Hard Winters Planning/Discussion Thread - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

piosenniel · 06-13-2015, 10:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nogrod

(I still like that idea that the first actual post would be describing the caravan coming to Scarburg).

Clarification, please - I put lmp's introductory post on the game thread as the first post. Are you saying that there will now be another first actual post to the game?

I'll close the RPG thread until whoever writes that post is ready to post it on the game.

Mithalwen · 06-13-2015, 11:46 AM

Just generally speaking, the 23rd June is a very good date....

Nogrod · 06-13-2015, 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by piosenniel

Clarification, please - I put lmp's introductory post on the game thread as the first post. Are you saying that there will now be another first actual post to the game?

I'll close the RPG thread until whoever writes that post is ready to post it on the game.

Oh sorry to create confusion.

I mean sure we'd have the "jump-post" you already have there as The Very First Post. It explains what this place is and how have we jumped from the earlier installment of the Mead Hall to the current one.

But after that post we need to then start - to have something to kick it off and running.

Well it of course could have been any post with someone just starting it at the date we decide we're ready to start, but we thought it would be nice the first "actual" post in the thread (after the jump-post) would be Wilheard leading the caravan to the Mead Hall. It could also then signal a starting flag to everyone that the game is now open.

So we were in fact discussing of the second post of the thread, not the first one.

piosenniel · 06-13-2015, 05:07 PM

Got it!

So just let me know when the first poster author is ready to post his/her post and I'll open the thread....

Inziladun · 06-13-2015, 07:52 PM

NAME:Ladavan

AGE/GENDER/RACE/WHERE FROM:39/Male/Dunland

APPEARANCE (very brief physical description/or as detailed as the player wishes to be): Thin, average height for Dunland/Rohan. Hair is dark.

BITS OF CHARACTER/HISTORY YOU FEEL MIGHT BE HELPFUL IN DEFINING THE CHARACTER
(again, as brief or detailed as you wish): Fought for Saruman during the War of the Ring. Parents had disappeared before then. He heard a rumor later they had been slaved to death in Isengard. Had a brother, Meryk, who had also fought in and survived the War, but had told Ladavan immediately after he was "going north" with a band of his fellows, and had not been seen since. Has come to ply his trade as a carpenter.
________________

LINKED ~*~ Pio

Undómë · 06-13-2015, 09:57 PM

Might I join in?

NAME:
Fana

AGE/GENDER/RACE/WHERE FROM:
15 y/o; female; an Eorling; a wooded area just south and east of the Meadhall – about 8 km down the local main road (I hope I am looking at Nogrod's map correctly and that the top of the map is North – HERE)

APPEARANCE:
Lithe as a flower’s stem; fair skinned; waist length amber blond hair, generally worn in a braid down her back; one eye light blue, the other green- hazel; deft of hand and nimble fingered; dresses in woodsy hues – long skirts, long –sleeved homespun blouses, warm woolen shawl, thick hooded dark woolen cloth for colder days

BITS OF CHARACTER/HISTORY YOU FEEL MIGHT BE HELPFUL IN DEFINING THE CHARACTER:
Fana is the grand-daughter of Haesel, the local gaers-wif (herbs-woman), who was also called by the less friendly to her ways – ‘haegtesse’ (witch). Those who crossed Haesel sometimes found themselves or their livestock vexed with troubles and botherations of varying sorts. For the most part, though, Haesel, eased her naeighbors' lives with her herbal elixirs and unguents. Haesel had taken her grandchildren under her wing when their parents died. Fana has proved to be a quick-minded pupil in the learning of her grandmother’s herblore.

She has two younger brothers – Secg, 7 y/o and Thystel, 5 y/o

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NAME:
Haesel, the local gaers-wif (herbs-woman; herbalist) – one of the Cunning Folk

AGE/GENDER/RACE/WHERE FROM:
45 y/o; female; an Eorling; in an out of the ways part of the wooded area just south and east of the Meadhall – about 8 km down the local main road

APPEARANCE:
At 45, Haesel is truly an old crone. Her hair is long and thick still, but now an ashy grey, where once it shone as silvery blond as the summer's full moon. She wears it in two long braids wrapped round her head like a silvered crown. Like her granddaughter, Fana, she has one piercing blue eye, and the other hazel green.
She is 5’1” tall; her back as straight as an iron rod. She seems taller than she is because of the way she carries herself combined with her her commanding personality. She is a thin, wiry woman given to quick movement despite the aches and pains that come naturally with age. He skin is tanned reflecting much time spent in the out of doors. Her hands are gnarled with age, but her fingers are still adept and nimble at her craft. She generally wears a long homespun shift with a similar length long tunic of varying weights of cloth depending on the season – most of them in earthen shades. Atop these two garments is usually cinched an apron with numerous deep pockets. Around all this is a woven leather belt from which hangs a ring of many intricate keys of various sizes for her cupboards and her chests.

BITS OF CHARACTER/HISTORY YOU FEEL MIGHT BE HELPFUL IN DEFINING THE CHARACTER:
Haesel can be as quiet as a cat sizing up a mouse when you first meet her. She watches closely and listens closer to all the little clues you give away without your knowing. She has a very organic sense of what is right and what is wrong. For the most part she feels we beings are mostly good in nature and will treat our problems and pains as best she might. For those she considers more on the negative side of the balance, she will treat them as well but with a sizeable helping of her counsel to be better persons added on to their dosings of elixirs and unguents.
She comes from a long line of Cunning Women – her grandmother taught her, and that grandmother taught her grand-daughter. Haesel sees in her grand-daughter, Fana, the makings of a very skilled gaers-wif (herbalist).

________________________

The two brothers will be written by Arry - and actually we'll share writing all of the characters as needed.

________________________

LINKED ~*~ Pio

Nogrod · 06-14-2015, 04:17 AM

Undómë and Arry!

It's been a long-long-long time!

Welcome to the Mead Hall indeed.

PS. And yes, the top of the map is North.

littlemanpoet · 06-14-2015, 05:26 AM

I second the welcome!

How has Scarburg Mead Hall managed without a gaers-wif?

Thanks for helping to think through our starting process and all. I must have been looking in the wrong place for the jump post. Leave it to me to not be able to find the obvious.

I think it would be great for Wilheard's coming to be the "first" post.

06-13-2015, 11:46 AM	#2
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	Just generally speaking, the 23rd June is a very good date.... __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

06-13-2015, 07:52 PM	#5
Inziladun Gruesome Spectre Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Heaven's doorstep Posts: 8,039	NAME:Ladavan AGE/GENDER/RACE/WHERE FROM:39/Male/Dunland APPEARANCE (very brief physical description/or as detailed as the player wishes to be): Thin, average height for Dunland/Rohan. Hair is dark. BITS OF CHARACTER/HISTORY YOU FEEL MIGHT BE HELPFUL IN DEFINING THE CHARACTER (again, as brief or detailed as you wish): Fought for Saruman during the War of the Ring. Parents had disappeared before then. He heard a rumor later they had been slaved to death in Isengard. Had a brother, Meryk, who had also fought in and survived the War, but had told Ladavan immediately after he was "going north" with a band of his fellows, and had not been seen since. Has come to ply his trade as a carpenter. ________________ *LINKED ~~ Pio** Last edited by piosenniel; 06-15-2015 at 04:34 PM.

06-13-2015, 09:57 PM	#6
Undómë Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 400	Might I join in? NAME: Fana AGE/GENDER/RACE/WHERE FROM: 15 y/o; female; an Eorling; a wooded area just south and east of the Meadhall – about 8 km down the local main road (I hope I am looking at Nogrod's map correctly and that the top of the map is North – HERE) APPEARANCE: Lithe as a flower’s stem; fair skinned; waist length amber blond hair, generally worn in a braid down her back; one eye light blue, the other green- hazel; deft of hand and nimble fingered; dresses in woodsy hues – long skirts, long –sleeved homespun blouses, warm woolen shawl, thick hooded dark woolen cloth for colder days BITS OF CHARACTER/HISTORY YOU FEEL MIGHT BE HELPFUL IN DEFINING THE CHARACTER: Fana is the grand-daughter of Haesel, the local gaers-wif (herbs-woman), who was also called by the less friendly to her ways – ‘haegtesse’ (witch). Those who crossed Haesel sometimes found themselves or their livestock vexed with troubles and botherations of varying sorts. For the most part, though, Haesel, eased her naeighbors' lives with her herbal elixirs and unguents. Haesel had taken her grandchildren under her wing when their parents died. Fana has proved to be a quick-minded pupil in the learning of her grandmother’s herblore. She has two younger brothers – Secg, 7 y/o and Thystel, 5 y/o ---------------------------------- *NAME: Haesel, the local gaers-wif (herbs-woman; herbalist) – one of the Cunning Folk AGE/GENDER/RACE/WHERE FROM: 45 y/o; female; an Eorling; in an out of the ways part of the wooded area just south and east of the Meadhall – about 8 km down the local main road APPEARANCE: At 45, Haesel is truly an old crone. Her hair is long and thick still, but now an ashy grey, where once it shone as silvery blond as the summer's full moon. She wears it in two long braids wrapped round her head like a silvered crown. Like her granddaughter, Fana, she has one piercing blue eye, and the other hazel green. She is 5’1” tall; her back as straight as an iron rod. She seems taller than she is because of the way she carries herself combined with her her commanding personality. She is a thin, wiry woman given to quick movement despite the aches and pains that come naturally with age. He skin is tanned reflecting much time spent in the out of doors. Her hands are gnarled with age, but her fingers are still adept and nimble at her craft. She generally wears a long homespun shift with a similar length long tunic of varying weights of cloth depending on the season – most of them in earthen shades. Atop these two garments is usually cinched an apron with numerous deep pockets. Around all this is a woven leather belt from which hangs a ring of many intricate keys of various sizes for her cupboards and her chests. BITS OF CHARACTER/HISTORY YOU FEEL MIGHT BE HELPFUL IN DEFINING THE CHARACTER: Haesel can be as quiet as a cat sizing up a mouse when you first meet her. She watches closely and listens closer to all the little clues you give away without your knowing. She has a very organic sense of what is right and what is wrong. For the most part she feels we beings are mostly good in nature and will treat our problems and pains as best she might. For those she considers more on the negative side of the balance, she will treat them as well but with a sizeable helping of her counsel to be better persons added on to their dosings of elixirs and unguents. She comes from a long line of Cunning Women – her grandmother taught her, and that grandmother taught her grand-daughter. Haesel sees in her grand-daughter, Fana, the makings of a very skilled gaers-wif (herbalist). ________________________ The two brothers will be written by Arry - and actually we'll share writing all of the characters as needed. ________________________ LINKED ~~ Pio** __________________ Young she was and yet not so. The braids of her dark hair were touched by no frost, her white arms and clear face were flawless and smooth, and the light of stars was in her bright eyes, grey as a cloudless night . . . Last edited by Undómë; 06-14-2015 at 09:05 PM.

06-14-2015, 04:17 AM	#7
Nogrod Flame of the Ainulindalë Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Wearing rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves in a field behaving as the wind behaves Posts: 9,308	Undómë and Arry! It's been a long-long-long time! Welcome to the Mead Hall indeed. PS. And yes, the top of the map is North. __________________ Upon the hearth the fire is red Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet...

06-13-2015, 05:07 PM	#4
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	Got it! So just let me know when the first poster author is ready to post his/her post and I'll open the thread....

06-14-2015, 05:26 AM	#8
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	I second the welcome! How has Scarburg Mead Hall managed without a gaers-wif? Thanks for helping to think through our starting process and all. I must have been looking in the wrong place for the jump post. Leave it to me to not be able to find the obvious. I think it would be great for Wilheard's coming to be the "first" post.