The Return of the Entish Bowventurers - a Fourth Age Epilogue - DISCUSSION

[piosenniel]

Esty - once you've gotten the players you want, just let me know & I'll move this thread to the Game Playing Forum.

And when you're ready, you can then open a new thread for the actual game in the Game Playing Forum.

~*~ Pio

[Estelyn Telcontar]

What has taken place in the kingdom of Grundor in the meantime? Orogarn Two, the only heir to the Lord Denimthor, Proctor of Grundor and Guardian of the Porcelain Throne of Minus Teeth, perished in the final battle of the Entish Bow in Valleyum. But Yawanna revealed the identity of the true king:

Halfemption is the last in the line of Noodleorian kings of old.

Merisuwyniel and Gravendil were entrusted with the preparation of his future reign:

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to aid him – as a matter of fact, your first hurdle will be to get him back to Muddled-Mirth safely and soberly, then to train him for his task until you can find a way to introduce him to his people so that they will be willing to accept his kingship.

This responsibility they fulfilled, and eventually Halfemption rejoined his beloved Dulciníniel, who had finished the king-sized double wedding ring quilt she had made for them, and she became his queen, and together they ruled in the City of Pearly Wights.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Another of the original Questers now resides in Minus Teeth - Chrysophylax, the Dragon. He is the proprieter of a gambling establ- um, of an entertainment center that, contrary to the usual terminology, owes little of its success to chance. He also attempts to emulate Merisuwyniel as a singer, alas, without her innate skill and its impact on the listeners. He would be willing to give up his independence temporarily to rejoin his friend Kuruharan on adventures, provided the profit was worthwhile.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Deaths there were to be mourned at the end of the Quest of the Entish Bow:

Orogarn Two perished at the hand (or rather, crowned head) of Mogûl Bildûr, and Merisuwyniel herself sang his dirge:

Build high the barrow his bones to keep!
For here shall be hid both mouse and keyboard;
and to the ground be given blû dením Djeens,
and green Tê-Shirt with sword gleaming,
wealth unbegrudged for the well-beloved;
of forum admins the first and noblest,
to his moderators help unfailing,
to his members the fairest founder of websites.
Glory loved he; now glory earning
his grave shall be green, while forum or mainsite,
while post or thread in the internet lasteth.

Another member of the original cast left the Itship before its departure for Valleyum - Earnur Etceteron. He returned to Topfloorien, and of his fate it is said...

...the end of his days was utterly unknown for there came upon the hotel one night a huge flash of fire. It was said in after ages that the Lord of Dun Sóbrin had found a legendary end, one as highly wrought of fantasy as any subcreative faculty could imagine, for Earnur, the Lord Etceteron, went out like a flame, burning in the middle as well as both ends, combusting spontaneously one night and leaving behind nothing but blackened earth where grew no longer elanor and niphredil.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

As to the whereabouts of the Dwarf Kuruharan, we know this:

Kuruharan used his gaming license to re-establish the great kingdom of Hazard-boom. He expanded the resorts and casinos until they exceeded in size and gaudiness even those of the Ancient Days. He also made King Gain Lotsamoola an offer he couldn’t refuse and got a hefty share of the take from the Trebor Resort and Casino.

His companion Reeperneep

... signed on as Kuruharan’s hired muscle and enjoyed a life of continually getting into brawls, battles, and total wars. However, he was always agitating that they hadn’t “gone far enough east!!”

[Estelyn Telcontar]

And what happened to the title hero, you ask? The Ent-That-Was-Rent-But-Is-Now-Reunited had remained in Valleyum, for Yawanna had revealed to him a sapling of his line, and Deeproot (the short version of his true Entish name) wished to raise it to be a good Ent who would carry on his labours in the forests. Alas, it never occurred to him that the sapling might possibly not be an Ent after all...

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Among the final companions of Merisuwyniel was also Gateskeeper, the technical expert wizard, and his recently acquired virtual-but-somehow-real sidekick Tara Craft. He had turned over a new leaf - or perhaps one should say he had downloaded a new program - and was looking forward to different, possibly even honest, ways to earn a living in Muddled-Mirth.

The wars would have to cease, there was no question. The soft wares he created would have to become friendlier to those who used them. But, loathe to give up his high-spending lifestyle, he had to contemplate whether there was a souce of profit that could be as successful as the threatening and extortion with which he had hawked his Great Window. It was time to do a 360 and find new vistas, though he found taking advantage of the hype odd without those impy three players with whom he once associated back at the Networkgaard of Dorktank. But he’d severed all connections with the jobs and the buffets of days gone by, and there was no way to reset his way thru the tangled net of the ether of his past. He would have to shift, to escape, to enter a new line and rid himself of the numb lock that prevented him scrolling to a new page. In short, he would have to delete his past and find the key to getting himself home in CTRL of a new destiny. And then it came to him like a politician to a fundraiser – he could make people happy and make money at the same time by offering music on demand from Mantoes’ gift*!

*Mantoes graciously gave him the gift of unlimited royalty-free access to the complete music vaults of the Lords of Khopy-wight...

Whether these valiant purposes will succeed remains to be seen...