With your possible admission I could write something to turn this into something that moves again.

Who's around anyway?

I have until the new year time to sit down and to write in all peace without too many RL hindrances so I'd appreciate your answers in a day or two.

Are you ready to give me free hands to make this go further with a sweep or do you have some reservations what certain characters would not do (I would of course try to handle all the persons as true to their earlier postings as I could).

I just thought we should really make this alive again and I can try to do it with changing the situation.

[Folwren]

Nogrod,

I am still around, but you may do whatever you need to with my characters - if it is necessary.

-- Folwren

[Nogrod]

I took a quick look at the activities of those people who have written here somewhat actively... which is a relative thing as the last entry in the game itself is 3½ months old...

It seems that everyone else but Durelin and Tevildo have been around quite lately. I think the problem is that we are missing the orc-females (Undómë and Regin) and there seems to be a general confusion as to how things would start unfolding.

I try to come up wirth something. If what I write is okay to you let's kick this going once again... and if you dislike my solutions I can either modify them or delete the whole thing and try again differently.

I try to use those NPC's as much as I can but I'm afraid I need to lend some of your characters as well to make things believable. I'll promise to be careful with them.

[Hilde Bracegirdle]

I'm still around and still interested, just have had too little free time, and at the moment a too much of a nasty cold.

[Nogrod]

I've posted now and things have developed a bit.

There should be lots to react for everyone!

And even if the first female addresses Beloan you should not wait for myself or Dury to write for him. On the contrary I'd suggest you took to writing all of you. And surely fex. Lindir and Aiwendil would have stature to speak generally in this situation. And why not others as well?

I wrote about the general mood changing, disquieting indeed. But that doesn't mean that everyone is just happy to give into the pleas of the orcs. It would be easy to imagine some like Khamir or Shae for instance to be quite ready to get rid of them all (or then not... up to you Dury and Brinn).

There is a small discrepancy between my account and Dury's account in "the Execution" but I think that Dury's description ran a bit contrary to all those posts made by the orc-writers before her that I decided to correct that. It's easier to edit one or two sentences from Dury's post than to edit or delete a bunch of posts of three writers from earlier on. Otherwise I tried to write my post in way that would be compatible with Dury's account.

I managed to write the post with quite minimal references to active player-characters. That led me to make the female orcs appear unnamed. If someone of you wishes to have her/his characters name to appear in the post I'm happy to add it there.

And last but not least. I needed to check the orcs from a host of different places and saw that we have gained one more female orc (by courtesy of Regin)! So just that everyone has the same idea about them I'll end with an updated list of the orcs.

"Basic" orcs

5 females:
Zagra, ~36 (Undómë, major character)
Mazhg, ~36 (Undómë, major character)
Ungolt, 28 (Regin, minor character)
Gwella, “younger” (no player)
Urga, “older” (no player)

8 males:
Ishkur, millenia old (Regin, major character)
Gwerr, millenia old (Nogrod, minor character)
Colagar, millenia old (no player)
Grask, 9 ( Firefoot, minor character)
Zuhut, 40+ (no player)
Griwzan, 40+ (no player)
no-name, ? (no player)
no-name, ? (no player)

The Uruks

3 males:
Makdush, 35 (Child, minor character)
Illak, ? (no player)
Kurrak, ? (no player)

PS. As usual: if you have any corrections to be made just inform me about it.

[Nogrod]

Ah, two more things...

If you think the way I handled the situation is bad in the first place please let me know and I can try it another way.

Secondly the thing where Dury's and my accounts differ. Now as I look at it again I don't think it's a major thing. Possibly nothing has to be changed. Dury wrote the following :

Weapons drawn and held close to the victims, the Orcs were ordered and led out of the pit, the men and women who were not their executioners still standing by with their own knives, bows, slings, and spears at the ready. But there was little resistance left in the condemned creatures, with their empty stomachs and bodies still heavy from the night before.

Now in a way all this fits to my account after all.

Now there is no mentioning of the skirmish that took place... and it had to take place as we had spent a bunch of posts where the orcs prepared for their runaway so they were in fighting spirits. And anyway as one of the persons writing for the orcs I couldn't believe an account where they just gave themselves away without a fight.

But as I said maybe it's just okay as there is no apparent contradiction involved.