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Old 11-20-2009, 05:11 PM   #1
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The SAVE... (a user's manual... )

This is most familiar thing with many of you, but not probably with all of you, so let two things be said.

Those posts that will deal with things between the last posts in the thread and lord Athanar's speech will be copy-pasted into the save. You can do it by sending your post here in the discussion thread or PM'ing it to me. Then I will post it into the save -post.

We don't actually use "saves" in the Mead Hall - like people do in achievement-oriented & limited RPG's. So this is one of the few exceptions (there has been a few before I think during the years) and follows from our situation.
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Old 11-20-2009, 05:14 PM   #2
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We are on a move again!

So the banquet has been opened by lord Athanar's speech.

It turned out much longer I wished for, but there were so many things he had to say...

Thanks to your comments, suggestions and addings!


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The post looks good...

Unfortunately Aedre herself decided not to come to the banquet (Wynflaed gave her the option of being able to skip out if she wanted, and Nienna took it).

So that means some rather evil editing on your part, I'm afraid.

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Unfortunately Aedre herself decided not to come to the banquet (Wynflaed gave her the option of being able to skip out if she wanted, and Nienna took it).

So that means some rather evil editing on your part, I'm afraid.
Haha...whoops!

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Old 11-20-2009, 07:59 PM   #5
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Oh my!

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Unfortunately Aedre herself decided not to come to the banquet (Wynflaed gave her the option of being able to skip out if she wanted, and Nienna took it).

So that means some rather evil editing on your part, I'm afraid.
Editing Aedre out from the Speech-post as such (meaning: not attending) is easy and no big task. And I will do it immediately after this.

But when you say I have some "evil editing" to do, I'm afraid you mean something more... and only cross my fingers in hope it is not what I'm afraid of.

So have you been writing with the idea that Athanar doesn't even know what had happened? I thought we had the version where Wynflaed would pass a word on that from the door or they could exchange a few words before the banquet... I mean that was what we were talking about?

*really hopes is wrong with this speculation*

If Athanar doesn't know the situation at all, I will indeed need some "evil editing" to do as I need to basically rewrite the whole post. And that changes the whole situation as the reactions of the people would be so much different towards a totally different person...

The whole heatedness and firmness of his speech is coming from his rage on what had happened to his daughter... being there a few hours and his daughter gets beaten up by some local ruffians! Even if it doesn't show so openly (he is no beginner in leading people while in distress himself), he is furious while he makes the speech! He just holds himself back with an effort and tries be decent as he has a mission from the king... Lord Athanar would not have given that kind of speech if he felt his family and himself were secure. He would have been very different indeed, more polite, honey-tongued, the whole approach... (the basic decisions would have been the same though, but the way he makes them would have changed a lot)

Well, I'm not going to re-write the whole post now as I'm not sure which one you mean and I need to go to sleep. And I do hope you were only meaning the first one eg. Aedre just not being present - or that it could be changed with a sentence or two if it was not. Otheriwise it is evil indeed...

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Old 11-20-2009, 08:12 PM   #6
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I did those "non-evil" changes... and it actually looks much better now! The poignancy of lord Athanar's words is just a bit sharper when Aedre is not present...
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No, don't worry, Wynflaed told him about it. I just meant that you had integrated Aedre in so skillfully, I thought she was going to be tough to remove.
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No, don't worry, Wynflaed told him about it. I just meant that you had integrated Aedre in so skillfully, I thought she was going to be tough to remove.
Pheww...

Trust me, it was not a big deal to write her out from there... it took like five minutes... and as I said, I think it turned out even better this way.

I was afraid you three had made a colossal post where you all discussed why Aedre should not be shown to Athanar in the first place, or speculated why he should not know of the incident... All that time and effort of three people would naturally override the toils of one, so I was looking at the worst scenario...

But then again, now all you others have gotten a glimpse into lord Athanar's soul as otherwise I would not have told you what went on in his mind when he made the speech...
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