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THE LAST HOMELY HOUSE ※ RIVENDELL ※ LOG 2
THE LAST HOMELY HOUSE
The group is told to take a week of rest in the Last Homely House as the injured and sick among them heal. The Elves promise them that at the end of that week, there will be a great Council, with representatives of several peoples in attendance.
Until then, they can wander the peaceful halls of Rivendell, which are filled with travelers from all over the Wilderlands who are making a rest stop while they travel through the lands of Middle-Earth.
The most notable part of Rivendell is the Hall of Fire, a great feast hall where people can eat, drink, and be merry. This is the great social hall of Rivendell, where the Elves and their visitors share news of lands far beyond, tell stories, or perform music. The music here almost sounds divine, especially when the Elves sing and play, but they're just as eager to hear songs from other lands, so if any of the squad decide to share, they'll be glad to listen.
Some of the hall's guests are a touch more lively than the others, like a party of dwarves staying at Rivendell. Their stories are a mite more adventurous and if you get in their good graces, they might be willing to share some of the beer they brought with them. Listening to their stories or their talk about their craftmanship is a way to get into their good graces.
The Elves love learning, so there are libraries the group is allowed to browse, though they mostly only contain tales of Middle-Earth (for now), though the Elves seem to be collecting what books about other lands they can. These libraries often have viewing stations with telescopes pointing at the sky. The Elves have been almost delighted by the changing skies, enjoying the challenge of trying to understand how the sky has been knitting itself together with the addition of new worlds.
There are also beautiful balconies here, overlooking the gorge and the waters below, and terraced gardens filled with flowers, bushes, and flowering trees. Their rooms are open to the outdoors and have beds that seem grown into the shape of bed-frames instead of carved. The bathrooms actually have running water. The Elves have figured out how to direct the clean running waters of the gorge in primitive indoor plumbing. Water for hot baths has to be heated first in brass cauldrons over coal braziers before getting dumped into the bath.
It's time for the squad to rest, eat, and regroup. If a great Council is going to be called involving them, it might be a good idea to make sure they go into it as a united front, lest decisions about their fate be made for them.
✦ Joint log: Since this camp period won't be particularly long, everything will take place in a joint log. Players can post starters with prompts for others and tag into other players' prompts.
✦ Post in actionspam format. Plots and mod-run events in the game are meant to be in actionspam format to keep a brisk pace.
✦ Cursed Weapons/Powers: So they know about how they'll be treated: those with cursed weapons and dark powers will be tolerated by the Elves after entry. While they'll get the same general treatment, the Elves around them may at times seem uncomfortable. Those with cursed weapons will only be distrusted a little, as the weapons themselves will seem more suspicious than their bearers. Those with dark powers or some kind of dark nature (such as being a vampire, Necromancer mage, werewolf, etc.) will be treated with the greatest distrust.
✦ Fairy Swaps: The Elves may be slightly alarmed by the Brugh fairy swaps but get over it easily. However, if the character swapped in is one of the "dark" characters, the swap might be extra cause for alarm. (A potential prompt idea).
✦ Npcing: There will be two npc threads. The "Random Encounters" thread is for characters to have a totally random encounter with an npc. These npcs will be fellow travelers from lands beyond. While they can't give much information about the group's status as Chosen Ones (that will happen during the Council) they can provide info about events in the Wilderlands beyond that may come to affect the squad in their travels. The "Specific Requests" thread will be for more specific issues your character might want to discuss with the Elves. While they'll push any Chosen Ones discussion off to the Council, they're willing to discuss issues with the characters, like if they have questions about having received magic, about being bound to their weapons, etc. The Rivendell Elves have heard a lot of gossip from all over and can potentially provide info based on things they've heard.
✦ Clothes: The group will not yet be fully equipped for their travels (that will happen upon leaving) but everyone will at least be given new clothes since theirs are dirty and sometimes torn. Characters without appropriate travel footwear will also be given light and sturdy boots that will somehow be in their size without their size being asked. They'll also be given basic toiletries like scissors that can be used to cut hair and beards. There are no razors, however, because the Elves don't need to shave so they don't keep them on hand.
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Revan, of the Jedi Order.
[No hint that she recognizes the name "Hercules," or that she's more than politely curious about the alleged godhood, but her smile, if not as wide as his, is at least genuine.]
Nice to meet you, Hercules.
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It's nice to meet you Revan.
[And while he has her hand, he definitely stoops down to kiss it. Sorry, that's just how he rolls.]
Glad to know there are others here with combat training.
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There aren't as many of us as I'd like, but the others will learn.
[That's not optimism. It's grim certainty. After the battle at Weathertop, she's sure anyone who doesn't take to combat is going to wind up dead.]
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[Herc lets her hand go, rolling his shoulders in a lazily arrogant way.]
I intend to try and teach. They would not be the first I've instructed, and that feels like a necessity to give them a fighting chance should they be separated.
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[Nice recovery. And it's the truth. Probably.
It could also be mistaken for self-deprecation right up until she clarifies.]
Most of our fighting styles rely on split-second precognition.
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[He's met people with similar talents. And traveling with Amadeus is like traveling with a precog. But at the same time...]
Would you be willing to assist me, regardless? Someone who actually knows how to stand, show them how to move...that sort of thing...would be an invaluable teaching tool.
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[Why yes, she is grinning with a feral edge at the thought of tossing around other party members.]
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[Oh dear. That's a good look on her.]
Which one's gotten under your skin?
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More the situation than the people. [Technically true, though the statement doesn't rule out being irritated with individuals.] Sparring is just harmless stress relief.
[Throwing around people who don't know what they're doing is not "sparring," Revan.]
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I suppose it is, at that.
[Looking her up and down again...]
You don't have one of those energy swords, do you?
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They don't work here.
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[Herc's hand brushes at his belt, a sigh rippling through him. He'd wanted to see how it worked.]
Seems a lot of things don't quite work here. I've lost a portion of my strength.
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A lot of us have been weakened, a few of us considerably. We almost died in a fight that I would have finished in minutes at home.
[It's not arrogance if you really are that good, just ask her.]
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Considerably is the word I'd use, yes. I'm not even a hundredth as strong as I should be.
[Still.]
It will be a wonder if I don't start aging again.
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So you were serious about the god thing.
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[He meets that raised brow with one of his own.]
I am one of the Olympians, and despite my youthful appearance I am almost three thousand years old.
[Doesn't look a day over 35.]
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Bear with me. Olympians?
[If she doesn't seem impressed by being in the presence of a literal god, it's only because she isn't. Comes of basically having taken holy orders in what amounts to weird quasi-Buddhist pantheism.]
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[He doesn't sound put out. Or really like he cares all that much. It's never really defined him, being a god.]
But the Olympians are the gods and goddesses of Greece, a culture on Earth.
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[Herc seems nice enough, and Revan is nothing if not confident in her judgments of character, but where she's from, the people who roll in and set themselves up as deities are generally dark siders.]
...You wouldn't happen to know someone named Christ, would you?
[This is what happens when your entire exposure to Christianity comes from Dixon.]
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[Herc again shrugs a giant shoulder. This is no big deal.]
Though I never met the man personally. My people isolated themselves during that time. He was a good man, by all counts, though.
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[Yeah no she has no idea how gods or any non-Jedi religion work.]
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[He stops, and really thinks about it...]
Oh. They might deny my divinity but that doesn't really matter to me. I don't exactly demand worship, Revan. The...power I've been given is for the benefit of man, not my own self aggrandizement.
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Much is asked of those to whom much is given.
[Revan thinks she's probably quoting someone, not that she can remember who.]
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[And he knows exactly who said that one.]
I imagine that is not all that dissimilar from the Jedi way?