Scarburg Meadhall Discussion Thread

[Folwren]

Ooookay!!!!!! I'm super excited!!!!!

Durelin, I edited my post with the line you sent me, let me know if I put the right feeling in there for Coen while he spoke it.

I also added some more to the end of the post and Thornden and I just remembered something very important. Too bad we didn't remember it sooner, because now Thornden is probably in huge trouble. It has finally occurred to Thornden that Lithor was deserting when he saw Lithor earlier that day.

Have fun with it, folks!

-- Foley

P.S. Legate, thanks for reminding me about Quin in your last post.

P.P.S. Saeryn is in the kitchen and I don't know if she completely fainting. She probably just felt weak or something, so they're having her sit down and drink water or something.

[Eorl of Rohan]

"Press those wounds on his chest and lower side, firmly but gently"

Nogrod, just a minor inaccuracy, but Scyrr is suffering from internal injuries. Erbrand did not have a weapon, after all. Besides, pressing on a ruptured spleen? Ouch. I suppose the crushed larynx of the throat might bleed out, thus requiring some sort of plaster/linen to support it, like the one Lord Athenar and Aedhel is making, but otherwise Scyrr has no open wounds. Badly beat up and bruised, yes, but not cut up.

Otherwise, thanks for bringing in Aedhel at last. Finally Scyrr can come back into the fray!

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Groiin the thread

A knife flashed in the sunlight, it was Scyld’s. Erbrand struck relentlessly and hard. Soon he found his fingers around Scyld’s neck, pressing harder and tighter.

“I am not some dog you can kick. I am a man! I am a man!”

Soft small hands grasped his and beat his strong shoulders. Erbrand let go of Scyld’s throat. Ginna and Frodides knelt beside the Scyld. He was not moving.

“Fool!” Frodides said. “You will hang for this. You will hang!”

Heh, I think I have read this passage like three or four times but only now I see that the knife is Scyrr's... The next sentence after the mentioning of the blade is saying that Erbrand "struck relentlessly and hard" - and then Scyrr was not moving any more - and it was said he would hang for this... I somehow thought it all the time that the knife was Erbrand's, even if the text clerly states it the other way around.

Blah. My bad.

Okay. You guys continue from here (I need to go to sleep like now and have no time to get online in 24 hours) and we''ll think about what to do with the discrepancy in the day after tomorrow or during the weekend?

If Nerindel comes forwards let her decide whether Aedhel is trying to help someone who has been near suffication or one with an open wound on the throat?

[Durelin]

Let me know if there are problems with my post, and if anyone (esp Foley) would like me to edit in anything from their character. I know I pushed things forward.

Annnd Athanar is now being attacked by three men at once! Heh.

I left my post as agreeing with Nogrod's that Scyrr has external bleeding (I mentioned Athanar having blood on his hands and sleeves), and so will edit if need be when that's sorted out.

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Durelin

I left my post as agreeing with Nogrod's that Scyrr has external bleeding (I mentioned Athanar having blood on his hands and sleeves), and so will edit if need be when that's sorted out.

The easiest way to not make this a too big an issue would be just to decide that there is a bleeding wound on Scyrr's throat resulting from the fight as there was Scyrr's blade in the midst of it anyway. So it could have easily cut him whether Erbrand intentionally tried to cut Scyrr with his own blade or whether it was an accident while they struggled on the ground (there might be different beliefs on that and it's possible even Scyrr wouldn't know it for certain as it happened in the midst of a fight... what a source of possible different interpretations! )

That way I'd need only to edit out the short passage where Athanar tells his son to take care of the "other wounds"... and those orders could be easily changed into "don't just stand there, get some help!" or something... and no one else I think would need to change anything?

So the simplest scenario but also a bed for some further disagreements (which we don't have to use but which we can if we wish)? Would that be okay?

[Folwren]

I thought he would just be coughing up blood. If he has external wounds, better it be on other parts of his body - the throat seems so fragile, so vulnerable, that a knife in that region would surely mean death. My two cents.

Dury, I'm fine with what you posted. Only, I did add Thornden mentioning Lithor's name. Nothing explicit, but would Coen not notice?

Have to get back to class.

-- Foley

[Nogrod]

Okay. Lord Athanar has given his orders for the search parties.

Originally Posted by Folwren

I thought he would just be coughing up blood. If he has external wounds, better it be on other parts of his body - the throat seems so fragile, so vulnerable, that a knife in that region would surely mean death. My two cents.

If you get your main artery cut from your throat you'd surely be a goner in minutes - and looking at the things right here Scyrr would be no more. But if the cut is on the vein you would survive if attended to in time (I should know: my High-School dentist cut my vein while removing my wisdom tooth and I survived for a few days before it got so bad we went to ask what was the problem with me bleeding all the time and going quite pale indeed... ) And the windpipe would be quite vulnerable too... But someone with a cut in the throat could as well survive.

Originally Posted by Durelin's Coen on the thread

One party will remain here and search the village and see to its safety.

Would you change the word "village" into the word "Mead Hall"?


One thing I especially like with this setting is that it seems no one yet knows Lithor has vanished as well... anyone willing to come up with the realisation of that fact should do it. It will be interesting to see how different people react to that.