A World of Danger: Discussion

[Mathron]

Well I'm sure a game will eventually start back up after this one, so you'll be able to join in on that. And this one is pretty close to being done, so it shouldn't be too long.

[Lief Erikson]

Yes, Lysander, it'll be fun to RPG with you.

By the way, on this next one I don't think I'll be taking such a leading role in what happens. I realize that I have been doing that to a fairly large extent on some of the recent RPGs, and I have less time now for this anyway, (As some of you have probably noticed ) so I'll probably take a secondary character with a smaller, side plot, leaving the main one to others.

[Selwythe]

Welcome, Lynsander.

To Lief: I view Grim as a descendant of the houses of Men which betrayed the Eldar at the Nirnaeth. He escaped the clutches of Angband for a short period, helped by Orpholin, and fathered Gorthang (Arcon his adopted name) in some quiet village (Dor-Lomin?), before being recaptured. Gorthang grew up an outcast, rejected by all. He was infatuated with Shelina, but again he was hated. His heart finally grew cold when he was left in the clutches of the orcs by those he loved most.

[Lief Erikson]

That would make sense, and I'd agree to it, but there's only two problems that need reconciling. One: She was very young while at the village. I mean, she left while she was no older than a teenager. Two: Orpholin probably wouldn't want to introduce her to a fellow as dark and wild as Arcon the instant their reunion is over.

Arcon might have been spying on her after the village incident, or he might simply have gotten a crush on her while she was a child, but those really seem the two main options. She was captured fairly young and tortured brutally, until she was almost brainwashed and cringing to serve her masters in whatever way she could. After she was released he might have grown to like her, but there are no inferences to an earlier connection anywhere in the RPG, so it would make that somewhat strange. And I don't think she'd behave to him the way she did in the forest if that was the case.

So I'm not sure how their relationship could have developed, but I'm fine with it happening, so how? I suppose if you like I could make her have been older while at the village, but that certainly wasn't within my plan. Otherwise she probably would have had the means to escape early, and on her own, instead of having to be rescued by Orpholin in the way I was thinking.

[Mathron]

Hey all! Since the game looks like it is just about wrapped up, could everyone put up a final post or two to wrap up their characters and storylines, and then I'll try and tie it all together in an ending?
Basically I will have it ending with the coming of the Valar and the casting out of Melkor, so you may wish to keep that in mind. It probably won't happen until all have posted, so don't worry about giving reactions and such - just how they finish the story and their own goals.
To sum things up:
Vardor's fortress has just fallen, the slaves freed and enemies remaining presumably left. A few heroes (Irid, Tessar) were wounded, but healing. It is midnight in the game, or just about.
Hope this works for everyone, and no one had any major plot stuff left! (It looked like everyone was just about finished.) I'll probably wait maybe a week, or until all are finished posting, before wrapping it up and closing it.
How's that sound?

[Lief Erikson]

Fine by me. Just so long as you can wrap it up in hopefully one post, making it as long as you like. The grand finale, as it were.

I'm already finished, except for this deal with Arcon which needs sorting out.

[Lief Erikson]

Selwyth, I don't think you can kill Sandor that way. It would be fine, I think, except that this same Sandor is supposed to live for a few hundred years more! He comes into a future RPG called The Great Quest that me and Mathron already played. We've been developing back history for our characters, Malagar, Vardor and Sandor. That's why we shouldn't logically be seeing him die here. At least, Sandor is our wolfman, isn't he, Mathron?

[Irid al'Menie]

I'm done anyway... Consider that message of Flyer given

[Mathron]

Well spotted, Lief.

Selwythe, I really have to ask you to change that post - the part involving Sandor, at least. I've noticed throughout the RPG a habit to try and add in plot developments for other characters - which can be fine, if not too extreme, but some of yours were pushing the line. After all, if someone already has a history for their character planned out, and you change it, that sortof leaves them high and dry. And you should never kill off another player's character - I was able to work in most of your plot twists for Sandor, but I had no intention of letting him die here, so if you could alter it, I would appreciate it.
After all, how would you have felt if, early on, when you were pleading that Arcon was going to return to good, and one of us instead posted that he completely fell to evil, and went off and got killed by the party?
I think the guideline you should try and follow in future RPGs is that it is fine to affect other characters - as long as you do not affect them in a permanent way (so you can wound someone, but not maim or kill them), and to try and avoid altering their past.
Anyway, it has been great having you in this RPG nonetheless, and I simply hope you'll try and follow this suggestion in the future.

Now then, all we have left is Tessar's final post, and I'll wrap it all up and close it.

[Selwythe]

LoL very sorry. It was 3am here when I posted and I got carried away, and actually forgot that Sandor wasn't my character. I really apologise. I have gone back and deleted out that part. Some humongous carelessness on my part, really sorry about that. I am well aware of some of the 'golden rules' of roleplaying and I did overstep the line that time.

[Mathron]

Well, its all done! Hope everyone enjoyed the ending, and enjoyed being or reading in the RPG! Thanks to everyone who contributed, and well done all around!

[Lief Erikson]

Great last post! So, shall we take a week or two's break, or should we prepare the next?

[Mathron]

I'd be fine with a break, as I am running a bunch of other things online and off, and could use a bit of a breather. Still, whenever people want to try and start things up is fine with me - I'll just be a bit more inactive at first.

[Tessar]

Well I'm sure no one wants ME to start up a new one. lol

but I am really looking fward to the next RPG with you guys.

most of the ones that are going right now arn't very enteresting, to me anyways, I'm not good myself but I always want perfection from everyone else I'm sick.

oh well.

thanks yalls that was fun!

[Lief Erikson]

When we start the next one, what time period should it be? Or, shall we instead join into one of the most promising of these other RPGs that have recently risen?

[Mathron]

That may well be best - there are a ton of new RPGs that have started up, while in the past, there was usually no more than one at a time.

[Lief Erikson]

How do the rest of you feel? Tessar, Irid, Selwyth?

I can go either way, although I think my personal preference is to go with an already active one too.

[Irid al'Menie]

I'm not gonna join in another RPG. Maybe some time in the future when i have more time...

[Tessar]

Just me but I would rather join a new one that one of you starts.

thats my pref.

[Lief Erikson]

Well, I think it all depends on the number of players interested. Some might have time to keep up on more than one at once, but I think a lot of people already are spread pretty thin.

If it's only me, Mathron, Tessar and potentially Selwyth, I'm not interested in doing one of our own. But if we can get, say, four or five more people than that, than I'd be happy to have us strike out on our own path again. So, everyone agree we should send a new "all read" topic and ask?