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Post by Cleyton Bolton on Oct 27, 2018 20:41:26 GMT 1
At least we got a Starkwood to the final 8 ^^ the most unlikely one at that I guess.
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Post by Father on Oct 30, 2018 14:29:28 GMT 1
Day change coming when I clear out the backlog (which includes a few D9 things), I'm prioritizing things which seems to need the most posts to get done, and then the things which requires the least time for me to make a response to.
Worst case is this weekend. D10 scheduled for the 18th.
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Malyk
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Post by Malyk on Oct 31, 2018 16:43:29 GMT 1
"In the other, disappointing as it may feel in the short term, Lord Karl lives, and marries his lady lust. It is clear from her reputed actions that that so-called 'lady' does not fight the base instincts we bastards have to face down in the slighted. His reputation is in tatters, but he does not mind, for the moment. He is still blinded by lust. But lust-blindness fades fast, my lady. And he will all too soon realise that he has tied himself to the despised Levalles through a woman who can only be distinguished from a common streetwalker by the fact that she is presumably literate. He will come to know her numerous flaws. He will look at the children she claims are his, and he will wonder if that's true, likely with good reason. So there he is: with an heir likely not of his blood, tied to a house of abhorrent reputation, his not much better, and in that moment of clarity, he will *know*, with absolute certainty, that his decent into the hell that his life now is was solely due to the single decision to abandon your daughter." She locks eyes with the other lady. "If you wish Lord Karl a swift death, with all the consequences that gives you, by all means, stick with Ser Rennifer, he'll get the job done. But if you want to destroy him? If you want him to suffer? Choose my brother." [/div]
OUCH
Lots of blood on the floor and the fight hasn't even started.
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Post by Roland Cordwayner on Oct 31, 2018 17:10:37 GMT 1
Much of that thread is venom! Everyone else gets cool nicknames like "Wildfire", while I am doomed to portray "Ser Roland the Adequate", as described there. On the plus side, its less cutting than Laena's accurate summary of Roland's political acumen in another thread. Counting down the days until I can burn a destiny point and buy off "Romantic" (which is frequently Naive), as this will nicely reflect the horrors of this tournament and give Roland some character growth. Playing the wide-eyed innocent has been fun and genre appropriate, but given what has gone on I think it will stretch credulity to stick with it.
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Post by Lysette Starling on Oct 31, 2018 17:29:57 GMT 1
Past this point it would presumably come to indicate 'willful ignorance' rather than 'naivete.'
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Malyk
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Post by Malyk on Oct 31, 2018 17:33:09 GMT 1
Not necessarily.
Malyk is fully aware of the misery and destruction that goes on around him. It is all part and parcel of the constant struggle between good and evil. It is his mission in life to make things better and easier for those around him and he gains great joy from it (and great sadness when he fails, but he does not dwell on that as each failure makes him better at helping others in the future). He would say the great ugliness in the world helps us see the great beauty (and there can be great beauty hidden beneath the ugliness). In many ways he's more of a romantic that you, but I would not call him naive. He would say we need more people who can see how the world should be. It's very few that put in the enormous effort to try and climb to the mountain top, and help others climb as well. Most make do living in the swamp. He knows he will probably never reach the summit. That doesn't matter to him. What matters is how high he can climb and how many others he can bring with him.
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Post by Roland Cordwayner on Oct 31, 2018 17:43:50 GMT 1
That's a good way of framing things for Roland Lysette, and I think playing out the "scales falling from eyes" thing will be fun. Plus there are plenty of cool drawbacks between the corebook and the narrator's updated ones to choose from. I've quite linked Romantic pushing me in to doing things in various scenes, so Vainglorious/Proud to play up the fires of ambition that have been kindled in Roland might work as a replacement instead of just burning a DP. "Nemesis: Ser Norren Wythers" has been stored up after putting out one of his eyes in the joust as offering story potential, but does add to narrator burden and Roland already participates in a number of plots. Zealot or Prejudiced: Bastards/Smallfolk might work too. Haughty might work for that too. I hadn't really thought about Supreme Arrogance, but it would actually play off the way some other PCs have reacted to Roland quite well. Malyk - I think that works well for you, and you've played it well but I can't quite make the Naive element of Romantic fit for Roland, as much the other part does. Malyk's worldview allows for this angle on things, whereas I think I'd risk pushing Roland in to being an absurd mid-twenties version of Sansa Stark early in Asoiaf.
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Post by Balon Blackbriar on Oct 31, 2018 17:46:24 GMT 1
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Post by Alliser on Oct 31, 2018 17:48:16 GMT 1
Much of that thread is venom! Everyone else gets cool nicknames like "Wildfire", while I am doomed to portray "Ser Roland the Adequate", as described there. On the plus side, its less cutting than Laena's accurate summary of Roland's political acumen in another thread. Counting down the days until I can burn a destiny point and buy off "Romantic" (which is frequently Naive), as this will nicely reflect the horrors of this tournament and give Roland some character growth. Playing the wide-eyed innocent has been fun and genre appropriate, but given what has gone on I think it will stretch credulity to stick with it. You have companions taking bribes and reviled Lord's preaching restraint
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Post by Roland Cordwayner on Oct 31, 2018 17:59:38 GMT 1
Even his very image communicates it! There's something about his picture... Need to get someone to saw off the hair in photo-shop!
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Malyk
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Post by Malyk on Oct 31, 2018 19:19:16 GMT 1
Malyk - I think that works well for you, and you've played it well but I can't quite make the Naive element of Romantic fit for Roland, as much the other part does. Malyk's worldview allows for this angle on things, whereas I think I'd risk pushing Roland in to being an absurd mid-twenties version of Sansa Stark early in Asoiaf.
You are somewhat constrained by being a Knight with all the advantages (and liabilities) that go with it. Early Sansa was quite blind to the things going on around her (and not very likeable, IMO). The pretty princess of the castle to be married to the handsome prince. I think you can be both romantic and realistic, but you, perhaps, have to be just a little bit crazy to manage it.
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