[we need a name for this party] - Plotting post

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Log

[current schedule]

3-5: La Llorona. Northern road, then turning east and through the forest.

• ?

6-12: Crossing the mountains -> continuing south along the eastern side of the mountains.

• Ainsels (6-11)
  

13-21: Noa woods -> shores of Loch Noa;

• Hedley Kow (13-18)
• Lindir joins them (14)

22nd: turning south again towards the station and arrival

• ?

23rd onwards


[current party members]
Fëanor (leader) (U)
Alice (U)
Ike (U)
Elijah (U)
Tauriel (U) (won't return)
Lindir (S) (joins halfway, won't return)


[idea for this post and concept stolen from dulledknife.]

Comments

Roles within the party

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Things your character will be useful for but also what they will be useless or unhelpful with, what abilities they have and generally what they'll be up to during the journey. Anything that seems important for their role within the group.

Equipment and other things

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Basically stuff that people bring with them that would be of interest to the group.

Relevant items that are available from the castle are
+packhorses
+food/provisions
+lower-quality arms and armor for shardbearers

Fëanor

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+5 trained warhorses with tack
+spending money for the road
+more detailed traveling maps
+weaponry that is from the castle, but that he refined a bit in the short time that he had so it's slightly better quality.

He'll borrow the four additional warhorses to travel companions that don't have a horse, though only as long as they stay together with him.

Re: Equipment and other things

[tawarwaith]

Tauriel is of course a skilled fighter and scout quite comfy running around through dangerous forests. She is not a great rider so she will have a small learning curve in order to learn how to ride a horse.

I imagine she does mundane tasks alright like lighting a fire and possibly cooking but these are not things she is good at.

If needs be, she can hunt while they are traveling but she might make a better scout or rear guard.

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And I hope this is okay X(

Alice was technically a maid and cook in her world; she watched over children, cooked and cleaned for them, and generally took care of the house with them. She'll be fairly quiet and reserved, but if anyone needs meager tasks like that, she'll volunteer to keep herself busy. Even fixing taylor issues.

As far as her skills with weapons, she knows basic knife-fighting, nothing special, aside from turning into a swarm of butterflies for dodging. Not going to lie, Alice is not the most fantastic fighter; she'll be a complete novice with everyone else. Those skills were self-taught, not at all fantastic, but at least I can say she's a mean fighter.

Should note Alice is terrified of fire /)_(\ so if fire is around, Alice is going to keep a ridiculous distance.

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So no campfires at night?

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Oh, they can, she'll just sit far away and try not to say anything about. Unless they decide not to on the account of her.

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they might decide not to anyway, at least while they're in areas where hostile encounters are likely. No reason to give away your position when you're trying to not be slowed down...

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Bless you all.

She tries to keep her phobia hidden, so /)_(\

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She's very welcome to bring that reasoning up should the discussion of fire or not arise!

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Fëanor can hunt and fight, and is also a pretty adept cook. He'll assume the role of the leader of the party and not allow anyone to take that from him, but he'll also try to teach riding/some fighting skills to those who don't know how to do those things (or organize,/encourage for such teaching to happen).

Also blanket warning, while not as adept at it as other elves, he has a type of telepathic skills - when he bothers to listen, he can "hear" not only animate and inanimate nature's messages, but he can also tap into other people's thoughts/feelings to some degree. That also means that he's hard to lie to. If this should come up I will ask permission first or you can hit up his permission post.

Lindir

[lindir]

Useful for:

-panic attacks

-Healing: He is not an expert or a healer by profession, but knows a bit more than basic first aid. (You pick up a few things working closely with Elrond)

-Cooking: Yes the Elf who oversees the kitchens can cook.

Useless for:

-Fighting (Technically he has some skill, but it's not anywhere near the level it needs to be to be effective...also too nervous to fight, probably)

What is he going to be doing? Adjusting to the world, trying not to piss off any of the Feanorians, trying to stay clean, and continuously watch and listen for trouble brewing. (So I guess technically you could use him as a kind of look out? Elf eyes & ears, after all, still got those.)

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/sticks him on scouting teams? :D

[lindir]

He could be convinced to do that, sure XD

WHOOPS right journal this time i'm awake

[justike]

Equipment/inventory:
-He has a spare weapon to lend if someone needs either a giant axe or an even more giant sword

-a couple of standard healing items from home, probably good for minor to moderate injuries

Roles and stuff:
-Useful for most all-purpose fighting needs. He's a mercenary who's recently been roughing it across the countryside so he can and will do most basic camp chores (fires, taking care of horses, whatever) butttt he probably can't cook beyond "this food (most likely) won't kill you" level.

-He's only human so those elf eyes/ears will probably be better at keeping lookout

-He can ride but not super proficiently and he can't fight on horseback

-Probably not super useful at hunting unless the prey is big enough to hit with a thrown axe (this does not sound like a good food plan)

-He'd be happy to teach fighting basics if anyone wanted, either sword or axe

-Mostly Ike will be just kind of dutifully rolling along trying to keep an eye on everything and doing whatever he thinks needs doing. He has big brotherly habits so any conspicuously uncertain or nervous party members can look forward to him trying to be awkwardly reassuring. '-'

Encounters/side trips/etc

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You can of course also just throw up a thread in the log, but if you want to do plotting ahead of time, you can use this place! As much as they want to rush, the imps and fairies and trolls and whatever else wants to bother them probably won't care...

3rd-5th; the road and La Llorona

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The dark forestland of the Unseelie, La Llorona is a shadowy place where the trees are twisted and heartsick, too stubborn and angry to die. Beasts and birds here are twice as dangerous as those in the south, while the flora will eagerly try to strangle you if you sleep too long.

6th-12th; the mountains and their borderlands

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There are trolls in the troll-lands to the east of their way, so there is a possibility of encounters.
Also the Ainsel event happens in this timeframe (6-11).

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So we just learned that there is a Silmaril in the game. For those not canon-familiar: The three silmarils are powerful "magical" items that Fëanor made, that were then stolen by the "ultimate evil" of his world, which essentially spurred everything going to shit for a whole age because him and his sons swore a terrible oath to get those back and slay everyone who'd stand in their way on that path.

The silms are shining with a beautiful, holy light, and can only be touched by those that haven't done evil, whatever that means.

The current idea is to have one of the imp-ainsels finds the shiny and runs with it, followed by other imps who want to have it too. The travel party would come across them on the 11th, slaying would happen, and two days later, early on the 13th, the shiny would be transported away by the Hedley Kow event.

Thoughts?

13th-21st; Borderlands of the mountains, Noa Woods, area of the three Sentinels, shores of Loch Noa

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There are trolls in the troll-lands to the east of their way, so there is a possibility of encounters.

This forest was once home to a fair maiden who was hunted down by orcs. A sad and still place, Noa is arguably the most peaceful region in all Dorchadas, mourning its lost maiden. If you cut down a tree here, the entire forest will feel as if it is watching you in disapproval.

North of the Station is Loch Noa, a placid and peaceful place. Long ago a young maiden and her loyal dog were being hunted by orcs and instead of allowing the monsters to devour them, they chose to drown together instead. The moon, the tales say, saw what happened and raised the spirit of the brave girl and her dog to guard Loch Noa from dusk until dawn every night thereafter. She is was a bold little thing barely entering womanhood when she swam to her icy death and if you wish to make camp somewhere safe in Dorchadas then you will find no better site than at the edge of her lake which is kept free of kelpies and other watery terrors — all except the each uisge, that is, who goes wherever he wants, but he seems to shun this body of water most of the time (best not to test that rumour, really). Sometimes, she will walk right into your camp and request a moonlit dance as her dog stands watch, before dissolving with the dawn. Her name, locals say, was Celebwen.

Also, the Hedley Kow event happens in this timeframe (13-18).

22nd; shores of Loch Noa, plains, station; and onwards

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North of the Station is Loch Noa, a placid and peaceful place. Long ago a young maiden and her loyal dog were being hunted by orcs and instead of allowing the monsters to devour them, they chose to drown together instead. The moon, the tales say, saw what happened and raised the spirit of the brave girl and her dog to guard Loch Noa from dusk until dawn every night thereafter. She is was a bold little thing barely entering womanhood when she swam to her icy death and if you wish to make camp somewhere safe in Dorchadas then you will find no better site than at the edge of her lake which is kept free of kelpies and other watery terrors — all except the each uisge, that is, who goes wherever he wants, but he seems to shun this body of water most of the time (best not to test that rumour, really). Sometimes, she will walk right into your camp and request a moonlit dance as her dog stands watch, before dissolving with the dawn. Her name, locals say, was Celebwen.

Around a hundred years ago, a train station appeared in the midlands of the Drabwurld without warning. The official story is that the fairies won it in a bet with the land-owner, but everyone knows they were far too blitzed on wine and danced a ring right around it by accident, transporting it to this realm. In the years since, people from the Seelie and Unseelie courts alike, whether owners of a Shard or not, have since opted to defect to the Station to live in what passes for more relatively familiar surroundings. They discovered that within the site of the fairy ring (one mile in circumference around the Station, up and another underground) they were left to themselves and able to grow as a community, building a subterranean town and taking apart the trains to assist the endeavour. As the modern age rolled in for the human world, the engineers and computer experts brought to the Drabwurld by imps and fairies, unwilling to forget everything they knew, discovered to their astonishment that they were able to access the internet, radio and television signals; all within the fairy ring. Outside of it, everything they built ceased to function. As a result, the Station has evolved into a reflection of the home many have left behind but not forgotten and has learned to make the most of the limited space on offer. Defectors from the courts are given compact underground rooms where the first homes were constructed out of the old materials, now outfitted with a working tub, but the showers, kitchen and lounge are all communally used (other points of interest include a web cafe where movies are accessed, a caters-to-all clothing outlet and even a mobile phone shop if you want to use something more "normal" to communicate while inside the fairy ring, although lockets remain active and magic may be performed inside the perimeter). There is a patio for summer parties and the control room sits where the strongest connection across realms resides, right in the middle of the Station where the trains used to be. The Station itself is ground level with a second and third on top, and two levels of bedrooms underground. The older walkways and stone supports can be seen here and there, as well as the original big clock, but as it spread outward over the decades it has become sleek and modernised. The Station is of no real interest to either of the courts and considered neutral ground, granted as something of a begrudging gift because the fairies have no idea how to "fix" it. If you have your Shard when you choose to live here, you will still have a home at either court, but if you do not have a Shard then the people here are usually willing to take in outcasts. Alhough it is possible to receive information via the internet, radio and television, no messages will be able to be sent back. Chatrooms are restricted to websites created by npcs of the past, so no one on "the other side" can be alerted to the presence of the Drabwurld. Essentially, the Station is a bubble soaking up information. Despite residing in Dorchadas, it is largely left to its own devices by the Unseelie.

General plotting

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What it says on the tin. Everything that doesn't go into the above categories.