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Legadriel
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on: October 20, 2005 05:19
We will be awaiting your return! :wave:
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on: October 21, 2005 05:58
Of course I am, hon. Have fun in Paris and say hi to the Venus of Milo from me *Lots of Huggles, Kisses and Love* :heart:

Well, I've finally read every post which was posted while I was gone, so now I can bring Verian back into the story . A huge thanks to Celebwen for bringing her back to the Houses! :hug:

As for the plot, I'm not sure if Tolkien mentions a mountain pass near Minas Tirith, but I think our little group can just head to the White Mountains and find their way through it. It will be difficult, but possible. I think it's easier for them to go through the fields of Rohan to head to Edoras, instead of through the mountains. That way they only have a short trip through the White Mountains.
So our char's go seek help at Edoras, right? But now they have to evacuate, where are the others going? Dol Amroth is too far away, and I don't think Ithilien is at this time such a safe place either.
I think we also need to decide who are going to Edoras. Braxen, Jakely, Nindeth, Grandel and Verian, but who else? Or just those five? In principle, five is enough. They've got three soldiers and two healers, so that must be alright Mary could come with Doria and her mother, for Doria and Mary are round the same age.

So, what do you guys think?
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on: October 21, 2005 09:23
Have fun Celebwen!



As for the plot, I'm not sure if Tolkien mentions a mountain pass near Minas Tirith, but I think our little group can just head to the White Mountains and find their way through it. It will be difficult, but possible. I think it's easier for them to go through the fields of Rohan to head to Edoras, instead of through the mountains. That way they only have a short trip through the White Mountains.
So our char's go seek help at Edoras, right? But now they have to evacuate, where are the others going? Dol Amroth is too far away, and I don't think Ithilien is at this time such a safe place either.



Hmmm now that I'm looking at a good map of Gondor, yeah where are the evacuee's going to go? The safest route for them since the orc army is coming from the north is South. And Ithilien might not be the best place to find sanctuary.

I do agree that the party going to get aid should travel a short time in the mountains, and then take the plains.

Lol okay guys I got a map.. *feels weird*

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/Dire/Mapr3t_M01.jpg

Anyways the purple color is Minas Tirith, and the line is the path that would be the easiest through the mountains for them maybe? they will still have to cross the river though... The red spots are the orcs, showing the size of the groups by how big the spot is.. (the largest army is coming from Mordor, another group is coming from the north. And the smaller grouping of only a few hundred orcs are coming from the north by the yellow dot following the White mountain line. That little yellow dot is where Grandel would be and the orcs by him are marching towards Minas Tirith so when the group arrives most of them will be safely gone. )

But the evacuees would have to move south. Ithilien is right on the path of the second largest hoarde of orcs, and well the other hoarde kinda has them blocked in.

What does everyone else say?
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on: October 21, 2005 11:18
That would be good. I was thinking that Mary isn't going to see Jakelyn, so she'll find somewhere to go...Doria's? Where's that? Any particular place?
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on: October 22, 2005 12:34
The map is great, Dire! So we know now our route to Edoras (We're going with the five of us?) but that leaves us with the evacuees. I have absolutely no clue what to do with them. Looking at your map, the south sounds indeed the best, but where are they going to hide in the plains? Perhaps they should flee into the mountains and hide there till its safe to go back. I don't know

Doria's house is at the fifth level, but at the moment she's with her mother and sister at the Houses of Healing. Mary is outside, right? Perhaps she could ran back to the Houses now the city is getting evacuate, and there she could run into Verian, who will bring her to Doria and her mother, so they can take care of her as long as her brothers are gone? The three of them can flee along with the rest. Just a little idea
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on: October 22, 2005 11:02
Good idea, I'll do that the next post.
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on: October 22, 2005 12:04
I'm not so sure about the evacuee's hiding in the plains around Gondor, not saying it would happen but if the orcs start growing in size by bringing in more armies etc the evacuee's would be sitting ducks being out in the open like that.

The orcs probably wouldn't try the mountains if they already have the city, for one they would think that the humans would have taken the easy path to safety, and they themselves might be a little apprehensive about travel in the mountains. It would be too much work for them too.. Hehe they are a lazy bunch.

But would it be too dangerous in the mountains for the evacuees? We might have to improvise and make something up.

Braxen's family will stay with the evacuee's when he moves on to Edoras.
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on: October 22, 2005 11:37
I think it's best if the evacuees flee into the mountains. There could be some fortress around four days from Minas Tirith, where they head to. I can't think of anything else to send them to.

Then there's the problem of Grandel. Looking at the map Dire has made, he's at the other side of the mountains. It will take our chars at least a couple of days, a week maybe, before they reach the other side of the mountains. It will take too long before they reach Grandel. So what if Grandel flees into the mountains too, and there runs into our group?

We also have to discuss why our group goes to Edoras. To seek help, of course, but why exactly our chars? I think a messenger of the King should go to Braxen and ask him to gather a small group of people to go with him to Edoras to seek help. The messenger could come while Braxen is with Jakelyn, and then he can ask Jakelyn (or Jakelyn can ask him) to come with him. It would be handy to have a healer with them too, and since Braxen has already met Nindeth, he can ask her to go along too. Nindeth would love to go along, but she isn't such a great healer. At that moment they could hear Verian refuse to leave with the evacuees because she wants to help the ones still in the city. Braxen could then come to her and tell her that if she really wants to help the ones left behind, she needs to join their group and head with them to Edoras.

Yes? No?
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on: October 23, 2005 06:32
Hello, my friends! :wave: I have returned with new hopes and visions Paris was great; I spent hours in the Louvre, seeing but a fraction of the entire collection. Ridiculously large

Alright, our plot is really moving along right now. Nice map, Dire
The motives for are characters, as MU listed them above, are pretty much how I imagined them. Nindeth would love to come, even if Braxen didn't ask her. I'm not sure how it happened, but she really looks up to him, even though she thinks his noble and rather heroic deeds are rather irrational

I agree that the mountains are their (and our) best bet; they will be far safer there than on the open plains. Dol Amroth is too far for them to make, it would take them weeks and bring them far away from Edoras. Pelargir too is out of reach. Maybe there could be a village by one of the rivers on the south side of the mountains; maybe Sirith or Erui? Or, like MU's fort, a guarding post, maybe?

Now that we're working out these details; what about time-frame? It's clearly not during the War of the Ring, but is it before or after? I always thought it was before the War, in the beginning of the Third Age. I did a quick search, and the people of Rohan had not established their nation before 2510 of that Age, after the Ride of Eorl. It would be cool is we could have woven that in our plot, but Eorl rides to Gondor's aid in an attack of Easterlings. Oh well....

[Edited on 24/10/2005 by ~Celebwen~of~Ithilien~]
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on: October 23, 2005 04:42
Sounds good! I'll work on egtting Grandel over there. Maybe he fears that the orcs wil find his trail, so he goes into the mountains. I'm not sure, you just tell me when I should get him there.
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on: October 23, 2005 11:11
It takes place in the Fourth Age, if I remember correctly. We should think about the time it takes for us to go through the mountains too. It takes the Fellowship four days to cross the Halls of Moria. They have more mountains to cross than we, but since they go underneath them and we have to climb over them, I think it will take us four, five days. Grandel could meet them on the third day or something.
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on: October 23, 2005 11:22
Okay, Fourth Age works too. I think the 5 days would work well. I was just thinking again of where we're going to leave the rest of the evacuees; what about Lossarnach? It's a inhabit place, and we could either leave them there or let them move on west/south. It isn't too far from the city, but I doubt the Orcs would take the trouble of searching behind the mountain; they would probably be satisfied with the city and the nearer plains.

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on: October 24, 2005 09:07
Thanks guys I'm prone to using maps.


We also have to discuss why our group goes to Edoras. To seek help, of course, but why exactly our chars? I think a messenger of the King should go to Braxen and ask him to gather a small group of people to go with him to Edoras to seek help. The messenger could come while Braxen is with Jakelyn, and then he can ask Jakelyn (or Jakelyn can ask him) to come with him. It would be handy to have a healer with them too, and since Braxen has already met Nindeth, he can ask her to go along too. Nindeth would love to go along, but she isn't such a great healer. At that moment they could hear Verian refuse to leave with the evacuees because she wants to help the ones still in the city. Braxen could then come to her and tell her that if she really wants to help the ones left behind, she needs to join their group and head with them to Edoras.


I think that idea will work, especially given the fact that Braxen would be a bit wary about leaving his family behind you know what I mean? But if the king should ask of his service then he would do what duty calls. I'll have Braxen get the message in the next post.


We should think about the time it takes for us to go through the mountains too. It takes the Fellowship four days to cross the Halls of Moria. They have more mountains to cross than we, but since they go underneath them and we have to climb over them, I think it will take us four, five days. Grandel could meet them on the third day or something.


I agree with that, even if we have horses some of the animals would be pack animals for supplies so they would be at a steady walk.


I was just thinking again of where we're going to leave the rest of the evacuees; what about Lossarnach? It's a inhabit place, and we could either leave them there or let them move on west/south. It isn't too far from the city, but I doubt the Orcs would take the trouble of searching behind the mountain; they would probably be satisfied with the city and the nearer plains.


The orcs will not be going to the mountains unless they really, I stress the word Really have a need to.
Khurfak has what he wants and won't allow any of his soldiers to leave in case men come and try to take the city back. So the mountains would be a safe place for the evacuees.
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on: October 25, 2005 06:42
YAY! WE've got such great ideas!I love this rp!!! :love: :disco: :rolling:
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on: October 26, 2005 03:13
Me too Hopefully it won't die

We don't really need to change anything, but I just wanted to clear up that I meant Verian to speak to Nindeth "Now tell me, who will be leading u?" My mistake It was actually an indirect way of asking Nindeth to introduce Braxen to her, since they hadn't met yet

[Edited on 26/10/2005 by ~Mirilien~Undómiel~]
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on: October 26, 2005 04:54
I get what you mean now, MU. If you look at my last post, you'll see I've editted it so that Nnindeth introduces Braxen and Verian.

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on: November 02, 2005 07:35
I didn't know there was ther was an OOC for this RPG! Yay! Thanks you all for letting me join. This is a great RPG, I hope it goes on forever.
I read all the posts,it took a while but it was worth it. Now I know a lot more about what is happening. Cool map, it should come in handy. Awesome ideas! I'll see if I can come up with any.

-Saro
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on: November 02, 2005 07:48
Glad you found us, Saro!

Guys, I just wanted to say that will try to post again on Friday, I really will! I've just been kinda caught up in school (evil testweek ) and LIS requires a lot of attention....well...a lot thinking, mostly, which I use up during the day.

Thanks, everyone, for being so patient with me (thus far, anyways)! :hug:
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on: November 07, 2005 12:39
We have to come up with a way to let Larewen join their ride to Edoras, and has Aranna been asked to come along yet? She rides with Verian now, but I don't think she knows where they're going yet.

I've sent a PM to Nevaeh to ask if she could remove the 'desperately needs new members' part in the title
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on: November 08, 2005 12:07
Aranna has not been informed as to where we are going, and she would love to go to Edoras! I'll post as soon as I have a good opportunity to!

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on: November 16, 2005 04:31
I think we should stop posting now, and discuss first what we're actually doing. Has no one noticed that Aranna hasn't even been asked to join them yet, and that Verian is still sleeping at the guarding post? Braxen asked Jakelyn to wake her up, but he never did, and I didn't even get the chance to let her fall asleep in the first place. This is really getting messed up. We agreed that it would take them three days before they'd find Grandel, and we've only finished the first one. I understand that you want him to join them, but we do need to keep it realistic. I really think that we need to give everyone a chance to post about a certain period, and that if you don't have anything to post anymore, you should wait or suggest here to fastforward, but this is getting too confusing.

I don't mean to sound bossy, but I think we really have to discuss this.

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on: November 16, 2005 05:19
I completely agree with MU here. This is getting far to confusing. We haven't gathered everyone in our search party yet and we're already on our way in the mountains! If you feel it is taking too long for someone else to post, or you need him/her to answer you (which you should try to wait for) you should send a PM or somethign, and not just continue on with the RPG; this is the way people losse track of their characters and their whereabouts and just quit the RPG.

Just have a bit of patience, or try to get our attention to the not-posting by saying so here in the OOC or sending out PMs.
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on: November 16, 2005 10:51
I guess we're just getting bored. We can't really keep posting them for three days. It'll loose it's lure. I think we should saw it's been at least two days. Posting our characters doing the same thing for three days is pretty boring.
But i do agree that it's a bit confusing. Maybe we should gert our characters together until we find gRandel and then take it from there.
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on: November 16, 2005 10:59
Well if anyone feels like it is getting too boring, then please post it here and we can decide together to fastforward to a certain point, but let at least give everyone a chance to round off what they are doing.
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on: November 16, 2005 12:35

AS for me, I'm just going with the flow. LOL
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on: November 16, 2005 01:48
Right, if you think that i am speeding things, then i am sorry.
I never meant to do that.
I just would like my idea sorted out, and I think that came out just fine. My two other characters joined in aswell, Only stealing five minutes out of the thread.
I never meant to steal the posting ability, as for me, I think you can post things aswell for the five minutes before my post, as for meanwhile, as for a day before and moving it along to the present time.
I will just go with the flow, just as Legadriel says.
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on: November 16, 2005 04:19
I haven't been able to get on for a few days so I haven't had time to post. I think we are going a bit too fast but at least I am not that far behind! I have a suggestion to make: everyone who is already past the guard post should slow down their posting rate untill the people who are a bit behind (like me) can catch up. And thankyou Mirilien Undomeil for noticing that I had not been invited to come along. I am going to post in a few minutes. (so I can catch up) Also perhaps we should speed up going to Edoras a bit, and on the way we could all find out more about each-others characters.

Just a few suggestions.

-Saro

P.S. I am going to go post now!

Wow! I wrote a lot!
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on: November 16, 2005 04:58
Good idea!
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on: November 17, 2005 08:28
Sorry guys! We've been refiguring our new computer and I didn't know when i'd be back on again so I thought I'd post as much as I could that way nobody had to wait for my character and me to get back.

BTW if I am gone (blasted computer) anyone who wants to control Braxen has permission to do so.

In my opinion the journey should be a bit longer time wise, so we can figure out what is to come once we get to where we're going? And the characters themselves can get to know one another more, feel more comfortable with each other. And they can find a bit of adventure along the way.
Lol I'm at a loss on what to do once we get to Edoras.

I really do apologise, and I'm not going to post for Braxen untill all is brought together. If my computer is good..
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on: November 17, 2005 10:32
I will be gone from Friday till Sunday, so I won't be able to post until Monday. *huggles*
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on: November 17, 2005 10:38
Wahahaha! I'm stalking you, MU! Nah, I just enjoy walking in your footsteps

Anywayyyys, I'm gone too (mostly mentally) so no posting from me either. Shouldn't be a problem though, as we need some char's to catch up with the group anyway, so there will probably be little posting in general.
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on: November 18, 2005 10:08
I'll be gone too! I'm going to my grandma's this weekend and I'm not sure she has a computer, so i won't be back till Sunday or Monday...ummmm...so can we post in the thread now?
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on: December 23, 2005 09:32
I'm so proud of you guys!! You kept my RPG alive!! So far, I get you guys are going through the mountains. I will be joining you over Christmas vacation! My life has been hectic!! So I'll go over a post quick, If I get something wrong let me know!!!
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on: December 23, 2005 09:36
I don't mind starting this RP up again; it's a shame we ran into some troubles and it kinda .....died....on us. But I won't be able to post till January tenth, when I return from my holiday. If any liveliness should enter the thread before that, just think that Nindeth lost the group or something. I'll figure something out when I get back, if need may be.

[Edited on 23/12/2005 by ~Celebwen~of~Ithilien~]
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on: December 24, 2005 04:11
Great to see you again, Nevaeh We're now going to Edoras to seek help for Minas Tirith.

Is everybody still here? I'd love to go on with this thread. But due to the problems we had I think we need to organize things a little now. Larewen, Braxen & Jakelyn are now close to Grandel, while Verian, Aranna & Nindeth are still at the guarding post. Tiradan is on his way to the group close to Grandel. Right?

So lets see... since Cel is going away for a while we can leave Nin for what she is now, and she said she'd take care of it later. Verian & Aranna can catch up with them and I suppose Tiradan will join them soon as well. Sero & I could just pretend that Verian & Aranna are a little behind but that they did leave with the group.

And what about the horses? Are we all riding on our own horse or is they're still one who has to ride with the others? And once Grandel has joined them, he should ride with someone else as well.

So who are still here to continue?

[Edited on 25/12/2005 by ~Mirilien~Undómiel~]
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