Lassara - Shards of Neril - OOC and Signup Thread [In Play / Sign-ups]

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Originally Posted by Greyblades

Kinda inevitable when you let the character's creator write the story :P.
Maybe we should have a vote next time from the other players on which which character should win or which player's writing was more entertaining

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I thought about including a vote in the process but I think it would slow things down a bit... And I am convinced that it's possible for human beings to reach a consensus...
I do like to have the random element included as long as there's no results involved that the characters' creators can't live with.

But you do see in my posts what I would consider doing it more fairly. I did not "assume" so much of Thomas' reactions or how effective Enego's attacks or ideas would be, but I agree it's hard to do things like this balanced. Let's just keep in mind this is about the story not about winning all the battles along the way ;)

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Yeah. Though I think I have a better idea than to kill him.

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Tell me ;) I'll do the rolls in the meantime

After grilling him for information I'm going to get a bunch of people to parade him around the city with a sign around his neck saying "these are the people who rule you now, are you happy with that?" and maybe I'll get afew criers to spout some anti-thirteen propaganda.
Also I'm keeping his helmet as a souvener. And his sword's going straight into a collection I'm starting.

Oh and I'm taking one his hands, I'm sure I can hire a wizard to turn it into a voodoo doll in case he shows up again.

Well it won't work like that, this anti-teleporting spell will not hold him forever so you kill him in battle or he'll run.

You have nothing with which you could pressure him for information. If you haven't noticed yet he actually enjoys pain and death won't make him cringe either. He's not talkative enough to spoil secrets just because he wants to scare you or anything.
You can keep his helmet and sword and if you're really paranoid keep his hand, he won't be back though:

Here are the results:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

I started with Enego since he began the battle.

Enego:
https://img853.imageshack.us/img853/1043/dice1.png https://img37.imageshack.us/img37/4404/dice6.png https://img638.imageshack.us/img638/7606/dice2.png
Thomas:
https://img195.imageshack.us/img195/8295/dice4m.png https://img853.imageshack.us/img853/1043/dice1.png https://img33.imageshack.us/img33/619/dice5.png

So with Thomas' +2 added we have: 1:6, 6:3, 2:7 - that's 2 out of 3 for Thomas, two decisive rolls, worst case against Enego

So you can go ahead and kill him ;)

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Originally Posted by TheLastDays

So you can go ahead and kill him ;)

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Oh whats the fun in just killing him?

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Originally Posted by TheLastDays

Well it won't work like that, this anti-teleporting spell will not hold him forever so you kill him in battle or he'll run.

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I think dimentional anchor is good for afew hours, should be long enough to get a propaganda like effect if we show his deformed face to the crowds and lopping off a leg or two to show it growing back should persuade the people of Birun that thier new overlords are demons. We're going to be wageing a semi gureilla war agaisnt the thirteen after all.
Also I think he could be good leverage to "persuade" someone to hand over a ship, mine is pretty singed.

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You have nothing with which you could pressure him for information. If you haven't noticed yet he actually enjoys pain and death won't make him cringe either. He's not talkative enough to spoil secrets just because he wants to scare you or anything.

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I'm sure the alchemist can come up with a truth potion of some sort.

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You can keep his helmet and sword and if you're really paranoid keep his hand, he won't be back though:

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Aww, I was hoping he'd turn into a reoccuring innefectual villain. You're no fun.:P

He won't talk :P

It's already a stretch of you to just assume that the wizards spell worked on a being from the Void, a potion won't have any effect :P

Thought I'd make a few comments on some of these posts, since this is the first time the dice have been rolled and it's a pretty pivotal moment that will shape the course of the game, behind the secnes at least.

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Originally Posted by Greyblades

Kinda inevitable when you let the character's creator write the story :P Especially when he's not very experienced at it and wants the character to win.

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This is perfectly natural, everyone wants their character to triumph, you just have to remember to keep it realistic and ensure you steer well clear of Gary Stu territory; I'm going to put it out there and suggest that, for the sake of your character's progression, you should give serious consideration to the death of Gilford or the loss of Essa.

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Maybe we should have a vote next time from the other players on which which character should win or which player's writing was more entertaining

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If voting becomes the new way to decide combat, I have no problem with that, but I wouldn't vote were it based on the strength of someone's narrative... that's not a particularly fair or nice way to do it. As I said privately, this game is about fun, and I don't think deciding who's a better writer is part of that.

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Originally Posted by Greyblades

And his sword's going straight into a collection I'm starting.

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A collection of the Thirteen's phat lewts? This assumes that you're going to be around when each dies... :laugh4:

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Originally Posted by Greyblades

I think dimentional anchor is good for afew hours, should be long enough to get a propaganda like effect if we show his deformed face to the crowds and lopping off a leg or two to show it growing back should persuade the people of Birun that thier new overlords are demons.

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I think you should probably stick with the host's decision on this one; either you kill Erego or you let him go. :bow:

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Originally Posted by Secura

This is perfectly natural, everyone wants their character to triumph, you just have to remember to keep it realistic and ensure you steer well clear of Gary Stu territory; I'm going to put it out there and suggest that, for the sake of your character's progression, you should give serious consideration to the death of Gilford or the loss of Essa.

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I've already established that essa has a big crack in it and gilford has a habit of getting sidelined. I think if I use that I can sort something out in the future to keep it from getting too repetative.

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A collection of the Thirteen's phat lewts? This assumes that you're going to be around when each dies... :laugh4:

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Everyone needs a hobby.

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I think you should probably stick with the host's decision on this one; either you kill Erego or you let him go. :bow:

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Bah, you're all no fun!

Allowing your character to capture Erego would end badly for you, methinks.

The remaining Twelve would consider you a greater threat, and Vayne would probably send a stronger one of his remaining
Lords after you. It would probably be nigh impossible to have your character remain unscathed, whether by bodily harm, Gilford's death, or
the loss of Essa.

As TLD stated before when I created my character, the stronger we are, the stronger he makes our enemies.
Thus, giving Thomas the power to hold one of the 13, even if its the weakest would not end well.

Of course, killing Erego would have its own repercussions as well.....

WEll they have to die at some point, don't they? ;)

On a related note: I have been pretty allowing in this battle since it's more part of a story and it's not really a PvP battle since one of the combatants was a story NPC. I will be more demanding of the rules should it come to real PvP situations and probably also in future NPC battles. You shouldn't be assuming too much about the effects of your attacks/spells/etc. on the other combatant. That way it usually turns into a "You hacked my hand off, I'll hack both your feet off" and if the characters don't have restorative powers we'd run out of characters soon ;)

Most of the fight should be a back and forth of fighting, pretty much displaying your own moves, leaving the reaction and effect to the other combatant. Results and lasting consequences should be dealt in the final post after the dice have fallen.

Concering the powers/strengths of the villains: Enego's supposed to be rather weak. You shouldn't expect to kill any of the other's without at least involving two PCs, even if they wield shard weapons.

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Originally Posted by Thefluffyone93

Allowing your character to capture Erego would end badly for you, methinks.

The remaining Twelve would consider you a greater threat, and Vayne would probably send a stronger one of his remaining
Lords after you. It would probably be nigh impossible to have your character remain unscathed, whether by bodily harm, Gilford's death, or
the loss of Essa.

As TLD stated before when I created my character, the stronger we are, the stronger he makes our enemies.
Thus, giving Thomas the power to hold one of the 13, even if its the weakest would not end well.

Of course, killing Erego would have its own repercussions as well.....

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Fluffy, Seon and I are still waiting on your post...

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Originally Posted by Thefluffyone93

As TLD stated before when I created my character, the stronger we are, the stronger he makes our enemies.
Thus, giving Thomas the power to hold one of the 13, even if its the weakest would not end well.

Of course, killing Erego would have its own repercussions as well.....

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I wasnt going to keep him as a pet or anything. Though now that you mention it...

TLD Will his corpse disintergrate or something when I kill him?

Nope, his corpse will rot like any other corpse, there's nothing you could use it for though, other than scare the **** out of Gilford if you wake him up at night...

...Ok I'm convinced, I'm keeping the head until I see rufus again. That is just too funny an idea to pass up. Still I think I might use it as leverage to persuade a captain to give up his ship to me.

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Originally Posted by Greyblades

Still I think I might use it as leverage to persuade a captain to give up his ship to me.

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If only I was ready to unleash my second NPC upon Lassara... she'd give Thomas a nice list of places to shove that head, were he to ask for her ship. :laugh4:

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Originally Posted by Secura

If only I was ready to unleash my second NPC upon Lassara... she'd give Thomas a nice list of places to shove that head, were he to ask for her ship. :laugh4:

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I was thinking more of a "we just killed about 20 demons; here's the leaders head, Are you sure you want to refuse?"
Hmm... You know I dont think I'm going to let thomas get off scot free. TLD, would the thirteen have the sort of bad boss "come back with her or not at all" mentality to enego?

Nah, Enego can return with anythin useful, he wouldn't return without anything but that doesn't mean he wouldn't run if you let him... or am I misunderstanding your question?

Sheesh, khaan, you sure like to keep Secura guessing!

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Originally Posted by TheLastDays

Nah, Enego can return with anythin useful, he wouldn't return without anything but that doesn't mean he wouldn't run if you let him... or am I misunderstanding your question?

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I mean would they give him a self destruct spell or somthing?

Well he can definitely kill himself if that's what he chooses to do.

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Originally Posted by Chaotix

Sheesh, khaan, you sure like to keep Secura guessing!

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I think the first sentence is a compliment to Tah's battle prowess, but the second... yeah. :laugh4:

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Originally Posted by TheLastDays

Well he can definitely kill himself if that's what he chooses to do.

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Ok I was trying to keep it subtle but this isn't working; is he likely to have a curse put on him that makes him explode when killed or puts some nasty effect on the one killing him?

I'll PM you, I wanted to talk about the death scene anyway ;)

Alrighty 'khaan, I think that leaves the ball in Kyran's court now! I think that he's lucky she's even given him a reply, though. :laugh4:

Oh, and I reckoned that Tah wouldn't be able to figure out what the second phrase meant, so I played around with how she might have interpreted it; she can converse in his language, but her knowledge of it is largely conversational (greetings, farewells, questions, etc.)... language barriers, huh? :P

Sigh.......
We go to......
Leon!

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Kinda.....

Ugh, I finally have all the details correct but I'm too tired to write it up without making a ton of mistakes, The resolution to the fight will be done by the end of tomorrow, if anyone's interested.

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Originally Posted by Thefluffyone93

Sigh.......
We go to......
Leon!

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Kinda.....

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This sounds so sad... Be happy :yes:

There you go!

I was out of town all weekend, but I'm back now. Fortunately, it does not appear that any input from my character was needed. But in case I've missed something and need to make a response, please let me know. The princess's crew is still traveling west, toward Leon, correct?

Will you follow me, Happy Tree Friends?

Or would you rather save some spiders?

Now Frijyk shows his determinator side. He's going whether you follow or not.

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Originally Posted by Chaotix

Will you follow me, Happy Tree Friends?

Or would you rather save some spiders?

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Hahaha, can't call yourselves the HTFs when two of the tree lovers are elsewhere... :P

Oh, and I'm guessing that Morangul/Allie will probably follow you, since Golem scattered the spiders every which way as he stormed through the forest; I doubt there's a reason to go to Leon now, which is what you and Fluffy wanted to avoid anyway. :3

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Originally Posted by Secura

Hahaha, can't call yourselves the HTFs when two of the tree lovers are elsewhere... :P

Oh, and I'm guessing that Morangul/Allie will probably follow you, since Golem scattered the spiders every which way as he stormed through the forest; I doubt there's a reason to go to Leon now, which is what you and Fluffy wanted to avoid anyway. :3

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That's what you think.

Ten bucks the golem almost steps on Kyran as it passes by you. And I'm following right behind it. :wink:

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Originally Posted by Chaotix

Ten bucks the golem almost steps on Kyran as it passes by you. And I'm following right behind it. :wink:

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The golem's already gone past Tah, Raina and Kyran... or at least, around them; ten bucks, please. :laugh4:

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Originally Posted by Secura

The golem's already gone past Tah, Raina and Kyran... or at least, around them; ten bucks, please. :laugh4:

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Psh... what would you do with American money anyway?

And if that's the case, I find it hard to imagine the elves won't follow the forest-trampling monster. Or at least Kyran, anyway. So you'll still be following me anyway, even if you don't realize it yet. :clown:

The golem could have gone around them, not really being noticed.... they're a little distracted by the army just now ;)

@B_Ray: I think the princess has started conversation with Glungurd in the Village People group (might as well give them a nickname too...)
also waiting for some kind of reaction of shlin before I'll post again in that group

Who's going to advance our part of the story? DiY? TLD? Someone?

I think DiY stated he wanted me to take over the "Professor" when you reached his house and he started talking about whatever you wanna know.
I guess DiY is up next then...

Just got back late again, sorry :bow:

I'll carry it on until the house where I can leave the two of you there for a while (I'll skip your perspectives as the old guy doesn't really have more to say and I doubt you will converse much with Meghghan anyway) as I go settle some affairs then after that TLD can take over.

Gimme a moment.

TLD, there's your cue, sorry about the wait, sizable update :bow:

Large entry this time so I put it in spoilers.

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Originally Posted by TheLastDays

The golem could have gone around them, not really being noticed.... they're a little distracted by the army just now ;)

@B_Ray: I think the princess has started conversation with Glungurd in the Village People group (might as well give them a nickname too...)
also waiting for some kind of reaction of shlin before I'll post again in that group

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k

I really didn't expect that kind of reaction from Alyssa ^^ thought the two of them would rather want these weapons to defend themselves should the need arise ^^

I'm at work for the next few hours so I might not get to post until a bit later today

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Originally Posted by TheLastDays

I really didn't expect that kind of reaction from Alyssa ^^ thought the two of them would rather want these weapons to defend themselves should the need arise ^^

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She's not stupid. But she's not saying there's anything to be done for the "Leonin" (or whatever you want to call them) either. She just wants to know where to find the shards and get moving.

I forgot to mention but could someone tell me when everyone else gets to the third day? I cant realy do much when the POV character's incapacitated and I dont want to skip ahead.

Back for two days then gone again for four, gonna introduce my NPC.

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Originally Posted by Greyblades

I forgot to mention but could someone tell me when everyone else gets to the third day? I cant realy do much when the POV character's incapacitated and I dont want to skip ahead.

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Might be a while, the HTFs proper have only just begun their day. The village people and Bonny and Clyde are a good portion into it but the VP are waiting for B_Ray atm I guess ;)

Visor, wht exactly is your character doing? You're supposed to be far away from that ship :D

I have no idea where my character was. I still don't. IF you tell me I will change my post. :D

You're with Glungurd, Alain, Amalia, Drax and two guardsmen on the road to Leon. We're not going fast since we don't want to run into the army ;)

I got a better idea now. Can I kill a guardsman? (Use Dietrich to kill one, and still have both Rufus and Dietrich stay alive).

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Originally Posted by TheLastDays

Visor, wht exactly is your character doing? You're supposed to be far away from that ship :D

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What did he do? Shiv Thomas while he was unconcious?

Edit: just read it, what, was he following us or something?

no, he was gone a few days and didn't know where his character was...

he's going to edit it, Visor, I'll PM you

I'm sorry, does my character need to do something to progress the Village People Party? I didn't see anything prompting him.

Wait why are they called the villiage people? And who's bonny and clyde?

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Originally Posted by Greyblades

Wait why are they called the villiage people? And who's bonny and clyde?

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Because they have a penchant for wearing chaps! And it's Alyssa and Guantano, I believe. :laugh4:

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Originally Posted by B_Ray

I'm sorry, does my character need to do something to progress the Village People Party? I didn't see anything prompting him.

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Yea it's in one of the posts, I believe Amalia was asking him how he liked his first ride...

Also, the HTFs are waiting for Seon, right?

Uhh, yeah.

I think I might break off from the group to gain some help in dealing with the magic-proof golem.

Just made a post, but I probably won't be able to contribute tomorrow at all, so feel free to move the party along without my input.

You know, I was planning on taking anyone who went with Morangul on a journey to find as many of
Neril's Shard weapons as possible.

Starting with the one that the Nameless Paladin used to defeat him.

I was also planning on adding a bit more info on the weapons, like what kind of weapons were made.

I was thinking a staff, a hammer, perhaps a mace/flail (like Witch King of Angmar's) or an axe, a longbow, a greatsword (which belonged to the Paladin), a dagger, and of course the rapier Essa.

Does that sound good?

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Originally Posted by Thefluffyone93

I was also planning on adding a bit more info on the weapons, like what kind of weapons were made.

I was thinking a staff, a hammer, perhaps a mace/flail (like Witch King of Angmar's) or an axe, a longbow, a greatsword (which belonged to the Paladin), a dagger, and of course the rapier Essa.

Does that sound good?

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Not to me. I have a notion that the hard part should be finding the weapons, not using them. I won't say we've won once we have them, but it has to be difficult. We don't even know anything about many of the weapons. Allow me to expand on this. The Sword of the Lassaran royalty is one shard. The sword of the Paladin is one other. That leaves five. The odds that all (or any) of these are still "out there" in use are low, and even if they are (I think some of them should be, and some others might be hidden in tombs, etc.), finding information about them could be relatively hard, especially at long distances.

As for the distribution of weapons, I assume that this world has the same notion as the real one; swords are noble weapons. I imagine that at least 5 of the shard weapons are swords of some kind. Say, Essa the Rapier, Paladin Greatsword ("Morangul's Bane"), a normal longsword or two, and a bastard sword. The last two weapons would have to be sharp melee weapons such as axes, probably, although I expect a Warhammer might also fit in. Staves and longswords make no sense, daggers are tiny useless things and honestly a flail is just as dangerous to the one wielding it.

I agree with DE pretty much. A big part of the game is to locate and retreive these weapons. So far I've always thought none of them are still in use, or they might be in use, but not in Lassara.

About the composition of the weapons, one rapier, one greatsword, a longsword and a bastard sword should be enough swords... at least one will be an axe

Not so keen on daggers ^^ - what's possible though is, that one of the shards has been worked into a staff or something a magic user would use to increase his powers.

Huh, I thought essa was a longsword not a rapier.

I thought you mentioned it being a rapier first?

So, DE, DiY do you guys want to post another scene where you leave town? I'll then get to post the approach of the army and the "siege"

Also, fluffy or Chaotix are you following the giant in it's trail?

I'm not too sure where we're headed, but I'm guessing its south. I'll finish up something first then I'll crank out the update :yes:

*pokes 'khaan*

I'm waiting! :P

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Originally Posted by TheLastDays

I thought you mentioned it being a rapier first?

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I did? Where?

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Originally Posted by TheLastDays

So, DE, DiY do you guys want to post another scene where you leave town? I'll then get to post the approach of the army and the "siege"

Also, fluffy or Chaotix are you following the giant in it's trail?

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Yes, but I'm waiting for Seon to make a post to either stay or leave before I continue the story.

Which direction, roughly, is it going? And does it ever change said direction?

Also, I have an idea for one shard which I've discussed with TLD... but I'll keep it a secret for now.

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Originally Posted by Secura

*pokes 'khaan*

I'm waiting! :P

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Just a bit dear, a combination of temporary 'net shortage and me actually getting a proper night's sleep finally delayed me.

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Originally Posted by Chaotix

Yes, but I'm waiting for Seon to make a post to either stay or leave before I continue the story.

Which direction, roughly, is it going? And does it ever change said direction?

Also, I have an idea for one shard which I've discussed with TLD... but I'll keep it a secret for now.

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see that tower in the western part of Ayal Ryad Hyo? That's where he's headed

I'm sorry guys, I know I need to post in the village people and Leon but I can't for the next few hours. Will get to it some time later tonight...

TLD, can you control my dude for the next four days while I'm gone? Thanks.

Ach, I've been meaning to respond to this for sometime so.....ahem.

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Originally Posted by Diamondeye

Not to me. I have a notion that the hard part should be finding the weapons, not using them. I won't say we've won once we have them, but it has to be difficult. We don't even know anything about many of the weapons. Allow me to expand on this. The Sword of the Lassaran royalty is one shard. The sword of the Paladin is one other. That leaves five. The odds that all (or any) of these are still "out there" in use are low, and even if they are (I think some of them should be, and some others might be hidden in tombs, etc.), finding information about them could be relatively hard, especially at long distances.

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But here's the thing; while the six remaining shard weapons are completely unknown to today's Lassaran's, the same can't be said for Morangul.
He's from 500 years ago, give or take 2 centuries, so he would have been in a time where the Shard weapons would have been more known. Now, I'm not saying Morangul would know the final resting places of all the weapons, but he would know what type of weapons they are.

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Originally Posted by Diamondeye

As for the distribution of weapons, I assume that this world has the same notion as the real one; swords are noble weapons. I imagine that at least 5 of the shard weapons are swords of some kind. Say, Essa the Rapier, Paladin Greatsword ("Morangul's Bane"), a normal longsword or two, and a bastard sword. The last two weapons would have to be sharp melee weapons such as axes, probably, although I expect a Warhammer might also fit in. Staves and longswords make no sense, daggers are tiny useless things and honestly a flail is just as dangerous to the one wielding it.

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Okay, I can agree with the dagger being a bit wimpy (I was just trying to make a range of weapons for everyone), but I would think that the weapons weren't made to be "noble", they were made for battle. They were forged to prevent any sort of unholy evil from entering Lassara, so I would expect a bit more hard hitting weapons, and even a staff for a cleric. As TLD's history said, they were given to the mightiest heroes, not the royalty (with the obvious exception of Essa).

Now that I'm here typing, I might as well see if this is possible.....

As I stated before, I was planning on going after "Morangul's Bane", the greatsword the Paladin used.
So, I was going to have Morangul and his companions (if they so choose) travel to the ancient Paladin Stronghold (insert mystical holy name here). He would deduce the possible location of the greatsword by knowing 2 things

1) The location of the stronghold, as he assaulted it back in his day

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2) That Paladin Grand-masters and great heroes of the Paladin Order were buried there with their weapons, meaning the Paladin that defeated him would most likely be buried there with the sword.

Now, if this is going to work, 3 questions must be asked.

1) Does the Paladin Order still exist?
2) Is the Golem and his friend traveling there as well?

and the big one...

3) Would the fact that Morangul knows this much break the game?

Of course, I would only go through with this if TLD approves, so for now, I LOLLYGAG.

LOLLYGAG is an awesometastic word. Sure, one of them might be clerical warmace then, I guess. I think the Paladin Order should still exist (perhaps only as a weak one though) so that Morangul's knowledge of the place would not be imbalancing since he needs help to face the Paladins guarding it! Where would you say the Temple is?

Also, I plan on Alyssa "tripping over" one of the other weapons by singing a song she's learnt somewhere, earlier, and then realize that the hero mentioned in it might carry a shard weapon. That will only reveal the former owner of the weapon and that it is a sword, though. We still need to find a way to get more info. This weapon might also have been buried with its owner; perhaps that's the subject of additional verses that Alyssa does not know but we find someone who does. This is open for critique of course but I think it's way cool?

TLD and I discussed these weapons for a while a few nights ago, and we both came upon the idea of one of them being turned into a polearm; TLD even had an image of how he imagines it would look, I think. :3

I'll resume my story-posting after I've caught some shuteye. :bow:

I think a dagger could definitely work, if it had some kind of power attached to it.

Maybe it turns the wielder invisible. I like the idea of that.

In fact, I bet a shard-tipped arrow with a shard-plated bow would work too, and since the shards attract each other the arrow would always magically return to the bow.

The possibilities are pretty endless if one has some creativity. We just want to make sure all seven are diversified enough and have something to make them unique, so that they are not just all "Generic [insert weapon] of Holiness".

A shard plated bow is abit much. There's only so much metal you can get out of 1/7th of a longsword and I've been wondering whether or not they even melted down the fragments instead of just fusing them into a new weapon; I would imagine a magic weapon would get screwy if it was damaged to the extent of melting.

Essa, as far as I am concerned, is a lighting magic longsword. I wouldnt have a problem with making it a rapier except I kinda have issues with a rapier being able to take a guy's head off in one swing so I'd have to rewrite my posts to make that happen and, well, I'm a lazy git so the chances of that are low.

I guess Alyssa and Guantano are a post or two away from bumping into two elves and an aistar on the road. :laugh4:

As for the shard weapons, it doesn't hurt to write a little story for each one, even if none of our characters ever come to wield them; look at Frostmourne in World of Warcraft, no other weapon in the series is as steeped in lore, and players don't even get to wield it.

I guess that we've reached a consensus that two of these seven weapons are Essa (a longsword) and "Morangul's Bane" (a claymore or zweihänder?). I'd suggest that a glaive/spontoon, a rapier/smallsword and an axe of some description find their way into the line-up too. The remaining two, well there's alot of ideas circulating around (daggers, staves, bows, hammers, mauls, maces, more swords); I think it'd be nice for the story if the Princess came to possess one of the items, though.

I'm happy with reducing the amount of swords as well, as in, it's fine with me. Right now with all the current ideas and the already existing weapons we have Essa (longsword), Moranguls Bane (claymore-like weapon, although it should probably be called something else ^^), the sword that Alyssa remembers from a song, which is a cool idea, imo. Maybe that could be a Rapier-like sword then?

So that's three swords. Other than that there's an axe and a polearm in the making ^^ - leaves two weapons of which I'd like one to be a magic user's item, maybe a cleric's staff that the princess could use. Leaves one, I'll take any ideas for that but of course the weapons should have some unique feature. So far Essa binds itself to her user until death and has these lightning abilities. I'd suggest the remaining weapons have some kind of speciality too. So, whoever has ideas can contact me in private. So far Chaotix has already proposed an axe to me and has invented some features about it ;)

@Visor: Sure, although I'm not so sure how to resolve the current situation with your NPC ^^

I'll get the details about the sword (which is not going to be a rapier, but a bastard sword) down, perhaps tomorrow, and send them.

Also fluffy I'll PM you about that order ;)